This week on Zero Punctuation, Super Smash Bros. Brawl.
The Wii is now a retro console. Let’s get nostalgic about an often maligned system.
Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.
My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.
Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.
Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.
All of the Super Smash Bros. games are incredible, but which one stands as the mightiest of them all and has the best modes?
To me smash brows Melee is my all time favorite. I can't tell you how many hours I played that game between friends and family. When I was a kid, my parents couldn't afford a gaming console so I had to go somewhere that had an arcade like setup with the only difference being instead of arcade cabinets, they had big screen crt TV's and gaming consoles setup. I would go with my friends on special occasions after school or with my family on the weekends.
I would meet and make new friends at that place as we were all gamers and we also brought our game boys and would trade pokemon. I don't think those places exist these days but back then, it was easy to meet like-minded people and have fun for hours.
Well, I’ll add my extremely subjective ranking too. I won’t include the 3DS version as I don’t owned it. I did play it for a few minutes though.
5. Brawl.
4. N64 Smash
3. Ultimate
2. Wiiu Smash
1. Melee
Sakurai's views on cutscenes (and how quickly they'll be shared online) haven't really changed that much in 16 years.
He deserves all the press he gets. hes the only reviewer i trust.
I understand more things get under his skin then mine and alot of hes demeaning comments are for amusment, but when you look at the core of his reviews, they are made up of very knowledgible and insightful notions.
And more often then not, i find my self thinking (that is so true).
LOL!!
another excellent review, i wish this guy pumped the funnies out more often that one day a week
I dont consider myself a fanboy of Nintendo or any company... But i do enjoy playing Smash bros.. And yes its true its not for everybody... especially ZP since he enjoys single player games a little bit more
I love him cause he's the only other person who will say that Nintendo whoring of their stable of characters OVER AND OVER AND OVER again is just gay
I often think this guy is a bit of a jerk, I thought his reviews of Uncharted and Burnout were awful.However, I agree with this review entirely, very funny and very true.
I never liked fighting games at all, none of them!