Super Smash Bros. for 3DS & Wii U Thread XI: Where 90% correct equals 100% wrong

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I haven't felt as disgusted and bitter as I did reading Sakurai's comment in a long time. The dream is dead.


Also add this to the pile of things that prove Sakurai reads GAF.
 
As interesting as that would be; it's still not the oldest Nintendo character that could be chosen.

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I don't think it can be any older than 1977, as stated by Sakurai:

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So anything in this game will have to be after 1977.
 
In terms of Retro NES characters that haven't seen a game in years that would make a good playable surprise that haven't been confirmed as AT's yet we still have have: ExciteBiker, Mach Rider, Mike Jones, NES Sport rep (either Ice Hockey or Soccer player), Ayumi Tachibana (Detective Club girl who appeared as a trophy in Melee), Bubbles, Kung Fu main character and probably a few others.


Half of the appeal in the Melee and Brawl rosters for me was seeing NES characters without a modern design or 3D game in full 3D in smash, even if I never used the character just the fact that they existed was amazing to me.

To me, there isn't one of these characters in 4 yet, Little Mac and Pacman have had recent 3D games and Classic-style megaman has been in a 3D game before albeit with a much worse design than the one in sm4sh.

It's why I hate a couple of the newcomers so far, way too skewed towards newer characters.

You could toss Balloon Fight Guy on the list too--Balloon Fight has always had a large presence in Smash Bros. all things considered. (...and Duck Hunt Dog ;_;)

I'm perfectly ok with it being skewed towards newer characters, it's something Sakurai has talked about in the past, and even if Little Mac and the guest characters have had recent games it's still really great to see all of them represented in Smash Bros.!

I just really hope we get at least one surprising revival, even if it's something like "The Dude From Geist." I just wanna see them dig a little deeper.
 
Honestly, if it wasn't for Gematsu, I would expect Shulk as an Assist Trophy too. As much as I love Xenoblade, he's as relevant as Isaac in the Brawl era.
 
I just really hope we get at least one surprising revival, even if it's something like "The Dude From Geist." I just wanna see them dig a little deeper.

I hadn't even considered that - but I guess the "partial nudity" in the rating has to come from somewhere.
 
Huh, someone in /v/ pointed out that pyrosphere has those cylinders which Ridley activates in MOM during his boss fight to tilt the platform.



That's Fox/Wolf which I fully support because Wolf is like that tsundere girl in animes only manly and wolfy

not Falco/Wolf!

Whatdya mean, I'm unfamiliar with Other M so I'd likely to hear this explained.
 
Welp, just woke up and what I see? Takamaru deconfirmed.

...I am having mixed feelings about this, actually. It sucks that he is only an AT, but on other hand, Duck Hunt Dog might have a little (very tiny) chance of being playable.

Still tho, Takamaru looks GORGEOUS!
 
So what are the biggest deconfirmations so far? I mean people who actually had a shot at being a character, not like Chain Chomp or something.

Takamaru
Dillon
Midna
Saki (again)
Skull Kid
Wonder Red
 
Duck Hunt would be too good to be true and would make too much sense. I bet that, at least in Italy, people know him better than Megaman and Sonic.
 
Now that we've witnessed the Takamaru bloodbath, more fake leaks have been debunked. I wanted to see some meltdowns around the net but stumbled on a Gamefaqs topic to hold the tide until the next leaks are debunked. http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/633202-super-smash-bros-for-wii-u/69737722
Basically:
- "Soft Leaker" said that Monday's pic of the day will shock you all without going into greater detail a few hours before Pic of the Day unveiled. Lo and behold hours later, Takamaru-gate.
- I say "Soft Leaker" because one of the posters caught on to this poster right after Takamaru-gate that doesn't really phrase their past topics as leaks but more like suggestions and questionings and stuff like "It's Probably Not Going to Happen."
- On July 26, soft leaker created this thread asking proof that Sakurai said he would add in Takamaru if he got another game. Concluded that it seems like a case of fans twisting Sakurai's words. Cue June 28's Takamaru-gate.
- Heavily suggests that while Smash has lost reps in the past, they've never lost franchises. And points out that Snake has so much work and effort done from Brawl that to just cut him for x-reason would be insane. Konami would be insane to not have Snake in a blockbuster. Porting his moveset to another character would be insane because the amount of work done with his voice acting, the music selection, and Shadow Moses Island stage would be for nothing.
- Casually suggests that we might see Green Hill Zone returning in reference to Shadow Moses Island. Confirmed a few days later.
- Infers that there's no way Ubisoft would just waste Rayman copyrights for silly trophies hence the secretly playable part or assist or whatever.
- When we were all expecting Shulk to be revealed on July 14, he casually predicted "It's going to be someone that no one expects, a la WFT/Greninja" days before the reveal. Lo and behold, Robin/Lucina-gate.
- Wario would indeed be the next veteran reveal... as indicated on July 16 when Club Nintendo updated their stuff with a lot of Wario games. I think this was days before eShop had their Wario mania.
- Sceptile and Ghirahim are treated with "lol, no."
- Some kind of Donkey Kong newcomer blind item disguised as an old man's rambling. Randomly posted on July 26... when Comic-Con was happening. OMG this person's part of Treehouse lol.
- Suggests more newcomers than we are led to believe. Robin/Lucina newcomer vid showed that newcomers can be bulked into the same videos so don't fear the low amount of vids left as Sakurai stated.

I dunno, I was bored. Reading up on his stuff, the poster has never phrased anything he says as a "Look at me! I'm a leak! Post stuff and I'll respond just a tiny bit to gain some traction!" and more along the lines of, "Well, just think about it. What purpose would it serve Ubisoft to just have Rayman as a trophy and nothing else?" and never claiming to be a leaker or a messiah in the first place. Just some random user who has spread out all their little bits and pieces over a couple of July weeks disguised as some opinions/ramblings/casual responses. Sorry for the long post (insomnia side effect!). If it's just some person making some educated guesses, oh well. But that's a proper way to tantalize the public without totally getting Nintendo ninja'd! (until now) Someone's gotta give the goods eventually. Japan Smash 3DS almost here anyhow.
 
So what are the biggest deconfirmations so far? I mean people who actually had a shot at being a character, not like Chain Chomp or something.

Takamaru
Dillon
Midna
Saki (again)
Skull Kid
Wonder Red

Dark Samus
Zorozark
Chrom
Genesect
Meowth
Tingle
Waluigi
Ashley
 
Didn't really play MoM much but I get the gist:



see those purple things on the lower edges of pyrosphere? Ridley activates them

...Fuck.


I couldn't really see Ridley as a stage boss before but if all he's going to do is tilt the stage and occasionally attack people I can totally see that as something Sakurai would do and think was fun.

Fuck's sake, all of my hope has just gone unless Sakurai considers Actual Ridley and the clone ridley in Other M as different characters.
 
Now that we've witnessed the Takamaru bloodbath, more fake leaks have been debunked. I wanted to see some meltdowns around the net but stumbled on a Gamefaqs topic to hold the tide until the next leaks are debunked. http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/633202-super-smash-bros-for-wii-u/69737722
Basically:
- "Soft Leaker" said that Monday's pic of the day will shock you all without going into greater detail a few hours before Pic of the Day unveiled. Lo and behold hours later, Takamaru-gate.
- I say "Soft Leaker" because one of the posters caught on to this poster right after Takamaru-gate that doesn't really phrase their past topics as leaks but more like suggestions and questionings and stuff like "It's Probably Not Going to Happen."
- On July 26, soft leaker created this thread asking proof that Sakurai said he would add in Takamaru if he got another game. Concluded that it seems like a case of fans twisting Sakurai's words. Cue June 28's Takamaru-gate.
- Heavily suggests that while Smash has lost reps in the past, they've never lost franchises. And points out that Snake has so much work and effort done from Brawl that to just cut him for x-reason would be insane. Konami would be insane to not have Snake in a blockbuster. Porting his moveset to another character would be insane because the amount of work done with his voice acting, the music selection, and Shadow Moses Island stage would be for nothing.
- Casually suggests that we might see Green Hill Zone returning in reference to Shadow Moses Island. Confirmed a few days later.
- Infers that there's no way Ubisoft would just waste Rayman copyrights for silly trophies hence the secretly playable part or assist or whatever.
- When we were all expecting Shulk to be revealed on July 14, he casually predicted "It's going to be someone that no one expects, a la WFT/Greninja" days before the reveal. Lo and behold, Robin/Lucina-gate.
- Wario would indeed be the next veteran reveal... as indicated on July 16 when Club Nintendo updated their stuff with a lot of Wario games. I think this was days before eShop had their Wario mania.
- Sceptile and Ghirahim are treated with "lol, no."
- Some kind of Donkey Kong newcomer blind item disguised as an old man's rambling. Randomly posted on July 26... when Comic-Con was happening. OMG this person's part of Treehouse lol.
- Suggests more newcomers than we are led to believe. Robin/Lucina newcomer vid showed that newcomers can be bulked into the same videos so don't fear the low amount of vids left as Sakurai stated.

I dunno, I was bored. Reading up on his stuff, the poster has never phrased anything he says as a "Look at me! I'm a leak! Post stuff and I'll respond just a tiny bit to gain some traction!" and more along the lines of, "Well, just think about it. What purpose would it serve Ubisoft to just have Rayman as a trophy and nothing else?" and never claiming to be a leaker or a messiah in the first place. Just some random user who has spread out all their little bits and pieces over a couple of July weeks disguised as some opinions/ramblings/casual responses. Now that's a proper way to tantalize the public without totally getting Nintendo ninja'd! (until now) Someone's gotta give the goods eventually. Japan Smash 3DS almost here anyhow.
I love leak speculation. Let's hear the rebuttal.
 
There is a general trend of throw strength throughout Brawl’s character roster. On the whole, characters with supernatural powers tend to have the most powerful throws, while fighters like the ones from the Fire Emblem series tend to have weaker ones.

this bit sounds interesting to me as to sakurai's opinions on hos throws should work after melee hmmm interesting non the less

i wonder if sakurai will ever write up something like this, but for smash 4

hell, after all these years i learnt a couple things from that, haha

edit: wow, actually there was heaps in there that I am only learning now


yeah holy crap giving this a quick read over and man so many things i didnt even know about o-o
 
...Fuck.


I couldn't really see Ridley as a stage boss before but if all he's going to do is tilt the stage and occasionally attack people I can totally see that as something Sakurai would do and think was fun.

Fuck's sake, all of my hope has just gone unless Sakurai considers Actual Ridley and the clone ridley in Other M as different characters.

It's the sort of weird distinction he'd personally make, but we also see that he generally keeps series characters in a unified style, going so far as to make a sort of pseudo Twilight Princess Link as a character like Zelda wouldn't have worked with her Skyward Sword style. The exception I guess is the Fire Emblem characters, as Marth and Ike retain the styles from their own games. But then, Fire Emblem is a much more segregated series in terms of storyline.
 
I love leak speculation. Let's hear the rebuttal.

"Tonight will shock you" is such a vague statement. I could make that prediction every day and it would go ignored until it coincidentally comes true.

Takamaru was one of the most debated characters, especially after the EU eShop release of his game.

So many softball guesses. GREEN HILL ZONE WOW. Also a ton of conjecture about such and such "being insane" such as Snake and Rayman without any evidence or concrete statements.

Wario is one of the most predictable vets to reveal.

Not enough meat in those statements for me to believe him. Hell, I'm going to make a statement RIGHT NOW and let's see if it comes true.

August will have...
New characters
New vets
No more new Pokemon playable characters
No more new Fire Emblem playable characters
A new stage

Believe.
 
I personally think the 3 vets most certainly coming back are Ness, Puff and Ice Climbers since they're essentially iconic characters at this point for the franchise.
 
Can't remember how Genesect and Zoroark were disconfirmed?
Also: Have we seen a new Tingle AT already?

Damn I missed a lot xD
Zoroark is a Poké Ball Pokémon and Genesect... People are just assuming it isn't playable. Yes, Tingle was seen as an AT, it is the same from Brawl.
 
Zoroark is a Poké Ball Pokémon and Genesect... People are just assuming it isn't playable. Yes, Tingle was seen as an AT, it is the same from Brawl.

Funny, I've seen genesect footage from the demos as a Pokeball Pokemon, but none for Zoroark lol. Though we did see him in the opening of the Genesect trailer.
 
Genesect is a pokeball pokemon. Zoroark has no footage yet but we see it in the Greninja trailer in the pokemon montage
 
i thought genesect was also a pokeball pokemon?
Wait, really? What does it do then?
Funny, I've seen genesect footage from the demos as a Pokeball Pokemon, but none for Zoroark lol. Though we did see him in the opening of the Genesect trailer.
What does it do?
neaaaaaaat what does the Zoroark Pokéball do`?
Idk, people assume it is a Poké Ball Pokémon because it appears in Greninja's trailer. There is no actual footage of it yet, methinks.
 
Genesect is a pokeball pokemon. Zoroark has no footage yet but we see it in the Greninja trailer in the pokemon montage

I doubt there's another Pokémon Newcomer, but it's not really disconfirmed then, right? It's just been said every one of these Pokémon are in the game.
 
How the hell would duck hunt dog play? I'm really curious as to what people think.

Same way Wii Fit Trainer and Mr. Game & Watch and R.O.B. all play.

I doubt they would incorporate the NES Zapper due to how similarly it looks to a real-ass handgun, but they could straight-up make things up for him that would all be pretty clever. And ducks! I want to see Duck Hunt Dog settle his 3-decade grudge.
 
Wait, really? What does it do then?

What does it do?

Idk, people assume it is a Poké Ball Pokémon because it appears in Greninja's trailer. There is no actual footage of it yet, methinks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SMpnNFEiD4
Happens around 2:10.
Shoots a small green lazer, jumps and shoots again. Repeats this, then shoots a big lazer. This pattern then repeats again before dissapearing. Worth noting he'll turn around too.
 
Didn't Sakurai complain that Nintendo hasn't made many new franchises that could be represented in Brawl? Then he goes ahead and makes some of their best characters assist trophies while we get Mario's friends.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SMpnNFEiD4
Happens around 2:10.
Shoots a small green lazer, jumps and shoots again. Repeats this, then shoots a big lazer. This pattern then repeats again before dissapearing. Worth noting he'll turn around too.
i thought it fired it sig move techno laser across the stage?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SMpnNFEiD4

apparently its in this vid?
Thanks. What it does is fitting, but also kinda boring. Meh.
 
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