http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/index.html Woo woo!

You mean I'll actually be able to use my Wii's internet connection for gaming? What a novel concept.

YES

Man, I'm glad they finally confirmed online play.

I was starting to get a little worried.

****ing A.

It'll suck.

So, how are we going to run this Massassi SSB tournament that we now have to have?

Easily.

We'll draw up a huge tournament roster after a few weeks of practice.

THEN WE WILL BRAWL.

Damn Nintendo. The DS used voice communication, yet the Wii's huge app for the year resorts to 4 commands on the D-pad? And you can't even do it if you're playing people you don't know?

Matt at IGN had a great article on this. They did a poll at over 10,000 people voted and 98.1% voted for the ability to use a microphone. Yet still Nintendo acts like it is irrelevant.

Case in point - I could do more taunting with buttons in Mario Golf for GCN then this. And for that I had to sit next to the people to play MP.

I'm glad we have brawl online, but once again - the potential for a great community and experience has been resorted to an 'advanced bot battle'.

BTW - I only own a Wii. I'm just getting sick of Nintendo's inability to live in the present. This worries me for Mario Kart - which will be just like the DS's. They listened and added more people and battle mode. Yet people kept saying they wished for a way to communicate.

=(

Have you ever played anything on Xbox live? Why would you ever want to listen to that?

However, I am sad that, because you don't know who you're fighting, you can't get the friend codes of opponents you liked.

Meh.

It still allows massassi battles, so I don't care.

Well, it would be a good reason for #massassi to fill up.

Yeah, almost every game in xbox live, (Or lately in TF2 on steam) I have to mute 4 or 5 people, I'm not saying that nintendo's method is any better... but I know what they're doing and why.

It should still have the voice chat option though. I'm getting tired of Nintendo trying to protect the chillins and hurting mature gamers along the way.

I can actually stand with Nintendo on this one. They seem to be trying to make SSB:Brawl actually fun, as opposed to the greater festivals of internet douchebagery that most online games end up being.

Without score charts or records people might actually realize that the purpose of the game is to just sit back and have a good time, instead of obsessing about Winning at all costs.

The same goes for not showing player names. I dose not matter how good you are, or how much of a jerk you can be, everyone will forget you by the time the next game starts, so your superstar players and jerks all will hopefully just loose interest.

As for voice chat, I have never approved of voice chat. Tribes and Allegiance have shown that a limited voice chat menu is more that sufficient for even complicated gameplay, and SSB:Brawl doesn't even need that. The ONLY thing voice chat will be used for in SSB:Brawl is so that some 12 year old can ***** and moan about how unfair it is to just spam So-and-So's attack, and that if they would fight "fair" he would kick their ***. And you know what, GOOD RIDDANCE.

I'm not saying Nintendo's strategy will work, but I whole heartedly approve with what they are trying here, and am also very surprised that they are trying something this big with a game that it at the very core of the Wii Linup.

Anyone who is opposed to voice chat obviously doesn't play online with people they know.

I think they should just have an option to turn it off. You play online, and you keep it off. You play with friends, you turn it on.

It'd be nice.

Though they haven't SAID there won't be voice chat. They just said that there would be those ways to taunt.. >.>

No items.
No fun.
Fox Only.
Final Destination.

While I totally agree with West Wind, I'm a firm believer in the school of options, which is one thing Nintendo has consistently denied in one way or another. They can gain the benefits of making their preferred options DEFAULT, and then allow people to use other means. Still, Smash Bros. has done a better job of offering options than most Nintendo-only games, so I'm only going to complain so much, in this case.

This thread is filled with WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH when it should be filled with

coolmatty is still too chicken to face me

Tournament Rules will have items enabled.

Agreed. Also, perhaps it should be a Stamina Mega Flower Curry Heavy Slow Angled Brawl?

I'm just saving you the embarrassment.

I really need to buy a Wii.