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EA sports huh? I'd go there to test the soccer games, but not much. You might have a chance to test Madden Wii...no? BTW, I'm on the second case, with that annoying April girl... She's lying, I know. She's gonna burn. I do like seeing her eye twitch when she's in trouble though. And I'm noticing some...unfair "jiggliness"... cheater.

Pheonix Wright and Trauma Center arrived today, after an exceptionally short waiting period. Pheonix seems like a blast, I haven't played Trauma Center yet, but my brother is right now, he says it's good and I trust his judgment. Those guys over there seem to have done a nice job Phthisis. BTW, what is it that you do exactly?

Maybe instead of being a Square-Enix and Nintendo whore you should check out other quality offerings like Contact and Deep Labyrinth. Contact's out already?

Way ahead of you.

Flooooooooow Basket Man, that's a great name. Sounds... groovy.

I'll change it in 5 days. I switched it once already

I've done all that, but I'm keeping the peaceful nation status for a while.

Alright, I made a nation. The ruler is me, Consciência Etérea, the name's Etéreal and my two trading goods are Gold and Sugar. I'm in Portugal (Lisbon, to be more exact) (Praça do Comerçio, to be even more exact) and in the orange team. Uhhh... What should I do now?

What, no latin/portuguese etnicity?

This sounds pretty fun. I was wondering if I could join OCA but place my nation in portugal?

That's an oxymoron. BTW, voted.

Sonic? Aw God no... My reasons for not wanting him in the game have been stated here before... Viewtiful Joe would be iffy. You can't slo-mo or speed up, it would destroy the pace of the battle. Protoman would be fine as long as Megaman is in there first. And ND still owns Crash, although that wouldn't be a bad choice if I may say...

Lucreshia got cought in the VGDJ craze.

Phthisis works at atlus? They made Traume Center!

Correct me if I'm wrong but SSBB will not use the Wii remote/nunchuck. It will use a regular GC controller. It will use a regular GC controller. I think they're using the "if it's not broken don't fix it" mentality here. Yeah, either the casing, or your regular old controller. The Wiimot just doesn't work here. Ryu would be pretty nice to have in the game, but it comes from a totally different fighting genre. It's classic 2D fighting as opposed to SSB's "Brawler"-style fighting game. Not only would it feel awkward, it would also ruffle the feathers of the SF fans, who almost gag at the thought of SSB being called a "fighting" game as it is, let alone if their poster boy, the hadoken-toting fighter, were to be included in the game. You might note some animosity in the last sentence, but there is none, I can assure you. Still, the oldskool fighter fans diss SSB as a "party game" and go back to the arcade perfecting that 30 input combo. I consider the SSB series as one that's easy to pick up, but insanely tough to master. Masters of the game go into calculating dmg and timing recovery falls and their falling angles. It opens a totally new path of the genre. Still, Street Fighter remains as the undisputed fighting game, but I wouldn't say that the SSB series is too far behind.

HELLS YEAH~ That was kinda old... I think it was said right after E3... Still good stuff though, I'm looking forward to it.

And Miyamoto, in a way. Too bad Nobou won't do anything else besides the man theme. I'm still rooting for Simon Belmont, Liquid Snake and Megaman. Those are the ones I'd really like to be in. We should start placing bets in some way... Yet, I don't expect to see any other major news before November, to say the least. Maybe we'll get a bit more info on the 23th, at Nintendo's keynote speech at GC, entitled "Wii prove our promise" ( ) but not much. With the spirit of keeping the thread alive, I'll share the story of my first and only gaming tournament. It was a SSBM tournament, one year after the game came out. Ah, good times. A guy in front of me was wearing a Starfox Adventures T-Shirt he made himself, and fiercly claimed it would be the greatest SF game ever. Poor guy I was amazed by the grandeur of the event. Never had I seen so many gamers in one place. Take notice, Portugal isn't the most gaming country around, and I was pleasantly surprised to see that the wierdo to regular guy ratio was at about 1:6. Not bad. Organized by a popular gaming magazine, the tournament had Super Smash Bros. Melee for the GC, Pro Evolution Soccer...3 I think, for the PS2 and the brand new Halo for the Xbox, with some showing booths for all companies. I was convinced I was pretty leet at SSBM and calmly walked up to the console for my first match. Woe is me, they had forgotten to tell me the rules of the match! They didn't have a cleared memory card... so no extra stages, no extra characters and, worst of all, all the matches were 2 min Time matches, while I was bluntly used to 3 stock matches. My strategy was shaken, but not my convicion. I was planning on using Ganondorf, but Link was my second best so I chose him. The first match was against a DK. He kept going "oh man, you're so screwed, DK has great horizontal recovery" and I said "Uhh... ok, sure, can we play now?" The sap was sorely beaten 4 to 1. His horizontal recovery didn't do him much good while he was sent flying upwards. I won the next match easily against a Fox user and was getting pretty confident. Then came along a little brat using Zelda. No, Shiek. Stupid Sheik. That was when I realized Link was a bit too slow to be a good character. Pokemon Stadium was the stage and the items favored him. He got the first KO with the hammer, the second with that red pokemon...uhhh scissor or something, the third with a bomb-omb and the fourth with lightining fast speed, just for the humiliation. The kid went on to get 2nd place, and I went home. It was a fun experience. None of the gamers were uber-pros, not wavedashing or any of that fancy stuff people use nowadays, most of which I've never heard of. (Dash-Dancing? Huh? What? Just get off mah lawn ya damn kids!). Simple fun. I've never gone to any other tournament after that, though I did observe a CS one a couple years later. They're funny as hell while they are concentrated playing. Good times.

Guess what? Not only did Kojima get his character into Brawl, he's also designing the Metal Gear Solid stage for it! Source: The Wiire We'll be getting some sweet stealth action, courtesy of Mr.Hideo.

I'm just bumping this so it doesn't... die or anything. Without new SSBB news, the topic's grown pretty stale. Still, let's try to keep this thread around until the actual launch of the game, so we can look back on our days of not knowing anything about Brawl with a tear in our eyes. So, uh, share the usual Super Smash Bros. experiences here. Stories, gameplay modes, funny anecdotes or surprising achievements or how to hit the homerun bag just right with the one character.

Now all you gotta do is go all the way back to episode 1. I don't know why I never did that, though. For some reason I started at 17 and went back to 14 and never listened to anything before 14. It's hard to catch up when they're releasing new ones. I subscribed around the same time, when the last one in the feed was #10. It took me until this year's 2-month hiatus to get caught up to the present. There's some decent stuff in the early ep.s, but I do think it's better now... Aurora answers the inevitable "pants" question in #2, the wingless made his Aurora Mix just after, DJP gets interviewed for #4 (definitely not as good as his appearence on the VGL episode, but still), the Canada meetup was for #10, and they talk about the Doom Remix project in #12. And you have to hear what Aurora & Rayza did "behind the scenes" I got on in eps 18. I think it was Pixie's second appearence on the show or something. By the way, when I said I took the last 8 eps, I mean I specifically did not listen to them. The croatians must've though I was crazy when I was laughing to myself during "Penis Reef". And welcome Teddman.

I have a question: Do you guys play every single call in and voice clip you receive? Or do you make a selection, fascist censorship-style...uh...yo? Just wondering... Also, I took about the 8 VGDJs before the Zircon's birthday edition on my vacation to croatia so I'd have something to listen to. 2 things: VGL was awesome and happy birthday zircon!

If i were there, I'd get Meteos.

NSMB really wasn't all I expected it to be. Level design seems bland, needs more powerups then omg gient muxroom and omg shell!1!! If it were at least hard and it didn't give you 10 million 1-ups every single stage, it might've been better. Right now, it's just feeding on the mario fame. Personal score after my hype died out: 7/10 Thank you.

The discussion is over. If Nintendo would streamline it, characters would be combined. If they don't, they won't. Simple as that.

Hmm, their boss' voice sounded a whole lot like Captain Blue's...