Super Smash Bros.

There's mods of Super Smash Bros Brawl out there.

edited 19th Dec '10 8:24:57 PM by Marioguy128

In case there may never be an offical one?

Will never, most likely.

Discounting my belief that Smash probably isn't the type of game, nor Nintendo the type of company, nor have the developers the kind of outlook on the series, for updated rereleases (not to mention it having been quite a while since the game came out)...

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Darn, forgot what my last point was...

edited 19th Dec '10 10:10:02 PM by KnownUnknown

Does anyone use Project64 and play Super Smash Bros original?

edited 20th Dec '10 6:11:07 AM by JayTheHelmetGuy

Super Smash Bros Final Mix

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edited 20th Dec '10 8:20:56 AM by Electivirus

anyone?

I have the orignal so no emulator for me. Though I'm not sure how many people are gonna admit they play it on a emulator.

My computer is way too shitty for emulating anything above SNES.

I just use my Nintendo 64.

Longfellooow!

Random request: Can you find a video of a serious Melee match between pros that takes place on the Pokefloats stage?

I thought pros didn't like Pokefloats. Or any stage that was more dynamic than final destination because it takes away from the player's mano a mano skills.

Pro aren't monolithically against dynamic stages. In the early 2000's there was a big debate between the east coast smashers who preferred minimalist settings and the west coast smashers who used items and more stages. Later people more or less agreed on no items and a moderately low stage selection, but it's taken a long time for stages like Poké Floats and Jungle Japes to fall out of at least the counterpickable stages. Hell, Rainbow Cruise is still legal.

Here's a vid of TG 4, a 2003 tournament with items on.

edited 21st Dec '10 7:24:26 AM by Longfellow

People who don't use items or interesting stages have missed a very fundamental part of Smash Bros. It's not supposed to be a serious, hardcore mano-a-mano fighting game. It's supposed to be a wacky fighting game that's zany.

edited 21st Dec '10 7:31:41 AM by TobiasDrake

Melee's a damned fun serious, hardcore game for one that's not "supposed" to be that way.

^^ That's exactly how I see it.

east coast smashers who preferred minimalist settings and the west coast smashers who used items and more stages.

Okay, that's very interesting, I didn't know this was a coast to coast sort of thing, but I lived on the east coast and my friend who runs quite a bit of the DC, North VA, Maryland metro area smash community and that's how I got my view of how pros worked.

Yeah, it varied from region to region especially in like 2003 and 2004. Japan was even more minimalist than East Coast, running just FD and Dreamland 64. I'm a bit surprised at the stage choice, actually. If there could be only one legal stage I'd pick Battlefield and maybe Stadium before FD and Dreamland.

Drake, isn't it pretty presumptuous to claim that you know what a game is "supposed to be", or that such a thing even matters?

That Pokefloats video was pretty cool! Thanks!

This is a game where Fox McCloud can throw a Poke Ball into Super Mario's face and send him flying a hundred feet into oblivion, then summon Groudon and smash the hell out of Samus Aran.

A game where Luigi can defeat King Bowser, Ganondorf, and King Dedede simultaneously through nothing more than the power of his sexy, sexy dancing beat.

This is a wacky, zany game where crazy things happen. People who get super-serious about it are missing the fun.

edited 21st Dec '10 9:19:41 AM by TobiasDrake

Tobyyyyyy, you don't have to go all wacky advertisement on me, I know all that stuff. But obviously those people wouldn't be playing that way if it wasn't also fun for them! If you're trying to bar people from taking a game seriously and turning it into a competition of skill, you're just on the other side of the "Stop Having Fun" coin!

Yeah, mon, stop being a scrub!

I'm not being a Scrub! I'm saying that making rules like "No items, only Final Destination, everyone has to be Meta Knight" etc. etc. that exclude 95% of the content in the game is missing the point of playing the game!

I don't see how.

They're still playing the game. And they're having fun playing the game.

The thing is, when you're playing for money, it really sucks to die by luck.

Oh, and characters are never excluded. You just might not want to use some characters.

edited 21st Dec '10 9:34:35 AM by Deathonabun

Yeah, I don't see how either. Why would pros spend hundreds of dollars in gas and lodging to go to tournaments they're unlikely to win if they didn't have fun?

edited 21st Dec '10 9:45:50 AM by Longfellow