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[Taco]

So... final smashes. If we're going to make a brawl facsimile, we might as well go and use final smashes, under a different name of course. I think that we could call it a "hipster overdrive," or something. Ideas:
Iji: Retribution
Quote: Summon Balrog to aid him
Trilby: Bring Chzo in somehow...

[mokesmoe]

Four points, in order of importance:

1. We already agreed not to have final smashes.
2. This shouldn't have been put in a new thread, new treads are for already approved ideas.
(Though this isn't as important as you didn't know)
3. Quote isn't in this game; permission was denied.
4. You spelled spelled final wrong in the title

[William Broom]

The main reason we didn't want to have final smashes is because one of our original design tenets was that items should not be as powerful as they are in Smash Bros, since it can make the game unfair when an item spawns near a character.

This might not be a problem if the players had a power meter for super attacks instead of collecting an item. But even then, the problem is that you are investing a lot of time into them without adding a great deal to the gameplay. Basically it would just mean that each player gets a 'free kill' every now and then.

In 'Perfect World Edition' I guess I would like to include super attacks, even if they're little more than eye candy. But I think we should focus on completing a good playable game before we think about any 'extras' like this.

[godsavant]

NO FINAL SMASHES.

OR FNAL SMASHES.

Jesus, I'm getting tired of people bringing up things we already went over.

EDIT:

Quote: Summon Balrog to aid him

[mokesmoe]

I think FNAL is an acronym, cause when you use one, the other player goes F*** NO AND LEAVES.
This acronym also explains why we won't have them.

[godsavant]

I think FNAL is an acronym, cause when you use one, the other player goes F*** NO AND LEAVES.
This acronym also explains why we won't have them.

 :D

[Soulliard]

I think FNAL is an acronym, cause when you use one, the other player goes F*** NO AND LEAVES.
This acronym also explains why we won't have them.

I laughed. 

But yeah, the main reason final smashes won't work is they'll require a lot of additional graphics without a substantial improvement to gameplay. Since graphics are progressing the slowest, it's not something worth worrying about.

And new suggestions go in an already existing thread. But that's all right, since you didn't know.

[J.W. Hendricks]

Yeah I asked this about a week ago and the IB team isn't doing it.

[Taco]

Strong bad said it best: