Super Smash Bros creator Masahiro Sakurai has revealed that the team is looking to create a level of customisation in the next Super Smash Bros game for Wii U and Nintendo 3DS. Sakurai confirmed that it’s not completely decided on at this point in time, and that they have to be very careful so that it doesn’t affect the strength and balance of certain characters. Sakurai says that one thing the team would like to do is customise the direction of attacks. You can read what he had to say, below.
“We’re planning for a level of customization to some degree and in some form. It’s not completely decided at this point. But it’s very important to point out that we do this in a careful way that doesn’t affect the strength and balance of the characters. One thing we’d like to do is to be able to customize the direction of attacks. But not give characters a stronger jump or a stronger or weaker attack. You can consider customizations like that possible.”
Thanks, Kardibask
This is good. Looking forward to it.
Agreed. I would be down with being able to customize movesets or even Textures on clothing. Multiple Final Smashes to select from on the character screen à la Street fighter would also be nice! I’m all for adding more depth.
Please please please include a new and improved level editor!!!
if its not as bad as that shitty level creating thing was then whatever, dont get me started on that online!!!!!!
I thought the level creator in Brawl was pretty good, of coarse i’m expecting one many times better in this game. Unless they don’t do it to compensate for the 3DS version -_-
I don’t know how i feel about that, oh well i am sure that it will be amazing also first.
Damn missed it
Yeah!!!!! Customisation sounds awesome!!!!!! Go Sakurai !!!!!! Seriously Anouma and Sakurai are better than Miyamoto( Again i respect Miyamoto and his work) let the man go rest already, greedy Iwata probably wants to squeeze every last juice out of that man!!!!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOYEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!!!
No your wrong. The reason why Miyamoto is not retiring is because he doesn’t want the company to fall apart if he does.retire
And cause he says he’s not old enough to think about retiring. He has to much fun making games. If he retires what next? Making a cheap flash game on his home computer. He still has passion for making games so if that’s the case I say keep on going.
are you fucking serious. customizations should definitely be in ssbu/3d and not in the way stated in that quote.
At least for clothes, but attacks will be more harder
not really, they should just have an option where you change your smash attacks. Cptn Falcon for example, the Forward Smash on the original game was a Side Forward kick, but on Melee it was a Knee strike. Imagine beign able to chose which one you wantedt? that would awesome! The whole playing field would change because online matches would really be random.
or how kirbys running kick was changed to that fireball. Having the ability to change what i wanted would be awesome.
Customize the direction of attacks?? So, what, a downward Falcon Punch or an upward Peach Bomber? That was definitely something no one asked for ever… But so was Wii Fit Trainer, and that’s already awesome. I guess Sakurai-san knows more about making his game series than I or any of us do… imagine that.
Yeah dude you hit the nail he is the best around!!!!!!!! Respect,respect man!!!!
No, guys. I’m pretty sure what he means. Let’s take Brawl Luigi for example and you do an Fsmash (Forward Smash), before that happen you can press up on the analog stick and the direction at which you Fsmash will chance. It can also go down. I think he means DI (Directional Influence) is coming back, but I don’t think all character had this. It also works with Ftilt (Forward Tilt).
I could be wrong though, when he says “customize”…that’s a really weird choice of wording. Maybe the translator didn’t get it right? Either way, this MAY be what it means.
Well, like I said not all of the characters have this, but he may be making it universal and improving on it.
Wish there was an edit button. >_>
Yeah the translation makes it hard to take what he’s saying.
I think it’s similar to what you said. Maybe where B would use a Falcon Punch, you can make it so the punch can be set to diagonal direction, or maybe similar to how you could turn yourself mid punch, or curve Pit’s arrows, maybe you can roll Link’s bombs, or something similar.
New ways of throwing the bomb? That’s a good idea. I imagine the default forward throw, a more upwards throw like in the Zelda games, and like you said, rolling the bomb. That would be an interesting little detail IMO.
Yeah. Sort of how the Pit’s curve arrow work, you throw the bomb but aim the stick up or down to get different throws/roll. You could replicate that same idea with other characters moves in the game too
Not to mention rolling bombs was a feature in Skyward Sword :P
Pit can already curve his arrows…if you didn’t know. Not sure if you do.
just keep stage builder and. leave it at that. any more and it becomes soul calibur.
So what about us players who haven’t played Soul Calibur?
Whts wrong with Soul Calibur? I think if they had character customization as in depth as Soul Calibur V then Smash Bros would be the greatest game ever created hands down. 💋
I want to alter the color of certain attacks. Red PK Flash please. :)
Red PK flash? I want a rainbow Final Smash!
It would be amazing for character color templates to be altered by the users, movesets i’m not so sure, but there should be color customizations, like megaman :)
they already said thats not going to happen, this game will probably add nothing to to the ssb formula. the only thing people want is to share levels online, play subspace emissary online, and more characters and none of these things are going to happen. Plus megaman is way too glossy.
^He’s right, there won’t be any customisations related to clothes or color. But I’d like to be able to use swords with megaman, like it was in Megaman X series.
Show me the article where Sakurai states there will not be any “visual customization.” Because I don’t believe it exists. I am still hopeful we can get alternate outfits for existing characters and we might be able to customize their look. 💋
why should is how u. u dont believe me?
Idea: Any two characters of about equal proportions, even if one is only in as a trophy, can share designs. For example, Link could dress as Peach and have the exact same everything else. Pokemon trainers beware! Waluigi has caught a Lucas with plastic clothes, a Pikachu that can’t stand upright, and a flying Bowser!
You’re right, they’re hardly going to change the fundamentals, and actually people also want the game to have a more competitive atmosphere with online rankings even though it’s not necessary. If it doesn’t happen though, you can always go to All is Brawl and play the ladder there along with online tournaments.
colour*
color is right :)
yea u stupid cunt
Way to make it unfair to those who play online and doesn’t know what type of customization your opponent has, which is a blow to SSB4 even having a chance to become competitive like Melee or even Brawl, it’s much more casualized that way.
Also, you have been training with those awesome customization, what are you gonna do when you enter a regional tournament? IMO customizing attacks is by far the stupidest idea Sakurai ever had, followed by thinking of the possibilities if Smash was a 3DS title only.
Customizing clothes and skin is all fair and whatnot, but once you can customize attacks, directions and all those things then I can only see it failing as a competitive game, no kidding. Yeah yeah Smash is supposed to be a casual game anyway so hopefully this piece of shit will please the casual fans, alongside DLC, and not being able to unlock 100% in your game due to the need to have a 3DS and a 3DS copy of Smash as well for some connection bullshit. Very nice!
Sakurai doesn’t know what he is doing, he implemented TRIPPING in Brawl for God’s sake, although he is removing it now, I can see him implementing other bullshit that people will complain to no end (for example, CUSTOMIZED ATTACKS), lol then he talks about “balancing” it. Yea yea, good luck sir.
Sigh, the only GOOD game designer and developer Nintendo has besides Miyamoto is Eiji Aonuma, the rest are uncreative, clueless monkeys. Specially the one in charge for New Super Mario Bros. series, and now the one responsible for the 3D mario games is learning a lesson or 2 with him. LOL
Anyway, the fact that a 8 GB cartridge is gonna hold back a 25 GB disc (LOL rooster cuts, the possibility of Ice climbers having a cut too since it’s hard to program them for the 3DS and whatnot) is the first hint that Nintendo is more worried about 3DS than the Wii U, and I have a feeling the 3DS is gonna have the better Smash version even though they want both to have a parity.
Smash fans, rejoice! Nintendo knows their shit, right? Right? It’s not like they never failed before, right?
Let me put it to you this way: He is taking every set ( dsmash, usmash, ssmash,ect.) and balancing the catagories so any custom moveset is equivalent to the default. Either that or he’s gong to have a special mode for competitive players where all sets are default so casual players and competitive ones won’t mix unless one chooses the other’s gamemode by choice. Also, by your logic, wouldn’t everybody have customized and trained?
1: Balance characters.
2: Make alternate moves.
3: Balance moves with any move it can replace.
4: Finish the rest of the game.
5 : Sell
6: Patch if needed.
7: Repeat 6 untol not needed while working on other games.
8: Make new list because this is where we move on from this game.
Casual mode and Competitive mode would be fitting names.
I prefer Normal Mode and Tourney Mode. It’s always competitive to some degree when playing online.
The 3DS version isn’t holding it back at all.
The character will be the same, but everything else is different and you can’t cross play with the game, SSB3DS wont play with SSBU.
He had tripping put in a game he thought nobody would take seriously. Brawl was purposely made for casuals and competitives bought it.
tripping occurs when you move around too much i dont think its cheap
Cheap or not, Nintendo tried to make Brawl competition-free but it didn’t happen as planned. Ever wonder why Brawl had no online ranking? It’s because they made Brawl specifically for people who wouldn’t care.
Also, the article specifically says he wont make attacks customisable.
Shut up, READ, and stop being a whiney bitch about stuff that doesn’t even exist.
Also in games like Street Fighter 4 you can choose a special, and the game tell you them when you start a match.
Stop thinking this is just Brawl with a new coat of paint and no tripping, it’s a new game, new characters, new design, new music, new menu, new inferace, new online. Shut up. You wana complain when the game comes out because Fox is ever so slightly slower than Melee, because you’re anal as fuck, go ahead, but stop whining about a game that hasn’t even come out yet
Right, right, and right! It really isn’t like they never failed before, giving them the chance to learn.
You are blowing this WAYYY out of proportion. Sakurai can do seperate online battle modes where you can fight with custom characters, fight with non-custom characters, or fight with mixed. Also, why is it Sakurai’s fault if you chose to practice with a custom character and go to enter a tournament where custom characters aren’t allowed so you don’t know how to play? That is YOUR fault for not preparing… 💋
That would be cool.
It would be nice to have more drastic “colour” designs, similar to how Wario could change from Wario and WareWare Wario, maybe a Dr.Mario, Tankooni Mario costume, Link could have his casual Link costume.
The villager could look like isabelle(Shizu) or Tom Nook! A K.K. Rider would be cool too.
I don’t think the Villager needs to look like anyone else, he has a ton of potential accessories to wear from his game. Maybe he will have unique customization options for his skins?
Maybe the female version though.
Only if we get a male Wii Fit Trainer (would be weird with a female voice though lol)
I don’t think that would happen, because her moves are all based on yoga and the dude doing it would look super dumb xD
Even though WiiFit Trainer is sort of the “lets add a really dumb character” trait in previous Smash games, i do think she was added to basically even out the male:female ratio, which is fine by me.
The Pokémon trainer could have different Pokémon (ex: Totodile-Bayleef-Typhlosion, Mudkip-Grovyle-Blaziken, Piplup-Grotle-Infernape…) It could be really cool. Then, 1rst Gen haters can play with other than Charizard and Cie.
Eh, i think having different Pokemon as a colour option would be too difficult to implement, it would look weird. Frankly i don’t think the Trainer will be back in SSB4, but i could be wrong.
Yeah… But this is my opinion. If it’s like that, I’ll be happy. If it’s not, well too bad.
Shiny Pokemon could be used.
Pika Pikachu Pi Pika
(Customization will be cool to see I just hope it doesn’t suck)
Eeeeee ur Gravatar is so cute!!!!!
Gravatar sounds like a real thing. All in favor of memetically mutating Gravatar?
No
Who r u usr with no usrname?
Wats ur usrname usr with no usrname?
If you mean the Anon who liked Gravatar, he might be someone with no account on here. I got here via kindle app.
It’s Clancy.
>affecting fighting styles whatsoever
Fuck Sakurai, stop now.
A red PK falsh or a different Final Smash, a new suit or moveset, a warehouse of hats or directional influence, I think we just need to all realize some games are made for a certain kind of gamer. Reply with whether or not you think that Nintendo should make casual and competitive versions for each system.
Who here would like if some Nintendo employees made some appearances? What if Sakurai, Miyamoto, and Aonuma could be practice dummy reskins so if you don’t like the games that they make you can do in the game what you would be arrested for in real life?
Pikachu Pika Pi
(Hahaha that would be funny)
I would really like Sakurai to go all out with customization on Smash Bros. 💋
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That seems like a pretty interesting idea. As long as it doesn’t make certain characters broken, then it seems like something worth taking a look at.
Take. Out. F.L.U.D.D.
Stage Maker will be back. That’s all the customization I need. Also to the guy who posted this article sickr? You spelled customization wrong. Its a z not a s.
I didn’t write the article, I just gave a link and a quote.
Hmm… I just hope if there is customization, it would be good. I have faith on Sakurai’s decision.
Something I always wanted to see is the costumes actually do something like change character stats. Like a Tanooki costume for Mario, it could give him better jump/flight but would obviously have to sacrifice something else for that. Or Link with the Goron Tunic, it would give him better fire resistance against fire based attacks. I also want the costumes to be true to the games like the Fusion Suit we had in Brawl, it was cool they had the colors but I want the costumes to look like from the games they are from. I would atleast be happy with that.
This will be great. Does this mean we could expect less clones then?
Things I want in Smash 4 (Note: I’m more of a competitive Melee guy)
1. More Stun for Combos
2. Character Balance
3. Fun Stages AND Neutral Stages
4. No God Tier (MetaKnight)
5. Make it Melee Fast
6. Brawl Content Packed Goodness…..except less lag…..and a good stage builder with more options.
7. Roy……I main him. I CAN DREAM!!!!!!!
8. Mewtwo, more likely than Roy, Doc etc.
9. No More Brawl Water Level Floatiness. And No More Backwards Ledge Grabbing.
(We should be able to KO them when we get them off the platform….)
or you could consider not allowing character customization and and maintain the balance and just have character creation.
Brawl was just a big slap in the face IMO. I loved when we had TRUE combo videos. I loved when you were rewarded for learning to play competitively, instead of losing a tournament because of the 15% possibility your character will trip over air. Brawl had content, but where was the wild, combo rewarding game so many people like me learned to love? And yeah……Brawl brought God Tier into the picture……..METAKNIGHT!!!!!!!!!
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I love the idea also. as I REALLY hope for Krystal (StarFox) to be in smash bros. If she’s in. I’d also like to see a Dinosaur Planet Beta test Krystal (Cancelled would have been for N64) alternate costume. PLEASE Masihiro Sakurai, Let her be in and possibly have a little homage to old Dinosaur Planet!!
Hey im a kid from usa va and i just wanted to say i adore your games ive been playin them since i knew how to play games super smash was my first but i think u should be able to create your own character to use and be made to your ability also i think if u put a pokemon tht there super smash is to evolve would be awesome thnks for noticimg my ideas amd keep up the good work