I hope they fix it so it's not the same background no matter where you're battling.

Didn't expect it to have cross platform play, so I'm not really upset.

I was fairly obvious Zelda doesn't have a concrete timeline. Very few of them have any real connection. But for some reason, a lot of fans couldn't accept that and insisted every Zelda game was connected, so they made a timeline to satisfy them.

Brawl had a large amount of blatent anti competitive mechanics that made it terrible. Tripping, is of course, the most infamous anti competitive mechanic ever put into a fighter which sole purpose was to make the game less fair. I didn't know of Melee's more advanced mechanics until years after I stopped playing it but I remember I had more fun with that game simply because it was fast paced.

I hope Sakurai understands that having a game appealing to competitive players doesn't mean excluding casual ones, which seems to be the goal they are going toward, a game where skilled and unskilled players will play together and have fun, which will just never happen. Most games simply solve this issue with a ladder, so people can be matched up against people with similar skill sets. And have OPTIONS to let people play in different ways. There is no reason to force people to play in 1 way or another, especially with a game as popular as Smash!

On the base fighting mechanics, Brawl was WAY too slow, floaty and the defensive options too good with infinite air dodges. I'd made me upset when Sakurai said people were playing Brawl "wrong" when they play it defensively, but that's a DESIGN problem, the game leans toward defensive play with how slow it is and how many defensive options you have. You cannot create a fighting game and expect people to not care about winning and play the game in a way where the goal is not to try your best to win. You want people to play aggressively? Remove infinite air dodge and make the game faster.

I'm not expecting Nintendo vs Capcom, but come on, put Bayonetta in there to rub salt into the wounds of those upset about Bayonetta 2. And what happened with the partnership with Namco? Last I heard after it was announced Namco said their full attention was on Tekken games and they weren't working on Smash at all.

Think Bayonetta looked better with long hair, not that her new look is bad. Game looks great so far.

Wii Fit Trainer is playable. Geno is not even an assist trophy. I can see it coming...

Looks like there will be no meter for super attacks, but the Wii Fit Trainer's Final Smash just looks like a generic beam. You'd think it would be something more unique for such a unique character, like she would force you to exercise with her by following her movements, and make you do Yoga.

So instead of nerfing Stealth Rock, they made a type of battle that only flying Pokemon can participate in.

Agree with the decision? No. Understand? Yes. I wouldn't have used the feature anyway but It's just Nintendo trying to make more money.

I notice Phantasy Star Online 2 is not mentioned. Not that I'm surprised anymore.

When Nintendo changes their digital sales system to be account based instead of system based I will give digital purchases serious consideration. Until then I will be deterred from digital purchases.

Mega Man Zero is by far my favorite Mega Man series of all time. I did S Rank everything in every game on Normal. Hard though...

Like how you said great Darkstalker Resurrection digital sales would increase the likelihood of a sequel? Screw you Capcom. You'll say anything if you think it would increase profits.

If games like Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward can make a profit with a physical release claiming Phoenix Wright games are an extreme risk and would be a loss to you is horse crap.

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This all part of Nintendo's plan to have Microsoft and Sony set their goals low for their new systems and then BAM, software update that overclocks the Wii U.

Really though, if only Nintendo would care as much about hackers that ruin multiplayer rather than "pirates".

What happened to EA's commitment that Nintendo was garbage and the other new consoles will kill the Wii U? Did someone from EA outside of the sports games mass manufacturing department see the Xbox One reveal?

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I'll watch it if I hear it's worth watching afterwards. I have grown past console loyalty, I am now a skeptic of every company and am in it for good games.
Apparently this is what I heard the Xbox One reveal was about.

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That said, I have always found Microsoft's yearly subscription fee to use their games online complete ludicrous and only think it's justified for hardcore FPS multiplayer fans which the 360 has the largest community for.

I would have to say the number 1 things that prevents me from making digital purchases is the lack of an account based system.

@Kaze_Memaryu

I agree that the situation of consoles breaking and being stolen is unlikely, but "it" happens, and the issue is that Steam and other systems have an account based system, so Nintendo in comparison is the odd one out, seemingly purely as an anti piracy measure.

I don't understand why he deleted the tweets. Is it not obvious to some people EA has gone out of their way to criticize Nintendo and the Wii U at times without basis after their talks broke down with Nintendo? EA wants to say they think and everyone else should think Nintendo is garbage while remaining a "neutral third party" with no conflict of interests on their own part or ulterior motives?

I don't think you're supposed to like Tom Nook. He's that guy who pushes a purchase onto you for an absorbent price in every game for which you spend the rest of the time paying off. Although, it can be fair to say if it wasn't for Tom Nook, you might have been homeless. And in the end, he's just there to give you goals in a game to work toward.

I don't hate Tom Nook as a character though, rather, I find humor in the situation he puts you (and everyone else who plays Animal Crossing) in and enjoy visualizing him as the bad guy.

@Captain_Gonru

It's true you can choose not to use adjectives on objects you didn't summon, but there are many puzzles that are designed to be solved in that exact way. It seems like lazy design if you can defeat anything by just adding "dead" to it, and "petrified" if they are not allowed to be killed.

You are so powerful that you are a god of gods. It's not so much puzzle solving by creating objects as much as it is you manipulating the entirety of reality. The hardest things in the game are when they ask you to make an item that meets specific requirements, but the item you make, while arguably meeting the requirements, is not tagged with what the game is looking for for it to be acceptable. These were the poor puzzles from the 1st 2 games in the 1st place.

The good puzzles are the ones that ask you to navigate a situation, not the ones that just ask you for an answer to a question.

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If the Wii U and the 3DS version are the same, I will buy the 3DS version. The 3DS version being the gimped version in Unlimited was horse crap.

Also, they need to remove the ability to add adjectives to objects you didn't create. It breaks the game, badly. Any kind of creativity is meaningless when you can add "Immortal" to yourself and "petrified (or another debilitating adjective) to everything else.

If only all rulings went this way and used the same logic the all too common practice of patenting vague concepts where the owner never had any plans of using the "patent" in an actual commercial product and just made it so they can sue for money when someone else actually makes money off of a functioning product, the patent system wouldn't be as much of a problem.

As of now it's very common for some people to patent a large amount of vague ideas, wait for for someone else to commercialize something that is similar to their patent, wait for said "someone else" to actually be successful, then sue for damages based on profits made.

I really love Pokemon, and I'm buying X/Y regardless (so I guess I'm part of the problem?), but I hope Nintendo and Gamefreak does something about IVs and the game's terrible balance (which I don't expect them to).

Side note, I want Gardevoir to have Quiver Dance. Won't make it competitive, but would make it less terrible.

Also, it looks like you actually can look around, at least to an extent, unlike Mystery Dungeon 3DS which has everything in fixed view.

They are doing digital release only for Ace Attorney 5, but won't do Edgeworth 2?

Is it clear if the "Trainer customization options" are actual customization or if all you can do is select 1 of 3 color sets for each gender?

I do think the 3D adds something extra to the experience. I am still upset about no 2nd Circle Pad and Nintendo's blatant discouragement of the Circle Pad Pro.

"still many unknown factors"?

Everything is unknown. People are haling the 720 and PS4 as some kind of incredible powerhouse when neither of them have released specs.

Not to mention, if Microsoft and Sony pass on the cost of "power" to the consumer and the systems are $600 it won't work out for them either. A high end, not even top of the line PC graphics card is already $500.

I thought the Wii U was supposed to be great for smaller developers or something. I think the issue they are having is with the cost of porting. Maybe they should have another donation drive and raise another $300,000 Personally, I'm not a fan of Skullgirls. The 80's cartoon theme isn't for me. I'll stick to Mahvel.

@banacheck

They made a contract with EA that only EA will be allowed to released Star Wars games. But the conditions of said contract or not stated. Disney is not only powerful, but I do not think they are stupid, and as the license owners, EA would have to abide by any conditions Disney may have stated in their contract.

Of course, the contract will never be revealed to the public, and as I said, it's still wishful thinking.

A majority of the time DLC is made along side the main game, or worse, cut from it, so it can be sold separately and increase profits. I highly disagree with such practices. If companies decide to spend more money developing content for a game after a game has been sent to printing/released and charge money for that extra content, that's fantastic.

Also, before Nintendo gets on the DLC bandwagon, I would hope they fix their digital distribution to be less crappy (seriously just copy Steam's model).

Can't wait, although other then the subs, it's nothing the Japanese trailers haven't already shown.

It's like playing Pokemon normally, but even less fair!

I find this pretty hilarious as many media outlets on the U.S. specifically use women as examples for same sex couples (because it's is seen a visually more appealing) and avoid showing same sex couples males.

A 3DS revision with a more powerful battery, and a 2nd Circle Pad.

It's really not any kind of surprise at all that Disney Interactive is doing poorly if you ever actually look at the games they release. As exampled by the Epic Mickey series, part of the problem is from the higher ups putting restraints on the developers.

Given that Disney is actually more powerful than EA, and owns the license, I hope they retain some control over the Star Wars games that EA will be releasing and stop them from pulling so much crap as EA loves to do. That is wishful thinking I know.

I can't argue with the Wii U game drought, Nintendo's extremely sub par online, or Nintendo's crappy digital distribution system. Just copy Steam's formula, everyone has an account and when you buy a game you can download it forever (Steam does keep track of how often you are downloading a game to try and curb piracy).

However, while Nintendo selling out to smartphone games is a stock owners dream, it would kill Nintendo in the long run to no longer have exclusive games on their 1st party systems.

Also, I am still upset at Nintendo's clear intention to never have a 2nd circle pad on the 3DS forever.

The reality of the video game business is in many companies if developers speak or act out against their bosses (CEOs, publishers, etc.), you will be terminated without hesitation, it's often right in their contract. This is why you see DICE constantly berating the Wii U for having poor specs even in comparison to the PS3 and 360, because EA told them to do so. And why are the developers of Sim City constantly backing EA on their claims that Sim City being constant online only had nothing to do with DRM and it was the developers idea, and not EA, to do it, because they have to say it for the sake of their jobs. EA of course, has been rated the worse video game company to work for for many years in a row.

Wondering why sales are failing Capcom?

Maybe try not treating your customers and developers like crap and perhaps letting your developers do their thing and not restrain them with your poor understanding of games?

But of course not, instead blame everyone and everything (like piracy and over saturation of the market) except your anti consumer business practices (like on disk DLC and cutting off portions of games to sell as DLC, and not localizing highly demanded games, even as download only) and your constant oppression on your developers (which have caused many of them to quit even at the cost of losing their precious created character icons).

Sad to see Disney sell out to EA, the devil of the video game world. Be prepared for more day 1 DLC, on disk DLC, constant online only games.

For the people here who think the Wii U not getting any games from EA has anything to actually do with specs and not EA's grudge with Nintendo, you are really naive.

If you take a look at the Nyan Cat "copyright" it hilariously avoids saying that Nyan Cat is part Pop Tart which is obviously what it was based on.

I am against censorship of any type. Censorship is pandering to ignorance and the desire for people to be ignorant. The best way to handle any situation is not to hide things, but to educate people about them.

The biggest example from Nintendo I can think of is Vivian from Paper Mario: Thousand Year Door's gender was changed from a male with the appearance of a female (and desire to be female) to a straight female because Nintendo of America figured people wouldn't "understand" or "be offended" by the idea, while the concept is used quite loosely in Japan and it isn't considered controversial as there isn't even any kind of debate on gay marriage because in Japan they don't care about that.

However Japan does have some kind of odd censorship laws for video games in particular to red blood. Not all kinds of media, as bloody deaths are not too uncommon even for anime targeted for younger audiences, but video games in particular.

Damn censorship. Stop treating people outside of Japan like children Nintendo.

This is like that episode of South Park were the internet celebrities are demanding real life money for being popular.

People who do and report these kinds of research have not, and have no intention to, ever play full fledged games like Zelda or Bayonetta.

Thinks Angry Birds is the peak of gaming.

I'm not saying Colonial Marines is a good game, but I am saying this class action lawsuit is just a bunch of idiots looking for a quick buck.

Do you want to sue McDonald's because their burgers are about 1/2 the size as they appear in advertisements?

The 3D Sonic games after Sonic Adventure 2 (and to an extent, Sonic Heroes) weren't donkey because they were in 3D, it was because they had faults on multiple levels of design. Horrible camera that refused to show you what you wanted and needed to see (where as Sonic Adventure just let you freely control the camera), boring game play, bad story, poor controls. It's hard to understand how you can screw it up so hard when Adventure 2 was fine and be completely deaf to all the complaints.

Here's the thing, when Nintendo pulls their head out of their bootie and makes their consoles and games region free, and gives a crap when massive amounts of people hack and cheat in their online games, I'll sympathize with their woes about piracy and all the "updates" they make to have to stop it.