Post by: NWR_pap64 on September 03, 2007, 05:42:49 AM
What intrigues me is the Q&A part. One of the questions goes like this:
Wi-Fi, or no Wi-Fi?
Question: Will Super Smash Bros. Brawl be online?
All reports indicate that yes, it will. Brawl has been planned from the beginning to be a flagship title for Nintendo's free Wi-Fi Connection service, and though the feature hasn't yet been 100% confirmed, you can rest soundly in the knowledge that it's an almost surefire guarantee.
Either they know something we don't or they are speculating because online mode was still up in the air, specially since they came out and said that they had online mode running perfectly in duel mode but were having problems running 4 player battles online.
Man, I wish Nintendo would just come out and confirm/deny Wi-fi mode.
You can read the rest of IGN's FAQ here.
Post by: Mashiro on September 03, 2007, 06:11:31 AM
Post by: nickmitch on September 03, 2007, 06:45:06 AM
Post by: stevey on September 03, 2007, 07:39:56 AM
Post by: Bill Aurion on September 03, 2007, 08:04:13 AM
Post by: Strell on September 03, 2007, 08:29:52 AM
Post by: Pale on September 03, 2007, 08:53:53 AM
Anyway, it said nothing about Online. The Internet 'kind of' freaked out.
Nintendo was just saving the "announcement" for later to further hype the game.
It IS going to be Online. Strell is screwed in his bet. What I'm not convinced about is whether that will be 2 player or 4 player.
Post by: UERD on September 03, 2007, 08:58:01 AM
Also, the following quote leads me to take the rest of the FAQ with a giant grain of salt.
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Gooey Bomb was the first new item to be revealed for Super Smash Bros. Brawl, and it doesn't seem to come from any past Nintendo title. Instead, it most resembles a character – yes, a character – from the homo-erotic Japan-only shooter series, Cho Aniki. Now before you dismiss that connection completely, there are some development team members in common between the Smash and Cho series, so it's not out of the realm of possibility that some creative inspiration was brought over from such an, ahem, unlikely source. Cho Aniki: Seinaru Protein Densetsu, or "Legend of the Holy Protein," allowed you to control the Holy Protein, a flying glob of goo that flew flanked by Adon and Samson, two musclebound smiling flying men
Post by: Arbok on September 03, 2007, 09:00:59 AM
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Originally posted by: Pale
It IS going to be Online. Strell is screwed in his bet.
The game will allow people to go online and trade stickers with each other!
Post by: Sessha on September 03, 2007, 12:44:25 PM
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Originally posted by: Pale
It IS going to be Online. Strell is screwed in his bet.
The game will allow people to go online and trade stickers with each other!
Scratch and Sniff I hope
Post by: NWR_pap64 on September 03, 2007, 01:58:01 PM
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Originally posted by: Pale
Do you all remember when the first Diamond and Pearl press release came out? For the US I'm talking...
Anyway, it said nothing about Online. The Internet 'kind of' freaked out.
Nintendo was just saving the "announcement" for later to further hype the game.
It IS going to be Online. Strell is screwed in his bet. What I'm not convinced about is whether that will be 2 player or 4 player.
The difference is that they confirmed Wifi mode way before the game was released and we all knew the Japanese release had it. Brawl's online mode, though, has been up in the air. Even Animal Crossing DS and Mario Kart DS, two big titles, announced Wifi before they were released.
I won't count out the possibility of holding the news back in order to generate hype (same with the Sonic news) but its weird they are holding the news back for this long.
Post by: Strell on September 03, 2007, 02:14:03 PM
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Originally posted by: Pale
It IS going to be Online. Strell is screwed in his bet.
The game will allow people to go online and trade stickers with each other!
NONE OF U CAN HAZ ME STICKERZ!
Post by: Pale on September 03, 2007, 02:54:02 PM
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Post by: Dirk Temporo on September 03, 2007, 10:03:46 PM
Post by: PaLaDiN on September 03, 2007, 11:01:20 PM
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Post by: PaLaDiN on September 04, 2007, 09:04:36 PM
Post by: Smash_Brother on September 05, 2007, 04:20:30 AM
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I'm in the "Don't really care if it does or not" camp, but would rather it did so I don't have to deal with the huge amount of angst that would inexplicably spew forth from Smash_Brother, et al...
Hey, don't slap that label on ME! You want to see the people pissed at lack of online? Look at the people who bet Strell money that it would be in the game.
I probably won't even find the time to play the game when it releases so online isn't exactly going to be the deal-breaker for me.
And calling it "inexplicable" is a gross inaccuracy. It's perfectly explicable when a developer says, "Yeah, we're pretty sure we'll have it in there." and then doesn't. That kind of thing tends to make fans angsty. Even if it doesn't piss me off, I can understand how suggesting something and then going back on it will piss people off.
Post by: Mashiro on September 05, 2007, 11:40:51 AM
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And calling it "inexplicable" is a gross inaccuracy. It's perfectly explicable when a developer says, "Yeah, we're pretty sure we'll have it in there." and then doesn't. That kind of thing tends to make fans angsty. Even if it doesn't piss me off, I can understand how suggesting something and then going back on it will piss people off.
Actually, to kick that up a notch, Nintendo pretty much guaranteed online in the beginning . . . so angry from it lacking online is perfectly acceptable.
Post by: Smash_Brother on September 05, 2007, 01:52:38 PM
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Originally posted by: Mashiro so angry from it lacking online is perfectly acceptable.
True, from a rational perspective.
But bobble-headed Nintendo fanbots will still defend the lack of online play, regardless.
Post by: Mashiro on September 05, 2007, 02:08:09 PM
Post by: NWR_pap64 on September 05, 2007, 02:24:20 PM
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And calling it "inexplicable" is a gross inaccuracy. It's perfectly explicable when a developer says, "Yeah, we're pretty sure we'll have it in there." and then doesn't. That kind of thing tends to make fans angsty. Even if it doesn't piss me off, I can understand how suggesting something and then going back on it will piss people off.
Actually, to kick that up a notch, Nintendo pretty much guaranteed online in the beginning . . . so angry from it lacking online is perfectly acceptable.
That was when SSB didn't even have a director and Nintendo was making a lot of empty promises.
Post by: Mashiro on September 05, 2007, 02:28:47 PM
Also Masahiro Sakurai said that when discussing online with Nintendo, Smash was the first game that came to mind as something that must be done and that he was pushing the game to be online.
So I mean there is a tremendous push to have this online, combined that with what's been said and it still give validity to those that would be angry (such as myself).
Post by: UltimatePartyBear on September 06, 2007, 04:04:42 AM
Post by: Strell on September 06, 2007, 06:05:50 PM
Post by: Sonuis on September 12, 2007, 12:36:21 PM
I'm still questioning the online support anyway. Once it's confirmed, then it'll be fine. I'm not getting my hopes up thankfully. By the way...
Apparently this image is starting to float around the internet. So far, I wouldn't believe it because there's still a bit of an ESRB issue. I haven't heard of an official rating yet, and if it there was one, it'd be posted on the website. Not to mention that online game stores still show RP pictures. Seems that front cover is starting to disappear too. I think the most obvious thing in the picture that'd be a dead giveaway would be the amount of stock pictures and controllers.
Hopefully I'm not late on this image on the forum :x. I actually just saw it for the first time today.
Post by: Bill Aurion on September 12, 2007, 12:43:05 PM
(All the numbers listed there are pretty silly...)
Post by: vudu on September 13, 2007, 07:07:36 AM
Post by: Dirk Temporo on September 13, 2007, 01:21:23 PM
Post by: Sir_Stabbalot on September 13, 2007, 01:25:29 PM
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Suggestive Themes? In MY Super Smash Bros?
Blame the Zero Suit.
Post by: UERD on September 13, 2007, 01:39:31 PM
Post by: Smash_Brother on September 13, 2007, 02:44:10 PM
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Anger is understandable, but all the angst in the world won't make a bit of difference.
Sure it will.
When a developer makes a decision like that and gets mailed a box of fire ants which swarm him and rend the flesh from his bones, the next developer to make decision like that would think twice before doing it.
Post by: NWR_pap64 on September 13, 2007, 03:00:09 PM
Lord knows the Blog updates have annoyed me recently...
