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Nintendo to host "Smash Bros. Invitational" at E3
- Thread starter Red Rudolph
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Get the fuck out of here.
TDLink
Member
I doubt it. They don't have to unlock all of the characters to have a tournament for the game. We already know 29. I am sure one is going to get revealed in May. I am sure E3 will reveal at least 3 or more as well. 30 something characters to choose from is enough for a tournament...I just hope some of the competitors choose some of the new characters so we can start to see their stuff rather than just stick with veterans they might main from past titles.
Sorry for being realistic.
Get the fuck out of here.
While I dont think the game will be bad, the tournament might be bad if the players dont have enough time to learn the new mechanics. Can you imagine melee players going for edgeguards in this new eviroment? The trump mechanic will throw them off really bad.
MagiusNecros
Gilgamesh Fan Annoyance
I was one of those 3.
If the Wii U was somewhat successful, I could see them doing it, but with its dismal sales it's more likely they'll just fall back on the CPP than invest in another specialized controller.
TheGreatMightyPoo
Banned
Hardcore.
Stop. Just fucking stop right here.
That fucking con artist has nothing to do with these announcements. He's been saying the same fucking thing for three years now and just because Nintendo decides to actually do something this year doesn't mean he knew anything about it.
The less people think he's relevant the sooner he disappears and stops screwing over more young players.
I think the Melee hype from EVO last year got to him.
And I wouldn't be surprised if the Top 16 from said tournament are the ones who are invited to compete.
Don't botch this Nintendo. Get M2K, Mango, Hungrybox, PP, Armada, and Leffen there and get the top talent from Cali and EC on it (such as people like SFAT, PewPewU, The Moon, DJ Nintendo, etc. etc.)
And the announcers better be prog and D1. On a side note: I truly wonder if this was the thing D1 was... working behind the scenes to show Nintendo the good sides of the community... he polled the community for good articles about the scene and other stuff to send to someone at Nintendo.
And you know what's amazing? Nintendo adopted one of the lingos/terms the scene uses for get togethers to play Smash for hours: Smashfest. That's just awesome.
And the announcers better be prog and D1. On a side note: I truly wonder if this was the thing D1 was... working behind the scenes to show Nintendo the good sides of the community... he polled the community for good articles about the scene and other stuff to send to someone at Nintendo.
And you know what's amazing? Nintendo adopted one of the lingos/terms the scene uses for get togethers to play Smash for hours: Smashfest. That's just awesome.
PadWarrior
Member
Hope my best buy participates.
B-but the empire!
chickdigger802
Banned
really curious if this game had any playtesting from competitive folks. Don't many fighters do that these days?
anotherVegan
Member
So I suppose I will be camping out at Best Buy.
Pretty sure this is a smash4 tournament, not a melee tournament. So they need n64 and brawl players too.
Edit: Oh and iirc prog teased an announcement for the end of the month, and I'm pretty sure it wasnt about Shroomed sponsorship
Assuming you mean the Classic Controller Pro, you do realize that the Pro Controller exists. They could easily just make a wired USB variant of that.
But those are the most known top players of any Smash game. Melee also has been on the rise, I can't imagine Nintendo wouldn't capitalize on that and focus purely on the players from Melee to play Smash 4.
We'll see though. It would be cool to have Zer0, Ally, Tyrant, or Nairo in it.
Not sure why this thread hasn't devolved into guesses/lists yet.
M2K
Dr PP
Mango
Hungrybox
Hax
Fiction
Isai
Ken
Korean DJ
Chillindude
Zero
Nairo
ADHD
Ally
Tyrant
ESAM
Left out Armada/Leffen/Amsa just since they aren't already in the US. I could just as well see Nintendo shying away from Melee players, or picking an upcoming Melee/Brawl tournament as a qualifier, instead of handpicking.
M2K
Dr PP
Mango
Hungrybox
Hax
Fiction
Isai
Ken
Korean DJ
Chillindude
Zero
Nairo
ADHD
Ally
Tyrant
ESAM
Left out Armada/Leffen/Amsa just since they aren't already in the US. I could just as well see Nintendo shying away from Melee players, or picking an upcoming Melee/Brawl tournament as a qualifier, instead of handpicking.
Hibiki Kurosawa
Member
Finally Nintendo mentions what they're doing this E3 and in a delightful Mega64 video too! Super excited for this!
I was thinking about getting Isai and 1 more from 64, 4 or 5 from Brawl and the rest from Melee. The biggest scene is melee, so it makes sense to get more players from that, but it doenst make sense to not get any player from other games.
Senor Kami
Banned
Hopefully the new Smash Brothers ends up being embraced by fans so that the most popular Smash games on the tournament scene aren't a Gamecube title and hacked Wii game.
InsaneZero
Member
That's typically how an invitational event works. You have a few invited participants, and allow people to watch them play.
IntelliHeath
As in "Heathcliff"
Well, how do you feel if they decided to go with Video Game Journalism' highly skilled players?
I hope that they would ask good miss of 64, Melee and Brawl players, so we can see their opinions. Variable players meant different opinions.
PadWarrior
Member
Agreed
HawthorneKitty
Sgt. 2nd Class in the Creep Battalion, Waifu Wars
Yoooooooooo
Alcotholic
Banned
Hmm... I'd figure the Wii U Pro Controller would do just nice.
foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
awwww yeeeahhhh im in, no question, requesting day off for june 10th
D
Deleted member 13876
Unconfirmed Member
This makes entirely too much sense.
I think people will be disappointed if they're expecting a Melee. It won't be competitive like that.
Starwolf_UK
Member
Interesting. So no traditional conference but they are still at the nokia theatre for a live event.
I'd like to know too as I thought in the past this was tried with some games but all that happened is the competitive players kept knowledge of the exploits they found to themselves to use in tournaments rather than disclose this to the developers.
That's up to Sakurai. If a 10 year old game or a hack of game keep stealing the spotlight, than it's up to the dev to show "Why you should be playing this new game." If he answers with no real reason, this is going to keep happening.
Holy Order Sol
Member
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Players should just play what they want to play, and "cuz it's new" isn't reason enough.
It hasn't. No competitive players have been asked to playtest the game or help give any feedback at all.
I really hope the rules are based on what the competitive community uses. It would be hard to get them to come out if all items and all stages are on (see: EVO 2008). You might get some that are desperate enough to play Smash 4 but if it's a tournament ran with items on I don't know how seriously people like Mango or Dr. PP would take it -- M2K probably would go regardless to get data on the game period but people like Mango and PP? I don't know.
Really hope they've done their research and understand what this invitational needs in order to be a success.
honest question: how do you know? Maybe that work is being done in Japan.