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[Prpl_Mage]

Okay so stupid just reached a new level. Steam is selling DLC for RPGM VX for stupid amounts of money. For example the RPG Maker: Rural Farm Tiles Resource Pack for 28€ (now only 17)

Also, apparently FTL will be updated in a few days.

[Prpl_Mage]

Okay Smash bros had an entire Nintendo direct thing an hour ago or such.

Yoshi is back and there's going to be a few changes between the 3ds and Wii u games.
Also, release date is Summer for 3ds and Winter for Wii u version.

New fighters are Charizard, Shiek and Zero suit samus. This time without shape shifting forms. And completely new is Greninja (yeah, the water starter from latest generation who uses its' tongue as a scarf)

[oooog]

I was pretty impressed by this presentation.  Greninja was a pleasant surprise from left field, and I'm psyched for the custom moveset builds you can do.

However, I was hyped when I saw the absence of Isaac (Golden Sun) as a returning assist trophy and promptly disappointed with his lack of announcement.  The same could be said when I saw a Fire Emblem stage out of Awakening and no confirmation of (For the sake of any who haven't played and don't want to look up this character, don't click.  Though the act of placing a spoiler should make this character obvious for those who have played.) [spoiler]Lucina[/spoiler] or Chrom.  I'm just a little concerned that with such a close release of the game we won't see too many newcomers.  I mean for crying out loud we don't even have Captain Falcon or a Mother representative announced yet leaving the roster looking slim.  I would also be lying that I wasn't a little disappointed when what I thought was Mewtwo turned out to be Greninja, but I'll get passed that.  Long live ninja frog.

EDIT: I'm also a little disappointed that Charizard is going solo resulting in a loss of a Grass representative.  Not to mention of the original trio, Squirtle was my boy.

[Prpl_Mage]

It wouldn't surprise me if Lucina is an optional look, seeing how Wii fitness trainer sports 2 different models.

And screw mother and captain falcon. There's no Dorf in yet. But seeing how they could announce 5 characters in one day, I still hope that they will come to their senses.
My fear is that they are narrowing down on the characters because they want to release the 3ds version to be identical to the Wii U version. So in order to save space / make it possible, they might cut down on that.

[Archem]

That's a legitimate fear, and I hope it's a load of nonsense.

Of course, they do have those 8 GB 3DS cards available. Maybe they would use those if space became an issue.

[oooog]

They did indeed release 5 characters in one day which is amazing to say the least.  However of those releases there was only one true newcomer.  The rest were returning characters with altered move sets which granted will have them play a little different.

I'm still hopeful of a 40+ roster when all is said and done, but not optimistic about it.  Perhaps they'll rectify that worry with DLC characters.  You know how Nintendo is trying to get in to that business after all.  I'll hate to have to pay for a complete roster, but I know I will.

[Felix-0]

They already said the roster will be smaller than SSBB. More balanced however.

[Razor]

Well I refuse to believe they would cut any of the core 12 (that is, the original SSB characters).
Falcon was one of the last announced characters for Brawl, IIRC. They really kept us waiting there.

[oooog]

I don't recall them ever saying they would have a smaller roster outright.  I could be and probably am mistaken, but I'm pretty sure the quote in question stated that because the game would be on the 3DS and Wii U both the roster couldn't be as large as they would like.  Or something to that effect.

In addition to that, there are only 29 revealed characters so far.  If I recall brawl had somewhere around 43 if you count Shiek, ZSS, and each Pokemon from the trainer as separate slots.  Still near 15 characters fewer and plenty of veterans missing.  I won't go back to a smash without G&W!  Okay I probably will.

I know there's still time before the release, September 2014 at the latest, but i don't foresee too many more character reveals before that point which worries me.  I'd like to see a few more newcomers before that point, but I would also like to see falcon and jigglypuff.

[Apex]

This is way too early to actually tell, but after watching the Greninja character looks like a clone of Lucario based on the video. (B-Move clone anyways.)

His water shuriken looks like it's a charge up blast like Lucario's B charge up move.

His counter move looks similar too. Blah. I hope I'm wrong.

[Prpl_Mage]

Oh to me it looked like a shiek clone with Wolf's idle pose, pikachus recovery move, yes lucarios counter but then the shuriken did seem more like Ivysaurs worthless leaf blade. Being angled in different directions.

[Felix-0]

This is way too early to actually tell, but after watching the Greninja character looks like a clone of Lucario based on the video. (B-Move clone anyways.)

His water shuriken looks like it's a charge up blast like Lucario's B charge up move.

His counter move looks similar too. Blah. I hope I'm wrong.

His counter is actually different, similar mechanic. But the animation and values for it will probably be very different.
His water shuriken looks like every Bcharge up move that has ever existed in the SSB series.

[Cerebus]

I miss Mewtwo.

[SaiKar]

I'd never heard of Greninja. It seems its the evoloved form of one of the X/Y starters. Okay? Is he, like, really popular in Japan or something? His design doesn't seem nearly as good as Mewtwo or Lucario's, so it feels like a totally random pick to me, adding to a game that already has a worrying saturation of Pokemon.

[Prpl_Mage]

Well I don't get how Lucario got in the game in the first place being all aura like and flying around. He's like the only Fighting / steel pokemon yes, but a totally common pokemon in the later games. Although Pikachu and jigglypuff never were any better. But that's because of the anime right? And it's hard to remove two veterans. Mewtwo is legendary so that's the ****, pokemon trainer only had starters from gen 1 so that's pretty cool. But, y'know, pokemon galore.

I expect them to add Youngster Joey or something instead of pokemon trainer sporting rattata, caterpie and pidgey.