36 DAYS LEFT - THE COUNTDOWN TO BRAWL

Good points.

120 Days Left- The Countdown to Brawl (Feb. 10, 2008) from Sunday, Oct. 14, 2007

Is it really 120 days- nearly a third of a year- to Super Smash Bros. Brawl? Consider what comes before Brawl now:

OCTOBER
-Boss's Day (Oct. 16)
-Sweetest Day (Oct. 20)
-Change to Standard Time (Oct. 28 outside US/Nov. 4 in America)
-Halloween (Oct. 31)

NOVEMBER
-Super Mario Galaxy (Nov. 12/16*/29**) Why is this being overlooked?
-About a half billion games (Nov. 13)
-Thanksgiving (America, Nov. 22)
-Black Friday (Nov. 23) Good in this case. When many retailers turn a profit for the year.

*in Australia/ **in Europe

DECEMBER
-Hanukkah/Chanukah (mid Dec.)
-First Day of Winter (Summer) (Dec. 22)
-Christmas (Dec. 25) Probably won't be getting a Wii.
-Kwanzaa (Dec. 26- Jan. 1)
-New Year's Eve (Dec. 31) I'll have to settle for SSBM again.

JANUARY AND EARLY FEBRUARY 2008
-New Year's Day (Jan. 1)
-Chinese New Year (mid to late Jan.)
-Martin Luther King Jr. Day (Jan. 14)
-1/18/08 movie (Jan. 18)
-Coldest Day of the Year (Hottest?) (Jan. 21)
-Black Wednesday (Jan. 24) The day that holiday cheer wears off...
-Groundhog Day (Feb. 2)
-Super Bowl XLII (Feb. 3)

I think Europe will have Valentine's Day and Spring Breaks (and perhaps the start of Spring, and maybe even Easter) before they see SSBB, though. It may be past Easter and the first day of Fall (their Fall, meaning March) in Australia, as well. Yes, Easter is in Q1 next year, in fact it's March 23rd, the earliest Easter I've ever heard of.

Then Super Smash Bros. Brawl arrives about a month before some of us go BACK to Daylight Saving Time on March 9. Yeah, I'm going to be too busy enjoying some of the events above.

ours isn't late, son. yours is early

damn foreigners.

myersguy, PLESAE POST THAT LINK!!!!!

Even if it's too late to use it, I still want to see it!

Thank you trance2!!

I only made the reply asking because I googled it and I couldn't find the link. I took a quick look, and so far, I'm disappointed with all the characters they removed! I'm gonna miss playing Marth and Roy. :'( Hopefully Ike can be a nice substitute. About the only others I'll miss are Dr. Mario, Luigi, and the three unlockable pokemon.

There's no definitive evidence that those characters have been removed, Quiversee. It's more than possible, but of course they'd never reveal all the characters that they'll have. We'll probably still have Jigglypuff (she's been in since the original), and maybe Marth, though who knows about that. Roy is mostly toast, I think, since he was an inferior Marth clone.

author=myersguy link=topic=264.msg5196#msg5196 date=1195347539

author=Quiversee link=topic=264.msg5117#msg5117 date=1195186040
I took a quick look, and so far, I'm disappointed with all the characters they removed! I'm gonna miss playing Marth and Roy. :'( Hopefully Ike can be a nice substitute. About the only others I'll miss are Dr. Mario, Luigi, and the three unlockable pokemon.

It is true that the characters shown on the DOJO website are not the only ones included in the game. I can't remember where I saw it, but I saw some ssbb screens showing more players that weren't listed under characters, Im sure Ill find it again sometime.

Do you remember what characters they were?

author=trance2 link=topic=264.msg5120#msg5120 date=1195188493
There's no definitive evidence that those characters have been removed, Quiversee. It's more than possible, but of course they'd never reveal all the characters that they'll have. We'll probably still have Jigglypuff (she's been in since the original), and maybe Marth, though who knows about that. Roy is mostly toast, I think, since he was an inferior Marth clone.

Good point on that, except about Roy. I liked him better because of his superior strength and reduced speed. I like playing with speed, but Marth was a little too fast. Marth was inferior to Roy in my opinion.

On the rest, I hope your right.

:(

author=demondestiny link=topic=264.msg5118#msg5118 date=1195188250
That sounds freaking sweet. Please submit the link onto this site.

Uh, it was already posted. It's www.smashbros.com

I really hope to see Ness appear at least as a costume change for Lucas. He was always my favorite 8).

I also hope that Mother 2 and 3 will see Virtual Console releases prior to SSBB's release! That would rock.

And as for more character requests... well, of course Mega Man would be rocking. I'm kinda doubtful, but you never know! I figure there's got to be several more character announcements before the launch, since they bothered to announce lousy King Dedede after Sonic. Who knows, maybe they pushed the date back in part to accomodate some really awesome third-party character that they only now got permission to add?

One thing I'm excited about: Single-player sounds like fun. I think it's interesting that they're trying to tell an actual storyline this time. I'm a lot more interested in it now than I was a few months ago when it was first announced! Also, here's a second thing I'm excited about: the random stage creator, as well as the many cool, varied stages (as long as there's enough 'normal' stages where the winner isn't whoever dodges the lava, doesn't fall in the water, etc. etc.)

One thing I'm worried about: I know balance is never perfect with these games, but I'm just worried about Smash Balls. Obviously some are worse than others, e.g. Peach, maybe DK or Samus. Besides that, I read a preview about how Smash Balls aren't like other item pick-ups; they appear on stage, but have to be activated first by getting hit enough. This means that when a Smash Ball appears, most fighting ceases while everybody chases around the Smash Ball, beating the crap out of it and trying to take and use it first. I also read that they're more frequent than once a match- a preview that was done a little after Sonic was announced stated that Sonic was using his Final Smash several times a match, absolutely clobbering the opponent and removing any sense of competition. Final Smashes may be cool, but if they're that unbalancing for the game, then I'm taking them out whenever I can :P.