SmashCast #3: Mario and Sonic, Mario Strikers, and Tournament Stage Selection

[Kirby King]

Today Scav, Mic, and I discuss Mario and Sonic’s joint venture (and what it might tell us about Brawl), Mario Strikers’ online play (and what it might tell us about Brawl), and stage selection in tournaments (Brawl, not so much). Could you tell Brawl news hasn’t been too fast in coming recently?

Apologies for taking so long to actually get this posted–we recorded on Thursday, but it took me until now to get it edited and up.

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Show notes and links come after the break:

<!--more--> Show Notes/Links:
<a href="http://smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=100917">Mini WWYP2</a>
<a href="http://smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=91601">“The Thing” Forum Game</a>
<a href="http://smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=100664">INNsomnia V Results</a>
<a href="http://smashbrawl.com/2007/03/28/sonic-and-mario-go-for-gold/" title="Sonic and Mario go for gold?">Sonic and Mario go for gold?</a>
<a href="http://wii.ign.com/articles/776/776878p1.html">Sonic in Brawl “not on the cards”</a>
<a href="http://smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=100750">Overswarm’s Tournament Stages Topic</a>
<a href="http://smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=100490">MLG Grassroots Long Island</a>
<a href="http://smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=95892">FCNext</a>
<a href="http://smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=80773"> COMRADES 2</a>
<a href="http://smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=97587">Gauntlet NY</a>
<a href="http://smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=94747"> DAN!!! (free pizza)</a>
<a href="http://smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=94037"> ZEST2</a>

Also, about Remix With Your Power: if you’d like to know what’s “minimal” for our purposes, we need a theme to play during the introductory bit of the show (where we say what we’re going to talk about) and a main theme. If you’d like to put together little riffs we can play during segments or something, that’s cool, even if they’re different musical themes or ideas. Also extra backgrounds are cool–we might have a use for them in the future. The winner(s) will probably have us using their stuff, so… you know, that should be motivation enough!

 

[Frank Fly]

Awesome! Can’t wait to listen! Did you use my voicemail suggestion?

 

[Xsyven]

Screw KK and Scav. Mic, your accent is so hott.

 

[Darkmusician]

Thanks for posting this up. I’ve been waiting for this. Hope to see more soon.

 

[Lanowen]

I just can’t help but notice a similarity between the opeing Music and Metroid based music :D

 

[Eor]

I don’t sound that nasally

 

[F8AL]

Nicely done!

 

[Le (Sushiman)]

This is a good way to kill time, although I will choose to listen to this instead of doing my homework. Great work, though!

 

[YOSHIDO]

that was reall intrestin about the items. I do miss playin with the pokeballs. Im glad to hear about the smash circuits though. Cool music. Keep them comin

 

[Yomon]

Yet another great SmashCast ^_^

It took me a really long time to download on my dialup connection. But hey, I’m a patient person. And it was well worth the wait.

I really want to send a recording of myself asking a question, but I have no idea what to ask

 

[PrinceZane]

Uh. Thanks for uh. Posting that VM. I uh… didn’t realize I say uh so much.

Haha.

P.s. We had an items tourney, and it went over quite well. Just treat it as a “fun” tourney (like low tier) and it’s cool

 

[Virgilijus]

Good podcast; you guys are getting quite comfortable with this. And Mic, your accent is sweet.

 

[CAOTIC]

We need more Australian Accent in future Smashcasts!!

 

[#HBC | FrozeηFlame]

Great podcast! They just keep getting better and better. Nice job Eor in getting The Thing some publicity. That’s right people, not all forum games are mindless spam! XD Another great example of these Forum Game anomalies is Mafia. Anyone interested in The Thing should also look into the Mafia games as well.

Well that’s enough advertising I suppose. XD Oh and don’t worry Eor, your voice doesn’t sound that nasally. Power to the killer apes (and the sax playing grizzly who has yet to cameo) !

 

[Forblaze]

Nice cast, guys, it was really interesting =]. Mic should be a permanent addition to the cast. Aussie accent = too good =D. One word of advice, though; ease up on the word “awesome” xD.

Keep it up, yo.

 

[Scav]

So I’m curious what y’all thought was interesting or boring, in particular. Do you find yourself enjoying the Brawl-related rumors/news? The tournament happenings? Inside looks at why certain rules exist?

I’m thinking next week we need to have a “terms of smash” segment, where we discuss the origin of words like “sex kick,” “wavedash,” and “no johns.”

 

[Virgilijus]

What I thought was interesting was when you guys kind of branched from your “stages” discussion and started arguing over items and whatnot; you each had good points and it seemed a little more involving to the listener than the standard, non impromptu dialogue. Although don’t take that to mean improvise everything and it will be gold!

I think a brief terms guide would be good, just make sure it doesn’t run too long.

 

[Frank Fly]

Mic’s reaction to my question was priceless.

“Whaaahhh?!”

 

[Eor]

I thought it was most interesting when you discussed the forum.

 

[Mic_128]

And the killer Gorillas, right Eor?

 

[nealdt]

You think Ken is good now? Try turning on items against him. It’s scary .

 

[Exalador]

wow, my tournament (ZEST2) is in the Shownotes/links… i wonder why :D gonna listen to the smashcast right now!

 

[Exalador]

Ok just checked it, nice. I was mentioned as the tournament from the ‘Internationaly Community’ from which it isn’t sure where it’s held

Just to clear that up: It’s in the Netherlands, near the city ‘the heague’, wasn’t clearly mentioned indeed…

Thanx for the free publicity though ^^

sorry for the double post no edit possibility?

 

[#HBC | FrozeηFlame]

Scav, pretty much everything you listed was highly enjoyable. The podcast is doing exactly what it’s meant to do; just talk smash. As long as you guys keep everything in relatively good balance to avoid monotony on any given subject (which I think you guys did a great job of in this one), it really doesn’t matter all that much what specifically is being talked about.

Anyway, a little smash history sounds good. Like Virgil said though, don’t drag it out too much. I suppose its similar to a lecture; it can be very interesting to listen to at first (what with the neato facts and insights and all) but can quickly become stale after some time without a theme change. Just keep doing what you’ve been doing and I won’t be disappointed. ^_^

 

[Maximum]

YOur telling me there are no Items in tournaments?
And people don’t like them?
Random?

 

[Eor]

People should just turn off the items they don’t want. When my friends and I play, we turn off food, heart containers, and those hammers. We play it mainly as a party game, though.

 

[Scav]

That doesn’t work for competitive play, sadly. Lets turn off all recovery items. Done. Ok, and invincibility is lame. Goodbye Star and Hammer. Invisibility just delays the game and doesn’t really add to it. Done. Now the problem is bobombs and explosions, so lets get rid of those…

Wait, ****. Capsules still explode.

Pokeballs are too swingy (hoh-oh on mute city woot), and nightshade in a tournament match is fun but unproductive. Sooo, no more pokeballs. And now, the two strongest items are the metal box and the star rod. But wait… the capsules still spawn and explode, creating that effect of “bad randomness.” And at that point, we’ve banned so many items for legimate balance reasons, that it’s better just to ban everything.

 

[Eric]

is there anyway you can just sum things up on the blog, your webcasts are boring and tedious to listen to.

 

[Scav]

Yes, you can just click all the links in the show notes that usually covers everything.

 

[Eor]

Since when has the star rod been amazing?

 

[Scav]

California used to think the star rod was ban-worthy and considered it more dangerous than the bat. It’s fairly antiquated thinking, but back then it was the bane of space animals.

 

[Eor]

For a second there I thought you were just using smash terminology that I was unfamiliar with. Wasn’t until the second reading that I realized it was random words.

…I think

 

[Ben]

GAY. this sucks. you suck. thanks for just repeating news from other sites. you have no personality. the only that saves it is the aussie.

 

[David]

YESSSS!!!!!!! Finnaly sonics coming to smash bros.

 

[oxyborb]

Dude, nice cast. VEry enjoyable. You should do a character an episode of ones you think could really be interesting in Brawl… if you do, start with Dedede

 

[SSBB.IS.GONNA.BE.SO.FUN]

there should be a lot of characters and stage in the game( like “A LOT” ) i think what i’m saying is DUMB, but… I think Sakurai is keeping everything secret, so we won’t know almost nothing untill the game comes out (I bet u r thinking I’m dumb if u read this comment )

 

[SSBB.IS.GONNA.BE.SO.FUN]

oh ya..
When is ssbb coming out.. like exactly when? people say it’s 12/31 and some say 12/27 and so on. so plz tell me

 

[Charzendat]

I am not a professional player, but I am always surprised when I remember of hear about tournaments not using items. They are such a vital part of the game and just because they are random people don’t use them. Turn the rate down to very low if you must but not using items is going strictly against what Mr. Sakurai wanted. I will admit that the exploding capsules are very annoying though, hopefully they’ll let you turn that off for SSBB.

 

[Aaron]

i dont really know when its coming out. but i know its in december.

 

[Johnknight1]

Not working for me either….