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Holiday Specialtacular: Smashing Through the Snow!

Our sleigh ride takes us away from the electronic gridiron and into the GIANT BOMB E-SPORTS ARENA!

Discover the best and worst games of the year with your friends from Giant Bomb.

Dec. 28 2018

Cast: Jeff, Alex, Ben, Dan

Posted by: Jan

In This Episode:

Super Smash Bros. Melee

Game of the Year 2018

Giant Bomb Game of the Year 2018

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DrM2theJ

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Alex’s commentary was hilarious

5 years ago

pkmnfrk

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@bladededge said:

Edited By BladedEdge •

I think, this feature failed to deliver as much as last years because of the game selection. Like, last year both players at least somewhat enjoyed the game (at least if this is a follow up to that NFL arcade thing from lasy year).

As it is, this was quite humorous and funny..through to the end of the first match. After that, the one-note joke of "Ha ha we don't actually like this game" felt too much like the 'haha we are taking the e-sports casting thing very tongue in cheek.

Instead of being playful fun at the expensive of a good game (or at least one the players enjoyed) we get the same basic joke of "The e-sports of melee is silly" told for the entire length of the video. As a 10-15 minute gag, that can work. As an entire best of 5 feature, it wears super super thin to the point of ceasing to be funny at all.

Like, at that point you've got to ask "Who was this for?" The people who like Melee would be turned off by the lengthy joking about it. The people who don't like melee are not likely to even stick with the feature once the matches start, and the majority of us (maybe) with no heavy opinion either way have no reason to keep watching past the first match. There is only so much of "no one is having fun, everyone is making fun of the entire proceeding' etc.

So yah...B+ for effort, D- for going way to long.

Lol

I enjoyed this dumb video about Melee, because I think Melee players are dumb about how precious they are about it

5 years ago

forteexe21

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Poke Floats! Poke Floats! Poke Floats! Poke Floats!

5 years ago

theuprightman

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Edited By theuprightman

Alex is amazing, his commentary is so funny, and the product placement was excellent

5 years ago

Genessee

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Genessee

TRUNK DRUGS

5 years ago

bakoomerang

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bakoomerang

As someone who has no affinity for Smash whatsoever, this was great. Alex was hilarious!

5 years ago

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Edited By hassun

Alex is a great (e)sports commentator.

Dan's "focused but confused" face is something else though.

5 years ago

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It's almost like playing Smash Bros without items is not playing the game at all!

5 years ago

auron1014

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auron1014

This entire video was perfect. I always love the Giant Bomb Holiday team-up content every year!

5 years ago

MassiveDuck

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MassiveDuck

Alex and Ben are making this entertaining, but Smash without items seems to be pretty boring to watch.

5 years ago

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deactivated-5e851fc84effd

Some people just can't have fun, huh?

5 years ago

CharlieJones

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insert overly analytical theory crafting trash comment about gang here

5 years ago

ItsAhMe

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whats wrong with kirby?

5 years ago

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This video is kinda killing me because it looks like they are using the hacked version which I think spits out a 16x9 image and are then compressing it down to 4x3.

5 years ago

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Dr. Mario with the piiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiills

5 years ago

phourniner

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Fantastic, I would love to see more Smash content on the site. Set up an Ultimate tourney!

5 years ago

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punisherkaos

Is this video not showing up under latest or the fire TV? I can only get to this video on the home page and would like to watch it on TV via the app.

5 years ago

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EndsOfInvention

This video doesn't show up on the Videos page for some reason? I only found it because I randomly looked at the main page. Weird.

5 years ago

KnockingNick

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Dan just HAD to bring up his Guinness record.

5 years ago

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TadThuggish

Hey FYI this video doesn't appear in the main feed. I usually watch on the Giant Bomb Video Buddy on iPad and this doesn't show up, I never would've seen it if I didn't come to the site.

5 years ago

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heghmohqib

Even on the site it's easy to miss. It seems to only show up in the GOTY section and not in the Video section.

5 years ago

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This was great. It's good to see that the Scrub League finally got a sponsorship :)

5 years ago

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ImmortalSaiyan

Best part about this is how much misinformation Ben spreads despite being the most knowledge one by far.

5 years ago

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I need to stop watching features with Dan.

5 years ago

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mattoncybertron

this was a great one y'all, thanks!

5 years ago

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Edited By matsemann08

I was done with the bit 2 minutes in.

5 years ago

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CurrySpiced

In the day 4 podcasts when coming back from a break, you can hear Ben and Vinny talking about how they may not have time to record this video...and it kind of shows. A full crew Smash Ultimate tournament may have been fun, but watching Jeff and Dan play a couple rounds of Melee wasn't great.

5 years ago