Who can blame anyone for being excited about SSBB?

@Feigro:
Agreed, Levine's human. How would it be disappointing that he wants to play other games? He just said a few weeks ago that he was playing stuff on every system.

If anything, it's inspiring that a developer can be SO impartial in the face of fanboy dickholes like Itagaki and Newell who hate everything that isn't their primary dev platform.

@Archaotic: I think Itagaki just hates Tekken. That's not a character flaw in my book.

EVERYONE is excited about Brawl.

I can understand Smash Bros. But WoW? Seriously? I guess he doesn't do any actual programming work, as I work as a programmer and I do enough grinding there that I don't need to grind in a game.

yeah.. everyone is looking forward to brawl. (well, everyone who owns a wii)

@etchasketchist:
Well, he's also a marked fanboy who has been cited as saying he "only develops on the most powerful console", but really seems to use it as an excuse to avoid developing on Sony machines (see the PS2 and PSP for Ninja Gaiden games, and overall dickery and moneyhatting for Ninja Gaiden 2 not hitting PS3).

I know this is the internet and all, but I for one am more interested in the WoW expansion. My Wii can continue to collect dust until another light gun game comes out.

I read that interview, that guy kicks ass. And it's cool that he was interested in some simple games, you can tell thats his honest opinion.

Where does he get the idea that HIS choice is going to dissapoint people? He's being honest and that's that. I also can't wait for SSBB as well.
@Archaotic: I agree. Itagaki is a dick, not for his games (Except DOA - I harbour a deep hatred for that game), but his attitudes towards other games and people.

Yeah Mario is a plumber but he does not use a wrench i think that's why Levine likes it so much cause he think wrenches are use as weapons. LOL but then again it would be awesome to hit Pikachu in the skull with a wrench and watch him fly across the screen.

If only Big Daddies were in Brawl.

@ballaboy311:...or little sisters for that matter. HAND OVER YOUR ADAM YOU ANGEL!

Smash bros. is going to be awesome. I know most of us are looking forward to it. I wonder why he thinks he'll disappoint people...I love nintendo games, I don't say much good things about Sony games, but I am crazy for locoroco on the psp. You can love another company's games.

I own a Wii, and i'm not that bothered about brawl... i dunno i've just not 'got it' yet.

I'll prob pick it up to try and get what value i can out of the online.

Wehh? Didn't I see this post a few weeks ago? Confuzzled in the pants I be!

mario and wow can die in a fire, same goes to whoever disagrees with me.

mmmm new wow will make this 70 blood elf rouge happy

@Kaedex: /fail

@2inches:

says the lvl70 wow player..

@Kaedex: over 9 million people cant be all wrong. We cant all make out with master chief.

@crazyorloco:
@goldwings:

I'm pretty sure the people he is afraid he will disappoint are the ones who pay him for platform exclusives and who claim that when Nintendo wins, everyone else loses. Yeah, fairly certain that's who he meant.

@2inches:
Well Kaedex is right. WoW and Mario can go die in a fire. So can any other object/person/character. It is very unlikely, however, that any of them WILL. It is probably more likely that they will die in a car accident, as a result of cancer, heart disease, or suicide.

Everybody loves Smash Bros. If they don't they are likely an underdeveloped gamer.

Can't say the same for WoW.

It's always good to hear about the human side of the big names.

Rogues: the only class where you don't make initial judgements over gear, but over the fact of whether or not the player can actually spell a 5 letter word he's seen for 70 levels.

@turkeyfunk: /win

I personally can't stand standard fare MMOs, they all end up playing the same and using the same strategies with minimal differences. I abhor the grind. -_-

'Rouge nded 4 BFD/SFK'

Good God. If I had a date with Shakira every time I saw variations on that, I'd probably be a happier man.

@Kaedex: Geez, you need to spend more time on the WoW boards. There you can learn the art of how to troll effectively.

@futurebiblehero: Je suis un rouge.

Isn't this a repost of the same 1UP interview with Levine that Kotaku posted a week or two ago?

"happy-go-bored" That one made me laugh. Not a fan of MMOs, eh Mark?

SSBB is going to sell like hotcake

A word from Captain obvious

@Tanod: Yes, but since it's Smash Bros. we can forgive them.

I wonder if there's still time to fit Geno in there. I sure hope so.

And guess what special day tomorrow is??

No, not the new year, who cares about that!?

it's the all important one month and 9 days till brawl day! Celebration!

@Quine: Or if you're in Europe, the all important "Fuck! Still six months til Brawl" day.

It hurts soooo much :(

Ken Levine is my new hero. <3

@Winterbringer: @detraya: @crapsh00t:

im not excited. crapshoot, im in all likelihood older than you, better than you... in every respect but specifically at gaming, and with a longer career in games on a wider variety of platforms. so fuck off and play your fighting game, boy.

@Archaotic: Well, they're not developing Ninja Gaiden 2 for the PS3 because Microsoft agreed to publish the game. You could call that moneyhatting if you want, because Microsoft is funding the development of the game, but that would be kind of inaccurate, considering at that point basically every first-party game becomes 'moneyhatted'. If that was all it took for a game's development to be a giant corrupt conspiracy, then that happens to be true for Sony games like LittleBigPlanet or Killzone 2, and every other exclusive game on every console. People throw around the accusations of bribery and so forth like it's going out of style, because we've all become cynical and jaded as the business grows and development becomes more expensive and therefore requires more corporate investment. It's true that it always sucks when you see a game that looks really awesome and then realize it's only on a system that you don't own. To an extent, exclusive games are anti-consumer, but they're also a necessary part of this business. Sony and Microsoft's machines are, for the most part, similar in the type of experience they are trying to deliver, so the goal becomes distinguishing the two consoles through available software. And I also think in a way exclusive games push the standards of development higher because each console maker feels the pressure to deliver excellent games that are only available on their machine. Look at the best games of this year: Bioshock, Mass Effect, Super Mario Galaxy, Uncharted, Rachet and Clank... a lot of them are exclusives. After these games come out and look fantastic, the pressure is put on third parties to equal that level of quality.

I got kind of off topic there, but I felt that needed to be said.

What's with all the WoW hate?

I'm not a total fan of the game. The only time I played it was during the holiday on a trial account. But I have to admit that I did have fun.

Sure, there is grinding, but it's easy to overlook it when you consider how much life the game has. As opposed to other RPGs, like Oblivion, where all the characters look lifeless, at least there are other people to interact with. Plus, though the game may not have the best graphics, the world certainly does seem welcoming. And I, for the most part, love leveling up.

It's a very social game and I'm all about social.

Oh well, people always hate what's popular for the sole reason that it is.

WoW hate is funny because it is almost never well-reasoned. WoW is only better than every other MMO ever made to date, so it's understandable that people are jealous playing their crappy FF11 or CoH/CoV or whatever.

A little over a month to go! Mr. Levine, I too, wait patiently for Brawl. Man, I kinda wish I wasn't going out of town President's Day weekend...