Poll of the Day > The Smash Ultimate board is a literal dumpster fire ever since the reveal.

(+) Yeah! (+)

So many people crying over some irrelevant shit.

Jeez, why can't we all just be happy we're getting another Smash Bros game?
I mean, I sure can't wait to get my hands on the game in December.
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so the board changed into a dumpster on fire?
not possible
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What is there to argue over that game? I see no problems with it so far.

Smash boards tend to become cesspools of fanboyism and stupidity. Having any sort of concrete information on the game only makes that worse, as people start speculating rampantly and raging over anything confirmed that doesn't fit with their specific vision for the game.
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what are they crying over?
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A popular game board is attracting trolls???
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Also the smash community has been strangely toxic for a long time
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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/234547-super-smash-bros-ultimate/76706666

this topic has a guy getting mentioned once, and then getting mad that he was mentioned, claims overuse, and threatens blocking.
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MrMelodramatic posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/234547-super-smash-bros-ultimate/76706666

this topic has a guy getting mentioned once, and then getting mad that he was mentioned, claims overuse, and threatens blocking.

Didnt realize Zeus was posting there
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Bump because why not.
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Before Brawl came out, I checked out the boards to see what people thought about the game, and it was one of the most toxic boards I've seen on this site. I think it's some sort of combination of popularity mixed with everyone thinking they're really good.

Do they still see Melee as the deepest Smash Bros. game or has that changed in recent years?
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Mead posted...

MrMelodramatic posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/234547-super-smash-bros-ultimate/76706666

this topic has a guy getting mentioned once, and then getting mad that he was mentioned, claims overuse, and threatens blocking.

Didnt realize Zeus was posting there

Haha. Zeus has said that to me before. But I know Garg. He always gets into arguments. Before I was here, I was on a lot of boards for switch games. He got mad when somebody made a topic that was already made. They search for the topic using a different word. It happened a couple times. He was freaking out. And he pretty much argued with everybody on like everything all the time...
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Ultima_Dragoon posted...

Before Brawl came out, I checked out the boards to see what people thought about the game, and it was one of the most toxic boards I've seen on this site. I think it's some sort of combination of popularity mixed with everyone thinking they're really good.

I remember the pre-release Brawl days, it really was toxic back then but I think the situation is kinda worse now.

Ferarri619 posted...

Do they still see Melee as the deepest Smash Bros. game or has that changed in recent years?

Yes there are still a lot of people who do that.
Melee is a good game but people really need to move on from bashing the new games just because "it's not like Melee".
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LeetCheet posted...

Yes there are still a lot of people who do that. Melee is a good game but people really need to move on from bashing the new games just because "it's not like Melee".

I think it was because melee was good for competitive and Brawl was more for fun and casual play. They had talked about this not to long ago after that list for most disappointing games or whatever...
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Yeah I can definitely see why some people could've been disappointed in Brawl after playing Melee for so many years before.
I kinda was as well but I eventually adapted to it because I still loved the franchise.

Brawl is still a solid game in other ways though. The Subspace Emissary is still a great singleplayer mode and I really hope they can make something similar in Ultimate.

Smash 4 kinda lacked in the singleplayer department so I really hope they make up for it in this new game.
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It does look a lot like Smash 4 but idk how much they can change the art style and still make it look good. Plus, Smash 4 had a lot of missing features so there is a lot than can still be added.
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Honestly, Smash is on its way to dying at this rate. It looks exactly the same.

Zelda was smart enough to change.
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Is it literally an actual dumpster fire?

I just wish we were getting new fun Switch games. Smash and Fire Emblem... woooo yippee. Thanks Nintendo E3.
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GanglyKhan posted...

Is it literally an actual dumpster fire?

No not literally literally a dumpster fire, but there is so much unwarranted rage on that board it's ridiculous.
You can't have a proper discussion without people claiming it's a port and this game has no new features and it looks exactly like Smash 4.

RedPixel posted...

I just wish we were getting new fun Switch games. Smash and Fire Emblem... woooo yippee. Thanks Nintendo E3.

Nintendo really should make new IPs though. Sad thing is that Nintendo used to be known for being THE company that regularly made lots of new successful IPs.

I kinda hope Smash Ultimate is the last Smash Bros so the series can finally rest.
Though six games in a span of twenty years isn't really that bad in comparison to other franchises like Mario or Call of Duty or Battlefield.
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Nintendo boards specifally seem to be the absolute worst as far as toxic posters. It's just the entire community as a whole
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Yellow posted...

Honestly, Smash is on its way to dying at this rate. It looks exactly the same.

Zelda was smart enough to change.

I mean, how much can they really change? Engine tweaks, graphical upgrades, and a few new characters and stages are all fighting game sequels ever really provide. I'm kind of expecting this to be the last Smash anyway, which is why the roster consists of every prior character, but you really can't expect them to reinvent the wheel every time. That's just not how series work.

RedPixel posted...

I just wish we were getting new fun Switch games. Smash and Fire Emblem... woooo yippee. Thanks Nintendo E3.

The Direct literally opened with a brand new IP that's nothing like anything else in Nintendo's repertoire.

LeetCheet posted...

Though six games in a span of twenty years isn't really that bad in comparison to other franchises like Mario or Call of Duty or Battlefield.

Even Mario isn't particularly bad if you split up the different genres of game within the franchise. 3D Marios are completely different games from Mario Kart, so lumping them together doesn't make much sense. Do that, and you get:

3D Mario: 7 in 22 years
2D Mario: 13 in 33 years (counting Mario Maker, which is debatable)
Mario Kart: 9 in 26 years (counting MK8 Deluxe, also debatable)
Mario Golf: 5 in 27 years
Mario Party: Lol too many this one's bad
Mario Tennis: 6 in 18 years (counting the one that comes out next week)
Paper Mario: 5.5 in 18 years, including a couple major gameplay shifts
Mario & Luigi: 4.5 in 15 years

And so on. Collectively, it's a huge number of games, but a lot of them are very different from each other. If you look only at similar games, they're actually spaced out pretty well, for the most part. It just seems like more because Mario's been such a consistent figure in the industry for so long.
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Well considering 90% of the GFAQs Smash community was convinced Ridley was impossible, I imagine their fragile minds are all shattered right about now.
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What did you expect from the smash community?
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Yeah the Smash boards always get toxic and vitriolic during prerelease so all I do is post there every now and then and get a kick out of the particularly stupid posts.
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Can't be worse than literally any Fire Emblem board.

Zareth posted...

Well considering 90% of the GFAQs Smash community was convinced Ridley was impossible, I imagine their fragile minds are all shattered right about now.

My position was always that scaling him down to an appropriate Smash size would look silly. That position hasn't changed.
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adjl posted...

Zareth posted...

Well considering 90% of the GFAQs Smash community was convinced Ridley was impossible, I imagine their fragile minds are all shattered right about now.

My position was always that scaling him down to an appropriate Smash size would look silly. That position hasn't changed.

My position was always that he was the same height as Samus in Metroid 1, and that him being the same size as Bowser would be appropriate. That position hasn't changed.
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FrozenBananas posted...

Nintendo boards specifally seem to be the absolute worst as far as toxic posters. It's just the entire community as a whole

No. Its not. Its only certain boards. But those boards are very toxic. Or, they have very toxic people. Ive met the nicest people on Nintendo boards. Moreno than other boards for other systems...
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adjl posted...

Zareth posted...

Well considering 90% of the GFAQs Smash community was convinced Ridley was impossible, I imagine their fragile minds are all shattered right about now.

My position was always that scaling him down to an appropriate Smash size would look silly. That position hasn't changed.

He's a dragon man they could make him anorexic and bright purple and he'd still look dope.
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LeetCheet posted...

Though six games in a span of twenty years isn't really that bad in comparison to other franchises like Mario or Call of Duty or Battlefield.

One game per generation/console is honestly as fair as it gets.

That said, where's our fucking Animal Crossing reveal? Bethesda teased games thay won't even be in this generation. Nintendo needs to take some notes.

adjl posted...

My position was always that scaling him down to an appropriate Smash size would look silly. That position hasn't changed.

Truth.
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Zareth posted...

adjl posted...

Zareth posted...

Well considering 90% of the GFAQs Smash community was convinced Ridley was impossible, I imagine their fragile minds are all shattered right about now.

My position was always that scaling him down to an appropriate Smash size would look silly. That position hasn't changed.

My position was always that he was the same height as Samus in Metroid 1, and that him being the same size as Bowser would be appropriate. That position hasn't changed.

But he looked stupid in Metroid 1. Everyone looked stupid in Metroid 1. It was a NES game and it couldn't handle larger sprites than that.

Blightzkrieg posted...

He's a dragon man they could make him anorexic and bright purple and he'd still look dope.

He would, but he wouldn't look intimidating. Tiny dragons still look cool, but far more cute than anything else. In MP3, Samus literally climbs into Ridley's mouth to shoot down his throat. He's very obviously a threat to her there. Here? Eh. He's just an awkward size now.

RedPixel posted...

Bethesda teased games thay won't even be in this generation. Nintendo needs to take some notes.

I very much disagree. The best thing about Nintendo's E3 presentations is that they haven't jumped on the bandwagon of filling their presentation with stuff that won't see the light of day for years to come. Announce a few things a couple years in advance? Sure. But Nintendo's presentation this year basically said "you'll be able to enjoy most or all of these games before our next E3 presentation," and that's awesome and I don't want that to change.
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Ridley ate a Mini-Mushroom
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