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What are you most excited about for E3?


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SnakeFighter64

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I'm back *******!
I mean, the wait for Mewtwo was this long. It would have been this long regardless of which character they revealed first.

Think of it this way: If Nintendo stayed quiet about DLC, then people would be mad about not knowing who the first character is. Darned if you do, darned if you don't.
You. do. not. know that. For all you know he's just sitting on their servers finished and they can't release him because Sakurai just HAD to include content from a game Atlus is giving nothing but radio silence on.

I didn't want them to stay quiet. I want them to follow a consistent pattern of reveal, hype building, then release. They don't do that.

I mean no offense, but that sounds like a personal problem.

I feel like most fighting game DLC characters get announced without a release date. Hell, until recently, most Nintendo games got announced without a release date.

The point I'm trying to make is that when Nintendo doesn't announce anything, it's a drought. When they announce something early and don't release it immediately afterward, it's also a drought. I just feel that these periods of our thread going insane aren't so much Nintendo's fault as ours.

My advice is to just play the damn game and wait.
Waiting with no end to the waiting in sight is not fun. Some people just can't go with the flow and take things as they come. It's just not in their nature. I feel like a lot of people would like it if Nintendo was more consistent with their reveals and releases. If we knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that things were coming at certain times even if they don't announce it yet. The reason this dosn't apply to joker is because they havn't established that pattern to begin with. We can't guess that he's coming on X because the last games first DLC character came out around this time, and be proven right.
It's like...the same amount of time we had between Mewtwo's announcement and release. Having secondary non-hanging-around-on-a-Smash-forum hobbies can really help the time fly.

Trust me, I'm as excited as anyone. He's my most-wanted and I'm chomping at the bit to learn him and I can't wait to see who else makes it, but this level of pouring salt directly into your veins has gotta.be unhealthy.
I have plenty of hobbies! I'm not just sitting around waiting for Joker to release. I draw, I write, I go to class, I play other games. I'm not constantly salty. I just feel very strongly about Nintendo's inconsistent scheduling when it comes up. That and you guys are all going heat-crazy from this drought.

Every time Netherrealm announces a DLC character, though, it's given without a date.

You're comparing their buildup to their actual game, MK11, to Nintendo's handling of DLC. But the way they announced their season passes and individual fighters is a more direct comparison. And they're similar.

Hell, people complained about an MK11 "drought" when Netherrealm didn't announce anything at E3, only to be pleasantly surprised when it was announced in December with an April release instead. That's a very similar time frame to Ultimate, from its E3 trailer to launch.
I wasn't one of the people complaining about an MK11 "drought". I straight up thought that they were making something OTHER than an MK game and broke their pattern deliberately to signal we were getting something different. In the end they just waited to reveal and cut out the typical drought period that happens when they reveal at E3 and then go quiet for months and months. It's just a refinement of their pre-existing pattern. I'm actually a little mad that it's just MK11 and not something cool and different but whatever.

NetherRealm may not put release dates in the initial announcement trailer, but it is common knowledge that each character comes out one month after the next. That pattern held throughout the entirety of Injustice 2. The countdown clock is a constant unchanging feature of their announcement schedule. You know you are going to get X amount of characters and you know they will be released one at a time in as many months around the same time each month. Because they're consistent we don't need them to tell us the exact date until the character's individual trailer.

Nintendo is NOT consistent. They release content whenever they want with seemingly no plan. No regular monthly streams to show off that month's character. They just do it whenever they get around to it, building hype be damned. THAT'S the problem. I wouldn't care about dates if the DLC held a consistent pattern.
 

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You know what made me feel old?

The realization that Brawl is about a decade old
Feels like yesterday I beat Subspace for the first time
I was never allowed to get Brawl, because it was rated T. My only experience of it was going to my friend’s house and (not knowing how specials worked) spammed B with Pikachu, hoping to get down b.
 

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what was the first video game you ever played
Double Dash was mine, and I feel old cuz I'm almost as old as it
Mine was either that Grinch game for the PS1, or Melee (I remember not knowing who any character was when I played Melee back then).
 

SnakeFighter64

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You know what made me feel old?

The realization that Brawl is about a decade old
Feels like yesterday I beat Subspace for the first time
Same. Brawl was my first Smash too. Even if I jumped on very late.

I really wish we got a new Subspace style campaign. The more time passes the more I'm just disappointed with World of Light.
 

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I was around before you were even a glint in your mother’s eye, kid
Hmm, when does one become a glint? When "the deed" occurs?

So then what's your earliest gaming memory? Pacman?
 
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i wonder who the youngest person on smashboards is

like i know there's a minimum age but i bet there's a bunch of kids who lied like filthy ****ing criminals and should be expunged
 

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My earliest childhood memory is of playing Super Mario Bros. on the NES, so I guess that must be the first game I played. Though it was also the version that came with Duck Hunt on the same cart, so for all I remember I could have had :4duckhunt: laughing at me minutes earlier.
 

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I feel fairly sure the first video game I played was Mario Kart 64, but I was a just a bab so for all I know the controller was unplugged and my family members were just humoring me.
 
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Wunderwaft

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So no direct this week eh?
Told ya we're not gonna get it :cool:

Also my first game was probably Super Mario Bros, I say probably because it was part of a giant rom pack that I got on the PS1.
 

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I have no right feeling like an old man at the age of 21, but I sometimes do.

As far as games are concerned, I was born around the tail end of the N64 era, and I missed out what it had to offer. On the other hand, I have so much nostalgia for the Gamecube since that was my first console ever. It helps that some of my favorite video games to this day were first released on it (Wind Waker, Pikmin, Pikmin 2 and Luigi's Mansion all come to mind). And even though the first video game I ever played on it was a Spongebob game, the console also quickly introduced me to some gaming icons, starting with Link and Pac-man. I loved the Gamecube and it's games so much that when I started to realize neither Nintendo nor other parties were producing games for it anymore, having moved onto the Wii and other newer conssoles, I was really upset.

Don't get me wrong though, I never disliked the Wii, I loved that era, too, but man, the Gamecube was practically my childhood. I have nostalgia for a lot of things and it's usually at it's strongest when thinking back to the Gamecube era. People can say what they will about video games, but that little device really and truly meant something to me. And it still does.
 
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I never played the likes of Freddi Fish or Pajama Sam as a kid.

I did however have a fair amount of experience with Putt-Putt. I helped him win the championship race, and later helped him save a zoo. :shades:
 

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I think my first game was this weird PC semi-educational game called Zoombinis and it was rad

Though my nostalgic kryptonite is always gonna be Pokemon Gold + Animal Crossing (GC)
 
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