Hey kids!

wOOO HOOOO. sO AWESOME I HAVE TO TYPE IN CAPLOCK!

ELBOW.

FUCKING WIN.

I must be old or something, not having to deal with being called a fag from a random 12 year old seems to be a GOOD thing.

@rockvillain

yeah, I just started thinking that.

Forget my earlier comment. It's probably a good thing you can't talk to other people in anyone mode.

But the LEAST Nintendo could have done was allow anonymous matches have win/loss stats.

At the VERY LEAST.

I just can't believe how stupid Nintendo is with online multiplayer.

I'm not 12 but I sure to like to call people fag! Asshat as well! ;)

@Rockvillian

exactamundo!!!! and being one this is great news to me!!!

Jesus Dynamic Sheep. That scared the shit out of me when I reloaded the page.

nice touch, and I have to disagree with Deiga playing a human is MUCH different than playing against the computer, hell I've been having a blast playing Mario Strikers and theres little info given. Ya know I saw a video showing a kid using an earbud as a microphone, which got me thinking why can't you use the speaker in the Wii remote as a mic too?? that would be great being able to shit talk and call everyone a 12 year old fag RIght??? lol

Semi win!

MOAR CHARACTERS PLZ!

Rockvillian - I never thought about it that way, I like it. Friend codes are still bullshit though.

"In With Anyone mode, you can battle with anyone in the world. But you won't be able to see their name, any stats, can't send taunt messages and the most ridiculous part of all this, your battle records will not be recorded at all."

LOL!

I cannot wait for this game. Finally I get a chance to play some damn games online with people from the Dtoid. Now I just have to exchange friends.......... I'll do it later.

And I need a 360 to do voice chat :(

Who's taunt is gonna be "Also, Cocks"?

Thats good for online mode and all but on the online mode where you play anyone, you might as well play against the AI.

I can't believe people are so excited about this. It's Smash Bros Melee with online play. Big fuck deal. You can't communicate with anyone you play with, and you can't keep track of stats, outside of your friends. Meaning, essentially, it's like you're playing against three CPU players.

Fuck, I wouldn't be surprised if you're actually playing against three CPU players, and Nintendo is only claiming you're playing with your friends. There's no way for them to prove it, cause "Nintendo owners don't care about online play" enough for them to justify putting in a decent online component.

You're better off buying Melee and playing it with three friends. If you don't have three friends, kill yourself.

@ AgentMOO
The van needs to be exploding. It is part of the internet hate machine after all.

Srsly though, as happy as I am about online play, I'm surprisingly pissed at Nintendo about the play anyone mode. Sure it's great that I can play anyone at any time, but not getting their names or their stats fucking blows. The big selling point of online in any game is to form a community and play with others. HOW THE HELL CAN A COMMUNITY FORM WHEN YOU DON'T KNOW THE NAMES OF OTHERS IN THE COMMUNITY. You're gonna get bored playing with same people (at least I do after several dozen/hundred times) but there is little incentive in playing with others and getting better in the game when you don't even know the names of those that you're playing against
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Still, good to know I'll be able to play it more often then Melee.

@Lethal Dosage
About damn time someone said the truth.

"In With Anyone mode, you can battle with anyone in the world. But you won't be able to see their name, any stats, can't send taunt messages and the most ridiculous part of all this, your battle records will not be recorded at all. Oh and all of the fun is removed."

Fixed.

I already expected online play, and I already expected Nintendo's typical shitty online service, so I could care less. Kind of lame it is taking this long to make a SSBM 1.5. Regardless I will probably buy this since the Wii is still basically a glorified mini-game machine. For the people trying to justify the crappy "With Anyone" mode, thats what unranked matches are for, if you have a non-Nintendo system you should try it sometime, thats the only time you really have fun. I never play ranked unless I want to see how long I can last when the odds are completely against me or if I want to hear a 12 yr old screaming at me for "not pwning those fucking nubs." Oh well, quality online play is something that PCs and consoles made for gamers typically do, so I guess I really shouldn't have been expecting anything from the Wii anyways. Flame if you want, but deep down you know the truth.

I was getting really worried about the online here, kinda relieved now, but yeah... it isn't great. Oh well, to talk with friends i guess I could use ventrilo or an ingame lobby on the 360.

If there is a way to harness the collective bitchpower of the internet, then consider the energy crisis solved. Here's my contribution:

I'm concerned about the lack of stat-tracking for a different reason: matchmaking. I've only played SSBM a few times, so I'll likely be quickly demolished online when SSBB comes out unless they have a way to pit me against noobs. One-sided matches aren't much fun for anyone.

Of course, there are other aspects of online play yet to be announced (maybe they track but don't display stats, or allow you to select opponent experience level?), so I'll just hang out until I can actually, y'know, play the game.

So dissapointing.

@ Knives
if you got Live, log into a game of Uno and use that as a chat room, as tested by Wombat.