New Ninty Direct

RobbingBandit · 06-08-2018 12:46pm

Amiibos and lots of em with new hats and stuff...

Grassey · 06-08-2018 12:47pm

nairy hipples wrote:

New Smash Bros Direct announced at Evo for this Thursday 8/8. New game info apparently!

8 / 8... Every character so far revealed now replaced with octolings!

Corholio · 06-08-2018 12:55pm

They are promoting their biggest game this year, if it was Metroid people wouldn't bat an eyelid, a game that wouldn't sell anything like Smash. Fighting games are divisive in their nature anyway, especially modern ones. A Direct for Smash Ultimate is about as expected as anything could be, it doesn't take the place of another Direct or anything, which is also rumoured for the coming weeks.

CiDeRmAn · 06-08-2018 4:00pm

Grassey wrote: »

8 / 8... Every character so far revealed now replaced with octolings!

That I would buy...

CastorTroy · 06-08-2018 4:21pm

While not a Smash player, I admit I do like the character reveals, especially if big surprises like Cloud or Bayonetta

manual_man · 06-08-2018 10:27pm

super_furry wrote: »

Nintendo’s entire E3 felt like a Smash Bros Direct. Short of going through the game’s code, I don’t think they can go anymore in depth.

E3 was a fail for me for this very reason. Needed to distribute the focus more widely to include other titles. A lot of people are frankly not interested in Smash and it's an insult to us. 3rd parties on Switch probably miffed too and you wouldn't blame them. It all came across as the out-of-touch Nintendo of old rearing it's head again. In fairness, Nintendo has done a lot right over the last couple of years, but all this Smash Bros stuff smacks frankly of a bit of laziness and if one thing threatens Nintendo Success it's complacency on Nintendo's part. They need to keep the foot on the pedal, keep promoting and encouraging 3rd parties and indie devs, as well as their own stuff (just tone down the Smash promo!).

CiDeRmAn · 07-08-2018 6:39am

Maybe, with the system selling well they figure they can be so single minded, but it's a problem for me, when I want to see what else is on the way.

earthwormjack · 07-08-2018 11:01am

There's nothing to suggest another Direct isn't around the corner. Nintendo have always had single game focused Directs followed by another one for multiple games shortly after. It's nothing new.

Hopefully that's the case this time as well.

Corholio · 07-08-2018 2:29pm

I don't see how it's single minded to have a Direct for their biggest game of the year. These Directs don't 'replace' a third party Direct or anything like that. I love the promotion of another Smash game and all that comes with it. The E3 segment ran a bit long alright but it's a taste thing at the end of the day. Several 'insiders' have said they know of things that Nintendo are sitting on, and they thought might have been announced at E3. Before the end of this year I'm sure there will be a few more surprises.

RobertFoster · 07-08-2018 3:56pm

I felt the E3 segment was more than a bit long tbh. It was as interesting as having patch notes read to you.

Corholio · 08-08-2018 2:47pm

Looks like Simon Belmont as a new fighter may have got leaked via audio tracks on one of Nintendo's online videos. It features music from Castlevania II. It'll be interesting to see what is added as Sakurai already said there won't be too many new fighters due to the sheer number of the roster already.

A lot of it will just be an overview of new weapons, assist trophies, stages etc I would say. I know some don't like that :P

Ace Attorney · 08-08-2018 2:51pm

This is at 3 our time right?

chrislad · 08-08-2018 3:00pm

And we are live.

Corholio · 08-08-2018 3:02pm

And there he is, Simon Belmont.

....and Richter!

Corholio · 08-08-2018 3:08pm

Chrom and Dark Samus are new Echo Fighters.

chrislad · 08-08-2018 3:13pm

300 stage variations, and morph look pretty good.

Corholio · 08-08-2018 3:15pm

New Donk City Hall is a new stage.

103 stages in the game overall. Able to switch between 'Battlefield' and 'Omega' form.

New option 'Stage Morph'. Stages can morph into a completely different one during the fight.

More than 800 music tracks in the game.

Corholio · 08-08-2018 3:19pm

New Battle modes: Squad Strike, Tourney, Smashdown.

New Training mode with measurement grid.

New single player mode, 'Classic Mode'.

Corholio · 08-08-2018 3:26pm

Shovel Knight, Grey Fox, Krystal and Rathalos (!) are assist trophies. Rathalos can show up as a boss as well.

A mysterious mode in the main menu that they can't talk about yet. Hmm.

King K.Rool announced as the final surprise fighter.

Phew. What a Direct that was. Sakurai went to the ends for this one. The K.Rool misdirect with Dedede was an amazing reveal.

Corholio · 08-08-2018 8:36pm

Internet sleuths, as they do, may have figured out the blurred name of the mystery mode in the Smash main menu shown in the Direct today.

Apparently it says 'Spirits'. This has also been worked out to the same word in the Japanese lettering in their Direct. Will be interesting to see what it is.

CastorTroy · 08-08-2018 9:04pm

They killed Luigi!!! They sacrificed him to promote Simon. After killing Mario to promote Ridley. Nintendo aren't playing this time around.

After the trick with the banner adding characters, I'm sure people will start coming up with fakes and theories.

Think they'll include Travis Touchdown as an Assist trophy at least?

WeleaseWoderick · 08-08-2018 10:45pm

Had no real interest in Smash after E3 but that Direct has won me over.

I spent very little time with the Wii U game due to the lack of a decent single player mode so hoping for something akin to the Wii's adventure mode to be announced at a later date.

That music test section alone is a dream for a Nintendo fan!