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ARMS 2: What would you like to see, and what needs to change?
- Thread starter Forkball
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Be careful what you wish for. It could go either way in terms of quality when it comes to Nintendo voice acting.
Make ARMS not need to be collected. It's like Smash's custom moves but somehow significantly work.
Change the gameplay a bit drastically. The way grabbing, blocking, and regular punches interact in the game is not fun to me, and rewards defensive play far too much IMO.
Make Max Brass the main character
Change the gameplay a bit drastically. The way grabbing, blocking, and regular punches interact in the game is not fun to me, and rewards defensive play far too much IMO.
Arms is a pretty gimmicky game and it executes the premise perfectly fine, I doubt there is much room to expand on what's there.
And yet we have over 2 pages of ideas on how to improve the game in the sequel.
Trust me, I'd love to have great voice acting in ARMS 2. But given NoA's inconsistent track record, you can understand why I'm a bit hesitant to request it. Plus, as I already said in this thread...
I'd like just a teensy bit more in terms of character individuality, like each character should have some sort of class ability or modifier that sets them apart even further than what we've already seen in Arms 1. I think that despite all the different unique arms, this was actually something that made the game feel so barren to many, once you've learned one character there really isn't much to the others.
OP nails it in the first post.
Controls and content.
Motion controls felt better than buttons - but the lack of 1:1 still made it feel unresponsive, whilst character movement was tricky and inaccurate.
Nintendo usually nail controls, but ARMS was pretty much DOA for me.
I'd rather see another Wii Sports title fleshed into a full title: Tennis, Bowling or Golf game.
I don't think we'll see an ARMS 2 until next generation... if at all.
Controls and content.
Motion controls felt better than buttons - but the lack of 1:1 still made it feel unresponsive, whilst character movement was tricky and inaccurate.
Nintendo usually nail controls, but ARMS was pretty much DOA for me.
I'd rather see another Wii Sports title fleshed into a full title: Tennis, Bowling or Golf game.
I don't think we'll see an ARMS 2 until next generation... if at all.
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Given that the team is likely doing MK9 right now, ARMS 2 being an early Switch 2 title would make sense.
This.
Stuff like story mode, minigames, and other additions would be great. But they really should consider evolving the game so that character movement and aiming with ARMS is faster, more accurate and more satisfying.
It's really interesting seeing so many negative opinions. Makes me wonder how many of the roughly million and a half who bought the game even want a sequel.
I a world where ARMS sold 3 mill we would be getting Christmas costumes
I would ask for this too. Half of the fun in fighting games for me is feeling like you're pulling awesome stuff with flashy looking moves, but in ARMS the most awesome thing you can pull off is a 1-2 punch combo. That would go a long way in making the game entertaining to watch as an esport too.
-Story mode
-SP content
-bigger, more expansive levels with more gimmicks in them
-expanded MP modes and improved teamplay (that tether can fuck off)
-ARMS Royale ;)
*I love ARMS.
-SP content
-bigger, more expansive levels with more gimmicks in them
-expanded MP modes and improved teamplay (that tether can fuck off)
-ARMS Royale ;)
*I love ARMS.
I'd love to see an adventure style beat em up story mode with voice acting. Like imagine exploring various locations with combat. What you'd do is make maneuvering them traditional like a 3rd person adventure game with regular movements, momentum, jumping, etc., then z target to go into "combat mode" where the maneuvers are similar to regular ARMS battle movement. Think how Zelda switched maneuvering when going into combat mode for battles. You get the best of both worlds
Unfortunately prob not gonna happen but I would love this.
Maybe like a Splatoon style single player mode. Show off what some of these ARMS fighters could really do if they were let loose.
Main thing I want is more meaningful single player content. A story mode would be great, and animated cut scenes before and after each character when you play arcade mode would be nice. Multiplayer was very solid, not much I would change on that front.
I see someone bumped this thread. Either way, it gives a great opportunity to revisit my requests from before.
- We actually did end up getting both Tournament Mode & the ability to view the stats of others, so good job EPD Kyoto on those fronts.
- We also ended up getting a replay channel, albeit for tournament matches. Hopefully this is expanded to actual online matches in the sequel.
- While not an intro animation, Dr. Coyle did bring character-specific post-match quotes with her, so that's a step in the right direction.
- Thinking back to my Adventure Mode request, I feel like they could do something along the lines of World of Light in Smash Ultimate, where you go through a map fighting others with the occasional cutscene. That'd probably be better than what I suggested originally.
- As for my EX Move request, I'd remap the Rush super command to either a separate button or pushing both Rush buttons at the same time, while a different button (or just one Rush button) in conjunction with a punch would trigger the EX Punch.
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I don't think there's anything they could change or add to get me interested in a sequel. The core gameplay just wasn't appealing to me.
