Topic: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

@OfNullAndVoid Incineroar is the final evolution of the Sun/Moon starter Litten so yeah, recent (2016). Continues the pattern of a Pokemon from the latest generation being in Smash (Pikachu + Jigglypuff in 64, Pichu in Melee, Lucario in Brawl, Greninja in 3DS/Wii U).

@Henmii Nintendo's website says Piranha Plant won't be part of the fighter pass. It doesn't matter what shop you buy the game from though (as you said you want to buy it at a shop of your choosing), you get PP for free as long as you buy the game before the end of January.

Wow! This game is HUGE! A little bit more hyped now.

Pretty much my thoughts. That, or hear a bunch of hollerin' and yellin'. I'm gonna do that on my own, I don't need it in my ear. I only want silence as I mete out indiscriminate justice

...Now I'm wondering, will it end with just the 6 DLC characters? Will there be another Fighters Pass? Or what about DLC characters that are outside the Pass like Piranha?

Incineroar in Smash looks much better than he does in Pokemon, for obvious reasons. I always thought he looked stiff and lifeless, and it gave me costume mascot vibes. His model and animations are so much more lively and appealing, that I, despite my negative bias, actually really like him now.

Looks awesome.

I'm a bit bummed at the lack of trophies, but Spirits look like they could be a decent enough collectable (hopefully they still have character background lore to read like trophies).

.....goes back to corner T.T

THE 31ST CHROMIDIUM WARRIOR IS READY TO KICK SOME SHINE IN THE WORLD OF LIGHT

Bren McGuire DLC, coming

[del]never[del]

(continues to weep for Bren's presence)

I'm interested on the DLC and what will have, since Shadow and Shante are disconfirmed.

Also that we can actually have a Goomba and a Koopa playable now if Sakurai wants to. It's a free for all for generic enemies.

Considering Vergeben got everything right so far in his leaks, it seems likely we'll get a new Square Enix representative as a DLC fighter. My guess is Geno. There's also that "Minecraft representation" mentioned, but that could just be a spirit. It's possible these were just early concepts though and the final list of DLC characters has changed.

My guesses are Elma, a main character from Fire Emblem Three Houses, Geno, Banjo and Rayman.

Assuming the music sections are complete in the Directs (i.e. no unlockables missing), it seems really odd that the Xenoblade section would only have songs from Xenoblade 1 and 2. Corrin in Smash 4 makes a Three Houses character in Ultimate seem at least somewhat realistic. The other 3 are to do with 3rd party relationships.

@Grumblevolcano Replace Banjo with Dr Eggman or Doomguy and I could probably agree with you. I'd also replace the FE character with a Gen 8 Pokemon

@Dogorilla,

Thanks for the answer! It would be strange if they only make the character available this way though. I mean, it is very likely that I buy the game before the end of January. But many will buy it afterwards and still would love Piranha plant, even if they have to pay for it.

....I want my Chaos Box back. T.T

For me the main purpose of stage editor was CD factories, fortunately music seems a lot less painful to get this time. I hope the XC2 music shown in the Direct is unlocked at the start though.

This is officially the first game I've pre-ordered, that was not Xenoblade, since 2011.

Granted, that's not saying a ton since I just got it because it was recommended to me after pre-ordering the GCN controller. In hindsight, not having that was a huge downside to my experience on Wii U, I'm not making that mistake again. Also, obviously I was going to buy Smash Bros, just felt like a good a time as any.

Can't wait for smash, preordered earlier today.

I can't lie though, I'm really upset about lack of trophies, I thought the trophy galley was a really cool way to show off characters or items, and provide something to collect and challenge yourself for (remember the challenges in brawl? Remember doing all-star mode on max difficulty with all characters to get trophies on them?). Spirits may have more gameplay properties, but personally that doesn't flow right with me since that just translates to "RNG perks you may not have available" anyway and icons don't quite have as much punch to them as 3d models. You can look at them more as just stickers. I get trophies are a lot of work but idk if that's really a good reasoning when we had them in the previous games, don't have to include all of them. I'm happy we do get a fairly decent looking story mode though. Brawl's was great, cool new enemys, but smash 4 I really didn't invest any time it because nothing about it felt interesting.

I'm curious what the incentive for completing all star mode with all characters is. Probably going to be my first goal after I unlock all of them, beating all-star on max difficulty again.

Piranha plant is an interesting choice for a fighter but hey, I'm interested in trying him out. Might add him to my pocket picks list.

I’m having a hard time seeing the DLC as a good offer... so basically it will increase the number of fighter by 8% (even counting piranha in this), the number of stage by a little less than 5% and a few songs. Yet they’ll charge me 42% of the price of the base game for this? (In my case I got a preorder at Walmart for 50$CAD, so the DLC, which will likely be more than 30$CAD will cost more than 60% of the base game)... I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt but these fighter better be ridiculously amazing...

I don't think the DLC is THAT bad, it's just that the amazing value of the game itself makes it look bad. And tbh it's clearly only for hardcore fans that are gonna put so much time into the game that they would play hours upon hours on every single character/stage. But at the same time, they very easily could've had the DLC be free or at least way cheaper, no doubt about that.