Topic: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

@PS5_LOVER21 I feel like people have been saying this for every entry since Brawl. Time truly is a flat circle.

I have full confidence Smash will continue after Ultimate though, with my hope being that Sakurai takes a much deserved backseat (I love the guy but I'd be genuinely concerned for his health if he made another entry) and allows the younger members of the Smash/Nintendo team to take the reigns and see what they could make. Mario Odyssey was the collective collaboration between a bunch of Nintendo's younger employees after all and I think a future Smash game could have just as much of an impact as both it and Ultimate if it went down the same route. Trim down the roster to about 40, bring in a couple of wildcard newcomers (PLEASE GIVE ME PHOENIX WRIGHT I'M BEGGING YOU) and maybe even change up the core gameplay mechanics and you could have something real special on your hands

I mean get rid of a few characters like for example I would easily boot lil mac, but also give us some more modern characters for the new generations. Like I know we'd never get this BUT I'D LOVE either Ghost from COD or Mater Chief. Also give us some indie characters like Hollow knight, Sans Cuphead for example.

@Fizza Also yeah I wanna see the talent of the newbies. It's time to let to pass the torch for example Splatoon 3 didn't involve any of the veterans and that's probably the best splatoon game

@Fizza Kinda wished Sakurai would work on a smaller game again, like...something new like with Meteos, or Kirby Air Ride. A sequel for both would be nice, or something new entirely. (or something like Kid Icarus Uprising)

As for Smash, pretty sure it'll continue on the Switch's successor, pretty sure they said it wouldn't have a roster like Ultimate's though. (for obvious reasons, lol)

I think they'll have Ultimate be the current Smash game as long as it can still be sold. Maybe even pull a MK8 Deluxe type situation and announce a Fighters Pass 3, years after the announcement of content seemingly ending.

Given there's quite a few 3rd party characters, the challenges of licensing are very much applicable to Smash. If Sony acquires Square Enix, would Sony renew the licensing for Cloud/Sephiroth/Hero/Sora to be in Smash? Will Microsoft and Nintendo's relationship continue such that Banjo and Steve can be relicensed for Smash?

When Ultimate can no longer be sold, I think Nintendo would return back to a Nintendo only Smash and delve more into franchises with little representation like Zelda.

Lately i was in the mood of playing this game in VR mode,something i was unable to do due to joycon drift(i have a third party pro controller for normal play).Third party Labo VR games work just fine without joycons,and Smash would too if Nintendo didn't force the joycons to be mandatory.Since i didn't want to spend 50 dollars on new joycons that could just drift again.I asked a electrician to open the joycons and cut off the power going to both sticks.I tought i could just navigate the game menu with the pro controller and just attach the joycons to spectate vr.But nope,even while the sticks not working i still get drift!All of this because Nintendo forced joycons on VR mode.

Just repair them I'm sure there's lots of tutorials online

I hope we get the "Spirit Supremacy" event again, that's been my favorite since I used a level 99 Galeem (or Dharkon) as my sole spirit (mostly to brag indirectly that I beat "World of Light"). Although most of my wins were because my opponents either forgot or didn't care to include a spirit team.

Check it out, I temporarily changed my amiibo's name and color for Mario Day:

By the way, can I say something real quick?

@TheBigBlue Don't forget the fact that the recently discovered tech allows him to actually cheat. Having said that, I still prefer to play Steve over Kazuya. Love Kazuya in Tekken but his iteration in Smash is very poorly put together. Touch of death characters shouldn't exist in Smash.

@TheBigBlue To clarify Kazuya is more of a pet peeve, I just personally dislike which upsets me because I love Kazuya in Tekken. Steve just cheats, actually breaks the game.

What is the online like now?
Thinking of picking it up again as I'm starved for decent online games on Switch.

I tried it on release and gave up after unlocking all the characters as it was pretty much unplayable online due to lag and random DC's.
I also have no interest in buying the LAN adapter as I play switch pretty much exclusively in handheld so this wouldn't work for me.

@Chaotic_Neutral Sorry to say but without the LAN adapter it's not worth your time. Even then it's no magic bullet. It's just bad online coding.

@mr_somewhere thank you, its such a shame that Nintendo can't even get their own games running on proprietary hardware.

It doesn't help when pretty much every Nintendo game is given high review scores and gets stupid amounts of sales regardless of how poorly optimised it is or as is the case of Smash remains pretty much unplayable 2 years after release.

What happened to the Nintendo seal of quality?

Yeah smash bros’ internet is very hit or miss. If your internet is even 1.0% slow, it will act up on you.

@Chaotic_Neutral Yeah. I wish people kicked up more a fuss. Recently enough I ended up dropping Splatoon 3 because the amount of dropped games, games cut short and etc was just too much of an irritation and got in the way of the fun. I really wish they'd take the online more seriously...

Am I the only one here who's beaten "World of Light"?

@JadeKitsune Probably not.