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@DonChipotle: Absolutely 100%. I couldn't have said it better myself. The biggest annoyance about the whole thing is that the game is so perfectly balanced when it comes to where your level should be up until you defeat Shadar. Immediately after that, the difficulty skyrockets in a way that breaks the combat system. High damage spells cost too much MP and your AI partners aren't smart enough to conserve MP unless you tell them to; high level skills stop pausing battle time which allows for the enemy to chain combo you for up to 10 times your total HP, and the demand for your familiar (except for a select few) is for them to be right near your own level, so you're power leveling them to get them into a certain shape, but THEN, it doesn't even matter since the final boss does so much damage even while you're blocking that it almost doesn't make any different.

Everything in this game after Shadar is terrible. Shadar was a wonderful end point and everything after feels stapled on.

On. A lot of the exploration stuff is pretty obtuse and the worlds are small enough and have little interactions to warrant fully exploring stuff.

Hell, if you explore into the wrong area too early, the game punishes you for it.

Alright, I'm calling it. Everything after the last Shadar fight is a big bag of dicks. The last 15% of this game is absolutely terrible.

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This is me laughing at Jeff for not considering Smash Brothers a "real" fighting game. HAHA.

Well, Jeff and the grand majority of the FGC?

Which is just silly. Because it is.

It is if you cut off access to half the game. Pro rules for Melee are ludicrous, though not as bad as Brawl's rules.

All of this. Considering that the competitive Smash community is insanely restrictive in what's allowed, it is just a bit absurd to put it on the same level as Street Fighter.

I don't see what is wrong with tweaking the rules of the game? Items and some of the stages create a random element that is counter productive to competitive play. So they are banned. Would you really want to play a match on Pokefloats when money is on the line? With items they spawn randomly. So they may spawn closer to one player giving them the advantage.

This. The random elements need to be stricken out of the game in a competitive setting. Also, its not like there aren't banned characters and such in other games.

It's a design issue. There are ways to take a seemingly random element and provide it on the battlefield in a way that never gives a player a distinct advantage over the other. I point squarely to the Naruto: Ultimate Hero series (well...after 3 anyway), which did this in such a way that no one could ever complain if someone got an item, only on the randomness of that item which could be adjusted in settings. Smash has always placed emphasis on unpredictability, a notion that flies in the face of fighting games. Brawl isn't on the table, but it's certainly the evolution of that idea with game play adjusted for things as big as world hazards being bigger and more outlandish than they've ever been, down to simple tripping. Moving back a generation doesn't fix that. Items are a part of the gameplay of Smash, they always have been. If you remove items, 75% of the stages, then factor in the neutral tier list, you have a game where everyone is using 3 characters who are clones of one another on 2 stages which are clones of one another. It's ridiculous.

Smash is, and always has been, one of the best party games of all time because of the air of unpredictability always keeps things interesting, no matter how good or bad the players involved may be. But it is a TERRIBLE fighting game. And until Iwata and Sakurai decide they no longer want to appeal to 100% of their market in order to focus down the FGC primarily, it never will be anything different.

@StarvingGamer said:

Funny, I was just listening to Ryan and Patrick talking about how 48 hours is the absolute maximum a person should spend in Vegas. Although I guess Evo should extend that a few days.

Are you registering for any events?

I might play Marvel and Persona for shit's and giggles, but I'll pay the entrance fee when I arrive. I'm mostly going to have fun. I'll be hanging out for a week with my cousins though, so it should be an amazing time.

@FLStyle said:

Wow, so you'll need a pass for Friday and Saturday too? EVO is getting really big.

Good luck to all those making it out to Las Vegas.

Yeah, EVO is becoming full on Video game convention size at this point.

@Snail said:

When the heck is it coming out on PC?

It's out.

@MrHadouken said:

New Super Mario RPG? Instead of galaxies 3, sunshine 2 (even though that ones less likely), and new super Mario bros 3. I loved the one on the SNES, and bowsers inside story was pretty awesome. Why not reboot that series of Mario for the 3DS and/or WiiU?

None. The likelihood of Nintendo giving Square anything after Square's incredibly lackluster past few years is close to nill. And, for better or worse, they're 100% locked in on the idea that the paper mario series is the RPG spinoff they want.

Platoon is the way to go for quick chips. If you're worrying about losing money, just buy 1k worth of chips, bank whenever you win 3 in a row, and you will have enough to keep playing until you win 6 games in a row or more.

The casino girls are super cute though. Wasn't expecting that.

http://evo.shoryuken.com/register/

This will be my first year going as well as a nice 10 day vacation in Vegas. I hope it's a hell of a time and I don't lose my shirt.

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