What changes to the game did you like the most?

[The Eggplantwizard]

What are some of your favorite changes to the game in smash 4. This iteration of Smash Bros. brought a lot of changes, but I noticed there is a lot of salt complaining and focus on changes that people don't like. I thought it would be a good
change of pace to focus on the positives instead of the negatives.

 

[Enderwoman]

I like the updated art style, I don't like the direction Melee and Brawl were going.

Ledgehogging was removed, thank god.

 

[kinbobbobkin]

I guess the shield regeneration, the techs, and the removing of ledgehogging.

 

[Heroine of Winds]

I like the updated art style, I don't like the direction Melee and Brawl were going.

Same here. Smash is a cartoony game, so it makes sense that the art style should be more cartoonish/animeish. Brawl's art style really didn't sit well with me at all.

 

[33percentgod]

I commend every iteration of the game that focuses more on characters and moves rather than manipulating code, exploiting glitches and bugs in the game engine, and studying frames.

If I lose, I want it to be because you perfected the timing of your moves, not because you sat in training and beat me because you found a bug that's not supposed to be part of the game and exploited it.

That's the reason I never even bothered to touch Melee. It's a broken hunk that the community exploited to high hell. It's not a feature, it's a bug/coding issue.

 

[NocturnalQuill]

Everything they did to Ness. Trash tier to top tier overnight.

 

[COLINBG]

I commend every iteration of the game that focuses more on characters and moves rather than manipulating code, exploiting glitches and bugs in the game engine, and studying frames.

If I lose, I want it to be because you perfected the timing of your moves, not because you sat in training and beat me because you found a bug that's not supposed to be part of the game and exploited it.

That's the reason I never even bothered to touch Melee. It's a broken hunk that the community exploited to high hell. It's not a feature, it's a bug/coding issue.

I agree with the ''don't use glitches'' mentality, generally, but I'd like to take melee's defense here.

Suff like wavedashing were known by Sakurai and the team, but they chose to leave it in the game. They simply didn't think it would be THAT exploitable, but it still doesn't make it a glitch. But even then; it's relatively easy to perform. Everyone can do it with some practice. It's not a glitch that can randomly kill players, it's simply something that expands your options and can offer richer gameplay.

You can become good by learning the characters/moves. You can also become good by learning frames/advanced technical stuff. But a GREAT player will be able to do both of these, and actually combine them to make the game richer. Knowing how to do things like wavedashing (or perfect pivoting, for example) lets you use yourcharacters' moves to their full potential, so I believe these ''glitches'' are actually good for competitive gaming.

I only talked about wavedashing, but my point still stands for other techniques like this. If everyone can do it reliably, and it's not broken to the point where it makes gameplay degenerates, it can't be bad.

I get where you're going with your point, though. Sm4sh is more focused on characters and the psychological side than melee, which is more focused on technical skill. None of these two games is inferior to the other, they simply give more importance to two separate areas of the game (which is also why few people are great at both games).

 

[Sari]

No. More. Random. Tripping.

 

[Putuk]

The ledge mechanics.

 

[Tino]

The sound effects when you beat people up.

 

[L9999]

Ledge trumping. No more tripping. The balance.

 

[BaPr]

Better online than Brawl. I never feel hopeless in a match up. The amount of characters. DLC . Ledge trumping (ledge trump almost always leads into a sweet spotted B-air with Pit ), which helps out heavyweights with edge guarding. I know most people don't agree with me on this, but rage mode. Heavy weights benefit from this so much, and Lucario with rage + aura is amazing.

 

[Quarium]

The ledge mechanics for sure, edgehogging was such an easy to do and outright unprofessional technique, now we get awesome ledge fights and so many more characters are viable simply due to this!

Also, the artstyle for sure... can't even look at brawl the same way after playing 4.

 

[ParanoidAndroid]

I like a lot of what has already been mentioned. One thing I didn't see when looking through the posts quickly is the lighting effect when you hit someone really hard. I also how when you get a KO your character flashes quickly indicating who got the KO. Small nice touches they got right.

 

[Dr.Megaman]

The changes to and . They're SO GOOD!

 

[Purin a.k.a. José]

The art-style (I honestly was afraid the game would get even more realistic), the balance and no tripping!

 

[BaPr]

I like a lot of what has already been mentioned. One thing I didn't see when looking through the posts quickly is the lighting effect when you hit someone really hard.

What's the lighting effect? Is that when you launch an opponent far, they have your player's color? Or is it the attacks like Pit's Upperdash Arm where it has a red effect when you connect? I think the same thing applies to Little Mac's KO punch

 

[ParanoidAndroid]

What's the lighting effect? Is that when you launch an opponent far, they have your player's color? Or is it the attacks like Pit's Upperdash Arm where it has a red effect when you connect? I think the same thing applies to Little Mac's KO punch

Yeah the red and black effect, it reminds me of lightning. I found the pick of the day about it. I guess there is no official name for it.

 

[CYBERSHADOW_01]

I like the fact that it's portable now so I can take it anywhere.

 

[Swampertrulz]

Better online. Thank GOD there is no more of that TERRIBLE Brawl online.

 

[Riuvee]

Definitely the Ledge Mechanics / lack of grab chains. Also the more colorful art direction, despite that I liked Melee / Brawl's take (though Brawl's Bowser looked so creepy, in my opinion...) It feels much more Nintendo-ish, if that makes any sense.

One last thing I love is that Meteor Effect noise. Makes them feel even more exciting than before.