Hours Left
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What if we don't get a PotD, and we all just stay up forever until we DIE?
Super Smash Bros. for 3DS & Wii U Thread 12: Gwah, hah. Welcome to the Bowser's game.
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yeah, apparently it's Obon
Mecha-Hero Samurai must be occupied with the restless souls of his ancestors that demand representation in his games.
I have no idea what i'm saying anymore.
Probably for Wii U stages and modes.
i think your name is telling me something about the arrival of the potd
Dagobert Duck
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my preorder will live...
Thats the risk we are all willing to take.
Hours Left
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theprodigy
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What if all the PotDs so far have been fake?
Red Arremer
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so over-designed
frankly I'm not sure where I'm supposed to be looking
Yeah, one character surely is representative of the entire game. Sure, that character is not overdesigned, but that's just one. I'm sure there's a few characters that aren't particularly overdesigned, but the majority is. You want examples? Here, take this one:
Spiky hair with typical anime-styled locks to each ear. Super unpractical armor pieces - the collar would restrict arm movement tremendously, especially in sword fighting, and actually would present an absolutely great way to lead a sword towards this lady's neck, making it easier to decapitate her. What is that weird half gauntled she's wearing? And those leather straps on her legs would heavily restrict her movement (leather is not as flexible as you'd think). The boots/greaves also don't help the matter. I also wanna say the armor would likely be very restrictive, especially how little it actually protects, but I'm gonna give it the benefit of the doubt. The only truly simple design choice on this character is the sword.
Want another one? How about this one:
The ... unique spear design aside, the chest piece isn't too bad (aside from the boob armor, but a lot of fantasy stuff does that, so I can't hold it against this game either), neither are the gauntlets. But except for the ribcage and arms, nothing on this character is armored. She wears those little wing headpieces, which are great for leading weapons right into her skull. She also has pretty damn high heels, if I am seeing that right - truly a perfect fit for a knight-like character who need to thrust her weight along with her weapon to actually do any damage. Also, belts everywhere. Even the boots have little belts! That big cross-shaped belt doesn't even hold anything in place. It's just hanging on her hips.
And so we're not only talking about girls, here's another one:
I know tower shields exist, although I don't think they're usually shaped like this, as their main reason is to be used with other soldiers using tower shields to create a wall of shields. For plate armor, this design is super great for decapitating the user. The huge shoulder pieces can be used to slip a blade right across them against the head. Even if you slip off the other side, those little nubs can block your blade from sliding off too far from the armor, phew. The hip parts have way too much open space - the whole idea of plate armor is to offer no weakspots to the enemy, that every piece of your body is armored. The enemy could slice this gentleman's legs right off. There's even little spots a blade fits in right between the hip armor and the breast plate. The bracers and greaves are okay.
And here, let's compare a character that appears in Awakening and another game. I already showed Micaiah, but let's check out someone else. How about Celica?
Original:
Awakening:
I don't think I'll even have to say anything about this. You can't tell me that a lot of Awakening's characters aren't overdesigned. And it's typical fantasy anime trope designs, to boot.
Something I always liked about the Fire Emblem series (although I never played them, I only read up on them and checked out a lot of the characters) was that the character designs were, for the most part, realistic. There's always been the occasional crazy design, but that was occasional. In Awakening, it's the other way around - the vast majority of the characters have a crazy anime design, while there's only a few characters that aren't super over-designed.
I'm not saying that Awakening is a bad game by any means (I never played it, after all), I'm just saying that the character designs fall right into the stereotypical Japanese fantasy game designs. Hyrule Warriors has, in my opinion, the exactly same problem, much more so than past Zelda titles.
Masamune Shirow. He is most famous for Ghost in the Shell. However his FE art looks like some awful Shirow ripoff somehow. His style just doesn't fit the series.
Just remember, the moment you leave your computer could be the second before Sakurai uploads Ridley's playable newcomer trailer
ShockingAlberto
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Also Shokugeki no Soma, which is really popular.
OricWindstar
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He "authoritates" me just fine. His fucking avatar alone always makes me nervous to post again.
EDIT:Haha, too many "fucking" uses for my taste.
I imagine he always feels at least a little crushed.
Ugh, with my luck that would happen!
Troubled Bat
Member
What if we got the picture 2 hours ago, but the jerks who knew, never posted the picture. As they laugh at us going crazy, waiting for such a picture.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
No PotD today, pack it up guys
Dimitri LH
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Maybe Sakurai is siding with EmCee and will refuse to post anything until SmashGAF behaves.
Smash hype will continue to give me life...after death XD
ShockingAlberto
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Look
All of your stupid Fire Emblem characters are anime in some way or another. Yes, even that one you really, really like.
Either define your pejoratives better or find better ones.
All of your stupid Fire Emblem characters are anime in some way or another. Yes, even that one you really, really like.
Either define your pejoratives better or find better ones.
sorakirosaki
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o i know im not even surprised at all lol i just find it kinda funny is all lol
i basically agree with this its all just anime in the long run rofl
Vampirolol
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Calling the Ridley Boss Hazard update here.
IceDoesntHelp
Banned
Ewww Fire Emblem talk
Nintendoga
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Maybe Sakurai is taking a nap
Dagobert Duck
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Its because of your Avatar. Bird-Fox shouldnt look like that!
We're never getting any updates until release then are we?
theprodigy
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DecoReturns
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Is anyone even checking the site for the PoTD?
Pretty much. The older designs were simply based off the style of the times. Awakening Designs are closer to modern anime
Was that what we were talking about? I thought we were debating about FE and muscles.
Dagobert Duck
Member
No why should we?
Will the Wii U version be playable at gamescom? I know about the 3DS version
KelpPlankton
Member
Has this been true in the past? Have late updates ever been something big?
Still just that smug rat holding a flag. I'm rooting for the good Captain to rip it out of his grubby little paws, but no sign of that happening yet.
Absolutely.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
SUPERJEM94
Banned
Wow Ridley must be really big for his picture to be appear as the POTD.
Diprosalic
Banned
obviously meta knight.
Late updates are either fucking nothing or announce a Smash Direct or something else major. THERE IS NO IN BETWEEN.
For those still awake, let's listen to some good music while sipping hot coffee, waiting for the legendary PotD
http://youtu.be/RV5jJrv2kjY
don't burn me alive if it's a filler pic
http://youtu.be/RV5jJrv2kjY
Troubled Bat
Member
You aren't Captain America.
Each week for the past 4 weeks had a day with multiply pics being posted. I'll probably update this image at the end of the week.
