Super Smash Bros. for 3DS & Wii U Thread 6: Final Destination confirmed for not fun
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Benzychenz
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theprodigy
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I really hope that if Retro does or is working on Metroid they return to their earlier idea for how she should look. After M:OM Sakamoto's views on how she should behave or look better take a back seat for a while.
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
I have a feeling with the Balloon Fighter stage on 3DS, there's a chance this stage may be returning.
That Metroid Prime 1 image wan't the first time that Samus took off her helmet. She does that in every game she has been in. Of all of those cases, Prime 1 is the outlier. What you call her "later" appearance was also how she looked in Metroid Fusion, which was released at the same time as Metroid Prime.
I guess for Prime 2 and 3 they just decided to settle on using a consistent look for the characters. As a whole, I suppose they just decided against using a realistic art-style, and opted instead to keep a consistent art-style among all of the Metroid games.
Troubled Bat
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No, it keeps whatever themes are there for it.
To each their own, i just find that anime look to be so lifeless in comparison to her MP1 look.
theprodigy
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It's not like it said it was limited to Wii U only.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Good point.
Oh i'm aware of that, i've played through the entire Metroid series (2D + 3D). I just find the MP1 look to be a much better fit at conveying the entire idea of Samus as a person/character than her anime look.
theprodigy
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MisterHero
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I was fine with animu Samus because the design matched the art direction of Fusion, Zero Mission, Other M, etc. Shoving it into the Prime series was a terrible choice though.Why the hell did Samus go from this and her MP1 appearance to this overly anime look that she has now.
As much as i hate the "because Nintendo" line that's really the only explanation i'm seeing for the change.
She went from looking like a believable person
To this fake plastic looking thing
I really hate this transition
There was also a great depiction in Smash Bros. Melee. It sorta resembles a compromise between anime and Retro's look.
Now that I think about it, this might be my favorite "non-bikini" Samus.
Metroid II and Super Metroid Samus FTW
Edit: For the record I think SSB4 ZSSamus is fine.
GhostTrick
Banned
Why the hell did Samus go from this and her MP1 appearance to this overly anime look that she has now.
As much as i hate the "because Nintendo" line that's really the only explanation i'm seeing for the change.
She went from looking like a believable person
To this fake plastic looking thing
I really hate this transition
Transition ?
tonyh24613
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theprodigy
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foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
Why the hell did Samus go from this and her MP1 appearance to this overly anime look that she has now.
As much as i hate the "because Nintendo" line that's really the only explanation i'm seeing for the change.
She went from looking like a believable person
To this fake plastic looking thing
I really hate this transition
samus has had a anime-ish artstyle look to her since they were able to put illustrations of her
did I do this right?
10/10
Then why did you call it a transition or change? If you know that the anime-styled look was the older and more constant style, why talk about it as if it was something new? You should pay more attention to your wording.
In any case, that comes down to personal preference. I have no issue with stylized or cartoon-style characters. I don't think a change in art style makes Samus any less or more believable as a character. That is a product of writing, not artstyle.
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kittens
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Hi I want this game. please tell Sakurai to give me this game now. thank you.
theprodigy
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Have fun waiting for at least 2 more months!
For 3D Metroid the MP1 look was the first view of Samus in 3D after a generational absence. The change back towards anime styling is what i disliked, not because i dislike anime but because i believed that the MP1 look was a better match for the person/character of Samus than the anime styled plastic and possibly generic look. Especially in the Prime trilogy, her anime appearance looked out of place in the subsequent games.
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kittens
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This is not satisfactory
theprodigy
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gah, I almost thought you were SuperSah for a moment!
Sorry, The restraining order says I have to stay at least 200m away from Sakurai.
foxuzamaki
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idk why people are so stuck on samus' MP1 face, that was a pretty generic face at the time, imo anyways, and it doesnt age well, doesnt look anywhere near as good as it use to, on the contrary the design of her face shown in the picture just below, the other M one, looks far better and gives way more personality to me, it is also aging alot better then MP1's.
theprodigy
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If you're looking for the Wii U version, have fun waiting even longer!
Troubled Bat
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I get that confusion every time.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
I wonder if the gale boomerang is as shitty as in Brawl.
Best boomerang is 64 boomerang.
Best boomerang is 64 boomerang.
Extra comment:
No fun at alll.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
I wonder if Sakurai is Team Real or Team Fake.
SenorArdilla
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... and that's where you lost me.
She fights a space pterodactyl, membranous nuclei with teeth and a disembodied brain functioning as an organic supercomputer with an emergency self-defense mechanism that involves turning it into what is essentially a cyborg T-Rex with a single eye that shoots laser beams.
Believability is for naught. And the MP1 face isn't even that believable to begin with.
Normal. Don't want to die of boredom before the first round is finished.
Mauricio_Magus
Banned
I'd love FD but also some levels like Battlefiield and Smashville, just the usual ones that are played in competitive play.
Oh wait you mean FD for all stages? THEN NOOO, normal.
RMS Gigantic
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Sakurai said that some of these Final Destination versions of stages will be on cliffs while others will be floating.
Watch one or the other form get banned from "official" Smash 4 tournaments for one arbitrary reason or another, leading to more than half of the Final Destination stages, and more than ¾ of the overall game stages, getting banned.
As for the 3DS Smash Tourney, normal stages, please.
MaverickHunterAsh
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All stages, non-FD versions. FD is so. Damn. Boring, especially all the time.
Turning every stage into FD or something close enough to it is one of the biggest reasons Project M is so dull compared to regular Brawl. Let's not turn Smash 4 into a snoozefest months before it's even out, please.
A Link to the Past
Banned
No offense, but that's a super trashy argument. You know - or at least I hope to god you know - that the user is talking about believable designs. The user is not asking for Samus to be a police officer in 2007 era Albany.
SaintMadeOfPlaster
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Judging by some of the pics of the day...
Freezie KO
Banned
Are we doing the tourney the day of release? Or are we going to wait a couple weeks where we could make a list of fair stages?
I don't want to do all FD, but I'd also be really disappointed if my tournament matches ending up on something like Mushroomy Kingdom.
Turning every stage into FD or something close enough to it is one of the biggest reasons Project M is so dull compared to regular Brawl. Let's not turn Smash 4 into a snoozefest months before it's even out, please.
C'mon, son.