This here's a big crazy topic I've had brewing for a while. I thought about making these all individual topics, but I don't know, thought I would make a giant smorgasbord topic instead to get it all out of my system at once. You all should tell me if you think these are good ideas or not, or put your own twist on them.
Thought #1: Sword Fighting
It would be awesome if when two sword attacks cancelled out it made the rebound sound from Melee that sounded like metal clanging. Maybe if two punch/kick style attacks cancelled out it could make a more blunt sound or no sound at all like it does now. It would also be interesting if sword attacks were more likely to cancel sword attacks and maybe punches were more likely to cancel punches.
Thought #2: The Camera and Items, Stage Hazards, Zooming
I feel like there should be a few options for how the game camera behaves. I hate on big stages when the camera zooms out so you can see the hazard even when you're not near it, or an item appears in the far corner of a stage on somewhere like Palutena's temple ruining the camera until somebody goes and gets the item. I think there should several camera zoom options: Normal, Conditional Zoom-out, and Temporary Zoom-out. Conditional would mean the camera would just zoom out for about 3 seconds when the hazard or item first appears so you get a full view of it and then the camera would follow the players normally again unless they get within a certain range of the hazard's effects. Temporary would just do the initial 3 second zoom out and nothing else.
Also cool would be options for the distance scale of the camera: Normal, Far, and Close. The far setting would stay a tad further away, whereas the close setting would hug the characters a little closer like in Melee. In Melee the battles seemed a bit more cinematic to me because the camera seemed to stay closer to the action and to zoom in and out more quickly.
Thought #3: Custom Moves
It would be amazingly awesome if there were custom standard attacks for some characters. Maybe they could be implemented as different versions of a character or you could equip them like pieces of equipment that don't take up regular equipment slots. They would be a lot more "informal" than custom specials, with some characters not having any. Custom standards I could think of are older versions of character moves like Mario's N64 giant wind-up punch, or Captain Falcon's kick. Others would be giving Ganondorf a sword attack for his side smash. Maybe Samus could use more different items from the Metroid games.
More custom move slots would be awesome too for modding in the potential future.
Thought #4: Individual Launch Rates
I find fighting NPCs a bit boring. It would be so awesome if we could set the launch power of individual characters in Smash mode like you could in Melee with the old version of the Handicap setting. You could make so many fun battles like that.
Thought #1: Sword Fighting
It would be awesome if when two sword attacks cancelled out it made the rebound sound from Melee that sounded like metal clanging. Maybe if two punch/kick style attacks cancelled out it could make a more blunt sound or no sound at all like it does now. It would also be interesting if sword attacks were more likely to cancel sword attacks and maybe punches were more likely to cancel punches.
Thought #2: The Camera and Items, Stage Hazards, Zooming
I feel like there should be a few options for how the game camera behaves. I hate on big stages when the camera zooms out so you can see the hazard even when you're not near it, or an item appears in the far corner of a stage on somewhere like Palutena's temple ruining the camera until somebody goes and gets the item. I think there should several camera zoom options: Normal, Conditional Zoom-out, and Temporary Zoom-out. Conditional would mean the camera would just zoom out for about 3 seconds when the hazard or item first appears so you get a full view of it and then the camera would follow the players normally again unless they get within a certain range of the hazard's effects. Temporary would just do the initial 3 second zoom out and nothing else.
Also cool would be options for the distance scale of the camera: Normal, Far, and Close. The far setting would stay a tad further away, whereas the close setting would hug the characters a little closer like in Melee. In Melee the battles seemed a bit more cinematic to me because the camera seemed to stay closer to the action and to zoom in and out more quickly.
Thought #3: Custom Moves
It would be amazingly awesome if there were custom standard attacks for some characters. Maybe they could be implemented as different versions of a character or you could equip them like pieces of equipment that don't take up regular equipment slots. They would be a lot more "informal" than custom specials, with some characters not having any. Custom standards I could think of are older versions of character moves like Mario's N64 giant wind-up punch, or Captain Falcon's kick. Others would be giving Ganondorf a sword attack for his side smash. Maybe Samus could use more different items from the Metroid games.
More custom move slots would be awesome too for modding in the potential future.
Thought #4: Individual Launch Rates
I find fighting NPCs a bit boring. It would be so awesome if we could set the launch power of individual characters in Smash mode like you could in Melee with the old version of the Handicap setting. You could make so many fun battles like that.
