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Amazon leaked Game Board Mode and Stage Builder for Super Smash Bros U.

random25

Member
If the stage builder is feature-heavy this time around, I can see it being used to create "official" tourney stages. With the Wii U gamepad, it really has the potential to be big and very utilized.
 
In for game board mode, hopefully it will have online, since I don't have any nearby friends to just pick up and play most of the time, I need to go to their houses and etc.
 

jmizzal

Member
NO AMAZON, don't leak this awesome features god damn it!! I wanted to be genuinely surprised and everythingg whatever Nintendo was supposed to announce this ;__;. Ahh but if this is true then GOTY omg. Stage Builder has to be way better than the one in Brawl and if it has sharing online compability... HNNNGGHH, the possibilities!

You could share stages on the Wii version, I hope let you play custom stages with friends on this one
 
I'm excited for Stage Builder, if only because it means I can have more steel cage matches where everybody survives to ludicrous percents and bounces around the arena at the slightest touch.

The game board mode sounds pretty interesting, I wonder how they'll work it into normal Smash gameplay.

My favorite thing to do in stage builder was make walled-off boxes with only one block missing for an exit, then crank up the damage % and have matches where you had to launch the other players directly out of that hole to win. If I can do that on the Wii U I'll be satisfied!
 

EulaCapra

Member
More Smash World/board game mode rumors incoming. Surprised no rumors took a stab at the board game aspects.

Curious at the lack of 3DS connectivity mentions...
 

ec0ec0

Member
There is no "normal" Smash that I know of. Game has many options.

I agree with this statment. There isnt any "official" way of playing smash. Still, i think that making a distinction, that we can all understand, helps to explain myself.

We dont need strict definitions. The "normal" side would be the basic concept of smash when it was created: characters are in a stage (a setting that does not interfere much with the players... This depends on the stage) and they have to throw the other off the stage. The "chaotic" side would be the items that help the players archive that goal (to throw the other off stage) and, well, aparently the stages now have to work more like crazy items than stages now (just look at the 3ds version). Like you can see, both "sides" work together because, in reality there only one. I just talked about separated "sides" because it was helpfull to explain what i was trying to say.

Like i have already said. Smash only works when theres a balance between both sides And it seemds that you agree with my about the "chaotic" side interfering to much with the player in the 3ds version.
 

KingSnake

The Birthday Skeleton
I'd wait. Another price drop or better bundle is surely on the horizon given how poorly it is selling.

Look, it's the consumer police!

I'm sure that if you want to play SSB is better to wait until everyone has already played it to get enough experience, so you have tougher challenge.
 

Gleethor

Member
you see, its not me. Some people make it sound like i am talking nonsense.

You can turn specific items off in the 3ds version and I would bet money that frequency options will be present in the Wii U version. You could even turn them off entirely if you want.

I'm still not entirely sure what your issue is, you came in here lamenting about how smash is all minigames or something, and when it was pointed out to you that the core game is still very much the main focus and main draw of smash 4, you changed the subject to items and stages and normal vs chaotic. But I don't see how more modes is a bad thing just because they may have non-traditional smash elements involved.

I understand that you feel there may be too much "chaotic" content in smash, but they really shouldn't place arbitrary limits on themselves and go "ok we have this many normal modes so we can only have this many chaotic modes". Like what would you even suggest they add for "normal" content, beyond the myriad of characters and stages that we're getting? You're getting traditional smash, you're getting Tourney as well as "official Tourney", event matches, 1 on 1 online modes. Nothing is getting "cut" in favor of this extra shit (on the Wii U version, anyway) and I guarantee modes like Smash World and Smash Run took less time to implement than the entirety of the SSE.

I get that maybe you and other smash players perhaps feel that you are being marginalized and alienated by content that doesn't explicitly appeal to you, but you already know that you are not the only audience for this game and you are not even close to the primary audience. An extra board game on the side isn't going to kill anyone or dilute the main smash experience, its just a (hopefully) fun little mode to fuck around in with some (perhaps intoxicated) friends. Oh and a stage builder actually means that you can make your own traditional style stages if you think there are too many gimmick stages, so that's definitely a positive.
 

Neiteio

Member
So for the board game mode, I'm picturing a Mario Party-style format where you roll the dice and proceed a number of squares with the goal of reaching some collectible, and after everyone has moved you proceed to a special event like the ones at the end of Smash Run, I.E. High-Launch Smash, Flower Smash, Race to the Finish, Climb, etc. And I'm quite excited by this idea.

But where's the mention of eight-player mode? Hopefully that part still pans out. I really want this game to support eight players! I'm already dreaming up a house party that takes advantage of it, and it'd help justify the GCN adapter for me (since as it stands, I'm fine with the GamePad and Pro Controller).

We really need a Nintendo Direct detailing all of these new modes. Also, even though they're known now, let's see newcomer trailers for these two:

ssb-mypic12027u2g.jpg


("Dog Eat Dog," from recent update of nearly 30 screens -- please share your own at the link!)
 

Neiteio

Member
So Board game mode should replace Smash Run, and the Master/Crazy Hand Mission will probably replace Challenges then?
Not sure about that. I suspect Smash World is the adventure mode equivalent, since in French it's called "Odyssey Smash." Master Side and Crazy Side might be two types of Event Mode, rather than Challenge Boards. And the board game mode is something else entirely. What I really want confirmed is eight-player mode. Man, I want a Direct so bad...
 
Glad to hear the level builder is back. Loved the shit out of it in brawl. I'm really hoping there is a robust system set up to share stages with people, and not just people on your friends list.
 

Neiteio

Member
I remember I made a stage in Brawl called "Smashturbation" -- a phallic-shaped silo you fought inside of until you pinballed out the hole at the top. I submitted it to Nintendo. I thought that my lewdness had cost us the Stage Builder, much how like people's up-skirt shots of Peach, etc., resulted in them putting a universe under Rosalina's dress.

Glad to see I was wrong and it's coming back!
 

Zomba13

Member
Glad to hear the level builder is back. Loved the shit out of it in brawl. I'm really hoping there is a robust system set up to share stages with people, and not just people on your friends list.

In an ideal world we would get a competent editor with all the previous blocks and platforms plus some new ones and be able to change the background and use any tile-set from other stages and then be able to upload them online and see our friends stages, see the most popular, highest rated etc. Bonus points if they generate QR codes for easy online sharing (just scan with the Wii U pad or something. I dunno).

In a Nintendo world I expect we'll get Brawls editor but with nicer textures/models for the bits with no sharing.
 

MNC

Member
So for the board game mode, I'm picturing a Mario Party-style format where you roll the dice and proceed a number of squares with the goal of reaching some collectible, and after everyone has moved you proceed to a special event like the ones at the end of Smash Run, I.E. High-Launch Smash, Flower Smash, Race to the Finish, Climb, etc. And I'm quite excited by this idea.

But where's the mention of eight-player mode? Hopefully that part still pans out. I really want this game to support eight players! I'm already dreaming up a house party that takes advantage of it, and it'd help justify the GCN adapter for me (since as it stands, I'm fine with the GamePad and Pro Controller).

We really need a Nintendo Direct detailing all of these new modes. Also, even though they're known now, let's see newcomer trailers for these two:

ssb-mypic12027u2g.jpg


("Dog Eat Dog," from recent update of nearly 30 screens -- please share your own at the link!)
You mean Doggy Dog? I mean who would live in a world where dogs eat eachother.
 

Akai

Member
I enjoyed the Stage Builder despite its limitations, and I'm sure that this game's version will expand upon it. The first thing I'll do is definitely recreate these two stages of mine; so many memories.

KN0DBE6.jpg


duVo4rE.jpg
 

Kai Dracon

Writing a dinosaur space opera symphony
Board game mode reaaaally sounds like a way to use Amiibos, it's almost too obvious.

As far as the hands go, it would be pretty funny if you had a challenge mode where Master Hand and Crazy Hand literally throw shit at you to fight and keep it coming.
 

Illucio

Banned
Stage builder? That's all the reason I need to buy Smash for the Wii U (even though I was already planning on getting it anyways...)
 

Azuran

Banned
Apparently Nintendo learnt from Konami how to sell a 40-dollar demo

I read a lot of complains about the 3DS version, but this is the one I can't stand the most. Man, demos most have come a long way for me to put over 80+ hours into one. I guess 50+ characters, tons of stages and items, and full on online features means nothing, eh? Does this mean Super Mario 3D Land is a 40-dollar demo as well because it only has half of the features of Super Mario 3D World?
 

georly

Member
Burning up the village
Burning up the peasants
Trogdor!!!!!!!!

Unfortunately, thanks to project M, it's gone from my Wii. I'll do my best to recreate it for smash 4... but it wasn't a fun level to actually play on.

Neither was my dr. Mario level, since fights would last til about 700% each stock, since knocking someone out of the bottle was nearly impossible unless you had a smash attack that hit 100% vertical.
 

rekameohs

Banned
Unfortunately, thanks to project M, it's gone from my Wii. I'll do my best to recreate it for smash 4... but it wasn't a fun level to actually play on.

Neither was my dr. Mario level, since fights would last til about 700% each stock, since knocking someone out of the bottle was nearly impossible unless you had a smash attack that hit 100% vertical.

Why'd you completely remove it? You need to remove custom stages to run the Smash Stack exploit, sure, but you can move them to an SD, have a separate SD run the exploit, and then put everything back. And then there's a patch you can add to PM to put back in all of your custom stages! So I've made several - there's still a few good things you can do in Brawl's Stage Builder, and I've saved them all.
 
Unfortunately, thanks to project M, it's gone from my Wii. I'll do my best to recreate it for smash 4... but it wasn't a fun level to actually play on.

Neither was my dr. Mario level, since fights would last til about 700% each stock, since knocking someone out of the bottle was nearly impossible unless you had a smash attack that hit 100% vertical.

That's insane lol.
 
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