The Super Smash Bros. 4 General Thread

SirLink said:
Just how many trophies will the Wii U version have then? o.O A trophy shop will be really nice to combat the randomness a bit. I know in Brawl it was a pain to get that last sticker I was missing for ages.

With Sakurai on the job, nobody should have ever expected that the 3DS version wouldn't be crammed full with all kinds of stuff. That's just how he works, and Kid Icarus: Uprising had no shortage of that, either.

The thing that surprises me is, a 3DS cart is just much smaller than Brawl's disc was. I wasn't expecting this much content for it at all, even though there's way less music.

Pic of the Day time!

Pic of the day. "♪Ba-ding!♪"
If you turn on the 3D effect, it really looks like there's a Game Boy inside the screen.

Nice, a GameBoy stage! I wonder if every character with get a sepia-type colour like Dedede and Kirby have? Would be pretty neat to play on a GameBoy stage with GameBoy-like character colours.

( Edited 08.08.2014 17:13 by SuperLink )

I wonder if they'll be obstacles from various classic Gameboy games, like Tetris blocks falling down or some enemies from Super Mario Land,

People have been streaming the final release copies on Twitch! Duck Hunt Dog is real! Wario, mah boi, is real!, Dr Mario is real and Mr Game and Watch! I just hope the leaker wasn't lying about Dixie Kong (still waiting on confirmation)

Alph from Pikmin also got announced (he's a re-skin of Olimar basically, but has his own name on the battle screen.

I don't think Dixie's real at all.

There were one or two people claiming they had a copy at the time the REAL leaker was leaking stuff, and made up more names... The whole thing got confusing as shit.

I don't get why clones are still getting in after Sakurai said they wanted to reduce them. Then we get Alph? How is Alph better than Dixie?

The Miiverse post confuses me a bit - is he a separate slot on the char screen, or is he like one of the four costumes?

jb said:
The Miiverse post confuses me a bit - is he a separate slot on the char screen, or is he like one of the four costumes?

With the Bowser Jr. Koopaling alts, I think this is definitely the case now that he's like a costume alt of Olimar.

It would be very possible for them to have a Dixie alt for Diddy, and a Daisy alt for Peach in the same way. It's not perfect, but I would happily take that.

( Edited 11.09.2014 15:12 by Azuardo )

Alph is a costume, rather than a full separate character.

Also worth mentioning that the new "clone" characters are also minimal effort, costumes with slightly different attack effects and so took a fraction of the time a unique character would take to create. I think they were probably not planned at all before development and were only put in because they had the time to implement them.

Lastly, the final roster has been leaked, and there aren't any more characters that weren't in the leak ):

We don't know about dlc ofc but I'm not confident there's gonna be character dlc.. that's more of a "wait and see" kinda thing.

So.... anyone have any demo codes?

Not me

Sorry guys, wish I had gotten more to hand out.

For those of us with the demo, what do you guys think so far? I love how fluid the game is and the characters feel awesome, especially villager who is just a brutal killing machine. Mega man is a little tricky to get the hang of though, as are the controls at first. :/

I'm going to put this out there - why do people want to play as Ridley anyway?

Feels really good so far, my main problem is still getting used to the different controls. I always used the corresponding shoulder button for left/right rolls, which obviously doesn't work here because L grabs. I also tend to forget that either the jump buttons or shoulder buttons exist, but it's mostly fighting muscle memory right now. I was thinking of trying to press up to jump instead, but that's a habit I definitely don't want to get into for the Wii U version.

No idea what the obsession with Ridley is, jb. I know Metroid deserves another rep, but it feels like Ridley is only in the spotlight because there's really not much else. Dark Samus with a very different moveset (Phazon moves etc.) still seems like a far better choice to me. Well, unless you want this...

Heck, I'd rather have MBD over Ridely, personally. Just imagine his taunt "Remember me?" *Helmet visor lifts up*

The demo is a great taster, I'm actually a little bit surprised at just how good it is. I expected it to be awesome, but I wasn't always 100% sure how it'd be on a handheld. It feels great though! I'm the same as others, I'm finding it a little hard to adjust to the 3DS controls, I'm so used to playing with the GC controller, too. I think with some practice though, it'll eventually click. I love how smooth it runs, and it looks lovely, visually! The Villager was my favourite character in the demo, he/she is so much fun to play.

( Edited 13.09.2014 11:04 by Marzy )

It's that L-button that annoys me, and the jump mapped to X.

And Villager (default skin) is so you Marz!

SirLink said:
Dark Samus with a very different moveset (Phazon moves etc.) still seems like a far better choice to me.

I noticed too that in order to run, some textures are displayed unfiltered (Playstation 1 style) but not all of them. Still looks very blocky up-close if you pause, but in the thick of action, from afar, it's totally unnoticeable.

( Edited 13.09.2014 11:10 by RudyC3 )

I think Ridley is just a really (weirdly) popular character, and the Smash hype surrounding him on every release is so stubborn that it's actually really enjoyable. People are like super dedicated to him, maybe they just really wanna play as a Space Dragon? P:

He's arguably the biggest major recurring villain in Metroid and he's got a very unique build as far as characters go... but... he's...

I don't really like Dark Samus as a character, so it being an AT and Samus having a Dark Samus colour is totally fine by me. I don't necessarily think Metroid needs another rep, but I think DK deserved one. :/

Speaking of mourning for things we didn't get;

Show Spoiler

 

;_;7 RIP

Lol I guess he could have perhaps been a modified Charizard in some ways?

Nnnnnnnnnngh amazing.

Nice arrangement:

I'd love to see the reactions if Ridley got in but was pretty much a Charizard clone.

Loving the drum work in this one!

Also awesome, I love the rock vibe without the metal drums (if you know what I mean) - absolutely loathe double kick drum/metal drumming.

Full Spirit Tracks / Overworld theme - love it!

Bit of a shame how a lot of Melee/Brawl tracks are being recycled in this version - not confident the music will be as meaty as it was in Brawl this time round. Hmm...

And spoiler - new character's final smash...

Yeah, there's so much recycled music from Brawl (which is a bit disappointing), the new tracks are amazing though. I wonder if the Wii U version will have more original tracks/remixes.

Marzy said:
Yeah, there's so much recycled music from Brawl (which is a bit disappointing), the new tracks are amazing though. I wonder if the Wii U version will have more original tracks/remixes.

• Metroid
  
• Yoshi
  
• Kirby only has 1 new track and 6 tracks ripped from Brawl/his games
  
• Fire Emblem
  
• Xenoblade
  
• Sonic
  
• Pictochat
  (spoiler franchises: )
  
  Show Spoiler

  Wario
  Game & Watch
  Dr. Mario
  
  

Some of the new music is amazing though.. this Zekrom/Reshiram Battle music, and Pac-Man's Park/Block Town are my favs so far.

( Edited 14.09.2014 11:02 by SuperLink )

Anyone notice that the Level 9 CPUs seem to act a lot smarter, especially in a 1vs1 situation? I've been practising against one Level 9 CPU with no items and they are surprisingly competent enemies most of the time. Pikachu was cancelling out of its Thunder animation in mid-air (?) so it'll still hinder me a second later while it tries to attack me directly. They're also far better at guarding/rolling/grabbing, heck, they even try to do some combos on you if you're not careful. It's been a while since I played against CPUs in Brawl, but I don't recall them being all that competent.

The Pac-Man music is amazing, I loved that track in the Pac-Man reveal trailer! I'm so happy it's in the 3DS version.

Would anybody happen to have a spare super smash bros 3DS code, please PM me if so, I really appreciate it

How are you all finding the game so far?

My copy only arrived this morning - had to stay at work till late last night (amazon said max 9pm delivery), they said they turned up by no-one was in!

Faves so far: Little Mac, Toon Link, Diddy Kong, Mario, Zero Suit Samus.