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
need qui gon jinn in the fighters pass
― go to work in some high rise...AND VACATION DOWN AT THE GULF OF (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 10 December 2018 21:42 (five years ago) link
i love it when i transcend sport
― ciderpress, Monday, 10 December 2018 23:06 (five years ago) link
whoops wrong thread heh
I wish I could print out that awesome fan-made manual, but 45 color against background blocks of black pages seems like trouble.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 13 December 2018 13:22 (five years ago) link
That’s what the office printer is for!
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Thursday, 13 December 2018 15:40 (five years ago) link
Otm
― fans annoyed as emily atack screams over nick knowles' kumquat (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 13 December 2018 15:41 (five years ago) link
Link above not in a printable format.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 13 December 2018 22:54 (five years ago) link
https://mega.nz/#!mzAH2CIb!YOFy3hQzP_0hC03NT54ID8g1Obw_hSrK9%20DbFAlMTY0c
(lol mega)
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Thursday, 13 December 2018 23:11 (five years ago) link
Thanks!
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 13 December 2018 23:23 (five years ago) link
how are you all feeling about the online play? like, just the quality of the match, lag?
i haven't played smash since n64, but i'm wary because after reading bennett foddy's thoughts on lag:
https://www.polygon.com/2014/3/11/5491146/why-you-dont-want-an-online-mode-towerfall
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 13 December 2018 23:27 (five years ago) link
It’s laggy and kind of all over the place. Nintendo didn’t do a network test for this so it’s likely improvements will come. I haven’t gotten/tried an Ethernet adapter yet, but I might. I haven’t played much online but maybe I’ll make an ilxor arena sometime over the weekend and post about it but I’d want someone to commit in advance to hang out there w me because it’s no fun just sitting there waiting for someone to join a lobby
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Thursday, 13 December 2018 23:38 (five years ago) link
it's like any other fighting game in that it's as good as the worst internet connection in the game. the only difference here is that it's on a system that most people use on wifi so the average connection quality is worse, and you may be playing with 4 players instead of 2
― ciderpress, Friday, 14 December 2018 01:39 (five years ago) link
OK, first family match done! I won, a lot, but not all the time, surely due to playing with the stupid joycon vs. my favored Pro, but also not really knowing what anything does. Tons of fun, of course.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 14 December 2018 02:24 (five years ago) link
should i get this game
― gbx, Monday, 24 December 2018 17:41 (five years ago) link
have u played a smash before
do u have “ friends “
― there are no good podcasts (||||||||), Monday, 24 December 2018 17:43 (five years ago) link
yeah if you like Super Smash Bros., this is the best version on Nintendo's best console, and you should get it. If you have friends, this is not the most accessible thing to do with your friends on Switch (that's Mario Kart), but it's more accessible than a "real" fighting game.
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Monday, 24 December 2018 17:47 (five years ago) link
i have never played a smash before
literally just got mario kart yesterday to have something to play with my best friend's kids on xmas
― gbx, Monday, 24 December 2018 18:01 (five years ago) link
I don't know how to sell Smash to someone who's never played it before. I'd say it's sui generis but some stripped down imitators have been developed in recent years, some of them well-regarded, so it's more accurate to say it's genre-defining. It's both a deep competitive game and a goofy party game with lots of explosions and chaos and getting to play Bowser vs. Pikachu vs. Princess Zelda vs. the dog from Duck Hunt.
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Monday, 24 December 2018 18:05 (five years ago) link
Watching my kids get their butts kicked online right now.
― DJI, Monday, 24 December 2018 18:15 (five years ago) link
do you like video gamesdo you like nintendothen yesexpect a trifle, be pleasantly surprised if you get really into it
― Nhex, Monday, 24 December 2018 21:06 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvIIK6qJahg
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 30 January 2019 03:37 (five years ago) link