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[sudgy]

What are the odds of a Castlevania character? Or is that licensed by one of Nintendo's mortal enemies? I was just playing NES Castlevania and realized that a Belmont probably deserves a spot, even if Zero-Suit encroaches a bit on the whole whip thing.

Nintendo said they aren't wanting too many third-party characters (I remember hearing from somewhere, don't quote me on this), and with sonic and megaman already confirmed, it's pretty unlikely.

[scott_pilgrim]

http://www.smashbros.com/us/characters/rosetta.html

Rosalina & Luma announced as a playable character!

[Robz888]

Interesting! Thought we might see them.

[Tables]

Wow, that was unexpected.

Edit: She's been what, playable in one game (which was a spinoff game anyway), a major NPC in one and cameo'd in one. None of them recent. Her one game was also quite a while ago. Add to that the Mario series already having lots of characters and others seeming more likely as plausible new candidates (such as Toad or some variant thereof, or maybe Daisy or Waluigi or another Kong or something).

Edit 2: It looks like actually she's far more popular and appeared in games far more frequently than I thought. Guess she wasn't that unexpected after all (except to me, apparently).

[popsofctown]

Wow, that was unexpected.

Edit: She's been what, playable in one game (which was a spinoff game anyway), a major NPC in one and cameo'd in one. None of them recent. Her one game was also quite a while ago. Add to that the Mario series already having lots of characters and others seeming more likely as plausible new candidates (such as Toad or some variant thereof, or maybe Daisy or Waluigi or another Kong or something).

Edit 2: It looks like actually she's far more popular and appeared in games far more frequently than I thought. Guess she wasn't that unexpected after all (except to me, apparently).

She's also in a new game that just came out, or comes out really soon, so it's a concurrent marketing thing to announce her now.

Toad is already all but confirmed to excluded because Peach still uses him as an attack in one of the released videos/pictures.  It doesn't completely rule it out, but aesthetically it's awkward to have a character both in an accessory role and playable role. (Jigglypuff, Pichu, Pikachu, and Mewtwo have never come out of pokeballs.  Charizard came out of pokeballs in every game except Brawl, where he was a playable character.  Squirtle, Ivysaur, and Lucario have also never come out of pokeballs.)

[Robz888]

^Most notable Mario Universe-centric exception: the Hurly Gloves.

[Drab Emordnilap]

^Most notable Mario Universe-centric exception: the Hurly Gloves.

Right, but in that case Bowser literally picks up Mario; he doesn't have a second Mario in his pocket. (I know about the doll, whatever you know what I mean)

[theory]

I started getting back into watching SSBM lately.  Anyone else follow KoC3?

[popsofctown]

nah, I always prefer playing to watching

[popsofctown]

I'm going to a fighting game tournament next week to play Smash, called Kumite in Tennessee.  It will be heavily streamed, any of you spectator sort of people should watch

[mcmcsalot]

I'm going to a fighting game tournament next week to play Smash, called Kumite in Tennessee.  It will be heavily streamed, any of you spectator sort of people should watch

As a lifelong younger sibling and disciple if the art that is video game speciation, I would love to watch! Let me know where it will be streamed and when please

[popsofctown]

http://www.twitch.tv/smashstudios

Pools for Project M singles will be on Saturday, the 25th, at 5 pm.  I will probably use the time between 11 and 5 when melee pools are going on to practice Project M and maximize my chances of winning something.

Only top 8 get out of pools.  If I manage that miracle I will DDoS Goko and make all you scouts watch me on Sunday.

[popsofctown]

I'm hoping they are doing 4 pools and letting the top 2 of each pool out, rather than having 8 pools.  If I get assigned to one of 8 small pools and I get the one that has M2K in it, that would suck.

[WalrusMcFishSr]

http://www.twitch.tv/smashstudios

Pools for Project M singles will be on Saturday, the 25th, at 5 pm.  I will probably use the time between 11 and 5 when melee pools are going on to practice Project M and maximize my chances of winning something.

Only top 8 get out of pools.  If I manage that miracle I will DDoS Goko and make all you scouts watch me on Sunday.

Can someone explain popsofctown's joke to me in a way that doesn't seem like it's patronizing us all by calling us Scouts?

[popsofctown]

http://www.twitch.tv/smashstudios

Pools for Project M singles will be on Saturday, the 25th, at 5 pm.  I will probably use the time between 11 and 5 when melee pools are going on to practice Project M and maximize my chances of winning something.

Only top 8 get out of pools.  If I manage that miracle I will DDoS Goko and make all you scouts watch me on Sunday.

Can someone explain popsofctown's joke to me in a way that doesn't seem like it's patronizing us all by calling us Scouts?

I'm hoping no one can.

[Tables]

http://www.twitch.tv/smashstudios

Pools for Project M singles will be on Saturday, the 25th, at 5 pm.  I will probably use the time between 11 and 5 when melee pools are going on to practice Project M and maximize my chances of winning something.

Only top 8 get out of pools.  If I manage that miracle I will DDoS Goko and make all you scouts watch me on Sunday.

Can someone explain popsofctown's joke to me in a way that doesn't seem like it's patronizing us all by calling us Scouts?

He's suggesting that he'd be so good/we'd be so bad that we'd all be like Scout in comparison to him.

(Note: Hope this makes the joke more funny now that I've explained it)

[mcmcsalot]

He means if he manages to make it to the end which would be a miracle he will suddenly gain an insane ego as well as the ability to ddos(take down) goko so that we will have nothin to do and have to watch him be amazing.

I believe the pun was intended as a reversal of attitudes caused by hoping to make it to finals and being in the finals. Aka he isn't patronizing us.

[Asper]

SSB is probably the only game that can make me buy a WiiU. I was a fan from the beginning, and i find it astounding that even the number of characters revealed by now is much bigger than the total of characters in the first game. the game sure has developed since then.
It's a pity that a good story mode won't return, but as long as Metaknight (in a way that doesn't make me feel bad for playing as him) and Diddy Kong appear, i'll be happy anyhow. Sure wouldn't mind the Pokémon Trainer, either. Hopefully the WiiU will be cheaper by then.

[Polk5440]

http://www.twitch.tv/smashstudios

Pools for Project M singles will be on Saturday, the 25th, at 5 pm.  I will probably use the time between 11 and 5 when melee pools are going on to practice Project M and maximize my chances of winning something.

Only top 8 get out of pools.  If I manage that miracle I will DDoS Goko and make all you scouts watch me on Sunday.

How did it go?

[popsofctown]

http://www.twitch.tv/smashstudios

Pools for Project M singles will be on Saturday, the 25th, at 5 pm.  I will probably use the time between 11 and 5 when melee pools are going on to practice Project M and maximize my chances of winning something.

Only top 8 get out of pools.  If I manage that miracle I will DDoS Goko and make all you scouts watch me on Sunday.

How did it go?

I won 3 of my matches in the "pool", which turned out to have an elimination structure, which makes it pointless to have it as a separate structure.

I lost two matches, both to the same player.

I had fun playing friendlies though.


Overall I regret going in the first place.  It's the only tournament I've ever attended that was so poorly structured I could lose to only one particular individual and get eliminated.  It left me with half as much to consider improving upon for a tournament with twice the cost of a normal one.


Tennessee players are nicer than Alabama players.  It's a secret to everybody.

[popsofctown]

Lucario confirmed.  Sakurai said aura will have an "increased impact".  Kind of disappointing to hear, Lucario's catch-back-up design is crappy.

At the very least I hope the stock-based aura factor is removed.

[GendoIkari]

Little Mac!!! Definitely an awesome choice!

[popsofctown]

He's the first newcomer not to get a video, it would seem? I mean, Villager, Wii Fit Trainer and Megaman kind of shared an intro video, Rosalina got a big intro video.  Little Mac I only see the pictures.

[Tables]

He's the first newcomer not to get a video, it would seem? I mean, Villager, Wii Fit Trainer and Megaman kind of shared an intro video, Rosalina got a big intro video.  Little Mac I only see the pictures.

You mean this video that he didn't get  ?



Edit: The video was in the same place it was for Rosalina IIRC, on the character page

[Axxle]

Looks pretty close to Ike, do you think Mac's replacing him?