TMNT: Smash Up. A fighter by Brawl developers

[Tony_]

in case it hasnt been yet, im starting the "Venus should be in/Venus should not be in" debate!

Laird, along with just about every hardcore TMNT fanboy hate's her. She isn't getting in.

And lol <_< >_>

 

[Drclaw411]

Laird, along with just about every hardcore TMNT fanboy hate's her. She isn't getting in.

And lol <_< >_>

crossing my fingers youre right....god she'd be annoying

 

[Tony_]

crossing my fingers youre right....god she'd be annoying

Let me put it to you this way; even MENTION Venus around Laird and he will blow up at you.

 

[WolfChant]

Rabbids FTW :D
i love the rabbids they are hilarious

 

[PsychoIncarnate]

Rabbids FTW :D
i love the rabbids they are hilarious

THey don't belong in a TMNT fighting game.

 

[Tony_]

THey don't belong in a TMNT fighting game.

But Laird could write them in so easily.

Also, they won't affect the roster in anyway. Probably a secret code easter egg.

 

[OmniOstrich]

Has anyone with competitive experience played? I'd like to see some vids of something other than FFA.

 

[Crispy4001]

No one that's been videotaped, unfortunately.

 

[ptown]

http://events.us.ubi.com/comic-con-2009/

one of the producers is playing 1v1 (shredder, leo) in one of the vids.

 

[Tony_]

Oh wow.

I am really hyped for Smash-Up now.

 

[Lovely]

I kind of dislike how they show part of the fight and not the whole thing. ;_;

 

[TurtleFreak]

Yeah, I noticed that they skipped about 30 seconds after Shredder picked up the power-up. I wanna know what happened! Maybe someone interrupted the game, and they just stood around for 20+ seconds while they told him to get lost...

 

[GunmasterLombardi]

I have hopes for this.

Really now, if Sakurai was director or not, he wouldn't do anything stupid as tripping. He directed Melee too.

 

[shinhed-echi]

Still, Sakurai = bad news.

Sakurai isn't working on this, because by "developers of Brawl" they mean Game Arts, not Sora nor Hal Labs.

He may have made Melee, but when asked to casualize the game up a bit, he made some pretty poor decisions.

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The game looks awesome. I'm hoping for some alternate costumes.

 

[§leepy God]

♪ Alternate costumes? I think at least colored one's would be in this game. Though the glow around the characters might make it hard to see their costumes when fighting. †

 

[Kyo Tanaka]

♪ Alternate costumes? I think at least colored one's would be in this game. Though the glow around the characters might make it hard to see their costumes when fighting. †

I never seen an alternative costume for the Turtles, but I think it would kinda be cool to have IMO.

 

[Tony_]

Does anyone know if anything new will be revealed at the Chicago Comic-Con?

 

[TurtleFreak]

I dunno about the Chicago Comic Con, but there was a recent developer Q&A report: http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/9261054957/m/9591058877

 

[Tony_]

Lol. I like how grabbing on the ledge doesn't give you invincibility.

And Boss characters? Start making your bets now. I'm calling Leatherhead as a boss.

 

[TurtleFreak]

Ooh, one can only hope Leatherhead is one of the bosses.

I'm predicting another character video next Wednesday or Thursday. :suess:

 

[Lord Viper]

☆ Sadly TMNT Turtles in Time Reshelled failed to please IGN. Hopefully Smash Up will fix the TMNT epic name. ☆

 

[★Malik★™]

so its like that shrek fighting game..kinda...
yes?......

 

[TurtleFreak]

Gamespot posted a TMNT franchise article. It's nothing too special, but it's got some character pictures for Smash Up that I haven't seen before: http://www.gamespot.com/features/6214674/index.html?om_act=convert&om_clk=picks&tag=picks;title;1

I'd say their list of the best TMNT games is pretty spot on. The 2007 GBA game could have been better if they fleshed it out more, though; but it's the best we've had in some years. Still, Tournament Fighters might have been a better choice.

 

[Cyberlink420]

Ooh, one can only hope Leatherhead is one of the bosses

One can only hope Leatherhead is PLAYABLE.

As for bosses...perhaps Savanti Romero?

 

[TurtleFreak]

One can only hope Leatherhead is PLAYABLE.

As for bosses...perhaps Savanti Romero?

Haha, well, that's what I meant since the Q&A said you could unlock the bosses after fighting them. Savanti would be great too, but I'm not sure how good his chances are. If there are any non-playable bosses, I would hope it would be Super Shredder or someone really powerful like Savanti or Complete Carnage (none of which will probably be in the game).

 

[day-day]

Wow. There sure are some big TMNT fans in here lol
So whose announced so far? I'm really behind on the development of this game.
Think I'm going to go watch my old TMNT cartoon videos and maybe TMNT(the animated one) right after.

 

[§leepy God]

♪ That's because TMNT is awesome sauce, and must be known to all who don't know it. †

 

[TheBuzzSaw]

TMNT is very cool.

This game is very uncool.

 

[§leepy God]

♪ And people say Turtles in Time Re-Shelled was going to be cool by the looks of it, and what happened when it came out? I kind of want my ten dollars back since I felt robbed, lol. This game isn't even out yet to judge because people saw or played the demo of this game. †

 

[Jimnymebob]

I want this game to be good, as any other Smash Bros.-esque games I've played, mainly Viewtiful Joe Red Hot Rumble and Guilty Gear Dust Strikers weren't exactly the best games out of there. I'm sort of having my doubts about it, but I really want it to be good.

Although I hate April's design, but that may just be my bias against anything that isn't related to the classic cartoon XD.

 

[Tony_]

TMNT is very cool.

This game is very uncool.

Care to explain why rather than try to fill this topic with hate towards a game you haven't even played yet?

 

[TheBuzzSaw]

Care to explain why rather than try to fill this topic with hate towards a game you haven't even played yet?

It's no worse than filling the topic with love towards a game you haven't played yet.

I'm watching footage of it, and it looks painfully newb-friendly. The float factor still keeps me up at night. This game would be much better if they implemented Melee-style gravity. It doesn't necessarily have to be a fast game, but the solution to awesome aerial combat is not in extended air time.

 

[Tony_]

The builds we have seen probably aren't even in the final version. Remember E for All and that Brawl demo? Yeah, a bit was changed, and somethings already have been changed.

Though we'll need to test everything, and I mean everything before we deem it inadequate for competitive play.

 

[Jimnymebob]

I'm fine with floaty characters, as I mained Jigglypuff in Melee and Brawl, and I prefer to use aerial attacks in fighting games, unless of course it's too floaty, then there's a problem. The thing that really annoys me is the fact each character has a neon glow around them. Apart from the fact the turtles look slightly similar, and it may be difficult to tell them apart when moving so fast in their new designs, I'm sure people have the brains to know the difference between Donatello, Splinter, April O'Neil and Shredder.

 

[Lord Viper]

☆ I haven't seen a gameplay video in a while... I wonder if there's new gameplay of this game? *Goes to lurk more* ☆

 

[TurtleFreak]

The thing that really annoys me is the fact each character has a neon glow around them.

This complaint keeps coming up, so let me say this one last time: YOU CAN TURN THE GLOW OFF.

 

[Crispy4001]

It's no worse than filling the topic with love towards a game you haven't played yet.

I'm watching footage of it, and it looks painfully newb-friendly. The float factor still keeps me up at night. This game would be much better if they implemented Melee-style gravity. It doesn't necessarily have to be a fast game, but the solution to awesome aerial combat is not in extended air time.

Extended from Melee? Yes. Extended from Brawl? That's hard to tell at this point. We don't even know if people are down falling in any of the videos so far, let alone where people will take the game weeks/months/years after release.

I think it's also important to consider what the developers have said about the direction of the game. We've heard multiple times that they're trying to make TMNT Smash Up more ground-combat oriented than the Smash Bros games, not more aerial oriented. Nothing about the game so far leaps out to me as needing Melee style gravity to accomplish that. (in spite of how much I'd like another game like Melee)


Also, what's your reasoning for why it looks "painfully newb-friendly"? Did you hold Brawl to the same standards before you played it? Go back and watch some E4All vids and tell me where you see the depth to claim that it wouldn't end up being "painfully newb-friendly."

... it's just way to early to toss around around a statement like that. Most of the vids are of people playing for the first time, clueless on what their character's movesets are, how to play with them efficiently, etc.

 

[Jimnymebob]

This complaint keeps coming up, so let me say this one last time: YOU CAN TURN THE GLOW OFF.

Ah, thanks for clearing that up. That's a plus in my books then XD.

 

[TheBuzzSaw]

I definitely have high hopes for the game. I want to try it out for myself. I'm just saying that I really have my doubts.

 

[Tony_]

I definitely have high hopes for the game. I want to try it out for myself. I'm just saying that I really have my doubts.

I can see why, but its obvious they learned their lesson with Brawl...