42 Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 Official announcement here: http://www.nintendo.com/nintendo-direct/archive/06-21-2012/message IGN article: http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/06/22/namco-bandai-developing-next-smash-bros With the addition of Sonic and Solid Snake in Brawl, what are the odds of some Namco-Bandai characters showing up? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ad.mixx Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 I'm really hoping to see some Tales series action. Lloyd Irving would make a freaking great Smash character, IMO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ocre Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 Pac Man is a lock. I expected him last time, I'm certain he's in this one. Hey Sakurai, give me Classic Mega Man, please. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BardicKnowledge Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 I'm really hoping to see some Tales series action. This a hundred times. Give me Arche from Tales of Phantasia! I'd also like to see Jin from Tekken and Leixia from Soul Calibur V. (and Mike Jones from Startropics, but that's a pipe dream...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Global-Trance Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 I don't care who they add as long as we don't have anymore stupid tripping and stupid disjointed hitboxes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phonetic Hero Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 I'd also like to see Jin from Tekken JIN?! No way. Kazuya Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clefairy Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 I don't care who they add as long as we don't have anymore stupid tripping and stupid disjointed hitboxes. Weren't those mechanics added because Sakurai dislikes the hypercompetitive aspect of the FGC? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PixelPanic Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 Masahiro Sakurai isn't director :c I suppose this could be a good change of pace, but at the same time, who's ready for some of dat air-jugglin action? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EC2151 Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 It's not hyper-competitive to ask for complete control over your character. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DusK Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 Masahiro Sakurai isn't director :c Yes he is. Reggie confirms it in the Nintendo Direct video. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thalzon Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 KOS-MOS. Make it happen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PixelPanic Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 Yes he is. Reggie confirms it in the Nintendo Direct video. So him and Tekken-dude are co-directors? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DusK Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 Seems that he's just leading the development team at Namco-Bandai, along with Higuchi. Sakurai's still overseeing the entire project. He's the head honcho. The big cheese. The main man. And my bad, it wasn't Reggie. It was Nate Bihldorff. http://www.nintendo.com/nintendo-direct/archive/06-21-2012 Around the 7-minute mark. Anyway, I'm pumped. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjamin Briggs Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 in my mind, making a public announcement of this kind is basically their way of saying "ok, we get it. Brawl wasn't as good as Melee. we'll try harder this time" so I support it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Overflow Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 I like Brawl better than Melee. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nonamer Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 I like Brawl better than Melee. Same, though the pace of Melee was much better for me. I actually don't think there will be too many additions from the Namco pool of characters. Pac Man was never really prominent on Nintendo consoles (to my knowledge), and they probably won't include any one from Tekken for its violence. The only reason Snake is on there is cause Sakurai and Kojima are best buddies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjamin Briggs Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 my main problem with brawl is the abysmal single player mode don't tease me with all those sexy cutscenes if the gameplay required to unlock them is going to be tons of repetitive and confusing garbage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DusK Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 my main problem with brawl is the abysmal single player mode Same. There were a few fun instances, but it was all just boring for the most part. The game still shines when you and a few buddies just brawl, though. Amazing fun to be had. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTAHater836 Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 It's my understanding that more of O-Clocked is against than for Brawl, but I honestly thought that as flawed as the selection of stages was, that Melee's maps were inferior. Because Pac-Man is just a yellow 3/4 spheroid that would require more creativity for a moveset than he's worth, and because Tekken and Soul Calibur are graphic and are already fighting games, I support the 4th most well-known Namco franchise, Tales Of for Smash 4. Hey, the Tales Of series got a ReMix album in the form of Summoning of Spirits back in winter 2009, so if anything, the hero of Tales of Symphonia should be right up our alley! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xenon Odyssey Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 Because Pac-Man is just a yellow 3/4 spheroid that would require more creativity for a moveset than he's worth Too bad he's not in any other fighting games... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTAHater836 Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 Too bad he's not in any other fighting games... Having never played Street Fighter X Tekken, I just looked him up. I can't decide if already being in a crossover fighting game where neither side is strictly Nintendo characters should make me more comfortable or less with adding the 3rd-party character in question to Smash. My senses say I should be more comfortable because it's fighting game experience, and my intuition says I should be less comfortable because it's overdoing a character. My intuition also tells me that when in doubt, a human or humanoid should be selected over a circular character. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Shadow Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 the difference is the engine all kinds of characters would be fun with smash physics Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yangfeili Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 I always thought Smash should be about classic characters with a history on Nintendo systems, so Pac-Man would be perfectly fine. I remember playing at least three Pac-Man games on the NES alone. (Same went for Snake: if you look at old Nintendo Power magazines, Metal Gear regularly showed up on the NES charts, and at one point hit the No. 3 spot. It was a pretty well known and popular game, on the same level as Castlevania or Mega Man. Sonic, however, had no business being on the roster.) So as for other Namco characters, I'm thinking of looking to games more like Tower of Druaga or Dig Dug first rather than Tekken or the Tales series. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DusK Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 Sonic, however, had no business being on the roster. Sonic frequented Nintendo consoles since the GCN days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yangfeili Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 Sonic frequented Nintendo consoles since the GCN days. Ehhh, that's just a little too recent for me, only one generation before the Wii. But I know that the whole "Mario VS Sonic" was too much of a big selling point for them to pass it up, so I don't really blame them for doing it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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