by Lucas M. Thomas
February 1, 2008 - SPOILER WARNING! "Go ahead and stop reading right now if you don't want to be spoiled on the real secret characters who will be playable in Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Smash It Up! has been a speculation feature up to this point, but with the game now launched and available in Japan, the time for guesswork and wishlists is over – the news featured from this point on is the real deal".
Masahiro Sakurai, the director of Super Smash Bros., explains why he believes online play isn't a good fit for the series.
I feel bad for Smash fans. Those guys have been trying to maintain the scene active for 20+ years and get nothing but hate from Nintendo.
Sakurai explains how he and Nintendo still don't understand how the internet works.
FTFY
Exactly, online play would be wonderful on Smash if Nintendo gave a crap about their online services. To be fair though, Nintendo's online offerings would be great if it were 15-20 years ago lol.
I've always said that Nintendo is either innovative and ahead of the curve
or 20 years behind, no in between
I’m sorry, but if a game is MP then there’s no f*cking argument that can justify no online MP. What he says about competition being different from just playing with friends shows me how out of touch these people are.
It’s not until a new generation that understands things steps in to clean-house that we’ll see some evolution here.
His argument is nonsensical. "You'd be limited to just playing people from your region". As opposed to being limited to playing people FROM YOUR COUCH!
What I don’t get is how do you not have competition and experience the same issue if you have a friend that’s way better than you?
It's a big fighting game so online multiplayer is a must. Competitive smash is the only thing I see fun in these games anymore asides from the big character reveals, singleplayer is laughable and you ain't gunna have people over for couch gaming much.
If Nintendo makes a new smash, it needs a huge evolution for singleplayer/couch play to be enjoyable for me any more. But we all know they'll just do a deluxe edition for their next console lol. They really need to up their servers as well.
I can't imagine Nintendo producing a better smash game than ultimate. Roll it forward with a deluxe edition maybe with an extra character or two and call it a day.
Some other developers can try pushing platform fighters to the next level, because I don't think Nintendo is up to the task.
They already created a better smash brothers game than ultimate when they created melee
he sounds more like is trying to justify Nintendo ineptitude to create a proper network infrastructure in order to Smash Brothers work properly online.
Back in January, fans of Smash Bros Melee got treated to an online tournament event and now it's time for a Brawl-themed tournament event in Ultimate.
Mike thinks certain games go unappreciated in favor of other games in the franchise. Let's fix that, shall we?
mewtwo's gone? wow, but i guess that's why lucario is in
how many times will we see the same roster and over this week. This is like the third time we seen the final roster whats with all the dulpicate posts baseicllly
I'm kind of disappointed. I was expecting at least 30 different characters in this game, and even though they have 35 characters at least 5 of them are clones of another player. I hate that many of the characters still have the exact same move set from SSBM. I'm upset they got rid of Mewtwo I liked Mewtwo a lot :( .
This game is kind of like Melee 1.5. This was the only game I wanted for the Wii, I'm still going to get it, but I'm still disappointed.
is that there are 2 other Fox clones now!!!! Wut the hell!!!
They couldnt give one of them a unique fighting style... But wut ever.. Just the rant of an upset fanboy, pay no mind
R.O.B. cant fight fight. whats the point of him being there?