The latest entry into Nintendo's giant, multi-franchise, fighting extravaganza, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is now tantalisingly close to release. If you're finding it hard to wait for that magical 7th December release date, these videos may well be just enough to tide you over.
A competitive Super Smash Bros. event called The Big House 8 recently took place in Detroit, Michigan, and YouTube channel Most Valuable Gaming has shared a selection of videos featuring the heated gameplay. The videos are off-screen, with the camera simply positioned behind the players' backs, but you can still get a great sense of what the future competitive scene for the game will be like.
The videos will be of particular interest to those wishing to enter competitions and the like in the future, as the no-item rules in play here (which come with a 1.2x damage multiplier to offset the lack of item damage in matches) will likely be a tournament standard mode over the years to come. If you're serious about your Smash, you might be able to pick up some early tips and damage values for your favourite characters.
There are eleven different videos on the channel in total, but we've included just a small selection of them down below which feature new characters and interesting match-ups.
If you want to see the rest of the videos, make sure to check them out right here.
Will you be picking up Super Smash Bros. Ultimate when it releases in December? Are you hoping to play competitively? Tell us below.
[source eventhubs.com]
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Playable this weekend in Bern, Switzerland at the HeroFest/Suisse Toy Gaming expo. Looking forward to it
No items? Booooring!
Nice. It seems to flow almost as smooth as Melee did. Can't wait to own it.
@Ogbert
Yup, no spectacle whatsoever
As a Peach mainer, I’m getting bummed not seeing much footage of her. I wonder if that’s directly tied to her Final Smash having yet to be revealed... At least, last time I checked.
Y’know, I’m just now realizing how much I’m loving watching people play Smash, both high-level competitive play and casual, all-items-on For Fun play. Top-level play is like a beautiful, strange, choreographed dance, and casual play is controlled chaos. They’re both fantastic. 😃
Had a couple of smash games in the past and just can't ever seem to get it/get good at them. Will prob end up getting this one tho.
Watched these already. I see Plup is still keen on maining Ridley from the Invitational and here.
I love me some competitive smash, but I do also enjoy balancing out with casual fun from time to time.
Loved that "NONONONONONO!" as Ganondorf down aired Snake.
My friends and I never play with items, so this reminds me of our own matches.
Man I can't wait for this game. It's now less than 2 months away. And it's going to be slower and slower the closer we get to the release of this game. Aaaaaaugh!!
@MagicEmperor There's also the fact that 99% of all footage seen so far (including this) is from the E3 demo where she wasn't playable (likely to avoid spoiling whatever is up with her Final Smash). Unfortunately, anyone who wasn't in the demo basically has zero footage, including pretty much all my favorites as well, like Duck Hunt, Wolf, Young Link, R.O.B., Mr. Game & Watch, Dr. Mario, etc.
@MagicEmperor Our girl Peachy isn't even a playable demo character
Haven't we already watched hours of competitive Smash footage this year? Can't we watch competitive Kirby footage or something for a change?
@Medic_alert you're not the only one. I like Smash, but after playing every other game in the series, I'm not super excited about getting this. I can imagine those who didn't bother with Wii U but have a Switch would be quite excited about this, but I'm actually more or less 'over' Smash. However, my son still loves it so he'll likely get it for his own Switch and I'll end up playing it anyway, but not with nearly the fervor I used to have for the game.
Watching people play Smash is a whole lot less fun that playing Smash.
If you're only good at SSB with items turned off then you suck at SSB.
How the hell did they take items off the demo version?
@Kevember
Instant like.
@AlexSora89 Certain Exhibition demo booths at Big House had items turned off for 1v1 competitive play. As you can see in some of the videos, there were also the usual 4 player free for all booths as well.
@ryancraddock Btw, an additional video just went live if you wanted to add that. ESAM (Pikachu) vs Cosmos (Inkling)
@JayronAuron
Weird, so the demo had options that weren't visible to players?
No wonder the demo won't come out on eShop then, the datamining potential is still in there. It's the Ryu victory theme all over again.
I admit, I moved to playing items only because I mostly played Smash 4 on the 3DS. You couldn't turn down item intensity, and it was no fun when an item falls every 15-30 seconds. The Smash moveset is complicated enough to be fun without items, and the items are only fun when they're an occurrence, not the norm.
It's like Mario Kart. It's more fun with balanced items than without items, but it's more fun without items than with Mario Kart Wii style items where you always will be hit by 3-5 undodgable powerups in the final lap in single player or multiplayer. You want one or two blue shells or lightning bolts a race, not one or two a lap.
@AlexSora89 Yea. They could always release a modified version of the demo that lacks any extra tools, but given all the effort they've put into making the demo available in as many locations as possible (In NA at least...they still seem to be sorely lacking in demo opportunities in other parts of the world), I feel this is a subtle hint that they have no plans to release an online demo pre-launch.
@link3710 Yeah, I forgot to mention that!
@Ibrahim77X All good things come to those who wait.
Sits beside you and quietly waits for Peach.
@JayronAuron
The fear of datamining is stupid. What does it take for them to release a demo without unneeded crap in the code?
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