Recent content by SnappyJ

Saying that online play is "poisonous" is pretty sensationalist. Just because someone uses online as their main form of competitive training does not make them inherently less competitively viable than someone who does not. The main point, as others have mentioned, is understanding the game...

In my experience, 3DS games always look significantly better than initial impressions based off online vids and screens. It's certainly a nice surprise when it happens since I seem to forget that fact often. I guess there's something magical about that 3DS screen that makes games look awesome!

The roster is what got me to play the SSB64, but the addition or subtraction of characters doesn't really determine my purchase of subsequent games. Even if there was a character I didn't want added or a character I did want left out, I usually end up finding out a new character that I never...

Let's see I'll be: Going to work Playing Mario Kart 8 once I pick it up after work! Probably streaming Mario kart 8 Making Podcasts Let's Plays More work Pretty much the usual stuff, nothing to out of the ordinary for me.

Sakurai has done a pretty great job at picking newcomers that are not only fun characters (or just strange...Wii Fit Trainer) but offer really unique gameplay mechanics. Rosalina's puppet mechanics, Little Mac's OHK gauge, and Villager's pocket ability to name a few. I am hoping for a few more...

I really just find this idea unnecessary. I know people love Melee to death, and there's nothing wrong with that, but I think we need to move on and take the new game for what it is. If you aren't a fan and prefer the Melee engine, you still have Melee and Project M. And honestly if you really...

Our Twitch is http://www.twitch.tv/pressstarttostart. We stream sporadically depending on when we have time/have a game we feel would be fun to stream. Mostly we do podcasts and YouTube stuff. But I'm hoping to get back to streaming in a week or two, it's a good change of pace from just...

Yeah my friend and I will be live streaming on Twitch when the game comes out. We never get many viewers but we always have fun with the few people that decide to tune in. It's really interesting to interact with people in a somewhat more direct way than through other forms of media like YouTube.

This is exactly what I was thinking as well. 5 players seems a little unnecessary but having the gamepad player serve a unique function would actually make things pretty interesting. Like you said, controlling item placement could be really fun or give them the ability to use/activate stage hazards.

Yeah that's for sure! What they could do is just have everyone with the flag move at the same base speed to prevent characters like Sonic or Captain Falcon from being crazy OP. I just want them to come up with some new game modes beyond Coin Battle and Special mode.

I think it's a pretty safe bet that Smash 4 will have a pretty big feature during their stream. Since the 3DS version will be coming in a few months, that will probably be highlighted quite a bit and detail more modes, online, trophies, stages, etc. I'm hoping that they will detail more about...

I would love to see a king of the hill game mode for multiplayer! I remember making our own rules to play KotH on Hyrule Temple on the pedestal at the bottom of the stage or any other stage with a tiny platform. Capture the flag would also be really fun on some of the bigger stages like...

The announcer is fine the way he his in my opinion. The matches are chaotic enough as it is and adding in even more noise with someone talking over everything would get obnoxious. What I would love is if the crowd was back to the hype level of Smash 64. They got so stoked if someone made it back...

I'm glad Nintendo if FINALLY making strides into more multi-functioning online modes. I don't exactly have a lot of faith in them to give us as diverse an online mode we want, but I do expect it to meet some minimum expectations: The online to actually function. If games like Call of Duty can...

This is exactly what I was thinking of! Tired animations definitely would fit in better than battle damage. I think battle damage just feels too gritty for the playful feel of the game.