To TOPIC CREATOR:
Online will be a joke, anyone that plays competitive fighters (obviously smash included) knows that lag ***** matches, and guess what, there will always be lag no matter what the connection is. It doesnt matter if you (just an example) go ahead and beat Ken, or KDJ, or PC, or whatever online, it wont mean **** till u beat em at a tournament so why the hell are people so obsessed about playing online? Yes it will be fun, but THATS IT, you wont prove **** so why bother so much about it?
Brawl will be just like melee in that sense... if you want to prove youre good go to a tournament and place, if you want to get real practice in find a crew or just some friends to play with and practice with them.
Now im not saying im anti online... but probably i wont even play it since i dont have wifi or the broadband adaptor.... nor i care for them that much. And even if i do, ill probably play all stages and items on and ****, because if i play on competitive settings then i play seriously and i play to win, and i cant play to win in an enviorment that is not rightfor doing so.
Itll be worse than playing in HDTVs... and hdtvs are banned for tournys exactly for the lag reasoning.
I think itd be so much better if the time they are spending on making Brawl online was spent on more characters/stages/making Zelda and Peach GODESS tiers