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[EightBitNate]

What's stopping Nintendo from using Banjo, Conker and Joanna Dark as "3rd party" characters? I mean, in reality it's as absurd as Snake, especially with the fact that Rare still made GBA/DS games anyway. Likewise like Snake, I don't think it would work particularly for or against either party. Nintendo weren't scared of people rushing out to buy a PS3 for the next Metal Gear.

Plus, in the "gaming world" (to you and me) they wouldn't feel like third party characters anyway, so I wouldn't see it as Smash having 7 third party slots taken up when I look at the character select screen. They would fit right in (as long as Nintendo are allowed to design them how they wish).

So, realistically, whats stopping Nintendo and Microsoft from putting rivalry aside for a second, and for the good of the gaming world using these three characters as third party ones? Isn't it a win-win situation?

How is helping sales of a rival's game helpful to Microsoft? This post reads like a bad joke.

 

[Watch Da Birdie]

I don't remember ever seeing Mario's... Birdie... Are you an insider? 0_o

Really? I recall seeing a shot where you could see the remnants of Mario's Final Smash Flames.

 

[Waluigilicious]

How is helping sales of a rival's game helpful to Microsoft? This post reads like a bad joke.

If it helps both sides, why not? You can't predict who it will help more.

 

[GotchaForce]

we've seen mario's? and it isnt "appears" she is glowing like its her FS and saurai outright confirms it in the developer video

That's cool. Was going through the old pictures and saw the one with the male trainer. Was thinking maybe it's part of her FS but if not then maybe he's his own character or alt-costumes are in (even though there's an article in the OP that says otherwise).

 

[Village]

If it helps both sides, why not? You can't predict who it will help more.

Because of the liscencing.

Xbox will make nintendo pay out the bum for.... to be quite honest, Forgotten irrelevant characters characters.It wouldn't even be worth the money. Banjo Conker and Joanna are far from household names. And would be a pain to pay for just to get into smash. Because some people have nostalgia, ( that I would argue is misplaced , besides Joanna)

 

[oreomunsta]

Really? I recall seeing a shot where you could see the remnants of Mario's Final Smash Flames.

I could definitely be wrong here. I don't remember ever seeing those flames either, and I'm hoping that's the case so that there's a remote possiblity that they rethink the generic "Mario Finale". After seeing the return of FLUDD, though, it'll probably be Mario Finale 2: Revenge of the Finale instead of him growing to giant 8-bit proportions =(

If it helps both sides, why not? You can't predict who it will help more.

Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts received huge attention and hype when it was announced, but when the game came out it was received lukewarmly due to the emphasis on car-designing, change of direction, and the few, relatively-deserted worlds. I don't know if Smash could save our favourite bear and breegull =( I'd love to see them return, but Rare is pretty content with making Kinect Sports Umpteenth. I want to BELIEVE in Threeie... That's a tangent, sorry. Basically, Microsoft payed for the bear and breegull, but bear and breegull didn't deliver quite as well as was anticipated. Some could argue that N&B shot what chances they have of returning,, especially considering that Rare is definitely not who they once were. MS will, stubbornly, not let anyone play with its toys and would rather ruin/fix it on their own.

 

[Berordn]

Really? I recall seeing a shot where you could see the remnants of Mario's Final Smash Flames.

There's fire in a few shots, but it looks unlike Mario's. It could be, but we don't know either way.

 

[SuperSah]

"Pic of the Day: here you can see that Rosalina's gravity effect allows her to jump even higher than Luigi"

 

[Chet Rippo]

What's stopping Nintendo from using Banjo, Conker and Joanna Dark as "3rd party" characters?

Because they're dead.

 

[BGBW]

RE: People worried about Pit's recovering.

Just play a match that is longer than five minutes.

Because they're dead.

They're using Megaman. /obvious remark

 

[Son Of D]

Really? I recall seeing a shot where you could see the remnants of Mario's Final Smash Flames.

Wasn't that part of the Gerudo Valley(?) stage hazard?

 

[afoni]

What's stopping Nintendo from using Banjo, Conker and Joanna Dark as "3rd party" characters? I mean, in reality it's as absurd as Snake, especially with the fact that Rare still made GBA/DS games anyway. Likewise like Snake, I don't think it would work particularly for or against either party. Nintendo weren't scared of people rushing out to buy a PS3 for the next Metal Gear.

Plus, in the "gaming world" (to you and me) they wouldn't feel like third party characters anyway, so I wouldn't see it as Smash having 7 third party slots taken up when I look at the character select screen. They would fit right in (as long as Nintendo are allowed to design them how they wish).

So, realistically, whats stopping Nintendo and Microsoft from putting rivalry aside for a second, and for the good of the gaming world using these three characters as third party ones? Isn't it a win-win situation?

I need to break character right here and tell you this shit is dumb.

 

[Boss Doggie]

They're using Megaman. /obvious remark

robots can't die

 

[Pop-O-Matic]

They're using Megaman. /obvious remark

You forget that Capcom has not one but two methods of making zombies.

 

[Akibastman]

I need to break character right here and tell you this shit is dumb.

Afoni's right.

But imagine Nintendo revealing Banjo, Conkey & Joanna Dark. The internet would implose.

 

[Diddy Kong]

If Nintendo revealed Banjo I would cry tears of joy

 

[georly]

So we're on official thread 4, what's the gaf record for highest thread number (for any game), out of curiosity? I assume brawl wasn't too shabby, but what game has more longstanding hype than smash that has a really high number?

 

[Pop-O-Matic]

So we're on official thread 4, what's the gaf record for highest thread number (for any game), out of curiosity? I assume brawl wasn't too shabby, but what game has more longstanding hype than smash that has a really high number?

I don't know which thread has the highest thread/post number, but I know that Brawl is the reason we have the 400 page limit we have now, as the Brawl thread reached 1272 pages and was literally too big to move to the Forum Archive.

Edit: I just did the math real quick, and the SSB4 threads are about to surpass the Brawl thread in number of posts (SSB4:62152, Brawl:63958).

 

[KHlover]

I don't know which thread has the highest thread/post number, but I know that Brawl is the reason we have the 400 page limit we have now, as the Brawl thread reached 1272 pages and was literally too big to move to the Forum Archive.

Bahahaha, that's amazing

 

[wilflare]

any confirmation on the Wii U Pro Controller support?

I already have two... thinking if I should get another 1 or 2 for the full 4player madness
(playing smash with the Gamepad would be weird..)

 

[Pop-O-Matic]

any confirmation on the Wii U Pro Controller support?

I already have two... thinking if I should get another 1 or 2 for the full 4player madness
(playing smash with the Gamepad would be weird..)

I don't think it's been confirmed yet, but considering that Smash is mainly a local party game and that Brawl supported every controller under the sun, I'd be shocked if it didn't support it.

 

[Boss Doggie]

Day 3 of 11 days of insanity passed.

Not sure if will hold up.

 

[Kjellson]

any confirmation on the Wii U Pro Controller support?

I already have two... thinking if I should get another 1 or 2 for the full 4player madness
(playing smash with the Gamepad would be weird..)

Yeah.

 

[Kokonoe]

Has anyone here hooked up a Wii U Pro controller on PC and played Smash in Dolphin with it?

Yeah.

This looks funny.

 

[Pop-O-Matic]

Speaking of controllers, has anyone tried something like modding a Pro Controller into a GCN Controller shell? Playing Smash on anything else would just be unnatural to me...

 

[emb]

Feels weird without a pic to brighten up

Spoiler

I mean ruin

my morning. It's gonna be a long day. ;_;

Speaking of controllers, has anyone tried something like modding a Pro Controller into a GCN Controller shell? Playing Smash on anything else would just be unnatural to me...

Easiest course of action will be a GCN->Classic Controller adapter. That's assuming CC is supported, but it seems likely enough.

 

[georly]

I don't know which thread has the highest thread/post number, but I know that Brawl is the reason we have the 400 page limit we have now, as the Brawl thread reached 1272 pages and was literally too big to move to the Forum Archive.

Edit: I just did the math real quick, and the SSB4 threads are about to surpass the Brawl thread in number of posts (SSB4:62152, Brawl:63958).

That's pretty amazing. I assume the reason we're about to surpass brawl is because gaf has way more members than it did back then.

 

[ffdgh]

Feels weird without a pic to brighten up

Spoiler

I mean ruin

my morning. It's gonna be a long day. ;_;

You mean a long week

 

[Pop-O-Matic]

I just had a brilliant idea. Letting someone with the GamePad control stage hazards and item spawning and such.

 

[emb]

You mean a long week

Truth. D:

(It actually doesn't bother me all that bad, I'm just being dramatic. It's only weird right when I wake up for work, and would normally check the picture and discussion here about it.)

 

[-Horizon-]

Question, what's the general consensus on release date? 2014 for sure, right? Spring, summer, fall or winter?

For me, I'm saying late summer, early fall. So sometime around September.

 

[BGBW]

I just had a brilliant idea. Letting someone with the GamePad control stage hazards and item spawning and such.

Would I be considered an arse for pointing out that many have had said idea before?

 

[Pop-O-Matic]

Would I be considered an arse for pointing out that many have had said idea before?

I'm sorry. I'm not the kind of OCD asshole who read every post of every thread before this one.

 

[Kjellson]

Nintendo should just buy the Banjo and Conker IP's already. I would do ANYTHING to have Banjo in Smash.

And a new game I guess.

 

[IntelliHeath]

I don't know which thread has the highest thread/post number, but I know that Brawl is the reason we have the 400 page limit we have now, as the Brawl thread reached 1272 pages and was literally too big to move to the Forum Archive.

Edit: I just did the math real quick, and the SSB4 threads are about to surpass the Brawl thread in number of posts (SSB4:62152, Brawl:63958).

Nope, we had more posts than Brawl now. I counted all of brawl threads' posts and SSB4 threads' so we already surpassed the numbers now. You can check my OP for list of almost all post-E3 SSB4 threads but I didn't list all pre-E3 SSB4 threads.

Edited: Rock Band OT had 140k before it got locked.

I just had a brilliant idea. Letting someone with the GamePad control stage hazards and item spawning and such.

Yeah, many people including me really want to see that happening but I doubt that they would input this mode in the game.

 

[Pop-O-Matic]

Nope, we had more posts than Brawl now. I counted all of brawl threads' posts and SSB4 threads' so we already surpassed the numbers now. You can check my OP for list of almost all post-E3 SSB4 threads but I didn't list all pre-E3 SSB4 threads.

I was only counting the Megathreads.

 

[IntelliHeath]

I was only counting the Megathreads.

Oh, alright. Fair enough.

 

[Pop-O-Matic]

I also want to note that we'll break the Brawl thread's post number at post #4883 of this thread.

 

[SmithnCo]

If it helps both sides, why not? You can't predict who it will help more.

I'm guessing MS doesn't give much of a crap about those properties so it would almost certainly help Nintendo more.

 

[georly]

Edited: Rock Band OT had 140k before it got locked.

Holy cow. I guess every time there was DLC people posted about it? That could definitely keep it alive for a long time.

 

[Muchi Muchi Pink]

I'd place my bet on June/July for a release.

 

[User 73706]

Bahahaha, that's amazing

Bonus fact: Halo 3 OT had a similar problem because it was over 100K by the time it was done.

When I started rounding up links for all of the past Halo threads for OT archival purposes, I found that we have roughly 54 OTs, at least two of which are active, provided you count Halo 3's megathread as 5 OTs. I think it's close to the highest OT count of any GAF community, save for maybe the Madden ones. Our fastest burn-through of a complete 20,000 posts was nineteen days.

 

[foxuzamaki]

I need to break character right here and tell you this shit is dumb.

You made afoni break character, I mean damn.

 

[Watch Da Birdie]

Wasn't that part of the Gerudo Valley(?) stage hazard?

Yeah, that's the one I'm thinking about...guess it is a Stage Hazard.

 

[R0ckman]

November 21 2014

Spoiler

delayed to march 2015

And Wii U has an even worse 2014 and Iwata goes byebye. A 2015 delay will not be happening.

 

[Dr. Buni]

Question, what's the general consensus on release date? 2014 for sure, right? Spring, summer, fall or winter?

It will be released before June 2014, that is for sure.

 

[ffdgh]

Expecting May-July.

 

[Akibastman]

It will be released before June 2014, that is for sure.

Totally not believing in that. I'd say October-November '14 minimum.

 

[SmithnCo]

It will be released before June 2014, that is for sure.

They got MK8, they can afford some time.

 

[Timeaisis]

Hey guys! Long time no see!

I don't see how anyone expects before June 2014, honestly.