Social Swamp's Social Thread 3 - And now, the end is near, and so I face the final curtain...

[Fatmanonice]

I could see Wolf and Icies in Smash NX just for an easy way to give people an easy incentive to buy it if it's an enhanced port. Throw in someone like K. Rool or the Inklings too and I think many Smash fans would be willing to buy the game again.

 

[Z25]

NoE tweeted this:

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Kind of funny. Moving to the Smash house, indeed.

This sounds like the perfect setup for some whacky new sitcom:

" This Bewitching temptress used to live a life of darkness, but her world is turned upside down when she gets invited to live in a mansion filled with wacky characters! Come watch her crazy antics as she interacts with such characters as two plumbers, a bunch of little kids, a demon king and much more!"

Mario: " Hey Luigi where's da Spaghetti!!!

Luigi: " I don't a know! Ask a Bayonneta!

Bayonneta: " Ask your mom!"

Mario and Luigi: " Mama Mia!"

 

[Curious Villager]

You forgot about Sakurai has been hinting about.

EVERYONE TIME YOU SAY WOLF ISN'T COMING BACK I GET A NEW FORM OF AIDS
EVERYONE KNOWS SAKURAI'S A LIAR WHO JUST WANTS US TO BELIEVE WOLF'S NOT COMING.

Talk about the boy who cried Wolf. Except the Wolf never came. At all.

 

[Schnee117]

Oh yeah, for the record. Not that I need to tell any of YOU this, but...

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The VERY LAST Bundle. ALL SEVEN DLC characters.

This needs to be EMPHASIZED for some reason.

Dreamcrusher.
Let's be honest most people here could get this medal easily.

 

[Frostwraith]

Oh yeah, for the record. Not that I need to tell any of YOU this, but...

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The VERY LAST Bundle. ALL SEVEN DLC characters.

This needs to be EMPHASIZED for some reason.

But... M-muh Wolf! B-but Sakurai always surprises somehow!

B-b-b-but he lied before and changed his mind before!! B-but last newcomer doesn't mean last fighter! Muh veterans!

This sounds like the perfect setup for some whacky new sitcom:

" This Bewitching temptress used to live a life of darkness, but her world is turned upside down when she gets invited to live in a mansion filled with wacky characters! Come watch her crazy antics as she interacts with such characters as two plumbers, a bunch of little kids, a demon king and much more!"

Mario: " Hey Luigi where's da Spaghetti!!!

Luigi: " I don't a know! Ask a Bayonneta!

Bayonneta: " Ask your mom!"

Mario and Luigi: " Mama Mia!"

Bayonetta would be just fine with her endless supply of one-liners. XD

 

[Wario Bros.]

So who are you gonna try first? or ?

I'm leaning towards the Umbra Witch right now.

 

[Fatmanonice]

Talk about the kid who cried Wolf. Except the Wolf never came. At all.

And then he gets cut from Star Fox Zero for no explicable reason.

 

[Frostwraith]

So who are you gonna try first? or ?

I'm leaning towards the Umbra Witch right now.

I'm saving the best for last, meaning I'm trying Corrin first, then Bayo.

 

[Burruni]

So who are you gonna try first? or ?

I'm leaning towards the Umbra Witch right now.

I have a general aversion to high-speed and "overly technical" characters.
So I'll go the Half-Blood Prince(ss) over the Queen of Climax.

 

[Cutie Gwen]

So who are you gonna try first? or ?

I'm leaning towards the Umbra Witch right now.

Corrin. Because I only have 5 euros on my eshop credit

 

[Aetheri]

Watch this and all of your woes will disappear.

Spoiler

7.8/10 not enough spin dashing...

So who are you gonna try first? or ?

I'm leaning towards the Umbra Witch right now.

Probably Bayonetta...but we'll see how good Corrin turns out to be...

Accidental double post...not used to being too fast for this thread...

 

[Fatmanonice]

So who are you gonna try first? or ?

I'm leaning towards the Umbra Witch right now.

Domanatrix Mary Poppins Bayonetta followed by furry/foot fetish OC Corrin.

 

[Deleted member]

So who are you gonna try first? or ?

I'm leaning towards the Umbra Witch right now.

I still have to try Cloud lol
But I'm probably trying Corrin first as my brother really wants to try Cloud and Bayo looks too technical for a casual match
Still hyped for the three of them tho

 

[wedl!!]

The writing's on the wall for me.

 

[Coricus]

I'm still trying to gain insight from reaction videos.

So far all I'm getting is that people are really, really bitter at FE, "anime" is an insult that actual people use in a legitimately bitter fashion, and if anyone isn't immediately clouded by said bitterness Corrin looks like the awesomest thing ever. Everyone expected Wolf to be handed to them on a silver platter, which is why people are so hung up on his "having" to be in the game now. Everyone jumped to the assumption that the Bayo trailer was a KI:U character and either started moaning even more because everyone in this fandom is convinced Sakurai personally hates them or started weakly chanting out the name of a KI:U character to save face and look hype anyway, but most of them did a 180 the instant Bayonetta actually showed up and started geeking out.

I'm also left under the impression that not only did Bayonetta win the Smash Ballot, but if the fandom hadn't booed out anyone who supported her she would have won by a landslide. I wasn't among her supporters in the slightest, but I'm that way with nearly any third party possible. Saying Bayonetta wasn't the highest voted character that wasn't freaking stupid is just denial at this point, as she's clearly got an awful lot of people who at least decided they liked her even if they never bothered to buy her game.

 

[Burruni]

So.
Uhm....
Can someone remind me of our penultimate trophy count?
I wanna know how well I'm faring before our last wave of DLC

 

[ChikoLad]

Since I'm not particularly hyped for either character, I will just go in order of their reveals.

Also Corrin looks way more accessible so that's another reason to go with him first.

With Lucas/Roy/Ryu, I did a rotation of them in Training, then Classic, and then in All-Star. So I'll do that here.

 

[BandanaWaddleDee]

So who are you gonna try first? or ?

I'm leaning towards the Umbra Witch right now.

Knuckles

 

[Deleted member]

Also, I have a canadian EShop card that I bought thinking it was compatible with all of the NA systems(remind me to read the back of these cards next time)
So I might end up giving it or something
I'd only be able to get the code around the 8th tho

 

[wedl!!]

I'm not "preconvinced that Sakurai hates me" and most sane people don't think that.

I just... don't care about Kid Icarus and would've been pretty disappointed if the direct was two characters I didn't care about.

And I was totally sure Bayonetta would never happen, which is why I didn't vocally support her. Because muh M rating.

The same could be applied to most of the reaction videos except remove them ever actually playing Bayonetta 1/2

 

[Z25]

Talk about the boy who cried Wolf. Except the Wolf never came. At all.

Sounds like an anti climactic ending. All the more reason for the wolf to show up

 

[Substitution]

So who are you gonna try first? or ?

I'm leaning towards the Umbra Witch right now.

I'm probably gonna have them collect dust until I see what new theme I want for my 3DS.
I'm thinking one of the Sega themes. Or maybe a Mario one to go with my badges...

 

[Cutie Gwen]

Knuckles

Have fun with your clone. I bet you want Pichu back too

 

[BandanaWaddleDee]

Have fun with your clone. I bet you want Pichu back too

I can't tell if this is a joke or not.

 

[Schnee117]

I can't tell if this is a joke or not.

"Queen of ****posting"
I dunno you tell us.

 

[Deleted member]

"Queen of ****posting"
I dunno you tell us.

And I don't think we can trust someone who is "always drunk"

 

[Burruni]

Okay...
This doesn't add up.
"The base game contains a total of 716 trophies, while the downloadable content adds 27 additional trophies for a grand total of 743."
The base math works and I know that the base game had 716.
But... where do we get 27 trophies from DLC?
: 15 from Classic Alt & Final smash + 1 for Ken.
And then the Inkling trophy from the costumes
That's... 17.
Where am I missing 10 whole trophies from DLC?

 

[Icedragonadam]

Okay...
This doesn't add up.
"The base game contains a total of 716 trophies, while the downloadable content adds 27 additional trophies for a grand total of 743."
The base math works and I know that the base game had 716.
But... where do we get 27 trophies from DLC?
: 15 from Classic Alt & Final smash + 1 for Ken.
And then the Inkling trophy from the costumes
That's... 17.
Where am I missing 10 whole trophies from DLC?

9 would be the 6 trophies of Cornaise, and the 3 Bayonetta trophies. Not sure of the last one. As there's a missing trophy for the 3ds too.

 

[Kenith]

So who are you gonna try first? or ?

I'm leaning towards the Umbra Witch right now.

I have no idea. I'm so hype for both of them because they are everything I could want in a character.
Before the DLC, I was struggling to find a character I really enjoyed.
Now my cup runeth over with Bayo, Cloud and Corrin.

 

[Coricus]

I'm not "preconvinced that Sakurai hates me" and most sane people don't think that.

I just... don't care about Kid Icarus and would've been pretty disappointed if the direct was two characters I didn't care about.

And I was totally sure Bayonetta would never happen, which is why I didn't vocally support her. Because muh M rating.

The same could be applied to most of the reaction videos except remove them ever actually playing Bayonetta 1/2

I think we all learned an important lesson that day:

It's not the rating that matters, it's how much camp it can pack.




. . .Which we learned a decade ago when Snake was announced. But hey, E10+ was a pretty heavy misdirection, I'll admit. It even had me fooled.

 

[Cutie Gwen]

I can't tell if this is a joke or not.

The answer is: Both trains will safely arrive at the stations at 5:30PM
I mean, Sakurai calls clones model swap characters, and that's kiiiiinda what you're doing with Knuckles

 

[Z25]

So in additon to Bayo and Corrin, I just realized this also comes out tomorrow:

I'm interested to see what comes from this, and I hope to hear of it being localized soon.

Also this is coming up to(from serebii):

"It has been confirmed that the first hands-on at the Game Developer Conference next month in San Francisco. It will be in a special session held by Niantic CEO John Hanke called Catch 'Em All: Pokemon GO and Real World Gaming and will allow for people who attend to see how the game works for the very first time as well as hear about how the company has developed the title. The specific timing of this session has yet to be revealed but we'll bring details from it as soon as we can"


It's nice to finally have a concept on how this will play. Now let's see if it matches up to the trailers.

 

[ChikoLad]

I mostly just think there should have been a cartoony/classic character to go with Corrin and Bayonetta. Or instead of Corrin.

At the end of the day, Corrin didn't just disappoint because FE, it was because it was the most blatant shill they could have gone for. Like, it's not even like he's a fan favourite right now. It's a character I couldn't possibly know much about even if I wanted to.

Bayonetta is cool and pleased a good amount of people, but at the end of the day she's fairly niche, not just in terms of how many people know her. But also her demographic. She's a standard shonen anime protagonist type of character but from a video game and she's a lady. I have known of her since she debuted because of friends but I have yet to play her games so I don't have an attachment right now.

I just think either Wolf, a fan favourite Nintendo newcomer, or a cartoony third party, could have really helped make the final DLC feel more well rounded and complete. It just feels a little shallow right now.

Hell, for me personally, I really just wanted an extra mode or new features. Didn't get that though.

That's just why I'm not hyped. I'm mildly looking forward to playing these new characters since they look fun to play, but the fact remains that after a weekend or so, I will pretty much be bored already because the game has so little for me to do WITH these characters in single player. And online is bad and I mainly will do some rounds with friends and that's it. After that, I'm about ready to move on from Smash Wii U, especially once I get all customs. 3DS will remain an occasional time waster though on the go. Oh and maybe I'll take a few screens of Bayonetta being smitten with Rosalina, for fun (Rosalina looks a bit like Jeanne). :V

Maybe I'll get back into it if I can more reasonably go to tournaments, or I meet someone IRL who plays it. But otherwise, there's no magic left.

 

[Burruni]

9 would be the 6 trophies of Cornaise, and the 3 Bayonetta trophies. Not sure of the last one. As there's a missing trophy for the 3ds too.

Okay...
So it's COUNTING THE ONES FOR THE UPCOMING PATCH
That explains an amount of the disparity...
So 733 as of now.
Then my 709's pretty damn respectable.
Edit: Especially since I don't have the Miinkling outfits...

 

[Kenith]

I mostly just think there should have been a cartoony/classic character to go with Corrin and Bayonetta. Or instead of Corrin.

At the end of the day, Corrin didn't just disappoint because FE, it was because it was the most blatant shill they could have gone for. Like, it's not even like he's a fan favourite right now. It's a character I couldn't possibly know much about even if I wanted to.

Bayonetta is cool and pleased a good amount of people, but at the end of the day she's fairly niche, not just in terms of how many people know her. But also her demographic. She's a standard shonen anime protagonist type of character but from a video game and she's a lady. I have known of her since she debuted because of friends but I have yet to play her games so I don't have an attachment right now.

I just think either Wolf, a fan favourite Nintendo newcomer, or a cartoony third party, could have really helped make the final DLC feel more well rounded and complete. It just feels a little shallow right now.

Hell, for me personally, I really just wanted an extra mode or new features. Didn't get that though.

That's just why I'm not hyped. I'm mildly looking forward to playing these new characters since they look fun to play, but the fact remains that after a weekend or so, I will pretty much be bored already because the game has so little for me to do WITH these characters in single player. And online is bad and I mainly will do some rounds with friends and that's it. After that, I'm about ready to move on from Smash Wii U, especially once I get all customs. 3DS will remain an occasional time waster though on the go.

Maybe I'll get back into it if I can more reasonably go to tournaments, or I meet someone IRL who plays it. But otherwise, there's no magic left.

You could have stopped at the first sentence and I would have agreed.

 

[Swamp Sensei]

The more I hear people give Wolf fans ****.

The more I want to bug this thread about how wrong they were too.

Because this thread was just as wrong as all the others, and somehow thinks they're smarter.

Seriously, they were wrong. They aren't letting it go because you blokes aren't.

 

[Opossum]

Happy Groundhog Day, guys! I've been gone most of the day, so I'll be playing catch-up.

I NEED ALL OF THESE FIGURES!:

http://www.fangamer.com/products/undertale-figurines-series-1

I need to get Papyrus at least. It helps that they're actually amiibo-sized too.

Those are different games
And PXZ2 has Chrom I don't think that's the best example to compare to Smash
Smash is fighting game while PXZ and STEAM are turn-based strategy
In Smash, you have a limited number of moves you can give to represent a character
I don't think they're too worried about that in those two
Like, I don't even get why they gave her a bow in Steam, probably just to give her a ranged weapin

Lucina's actually used a bow in three non-Fire Emblem games now: Project X Zone 2 (a silver bow), Code Name: S.T.E.A.M., and Monster Hunter Frontier G via the Lucina model swap (both of these last two let her use Nidhogg, of all bows). And considering Intelligent Systems had to approve of all of these and even made one of the games in general, I'd say it's a part of her character now, honestly. Plus, they could always pull a "Kumatora/Poo taught Lucas/Ness PK Fire/Thunder" and say she learned it from Virion or Noire.

Meanwhile.
We have a series where the protagonist who was one of the most pronounced for "pandering" design who in its reboot lost that (along with any amount of snark or actual appealing character design internally or externally).

Honestly, I like the more modern Lara a lot better than the original. She feels more like an actual person. Plus, Camilla Luddington's a surprisingly great VA. Yeah, the 2013 game felt too close to Uncharted, but from what I've read, Rise of the Tomb Raider's a fantastic game.

 

[PsychoIncarnate]

Happy Groundhog Day, guys! I've been gone most of the day, so I'll be playing catch-up.

I don't really understand the thing with groundhogs day

Except it's like time travel or something

But, it was sunny here so does that mean the groundhog saw his shadow? And that means more winter?

 

[Z25]

The more I hear people give Wolf fans ****.

The more I want to bug this thread about how wrong they were too.

Because this thread was just as wrong as all the others, and somehow thinks they're smarter.

Seriously, they were wrong. They aren't letting it go because you blokes aren't.

This 100%

Smash is a game in which EVERYBODY IS WRONG!

Everyone tries to be Sakurai, but he is to damn smart! He knows what we want, but he knows what could top most of our expectations.

This is something that has been proven to us every step of the way. No one is ever 100% right on smash, but that's a good thing!

It leads to new surprises and excitement each time.

As a fanbase we should learn by now, that we will never be right, and should just buckle up and enjoy the ride!

 

[Solfiner]

The more I hear people give Wolf fans ****.

The more I want to bug this thread about how wrong they were too.

Because this thread was just as wrong as all the others, and somehow thinks they're smarter.

Seriously, they were wrong. They aren't letting it go because you blokes aren't.

B-but I thought Lucas was one of the most likely DLC candidates...