New Smash Bros. overhauls edge-grabbing--how will it affect gameplay?

So they're making characters automatically knock their opponent off the ledge (presumably if they have more damage than the opponent)? How about having it take skill to get back onto the stage?

The edge hog "technique" is pretty silly, but I'd much rather see them remove ledge invincibility completely and allow all attacks to cancel (MANUALLY, aka with the grab button) into a ledge grab, so you can hit your opponent with a regular move and still grab the ledge if you're close enough. Unfortunately they're trying to make the game more casual, so I don't see any chance of ledge invincibility going away, or having to manually grab the ledge.

Balancing a mechanic that was otherwise broken in Brawl to be utilized by skillful people is "ruining the fun"?

Hold on a second this games being made by Namco Bandai? Oh god no!

Ironic how is Nintendo which's trying to "grab the egde" of things

Man this game is so overhyped. Every new character that gets announced we have to hear about it and now we're getting articles about how edge grabbing is overhauled. What's next? You going to let me know what soundtracks the game will have?

Not sure who's worse. Eddie trolling fanboys, or fanboys knowing that Eddie is trolling them and calls Eddie a troll in every post, thus being trolled.

Of course everybody is focusing on the new consoles now. When the hype dies down and things return to normal, Nintendo console will start selling again. I for one have Xbone and still play my wii U wind waker and 3D world. It is just a good change in gaming.

cross platform play not supported? come on

sounds good can't wait

50 charecters would be n ice

RIP Planking.

Don't exactly know why you made an entire article for this, I guess for more fanboys wars.

This one's a trumph card on Nintendo's hands, possibly one of the main reasons people still buy their consoles, so they cannot afford to screw this one out, literally speaking even.

Buying both versions of this. Gonna smash on the subway on the way to work.

hurry up and ship the game or your company will get an overhaul

And pigs will fly..

I'm quite happy just to to play this on 3DS. Not sure if or when I'll invest in a WiiU.

I'm so frickin stoked for this game. It's just too bad I don't have the money to buy a WiiU otherwise I'd get one for this game. Well HOPEFULLY SOON I can get some frickin money. That would be a novel change...

Its good to see they are fixing the cheapness from Brawl. Edge Grabbing now needs skill to use and being able to cancel others edge grabbing if your more healthy is great, i can see it as a buff to Yoshi and Olimar

It's definitely nice that they are taking the time to tweak things like this, although I do hope they cover edge guarding as well because there have been too many characters over the year that can get a KO on you at 20% since they can spam you off the map until you die...*cough cough Marth*

If the game is as slow as brawl, I'll pass. Melee was still my favorite.

this game wont save nintendo, increase sales by a huge margin?yes. save wii u?no.

most people already own a wii u by now.