Smash 4 NOT-character discussion

[BeamClaws]

No, not saffron, just make a completely new city stage

[Manspeed]

The only other city stage is Fourside. Personally I'd like to see Big Ape City from Donkey Kong Land, but Koopaul's list is pretty decent.

Ideally, I'd prefer if we'd just take all the themes used in SSB and Melee and make new stages out of them, but that could be a bit restricting.

[BeamClaws]

I think all stages from previous games should be used. Of course, that means less new ones.

[Manspeed]

I'd rather have few old ones and more new ones.

Then again, if they just go and recycle the old stages it may give them more time to work on other things within the game. Hmm...

[Arcadenik]

I'd like at least 12-18 past stages from SSB, Melee, and Brawl. 4 stages each if 12 stages, 5 stages each if 15 stages, or 6 stages if 18 stages. And maybe 36 brand new stages.

Anyone give a thought about stickers? Should they stay or go? Personally I'd like them to go... or at least give me a more organized sticker album.

[Koopaul]

I'd combine the Chronicles with Stickers. Instead of having a mere list of games, you get the boxart, 2 screens, and a description. All four of those things come in seperate peices known as Cards. You collect the Cards just like you would Stickers. When you collect one card for a game, that game is added to your Chronicles list in grey. When you finally get all four peices it will be highlighted blue and feature extra information like number of players and genre.

[Sqrt2]

Feb 25, 2009 22:41:57 GMT -5 Koopaul said:

I'd combine the Chronicles with Stickers. Instead of having a mere list of games, you get the boxart, 2 screens, and a description. All four of those things come in seperate pieces known as Cards. You collect the Cards just like you would Stickers. When you collect one card for a game, that game is added to your Chronicles list in grey. When you finally get all four peices it will be highlighted blue and feature extra information like number of players and genre.

Is this really necessary? I'm having a hard enough time to get all the stickers as it is... This would be a total nightmare! On Brawl, I've only managed to get 400-odd of the 700 stickers in the game so far... Wouldn't it be better to have it so that you get all the info on the game (# of players, genre, etc) when the game is added to the Chronicles section?

Also, I'd like to be able to do something with all the doubles of trophies ~ like maybe be able toexchange them for coins, for use in Adventure/Classic/All-Star.

[Koopaul]

Hm, I must've not been clear enough. I shoulda said there wouldn't be Stickers at all. Right, no Stickers. Instead, dozens of Stickers are replaced by pieces of detailed Chronicles.

Like your fighting, then a card falls onto the stage. You grab it and BAM! You got a new addition to your Chronicle. However when you go and look at that new game on your list you notice there are three blank spots, that's right you can keep collecting for that Chronicle, find the Boxart and the two screenshots for it. Once you have all those pieces, the game on your list will feature a short description.

[Arcadenik]

You know... I have collected all the CDs in Brawl but I miss seeing them appear. It was fun picking them up to see what song I got. So I thought of this, why not pick up CDs to change the stage music? You know how many stages have different songs but play only one song in a match in Brawl... so what if picking up a CD would randomly change the song? So, you are always guessing what the CD is - a brand new song for My Music or a change in the stage music?

[BeamClaws]

Ehhhhhhhhhhhh......... no. If you wanted to change the music, you wouldn't have been setting the music's likelyhood to appear.

I just say we should have downloadable songs that would then be unlocked, and we should start out with 500+ songs and we should be able to set different songs to different stages.

[Arcadenik]

I seriously hope there's no downloadable content in SSB4. I want a complete game, not an incomplete game that could be completed when you download stuff into it.

500+ songs?? I don't think Nintendo has that many songs... and some songs could be remixed together.

[Manspeed]

Brawl has over 500 songs.

...and...downloadable content can be a good thing if they don't intentionally release the game in a half-finished state in an attempt to get more money out of us.

[Arcadenik]

Why is having downloadable content necessary anyway?

[Manspeed]

It's not necessary, but it's nice to have if we want them to update the game over time.

[Arcadenik]

Yeah, good to have downloadable content to fix glitches and to share custom stages and custom characters (using Miis), but not extra characters, stages, items, etc. That's a whole new game and thus eliminating the need of a new SSB game. My two cents.