Recent content by PoptartLord

The platforms are more than wide enough for a proper neutral to be played (spoken from bracket match experience in 4), but what I really want to address is the second half of that response. Following this line of thinking there are exactly 0 legal stages in the game since literally any stage...

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While possible, it's highly unlikely. Smash 4 was the only patchable game so there's not a lot of history to go by. The only stage patch I remember is when they fixed Wuhu Island, and even with that no design was changed. EDIT: As per ParanoidDrone they also touched up Lylat's ledges. From a...

What's all this now? Why are all of these stage lists getting praise? Where to start... ok, how about with how they're still using the Starter / Counterpick ideology? History has shown it doesn't actually solve the problem it's meant to solve, and now that the in-game menu order has switched...

Here's something people are forgetting: we have the option to save and load settings now. There is no need to worry about setting it to stocks, or the correct stock count, or a number of other settings. Just load the pre-saved settings before starting game 1 and you're good to go. It's almost...

Hmm, AA beat me to a few points but I'm going to type this all out anyway (no fair posting while I'm eating dinner!) What's this I'm reading about a 3-2-1 system? That sounds like it's part of a starter-counterpick dichotomy. Spoiler: the starter-counterpick system does not work. Here's the...

This was from a few pages ago now, but there is a reason for purposely choosing a stage with a randomized layout - when your adaptability (ability to think on your feet) is greater than your opponent's. A lot of players get lost in the paradigm of "play this way on this stage". After all, it's...

I'm looking forward to seeing the results of that poll. I keep hearing "The community wants X" but there's no way to back that up. This won't be perfect but it's a good start. Especially as more people participate. Oh, I should mention for those that didn't check it out yet that It's not...

Quite the exciting Direct we got today. Before moving on to the new shiny things I'd like to reiterate how the starter+counterpick paradigm has consistently failed and we should abandon it entirely. As said before, it's not a list of "starters" and "counterpicks" but rather a list of "the...

I've thought up one more for your list: Stages with Alternate Win Conditions: The standard win condition for Smash is for the opponent to hit a blastzone. I can't avoid using an example here, but Great Cave Offensive is designed so that you win by knocking a damaged opponent into a hazard...

Basically, yes. As long as its an incline. If for some reason a stage has a ramp going down to a blastzone that's even worse than normal. Not that such a stage exists yet. Here's potentially one more for the list: NPCs (or Boss Monsters, if you prefer). They essentially add another...

But... but you said no specific stage discussion! I'll do it since you insist, but I'm throwing it in a spoiler tag so nobody accidentally reads it. We both know what a cave is and why they're bad, and since they were brought up I saw an opportunity to clear something up. I have repeatedly...

Since this has been brought up a couple of times recently I'll weigh in on this: It is indeed an incredibly bad reason. Who needs memory when we live in a world with this wondrous, high-tech thing exists called: a sheet of paper with the stage list printed out on it!! It can even keep track...

Some of those "obvious criteria" aren't so cut and dry. Allow me to expand on a few: Permanent Walk-offs: For the most part yes, I'm right there with you on this one. There is one case that should go in the "needs more testing" section - ramps leading up to the blastzone. This is mostly due...

Didn't you know? Any hard ceiling is a cave of life. That's Smash 101. Even Moray Towers has a cave of life! The hard ceiling is to the left of the bottom floor hovering over a pit of missed-tech-to-stage-spikey-DOOM. You can make it to 300% there, easy You could always* have punished...