Hey all,
I'm writing a feature article and after chatting with some Smash players through IM over the past few weeks, I was told by nearly all of them to just post a thread here and get as many people's opinions on this.
Basically, I'm trying to get opinions and input from the more "hardcore" Smash crowd - those who play competitively for ranking, prize money or bragging rights (or all three) - about the possibility of online play in Super Smash Bros. Brawl.
The goal of the piece is to contrast your opinions with those of a more casual crowd and try to let readers draw their own conclusions on what would be best by presenting as many sides to the argument.
So, in particular, I would like, if you guys have time, to give responses to as many of the following questions:
1) How important is it for Super Smash Bros. Brawl to have online play in terms of facilitating competitive Smash?
2) What are the biggest concerns as a competitive player that you have about an online mode?
3) In order to rectify those fears, would it be acceptable in your opinion for Nintendo to "cut out" features found in the offline mode to make the online mode work? For example, Mario Mart DS cut out some courses and items from its online mode. Would say, cutting out certain levels, characters, items or even moves be acceptable?
4) Would you like to see Nintendo running official tournaments through their online service, as well as online rankings?
5) What concerns, if any, do you have about the Wii Friend Code system being applied to online matchups, or do you think the current setup used in previous games will work fine with Brawl?
6) What about the possibilty of Nintendo "patching" Brawl over time to accomodate for "broken" characters/moves - is this something that would, in your opinion, be good or bad for the game?
7) What about downloadable content such as new characters and arenas?
8) If possible - Nintendo has shown they can record DS matches over their online service - what would you think if Nintendo would allow the ability to record online Brawl matches and showing off some of the best on their site?
9) In general, how important is it to you that Brawl has online gameplay in any shape or form.
Thank you very much - I'll keep checking back and I'll let you guys know when I put up the feature. It probably won't be up till later this month/early May.
I'm writing a feature article and after chatting with some Smash players through IM over the past few weeks, I was told by nearly all of them to just post a thread here and get as many people's opinions on this.
Basically, I'm trying to get opinions and input from the more "hardcore" Smash crowd - those who play competitively for ranking, prize money or bragging rights (or all three) - about the possibility of online play in Super Smash Bros. Brawl.
The goal of the piece is to contrast your opinions with those of a more casual crowd and try to let readers draw their own conclusions on what would be best by presenting as many sides to the argument.
So, in particular, I would like, if you guys have time, to give responses to as many of the following questions:
1) How important is it for Super Smash Bros. Brawl to have online play in terms of facilitating competitive Smash?
2) What are the biggest concerns as a competitive player that you have about an online mode?
3) In order to rectify those fears, would it be acceptable in your opinion for Nintendo to "cut out" features found in the offline mode to make the online mode work? For example, Mario Mart DS cut out some courses and items from its online mode. Would say, cutting out certain levels, characters, items or even moves be acceptable?
4) Would you like to see Nintendo running official tournaments through their online service, as well as online rankings?
5) What concerns, if any, do you have about the Wii Friend Code system being applied to online matchups, or do you think the current setup used in previous games will work fine with Brawl?
6) What about the possibilty of Nintendo "patching" Brawl over time to accomodate for "broken" characters/moves - is this something that would, in your opinion, be good or bad for the game?
7) What about downloadable content such as new characters and arenas?
8) If possible - Nintendo has shown they can record DS matches over their online service - what would you think if Nintendo would allow the ability to record online Brawl matches and showing off some of the best on their site?
9) In general, how important is it to you that Brawl has online gameplay in any shape or form.
Thank you very much - I'll keep checking back and I'll let you guys know when I put up the feature. It probably won't be up till later this month/early May.