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Postby Azier the Swordsman » Sat Jan 19, 2008 11:08 pm

I've never liked unlockables, period.
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Postby Raiden no Kishi » Sun Jan 20, 2008 3:05 pm

Does the sticker concept remind anyone else of the koma panels in Jump Super/Ultimate Stars? Dangit, I still need to get that game . . .

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Postby uc pseudonym » Sun Jan 20, 2008 3:39 pm

I'm fine with additional modes so long as they're just thrown in with the main focus: multiplayer games. They can provide some idle fun.

Nate wrote:I also don't like the concept of unlockable content being based on luck, sorry. This sticker thing is also way too out there for me.
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Postby AsianBlossom » Tue Jan 22, 2008 1:40 pm

You guys all hear about some characters being leaked? Like two veterans and a newcomer? :D
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Postby Raiden no Kishi » Tue Jan 22, 2008 6:54 pm

All I have to say about the interview is this: Sakurai-san's hair reminds me of Light Yagami.

. . .

Carry on. That was all.

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Postby meboeck » Wed Jan 23, 2008 5:26 am

I knew they were going to have a side-scrolling classic Mario stage. And Koji Kondo himself did the arrangement of the classic theme! Yay!
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Postby Slater » Wed Jan 23, 2008 10:14 pm

Three words: Ness, Jigglypuff, Lucario.

'Nuff said.

Or if that's not 'nuff, here's a screenshot from an official video released by Nintendo Japan.

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The video was explaining and showing off the sticker system, but it seems they showed off a little more than they probably intended with the character bar, which shows which playable characters may be selected for equiping/removing/viewing stickers.

oops.
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Postby meboeck » Thu Jan 24, 2008 5:43 am

Slater (post: 1194174) wrote:Three words: Ness, Jigglypuff, Lucario.

'Nuff said.

Or if that's not 'nuff, here's a screenshot from an official video released by Nintendo Japan.

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The video was explaining and showing off the sticker system, but it seems they showed off a little more than they probably intended with the character bar, which shows which playable characters may be selected for equiping/removing/viewing stickers.

oops.


First of all, I'm skeptical whenever anyone talks about leaks. Sencond, the hat is definitely Pokemon Trainer, not Ness. First, it has the little bit of white on the hat, and second, all of those icons ore Pokemon related.
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Postby Nate » Thu Jan 24, 2008 7:41 pm

Agreed with meboeck. It's probably a list of who can "equip" that sticker, and why would Ness, with no connection to Pokemon, be able to equip a Pokemon sticker, when the only other ones are Pokemon?
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Postby Slater » Thu Jan 24, 2008 10:57 pm

Tis not the picture with Ness in it; I'd post that one if I could remember where I found the pictures. I swear, it's the weirdest thing; I can't remember how I got to those two pages. Here's the one of Ness, but I am unable to find the hi-res ones again.

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So, while I'm not able to find the high-res pics, I did manage to find the video (which Nintendo has since pulled from the site and replaced with a modified version). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfb2l-iYlRo is the original version of the video.
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Postby Mega.EXE » Fri Jan 25, 2008 1:35 am

No offense to you guys... but how did you not notice the create your own stage part?

The boss battles look like fun though
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Postby Felix » Fri Jan 25, 2008 5:29 am

I have to say that I am a really big fan of the masterpieces update today. :D It's worthwhile extras like this that make smash bros. such a killer game.
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Postby meboeck » Fri Jan 25, 2008 5:57 am

Mega.EXE (post: 1194494) wrote:No offense to you guys... but how did you not notice the create your own stage part?

The boss battles look like fun though


There was a conversation in this thread about that a while ago. The general consensus was epic win.
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Postby Raiden no Kishi » Fri Jan 25, 2008 6:24 am

Mega.EXE (post: 1194494) wrote:No offense to you guys... but how did you not notice the create your own stage part?

The boss battles look like fun though


Someone forgot to read the whole thread.

Fish and Chips on October 29th '07 wrote:So.

We have a stage building mode.

We have. A stage building mode.

Stage. Building. Mode.

Awesome.


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Postby Mega.EXE » Fri Jan 25, 2008 4:58 pm

Ah, I see. Yes Raiden I did neglect to read all 11 pages with 60 posts per page. Frankly I have other things to tend to.
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Postby Felix » Fri Jan 25, 2008 6:31 pm

Mega.EXE wrote:Ah, I see. Yes Raiden I did neglect to read all 11 pages with 60 posts per page. Frankly I have other things to tend to.

If you have other things to tend to, don't take the time to point out whether we have or haven't discussed something when you haven't even read the whole thread. :p

Anyway, so that I might remain on topic, it's nice to see that the Wi-fi test battle seems to have no visible lag. Oh, and that new Mushroomy Kingdom level looks... freakishly amazing.
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Postby AsianBlossom » Fri Jan 25, 2008 7:59 pm

Yep. Very cool.

Although I'm not too sure about the old game demos...it's okay, but not really the neatest thing ever.

Unless you're into that sort of thing.
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Postby Nate » Fri Jan 25, 2008 9:37 pm

That "Masterpieces" thing is so lame. :\

Oh wow. They're delaying the game to put in The Legend of Zelda. Great. Because I don't own the NES cart. Or a ROM. Or bought it when it was rereleased for GBA. Or bought it when it was rereleased on the Gamecube. Or unlocked it on Animal Crossing. Or bought it off the Virtual Console.

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Postby Mr. SmartyPants » Fri Jan 25, 2008 9:45 pm

Alex, your prayers have been answered.

Go to the previously posted video and skip to between 4:08 and 4:09.

And yes that icon is definitely Ness, but I don't understand why this is indication that he will absolutely be included. Either way, I'm still fairly confident that he'll be included in Brawl.
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Postby Nate » Fri Jan 25, 2008 9:53 pm

I thought Alex wanted them as an assist trophy. That's just one of those regular collectible trophies.
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Postby meboeck » Fri Jan 25, 2008 9:58 pm

Mr. SmartyPants wrote:And yes that icon is definitely Ness, but I don't understand why this is indication that he will absolutely be included. Either way, I'm still fairly confident that he'll be included in Brawl.


Apparently the icons show which characters you can equip the stickers to. As far as Ness goes, I hadn't thought about it before, but they specifically said on the website that Lucas' regular moves are complete;y different from Ness's. So that would mean that Ness would probably keep his standard moves but get a new or partially new special moveset.
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Postby Tenshi no Ai » Fri Jan 25, 2008 10:09 pm

Hey here's some interesting news I received...

At work, we have Brawl advertised for Feb 10th, what everyone's been waiting for after a long delay, but heard from the Nintendo rep on the phone (as well as receiving a flyer correction notice), that IT IS BEING HELD OFF UNTIL MARCH 9th!!! This cannot be just a store, or even Canadian thing, because why would they do that? I know sometimes the Canadian release dates are like, a day after the American one (although the whole Assassin Creed thing was weird here).

Still, be aware of a possible delay for yet another month >_>


*looks on IGN* Oh it is posted there too >_> I suppose this is old news. Maybe I did read it and it emptied from my head in forgetfulness >_> Ooops
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Postby Mega.EXE » Sat Jan 26, 2008 12:53 am

Yeah it is old news. It was up on the Brawl site a while ago
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Postby Mr. SmartyPants » Sat Jan 26, 2008 8:07 am

Nate (post: 1194778) wrote:I thought Alex wanted them as an assist trophy. That's just one of those regular collectible trophies.

I thought he just wanted them to appear... like... at least be recognized. XD

But an Assist Trophy of them would be awesome. A giant 2D Picture of them could appear and they can be like "OSU! TATAKE! OUENDAN!" and random speech bubbles could hurt enemies or something like that. XD

There's one thing I'm worried about. If you do your final smash with Samus, you become Zero Suit Samus, right? Are you ever able to regain your suit or not? Because if not, I think that's kinda lame. D:
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Postby meboeck » Sat Jan 26, 2008 8:40 am

Mr. SmartyPants wrote:There's one thing I'm worried about. If you do your final smash with Samus, you become Zero Suit Samus, right? Are you ever able to regain your suit or not? Because if not, I think that's kinda lame. D:


They've announced Zero Suit Samus's full moveset, and her final smash is Power Suit Samus. So apparently each version of Samus turns into the other with the final smash. But since that's the only way and some people play without items, I have a feeling that you will be able to start with either version of her. Or at least that ability will probably be unlockable.
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Postby AsianBlossom » Sat Jan 26, 2008 6:32 pm

Yup.

Does anyone else on here think they're trying to cram too much into one game? I mean, Subspace Emissary is cool and all that, but (and I know we're going back to the whole "masterpiece" thing again) it seems like too much. Just too much.

But don't think I'm against having 48 characters in total, 'cuz I'm totally not.
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Postby Slater » Sat Jan 26, 2008 7:33 pm

Dunno. A NES game is like... 10 kb in size, at most. N64 games are 10-20 MB. What's the capacity of a Wii disk? I don't know, but the amount taken up by those game demos probably isn't very much. Maybe they are even downloadable demos.
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Postby Mr. SmartyPants » Sat Jan 26, 2008 7:49 pm

I don't think she meant in terms of disc space.

But yes, I agree. I think they're just adding way a bit too many unnecessary features in this game.
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Postby Fish and Chips » Sat Jan 26, 2008 7:55 pm

Mega.EXE (post: 1194649) wrote:Ah, I see. Yes Raiden I did neglect to read all 11 pages with 60 posts per page. Frankly I have other things to tend to.

Then don't shoot your mouth off about what we did or did not discuss.
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Postby Cognitive Gear » Sat Jan 26, 2008 8:02 pm

I'm going to go against the flow here and say that this isn't too much content. Honestly, if I play this game for half the time I played SSBM, I will need this many things to do.
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