up to 42 characters or so, this takes a while even if you get one every 10 minutes
― ciderpress, Saturday, 8 December 2018 02:37 (five years ago) link
Video games with friends is still very good, I’m happy to report
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Saturday, 8 December 2018 04:27 (five years ago) link
this game is amazing. Kirby's down special is taking me places, and I refuse to develop additional skills or fighters.
― go to work in some high rise...AND VACATION DOWN AT THE GULF OF (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 8 December 2018 06:56 (five years ago) link
^^ this is how I beat my kids. At Smash Brothers!
― DJI, Saturday, 8 December 2018 07:07 (five years ago) link
I’m going to bed but I want to play more smash
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Saturday, 8 December 2018 07:58 (five years ago) link
caved, bought it, hope to see some of you on the field of combat someday
― fans annoyed as emily atack screams over nick knowles' kumquat (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 8 December 2018 09:18 (five years ago) link
i think i’m already switch buddies with most of you but i’m sw-3945-2059-5597 in case i’ve missed anyone
― fans annoyed as emily atack screams over nick knowles' kumquat (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 8 December 2018 09:27 (five years ago) link
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.
― ヽ(_ _ヽ)彡 ᴵ'ᵐ ᵒᵏᵃʸ_(・_ .)/ (FlopsyDuck), Saturday, 8 December 2018 13:03 (five years ago) link
spirit rayman sonic is a jerk
― go to work in some high rise...AND VACATION DOWN AT THE GULF OF (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 8 December 2018 15:46 (five years ago) link
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.
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Saturday, 8 December 2018 16:19 (five years ago) link
want this but not willing to pay over 40 pounds sterling for a video game. years of 20£ xbox games have conditioned me thus :////////
― single bed mentality (||||||||), Saturday, 8 December 2018 16:33 (five years ago) link
Played a bunch last night with my kids. Fun but pretty much the same as the Wii U version.
― DJI, Saturday, 8 December 2018 16:37 (five years ago) link
tbf being on the Switch instead of the Wii U is a significant upgrade
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Saturday, 8 December 2018 17:07 (five years ago) link
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.
― go to work in some high rise...AND VACATION DOWN AT THE GULF OF (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 8 December 2018 17:15 (five years ago) link
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.
― ciderpress, Saturday, 8 December 2018 17:38 (five years ago) link
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
― ciderpress, Saturday, 8 December 2018 17:43 (five years ago) link
would smash
― single bed mentality (||||||||), Saturday, 8 December 2018 17:45 (five years ago) link
had a smash party last night and we got to 60 characters or sosuper fun gamereminds me of melee a lot in a good waypikachu and marth seems p overpoweredout of the newbies i think isabelle seems the most fun
― nxd, Saturday, 8 December 2018 18:26 (five years ago) link
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
― Nhex, Saturday, 8 December 2018 19:32 (five years ago) link
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
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Saturday, 8 December 2018 20:03 (five years ago) link
she's just villager with a couple abilities changed afaict
― ciderpress, Saturday, 8 December 2018 23:20 (five years ago) link
i've got everyone unlocked now but havent tried any of the new folks yet
― ciderpress, Saturday, 8 December 2018 23:21 (five years ago) link
i might be a lucario main..
― ciderpress, Sunday, 9 December 2018 00:44 (five years ago) link
Maybe i should buy myself a switch
― ヽ(_ _ヽ)彡 ᴵ'ᵐ ᵒᵏᵃʸ_(・_ .)/ (FlopsyDuck), Sunday, 9 December 2018 02:22 (five years ago) link
and a TV
― ヽ(_ _ヽ)彡 ᴵ'ᵐ ᵒᵏᵃʸ_(・_ .)/ (FlopsyDuck), Sunday, 9 December 2018 02:25 (five years ago) link
I've never really played Smash, but I have a fully adult friend who wants to bring his Switch over and, well, smash.
― change display name (Jordan), Sunday, 9 December 2018 03:34 (five years ago) link
folks, this game is good
― fans annoyed as emily atack screams over nick knowles' kumquat (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 9 December 2018 08:05 (five years ago) link
some absolute hero has made a lavish instruction manual:
― fans annoyed as emily atack screams over nick knowles' kumquat (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 9 December 2018 16:12 (five years ago) link
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
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 10 December 2018 15:16 (five years ago) link
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
― fans annoyed as emily atack screams over nick knowles' kumquat (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 10 December 2018 15:20 (five years ago) link
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
― circa1916, Monday, 10 December 2018 15:25 (five years ago) link
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
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 10 December 2018 15:34 (five years ago) link
brb gonna get a switch
― big crime for a SPECIAL WHATEVER (voodoo chili), Monday, 10 December 2018 15:51 (five years ago) link
i watched ZeRo playing link in competitive matches last night and he was doing insane harlem globetrotters shit with the remote bombs
― ciderpress, Monday, 10 December 2018 15:53 (five years ago) link
joinnnnn ussssssss xp
― fans annoyed as emily atack screams over nick knowles' kumquat (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 10 December 2018 15:53 (five years ago) link
almost all the chars are fun in this one, even the ones i used to hate or ignore in melee/brawl
― ciderpress, Monday, 10 December 2018 16:02 (five years ago) link
t-minus five or so hours until I am home and can play my kids!
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 10 December 2018 16:17 (five years ago) link
CRUSH THEM
― fans annoyed as emily atack screams over nick knowles' kumquat (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 10 December 2018 16:17 (five years ago) link
― 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.
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Monday, 10 December 2018 16:53 (five years ago) link
yeah, that's v otm
― fans annoyed as emily atack screams over nick knowles' kumquat (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 10 December 2018 16:54 (five years ago) link
smash bros is unlike street fighter, it created its own separate trunk of the fighting game tree at the very base
― ciderpress, Monday, 10 December 2018 16:59 (five years ago) link
so much so that boring people argue to this day about whether it's a "real" fighting game
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Monday, 10 December 2018 17:38 (five years ago) link
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
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Monday, 10 December 2018 19:29 (five years ago) link
incineroar is potent, if hilariously slow. His classic mode is a breeze.
― go to work in some high rise...AND VACATION DOWN AT THE GULF OF (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 10 December 2018 21:08 (five years ago) link
some of these world of light challenges seem to be saying "you don't have the right spirits yet" because they feel impossible.
― go to work in some high rise...AND VACATION DOWN AT THE GULF OF (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 10 December 2018 21:13 (five years ago) link
*spirits or skills, I suppose. Some of the items in that tree are absurd.
― go to work in some high rise...AND VACATION DOWN AT THE GULF OF (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 10 December 2018 21:16 (five years ago) link
yeah look at the power level of the fight in the top right, the 3 star ones are usually around 9000 which is way higher than you early on. you gotta level up/collect better spirits to make them more manageable
― ciderpress, Monday, 10 December 2018 21:23 (five years ago) link
this feels a bit like that subzero game MK tried but without the amazing cutscenes
― go to work in some high rise...AND VACATION DOWN AT THE GULF OF (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 10 December 2018 21:39 (five years ago) link
Careful you don’t want to end up on scrub quotes
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Saturday, 4 May 2019 18:43 (four years ago) link
if you push someone to the corner in street fighter, do you stop and let them walk back to the middle of the stage?
― ciderpress, Saturday, 4 May 2019 20:03 (four years ago) link
If you are a gentleman, yes.
― DJI, Sunday, 5 May 2019 02:18 (four years ago) link
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!
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 1 June 2019 21:18 (four years ago) link
Yes! https://www.polygon.com/e3/2019/6/11/18661233/banjo-kazooie-smash-bros-ultimate-trailer-nintendo-direct-e3-2019
― DJI, Wednesday, 12 June 2019 00:28 (four years ago) link
and the unnamed dragon quest protag before that, with separate costumes for 3,4,8,11
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 12 June 2019 02:37 (four years ago) link
DQ hero out later today
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 13:33 (four years ago) link
Nice
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 14:55 (four years ago) link
You get to play as a Blizzard?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 15:29 (four years ago) link
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.
― DJI, Thursday, 16 April 2020 18:27 (three years ago) link
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
― little johnny juul (voodoo chili), Thursday, 4 March 2021 19:39 (three years ago) link