Official Smash Ultimate Discussion

[doomedtacox]

"Clearly hurting their reputation" do you have citation for this?

I wouldn't call a few small gaming communities covering this "leak" hurting their reputation, especially when it hasn't been proven they work with Bandai or Nintendo.

I mean even IGN has covered this by now, they aren't a "small gaming community". Companies are super anal about their reputation, even if this doesn't have any monetary impact YET.

 

[TheCJBrine]

Spoiler: Evidence

So I'm guessing this has been posted already, but I haven't seen much discussion of this considering it's pretty damned big.

I can accept the idea that a fake leaker would go to some pretty long stretches to internet-proof their leak. But you're going to have me believe they would print off additional bracelets/banners/whatevers and then hide them under a sheet of paper so that in case the internet amplified the contrast of the image they would be able to see the colors of the extra murals bleeding through?

Yeah, they don't even look like they're just printed either; the one we can see is glossy, as if it was laminated or something, and all three of them look like they're hanging there.

They're probably meant for the ornament that the diagram just under the "LOL" is based on.

 

[Deleted member]

I will admit even as someone who thinks it's fake, it's the best dang fake ever made in the Smash fandom, and whoever made it literally accounted for every single possible contingency. Seriously, this goes above and beyond in trying to be convincing.

My pessimism will never allow me to believe until Nintendo confirms it themselves, so I'm still in the camp that's patiently waiting for the last Direct.

 

[Cutie Gwen]

Nintendo still hasn’t tweeted today

Do they ever tweet on Sundays?

 

[ShadowGamer193]

I've been wavering a bit but after realizing how Snapchat actually works I can't help but strongly think it's fake again. Or at least put down the narrative that Eric didn't know anything about it, because he most certainly was notified of his snapchat being saved on another person's phone

If you broke NDA and were confronted about it, you would say you knew nothing about it wouldn’t you? Obviously he would say he knew nothing about it cause the guy’s job is on the line.

 

[Ramen Tengoku]

Nintendo still hasn’t tweeted today

That doesn't really mean anything to be honest, it's the weekend

In my opinion that’s a bit of a stretch of a arguement

The best I see is it’s just a coincidence

I think Push said it best

There was a problem fetching the tweet

 

[Guybrush20X6]

Nintendo still hasn’t tweeted today

And most likley won't for another 6 and a half hours, it's still 2-3am in Japan.

 

[Untouch]

Nintendo still hasn’t tweeted today

It's Sunday.

 

[Sigran101]

My current stance on the leak: #Team Fake but cautiously optimistic about Papageno's video. It's weird because it seems like he's been personally in contact with multiple sources now, and if the leak is fake, his channel is basically dead. Either it's real, or these fake sources who someone in the public eye believes have a conspiracy to take down Papageno's.

 

[Blargg888]

The biggest plot twist at this point would be if a character from neither leak were to be confirmed.

Could you even begin imagine the sheer ****show that would follow if that happened?

I know right? I never thought I would see the day people would be fighting over this

I have, it's called August 2nd, 2016.

did you know mach rider libre is a girl

Anyway, I'm sure this idea has been brought up here before, but I've seen people saying that if the French company was annoyed by people asking constant Smash questions on their video, they could've just disabled the comments. The fact that they deleted the video entirely is what's suspicious.

You can tell by the heart shaped bike.

Speaking of voices, I hope they give us an option to turn Marth back to Japanese. It’s just feels so weird to have him in English after all these years.

I suppose it would be weird if you're not a Fire Emblem fan.
It's been 3 years since Marth first got his English voice though, so I think I'll get used to it pretty fast.

Admittedly though, I really hope Roy keeps his Japanese voice.
I like Ray Chase, but I just love Roy's Smash voice.

 

[NineS]

Go play the original Nier and have your perception of Nier characters completely shattered by the greatnesses that are Kaine and Weiss

I already know of the greatness of the original Nier.

But I know Kaine stands no chance because... Just, look at her. And you can't have Weiss without Nier himself.

I want Emil too, but again, 2B, A2, and 9S stand more of a chance in this current day and age.

I can't pick and choose favorites out of all of the Nier and Drakengard cast, though. It's too hard for me to do it. It'd be like having to choose my favorite kid at an orphanage where each child has gone through some massive trauma in some way.

 

[Dee Dude]

I think we're all wrong here.

The toy Sakurai bought was clearly for Shadow, as this will most likely be his Final Smash:

I’ll say it again, I want the guns to be referenced in some way possible. Victory poses, taunts, official render, don’t care.

And I want his bike as one of his victory poses as well as the Shadow level cleared jingle as his win theme.

 

[MainJPW]

The only thing that would confuse me is why go with a Rocket Launcher for Shadow instead of Chaos Spear? I mean, I’d still be happy that he has some sort of gun despite being an echo, but Chaos Spear would make the most sense as a Side B if they’re gonna give him a different one than Sonic.

They can just retool Pit's Neutral Special or Lucas' Side Special into a Chaos Spear. They wouldn't actually go with guns when Sega hasn't done it beyond one game in 2005. Might as well give Sonic his Sword from Black Knight.

 

[Michael the Spikester]

So what do you guys think of this?

https://boards.4chan.org/v/thread/436781578

Brought it over from the Isaac Support thread thought this would bring up some debate.

 

[Cutie Gwen]

They can just retool Pit's Neutral Special or Lucas' Side Special into a Chaos Spear. They wouldn't actually go with guns when Sega hasn't done it beyond one game in 2005. Might as well give Sonic his Sword from Black Knight.

Ok but Black Knight is one of the best games the franchise made don't @ me

 

[Deleted member]

I gotta say, I found PushDustin's tweet about "stop being ********" pretty laughable when he himself called someone an idiot for making a fake Akuma leak.

Stuff like this is why @papagenos is on the rise, man.

In hindsight, as soon as he became friends with Liam Robertson, i should have known that he was gonna turn up like this.

 

[Kuon]

That doesn't really mean anything to be honest, it's the weekend

I think Push said it best

There was a problem fetching the tweet

Would they really take it down because of Smash comments though? They could easily just disable the comments and be done with it. I think they took it down because it's irrelevant and things in the company have changed since then

 

[FreeFox]

I know that the video deletion sounds suspicious but it can mean many things. It can mean the leak is real or it could also mean that the company doesnt want to be sullied by the leak. They would be called unreliable and the company could lose many clients. And it doesnt matter whether the leak is true or false. A company has to take actions if their image could be damaged regardless.

The other company spoke up about not being involved in the leak for that reason alone. Its image was being sulllied and they had to do something to prevent the loss of future employment by other companies.

 

[Chrollo.]

They can just retool Pit's Neutral Special or Lucas' Side Special into a Chaos Spear. They wouldn't actually go with guns when Sega hasn't done it beyond one game in 2005. Might as well give Sonic his Sword from Black Knight.

Sonic better get his ****ing sword to replace one of his Spin Dashes

 

[Diddy Kong]

Deleting a video on a sunday after 2 to 3 years since it was released is ultra suspicious
Dont jump the gun though

Wat?

What video?

Why am I missing everything?

 

[xpnc]

Would they really take it down because of Smash comments though? They could easily just disable the comments and be done with it. I think they took it down because it's irrelevant and things in the company have changed since then

Just a casual removing of a video posted on a bank's youtube channel on a Sunday afternoon. Hm? A Smash leak connected to our company? Big coincidence. Don't worry about it.

 

[Smashoperatingbuddy123]

Would they really take it down because of Smash comments though? They could easily just disable the comments and be done with it. I think they took it down because it's irrelevant and things in the company have changed since then

I was just about to say that

Wouldn’t it just be simpler to disable the comment section on YouTube rather than delete?

 

[JacobLeBeauOFFICIAL]

Nintendo still hasn’t tweeted today

And?

 

[Mutsukki]

If you broke NDA and were confronted about it, you would say you knew nothing about it wouldn’t you? Obviously he would say he knew nothing about it cause the guy’s job is on the line.

Huh? I'm not talking about his comment, I'm talking about how people say that "this guy probably didn't even know" as a point that makes the leak stronger. He fully knew

 

[Deleted member]

If Grinch is fake, i won’t be mad.

Since it got here, i felt like i was living in the version of Gotham made by Christopher Nolan.

So many twists, surprises and unexpected events happening.
I will have fond memories of this.

 

[FallofBrawl]

I heard that the YouTube video wasn’t put up by ACP-PLV, it was actually a business company that put up a compilation of multiple companies and how they work. If ACP-PLV wanted to take it down, they would’ve had to request this other company to take it down and the other companies features should give the OK for it to be deleted.

Or the business company that put up the video itself had to take it down from the Nintendo comments. Either way I don’t see why they wouldn’t just block the comment section.

 

[G Rank Zinogre]

Doubtful that they'd delete a two year old video meant for advertisement because Smash fans suddenly started talking about it. If they were really so worried about the comments and not the contents of the video itself, they could always just disable the comments and not delete the entire thing.

 

[doomedtacox]

My current stance on the leak: #Team Fake but cautiously optimistic about Papageno's video. It's weird because it seems like he's been personally in contact with multiple sources now, and if the leak is fake, his channel is basically dead. Either it's real, or these fake sources who someone in the public eye believes have a conspiracy to take down Papageno's.

How would his channel be dead if it's fake? People watch for the speculation, information, and discussion lol, not because he's an insider.

 

[Flon]

It wasn't their video either. If they wanted to get rid of it they'd have to send a request, right?

If they were responsible for the removal of the video, then would this count as the first action we've seen from ACP-PLV? They've yet to give a single statement, which was absolutely not a problem for Marina PLV because they had nothing to do with it.

 

[osby]

Sonic and the Black Knight had the best writing in the series, period. I don't know another game that captured the Sonic's personality so well, and it's one of the main reasons why I don't give a **** when people say modern Sonic games' plot doesn't work.

 

[TheAnvil]

That doesn't really mean anything to be honest, it's the weekend

I think Push said it best

There was a problem fetching the tweet

They could have just disabled comments.

 

[Diddy Kong]

I will admit even as someone who thinks it's fake, it's the best dang fake ever made in the Smash fandom, and whoever made it literally accounted for every single possible contingency. Seriously, this goes above and beyond in trying to be convincing.

My pessimism will never allow me to believe until Nintendo confirms it themselves, so I'm still in the camp that's patiently waiting for the last Direct.

Same here. Am about 75% convinced. Only thing that really brings this Grinch leak down is Sakurai’s own words, with what he said about slowing down the pace of revealing newcomers cause there’s not much left. Which is rather weird if there’s still just about the same amount of characters left as the number of characters he has revealed before...

 

[KirbyWorshipper2465]

I already know of the greatness of the original Nier.

But I know Kaine stands no chance because... Just, look at her. And you can't have Weiss without Nier himself.

I want Emil too, but again, 2B, A2, and 9S stand more of a chance in this current day and age.

I can't pick and choose favorites out of all of the Nier and Drakengard cast, though. It's too hard for me to do it. It'd be like having to choose my favorite kid at an orphanage where each child has gone through some massive trauma in some way.

Even then, they all still need to show up in something Nintendo-related first. So let's hope the possibility of an Automata Switch port is given the go.

 

[Kuon]

Just a casual removing of a video posted on a bank's youtube channel on a Sunday afternoon. Hm? A Smash leak connected to our company? Big coincidence. Don't worry about it.

Big coincidence?

 

[Deleted member]

I'd laugh if neither of the leaks got confirmed. People going crazy about which one is real or not, and then a completely unexpected character comes along and just destroys both of the leaks.

 

[CosmicQuark]

Wat?

What video?

Why am I missing everything?

Naaaah, don't worry. You're missing nothing. Deleting their video is probably coincidental, or as has been suggested, as a result of many rabid Smash fans flocking to it.

I love you, all.

 

[Dee Dude]

They can just retool Pit's Neutral Special or Lucas' Side Special into a Chaos Spear. They wouldn't actually go with guns when Sega hasn't done it beyond one game in 2005. Might as well give Sonic his Sword from Black Knight.

I imagined Shadow’s hypothetical Chaos Spear side B functioning exactly like Cloud’s full Limit neutral B.

Unless that’s too broken?

 

[doomedtacox]

Same here. Am about 75% convinced. Only thing that really brings this Grinch leak down is Sakurai’s own words, with what he said about slowing down the pace of revealing newcomers cause there’s not much left. Which is rather weird if there’s still just about the same amount of characters left as the number of characters he has revealed before...

He's never said there's not much left..

 

[Deleted member]

Same here. Am about 75% convinced. Only thing that really brings this Grinch leak down is Sakurai’s own words, with what he said about slowing down the pace of revealing newcomers cause there’s not much left. Which is rather weird if there’s still just about the same amount of characters left as the number of characters he has revealed before...

I know, right? Plus, the man said he had a "few more" left.

Counting Isabelle (since she came after that statement), this leak makes 8 characters after 8.8's Direct. That's not a few.

 

[Cutie Gwen]

Ermahgerd Mach Rider trailer leaked

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