The DOJO began the week in a horrible way with
Friends Codes. Just hearing those words brings a shiver down my spine. Anyway, you need to enter your friend's Code once and it's stored in the system. You can also have little status messages that only your friends can see. So call them a sh*t bag or something just in spite of the Friends Codes.
Some of the returning Pokemon were listed on Tuesday's first update. Suicune, Lugia, Entei, Staryu, Bellossom, Ho-Oh, Wobbuffet, Togepi, Snorlax, Celebi, and Mew are some of the returning Pokemons. If Mew or Celebi ever appear, they will drop a CD before they leave the map and do absoultly nothing to aid you in the battle. Tuesday's second update was for a new song called X: Tunnel Scene. This song comes from a game called X and was never released outside of Japan. Sakurai really wanted the song to be in the game and that's the only reason it's in Brawl. Not a bad tune; makes me want to actually play the game now.
On Wednesday, Sakurai talked about the Smash Ball. Players will have to break open the Smash Ball to use the Final Smash attack. If you don't use the Smash Ball though, it can get knocked out of you and the fight for it starts all over. There's also something called Pity Final Smash where the losing player is given a bonus chance to fight back. Speaking of Final Smashes, King Dedede's Final Smash, called Waddle Dee Army, was revealed. King Dedede summons an army of Waddle Dees and Gordos to the battlefield.
For today's update, Sakurai talks more about Basic Brawl. Basic Brawl is where you fight people anonymously and your records aren't kept track of. You have only 45 seconds to pick a character or else the computer will randomly select one for you. Then, you can vote for the stage you want and items are determined by lottery. Now here's where some major bullsh*t comes out. If your opponents get dropped out of a match, their characters will then get taken over by the CPU. I like the idea of the computer coming in to take over. What I don't like is the fact that you will never truly know if you are ever fighting a human or a computer in Basic Brawl. That's no good.
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1:36 AM on 12.07.2007
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Considering there is no proof, he could just be matching us up against CPU opponents and not even bother taking us online in the first place...we'd never know the difference.
I just want to know if I'm actually playing someone or not.
This week seemed like another flop. We have roughly 6 weeks till launch and currently 23 characters. Sakurai said that he was planning on revealing all of the characters prior to launch due to the internet back in his old blog before the update dojo. So if we're getting hopefully around 30 characters, when does he plan on showing us them?
Mxyzptlk: That's fine if we want to continue playing against the CPU but it should at least let us know that it is a CPU. As of right now it doesn't even tell you when the other drops out.
This picture is definitely worth 1000 words.
because im going to be entering over nine thousand friend codes -_-
I have a theory that every non-personalized online game ever was actually just this.
As a Mario fan, I must therefore be pro-sexual harrasment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBi-nsKzipE
It looks like there's a max of 64 friends allowed on your list... less than is allowed in your Wii address book. Laym.
And no, that must be some other Internet-famous dprime.
Since we can't register a person without a friendcode, what's the harm in knowing their username? Mario Kart DS at least let you register people as rivals when you played online. Gimp'd.
Also, she told me in an e-mail that, if I wasn't the dprime from Dtoid, then I'm not the only dprime. This sort of thing happens to me surprisingly frequently.
It's cool to meet interesting people and I wanted an excuse to get her contact info; I told her right away online it was a lie and she didn't care. I'm thinking of getting WoW anyway and we'll play together if I do. I'm not a perv or a weirdo.
Okay, change that too "I'm not a perv."
I was once watching CNN and saw a call-in from someone from the small Canadian town that I was in. I once had one of those "scratch three and if they're the same win that amount" things from KFC and got one that had a million three times; unfortunately, I only scratched it twice. Best of all, I once through a toy football across the room hoping for it to land in the small hole in this children's toy and got it.
I guess coincidence plauges my life. Although from my perspective, this isn't a big deal. I find several people who I talk to online remember me from Dtoid or a couple other sites.
One day maybe I'll be in league with Maddox and the chocolate rain guy...
God, I'm filled with terrible jokes and typos tonight. Yes, disneyninja. I actually commented that it was a good e-mail.
Soon you'll be able to tell your friends at the water cooler that your wife raids with dprime. They'll be all like "ohhh famous..." Hey! This isn't a coincidence to me! It's like if Brad Pitt talks to someone whose husband knows about him; what's it to him? Lots of people know about him. At least that's the sort of analogy I tell myself to get to sleep at night.
Well now that I'm commenting again I guess I should fix my avatar...
In the meantime, we can get some cherry chocolate rain. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x2W12A8Qow
PS can I use your avatar (not on dtoid)? It's awesome.
You didn't see the naked pictures, did you?
and for the CPU thing, you still play with human players at start and if you win it still counts as a win, they get auto-lose annyway if they quit. plus, to chek if they are human, i would continieuly dodge and do a little dance (aka. teabagging the ground) to see if they're gonna immitate me after some time, that's proof enough for them to be human.
Anyone who's played Mario Kart DS on-line knows that they could be completely anonymous matches and you know you're playing against humans for a few reasons: first, the challenge level of each person is ridiculously different; second, you do get names, but that's not as big of a deal as you'd want; and third, sometimes people do random shit on MK: DS. Just off the top of my head, I once had some guy who thought it was more fun to drive the opposite way of the course, then to pick up bombs and blow himself up.
Human stupidity cannot be mirrored by computers until computers develop a sense of humor. We'll be okay people.
"Sakurai said that he was planning on revealing all of the characters prior to launch due to the internet back in his old blog before the update dojo. So if we're getting hopefully around 30 characters, when does he plan on showing us them?"
Hopefully he takes this back, because I personally do not want to know what every character in the game is. When I unlock a hidden character I want to as surprised as I was when I discovered that Game and Watch was in Melee. Secrets can be good..
@ madninja:
"You forgot one thing CTZ. The director told us where to unlock the characters. I was scared that we would have to do a lot to get characters."
Nope. He says "You can earn most characters by playing through Adventure Mode: The Subspace Emissary." You may have to do more than that, but that's just the most basic method. Not to mention that there will probably be multiple avenues to unlock hidden characters, just like Melee.
If you're getting your ass kicked, you deserve to lose.
I was really looking forward to playing online until this.