Yes. If there are 108 stages then I'm expecting 1 or 2 more new franchises to be introduced. Whether those turn out to be Minecraft or Dragon Quest or Rhythm Heaven or whatever I dunno.
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Yes. If there are 108 stages then I'm expecting 1 or 2 more new franchises to be introduced. Whether those turn out to be Minecraft or Dragon Quest or Rhythm Heaven or whatever I dunno.
I would love to see Smash officially embrace something like seasons.
Based on your finished rank at the end of a given season, you could have a chance at unlocking additional costumes, tracks, trophies, etc. There could be a stage pool in which users could vote on the stages for the next season as well (each season could have ~6 stages w/o hazards and 6 stages in omega or battlefield form).
We really need another Smash Direct. I thought it was going to be in November, but at this point I hope they put it around the end of October just to reveal everything and be done with it. It's getting tiring.
Late October - Early November is most likely, in order to beat the review copy leaks to the punch.
They will never (and should never) tie unlocks to online play.
Same here, though I'm expecting it to be early November. Either way, going by pure educated guesses based on how previous Nintendo games' releases, I'd imagine that it'll go down like this...
- Early-to-Mid October: Smash Ultimate's base game goes gold.
- Early November: Copies of Smash Ultimate begin printing.
- Mid November: Review copies go out to critics (IGN, GameSpot, Eurogamer, Easy Allies, etc.) & Nintendo Ambassadors (Ex. GameXplain....who are technically both, RogersBase, Alpharad, ZeRo, etc.).
- December 7th: Smash Ultimate is officially released.
These are stronger arguments than what memoryman came up with lol. I'll quickly go through these with points against them.
While usually the websites don't usually don't have perfect layouts where everything fits in perfectly (Smash 4's website especially) they are clearly attempting to do so with the stage page already (with everything centred and nice looking). While you could use that point to argue in favour of 103 stages (as the page already looks finalised, at least on the desktop site), the fact that there are exactly five gaps in the collage just comes out as stronger evidence because:
- It matches up exactly with CoroCoro's stage number.
- The number perfectly fits the current stage select screen (especially when considering the DLC button).
Again, I think the number is too specific and works too well with the evidence we have for it to be a typo or mistake.
Total ≠ final. Also, doesn't specifically pointing out the "we have exactly 100" line go against the first argument that Smash never has perfect numbers? I'm sure Sakurai just found it neat that he was able to say there were 100 stages, there isn't really any other reason for removing the Smash series stages from the total. I doubt they decided on 100 + 3 stages specifically at the start of development.
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There'll be no direct until the day of the game releases just to spite the fanbase.
I always figured the missing space on the stage select was going to be for new stages, plus a button for DLC stages and one for Custom stages (should that still be in). No reason not to center that bottom row, especially after all the precedent the other games set.
It's more for convenience so you won't have to go all the way up or all the way down to access the DLC stages.
What I hated was that the tab and the arrow were in opposite directions
"Extra" is the tab to the left, but the arrow is pointed right...
hype will be back when we see crazy unexpected things (in general stuff, not just roster)!!
What's the over/under on Dragalia Lost stuff making it as DLC? Sakurai already used Corrin to promote a new release for 4, so I imagine that, if the game is successful, we could get a character.
I'd be content with Daoko music at least.
I'd be content with Daoko music at least.
Oh, well I guess it would make more sense for Smash Ultimate's stage select screen.
if it was only one of the CSS design, the Famtisu article, or the website spacing that pointed to 108, I wouldn't think much of it
if it were only two of those, it could still easily be a coincidence
but all three? that's a different matter
if it were only two of those, it could still easily be a coincidence
but all three? that's a different matter
Next to none, unless it blows up into gran blue esque popularity AND is Smash gets dlc for 2-3 years.
there's well over a few hours of gameplay on youtube, that's as concrete as it gets
Between ARMS, Xenoblade 2, FE: Three Houses, & Pokémon Gen 8, I'm not sure if we'll get someone from Dragalia Lost as DLC if the other picks end up being third party. With that said, I could see Three Houses & Gen 8 being passed up due to the sheer amount of Fire Emblem & Pokémon characters we already have (& that's not even counting the possibility of us getting Incineroar). There's also the fact that Sakurai may want to wait until Dragalia Lost proves to be successful to add a rep from that game. And if they go the season pass route, they'll likely lock in the characters for said season pass before the numbers come out.
since they're totally fine with having a huge ass screen of stages I wouldn't be surprsied if there isn't a DLC button this time around and instead htey just make a new row. Or column!
though again if they do a second page please just let us manual edit the SSS to our desire.
though again if they do a second page please just let us manual edit the SSS to our desire.
One of my most wanted features would be to manually rearrange the character select and stage select. I'm going to do it anyway when modders crack the game open, so they might as well let me do it in the game itself.
Only one version to support, so I expect to last longer and/or be more frequent.
You could tell by the end of Smash 4 DLC that the 3DS was seriously dragging them down. Midgar and Clock Tower are pretty ugly on the 3DS and the audio quality of the last few DLC characters (on the 3DS) was atrocious.
I do think he might be a DLC character timed for a remaster.
the stage select is just...so big....I think even Sakurai noted how intimidating it was in a famitsu column*. Being able to shuffle half of them to another page would be pretty nice. Or banish the ones I hate to the shadow realm.
At the very least I'm guessing we'll be able to sort stages (& characters) by series.
*I'd check sourcegaming but they're still down. so i might be totally misremembering
I think it's unlikely due to it being a new series. A new entry in an established franchise isn't really the same as an unproven game that might not last long.
Switch is also in a much earlier state of it's life compared to the Wii U/3DS.
I'd say it's possible but unlikely. Sakurai usually doesn't add in games until they have at least moderate success and get sequels to become series. Pretty much the only exceptions are the retro series and Xenoblade, but even that had a sequel in development at the time.
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And yet people expect Spring Man
By the time dlc starts getting planend in earnest, it's possible they'll have a better grasp of Dragalia Lost's sucess. Consistent profits on a game that will be supported forever (Heroes) vs very upfront followed by failure (miitomo) type of deal.
If it trends more towards Heroes I could easily see DL getting someone.
I supported Excitebiker before E3, but now i'm not sure if we'll even get a proper retro character (unless Geno counts as one; Sakurai did refer to him as an "old character" in that Famitsu article)
I think Dragalia Lost would get something in a Season 2 rather than 1. They already have enough material to work with on in between the break off period with games like ARMS, Xenoblade 2, and Fire Emblem Heroes being big candidates. Also other characters that did well in the ballot, and third parties. It's kind of why I'm not expecting a Gen 8, or Three Houses rep for Season 1.
I don't think they will make seasons. It will be a random drop of a new character every once in a while like it was in Smash 4.
What's funny is that it very well could just be a bunch of coincidences coming together. If the number had been 106 instead of 108, we could likely find similar reasoning that the magazine leaked 3 stages: the last row on the website has 3, they could put another 3 even with that at the bottom of the page and there's plenty of room for 3 more stages and 2 buttons- one for DLC and one to change into Omega/Battlefield. It's not hard to come up with reasoning when we want something to be true.
And in the context of the Smash video, he is comparing the totals of other games to the total of Smash Ultimate. In this context- the total of stages in those games does equal final. It very well could have been planned to do 100 of the most popular stages from the beginning- especially considering the game looks to be heavily based on Smash Wii U and appears to be missing stages from the game.
Results of stage strawpoll. Castlevania has the best of the four new stages! It's the darkest of the four!
Dracula's Castle Tower - 29 votes
Moray Towers - 9 votes
unannounced tower - 8 votes
New Donk City Hall Tower - 6 votes
Great Plateau Tower - 5 votes
unannounced non-tower - 5 votes
Dracula's Castle Tower - 29 votes
Moray Towers - 9 votes
unannounced tower - 8 votes
New Donk City Hall Tower - 6 votes
Great Plateau Tower - 5 votes
unannounced non-tower - 5 votes
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I reallllly hope that we would get something new soon.
Yeah, it would be awesome if they could just leave it to tabs only so we could get one more stage on top of it.
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I hope we do get Excitebiker instead of Geno.
I've always seen these kind of picks as more secret, hidden NES-or-older-era characters than just "old" picks like Geno.
For instance, I consider Melee's retro pick to be G&W instead of Ice Climbers even though the latter are from NES, because G&W was both harder to get, more secret and more obscure. Same thing with Brawl: Even though there's Pit to represent NES, I still think ROB fits that job better.
In the end of the day it's more about how hard and how much secret the character is instead of his console influence. Both Little Mac and Duck Hunt are from NES but in Smash 4 it is clear that Duck Hunt is *the* secret retro newcomer since he's not unlocked from the start and is the last one in order.
I'm wishing that the news for this game was shifted a bit, with March not existing and the teaser being in June, with the blow-out in August and continuing onward from there. That way we'd have a more condensed-timeline featuring an onslaught of information.
I'm still thinking we'll get something in early October.
Like looking at the content we have in the game so far you would think they would have plenty to talk about and keep in the public conscience for 6 months. That's why I think the idea of not having anything in October is a little absurd. Typically you try to ramp up in the coming months and considering we're already 2 months since the last blowout with the only things in between was a character and hardware bundle announcement.
We'll get something new in October whether it'd be a fighter, new build with new characters that the press can play, or something else entirely but they're not going to be silent until November that I'm confident on.
The issue is simply that the blog sucks. Just a funny or flippant comment with each update would have been enough.
I don't really think that it's plausible that all of these sources coincidentally reach the exact same number of stages. If CoroCoro had any other number the evidence wouldn't be as strong; it comes together so well with 108.
Also I have two tiny nitpicks that I just want to point out:
- The Omega/Battlefield toggle is tied to the X-Button and has an icon on the stage select screen already; no-one would argue that there would be a separate button for it. Custom Stages would be a better argument (or just saying that the DLC button would be longer, like in the 3DS version)
- It would be pretty arrogant of Sakurai to consider Great Plateau Tower, New Donk City Hall, Moray Towers and Dracula's Castle "popular" stages before they were even revealed lol.
Like I said before, I'm expecting 1.5-2 years of DLC, slightly more than what Smash Wii U/3DS got. Any extra time could be put towards new assist trophies, items, stages, & incorporating new games/franchises into Spirits (whatever that entails).
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