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Smash Bros. 3DS/Wii U
How much do I suck at this game?
I've been playing classic with every character. I've been on difficulty level 3 or 4 depending on how comfortable I am with the character. When characters got unlocked, I had a hard time beating them. I think it took 4+ tries to beat Duck Hunt.
I got curious and turned up the difficulty all the way to the maximum. I chose Zero Suit Samus, just because that was the next character I hadn't used yet. I ended up going without dying all the way to the boss. Then it got bad. I lost to the boss so many times the difficulty got all the way down to 5.something before I won.
Also, clearly when it comes to direct fighting 1v1 I also suck. I think I just don't understand even the most basic strategies of this game. I try to get near the opponent and attack in their direction. That's pretty much it. Against anyone actually good I can't seem to even land one hit, they dodge, block, or counter-attack. Meanwhile when they come to hit me and I try to evade, I get hit anyway.
Also, I've gotten used to the button controls, but not the analog stick. Far too often the game does what I don't want it to do. When I beat the game as Charizard I had the hardest time. His special right or left move has him flying very far in one direction. Every time I used this move it was suicide. He went straight off the screen, and I couldn't recover. W T F. I was afraid to use the B button at all in fear of doing that move by accident. And yes, it did happen by accident many times.
There are only three attack buttons in smash, attack, special, and grab. Yet, each button does so many completely different things based on whether you are airborne or grounded, whether running, walking, or still, and the movement of the analog stick. Thus, the precise and quick manipulation of that little pad counts for everything.
The biggest problem I have, with every character, is simply attacking in the wrong direction. Let's say I'm going left. I want to turn around and attack. I move the stick to the right and press attack. If I press attack slightly too soon (often) I'll actually attack to the left. Uncancellable attack animations will leave me completely vulnerable to the enemy on the right. The air will take a lot of damage, though. Even if I press attack during/after pressing right, milliseconds determine whether that is just going to be an attack, or a smash. If it's an unintended smash, and I don't let go fast enough I will be completely vulnerable charging up a smash. But if I'm Pikachu or someone with a rapid-fire attack, I WANT to hold down attack.
I was born too late for this shit. We need an old fogey's league. No kids allowed.
I've been playing classic with every character. I've been on difficulty level 3 or 4 depending on how comfortable I am with the character. When characters got unlocked, I had a hard time beating them. I think it took 4+ tries to beat Duck Hunt.
I got curious and turned up the difficulty all the way to the maximum. I chose Zero Suit Samus, just because that was the next character I hadn't used yet. I ended up going without dying all the way to the boss. Then it got bad. I lost to the boss so many times the difficulty got all the way down to 5.something before I won.
Also, clearly when it comes to direct fighting 1v1 I also suck. I think I just don't understand even the most basic strategies of this game. I try to get near the opponent and attack in their direction. That's pretty much it. Against anyone actually good I can't seem to even land one hit, they dodge, block, or counter-attack. Meanwhile when they come to hit me and I try to evade, I get hit anyway.
Also, I've gotten used to the button controls, but not the analog stick. Far too often the game does what I don't want it to do. When I beat the game as Charizard I had the hardest time. His special right or left move has him flying very far in one direction. Every time I used this move it was suicide. He went straight off the screen, and I couldn't recover. W T F. I was afraid to use the B button at all in fear of doing that move by accident. And yes, it did happen by accident many times.
There are only three attack buttons in smash, attack, special, and grab. Yet, each button does so many completely different things based on whether you are airborne or grounded, whether running, walking, or still, and the movement of the analog stick. Thus, the precise and quick manipulation of that little pad counts for everything.
The biggest problem I have, with every character, is simply attacking in the wrong direction. Let's say I'm going left. I want to turn around and attack. I move the stick to the right and press attack. If I press attack slightly too soon (often) I'll actually attack to the left. Uncancellable attack animations will leave me completely vulnerable to the enemy on the right. The air will take a lot of damage, though. Even if I press attack during/after pressing right, milliseconds determine whether that is just going to be an attack, or a smash. If it's an unintended smash, and I don't let go fast enough I will be completely vulnerable charging up a smash. But if I'm Pikachu or someone with a rapid-fire attack, I WANT to hold down attack.
I was born too late for this shit. We need an old fogey's league. No kids allowed.
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So far I've cleared Classic with a few characters, but managed to do it on 6.0 with my main, Pikachu. I tried fucking around with Mario at 7.0, and went down the Crazy Hand + Master Hand path, holy shit is that boss hard! It dialed down to 5.5 before I could beat it.
Fri and Sat were a lag-fest for me online. Yesterday and today are much better, and I am cleaning house in 4-player For Glory matches. Might be luck, who knows, but I feel like I've shaken off all of the Pikachu rust now, and have adapted really well to how the character has changed. His dash attack went from shit to absolutely friggin awesome, his smashes are all weakened but have nice larger hitboxes, and his down+B lightning is much harder to KO with, as the cloud is much lower in the sky, and actually knocks opponents down if they get hit in the cloud, not up.
All in all, that means Pikachu is a much deadlier weapon for racking up damage, but not a KO machine anymore. Very excited that I am wining timed battles in spite of this, and very much looking forward to having lots of friends over for stock battles. I wish that online public mode had stock battles.
I'm very slowly working through 5-min training sessions with the rest of the characters. I did the whole top row, and I'm very very impressed with the changes to Bowser. The dude is FAST! Peach now has some serious punch. Rosalina + Luma is such a unique character that it makes me want to sink some serious time in and master her. The rest of the top row characters are "nope nope, not for me."
I was super sad that I got Ness on the first run and lost to him!!!! damn it.
Sadly, a year+ into Wii U and Nintendo still can't put out more than one first party game at a time. Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker, which by all means should be an A+ puzzle game, has been delayed into 1Q 2015.
If I do not suck, then Scott is indeed an ancient creature. If I suck, then pretend I said everything Scott did. ;^)
Sheik is no longer a floaty mess from Brawl and you can actually play her with some consistency in this version it seems. I haven't tried a lot of the characters yet but I did give Robin a try and (s)he has some pretty devastating moves. A lot of the characters seemed to have moved more towards Melee style more which is nice. It's still not at the breakneck speed of Melee but I am enjoying it way more than Brawl.
Edit: a USB dongle with 4 GC ports.
I might have to get a Wii U now....
Assuming they are not bankrupt by then.
It's an interesting idea though, the possibility of owning a console exclusively for ONE game, or perhaps, just a few. What is the value of that game? Is Smash that ONE game that is so good that it's worth getting a Wii U?? Lol, maybe... !!