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[Z25]

The new summer banner looks prettt good.
We don’t have any crazy skills outside of noire but they could all be pretty good

 

[Aurane]

I'm in full belief that this Waluigi toxic isn't even fully legitimate anymore. Some of them are real supporters, but at this point, I bet irrelevant trolls stepped in just to make it worse. We've seen it before.

 

[Cutie Gwen]

In all seriousness, I'd genuinely spend 60 euros just for Ridley had he just been a DLC character for 4, I'm that insane

 

[redfeatherraven]

.....huh?

Nothin.

Also I'll say right now that the novelty of "YOU CAN HAVE X CHARACTER FIGHT Y CHARACTER" in crossover games, has long worn out for me. Fights mean nothing if there's no story behind them. Some characters, like Shulk, can't even be well represented in Smash because their character is just too complex and they don't have a distinct personality gimmick, leading to Smash having a bastardisation of the character anyway. I'd be more excited about "everyone is here" if everyone was going to actually interact. But so far, they won't.

I have to draw out the one central sentence to the point here:

Fights mean nothing if there's no story behind them.

Not wrong. But Smash has never provided that story for me - now or ever. Little nods like Snake's codecs, Palutena's guidance, even story/adventure modes, all add spice at best.

The one time that Smash had a cohesive narrative was SSE, and look how that went down. A couple cliques of heroes formed, and eventually all went off to fight a small clique of villains, and then a big bad, while wandering around a handful of worlds, killing a half dozen bosses, and watching ROB's race go extinct. And it was fun, but we got bare glimpses and minimal interactions between the cast, who in the best cases segmented off into their own groups and couldn't widely interact, and in the worst cases had minimal to no interactions at all. ROB, Lucas, and arguably Ganondorf were the only characters who really got their own narrative arcs; the rest of the story was told by retreading familiar notes from their own stories (Red goes out and catches 'mons, DK's off to fetch his stolen banana hoard, How Samus Got Her Groove Back), or seeing what would happen if you sat the characters next to each other (blue-haired swordies join up with much rounder swordie to go whoop a bunch of ass, Weegee gets a face full of pow pow, a group of five protagonists go off to do protagonist stuff, almost everyone I haven't mentioned who showed up in a cutscene somewhere), and a couple just got the 13 inch purple rubber shaft (Tink, Wolf, Jiggs, Sonic, Bowser to some extent).

They may have seasoned it better, but it was almost all just more spice.

And for the most part, I see no issue keeping it that way.

The only narratives that truly make any difference to me with regards to my Smash play are the narratives that form around my Smash play. They involve the people I play with and the things we do.

More in-game interactions would just be more spice.

Again, this is just a matter of knowing what I came for, and crossover fic wasn't it.

Now that said, this next part does provide insight into why I think we, specifically, diverge somewhat on the point:

So because of that, the character roster was the least of my concern with this game. Smash Wii U's biggest failings were it's shoddy online, lack of varied content, and even it's mechanics to a degree. Ultimate's online experience is going to be shoddy still because a Smash game will never have dedicated servers (and rightly so) and the Mario Tennis demo proved to me that most Switch players still have really slow internet, so that's a bust. We're still in the dark on content. And while some mechanics changes are for the better, some look really eyebrow raising.

I play a fair bit of online Smash, yes, but I also play a fair bit of it in person. And of the two, in-person's always been the superior option, for a laundry list of reasons that could start and end at mediocre internet speeds but thanks to For Glory deigned to keep going anyway.

If your experience is largely online and you don't see the service improving drastically - and we're in agreement there, I'm afraid - the narratives you would craft around your Smash play would be vastly different to those I'd craft around mine. If they weren't as positive, or as numerous, or as ingrained, then they wouldn't be enough to carry it for you.

I don't really have a solution for that, unfortunately. With minimal exception, core content is more likely to be geared towards filling a void in the core gameplay mechanics - there's a reason they just call it Smash and give it half the UI billing in Wii U/3DS, that's where the game's full focus truly is - than a narrative or feature void, and I believe they're making the right call in doing so.

 

[praline]

I hope Young Link has a fierce dietyesque colour in Ultimate.

 

[redfeatherraven]

enough to toss a drunken rodent overboard

Where you gonna find one of those?

 

[Aurane]

I hope Young Link has a fierce dietyesque colour in Ultimate.

I mean, that be pretty cool, but Dark Young Link tho.

 

[Wario Bros.]

One thing that bothers me is some think there's still hope for Waluigi.

Almost the same vibe of people thinking from the Smash 3DS/Wii U Direct that Ridley was indeed playable despite the fact his shadow was shown in the boss character section of the Direct and Sakurai actually saying "boss characters make an appearance in other stages".

 

[Androobie]

OK, who set a Sonic composer loose on Bomb Rush Blush?!

Because whoever was even remotely involved in this, I LOVE YOU.

HOLY CALAMARI that melody and this guys sound go together like pepperonis on pizza.

https://www.smashbros.com/en_US/sound/index.html

Anyone who has not already, GO MY CHILDREN.

This is Callie’s song, right? If so, that means it wasn’t made by Marie. If it isn’t related to Marie, I couldn’t care less.
roll in your grave, You Callie scum

 

[praline]

So would you guys be up for more Splatoon 2 tomorrow?

 

[Jojalole]

So would you guys be up for more Splatoon 2 tomorrow?

I can totally on the weekend, on Saturday.

And I'm practicing right now lol, I don't know half of the maps hahaha.

 

[Ivander]

I'm in full belief that this Waluigi toxic isn't even fully legitimate anymore. Some of them are real supporters, but at this point, I bet irrelevant trolls stepped in just to make it worse. We've seen it before.

I wouldn't be surprised. They can't make fun of Ridley or Daisy or any past characters like Pichu anymore. Time to move onto the next big subject.

 

[Yellowlord]

So would you guys be up for more Splatoon 2 tomorrow?

I think that would work for me, honestly: we'll see.

 

[Fire Emblemier]

The new summer banner looks prettt good.
We don’t have any crazy skills outside of noire but they could all be pretty good

Tana's A skill says hi

I'm in full belief that this Waluigi toxic isn't even fully legitimate anymore. Some of them are real supporters, but at this point, I bet irrelevant trolls stepped in just to make it worse. We've seen it before.

That's the worst part of it, its kind of proving Sakurai's point that Waluigi's support is insincere.

 

[praline]

I can totally on the weekend, on Saturday.

And I'm practicing right now lol, I don't know half of the maps hahaha.

Saturday would work fine. I’d like a time when we can consistently have a full 10 person lobby.

 

[Natz~]

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Nothin.

....your acting weird :V

Where you gonna find one of those?

the one stuck in a barrel of rum trying to get to space

 

[Aurane]

That's the worst part of it, its kind of proving Sakurai's point that Waluigi's support is insincere.

I've no doubt that previous ballot also confirms this.

 

[Deleted member]

Fire Emblemier man that Toon Link in your sig is straight out of looney tunes lol. Looney Toon Link.

 

[Deleted member]

xD Though I did this one LOOOOONG before Ridley got revealed ( :V The universe listens to me!) xD And I suck at drawing K.Rool!

I know you can do it though. I agree with Yellowlord that you are a good artist!

 

[Fire Emblemier]

Yeah ts

Fire Emblemier man that Toon Link in your sig is straight out of looney tunes lol. Looney Toon Link.

Yeah its from PBG's Windwaker hacking video from a few years back.

 

[Cutie Gwen]

There was a problem fetching the tweet

What I like about this is that it gives me the idea that they decided to just keep going with it just in case only for Ridley to crush Mario's head and everyone screams and runs

 

[redfeatherraven]

roll in your grave, You Callie scum

It is surprisingly hard to find a reaction gif of this.

But anyway ain't about a side for Cori, she's just excited for good squidkid music in general.

....your acting weird :V

Must be Wednesday.

the one stuck in a barrel of rum trying to get to space

Must be another one.

I haven't even said headstart.

 

[praline]

Man literally everytime I went to use the tenta missiles an enemy team member would pop up literally out of nowhere and splat me...

 

[Coricus]

This is Callie’s song, right? If so, that means it wasn’t made by Marie. If it isn’t related to Marie, I couldn’t care less.
roll in your grave, You Callie scum

Don't make me get Trevor. He'll rip you a new one for this blasphemy LOL.

 

[Natz~]

Must be Wednesday.


Must be another one.

I haven't even said headstart.

....then what ship are we suppose to mutiny you off of?

 

[Deleted member]

Since you peeps liked my last Zelda gif, here's another one where I send Cloud to the Shadow Realm~

 

[Coricus]

Since you peeps liked my last Zelda gif, here's another one where I send Cloud to the Shadow Realm~

That's not the Shadow Realm, Zelda's just helping Cloud get back up to where his friends are~

 

[The Stoopid Unikorn]

That's not the Shadow Realm, Zelda's just helping Cloud get back up to where his friends are~

He's in Heaven with Aerith now

 

[Coricus]

He's in Heaven with Aerith now

Aerith jokes are like Emmeryn jokes.

So dark yet so, so good.

 

[Deleted member]

That's not the Shadow Realm, Zelda's just helping Cloud get back up to where his friends are~

Well I do love help those in need.

 

[Opossum]

That's the worst part of it, its kind of proving Sakurai's point that Waluigi's support is insincere.

Sakurai never actually said that.

 

[Ura]

I think people think the quote from Sakurai is true because of Alphrad's video.

 

[Mythra]

If Cloud had spammed UAir over Aerith, would he stopped Sephiroth from killing her?

 

[Ura]

If Cloud had spammed UAir over Aerith he would have stopped Sephiroth?

Yeah Cloud would have outranged Sephiroth and he would have knocked him off stage.

 

[Cutie Gwen]

If Cloud had spammed UAir over Aerith, would he stopped Sephiroth from killing her?

Yes, but Aeris would have accidentally stood up right when he hits the grounded UAir so he splits her head open

 

[praline]

I think people think the quote from Sakurai is true because of Alphrad's video.

PushDustIn is the only person I trust 100% when it comes to Sakurai

 

[Deleted member]

The only Ridley comic I want is the inevitable followup to this AwkwardZombie comic

(Actually, I'm waiting for all possible Smash Ultimate comics Katie can make but this one in particular)

 

[Deleted member]

Since you peeps liked my last Zelda gif, here's another one where I send Cloud to the Shadow Realm~

You send that Cloud to where he belongs, with the other clouds.

Also good job on bodying that man. How do you make those gifs?

 

[Cutie Gwen]

The only Ridley comic I want is the inevitable followup to this AwkwardZombie comic

(Actually, I'm waiting for all possible Smash Ultimate comics Katie can make but this one in particular)

"**** YOU YOU KILLED MY PARENTS!"PARENTS!"
"Relax, it won't happen again"

 

[redfeatherraven]

....then what ship are we suppose to mutiny you off of?

Iunno.

Since you peeps liked my last Zelda gif, here's another one where I send Cloud to the Shadow Realm~

Where's Zeb?

Found him an elevator.