SUPER SMASH BROS. ULTIMATE (ง’̀-‘́)ง thread of fighting

are you kidding, you need to take this opportunity to start getting better than them

first session will be during office happy hour later today. everyone else had digital downloads last night, so I am fucked.

classic mode feels like the fast way to unlock characters playing solo, the runs are pretty fast and you get a challenger at the end of each

world of light is cool but it's a lot of stuff

up to 42 characters or so, this takes a while even if you get one every 10 minutes

Video games with friends is still very good, I’m happy to report

this game is amazing. Kirby's down special is taking me places, and I refuse to develop additional skills or fighters.

^^ this is how I beat my kids. At Smash Brothers!

I’m going to bed but I want to play more smash

caved, bought it, hope to see some of you on the field of combat someday

i think i’m already switch buddies with most of you but i’m sw-3945-2059-5597 in case i’ve missed anyone

I’ve watched the world’s #1 smash player, zero, on twitch the past two days. He used a trick to unlock every character quickly. Pretty much all he had to do was play whatever he wanted for a while to raise overall distance travelled. Then he switched in-game language (to quickly reset) and maybe he switched logged in user while doing so (?). Then he played the first level of classic mode (I think that mode) and quickly killed himself. A new challenger appeared every time. He then beat the challenger and repeated the trick by going back to the change language screen.

spirit rayman sonic is a jerk

I realize ppl are going to want to cheese the unlocks but I’d rather just play the game for a few days, I’ll have the characters for the whole rest of time I don’t need to have non-fun this weekend

Rip tournament organizers though I guess.

want this but not willing to pay over 40 pounds sterling for a video game. years of 20£ xbox games have conditioned me thus :////////

Played a bunch last night with my kids. Fun but pretty much the same as the Wii U version.

tbf being on the Switch instead of the Wii U is a significant upgrade

silby otm on unlocks. But most of the characters are new to me, so each unlock is exciting. I have broken away from my kirby spamming ways to play as young link with a playlist full of saria's song.

i'm just clearing classic mode with every character to get unlocks and also learn/relearn what all the characters do. i did a few hours of world of light but didn't find any of my preferred chars yet so it was slow going

my taste in characters may have flipped since the last time i smashed, i'm liking the heavies this time whereas i used to avoid them. DK in particular used to be my least favorite char in the original but i'm liking him now. ganondorf is still 'slow captain falcon' but he has way more tangible weight to his attacks now and feels a lot more brutal.

it never really occurred to me until they put ryu in smash that mario was basically ryu in the original, he had the hadoken and the shoryuken and the tatsumaki

would smash

had a smash party last night and we got to 60 characters or so
super fun game
reminds me of melee a lot in a good way
pikachu and marth seems p overpowered
out of the newbies i think isabelle seems the most fun

spent waaay too much time playing the Spirits mode last night. only unlocked maybe 8-10 characters, but I guess i can grind Classic if I want to push it

I don’t have Isabelle yet but I quick matched against someone who did last night and she is wild. The fishing rod is crazy

she's just villager with a couple abilities changed afaict

i've got everyone unlocked now but havent tried any of the new folks yet

i might be a lucario main..

Maybe i should buy myself a switch

and a TV

I've never really played Smash, but I have a fully adult friend who wants to bring his Switch over and, well, smash.

folks, this game is good

some absolute hero has made a lavish instruction manual:

https://imgur.com/a/gvSJXL1

I kinda wanna get this, but explain me the appeal - is there more to it than streetfighter 2 button-mashing, with better graphics and characters? that's fine, but don't want to over-expect what i'm getting

i am a fighting-game agnostic at best but i've been v much enjoying it, not just as a fun game in its own right (which it def is, even in single-player) but an incredibly lavish celebration of a huge range of videogame history

never really got into this series, but curious about dipping back in with this one.

Smash Bros has always been waaaay more button mashy than Street Fighter btw, so be warned if that's a concern. xp

I am so bad at this game. Bf is maining Lucario and I'm faffing about trying to unlock Cloud so I don't feel so bad about losing constantly

brb gonna get a switch

i watched ZeRo playing link in competitive matches last night and he was doing insane harlem globetrotters shit with the remote bombs

joinnnnn ussssssss xp

almost all the chars are fun in this one, even the ones i used to hate or ignore in melee/brawl

t-minus five or so hours until I am home and can play my kids!

t-minus five or so hours until I am home and can play my kids!

CRUSH THEM

Smash Bros has always been waaaay more button mashy than Street Fighter btw, so be warned if that's a concern. xp

― circa1916, Monday, December 10, 2018 10:25 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

there's nothing about SSB that makes this it inherently more of a button-masher. just like any other fighting game you can get away with playing like that against other people that are at that level, but there is a straightforward logic to how each character's set of moves suggests different combos and once you start figuring that out you'll be able to beat people that button mash.

the beautiful thing about SSB that makes it feel more elegant than most other fighters imo is that there is no memorization of commands involved at all, you don't input a string of button presses that then lock the character into an ability. every character responds to the same commands in ways that are fairly predictable, so once you have a feel for how to use each directional basic, special, smash, and air attack on one character you can then translate that into a rough approximation of how to use any other character (not very well, necessarily, but at least beyond button-mashing.) and the other great thing about the simple command system (of directional + A or B,) is that it allows players to quickly string together these abilities in infinitely complex ways, which involves developing an intuitive sense of how the abilities interact with the physics of the game, how far and in which direction an ability moves the enemy and how long it renders them unable to move so you can follow up the previous attack and stay on the offensive. getting a feel for that is really where the depth comes from, with characters flying further after they've taken more damage, and at different rates for different character weights.

yeah, that's v otm

smash bros is unlike street fighter, it created its own separate trunk of the fighting game tree at the very base

so much so that boring people argue to this day about whether it's a "real" fighting game

Smashed brothers are all alike; each unsmashed brother is unsmashed in its own way.

— RYAN RULZ OK (@ryanqnorth) December 10, 2018

Whenever you feel like smashing any brother, he told me, just remember that all the people in this world haven’t smashed the brothers you’ve smashed.

— matt weinberger is not going to CES (@gamoid) December 10, 2018

incineroar is potent, if hilariously slow. His classic mode is a breeze.

some of these world of light challenges seem to be saying "you don't have the right spirits yet" because they feel impossible.

also if you play smash with me from now until the end of time i will be picking Reach Out To The Truth as the music every game sorry in advance

I predict stage builder will amuse me for about eight minutes, wonder if the competitive scene will invent any sick new configurations of three platforms.

Edge-guarding is a sign of moral decay and anyone who does it should be shunned.

Careful you don’t want to end up on scrub quotes

if you push someone to the corner in street fighter, do you stop and let them walk back to the middle of the stage?

If you are a gentleman, yes.

We recently got a pretty big TV, but part of the fun of Smash is that when more than two of us are playing we typically have no idea what the fuck is going on. There's the three+ of us bouncing around, all the other creatures/action, the moving arenas ... it's just chaos!

Yes!
https://www.polygon.com/e3/2019/6/11/18661233/banjo-kazooie-smash-bros-ultimate-trailer-nintendo-direct-e3-2019

and the unnamed dragon quest protag before that, with separate costumes for 3,4,8,11

DQ hero out later today

Nice

You get to play as a Blizzard?

If anyone wants to play some online Smash with my kids, let me know via PM. They are too good for me at this point. We bought the ethernet adapter, so their latency should be low.

been playing lots of online ultimate lately, mostly as pac-man and bowser jr., so if you want to get beaten up by a ridiculous character send me your friend code