Ash do any of the old stages get new music included with them?
That's a really good question. I'll try to find that out on Monday!
People can mean both 'ALL people' and 'SOME people' depending on how you (want to) read it. I'm going to go ahead and assume he meant SOME people.
Sometimes it's a bit of a downer to get excited about a new feature or stage and then go on message boards and read what SEEMS (it's easier to be affected by negative criticism) like most people saying it looks bad/dumb. It's depressing sometimes and it makes me (and i'm sure others) want to go on the defensive side.
I don't know how ash feels, but I'd guess he's probably in a similar boat as I am. I think almost everything they showed last night looks great and is probably different levels of fun for different people, but sometimes the dissenters are (seemingly) louder than the people who are happy about the new stuff.
Nailed it. I'm surprised it was so difficult for people who disagreed with my positivity regarding the game and the stages to come to this conclusion.
Many people in this community really can be a downer when it comes to anything new that doesn't satisfy competitive scene standards, and it's exhausting. I'm not saying people should shut up or whatever, but it sure does get depressing. It's a bummer to finally have a new game to be excited about, only to have most people spout the same usual rhetoric about walk-offs/BANNED!/etc. But hey, looks like the game's being made with people like me, The Captain, Neiteio, and OricWindstar in mind, so I certainly can't complain.
Jungle Hijinxs is one of the most creative stages in the game, yet people complained about it right away, with barely any footage to go off of. It's certainly annoying to see.
God forbid we ever innovate - we need more variants of Battlefield!
Yup, totally the case with me. I loved the Direct, but seeing so many people complain about things they haven't even seen much of (Garden of Hope hate because of the crab? Seriously?) just bothers me.
For the record, I think in some cases it's better to generalize than to specify certain people. Had Ash actually quoted the people who had complained in that way, it would've sounded way more like an attack.
Well said. People were saying the same thing about Wuhu Island as well. It's dumb, reactionary, and unfortunate. It's incredible how resistant this community (the Smash community at large, not SmashGAF) is to change. I think the Mega Man and Sonic fanbases are the only other communities that come close to being this bad.
I don't understand the appeal of this guy, and hell, I agree with him here. I know a lot of people don't realize that he's apparently playing a character, and I know that he is, but that character is
obscenely obnoxious. I can't believe it's so popular.
Not sure if anyone noticed this, but this was posted on KYM
At least 437 songs confirmed. Brawl had 255 IIRC.
Yep, I noted this several pages back! It was in the middle of the night, though, so I'm not surprised people missed it. This is probably one of the top four most exciting things about the Direct for me, besides Palutena's Guidance, 8-player Smash, and Final Smash trophies.
I'm still shocked NA gets this before Japan.
I'm not. The handheld and mobile markets are much bigger and more important in Japan; consoles aren't that big there anymore, thus why Japan got the 3DS version first. On the other hand, the console market here is massive. It makes sense.
The 3DS version has 34 levels. How many does the Wii-U version have? A whopping FIVE additional levels! Wow. I'm totally overwhelmed here. No need to go crazy, Sakurai!
I'm sorry, but I didn't look at that cute bar graph animation and think that "not even comparable" meant "a 15% increase". But hey, I guess it's my fault for thinking this was America.
If it was 10 levels higher, okay I can dig that. But anything less is an insult.
An insult? Really?
An insult?
Anyway, I had to stop reading there because as of now, we have 45 confirmed stages and we know there are more. I'm thinking the total will be around 48-50, but either way we already have more than ten additional stages over the 3DS version (the arbitrary amount you yourself specified). You really shouldn't make arguments like this if you're not prepared to do the research yourself. You took the information on an obviously outdated page as gospel when you could have almost as easily paused the Direct at one of the several points it shows the stage select screen and counted them yourself. You could also have gone to the My Music section of the official site, where it shows a state of the stage select screen with the most unlocked stages we've seen thus far.
