Topic: Super Smash Bros. for Wii U - OT

I just always approach any kind of implied foresight with a healthy dose of skepticism and plenty of hope for what I want. I'm more inclined to believe leaks with Wolf or Lloyd in them because I want them in, but while I will still argue that Wolf makes sense, I would be naturally cautious of anyone saying Lloyd Irving was joining the roster.

@UGXwolf That's a good way to be.

So outside of Smash stuff, any predictions for VGA reveals? We know something is going to happen, and Reggie of NoA is going. They even made an original remix for it.

@Tsuchinoko: Zelda will be there. No doubt about it. But in what form(s)? I'm personally expecting TPHD to be the focus and any mention of Zelda U will be a side note. Similarly, I think Smash would only be mentioned to call attention to the Smash Direct later this month. I would get a kick out of any Federation Force we see. You guys wanted Metroid at the VGAs, right? XD

Welp, today is the 3rd, let's prove one rumor wrong shall we? then we wait for the 16th!

@Undead_terror: Well, we had rumours of the 5th/6th.

And you changed your avatar back to a scary skull!

@Tsuchinoko: Oh didn't hear about those ones.
And tis a swell avatar! I suppose if people didn't like the the spooky Christmas skeleton, I will get a sp00py (silly) Christmas skeleton, just make some votes

I think the 16th is just a logical guess for the last possible Wednesday the Direct could be on. The weeks afterwards would put Nintendo into very risky territory, both in terms of delivering the content and their image given NX is being revealed next year. Lets think about the past 2 holidays (2013, 2014):

• 2013 had Pokemon Bank released in Japan, servers went down due to overload for a few days
• 2014 had the PSN and Xbox Live hacked

Lets imagine the Direct happened a week later so 23rd December, the actual content involved was massive (larger or equal to the Direct on the Sunday before E3). We all know that the servers would struggle and if it went down for a few days like 2013, that would look extremely negative in the light of NX being revealed (likely) early next year unless the competition were hacked again like in 2014. So I think the 16th is a cutoff date, may be earlier but definitely not later.

@Undead_terror: I vote spooky scary.

@Grumblevolcano I really do think it will be in the first half of the month. There is discussion on Reddit that there may be a surprise at the VGAs though. It might just be some Cloud info with a date for the direct.

Two and a half hours.

Got 7th at a tournament hosted at the revival Uni to mine. Had a questionable bracket as was seeded 30th so played their 3rd best player round 1 lost but teared through losers beating the 5th seed the losing to 1st, was really fun. Also had friendlies with their best player and we went pretty even winning a game each.
Bracket for those curious (I'm Justice)
http://challonge.com/SVGS_Super_Smash_Bros_4_11/standings

@Jazzer94: Congratulations! But grr there brackets almost never show the characters used.

@Tsuchinoko: I was playing Fox, the winner was playing Falcon, second DK, Little Mac and Robin, third my friend played Ryu and Jiggs.

@DarthNocturnal: Not yet.

Nope, nothing from Nintendo at the TGA.

Well, the last musical bit was kinda nintendo related.

A bit.

TBH, Smash was NEVER going to happen at the VGAs in the first place. The time will come when Nintendo will announce the Direct date, simples.

@DarthNocturnal: He really was just there for the Iwata tribute though.

So are Snake's chances even worse now?

@Tsuchinoko: Yes, more likely.
The only way for Snake to get into Smash if Sakurai ask permission from Konami.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lrRn3L0mkEg

Sigh...

The action starts around the nine minute mark.

Literally played with someone on FG Ryu dittos for 1.5 hours straight. It was really fun, I'm enjoying FG a lot more now actually it has improved.