Comments on Games: 24 Hours Into Super Smash Bros. Brawl

I hate you. I hate you. I hate you.

Well... luckily, Sunday is my birthday. My birthday present better be this game. And to be left alone.

And whiskey.

And strippers.

And coke.

And a pony.

I don't hate you. I hate the Wii.

Roooock!

Just when I thought my gaming geekdom had been cooled due to time away and a new relationship, my heart skipped a beat with the possibility that Smash was on sale and I had not bought it yet. oh Sunday will be a glorious day

Oh man oh man oh man

My son hates your guts.

He so wants this game - and is convinced the profits from his 101 shares of Nintendo (NTDOY.PK) will skyrocket since it's flying off the shelves in Japan even this many weeks past the launch day.

Now he's going to bug me to get it for him - and his birthday isn't until May!

*AWKWARD*

I don't think you're a virtual nerd, Sam.

Do you need a new best friend until Sunday? I bet this game is way more fun with more players.

Other reviews haven't mentioned that the "online mode stinks" - just the opposite, they've said it works really well. Are you *always* seeing lag with your set up?

The Christmas Wii game with "crossover appeal and super-simple" controls should have been Super Mario Galaxy, but that game sadly wasn't a super duper hit here (and it didn't have much motion gaming).

OK. Which people at Nintendo do I have to kiss up to in order to play this game before Sunday?

@9: I think online play works better when you link up specifically against a single friend. I'm not able to do so since, well, nobody I know has it yet... I'm stuck doing the "play against anyone" option, which was a lag-filled nightmare for the collective hour and a half I played online (when I was actually able to connect to anyone, no less). Since I really think this is the mode players will be more likely to use, I think it's a big enough issue, but then again, I'm only 24 hours in. It could get better, or it could get MUCH worse once the service gets overloaded with players.

So it's all about the friend codes, then?

@12 - yup.

"We fought some other matches across multiple levels ... and we had a fairly smooth experience. Here and there I would notice a slight delay between my character's movement and my button presses, but overall it was a generally smooth and pleasant session." - from a recent nintendowiifanboy.com post

oops, just saw your note above. Yes, I guess I have read that the random online play can be a bit laggy at times.

all I know is that I'm excited about the (SPOILER... SPOILER...) donkey kong stage.

I'll see you worthless cocksuckers in line for the midnight release!

@11. Sam, The reason you might have experienced the lag is because Nintendo might have restricted the # of connections allowed to their servers for the NA release of SMBB until this weekend. I'm sure if you tried it again on Saturday night, you might see some major improvements.

wait, when is the SSBB Slog tournament?!

@17 - or you might suddenly watch it crawl as millions of US and Canadian gamers all get online at the same time to play until they drop from exhaustion ... best time might be early Sunday morning.

Mr. Game-And-Watch is my baby daddy.

Seriously, is there anything cooler than a 2D liquid crystal character that attacks enemies by flipping flapjacks at them? He even makes the 80's "plink plink plink" sound when he runs!

I was totally gonna buy this game for the Wii but then I got sidetracked found this really awesome looking horse riding game called My Horse & Me so I bought that instead. Amazon is supposed to have it on my doorstep tomorrow and it better be there goddamnit! I'm going to dress up my horsey and become world champion by the weekends end goddamnit!!!

during winter, i pretty much played super smash bros, and smash melee everyday for 3 hours. with friends of course. it's simply the best 4 player fighting game, ever.

Hey Sam,

They're still heavily tweaking/testing the online random play mode. Friend mode should work properly. Wait till Sunday, it'll be fun.

I love the original so much. Melee is pretty good, too, but I always got my ass handed to me when I played in college.

considering it's only out in Japan, my guess would be online play is connecting to those folks (by more chance than anyone local), and hopefully, with it's US release, online randoms would favor people here, as shorter distance = less lag (hopefully).

'The Princess smacking Zelda with a frying pan.'

You mean Princess Zelda smacks Link with a frying pan?

Okay. okay. My boyfriend has pointed out to me that I call Link by the name Zelda all the time. Let's move to have a petition cause this to be true.

Uh, no, I don't work in the legal industry, why do you ask?