Seriously, what was Sakurai thinking?

Seriously, what was Sakurai thinking?

Sakurai doesn’t understand the appeal of his own games. He thinks more crazy random shit = more fun

The only good thing about Smash Tour is the multiple character smash, which should be introduced as its own thing. Scrap everything else

>Sakurai doesn’t understand the appeal of his own games.
that's actually true and also the reason why he never got to win over the melee community

Game Freak is also like that with pokemon

Sakurai: *laughs*

He thinks nintendo games need to be played by 4 people on a couch or not at all.
He hates the idea that people play games alone or over the internet.

Could say the same thing while posting a picture of brawl and 4

As shitty as this mode was, it still introduced a good feature though : multiple characters battles. I'd love if it was a complete feature in the next Smash like in KOF.

No, what these developers understand is that there's a depth to these games that a subset of players appreciate in great depth, but there's a very broad appeal to a large majority of players like simple accessible play and fun.

And for the sake of business, they need to draw in the larger audience.

I've never understood Sakurai's reasoning behind screwing with the melee formula. The fact its developed such a strong tournament scene should elate him and to this day i can still crack a few cold ones and run a couple games with my fellow casuals and have a blast.

No one i've met has declared melee too difficult or hardcore to play, is sakurai just that much of a shitter?

Smash tour was fun, I felt classic mode was really fucked over though

>Smash Run is infinitely more enjoyable than Smash Tour
If it had online, then I would play that way more than regular battles. That shit’s fun as fuck. I’d also want you to actually interact with other players on the map, that’d make it way more fun

Game Freak at least sort of understands how to balance their games.

I'm convinced Game Freak just flat out doesn't fucking care.

Smash Run was worse.

Frankly, they should have just ported Brawl to 3DS and called it a day.

>people like mario party right?
100% this
I really with it was on the WiiU version instead of Smash tour

i'm a casual, i dont play competitive, i just prefered the way melee played, i dont know how to L cancel, i just know how to wave dash

my friends are the same we dont care about the tournaments and pro play stuff, but we are having more fun on melee even though we played the others
It's just faster, seems more rewarding to make a play and stuff

I feel like they had a good idea, but poor execution.

The idea of walking around a board with loose goals, collecting characters and powerups and occasionally fighting it out is a cool idea. Ending it up with a massive brawl at the end is also neat.

However I feel like the standard fights should've been less meme-y. They're single-stock fights with so much wacky shit going on that they last roughly 10 seconds.

I feel like this really is a universally hated mode with the exception of a few people. Smash Run was seriously better, despite the 3DS capabilities being shit so others couldn't be seen on the same stage, but it at least had more staying power and was more interesting.

Casual players won't notice the depth anyway, so why remove it?
This is very much a situation where you can have your cake and eat it too, there is no reason other than laziness not to make the game competitively engaging.

>People like Mario Party, right? So let's just slap on a Mario Party style subgame. I'll give you a week, snap to it
>But Master Sakurai, that isn't nearly enough time, and will that even be fun?
>It will be great, please understand!
>Okay Master Sakurai, we somehow managed to finish it, but we've had no time to test it or balance it
>*laughs* I'm sure its great, it looks cuhraaaaazy

you can't be serious

Sakurai genuinely thinks that Smash can't be competitive because it would require motions and complicated inputs to work as one, which is fundamentally false.

>buying ninty party games to play it alone over the internet like a fatso sob
bawhbawhbwahawbhabwhaawb

>see a character you like, try and go get it
>roll a good number, pick it up
>someone uses the "everyone's characters get scrambled" item
>get stuck with falco and jigglypuff
>fight a one stock match with a 50 foot tall diddy kong, an invincible sheik, and cloud with a baseball bat
Great mode Soccer Guy, it's very fun and I am very in control of what is happening

>classic mode was really fucked over though

Classic mode was fine on the 3DS, but terrible on the Wii U

Getting through almost 5 8 player smash modes to just get killed by some bullshit broken item like the windblower is so inherently frustrating

I know, right? What a concept.

no one gives a shit about the melee community though
except, well, the melee community
but no one gives a shit about them

you are, right now you knowledge them twice that means that you care from them. cuz you either love/hate them or dont care at all. since you didnt ignore them and got trigered by them that make you reply that means that deep down you care for mele

Sakurai seems to think random bullshit you have no control over is the point of smash.
I'm convinced if he works on smash 5 it will just be rolling dice with Nintendo characters attached.

He wasn't.

what the fuck is this post

bitch, casual players will not notice the depth of these games, is like in real life, idiots will not notice the depth of life physics while a scientist do.

Has Anyone Really Been Far Even as Decided to Use Even Go Want to do Look More Like?

>z moves
>mega evolutions
>ev's
>iv's

He's got a point, though.

>Getting through almost 5 8 player smash modes to just get killed by some bullshit broken item like the windblower is so inherently frustrating
Especially if you're trying for a Level 9 run, where you soon discover that the A.I. WILL button read your ass if you try to engage them at all.

The worst part is they know they need to balance some things, but then they go and make things more broken every game.

EV's are fine, IV's can suck a dick though.

That and general incompetence.

To be fair, most people don't care about a community that they aren't a part of. Hell, I don't even give a shit about the actual neighboring community where I live.

how would you fix it without removing it Sup Forums?

Customizable rules would fix a lot of the problems

He's thinking he's creatively completely tapped out with Smash Bros but took on the project because he's afraid of what might happen if someone else plays with his toys

The team in charge of Smash 4 did a good job. Nintendo should do a proper Smash 4 expansion with Sakurai mostly hands off to see how those devs would handle Smash on their own.

yeah it seems like everyone below Sakurai is incredibly talented, he's just a shit designer

they need a new UI designer to replace his wife too