I'm still considering whether or not I'm going to be making the effort to avoid spoilers - since the Japanese version is out all the "secret" shit is going to start leaking real soon.

yea yea yea yea yea yea


WII SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKS

PS3 RUUUUUUUUUUUUUULZ

I haven't come across any yet. I'm going to avoid visiting gaming sites so that I don't accidentally find any. Gahh.


1. I thought you left -- but then again, no one ever really leaves.
2. There's no point in coming into this thread just to bash the Wii.

My brother and I are getting this game when it comes out.

what you want

go to church

Ahhh! AGAIN! Theyre holding out on us, and it upset me how the American delay is significantly longer than the Japanese one.

I'm going to lose my boyfriend to this game.
But I still cannot wait to play thiss :o

I don't think im going to get it. Unless they have the same glitches as they did, and the same game play as they did in Melee...i don't think it'll be as good.

They don't, and, I hear, it isn't.
And, really, that's exactly the issue. Melee was accidental genius. The designers didn't anticipate advanced technique and play like SHFFLing, Wavedashing, and Crouch Canceling. They just didn't have the foresight to really understand where the complexities and mechanics of the game would lead. The speed of the game only increased the gap between professional and advanced play with casual and scrub jerk offs.

Brawl has been drastically changed. The physics are completely nerfed - almost reverting back to the sort of slow floatiness of Smash 64. The sort of advanced and mind blowing play that professional and advanced players were familiar with in Melee may have entirely disappeared. For me, this is a great sadness. I will purchase the game, and I do expect to thoroughly enjoy it - it looks like a great game. But do I think I'll be playing it in six years? No. Do I think I'll be playing it in two years? Probably not.

If my friend was across the street right now, I would so go and play Melee until the sun rises and sets again. No problem. Brawl, I really don't have the same feelings towards.

So, that didn't last long... I KNOW EVERYTHING!

I reserved my copy yesterday. Anyone else reserve their own? Just six more days.

BUMP.

My little brother had his reserved a long time ago, back when it was supposed to be released in February. He was let down when it was delayed again, but he's definitely hyped up again.

He's been playing a lot of Melee lately just 'cause he's so hyped.

That's exactly what I've been doing. I've been playing melee for about 3 hours/day for the past month lolol. Not that often, but plenty of play. I've been perfecting playing shiek and ice climbers. I love the Ice Climbers haha. Everyone underestimates what they can do, and they have a really strong smash.

Nate, have you been watching any youtube videos of brawl? 5 more days, mang. 5 more.

Playing all that Melee is going to f**k your brain for Brawl.



Yeah, dude. Actually, way too often. I find myself watching and or reading some sort of Brawl content every few hours. I can't help myself. I'm going to the midnight release out here to get my reserved copy, I'm stupidly excited.

I think I may do that too, it being on my first saturday of spring break. Do you have 4 controls? I've got 4 wiimotes and I don't think I can stop myself from buying 4 wii classic controllers =\

Two Wiimotes, two Gamecube controllers. I'm only using the cube controllers, for sure.

Yea. I have 4 wiimotes so I'm going to buy 4 classic controllers and buy 2 good gamecube controllers. I bought 4 gamecube controllers off ebay once, but they weren't made by nintendo and they sucked =\. I dno, I want to be able to play w/ every combo of controller *shrug.


3 more days

I'm a cubetroller loyalist. If I'm playing a fighting game with any level of complexity, it only feels right. Speaking of, I want to get a Guilty Gear game...

Oh, I'm hoping to start off maining Peach and Diddy. Seriously, Diddy Kong looks amazing.

I'm going to be going for shiek and sonic, lol. From what I've seen Sonic looks like a fast melee char, and I love playing those.

amg it just came in

WII SUCKS WII SUCKS WII SUCKS WII SUCKS II SUCKS

PS3 PS3 PS3 POPOPOPOOOOOOOO

Bad troll.

I just tried Diddy, it was kinda disappointing at first, but I bet you'd have to get used to him.

Some other guys seem mad overpowered though, like Meta Knight and Ike.

O.o, you have it already? The english one? For us it's not released til tmw night :(

Yeah, English. I don't think we're even supposed to have it.

It even came with a note that no SSBBs are to be sold until tomorrow night. Oh well. Came from Costco (pre-ordered). Costco is full of awesome and win.

Game was amazing.

end of story.


Hope everyone else likes it

I wanna play Snake.

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. I get it in 30 hours.

Snake is epic pwnage. My favorite newcomer so far.

Seventeen hours and I'll have myself a copy of Super Smash Brothers Brawl. I'll be posting my first impressions and such probably a day or so after.

I'll be getting it tonight @ midnight lol.

By the way, I don't think the physics of Brawl are that different that practice on Melee would kill you. Different, nonetheless, but not to that sort of degree. Unless you win by exploiting the smallest details in Melee (which I could never do for any game), you'd probably have a good advantage when transitioning to Brawl.

That's just coming from a recreational gamer.


My very first impression of Brawl was epic ('cause of the music), and I got pretty excited myself, but that was ruined 'cause I accidentally hit the start button and skipped the opening scene. =P

ha ha. I'm getting it in less than 9 hours ^.^ My brother and one of my best friends are going w/ me to GameStop for the midnight release lolol, then playing til like 4 am.

Ditto.




I'm ruined. I'm so conditioned to not even thinking about wavedashing, l-canceling, SHFFLing, DIing, CCing, etc. etc. etc. that this is going to be really uncomfortable for me at first. I play fast. I kill controllers. I like my advanced techniques.

The deal is that Brawl sort of reverts to the "floatiness" and "slowness" of 64 - this is what is going to really kill me. I'm going to feel really weird floating around like a jackass as opposed to hawking around my opponents. It's just... a really different game, insofar as I understand. But, that's the reality of it - it's a different game. It's not Melee 2.0 - gotta adapt.

There will be new techniques, new exploits, and new glitches (shit, there already are). I'm sort of excited, but I'm still really skeptical towards Brawl's potential as a serious competitive fighter (like Melee).



The music is f**king amazing. THEY'RE SINGING IN LATIN f**k YES!

I'll be holding it in 5 hours.

how did arjuna get his early? and that other person. imma reserve now lol i know its late but lol i might as well. i didnt know my mall was going to be still opening for the tournaments.

Oh, heck yeah.

My little bro pre-ordered it from Costco. Came in the mail Friday afternoon.

Right so I just picked up my copy. Never in my life have I felt so socially elite. The people there were just ridiculously lame, nerdy, geeky, fat, etc. I didn't even feel this good about myself at the Burning Crusade release. This was just pure lulz. There was this one kid who looked identical to Fogell who got his copy and was walking by all the other people just holding it up trying to make people envious. This one guy in front of me pulled out a swiss army knife and chased him. L O f**kING L. Anyways, time to play.

hah i did feel the same way about everybody else that was there, i was probably the only one decently dressed, not to sound to pompous. . but we where all out of the mall in like 2 seconds, the line dissapeared like 5 minutes after they let everybody in.

Have fun. =P

I just beat the story mode with my bro, and I think now would be a good time to take a break and sleep.

lolol. I think I'm going to go to sleep and play in the morning, but I'll probably wake up at like 6 am to play lolol. But yeah, everyone there was dressed worse than me, and I don't really dress rofl. I was just wearing blue jeans and a fitting jacket. Anyhow, they made me feel better about myself.

I really envy Wii owners right about now.

I want everyone to know that I play white kirby.

Okay bai

I'm a Kirby user too. I don't steal powers though.

I believe friend codes will be in order soon...


Or whatever the heck you use for the wi-fi on the Wii. Though I don't think I'd be far off if I said Nate would own us all.

I don't know about that. I got pretty amazing @ melee, always had my brother to play and get better against. As soon as I finish all the offline stuff I'm gonna jump online.

YAY IT'S OUT NOW.
.............and i don't own a wii.
I'll be at someone else's house any day now.

LOL, I must say thats one of the perks working at gamestop, it makes me feel better about myself xD

The midnight launch wasn't bad, the tournament was fun to watch.

So I went along with my buddy to pick up his copy and I gotta say...

When did hot girls start working at EB Games?

nope thats not the case for the 3 gamestops around my neighborhood. lol. haha.

there are a lot of hot girls that are into games lately.

-- change of subject --

who tried to go on wifi? cause it sucks. and i havent been able to get on at all. like it says i was kicked out or something.

The wifi is going to be buggy at first. Things like that are always bugged when they first come out. They'll work out the kinks and hopefully set up some fast ass dedicated servers so people don't have to worry about lag.