Waching daily Jan 4 2019

hello everyone welcome back to GameSpot c3 2018 coverage it is finally time

we're about to play Smash Bros ultimate I'm Mike McCarty here with Lucy James..

hello and we are also here from the treehouse daniel joins us to talk about

smash bros we got some of the fine folks from Nintendo treehouse behind us we're

gonna be playing it live while not awesome for that we're gonna be talking

over a live demo so you saw it here first

not Nintendo Direct no I'm just kidding anyway hope it's a person on GameSpot

yes yes so every single character that's ever been in a smash game is gonna be an

ultimate over 60 different characters yeah be announced it'll be all the

characters that have ever been in the franchise up to now and new ones as well

as you've seen the inkling Ridley and even Daisy is now making an appearance

like yeah I saw that Daisy Ridley memes if that was hinting at something I

haven't even seen the Daisy Ridley means yet but anyway alright but also as well

as a lot of like a slew of changes to every character you were saying

Ganondorf is the Ocarina Ganondorf Kareena time she has a sword now as well

and then you've got of who's there's that champion link and links in there as

well well bombs bombs and detonated even if

you have 0% damage the excess of projectile as though he was mirroring

having full health and that same one everybody started playing - oh yeah oh

here we go the great plateau tower you can see it over there as well yeah and

they got an indoor f-- the Inklings in there as well a new character ice

climbers were back again and Pope oh I see I'm pretty excited to see snake I

don't know if we'll see it on the stage people are freaking out about snake

hates is back your hair's back Isis roll a huge news this morning yeah just so

great seeing so many different characters come back into the fold I

haven't seen in a while I'm a huge ice climbers fan so I'm stoked to see ice

climbers back for sure mechanically you were telling us before

that and they were showing the direct you can air or directional dodge in the

air now you know air dodge directionally not just yet done just air dodge in the

face there's things like that all these little subtle changes they've added to

the gameplay mechanics just to make it feel more different

it feels faster it kind of it's better to be more aggressive in the game limit

more aggression yeah I'd be that to make those quicker smashes even subtle things

like assist trophies yeah give it a six rate if you actually some assist

trophies you can ko them and get and get Kalos for yourself as well

that kind of changed up that as well we mentioned before it's a fake Smash Ball

yeah I think Smash Ball now it's you have to worry about really catch the

ball fake Smash Ball yeah and we're also looking at a new

stage right here yeah the great the great plateau tower for all your breath

of the wild fan any other ones that you could talk more about we have more more

eight hours available to demo as well they show some others in the in the

direct as well but playable here we've got one and more eight hours okay

awesome and then you've got a bunch of Fire Emblem characters coming back I

mean whether every character that's ever been in Smash oh geez every character

there's a lot in that roster I keep thinking about more and more secretly a

test to see how well you know how every one of them they've been trying to that

for a while and it's just so many different character you get a chance to

explore and talk to and see how they play everyone's got their favorites so I

just pens what you want to figure out and play with and see how that plays

differently like I'm a big I'm a big Samus fan yeah the fact that Samus now

can charge her or her charge beam in the air yeah charge in the air which didn't

change up as well so I think our friend Jake Decker he's upstairs editing right

now but he's a big sanest man and he'll probably happy to hear that

and now ridley is the first non samus metroid character to appear a second

character in there for sure almost at zero shoot there's all right beside zero

suit samus got Anderson's origami but there's also um I didn't realize how big

the community that has been like making memes about really being a smash have

been and now he's here and there's such a dark trailer it looks like Mega Man

got like yeah a little bit it's a jar ba can I get a nice it's nice to have fun

with a different series and how it crosses over all those different ways as

well and then seeing and then again being clean character I'd mentioned

earlier the Inklings a whole new character different mechanic we actually

have to worry about recharging recharging it's it's gauge of ink how

can I just have a splatter shot junior if you shoot someone the more you cover

them in ink when you hit them they take more damage okay norm overall more

damage you can start doing different combos on that as well there's a splat

roll you can actually splat roll someone and knocks them into the ground you can

pop out and then to kind of use the ink paintbrush and whack them back okay you

start people I just wanted seeing how people are already trying to create new

combos with what how the characters playing everything as well you were

saying with one on one combat you'll build up percentage faster so yeah you

take more damage basher in one on one I think the example they show in the

direct to like seeing four I'm just putting four players smash in fifth

character I hit new take might say 23 percent damage they showed the other one

up to 28 kind of keep the game speed moving a little bit

even it ties into the final smashes the final smashes they've tried to go a bit

more making them happen quicker like there's no more land master and with box

now it's more of a his squad flies into some kind of cool and stay cool we've

got another match going on right now yes here's great showers and Ridley yeah it

leaves in there really Marth curtly Marth Pikachu Kirby my boy okay your

crib and your crew back yeah Lucy's relieved to see curved Anna Kirby and

Pikachu I saw a lot of people freaking out about Pokemon as well this one yeah

the glob hammer what a nasty ride in the background but this map is is this a new

map it's a new map there's a brand new a new stage which integer this one too is

that it fit the the little ramps so actually if you start running like with

the splat roller it just takes you downward a quick way well so it's it's a

different kind of insights not exactly the same way you're used to with regular

platformers but instead it's kind of this going up and down and running up

and down then we kind of change how you play the game a bit so it seems like

it's like a virtual who's who of the smash roster since inception but but

also it's like it seems like a Greatest Hits right I'm also curious like you

mentioned like you can air directional dodge a bunch of character tweaks new

maps a few new characters but are there any other big each structural changes we

can expect or is this pretty much like just like a continuation of what people

got the plan it's a brand new game in its own creation so it's gonna have its

own feel to how it plays out there so yeah again there's like over thousands

of thousands of changes being made compared to any of the previous titles

of the characters so and with all these new characters coming back into the fold

that changes how everything plays out so you have start tweaking all these

characters to become this huge match up with like different and I said different

moves an example is palutena yeah palutena

used to have a block which it kind of but now it's also a counter so just

being reflecting out reflect or counter gotcha

they're trying to add things gonna make all these other characters be more

useful in the whole spectrum I can't even imagine the the balancing that's

had to go on and the QA to make sure that every all of these you think

thousands of changes work the way they're supposed to they spend a lot of

time on the dev team just today to spend forever trying to tweak tweak tweak

tweak tweak and sure your people play this demo and we need for the final

version character will have changed again as well as they see like where

they balancing out is the balance really there the way mister saccharide

dev team wants it to end up at right and you were saying that the roster is not

even fully announced yet we've said over 60 characters yeah more to come we'll

say think there's 64 right now that we know of if I if my counting was all

right in that graphic that sounds right and then that's and that's we get into

that discussion to up oh there's a release final smash that was awesome

that really actually arrives the character throws - and misses and then

just fluff like crazy very very good and and I'm curious

what's it like like bringing smash to switch I mean like now like we can it

seems like tailor-made to be the game that like like I obviously Mario Kart

was great to like just pull the joy cons off and play on the small screen like on

a flight or something I can see myself just squeezing in smash matches I always

play I actually plan on the plane with my pro controller like I get a stand I

bring a casserole or if you're like what are you doing and they're like think I

look a little weird ever after why they're like can i play they want to

start playing with you as well any kind of things yeah yeah you can playing

tabletop you can playing handheld you be able to play on the TV you have all

those options that whole idea of taking the switch anywhere I'm gonna go anybody

you want now kind of fun is always right there built-in right you were talking

about like it's gonna feel different it's very much its own game you know you

got melee which is much faster paced still played in the pro level today

brawl slowed down a bit I think we you found a balance between the two what

would you say that ultimate is more like one of those three than the others or

anything everyone's gonna feel different about I

mean sure comparing people gonna make natural comparisons I'm sure but to me I

just kind of view each smash game jump in have fun see word feels and I haven't

played I haven't played a little while so it's kind of fun jumping back in and

getting where it goes I know there's some of my friends who are super Pro

competitors and they play all the time that some friends who are gonna be like

oh they're great they'll jump back in casually and that's the fun of the game

too is that it's 2 to 8 1 to 8 players as much you want and that's where items

come into play as well some people like items some people don't like items I'm I

go both ways depending on who's playing but it's oh it's just fun for everybody

and it's also it's I think it's worth looking at the switch in terms of its

sales is astronomical on its own but also compared to the Wii U I feel like

there's a lot of people who might have played brawl missed out on Smash Bros

you and now we're coming back to ultimate it's probably gonna be a pretty

smooth transition I like yeah sure and they've been playing as I said before

the pro controller just feels so I was so nice but you could still play the

game there's the game controls will be supported we

that new one we showed as well with the new logo on there on the direct so

there's a chance to see that all happen as well so awesome we're looking at here

now we're on battlefield this is one of the classic states people know most I

got Samus Bayonetta we got champion link this time - yeah good old little Maki

so you're saying he's got the remote bombs he does have a room bomb so if we

get link to throw some bombs out powered by the chicest slate kind of technology

Oh week was trying to throw bomb but then got launched oh wow that's part of

the fun - just the crazy everything happening on the screen so my dream my

dream character for that I was hoping to be announced not that there are enough

characters to talk about but would have been like Ravalli one of the champions I

know I'm oh wow it's almost like in our office just like obviously him shouting

Rivoli's gals now ready it's just I'm a huge Ravalli fan from breadth of the

wild but I think it's okay with 64 other characters to choose from but anyway yes

it speaker Mac Bayonetta being here not like as additional DLC after that we at

least yeah yeah so yeah and the roster gave me huge we decided to see how

that's gonna go all the different stages to support of our biggest cross drummers

of all time like that some of you were kind of like a fanservice but I mean

it's getting its own game and just for everyone who enjoys it's just nice to

share these characters together all at once and so is there any news on time

frame that you can tell people much right now yeah December 7th awesome I

can't cut December 7th the amiibo as well I didn't mention the amiibo Ridley

amiibo go make it we don't be a ridley me but we have inkling and there will be

a Daisy amiibo as well awesome what do they unlock do they unlock stuff

in the game or is it just the only one shown so far is it similar we did in the

previous one with the Wii U version first version is that FP yeah I see

train up your fighter to kind of that FP character to kind of train with that one

as well and see where you go so yeah December 7th 64 characters so far are so

far down so far at least 64 more than 60 Daniel from antenna treehouse thank you

so much much for having me guys yeah absolutely it's always fun to have

anything we were playing poking last year yes and splatoon soon yeah you're a

frequent game spotter yeah remember yes it's always fun to have you and thanks

so much for showing us Mastro's live especially we really appreciate it

actually the Nintendo booth right behind right be

able to go play as well yeah again tomorrow morning I think Jojo will help

you get in yeah I'm looking forward to that but anyway Daniel thank you so much

and if you're watching from home that was smash bros ultimate a live demo

that'll be out December 7th for in ten dos which I'm sure you can go see more

of it on GameSpot itself and also we will be back shortly for Forza horizon

for interview right after this so stick around

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