crazy how often people forget about our next bamco rep
digivolves between agumon and greymon like pokemon trainer
"Well, we've gone into extensive detail during this Smash Bros. Direct about a variety of modes and features coming in the next update, not to mention the cool new Mementos stage and the dynamic, versatile moveset of our latest newcomer Joker that will be available in the first Challenger Pack. We're happy to announce that this additional fighter will be available at the end of the month... of August! Please look forward to it."
It just makes no sense. Do they know how much people would eat up pure classic mario party, 6 boards like the old style...especially 2-7, and with full online?
On paper it sounds good at first, but Medoh was way up in the sky. They could change it up and make it fly low, allowing the world to be seen better, but they might be limited in what they could manage, performance-wise. Maybe it would've been fine, though. Now I'm curious about what's currently the most intensive stage in Smash...
I can't imagine the pain of playing Mario Party online with three people that take forever to roll the dice.
Well of course; we know that Stage Builder will be in 3.0 for certain now, so that was the mystery addition they were hyping up. I think the fact that they didn't reveal anything here is just a sign that we'll get a proper direct when the time comes for us to get full details on this update.
Yes. Previous updates only added characters/stages/costumes with the occasional online feature update (sharing and tourney mode). A stage builder (that is hopefully at least better than for's) along with Joker is easily the best update for a Smash game yet.
You misunderstand things. Nintendo owned the trademark for Star Twins, and they still do. That means they have the legal right to use the name in marketing. That's a huge difference, and not the same as owning the copyright, which is ostensibly the property in and of itself. That, like every other Rare created property, was kept by them in the transition to Microsoft.So, I was reading this one document about the prospect of Banjo getting into Smash, and this segment reminded of the unused files pertaining to Jet Force Gemini and Blast Corps within Ultimate's data.
Alright, someone school me on copyrights
I always see people's rebuttal to this being that Nintendo simply still owned the Japanese copyrights and the people behind selecting the spirits in Ultimate just didn't realize that they don't own the IPs anymore before cutting them out, but is there any actual proof that Nintendo still has the copyrights to Blast Corps and Jet Force Gemini anywhere?
Honestly, Blast Corps kind of makes sense considering that it was published wholesale by Nintendo, but JFG is a bit weird in that regard. As far as I can see, it was solely published by Rare, even in Japan. The Japanese boxart says as much.
I don't know, does JFG being "distributed exclusively by Nintendo" give them the copyright in Japan? Seems really odd that what was a self published Rare IP ended up getting mixed in with Nintendo owned properties.
Stated what, that Microsoft inherited the copyright? That goes without saying, the franchise is in their hands now. It's not like Nintendo owns the franchise "in Japan". That'd be absolutely silly.
They wouldn't have retained trademarks for anything except Star Twins and Blast Dozer given that those were the titles that underwent name changes for Japanese publishing. Most likely Nintendo had trademarks for just about every other Rare franchise at some point (with the possible exception of Conker), but those were obviously given up because they were easy to track and not as esoteric or disposable.
From what I understand, this is only half-right. Nexon owns the rights to Devil's Third Online, which is just a version of Devil's Third that lacks the single-player campaign. Nintendo still owns the rights to the original Devil's Third. And they probably shut down the Wii U servers because only twenty people played the online regularly even back when the game came out and there was no point in keeping them active.
Meh. Would rather have King Boo and Adeline/Ribbon from those respective franchises.
