ember-spark asked: Umm, something you said piqued my curiosity a bit. I may be a bit biased because I loved Kid Icarus: Uprising, but why do you think Dark Pit is bad?
Don’t be offended too much. I actually don’t hate Dark Pit as a character (I don’t even really hate Dr. Mario, Pichu or Roy as characters) it’s the inclusion in Smash that rubs me the wrong way and not exactly the character.
He has similarities to my problems with Dr. Mario which up until Dark Pit was confirmed as a Newcomer through the leak. Was my least favorite inclusion in Smash Bros. history. So first I’ll list my problems with Dr. Mario from Melee before I list off why I don’t like Dark Pit’s inclusion.
*Dr. Mario is a minor part of the Mario series. I actually really like the Dr. Mario games. But I never would think of seeing Dr. Mario as a completely seperate character from Mario himself
*Would be ALOT better as an Alt
*Competiively, he’s at least slightly better then Mario. This rubs me the wrong way in why didn’t they give the properties that made Dr. Mario better to Mario in the first place?
*Sakurai’s logic for making him a seperate character made no sense. It was based on “Dr. Mario looks weird throwing fireballs”. It’s not impossible to change the fireballs though. Project M managed to make Dr. Mario an Alt, with fireballs changed to the Megavitamins and even the sound effect programmed in and everything. Why couldn’t an official game do that?
Now let’s get to Dark Pit
*He’s a minor part of his one game (I saw a full let’s play of Kid Icarus Uprising, so I know most of the story. Dark Pit didn’t really have that big of a role overall)
*Would be so much better as an Alt. In fact he technically was one in Brawl. Though he wasn’t really a character back then, just a black recolor of Pit. And heck they made Alph an alt for Olimar and the Koopalings alts for Bowser Jr., yet they made Dark Pit a seperate character? wat?
*While we don’t know yet for sure if he’s better or worse then Pit. We DO know that he’s basically a Melee-esque clone of Pit with not many different attacks. His Final Smash is different from Pits, but it’s a clone Final Smash of a different character: Zelda & Shiek’s.
*Kid Icarus should not have three representatives. Before Uprising, the last Kid Icarus game was just a little over 21 years ago. And it’s not even considered canon. Going back to the first Kid Icarus game. That came out almost three decades ago. Some people complained about Star Fox getting three reps in Brawl when that franchise was up and down every few years or so. Imagine how Kid Icarus getting as many (And with Star Fox & Mother reps shrinking, as well as Kid Icarus having more representatives then Metroid and Donkey Kong) as Star Fox did in Brawl might rub people the wrong way
*Even if Kid Icarus earned the right for three representatives. There were far better choices. Like Medusa who was the main antagonist of the first game, and played a decently important role in the story. Or Hades who while he would be as new as Dark Pit is, he’s already become a pretty beloved villain just in his short time.
*While this is a relatively minor point, I can’t help but feel the Shadow the Hedgehog vibes I get from him. That’s not a good thing by the way.
*And lastly he’s just overall too minor & too recent in the overall scheme. He doesn’t even have the history that even Dr. Mario had (The first Dr. Mario game was in 1990) While Greninja is even more recent then Dark Pit. There’s a difference between Kid Icarus and Pokemon. As I sad two bullet points ago. The gap between all the last Kid Icarus game and Uprising makes the wait for Half-Life 3 seem normal. While Pokemon is a hugely successful franchise that gets something new every 1-2 years. And they needed to advertise the most recent generation somehow. While because of this, Greninja was my least favorite Newcomer inclusion up until Dark Pit came about. Greninja’s merit is helped by having his own moveset, and he’s major because he’s the final evolved form of one of the starters from Pokemon X&Y. Robin & Lucina are relatively recent as well, but both of them are fairly popular within the Fire Emblem fanbase. And Robin himself is the first Fire Emblem character in Smash Bros. to not entirely rely on swords.
I just don’t like Dark Pit’s inclusion at all. I would literally feel like the roster would be overall better without him. There is so many characters I would take over Dark Pit. He doesn’t make Smash 4’s newcomer pool worse then Melee’s but it definitely keeps it from being as good as the near-perfection that both Smash 64 and Brawl had in it’s additions.
That said, he doesn’t ruin the entire game for me. Don’t worry about that, both him and Dr. Mario are only 2 characters out of a 51 character roster (Counting the Mii Fighters as seperate). That’s only about 4% of Smash 4’s roster that I really don’t like. Compared to Melee which had 3 inclusions I didn’t like out of 26 (Including Shiek) makes it 12% that I don’t like. And I enjoy Melee despite it’s roster being mathematically three times worse then Smash 4’s in my opinion.
In fact the difficulty scale is something I love with Smash 4, I’m going to put to good use here. I’m going to go through Classic Mode and All-Star with every character on at least the default setting EXCEPT for Dr. Mario and Dark Pit. Where I’ll be playing on the lowest difficulty possible. Just to get them over with and receive their trophies.
I just have personal reasons for liking Brawl the most. I wouldn’t be as heavy into internet communities without the speculation period of the game (Thus I likely wouldn’t be typing this, or at least I wouldn’t have done all the same things I ended up doing had I not joined internet communities for Brawl’s speculation period). Plus Brawl still has overall the best roster even compared to Smash 4’s currently known full roster. I also just have too many great memories for Brawl then any other of the first 3 games (Example: Sonic being announced for Brawl was one of the happiest days of my life). And I know it’s not a perfect game, no video game really is perfect and even though the Smash Bros. series is my favorite video game franchise. Each one has things you could nitpick about. I am thankful for the criticism for Brawl though, at least because it seems to have made Smash 4 a game that has some of the best of both Melee and Brawl within the game. The gameplay even being a bit of a compromise of being faster then Brawl but not as fast as Melee. I think that will heavily factor in helping Smash 4 gain a lot of general love that while it won’t be perfect, will still help unite the Smash Bros. fans better because they’re more likely going to try to appeal to everybody. They won’t succeed perfectly, but to know they’re trying is great. I always hated the the Smash Bros. fanbase was so heavily split just because of Brawl, Cause for years there’s been elitists on both sides that trash talk another and I’ve seen the Melee fans in particular talk about Brawl as if it was one of the worst games ever made. I may prefer Brawl, but I love all the games in the series a lot. I think all of them are excellent games, just because Brawl wasn’t like Melee shouldn’t mean it’s a terrible game. I think there are enough legitimate reasons people could like Brawl the best out of the first three games.
…And what? I never said anything about Brawl’s intro being disappointing. Where did you get that from? o.O Also I didn’t play much online, so I didn’t really care for the Online part of the game. But I understand that people found it too laggy in comparison to even other Wii games that had decent online like Mario Kart Wii. But because I never really played Online that much. I don’t really find it personally concerning myself. Smash 4 is sure to have a much more improved online. And at least on the 3DS version I’ll probably play it online decently enough (It’s easier for me to get online with the 3DS cause I can take it somewhere with really good and free wi-fi as I’m kinda limited at home. Big reason why I couldn’t do it so often when Brawl’s online was still online. And the Wii itself was just limited in terms of online on it’s own. It couldn’t have voice chat like you seem to have wanted with the taunts (But they weren’t there for communication, they were just extra additions to the taunts often used to probably say naughty things by trolls for sure but still they weren’t for communication. The Wii didn’t have stable capabilities of that).
And while I do get the problems people have with some of the stages and the Subspace Emissary. I was fine with most of them (Granted there were stages even I didn’t like fighting on. But at least there is the option to turn off the Stages you don’t want to play on) and the Story Mode was enjoyable enough IMO even if it could of been done a lot better. And was a bit of a resource taker (Most of the files on the Brawl disc is taken up by the Subspace on it’s own). And on Tripping… yeah… that was bad. Buuuuut, it’s relatively minor from my experience (Haven’t lost that many matches just because I tripped). And at least it’s not returning in Smash 4.
As for Roy, I do get that he has appeal as the “fire sword” guy. But the main problem I have with his inclusion was his game was not even out yet when Melee released. The whole point of Smash Bros. is Nintendo All-Stars together, Roy had not proven himself to be an All-Star because of this. He was basically in as Promotion and that shouldn’t be what matters most in a Smash Bros. roster. What makes his promotion itself even more useless though was his game wasn’t coming out outside of Japan and still wouldn’t ever be released internationally. Even more ridiculous, is even within the actual Fire Emblem fanbase. Roy turned out unpopular because he wasn’t that good in his own game. The only reason Roy is popular at all was because of his inclusion in Melee. I know Smash Bros. has always been somewhat of a promotional vehicle, but most characters that get in are fairly well-known and well deserve their spot. Some more then others, but a good majority of them really do earn their spot. Roy had not done so at all. If Ike in Brawl counts as Roy’s replacement, he was a far better choice because he was the main protagonist of a very popular game in the franchise that did come out internationally. It wasn’t the first Fire Emblem game that was released outside of Japan, but still a significant part of how the series gained worldwide recognition. Ike being very well the symbol of the newfound success of the series has gained. He’s not as bad as Pichu and Dr. Mario in Melee. Nor Dark Pit in Smash 4, but nonetheless he’s firmly #4 in worst inclusions of the series. While Smash 4 brought back the 2nd worst (Dr. Mario), and one of the newcomers has become the worst of franchise history (Dark Pit). I firmly believe that it was good that neither Pichu or Roy returned after Melee cause the representatives in Brawl for both Fire Emblem or Pokemon were far better decisions.
Hey everybody, first I want to get this out of the way. There was one thing I asked most for my B-Day that I wanted the most: A grip for my 3DS. You see, my one concern with the 3DS version of Smash is I was concerned that the shape of the 3DS was going to make it difficult for me while playing Smash for a long time. My hands start to feel sore after a while of playing Mario Kart 7, and Smash Bros. requires more hand movement then Mario Kart does. Here’s some visual pics I took of the grip with the 3DS in it:
As you can see, it makes my 3DS feel more like a console controller. As a result, it instantly feels a lot more comfortable in my hands. As the last picture says “Get ready to Smash” I am certainly ready to Smash. I did also get some headphones so I can play in the Library. So yeah! I’m set to play wherever I go.
I’ve also enjoyed my time with the demo. It’s only 5 characters and one stage, but it’s enough to give me a solid taste of what’s in store when I get the 3DS Version on October 3rd. Regarding how I am with each character so far, I’m a great Pikachu (But Pikachu’s been one of my mains since the very first Smash Bros. So not really a surprise) I was pretty decent with Link, and Megaman. I’m ok with Mario. But for the life of me I can’t figure out Villager. Though it’s not because he’s a bad character, just that Villager probably just is far from my preferred playstyle. I’m going to be playing it at least once until the game is out. For those who couldn’t get a code, do not worry as there will be a limited version (With only 30 uses, but that only applies to closing out of the game. It doesn’t mean you’re only allowed 30 matches) of the demo playable on Friday. So a lot of people will be able to get some experience and get a handle of the 3DS version. I like this demo because we can get better accustomed to how the 3DS control before the full game even releases. As of course the 3DS version has a different control then what most Smash players are used to, and it is the first time Smash Bros. is on a Handheld as opposed to a home console. So giving us a taste of how it works to answer the question if it can work at all. And so far it works very well. The Wii U version will naturally have better control, but for the 3DS version it’s definitely better then what some may have feared. It should overall be a really great game, and it’s main appeal won’t just disappear when the Wii U version releases. Because it’s Smash Bros. on the go. Me and plenty of others will have the ability to play Smash both on the go and at home. With really cool perks of having both versions as well. And both having unique things about them. October 3rd will only be the beginning of what’s in store to do with Smash 4. And we’re less then 3 weeks away!
ask-random-pokes asked: Who are you planning on maining in Super Smash Bros. 4? I'm gonna do Kirby, Mega Man, or a secret doctor (if you know who it is, just say it in your reply, but if you don't, I won't spoil it for you).
Oh I know who the doctor is. Dr. Mario :P
And my main’s going to be Sonic. ^^
seminoles8-deactivated20161124 asked: I'd have to respectfully disagree with you on saying that Sonic Colors and Generations aren't as good as Lost World. Because honestly, even though I don't consider Sonic Colors perfect, I still like it overall, and I would say that Sonic Generations is the best Sonic game to date, in my opinion.
I wasn’t saying that Lost World was better per se.Lost World admittedly has more obvious flaws to the game compared to Colors and Generations. I just enjoyed Lost World’s gameplay more then I did for Colors and Generations. Cause I felt there was a little too much “Boost to win” in both Colors and Generations. While Lost World actually required some more platforming. It did kinda feel like it was too inspired by Mario (Just look at the themes of the worlds and look at a New Super Mario Bros. game, doesn’t help that the Deadly Six might as well be Koopaling rip-offs). But other then a few annoying levels, I had more fun with Lost World then I did playing through Colors and Generations.
I think it’s possible for a game to be objectively better then a game, but still enjoy the more flawed game (Another example is I love Mario Kart 64. And even though Double Dash and Mario Kart Wii are quite clearly better games. I still enjoy playing MK64 more then both because it had a certain charm about it that I liked).
Gaaaaah, been trying to play Sonic Lost World (late to the party, I know) through Gamefly, but the last two discs in row were broken and unreadable. And I’m notably incensed by this.
I guess that’s what happens when you take in interest in something that a ton of 8 year olds love. They tear up everything.
Ugh. Very frustrated right now.
The hell?! Shouldn’t Gamefly check for these things before they ship them off? (Unless somehow they got broken during shipping, like a heavy bag plopped straight on where the disc was being held)
(Source: ambris)
Anonymous asked: Sonic Lost World sucked anyways, the only good thing about it was the crossover dlc with Yoshi and Zelda.
So you say.
I’ll see for myself.
I personally enjoyed playing though Sonic Lost World more then I did Colors or Generations :V
There are some annoying levels but when you get used to it, it’s a fine game on it’s own. I’d like a new game that enhances the gameplay Lost World had. It’s awesome to have Sonic just walk up walls so that you don’t fall.
sailorponies asked: Happy Birthday! How are you celebrating today?
I had Pizza Hut for my birthday, and got informed two things are coming in the mail that I requested. One of which I have now. The one I have now is the headphones, the one I’m waiting for is a grip for my 3DS for when Smash Bros. arrives~
Also how are you doing Sailor? I’ve missed you, I’d like to talk some more with you sometime. (Though I suppose Time Zones are really at fault for most of that)
rose-psyche asked: Plushie Twilight and I want to wish you a very happy birthday, hon!
Thank you very much ^^
((Even if it’s over now I figure I should answer the last few I have anyway))
masonaround2-deactivated2014092 asked: HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Thank you very much, Mason! ^^