Super Smash Bros. for 3DS & Wii U Thread 7: How Can My Smash Brother Be This Cut

"Linking together the console and handheld release to unlock more shit" has been a Nintendo trope since the N64, so this wouldn't be the first time they've done something like that, and considering how dire the Wii U situation is, Nintendo might just force something like this on Sakurai to help boost system sales.

I will not buy this game if I have to connect to a system to unlock characters already on the card.
 
My Pyrosphere stage hazard prediction: 30 seconds or so into the fight, Ridley comes crashing in through a wall (explaining one of the holes). He hovers around, spits fireballs, and knocks into the columns causing them to crumble. After being attacked enough by the players, he’ll crash into another wall (explaining the second hole) and disappear just like the boss fight in Other M.
 
I will not buy this game if I have to connect to a system to unlock characters already on the card.
I would imagine that if they went the "link together both versions to unlock etxras" route they wouldn't reveal it until the Wii U version was close to releasing, and definitely not before the 3DS version comes out, so...

but then no brinstar depths or Ridley replaces him :p
No loss there considering that Brinstar Depths is like the second worst stage in all of Melee.

Big Blue is the first for those curious. That stage is SO BAD.
 
I will not buy this game if I have to connect to a system to unlock characters already on the card.

I'm with you. I don't want it to happen, but it just seems like the kind of stupid thing Ninty would do at this point, especially with them releasing the 3DS version first.
 
Stage hazard:

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Playable:

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Both can be in Pyrosphere at the same time. The playable Ridley could kill the abominable Other M Ridley. They were technically different entities, so why not.

This is a confusing solution when considering design consistency. Sakurai had Samus redesigned to look more like her Other M counterpart - why have the playable Ridley look like an early era counterpart in comparison?
 
My Pyrosphere stage hazard prediction: 30 seconds or so into the fight, Ridley comes crashing in through a wall (explaining one of the holes). He hovers around, spits fireballs, and knocks into the columns causing them to crumble. After being attacked enough by the players, he’ll crash into another wall (explaining the second hole) and disappear just like the boss fight in Other M.
Maybe he interacts with the lava in some way on his way out, creating a hazard that attacks all of the players except for the one that finished him off?
 
What irony? The irony that I said outright that Other M Ridley is probably a boss but that doesn't mean normal Ridley can't be playable because they are different characters but you keep spouting "RIDLEY WAS SHOWN AS A BOSS"? Or the irony that your only other argument was that "Sakurai thinks this". Are you Sakurai?

I cant possible imaging why they'd put two Ridleys in the game, one as boss and one as playable character. That's like having Ganondorf as a playable character then ganon/or WW ganondorf as boss character. Yea there different beings but still not enough reason to justify including him. Besides not everyone knows Ridleys back story like its something they studied school. probably 50% of people who will see both Ridleys in the game will ask why are there two dragon things, and why is one so much bigger then the other? it isn't consistent. but whatever this topic is boring me i'll end it with that.
All hail issac as playable character!
 
Olimar was included in Brawl as a playable character (which is basically as soon as he could have been). Olimar wasn't first added as a microscopic SSE plot element or whatever, and wasn't teased as a microscopic stage hazard before being revealed for Smash 4.

That problem isn't that it's impossible to resize Ridley, the problem is that Sakurai shows every indication of viewing him purely as a boss character. He basically has a boss fight with Samus in the Melee opening as well.

Giga Bowser was a boss in Melee, but became playable as a final smash in Brawl iirc. What you say can be an indication, but not conclusive evidence.
 
what is up with people proposing some nefariously awful unlocking schemes lately
"Because Nintendo" is the reason. It allows people to say the most ridiculously exaggerated stuff and say that is what Nintendo would do.

I think they will allow you to not have to unlock stuff again along with unlocking some content between versions.
 
I don't think they'll have any character unlocked by linking the games. Probably some trophies, maybe some music. Things like that.

I'd be fine with game linking though. As long as I don't have to connect to any internets to get the full roster, it's fine by me.
 
I don't think they'll have any character unlocked by linking the games. Probably some trophies, maybe some music. Things like that.

I'd be fine with game linking though. As long as I don't have to connect to any internets to get the full roster, it's fine by me.

I feel like they might, but only as an option.
 
I can easily see them doing a connect 3DS to Wii U to "unlock characters more easily" type of thing but all characters are still unlockable on their own in each game.

Yknow what would be cool?

CONNECT TO WII U TO PLAY WII U STAGES ON 3DS, AND 3DS STAGES ON WII U.

And cross platform trophies!

Edit: I guess I wrote that in all caps as if it was an advertisement hahah
 
No loss there considering that Brinstar Depths is like the second worst stage in all of Melee.

Big Blue is the first for those curious. That stage is SO BAD.
What, no hate for Icicle Mountain?
This is a confusing solution when considering design consistency. Sakurai had Samus redesigned to look more like her Other M counterpart - why have the playable Ridley look like an early era counterpart in comparison?
Presumably because nobody wants to play as hideous spiky Other M Ridley.
 
Big Blue is the first for those curious. That stage is SO BAD.

Big Blue isn't a stage I'd want to fight on all the time, but it's so wild and chaotic that it made a great breather between more standard matches. I'll take more designs in that vein over more Battlefield variants.
 
Ridley aside, Pyrosphere has to be the worst stage revealed so far, I really don't like it, seems boring and uneventful. Also I'm not really keen on the idea of bosses interrupting fights in general.

This is a confusing solution when considering design consistency. Sakurai had Samus redesigned to look more like her Other M counterpart - why have the playable Ridley look like an early era counterpart in comparison?

Actually the new Zero Suit Samus is different from the Other M counterpart: case in point the boots. Sakurai probably noticed how shit Other M Samus design was and decided he could do better. The same would happen with Ridley, he knows everybody loves Super Metroid Ridley, he has probably also noticed that it's overall the best design of Ridley.
 
I actually wouldn't be surprised if both games had radically different starting rosters and had completely different unlocking criteria between them.

It'd at least make the uh... pre-endgame? Different between them.
 
What, no hate for Icicle Mountain?
I think Icicle Mountain strikes a good balance between good fighting and the stage making itself unique. Usually it just scrolls up or down slowly, after all, and when it does scroll quickly it's easy enough to keep up. It's very much unlike Rumble Falls, which tries for the same gimmick but is too busy as a stage and thus fails spectacularly in being actually fun to play on, especially as characters that don't have good jumps.

Big Blue isn't a stage I'd want to fight on all the time, but it's so wild and chaotic that it made a great breather between more standard matches. I'll take more designs in that vein over more Battlefield variants.
Big Blue has an interesting idea (ground is deadly as opposed to falling off the bottom) but pulls it off badly - the platforms are glitchy and weird, the cars are random and so the stage is sometimes much more difficult to get around than it should be... I'm looking forward to trying Spirit Train as it looks to solve many of Big Blue's problems in that regard.
 
I cant possible imaging why they'd put two Ridleys in the game, one as boss and one as playable character. That's like having Ganondorf as a playable character then ganon/or WW ganondorf as boss character. Yea there different beings but still not enough reason to justify including him. Besides not everyone knows Ridleys back story like its something they studied school. probably 50% of people who will see both Ridleys in the game will ask why are there two dragon things, and why is one so much bigger then the other? it isn't consistent. but whatever this topic is boring me i'll end it with that.
All hail issac as playable character!

All Ganondorfs and Ganons are the same character.
 
It's more about making people buy a Wii U than it is about making them buy a copy of Smash U.

That's probably the worst plan I've ever heard

It would just sabotage both versions

Though I'm guessing someone is going to say "Because Nintendo" because saying that is easier than explaining why anyone, anywhere, would consider doing that
 
Presumably because nobody wants to play as hideous spiky Other M Ridley.

Not a lot of people seem too keen on playing high-heels Samus either.

Actually the new Zero Suit Samus is different from the Other M counterpart: case in point the boots. Sakurai probably noticed how shit Other M Samus design was and decided he could do better. The same would happen with Ridley, he knows everybody loves Super Metroid Ridley, he has probably also noticed that it's overall the best design of Ridley.

The way I see it that has every potential to be even more confusing cause then you have to juggle a boss Ridley that looks like Other M and a playable one that only mostly looks like he's from Other M, assuming Sakurai wants to try to keep the character designs updated.

But I guess that's left to see assuming he's even in the game.
 
While Other M certainly shares its quality with Alien Resurrection, I remain completely unconvinced by your argument that Ridley remembers Samus in that game, mainly because it's complete fanon and there's no mention of Ridley having genetic memory in the Metroid series.

Seriously, you made up an entire theory about Ridley's species to explain something basic as him attacking Samus. It's the equivalent of me trying to explain Other M's trainwreck of a plot by saying the Adam there was an evil robot duplicate.

Based on nothing but what happens in Other M I say he remembers Samus. His actions are intelligent and directed. He seems to have a grudge against her. Why he remembers isn't explained, but it wouldn't be the only thing in that game that's poorly explained. Misunderstanding of how clones work? Copying an Alien Resurrection plot point without explaining it? It doesn't really matter. What matters is what happened in the game.

Okay, he was going after Samus because he saw her as a baby and wanted to get rid of a competitor for top predator.

Wow, that's a much more elegant and simple explanation than "Ridley's species has te magical ability to remember everything previous Ridleys did even though this was never brought up in the actual Metroid series."

Also, the last part is completely false when he killed and fed on Lyle to reach his second form.

Lyle was the explosives expert member of Adam's team. After he was killed the Exam Center was mysteriously blown up with explosives. It's more likely that the Deleter killed Lyle and took his explosives and Ridley scavenged his body.

In his second form he approaches the Exam Center and pays no mind to anyone there. He spots Samus and starts climbing the tower to reach her. He goes after her and only her. She never presents a threat to him. He goes after her. She only starts going after him after he starts attacking her and causing havoc on the ship. He could just prey on the weaker lifeforms, change into his adult form, and fly away. Why does he go after Samus if he doesn't remember her?
 
Actually the new Zero Suit Samus is different from the Other M counterpart: case in point the boots. Sakurai probably noticed how shit Other M Samus design was and decided he could do better. The same would happen with Ridley, he knows everybody loves Super Metroid Ridley, he has probably also noticed that it's overall the best design of Ridley.
Nah, Prime Meta-Ridley is easily the best. Zero Mission Ridley is the best normal Ridley.
Ridley aside, Pyrosphere has to be the worst stage revealed so far, I really don't like it, seems boring and uneventful. Also I'm not really keen on the idea of bosses interrupting fights in general.
Pyrosphere's main issue is that it's from one of the most visually boring Metroid games ever.
 
wha?! thought he was just reborn/ reincarnated like link and zelda was? with no memory of there past.

No, he is constantly sealed away or killed and then resurrected by someone. Every Ganon is the same Ganon.
The one in FSA is a different person. Even if it's the original one reincarnated, it's not any different from the Ridley situation.
No, he is the same Ganon resurrected from the dead. This has happened multiple times before. Magic bringing the dead back to life is NOT the same as cloning something that is dead.
 
BTW we know have Zero Suit Samus and Sheik as separate characters, meaning we have two Samus and two Zelda in the same roster guys... and you worry about Other M Ridley and Ridley being confusing? Come on, it's not like the two Toon Link, who were virtually identic clothing aside.

I think the guy is just kidding, he cut Wolf and Lucas for Wonder Red, Cranky Kong, and Pete Burns.

If he isn't, I meant no offense.

My sarcasm meter must be broken, I've seen so many crazy rosters in the past I could believe anyone to be serious.
 
wha?! thought he was just reborn/ reincarnated like link and zelda was? with no memory of there past.

The Ganondorf in Ocarina of Time diverges into multiple timelines and in each one it's the very same that retains his memory from Ocarina of Time, because rather than being killed he was sealed. He retains all of his memories in the games that follow as he wages battle against Link and Zelda's successors. It's why he harbors a large grudge towards Link and Hyrule in Wind Waker, and why that's the only game where he's driven by a personal motivation rather than wanting to conquer the world.

It would also make little sense for it to be a different Ganondorf because Gerudo is an all-female tribe with a male only being born every 100 years, unless every male in the tribe is a Ganondorf clone.
 
No, he is constantly sealed away or killed and then resurrected by someone. Every Ganon is the same Ganon.
No, he is the same Ganon resurrected from the dead. This has happened multiple times before. Magic bringing the dead back to life is NOT the same as cloning something that is dead.
It's stated that he has a different backstory and that he was born again. They're as much different characters as the two Ridleys are, just one in scifi and the other is fantasy. It's also a different situation from something like Zelda II or the Oracle games where the old Ganon is brought back to life through Dark Magic. The Ganondorf in FSA isn't even a Gerudo.
 
Yeah, pretty sure the FSA Ganon is a separate, possibly reincarnated character. Also named Ganondorf so it's implied at least.
 
Tom Nook still has a chance even though he is part of Villager's final smash because we saw Timmy and Tommy in the background of the Animal Crossing stage and he is wearing his old apron during the Smash while he was wearing his jumper during the first Smash trailer.
 
Tom Nook still has a chance even though he is part of Villager's final smash because we saw Timmy and Tommy in the background of the Animal Crossing stage and he is wearing his old apron during the Smash while he was wearing his jumper during the first Smash trailer.
This would actually make a lot of sense, I hadn't realized the clothing differences before. He would make a good second character. Why would Sakurai tease is with Nook in the reveal trailer, then not even have him wear the same clothes in the FS?
 
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