Wonderful, wonderful! Yeah, I'm interested in how Palutena handles, too, though I got lucky- It looks like her default specials are right up my alley.
I'd love to compare Mii Fighters sometime after I can be happy with the costuming and special moves of mine.
Smash Run is another thing I'm excited for, though I really hope online play for it gets patched in soon.
I'd describe myself as... I dunno, in-between? Someone who you could probably beat but not feel like it was a gimme?
edited 27th Sep '14 3:25:26 AM by Pulse
I sure said that!Hard to say, really! I'm at a weird stage where I'm too good for almost anyone I ever met who has the game, but I don't actually have a lot of experience fighting against humans. And last time I played Melee against humans who actually knew what they were doing, I ended up with a mental breakdown.
(I wooped their asses when it was a three-way free-for-all, even when they ended up teaming up against me, but it was very stressful for me because I'm a nervous wreck who takes the game too seriously and I felt treated unfairly by them, and also one of them is such an obnoxious bastard he even managed to piss off a friend of mine in Smash 64 who's generally legitimately chill and doesn't care about games he doesn't feel the need to care about. Later I went one-on-one with that obnoxious guy and threw my controller because trying to use Yoshi against Sheik was a terrible idea, and then I ultimately broke down when I played against the other guy, who was a worthy opponent at least, but even while I was winning, all the talking about how much of a whiny sore loser I am was just too much for me.)
(I hope to be able to ease myself into playing against people more frequently in Sm4sh so it's no longer a "big deal" and I don't get so stressed out anymore.)
(Wait, that wasn't the last time I played against someone. Last time was Brawl against the same obnoxious guy, who never played it before. He actually did pretty well for that and made me recognize that I really have some short-comings compared to someone who just naturally has better reaction and mental presence than I do. In the end, it happened as it usually does, though. We finished on a 10-stock battle and were about evently matched for the first few, then I got used to how he plays and how the game controls and I beat him with five or six stocks left over.)
(And another time I played Brawl against a nerdy new friend and his wife and we didn't play for long because it wasn't fun for them to lose against me. That's how it usually goes, too.)
(I don't know why I ended up venting like this.)
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I got the same problem when playing against humans. I am a terrible loser, and losing always feels like a blow to my self esteem when it's something that I actually care about. It's a problem that's probably tied to my ridiculously low self-image.
Online play I can do, but only if there is no communication possible between the players.
edited 27th Sep '14 4:09:24 AM by Kayeka
My mains, in order:
1. Yoshi
2. Fox
3. (Unrevealed veteran)
4. (Unrevealed veteran)
5. Either Marth or Mac, I haven't decided yet.
...wow, when I put it on paper like that, I realize just how veteran-centric I am.
edited 27th Sep '14 5:06:51 AM by BaffleBlend
"It's liberating, realizing you never need to be competent." — UltimatepheerDark Samus can't really be compared to most, though. It takes WAY too much direct action.
Also, I'd say that Dark Samus is probably the best of the "Dark Doppelgangers" that Nintendo has put out being absolutely terrifying not just for the player to encounter, but in-universe as well. Then again, Samus was already The Dreaded to the Space Pirates, so an evil semi-clone would also be such.
Also, just want to point out that in every boss fight against Dark Samus, the weapons used are extremely different from Samus's arsenal. Most can kinda be identified as variations on some of Samus's weapons, but some are very divergent.
Take, for example, her Spread Gun and some sort of meteor thing:
Plenty of moveset potential.
- Villager had me hyped, but I don't really feel comfortable with his playstyle.
- Mii Fighters had me hyped, but they'll probably be banned due to the difficulty of setting them up on consoles that you don't own.
- And [unrevealed newcomer] had me hyped, but he's undisputed SS-tier right now, so I had to drop him for fear of being called unfair or a Munchkin or a "Stop Having Fun" Guys or a host of other things.
So yeah, none of the other newcomers are really an option for me.
edited 27th Sep '14 6:13:40 AM by BaffleBlend
"It's liberating, realizing you never need to be competent." — Ultimatepheer
Duck Hunt Dog. He has a terrifying projectile and mixup game, and his physical attacks are nothing to sneeze at, either.
This is just from the preliminary tiers for an infant metagame, but every single one I've seen put him near the top. (There are other SS characters, too, though the others are less certain right now.)
I really wanted to play as him, too, because he was already my Super Smash Bros. Crusade main...
edited 27th Sep '14 8:00:01 AM by BaffleBlend
"It's liberating, realizing you never need to be competent." — Ultimatepheer![]()
It's too early for accurate tiers, but it never hurts to start studying and drawing a baseline.
edited 27th Sep '14 8:02:49 AM by BaffleBlend
"It's liberating, realizing you never need to be competent." — Ultimatepheer![]()
I'm just personally sensitive about that kind of thing. I try to play as fairly as I can because if people see me as one of "those" guys, nobody will ever play with me again.
edited 27th Sep '14 8:15:38 AM by BaffleBlend
"It's liberating, realizing you never need to be competent." — UltimatepheerMeanwhile I'm just kind of racist against top-tier characters.
I have no idea how I'd feel if, say, Yoshi ended up being top-tier, haha. I guess that would be okay with me, much like how I wouldn't mind Gardevoir being a top-tier Pokemon. Yup. Spoken like a real racist.
edited 27th Sep '14 8:25:20 AM by Fawriel
I was afraid of that for a while, too, but it seems that's not the case. So far, he's very good for once, but not a monster.

Pulse~ <3
Hmmm, what am I especially interested in? Somehow, that question seems strangely hard to answer. I guess I'm seeing this game as a sort of release after I wasted more than a year of my life anticipating Brawl and being left with a game I despise. Sm4sh seems like the game I was actually hoping for back then, and that's including the fact that I'll actually be able to play it with people. I won't even be dependent on online multiplayer this time, which is due to a change in my own situation rather than thanks to the game itself, but still. I guess that's the part I'm most interested in. A game I can play with people who actually know how to play the game, which is solid enough that I won't feel terrible whether I lose or win because it's balanced enough that I don't feel betrayed by the game itself.
As for specific features... Robin was a character I was really looking forward to, though not being able to have pink hair with the standard black uniform is sad. Palutena is very pretty, too, and seems like a character I might be okay with. Of course, an actually playable Yoshi will be awesome to have, too! I'm also surprisingly excited for the Mii Fighters because I have a bunch of characters I'd like to put in. I really love customizable stuff like that in general.
That's mostly it. Hoping for an interesting Wii U-exclusive game mode and maybe DLC now. Mewtwo at least would be nice to have. If there's anything positive I can say about the deluge of new Mario characters, it's that all excuses are off not to put a billion Pokemon in there as well.