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[Shroob]

See his what? Embarrass

I'd make a joke in return but can't say that on a Christian Smashboards.

 

[Smooth Criminal]

Guess he really, REALLY likes SNK.

Honestly? I can see this. Beating the pants off of some poor guy on his date in KoF inspired Sakurai to create an accessible fighting game. And, allowing myself to speculate for a second, I have no doubt that Sakurai was probably inspired by SNK fighting games like KoF and Fatal Fury/Real Bout for the basic core of Smash's gameplay. Defensive options (background/foreground shifting, standing dodges, and rolls), movement (short hops, full hops, and runs/dashes), and the Real Bout series' infamous trap stages that lead to auto-KOs if you broke down barriers in the corner (leading to essentially ring-outs). Smash has very, very similar mechanics and analogues to all of these things, and I don't think it's a coincidence.

I for one am looking forward to him geeking out, lol

Smooth Criminal

 

[Tree Gelbman]

Okay, I get that Sakurai could....gush a lot or rant or ramble a lot, but doesn't Nintendo have an editing team for a reason? You can edit out unnecessary info. Lol.

 

[PLATINUM7]

Okay, I get that Sakurai could....gush a lot or rant or ramble a lot, but doesn't Nintendo have an editing team for a reason? You can edit out unnecessary info. Lol.

That's assuming there's unnecessary info in the 45 minutes.

 

[Tree Gelbman]

That's assuming there's unnecessary info in the 45 minutes.

True, but if it's just him waxing his love for SNK or Fatal Fury or KoF or something? That's not really necessary info. I mean he could just give long winded explanations of everything I suppose.

 

[Shroob]

Last post today where I ***** about SwSd I promise but

Spoiler

God, it's ****ing surreal looking at how USUM were handled compared to this game. And I don't mean from a gameplay perspective, I mean from a marketing perspective.

This video recently was taken down off the Pokemon's JP channel from what I've heard(How suspicious), and it was a Japanese commercial where the whole premise was "All those Pokemon you have memories of from years ago? You'll get to be with them in USUM, no Pokemon left behind!"


.......and now fast forward to SwSd and 60.6% of the Dex is just.... gone, lol

 

[Smooth Criminal]

Okay, I get that Sakurai could....gush a lot or rant or ramble a lot, but doesn't Nintendo have an editing team for a reason? You can edit out unnecessary info. Lol.

Okay but like

How often do we get a snapshot of Sakurai as a person who loves the hell out of video games outside of his (dryly-written, though most of that is probably the barebones translation) Famitsu columns? Doesn't that interest you at all?

Smooth Criminal

 

[Tree Gelbman]

Okay but like

How often do we get a snapshot of Sakurai as a person who loves the hell out of video games outside of his (dryly-written, though most of that is probably the barebones translation) Famitsu columns? Doesn't that interest you at all?

Smooth Criminal

To a degree yes, I love to see people's personalities.

 

[Cutie Gwen]

True, but if it's just him waxing his love for SNK or Fatal Fury or KoF or something? That's not really necessary info. I mean he could just give long winded explanations of everything I suppose.

Sakurai's gonna yell "STAN DUCK KING" and dance for 20 minutes and you call that unnecessary? Smh

 

[Metal Shop X]

Sakurai is going to present the entire video while talking Engrish, because he is that big of a fan of SNK & Terry.

 

[MasterOfKnees]

The one thing that makes me feel like we could get something is that it's a live stream, if there really isn't anything outside of Terry and some Mii Costumes then I feel like they'd just have dropped it on Youtube like they did with Hero's presentation. That doesn't necessarily mean a character, I'm going to take Nintendo's word for it and expect that we won't get any info on #5 (which we'll probably have to wait until the TGA for now, shrugs), but there could be something else of enough interest that they don't just want to drop it in a Youtube video. What that could be, I have no idea.

 

[Michael the Spikester]

So any update from Sabi yet?

Anything from Vergeben also?

 

[Deleted member]

Ya know the more I think about it the more I see doom as a vga reveal again.

 

[zeldasmash]

Ya know the more I think about it the more I see doom as a vga reveal again.

Considering how the VGA's started the reveals and how big Joker was, it makes a lot of sense for it to go full circle.

 

[Michael the Spikester]

Ugh if we must wait another month...-_-

I would had thought they'd not do another VGA given that was last minute.

 

[Deleted member]

So any update from Sabi yet?

Anything from Vergeben also?

No

but verge confirmed Scorpion isn’t 5 lol

 

[Deleted member]

While trying to fall asleep, I found... this odd video:

I found it as well. It’s amazing. As a race, we have mastered the art of humor.

 

[Cutie Gwen]

Ugh if we must wait another month...-_-

I would had thought they'd not do another VGA given that was last minute.

My dude we're getting a character come out tomorrow with a ****ton of content coming with him. A character we know nearly nothing about even, this is dangerously close to "That's it? No Smash?" Levels

 

[SnakeFighter64]

Sakurai outright explained why it's so long on twitter cause he kept going off script

I’m sorry but I just don’t believe that. These things are still edited. If he kept going off script then why not just cut those parts out and have it be shorter?

 

[Cutie Gwen]

I’m sorry but I just don’t believe that. These things are still edited. If he kept going off script then why not just cut those parts out and have it be shorter?

Why did we have the Sad Soul segment in the Banjo presentation? Why did we have a bunch of trivia that never mattered? It's going to include the offscript ramblings because it's relevant to Terry and his inclusion

 

[SmashingXan2]

No

but verge confirmed Scorpion isn’t 5 lol

He had to do me like that huh

 

[SnakeFighter64]

My dude we're getting a character come out tomorrow with a ****ton of content coming with him. A character we know nearly nothing about even, this is dangerously close to "That's it? No Smash?" Levels

We’re sick of the drip feed. Sakurai and Nintendo just don’t know how to do DLC and reveals because they think radio silence for months on end is an effective way of building hype.

 

[Cosmic77]

Sakurai is someone who loves to show off his work, and he can be VERY thorough because of that.

I don't think we're getting anything relevant to Fighter #5 or post-pass, and I guarantee you Sakurai can pull 45 minutes of material from just Terry if he wanted to.

 

[Mamboo07]

Here are the many variations of cool and good: (What i like or dislike.)
Below 0 and ultimately awesome
Absolute zero and truly magnificent
Subzero and blissful
Antarctica temperature and spectacular
Freezing and excellent
Cold and great
showing no friendliness toward a person or enthusiasm for an idea or project, and desired or approved of
Room temperature and adequate
Lukewarm and unsatisfactory
Warm and bad
Hot and awful
Scorching and terrible
Blazing and horrendous
Infernal and absolutely horrific

 

[Cutie Gwen]

We’re sick of the drip feed. Sakurai and Nintendo just don’t know how to do DLC and reveals because they think radio silence for months on end is an effective way of building hype.

I mean, that's how Namco does DLC too iirc, the only real issue I had with Terry's reveal is no gameplay shown 2 months ago meaning we have **** all

 

[Michael the Spikester]

I don't know if I can survive another month of silence regarding new fighters...

 

[Cutie Gwen]

I don't know if I can survive another month of silence regarding new fighters...

Then perish

Also we're gonna get a rundown on the SNK characters that cameo like how we got Sakurai talking about some brat walking across the stage we'll never see in actual gameplay

 

[Michael the Spikester]

Watch we don't get anything at the VGA and we actually have to wait until February for something *Shudders*.

 

[Guh-Huzzah!]

I don't know if I can survive another month of silence regarding new fighters...

I mean, we got Terry info coming tommorow, and that sure is a new fighter.

 

[Michael the Spikester]

I mean, we got Terry info coming tommorow, and that sure is a new fighter.

Which we've already known for two months though now.

 

[SnakeFighter64]

Why did we have the Sad Soul segment in the Banjo presentation? Why did we have a bunch of trivia that never mattered? It's going to include the offscript ramblings because it's relevant to Terry and his inclusion

That was going over the stage and it’s cameos. Seeing those characters all pretty in HD meant the world to Banjo fans. Of course they were gonna show it off. Terry isn’t like that. Even if the stage does have a lot of cameos, KoF isn’t a dead franchise. We just got a new entry a few years ago.

 

[Michael the Spikester]

I just ask for an tease. That's all. Is that too hard to ask?

 

[osby]

We’re sick of the drip feed. Sakurai and Nintendo just don’t know how to do DLC and reveals because they think radio silence for months on end is an effective way of building hype.

Who is "we"?

Some of us have a life outside of Smash and doesn't need constant reveals just to stay sane.

 

[SnakeFighter64]

I mean, we got Terry info coming tommorow, and that sure is a new fighter.

I’m with Mike on this. This silence is abnormal. And if it were any other fighting game I’d have forgotten about it by now. That’s what happened with Tekken 7 and SoulCalibur 6 without either a consistent known release schedule or announcements before the pass launches. I’ve only stuck on this because it’s freakin Smash Bros.

 

[osby]

That was going over the stage and it’s cameos. Seeing those characters all pretty in HD meant the world to Banjo fans. Of course they were gonna show it off. Terry isn’t like that. Even if the stage does have a lot of cameos, KoF isn’t a dead franchise. We just got a new entry a few years ago.

Unpopular opinion but "dead franchises deserve special treatment for being dead" is the worst take I've ever seen.

 

[SnakeFighter64]

Who is "we"?

Some of us have a life outside of Smash and doesn't need constant reveals just to stay sane.

Me and Mike I guess......

Also. Too far. I’m trying. But progress is slow. When someone is trying you can’t fault them for not getting better instantly.

 

[Guh-Huzzah!]

I’m with Mike on this. This silence is abnormal. And if it were any other fighting game I’d have forgotten about it by now. That’s what happened with Tekken 7 and SoulCalibur 6 without either a consistent known release schedule or announcements before the pass launches. I’ve only stuck on this because it’s freakin Smash Bros.

It seems rather clear to me that Nintendo is just trying to space things out, and not release a rushed, unfinished character, or show one off. You can wait. You’ve waited for every other reveal, and this is no different. I’d suggest taking it easier.

 

[Michael the Spikester]

Ugh here I go again. Its been 12 hours and still trying to keep my sanity in check...

 

[Gyrom8]

I don't know if I can survive another month of silence regarding new fighters...

What're you gonna do when DLC for Ultimate comes to an end?

 

[SnakeFighter64]

Unpopular opinion but "dead franchises deserve special treatment for being dead" is the worst take I've ever seen.

You wouldn’t be super excited if a franchise you loved that had been functionally dead for nearly 20 years was getting all this fan service and attention in the same way as giants who’ve managed to stick around? You wouldn’t want to see that?