Super Smash Brothers -- Present and Future

[Seph]

ITT, we talk about how we currently play Super Smash Bros., and what we expect and hope will come out of Brawl.

Right now, I'm in a transitional phase in SSBM. Basically, I used to suck, hard. I couldn't even beat the game without continuing on Very Easy. Then in the past three months, I seem to have found some kind of reservoir of skill that I never knew I had, and became decent. I started using Sheik, and became not bad at the game. Enough to beat Master Hand on Normal regularly (but not fast enough to get Crazy Hand to come out).

Then I started playing as Marth, and up until about three hours ago, he was my main player. I love Marth, and I'm told that I'm one of the only people who can use his counter effectively (that is, I'm not a cheap bastard =D). I love his aerial attacks as well as his ground attacks; and his edge-guarding skills are superior. He seemed the perfect fighter for me.

Then I decided I needed a secondary character. It's not fun playing as the same guy over and over again, right? So I tried playing as Weege-- and I love him. Apperantly, I do better with a Weege I've just started playing than a Marth I've had practice with for a month. It's kind of strange, but it's looking more and more like I'm more of a Luigi player than a Marth player.

As far as Brawl, I have several things I expect: I expect a ton of characters to return. I expect a lot more stages this time around too, and I expect a more developed Adventure mode (which while fun for the Mushroom Kingdom, severely lacked otherwise). What I would like to happen is if they include Mewtwo again, to make his attacks a bit more quicker-activating, and I'd like for them to balance out the characters a bit more.

I also hope for Sonic to be in, but who nose there =P

[CrazyMrLēo]

I have never understood the people who only play as one character. Personally, I play as all 25. Keeps things interesting.

I'd like to see the clones more differentiated in Brawl, like they did to Luigi in SSBM.

[Seph]

crazymrleo said:

I have never understood the people who only play as one character. Personally, I play as all 25. Keeps things interesting.

I play mainly as Marth/Luigi because I'm the best with them. But I'm not 'above' tangling it up with all the other characters; all though I will avoid playing certain characters (like Ganon) because I utterly suck with them =E

I'd like to see the clones more differentiated in Brawl, like they did to Luigi in SSBM.

Yeah, that'd totally rock.

[ϟ¶∀☡ⓩ]

I play as Kirby and taunt constantly. And when I feel like being an ass, I inhale opponents, jump off the edge and let them break out and fall to their doom as I float back up.

[Squiggles the Chao]

Back in the original, I was always played as Pikachu. He had good range attacks, powerful close-up attacks, and his triple jump could get around anyone who tried to jump off the side of the level and knock me down when I was trying to get back up. When falling, he could always attack in pretty much any direction. His backwards throw was also sufficiently powerful.

In Melee however, Pikachu was quite a bit less powerful, so I started playing as other characters as well. Ice climbers always controlled a bit too loosely for me, and Mr. Game and Watch's delay penalties after pretty much everything he did made him hard to use in 4 player matches.

So in Melee, I started out with Kirby. He seemed much better now that he had the hammer and the flaming smash attack. I later tried Samus, but she didn't really have a good downward attack, since her bombs were pretty weak and she couldn't shoot vertically at all.

In the end, I pretty much rotated between Kirby, Fox, Capt. Falcon, Mario/Dr. Mario, Peach, and Link.

Actually, this topic makes me want to play it again.

[Keith T. Hemari]

I play primarily as Mario, Fox or Link. As secondaries, I like Marth, Kirby, Pikachu, Luigi, and Young Link.

I like any character you can get in close with and give your opponent the smack-down.

As for Brawl? More interesting play types would be nice. I also like characters that are a challenge to play. Ness, for one, with his strange jump and the PK attacks. Zelda and Captain Falcon are two others I like, as a challenge.

Also what Leo said about clones.

[Matsrik]

Dr. Mario.

Fo' life.

[Merry Smindmas]

Link, Roy and Kirby. Aw yeah.

[SonKnuck]

crazymrleo said:

I have never understood the people who only play as one character.

I mainly play as Mario since he is the one I control the most easily.

[Sz]

Link, Kirby, Jigglypuff.


Beating the double master hand straight up (I don't know -- are there any cheap tricks? I assume with Fox there probably are...) with a character is my personal judge of skill, though.

[Seph]

sz said:

Beating the double master hand straight up (I don't know -- are there any cheap tricks? I assume with Fox there probably are...) with a character is my personal judge of skill, though.

It's really become trivial to me in the recent weeks; I think a much better judgment of skill would be killing Giga Bowser.

[Artemus]

I hear they're doing away with clone characters this time around.

Or maybe they're just doing away with clone stuff and the characters will be more fleshed out.

Anyway. I usually switch up characters, though Fox/Falco (Falco more lately, he feels more like Fox did in the first and has more power) remain my primary characters. Depends on the mood I'm in when I play.

I'd classify myself as a great player, but not an awesome one. Still haven't won any tournaments after all.

[Ashuku]

I dont own the game, but when I play I tend to stick with fox and Capt. Falcon, they seem to be my best characters.

As for brawl... I'd like to see more non-nintendo franchise characters... like mega man would be pretty sweet.

[NeroKid]

I play them in the sequence they appear on the select screen
afterwords I try to use the same character as my opponent, or a clone
Against multiple opponents I try to pick whomever won the previous match, unless I did, then I go for whomever was in 2nd place.

Generally in 4 player games I'll stay away from the combat early on if I can, taking advantage of items.

Random select level, unless there's a special item configuration. But generally, it's the fair way.

Megaman would be sweet,
but JOE.

[Ultra Magnus]

I usually use Link, Kirby, Pichu, Marth, and Samus

and Final Destination is the level of choice, then Hyrule Temple

[Mystical Thief 001]

I always had a nice solid thing goin' with Ness and Link in 64, but I've always been quite terrible at Melee with anybody.

As for Brawl, I'd like Ness to play a bit more like he did in 64, naturally. I also wouldn't mind seeing some more 3rd party characters, like Rockman (classic) and/or Phoenix Wright. (Objection attack? ) There's also a need for some more little known Nintendo characters, like Jeff from EarthBound.

[Evan]

I want a classic stlyed Zelda level to complement the classic Mario one. With the OLD MAN AND HIS FIREBALLS OF DEATH.

It would have to be an incredibly secret level, though. A SECRET TO EVERYBODY.

That'd kick so much ass

[Seph]

A SECRET TO EVERYBODY.

Everyone wondered why Sakurai and a nameless level designer were never heard from again...

[Admin]

Well, I suppose I mentioned before that Luigi, Peach, and Kirby are my "Triforce of Power".
Other characters I'm fairly OK with are Captain Hardcore (Falcon), Falco, Young Link and Ness.
I tend to avoid the slower characters such as Ganondorf, Bowser, G&W and Mewtwo. Also, I never really got the hang of Roy or Marth.
Occasionally I use Yoshi or Jigglypuff, but those are mostly to joke around with. (hindering people with Yoshi's "Egg Roll", or Jigglypuff's Rollout.)

[BlazeHedgehod]

It's hard for me to know who I'm good with. The only human opponent I've faced is Ashuku, and usually, I can't even get to crazy hand, let alone beat him.

Generally, I stick with Mario. Sometimes Captain Falcon. Or Samus.