Gotta take off an extra 5 years for Nintendo. /S
I do have faith tho since uprising online is great.
Super Smash Bros. for 3DS & Wii U Thread XV: Kübler-Ross Edition
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Gotta take off an extra 5 years for Nintendo. /S
I do have faith tho since uprising online is great.
Awesome explanation. Bookmarking this for future reference.
PreyingShark
Member
Region-free online was a thing in Brawl. It was confirmed before release.
They must have tried playing the game against each other between US, Jap and EU
That is weird to consider. Hard to believe even.
Time passes so much faster when you're an old-timer...
Tried to double check: based on my shaky recall of the release dates of each (in NA), the gaps ends up 2411 vs 2447.
Yeah I still remember those 2 online vids sakurai uploaded. What a great update back then.
Mr. Smiley
Member
I'm pretty confident the online will be solid after Namco's Soul Calibur V and it's awesome netcode. Sure, different consoles, maybe different people,... and I think I heard TTT2's Wii U online wasn't that great, but I gotta have hope!
Oh and also you may want to know the yellow bars under your character portrait in battle represent your progress to the next skill while orange is experience.
PreyingShark
Member
Then the game came out and people tried actually playing online.
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
We have to grapple with our mortality eventually with a thread title like this.
Time between now and Ridley is a Smash year?
Spinosaurus
Member
Yeah I played PM online several times with some gaffers here. It wasn't too bad.
Yup. Totally agree. Playing w/ friends was OKAY, but it sucked you had to do 2 minute matches and couldn't change many rules. That and there was no way to tell someone you were online and had to arrange it all ahead of time. No impromptu 'oh hey, so and so is online, let me invite them to a game.' I honestly still don't think smash 4 will let you do that, but we'll see.
Linkstrikesback
Member
???
Playing online with friends let you change all the rules, exactly like playing locally. You must be thinking of playing with randoms.
PadWarrior
Member
Lol!!!
Honstly I never got extreme lag too often online except on moving stages like pirate ship and occasionally delfino square.
Spear pillar with lag and palkia was so painful and whenever dialga used roar of time to make things even slower...
My favorite is still the laggy Final Destination slide show.
Captainbojanglesiii
Banned
Dang. Shots fired.
Well, to be fair, I did it... for a whole month in 2008 before never playing online again, and I don't recall it letting me change some of the rules, but I could be misremembering. For some reason I thought it was 2 minute matches only.
There has never been a fighting game with online (barring some sort of bug or glitch) that prevented you from playing with anybody, anywhere in the World. Connections tend to be shittier if you're playing someone an ocean away (but no netcode can 100% fix that) but you can still play them.
What a silly line of conversation SMH
What a silly line of conversation SMH
But there have been plenty of multiplayer games that region lock you. Monster hunter, for example.
Just because nobody has yet doesn't mean it's not possible. That said, I highly doubt that they'll region lock the multiplayer.
Vanillalite
Ask me about the GAF Notebook
Just do it like a lot of online games do. Allow you to search WW or Region. Boom problem solved.
MrSaturn99
Member
With Anyone was pretty terrible, but only in its setup. Almost never had connection problems aside from launch period/college connection.
So Nintendo is having a Smash Theme eShop sales for the next 4 weeks, characters and their respective games changing every week.
http://www.nintendo.com/eshop/offers#week01
The sale leads right up to the release of Smash 3DS in NA.
http://www.nintendo.com/eshop/offers#week01
The sale leads right up to the release of Smash 3DS in NA.
Captainbojanglesiii
Banned
Hmm. A bit underwhelming in terms of prices, but most, if not all of those games are very solid.
Shadow Hog
Member
Clean:
I seriously keep forgetting Charizard and Pac-Man are even in this game. I didn't dabble much with Pokémon Trainer in Brawl, and we haven't seen a whole lot of Pac-Man in general...
The reason we're not discussing it is because there's nothing to discuss. It's nice, but we don't have a track listing to go off of, so literally all we know is that the offer exists.
As for Skill Links, you can fill in the empty slots from other characters' skill trees - giving, say, Reyn the ability to do more damage from behind from Shulk's tree. Granted, this depends on three things:
A) Affinity between the character who has the skill you want and the character you want to give the skill.
B) How many Affinity Coins the latter character has available. These are generally granted for finding landmarks, clearing quests and the first time you defeat unique monsters; they're fully refunded when you de-equip a skill on the Skill Link, so feel free to experiment here.
C) The shapes of the skills available and the shapes of the available slots to put them in. These have to be an exact match. I believe there's one shape that no available slot has - diamond, I think? - rendering those skills totally unique to that character.
Skill Links are also generally only active if the source character is in the same active party as the destination character, too, so there's that.
I seriously keep forgetting Charizard and Pac-Man are even in this game. I didn't dabble much with Pokémon Trainer in Brawl, and we haven't seen a whole lot of Pac-Man in general...
Die, Allied schweinehund.
Yes. Several times. Since last Friday.
The reason we're not discussing it is because there's nothing to discuss. It's nice, but we don't have a track listing to go off of, so literally all we know is that the offer exists.
You can't make a rainbow without Reyn, baby.
This was already answered, but just for reinforcement: you "level up" on the skill tree automatically by earning SP from fights. (You can check how much more SP is needed to level up in the Skill Tree menu; it'll tell you how much you have on the branch, and how much you'll level up at.) Everything that you earned through levelling up is permanently active for that character, even when you switch to another branch to level it up - so, focus on the branch that has the Skill that sounds the most useful.
As for Skill Links, you can fill in the empty slots from other characters' skill trees - giving, say, Reyn the ability to do more damage from behind from Shulk's tree. Granted, this depends on three things:
A) Affinity between the character who has the skill you want and the character you want to give the skill.
B) How many Affinity Coins the latter character has available. These are generally granted for finding landmarks, clearing quests and the first time you defeat unique monsters; they're fully refunded when you de-equip a skill on the Skill Link, so feel free to experiment here.
C) The shapes of the skills available and the shapes of the available slots to put them in. These have to be an exact match. I believe there's one shape that no available slot has - diamond, I think? - rendering those skills totally unique to that character.
Skill Links are also generally only active if the source character is in the same active party as the destination character, too, so there's that.
Reminds me of when some news channel in Argentina seriously suggested kids were drinking "Grog XD" from Monkey Island, complete with the in-game ingredient list. (It's the additional "XD" that makes it.)
PreyingShark
Member
Brawl's netcode was playable, but it had a lot of unnecessary frames of lag and it handled certain stages horribly.
IntelliHeath
As in "Heathcliff"
Heh. I still can't believe that people really hate that stage. That stage is one of my favorite stages
Port town aero dive...Ugh. Speaking of which, I hope we get a more vibrant colored fzero stage.
I'll agree, I actually really like that stage. I like when they base the stages around actual locations in the games, which is one thing I like a lot about this upcoming Smash.
balladofwindfishes
Member
The first Pokemon smash level since Saffron city to actually be based on a location from Pokemon. I like it for that reason.
Nice to see the three stages we know this time around are all direct locations from the game and not just generic areas themed around Pokemon.
FTFY
I'm pretty sure Poke Floats exists somewhere
Not in the games
Spinosaurus
Member
Yeah. "Kanto skies."
I like to imagine that's what the player character sees when using Fly. lol
a Question just popped into my mind about the level of involvement of Namco. I know that they are helping with this, but helping with what exactly? Does anyone know? I mean namco has a pretty good pedigree with fighting games but nintendo didn't seem to need namco's help with smash before, at least to my knowledge.
I don't hate it when it's creselia or dialga. Palkia is such a pain With the screen flipping.
balladofwindfishes
Member
"Kanto Skies" is just a generic location, it could have been anywhere.
Can you imagine how much cooler that stage would have been if you could actually see a bird's eye view tour of Kanto?
my thoughts exactly
I don't know...it looked too busy to see Kanto from the sky anyways
balladofwindfishes
Member
How bad must the pollution in Kanto be if the clouds are thick and purple all the time?
IntelliHeath
As in "Heathcliff"
Yeah, I want a floating platform that would take us all over johto and kanto's memorial spots.
Captainbojanglesiii
Banned
When a trainer flies with Pigeot he or she sees giant Pigeot balloons in the sky with people fighting on them?
Sounds trippy
I'd be okay with this being cannon.
Captainbojanglesiii
Banned
Good.
Linkstrikesback
Member
Why did you think all the pre x/y games were top down views?