[Wii] Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Ver. 214. Gobble Gobble Gobble, Slurp Slurp Slurp

I'm kind of surprised people consider exploiting Smash Bros glitches to be fair play at all. A fair number of people sneer at roll cancelling in Capcom vs SNK 2, and infinite combos are generally verbotten in any game. There's a pretty big difference between clever tricks and things that clearly shouldn't be happening in the first place.

It's a big problem at any rate - playing in person, you can just tell the other guy to go fuck off if he starts abusing that infinite Falco blaster, but there's not much you can do in netplay. The best you could do is make sure you only play 4-way games against strangers and hope the two other players will help gang up on the offender.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I dunno. Did you watch the movies? There's not much skill involved with Falco's infinite. You just spam the blaster and bounce him all the way across the board, or pin him against the wall and jack his damage up to 300%. Short of the other players coming to your rescue, you're kinda screwed. Doubly so if EVERYONE plays Falco.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Falcon looks like he's about to have a hernia there.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by Megalith

Wow. They hired the actors back from MGS just to do that? Was it Konami or Nintendo's idea?

David Hayter eats this stuff up; he probably jumped at the chance himself. The codec conversations for MGS3 were very nearly wackier than anything they could come up with for Brawl.

That, and Konami already has the cast immediately on tap, since they're still in the middle of making MGS4. "Hey, as long as you're here, can you take a day off to record some lines about wanting to eat Yoshi?"

I'd be willing to do voice chat with people I know, but random strangers? Hell no. I have it on pretty good authority that it's bad enough on Xbox live, having to listen to some 12 year old whose voice hasn't even changed screaming profanities at you anytime you have even the slightest advantage. I don't really care to have that here.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Okay, THAT is a compelling reason to own a modded Wii. I could spend months playing with that.

lol everyone has a landmaster

I was speaking idiomatically.

Is Gamestop offering midnight sales to pre-orders only, or could you concievably just wander in and pick up a copy? I might wander down to pick up a copy, even though I'm not much interested in the tournament. If not, I guess I could just hit Target around the crack of noon and see what's left.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

I can roll out later tonight and see who's still taking pre-orders, I reckon. My brother showed up at Gamestop and pre-ordered Burning Crusade the night it was due to release, and since he worked at that mall he was able to get there first in line.

FELIPE NO

I never ever reserve games. It encourages places like Gamestop to not sell to walk-ins at ALL, and you generally have to endure a painful amount of upselling in the process. Not to mention if I show up on release day, pre-order slip on hand, and they run out because they didn't order enough, I'm going to be nine kinds of pissed off.

It's actually less stressful to pre-order, because reservations don't actually mean you're guaranteed your game.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Hah, screwed without a preorder, eh? Target had like 20 copies on the shelf. They weren't anywhere near close to sold out when I went by around noon. This should easily be available all week to anybody who missed the train, just have to avoid Gamestop and the like.

I'm not really liking the platforming levels in SSE. The controls are just not set up for those kinds of jumps, and my brother and I have been suffering an awful lot of cheap deaths because of it. Nothing TOO frustrating, since they at least let you continue from the same screen.

I'm almost afraid to post my friend code since I'm still just trying to learn basic strategies, but I'm 3609-0721-7335. I'll appear online as MKing, naturally enough. Now you guys can come on and make a complete mockery of me.

EDIT: Or you can, once I get my network issues resolved. For some ridiculous reason my Wii will not stay connected to the wireless router. I might need to move it to another room.

How ya doing, buddy?

I was focused on Mr. Game and Watch mainly for the novelty factor, but after taking him for a spin in SSE he's surprisingly straightforward. I really wasn't expecting him to be that good. The only really wierd attack is his projectile (which is now fish, sausage, bacon, AND flapjacks), which isn't that hard to adjust to if you treat it as an anti-air attack. He plays a lot like an agile heavyweight; crappy range, but his stuff hits pretty hard.

I called it a night at 65%; just how late in does Sonic appear? I know he was a last minute addition, but much longer and he's just going to be a cameo at the end.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I dunno how well it works out against a decent opponent, but I found Squirtle's Up+B move to be pretty beastly when timed right. I'm still trying to figure out how best to use Charizard, though. It's feeling like he's just no good on the ground, but I'm not very good at air combat. Well, not with a slow guy like Charizard, anyway.

The only problem with Pokemon Trainer is that Squirtle keeps reminding me of Conan O'Brian's Vomiting Kermit bit, especially the way he yells his name. That, and you guys weren't kidding; PKMN Trainer sounds like he smokes 4 packs a day. Gravelliest teenager ever.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

You non-job having peoples. All I've managed to do is clear SSE with my brother over the past two days, minus Wolf because I keep losing my good characters on the way to his door. I've discovered that Charizard is a monster on teeny tiny stages like Onett, but in a wide open level he's just a liability, especially when the computer won't stop juggling me.

It's nice to hear that they put some effort into making even the oddball characters playable. I wouldn't have guessed Olimar could be that punishing for the short time I played him. I wish I could figure out how you use the heavyweight fighters, though. I tried Dedede, but I just keep getting kicked in the nuts trying to do anything other than A attacks.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

I haven't been shunning anyone, I just haven't had a chance to deal with my WiFi setup. I haven't added anybody's friend code to my list yet, but I plan to go down the wiki list as soon as I get a chance. You'll probably be seeing a lot more of me this weekend; my free days at the beginning of the week were spent unlocking stuff. Freaking Wolf took me like 20 tries to beat, since I kept losing Game and Watch on the way to his door.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Okay, Wifi is up and working. The "With Anyone" game I played was rather laggy, but no telling where that might be coming from; I'm still not able to get a full system update from Nintendo, despite the Wii sitting directly next to the router. I'll be going down the list with friend codes now.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Man, you guys are gluttons for punishment. I just skipped the Cruel Melee challenge with a hammer and called it a day. Given enough time I can probably pull off the target smash challenges, but I'm not going to bother with something that's impossible to clear without 'cheating'.

What's annoying me is how many challenges are still hidden to me. I'm trying to avoid resorting to Gamefaqs, but I'm getting close to the point where I can't do any more easy challenge creeps to see the rest of the clues, and I really don't want to go around randomly doing everything on Hard hoping I'll get something by accident. Makes it hard to shoot for the stages and CDs first.

FELIPE NO

100 Man Brawl becomes more tedious than difficult if you just whore out your character of choice's major smash moves. I got through it with Game and Watch, abusing his Up+B then down air attacks to create a vertical line of death, sprinkled liberally with ground down attacks. My brother then showed me up by beating the 3:30 challenge by solely abusing Marth's upward attacks.

Also, I did not know you could co-op All Star Mode. That should make it dramatically easier, both in having a partner and preventing the game from going at you three-on-one. ...Except I think I already hammered the challenge for Extreme. Oh well.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Originally Posted by KrelEN

After beating SSE, I raged at the Latin lyrics.

The translation is ALL. FUCKING. WRONG. Stylistic liberties and whatnot, but unless you're a slut with the grammar, it doesn't make sense.

Mostly I just raged at how BAD the lyrics were. That was some seriously insipid stuff, even if the translation had been accurate.

Jam it back in, in the dark.