Zero Punctuation: Super Smash Bros. Brawl

[wadark]

Wow, Azralt, you are my hero. That was amazing.

I find it interesting though that Yahtzee's statements are so often more true than anyone realizes. "If you personally enjoyed a game then they shouldn't bother you." Come on, do you honestly think that every person on the planet is going to like ANYTHING in the past present or future? Of course not, because that's impossible and would be boring as well.

And as Azralt said, though with me in a less eloquent way, all you people are certifiably retarded. There has been a grand total of 1 positive review in yahtzee's video history and that was psychonauts, months ago. Yet you all still requested this video then were totally "shocked" when he decided to bash it to hell and back.

If you like the game, why do you care. Nintendo has online now (shitty though it may be). Certainly you can find a dozen people to play with, and as long as you have enough people to play with and enjoy the game, screw the other 5.99999 billion people who hate it.

 

[DR_D]

I liked his review. super smash bros is gay. Its the same as the other smash bros and all you do is mash the same fucking buttons over and over!!!!

 

[Phycotic(retardbypopulardemand)]

Yahtzee I only discovered you about two months ago when i was skimming through youtube looking for random fable vids because my computer is shit and its basically the only rpg that works properly on the fucking thing (and yes i admit it, i did enjoy the game for the most part until i completed it the third time and got incredibly bored with it)and watchin your review again two days ago made me realise something that you actually bring up good points other than other critics most notably with this review and others concerning nintitdo and as i like to call him "resident little italy sewage man". Excellent review, and personally i dont mind fighting games (as long as there like MK and are a lot of gore and decapitated dickfaces heads allover the screen) but i wouldn't play this piece of shit pie that obviously most asswipe-blindsighted-Nintendo's personal ball juggler fan fuck boys seem to love to engorge themselves on and get incredibly obese even if they trapped me in a room stapled my balls to the floor and force fed me the controller because i hate the little overall wearing wrench dildo carrier, the little fuckers so old and used up he probably thinks hes still in line to do Mussolini's pipes or at least in league with the Germans. (by the way i don't hate Italians...just this one and the way their religion has been used around the world as an excuse to fuck up and murder things)pps i couldnt really give a fuck about my poor grammmer on this thing and as my name might imply i was only wrighting this badly because im mostly retarded (not retarded enough to know what a shit game is) and i needed to get this out of my head quick.

 

[ike_luv]

Haha!! I actually played the game for 10 minutes and I agree spot on with everything he said... I didn't like it either really!

 

[Phycotic(retardbypopulardemand)]

and by the way i liked Azralt's little comment for i did find it to be rather amusing in some way so much so that if i was gay i'd have a bulge that would make me pass out because all the blood would have gone to my cock

 

[UltraBlumpkin]

I just don't see how people play SSBB by themselves. My brother got this game and it was pretty good, but to me it's only fun when you have 3+ other friends with you and you just constantly kill each other with all sorts of random things. I got sick of the singleplayer game after about 2 runs through.

 

[Thirteen]

I agree with the thing u said about the people who had to defend it bein the ppl who like this game, but then I'm not a fan of random characters from all over the place fighting games like Metal gear solid and Devil may cry 4 i saw both ur reveiws for the 4th of these 2 and it annoyed me but u make a good point i liked the games but some thjings about them do iritate me like in Devil may cry u swing ur sword about and it does fuck all some tyms anywho ye i agree with ur brawl reveiw

 

[gigastrike]

Is this thread STILL going?

 

[bartos]

I liked his review. super smash bros is gay. Its the same as the other smash bros and all you do is mash the same fucking buttons over and over!!!!

kinda reminds me of SC4, Halo 3 etc.
If smash bros brawl is a wet fanboy dream, then so are your exclusive console games. You hear us whining? I think not. Cant you small-minded fanboys leave a human being peace for once?

 

[Dramus]

I liked his review. Super Ssmash Bros. is gay. It's the same as the other Smash Bros. and all you do is mash the same fucking buttons over and over!!!!>

What the hell does that have to do with homosexuality?
Also, you hit the same buttons over and over again in every game that uses buttons. There are only so many on the controller.

 

[Donstheman]

I actually have to disagree with the "Mash buttons" view cause if you do that its very easy to be picked of by the longer range attacks that every character has. Ive played online alot and I can say that its only the judged and well guided attacks that connect, the game itself is a platform fighter, so mashing buttons here would have the same effect as mashing buttons on one of the original buttons on the original Mario Bros games, alot of jumping and nut much else.

 

[Yadoso]

Eh. Kind of boring.

 

[Rylingo]

Unless youve fought people one-on-one with no items you really cannot understand that it IS impossible for a button masher to beat a great player. Button mashers lose badly at this game unless they are up against poor opponents.

Yahtzee really should have targetted this games aweful online instead. Words cant describe how bad it is. It literally makes nintendos other online efforts look good. Enough said i think.

He was right about the subspace emissary. Repetitive and boring aside from the nice cutscenes.

 

[Khazoth]

You know I disagree with his opinions on World of Warcraft but I don't get my panties in a bunch over it and I laugh at the people who do. I'm just pessimistic enough to agree with about ninty percent of what Yahtzee says.

 

[guv]

hk

 

[suspiciosbiscuit]

wow its like looking into a sock with banana in it only the sock is truth and the banana is fruit

 

[MB202]

I knew from the start that Yahtzee was going to rip this game apart, so I didn't despise him for the things he said. In fact, I was just surprised he had even gotten a copy of the game, since it was only released in Japan and America at that point. Anyway, my take on it:

Professionals vs. button mashing? Don't care, I just play the game for what it is.

I could see the characters just fine, except on bigger stages like New Pork City or 75m.

I DO enjoy the spectacle of it, just seeing all my favorite Nintendo characters in one place is satisfying for me, especially King Dedede, Wario, Sonic, and Diddy Kong.

Unlockable characters... It's never really bothered me... Until Mario Kart Wii, that is. :|

It IS weird how Snake and Sonic are supposed to be "secret" characters, yet they're advertised on the back of the box.

I liked the Subspace Emissary, for the most part, though there were several things that didn't add up for me... But hey, this is the first game in the series to actually HAVE a story to it, so it's a start.

Also, which Billy Murray does Yahtzee mean? The American actor or British actor?

This review made me realize that I might be "thay guy", though when people DO come over and play with me, I'm not that competitive.

Actually, that DOES happen with Smash Bros. Brawl (see www.smashboards.com)

I like obscurity, actually. BTW, Marth is the main character of the first and third games in the Fire Emblem series. There's a new game released for the DS in Japan that stars Marth, too, though whether or not it will be released overseas remains to be seen.

Nice Mother 3 comment, BTW! The fan translation is almost done, I've heard.

Also, about the Mario Kart thing, notice that he says "in the next generation". I know what he means by this. How many people are buying Super Mario Kart or Mario Kart 64 these days?

I didn't defend the name Nintendo Wii. In fact, I outright flamed it! But I still loved this game.

 

[outcastyamato]

Yahtzee has made several good points. I wish I could sympathize with him on this one (as I do in most of his reviews), but I have to say that it is the borderline childishness that makes it GOOD. I'm personally tired of bad fighting games involving a obsessive compulsive strategic requirement just to pick the right character. The casual play makes it easy to get into, but it also allows the game to be undeterminable up until the last second. Unless of course you are THAT GUY...





Which I am.

 

[jimClassic]

Mind you, I love Smash, and I'm pretty good at it too. I also loved this review too, inspite of what he said, becasue it was genuinely funny.
My I did have a problem or two with Yahtzees review.
I've rarely lost to button mashing, so either Yahtzee and his friends were just that bad or he was exaggerating.
My only problem with is was that he didn't have any frame of reference of the other Smash games.
I would have liked a comparison between Melee and Brawl.
Brawl had improved on Melee in many areas and in some area Melee is still better.
Also to me Brawl feels like it was rushed.
Many of the KO moves are quite random now. I've KOed my roommate several times with moves that shouldn't have. And than again, I've survived hits that should have wiped me out. It seems quite unbalanced in that area. And that's just one example.
Yahtzee doesn't know any of this, since he never played Melee; he can't compare what's good, what's bad, what's been improved, and what they screwed up.
That's my two cents is all.
Still a funny review.

 

[glory_scars]

i think brawl sucked melee was a beeter game wich i did love and hes right a bout button mashing my cosins have this game and played it for weeks b4 i even seen it and i won every time dont think its becuse i play wii alot i dont own one i just randomly flaled about pressing things and won i think it was stupid and pointless and nintendo are beeting a dead horse with a baseball bat you know what kind of game id play on wii one where you play a mississippi redneck that beets his wife and has sex with his mom that is a entertaining game