Haha, I never noticed that.Is Shaft really the name of the animators? That explains everything.
Sorry to keep hogging the top of the pages guys! I mentioned this a while back, but I'm now more officially moving forward with trying to get a voice chat group going. And since it's me, here's a graphic!
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Why would you name your anime company "Shaft" ?
That... sounds bad.
Is Shaft really the name of the animators? That explains everything.
Haha, I never noticed that.
SmashGAF is love, Love is SmashGAF.Hmm hmm.
Very well, I shall partake of this thing. I think Skype or something similar would work best as you said, just because it makes incorporating text chat easy just so we're super inclusive.
Because in SmashGAF we love everyone and would never want to exclude <3
I don't use it all that often, but with the MK8 stuff is seemed to work really well and we were all using the free version. We had 8 people in a group chat with no issue.I'm interested. Never really used Skype though, it has text too? And decent free features?
Wouldn't something like a mumble server be better than Skype?
It would. Even ignoring Skype having WAY less features than mumble, it is also a fucking piece of shit as software. I get constant disconnects (every 5min or so) and the program just randomly freezes for a minute sometimes, all problems I don't have with mumble or teamspeak.Wouldn't something like a mumble server be better than Skype?
Never heard of Mumble or teamspeak, will look into them!
Never heard of Mumble or teamspeak, will look into them!It would. Even ignoring Skype having WAY less features than mumble, it is also a fucking piece of shit as software. I get constant disconnects (every 5min or so) and the program just randomly freezes for a minute sometimes, all problems I don't have with mumble or teamspeak
Mumble doesn't make text chatters very easy to include in the conversation, but it'd probably work too.
Sorry to keep hogging the top of the pages guys! I mentioned this a while back, but I'm now more officially moving forward with trying to get a voice chat group going. And since it's me, here's a graphic!
Sorry to keep hogging the top of the pages guys! I mentioned this a while back, but I'm now more officially moving forward with trying to get a voice chat group going. And since it's me, here's a graphic!
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When I brought this up initially, there was a pretty good response of people who wanted to be involved. Being able to communicate with the people I'm playing with is really a big part of gaming, so I'd really love to set up a way for us to bypass the inevitable lack of chat on the 3DS version; hopefully the Wii U will have chat built in, but if not there's only more reason to do this.
I'm still not 100% on what program/site I will want to use, but for now I'm planning on Skype. If we can organize a list of who wants to chat, you should be able to just make a friends list and create a group chat with whoever is in your party. I'm also hoping to host a tournament for the Wii U version (more on that soon!), so if spectator mode is any good, this would make watching the matches a hell of a lot more exciting and make people in the community a lot more personable.
Also, if you don't like the thought of your voice being heard or are hearing impaired in anyway, this could also be great for just holding text conversations; probably a lot better than trying to talk to a group of people in the madness that will be the OT at launch.
So, all that to say: I wanna hear you guys talk! Smash just isn't complete to me if I can't have someone cursing at me while I counter with my own vulgarities. Let me know if you'd be interested in this or have any ideas on how to improve this idea. I really love this community and hopefully this has the potential to strengthen it.
Considered that, but a lot of people don't want to make google accounts for that, or at least they didn't for MK8's thing.What about google hangout. Have heard good things about that.
For sure man, you're on of the reasons text is a high priority; wouldn't be SmashGAF without you!I guess I might get involved if it's Skype since It have text feature.
Awesome! Gotta have dat vibe.I'm 100% on board. I'm sure at least one person wants to hear about my vibe lol
Also Mumble does have text if I remember so it isn't really a big deal.
Considered that, but a lot of people don't want to make google accounts for that, or at least they didn't for MK8's thing.
For sure man, you're on of the reasons text is a high priority; wouldn't be SmashGAF without you!
Awesome! Gotta have dat vibe.
I'm 100% on board. I'm sure at least one person wants to hear about my vibe lol
Looking into Teamspeak now, though in my experience Skype has been fine. Then again, I'm so limited in what I've used I just might not be used to the good stuff.I'm sure people would rather create google accounts than freaking Microsoft/Skype accounts they'd need for Skype.
Skype really, really sucks. It's the worst. It's bloated as hell, takes literally minutes to start up and disconnects every so often. Hangouts would be alright, but Mumble or Teamspeak would be ideal, IMO. All of them support text chat, as far as I'm aware.
So, I'm a bit confused looking at the Mumble website. Is it free to use, but you have to pay to host a server?
Ah, I see,Well, not if you already own a server. Mumble is software that is designed to run on a server. You have to provide the server.
Sweet!I'm down like a clown Charlie Brown, got skype and I'm fine with the alternatives. Whatever works for you guys.
What does "cheap" entail? That could work, depending on the price.![]()
Teamspeak 3's UI looks like it would be perfect. The client itself is free and we would have to rent a cheap server (or turn someone's PC into a server) anyways if we wanted to use mumble. Might be worth a consideration.
Text is definitely a priority. I want everyone to have a chance to be involved. Haha, I'm being very Nintendo about this.As long as there's also text chat, then I'm totally on board, Oric. Skype sounds good.
I'm all in for this!I'm also hoping to host a tournament for the Wii U version (more on that soon!), so if spectator mode is any good, this would make watching the matches a hell of a lot more exciting and make people in the community a lot more personable.
Sorry to keep hogging the top of the pages guys! I mentioned this a while back, but I'm now more officially moving forward with trying to get a voice chat group going. And since it's me, here's a graphic!
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When I brought this up initially, there was a pretty good response of people who wanted to be involved. Being able to communicate with the people I'm playing with is really a big part of gaming, so I'd really love to set up a way for us to bypass the inevitable lack of chat on the 3DS version; hopefully the Wii U will have chat built in, but if not there's only more reason to do this.
I'm still not 100% on what program/site I will want to use, but for now I'm planning on Skype. If we can organize a list of who wants to chat, you should be able to just make a friends list and create a group chat with whoever is in your party. I'm also hoping to host a tournament for the Wii U version (more on that soon!), so if spectator mode is any good, this would make watching the matches a hell of a lot more exciting and make people in the community a lot more personable.
Also, if you don't like the thought of your voice being heard or are hearing impaired in anyway, this could also be great for just holding text conversations; probably a lot better than trying to talk to a group of people in the madness that will be the OT at launch.
So, all that to say: I wanna hear you guys talk! Smash just isn't complete to me if I can't have someone cursing at me while I counter with my own vulgarities. Let me know if you'd be interested in this or have any ideas on how to improve this idea. I really love this community and hopefully this has the potential to strengthen it.
Sorry to keep hogging the top of the pages guys! I mentioned this a while back, but I'm now more officially moving forward with trying to get a voice chat group going. And since it's me, here's a graphic!
![]()
When I brought this up initially, there was a pretty good response of people who wanted to be involved. Being able to communicate with the people I'm playing with is really a big part of gaming, so I'd really love to set up a way for us to bypass the inevitable lack of chat on the 3DS version; hopefully the Wii U will have chat built in, but if not there's only more reason to do this.
I'm still not 100% on what program/site I will want to use, but for now I'm planning on Skype. If we can organize a list of who wants to chat, you should be able to just make a friends list and create a group chat with whoever is in your party. I'm also hoping to host a tournament for the Wii U version (more on that soon!), so if spectator mode is any good, this would make watching the matches a hell of a lot more exciting and make people in the community a lot more personable.
Also, if you don't like the thought of your voice being heard or are hearing impaired in anyway, this could also be great for just holding text conversations; probably a lot better than trying to talk to a group of people in the madness that will be the OT at launch.
So, all that to say: I wanna hear you guys talk! Smash just isn't complete to me if I can't have someone cursing at me while I counter with my own vulgarities. Let me know if you'd be interested in this or have any ideas on how to improve this idea. I really love this community and hopefully this has the potential to strengthen it.
I just looked at the prices and...they're not that unreasonable. I wasn't planning on getting into any kind of payment stuff, but if we get enough people we could maybe have donations or something. Big maybe on that one.I may not mind paying for a mumble server for maybe 70 slots or so, but it wouldn't be until the WiiU version releases and it probably wouldn't be GAF specific considering I'm part of two communities.
Unless anyone else has their own server or was willing to pay for one.
Good idea. The amount of work I put into this really depends on the Wii U's chat situation, though I want to make it for 3DS users regardless.Easiest solution if a server or cost is an issue would be setting up a general Skype chatroom thing and letting people just branch out from there into smaller group chats for playing the game or whatever.
I personally like Mumble but Skype doesn't involve setting up a server.
What does "cheap" entail? That could work, depending on the price.
Text is definitely a priority. I want everyone to have a chance to be involved. Haha, I'm being very Nintendo about this.
EDIT: 2 posts in a row. This is why I'm at the top of the post counts...-_-
I just looked at the prices and...they're not that unreasonable. I wasn't planning on getting into any kind of payment stuff, but if we get enough people we could maybe have donations or something. Big maybe on that one.
Depends on the number of slots we want to have. I found a server with 32 slots for ~6/month or 50 slots for ~8/month, and that's just one of the first few search results.
Of course dividing payments is always an issue, but once that's figured out the server would be virtually free.
Yeah, let's see how many people end up wanting to do this. Judging so far, we're probably going above 15. I don't mind the idea of people chipping in some money, but I also don't want to have people who can't donate not get to come in or anything. Definitely something to think on.Depending on how big this gets it might not be terribly unreasonable to host our own.
But if we're talking more than 15 people it's probably a good idea to look into hosting options, which are generally pretty cheap.
So if this is the starting roster, who are the first three newcomers you'll try, and who are the first three veterans?
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Welcome man! Glad to see lurkers coming in for the 3DS launch!Hi guys! I'm new here, but I've been reading posts on these threads since the recent character select screen leak all the way up to now, and figured I might contribute.
My favorite Nintendo character is Olimar, but I can't play as him at all in Brawl (hoping to change that with the updated SSB4 moveset). I do main my second favorite Nintendo character, Toon Link.
I always like playing with all items, random characters, and random stages.
My most wanted newcomers were Paper Mario (from Paper Mario), Yarn Kirby (from Kirby's Epic Yarn, Chibi Robo (from Chibi-Robo!), Savvy Stylist (from Style Savvy) and Doshin the Giant (from Doshin the Giant). As you can see, I got none of them, but I did get Little Mac, who was #6 most wanted, so I guess that's cool (he had the best reveal trailer too).
I don't mind seeing Wolf and Lucas goand I already expected Snake to leave, even though he was an awesome addition and a great character.since they're both semi-clones
However, I'm really bummed about the Ice Climbers: veterans from Melee and Brawl, unique characters, and the sole representatives of their series... may we meet again in another life...or in DLC.
Awesome! Also, I added you as well Sponge.I'd definitely be in on this. I can see myself playing a lot of Smash online with you guys and so having a chatroom would be awesome.