Super Smash Bros.

Never meet your heroes, right? I went to Tweek’s controller signing and right before I got up to him he started talking about how ‘women should never have gotten the right to vote’. At first I thought I must have misheard, or it was a joke, but once I came up to him he asked, ‘You’re voting for Trump right?’ I just sort of looked down and smiled and said ‘This election sure is crazy, right?’ I quickly grabbed my controller and ran out of the bookstore. I’m still crying while writing this.
 
I miss Super Smash Bros. Melée advertisements from the 2000’s that looked funny to witness.

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This was both creative and amusing, and I wish I could get this framed on my wall.
 
I miss Super Smash Bros. Melée advertisements from the 2000’s that looked funny to witness.
Game ads in general in the majority of the 2000s went through an interesting phase of "high effort " stuff, technically there was some of that in the 80s and 90s too but there'sa specific surrealness mixed with an extremely casual presentation with shit during the 2000s era. Sometimes you'd get shit like an ad for a portable port of Donkey kong country and it'd just be a chimpanzee swimming with a guy just going " Donkey kong country,.now on gameboy". or some shit in the most matter of fact way. Feels like everything nowadays is either in your face overhyping with reused footage or too much obnoxious voiceover with games these days. Actually that's more an issue with ads in general rather than just game ads.
Speaking of the ads from the 90s that had that vibe I'm talking about though there's shit like the iconic OG Super smash bros. 64 ad. (that's also on the first page of the thread lmao)

I can't find any non-potato uploads of these ads anymore, I guess copyright strikes?
Anyways I somehow completely forgot about this weird melee one where some guy's watching samurai fight in a box because gamecube.Similarly can only find this in potato-vision.
Kinda feels like some tokusatsu/kamen rider shit, this one.
 
I can't find any non-potato uploads of these ads anymore, I guess copyright strikes?
Anyways I somehow completely forgot about this weird melee one where some guy's watching samurai fight in a box because gamecube.Similarly can only find this in potato-vision.
Kinda feels like some tokusatsu/kamen rider shit, this one.
I’ve always said that ads from both the Nintendo GameCube and (to an extent) Sega Dreamcast we’re some of the most imaginative and detailed from a technical and visionary standpoint.

The worst part about it is that now, most of today’s well-received games with ads next to them have as you said celebrity voiceovers that sound too lazy or the corporations behind him only care too much for profit behind how well the ad sells, but not too much for how the gameplay is well-received.

Either way, that ad in particular actually showed what one would call the soul being brought it to make it look actually fun. Of course, it’s Mario related, but the thought still stands.
 
Sega Dreamcast
Dreamcast unfortunately was a "failure" but the games and the ads were both surprisingly pretty quality. I agree about the ads being pretty imaginative in terms of game ads as well.
These uploads have better video quality compared to the smash bros ads I found, but they also have a slightly obnoxious watermark sidebar and intro that I know weren't on other uploads I saw.

Anyways, there was a running ting in SEGA dreamcast ads for a bit where they just did original animations that were basically a crossover of all the games they had on the console at the time to some extent using the actual in-game models. There's kind of a weird coherence to it all despite the disparaging styles going on, and that kind of fit given how varied the dreamcast's library was. Most games got ported elsewhere after it died, and some of those games were just mildly graphically improved ports of stuff on other systems, but I don't think companies would be willing to let something like this happen nowadays unless they legally own every single aspect of it or it's a brand deal in some third party thing like fortnite that doesn't show the different things intermingling despite them being intermingled in the game itself. can't have "potential brand damage" I guess.

I somehow forgot just how SEGA advertised the dreamcast had online gaming. Then again I also somehow never noticed how the fuck it was supposed to work as a kid and probably just assumed it was only on "newer dreamcasts" or whatever.
There's a voiceover here but it has purpose
 
So, question; is Ultimate worth getting these days? Was a big fan of Melee and Brawl back in the day, and I enjoyed the 3DS game a bit when it came out. More of a single-player guy than a multiplayer one, and I heard that Ultimate has a lot of solo content, but... anyone got suggestions?
 
is Ultimate worth getting these days? Was a big fan of Melee and Brawl back in the day, and I enjoyed the 3DS game a bit when it came out. More of a single-player guy than a multiplayer one.
Single player is pretty ass in ultimate. It's essentially just fighting characters with varying buffs (metal, giant, elemental damage, etc...) There's no platforming segments nor any cutscenes beyond the intro and ending. The other modes are no different than what you would find in melee and brawl. Homerun contest, multiman, stage builder and so on. The game pretty much revolves around multiplayer which carries the game alongside its massive character roster.

It may be still worth giving it a shot because I dont think we'll be getting a sequel anytime soon.
 
I hope we get a new SSB soon, but it's unlikely. 2026 is probably the earliest. In the meantime SSB64 for NSO and SSBM HD would suffice.

So, question; is Ultimate worth getting these days? Was a big fan of Melee and Brawl back in the day, and I enjoyed the 3DS game a bit when it came out. More of a single-player guy than a multiplayer one, and I heard that Ultimate has a lot of solo content, but... anyone got suggestions?
Single-player sucks and has after Brawl.

I'm going to say it, Super Smash Brothers is technically a fighting game.
And is a good one.
 
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