Smash unlocked here in Spain. Did a few versus CPU before going to bed. Playing on the Switch is going to take some getting used to, I keep messing up all my tilts on the joycon joystick. Too asleep to play gud right now, hopefully I'll have time tomorrow.
The left analog stick on my pro controller is prone to making dust, everywhere I read online says that's normal for all sorts of controllers. I clean it off, but I'm sure playing smash is going to make that more often.
Well, everyone, The Game Awards are almost upon us. And in the spirit of vacuous award ceremonies related to video games getting one-upped by the release of Super Smash Brothers Ultimate, I feel it's high time we handed out
The First (and Last) Annual Penny-Arcade Smash 5 Roster Prediction Game Run By Kupi
's Bonus Awards
A while back I forewarned the Penny-Arcade commentariat that in addition to the final results of the roster prediction game, I would be tabulating a few alternative scores and handing out bonus awards, akin to the extra Power Stars they hand out at the end of a game of Mario Party to screw with everyone's carefully-managed expectations. And though I still don't know if Kass shows up to play music on the Breath of the Wild stage (seriously, that question will determine who's going to win overall), the scores for every other category are clear. So without further ado, let's hand out the awards.
The Uncle Who Works At Nintendo Award Honoring Excellence In Distinctive Predictions
We all know that the true oracle of what's coming in Nintendo-land is your uncle. You know the one. The one who works for Nintendo. For this award, I gave everyone a second score that tracked the value of their successful predictions divided by the ratio of their wager to the sum of everyone's wagers on that character. That is to say: the fewer people guessed a particular character got in, the more the points for successfully guessing that character counted for.
This game's winner is:
@T-Danger! A completely unique vote for Dark Samus was enough to put T-Danger's Uncle Score over everyone else's.
The Luigi Wins By Doing Nothing Award For A Spectacular Performance Of Needless Self-Destruction
Besides having a mean glare, Luigi is also known for being dead standing perfectly still while his enemies embarass themselves into a self-inflicted defeat. This award memorializes the unfortunate ones who lost the most points to bad guesses, regardless of their net final score.
This game's "winner" is:
@T-Danger (again)! With so many guesses and so few available right answers, perhaps it was inevitable that the person with the best track record for unique guesses also had the most total points lost to misses. Can't win 'em all, eh? Unless you win by not winning. This, uh... made more sense before I said it. Moving on...
Dishonorable Mentions: @Cruor - 42 points lost @Kupi - 37 points lost
The Wii-U Ad Strategy Award Commemorating Those Who Weren't Confident Enough
The Wii-U had some truly fantastic games. Not enough of them, to be sure, but the ones they had were terrific. And yet, the world's television screens were mostly silent about the console. Was Nintendo simply overconfident that the Wii name would drive sales on its own? Who can say. Either way, as the Wii-U ad strategy baffled with its lack of effort, the Wii-U Ad Strategy Award is bestowed upon the particpant who lost the most points to underbidding on successful guesses. If you wagered 2 points on a correct guess, well, you could have had 5, so that's 3 Wii-U Points.
This game's winner is:
@Kupi! ... oh hm. Though I managed to call Ridley, Wolf, K. Rool, and even Simon Belmont, my cautious betting strategy left 13 whole points on the table.
The 4Chan """Leak""" Committee Award A Tribute To The Game's Most Massive Misdirection
The """leaks""" posted to 4Chan were a plague on discussion of Smash Ultimate all the way up to the final Nintendo Direct, as chucklefucks took potshots into the dark hoping to get just enough right to make people trust them and get Smashboards hopping excitedly for Geno once again. The worst part was the same names popping up reliably one after the other as the fakers fed on each other for inspiration. In that same spirit, this award is given both to the character who drew the most collected confidence from our prognosticators without actually appearing in the game, and the posters who were led astray by them.
This concludes the Bonus Awards. Come back Saturday after I've had to the opportunity to stare at the Breath of the Wild stage for a while to see if I can find Kass playing any music, and typed up the final announcement.
My favorite musical instrument is the air-raid siren.
Okay, thread. Here's the plan for tomorrow. I need to work all day long, starting super early (like 5 am) and ending probably somewhat late (like... 8 pm?). So I won't be able to play Smash until night time.
I also need (NEED) to know how well online play works and if it's functional and not a laggy mess, but I don't trust opinions I read on the wider internet because other spaces are so full of trolling. Plus it's not even worldwide launch day yet, so who knows what switches have yet to be flipped or whatever.
I need PA forumers - and not Nintendo Defense Force fanboys! - to let me know tomorrow if, other than typical launch day woes, it seems like Ultimate plays well online. Don't hold back and don't try to be forgiving or cute about it. If you have lag in your online matches - and I mean any of it, other than a very occasional hiccup that doesn't affect gameplay - I wanna know.
I really want Smash to be a game that I can play online a lot. I'm going to be so disappointed if it's anything like Brawl (which was often absolute garbage online). But I never feel like I can get a real, honest opinion about it.
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Persona 5's music is dope as fuck and the fact that it's coming to Smash is amazing. People were already hype for the game's launch tonight but now they have this. Mama mia what a night.
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If Persona was on Nintendo’s list, any worry I may have foolishly harbored is now a distant memory
Indeed.
We can expect/feel free to speculate on some some pretty crazy shit now. The precedent has been set for that pack.
I dunno, this has kind of almost completely killed my desire to speculate. It proves that it can be anybody from anything. It was fun to speculate under some sort of limitation. But there's no limitation anymore, it's now virtually all of media. That's too big of an ocean to even bother trying to guess anything.
...And yet guess I will.
Master Chief from Halo. Because Nintendo and MS are on fairly friendly terms, and MS could leverage it as a dig against Sony.
"The sausage of Green Earth explodes with flavor like the cannon of culinary delight."
If Persona was on Nintendo’s list, any worry I may have foolishly harbored is now a distant memory
Indeed.
We can expect/feel free to speculate on some some pretty crazy shit now. The precedent has been set for that pack.
I dunno, this has kind of almost completely killed my desire to speculate. It proves that it can be anybody from anything. It was fun to speculate under some sort of limitation. But there's no limitation anymore, it's now virtually all of media. That's too big of an ocean to even bother trying to guess anything.
...And yet guess I will.
Master Chief from Halo. Because Nintendo and MS are on fairly friendly terms, and MS could leverage it as a dig against Sony.
Well, medium. It's still a video game character, and they haven't yet broken that "character has been on a Nintendo system" rule yet.
With Mortal Kombat 11 coming to Switch, maybe we'll get like Sub-Zero or something.
Persona is a spin-off series from Megami Tensei. The actual Persona games haven't appeared on Nintendo systems (aside from the spin-off Persona Q dungeon crawlers by the Etrian Odyssey folks), but Megaten has a long history on them (most of the main line games, at least half the spin-offs, and the upcoming Shin Megami Tensei 5 for Switch, for instance). Megaten definitely has the clout to earn a rep, but I think anyone who was asked would have guessed at Jack Frost (the face of the overall series and Atlus's mascot) or one of the protagonists of the main series games.
Joker is definitely more recognizable to the public though, personas offer the chance to do interesting mechanics (see the Persona 4 Arena games).
His final smash had better be Santanael / Seven Sins.
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You have chosen wisely, Masahiro.
Well, I mostly Switch on handheld mode, so I better start learning.
probably
The First (and Last) Annual Penny-Arcade Smash 5 Roster Prediction Game Run By Kupi
's Bonus Awards
A while back I forewarned the Penny-Arcade commentariat that in addition to the final results of the roster prediction game, I would be tabulating a few alternative scores and handing out bonus awards, akin to the extra Power Stars they hand out at the end of a game of Mario Party to screw with everyone's carefully-managed expectations. And though I still don't know if Kass shows up to play music on the Breath of the Wild stage (seriously, that question will determine who's going to win overall), the scores for every other category are clear. So without further ado, let's hand out the awards.
The Uncle Who Works At Nintendo Award
Honoring Excellence In Distinctive Predictions
We all know that the true oracle of what's coming in Nintendo-land is your uncle. You know the one. The one who works for Nintendo. For this award, I gave everyone a second score that tracked the value of their successful predictions divided by the ratio of their wager to the sum of everyone's wagers on that character. That is to say: the fewer people guessed a particular character got in, the more the points for successfully guessing that character counted for.
This game's winner is:
Honorable Mentions:
@Kupi
@Cruor
The Luigi Wins By Doing Nothing Award
For A Spectacular Performance Of Needless Self-Destruction
Besides having a mean glare, Luigi is also known for being dead standing perfectly still while his enemies embarass themselves into a self-inflicted defeat. This award memorializes the unfortunate ones who lost the most points to bad guesses, regardless of their net final score.
This game's "winner" is:
Dishonorable Mentions:
@Cruor - 42 points lost
@Kupi - 37 points lost
The Wii-U Ad Strategy Award
Commemorating Those Who Weren't Confident Enough
The Wii-U had some truly fantastic games. Not enough of them, to be sure, but the ones they had were terrific. And yet, the world's television screens were mostly silent about the console. Was Nintendo simply overconfident that the Wii name would drive sales on its own? Who can say. Either way, as the Wii-U ad strategy baffled with its lack of effort, the Wii-U Ad Strategy Award is bestowed upon the particpant who lost the most points to underbidding on successful guesses. If you wagered 2 points on a correct guess, well, you could have had 5, so that's 3 Wii-U Points.
This game's winner is:
Hesitant Mentions:
@T-Danger: 9
@Zombie Hero: 7
And finally...
The 4Chan """Leak""" Committee Award
A Tribute To The Game's Most Massive Misdirection
The """leaks""" posted to 4Chan were a plague on discussion of Smash Ultimate all the way up to the final Nintendo Direct, as chucklefucks took potshots into the dark hoping to get just enough right to make people trust them and get Smashboards hopping excitedly for Geno once again. The worst part was the same names popping up reliably one after the other as the fakers fed on each other for inspiration. In that same spirit, this award is given both to the character who drew the most collected confidence from our prognosticators without actually appearing in the game, and the posters who were led astray by them.
This game's winner is:
Other "Obvious" Choices:
Decidueye: @BlueBlue (5), @T-Danger (5), @Kupi (4), @Maz- (4), and @Cruor (2), 20 points in all.
Rex: @BlueBlue (5), @Maz- (5), @T-Danger (4), @Kupi (4), 18 points in all.
This concludes the Bonus Awards. Come back Saturday after I've had to the opportunity to stare at the Breath of the Wild stage for a while to see if I can find Kass playing any music, and typed up the final announcement.
Also really good: the new Termina Field remix.
Hooooooolllly shiiiiiiiit. What the actual fuck.
Joker from Persona 5 coming as the 1st DLC
Imagine:
Pleeeeeeeeeaseeee.
THIS GAME, YOU GUYS. FUCK!
Same! P4 and is be squealing so much right now. More incentive to finally play P5 I guess!
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With Mortal Kombat 11 coming to Switch, maybe we'll get like Sub-Zero or something.
I also need (NEED) to know how well online play works and if it's functional and not a laggy mess, but I don't trust opinions I read on the wider internet because other spaces are so full of trolling. Plus it's not even worldwide launch day yet, so who knows what switches have yet to be flipped or whatever.
I need PA forumers - and not Nintendo Defense Force fanboys! - to let me know tomorrow if, other than typical launch day woes, it seems like Ultimate plays well online. Don't hold back and don't try to be forgiving or cute about it. If you have lag in your online matches - and I mean any of it, other than a very occasional hiccup that doesn't affect gameplay - I wanna know.
I really want Smash to be a game that I can play online a lot. I'm going to be so disappointed if it's anything like Brawl (which was often absolute garbage online). But I never feel like I can get a real, honest opinion about it.
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Fuck it. You win, Atlus. Buying it now.
The power of cross promotional synergy!
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We can expect/feel free to speculate on some some pretty crazy shit now. The precedent has been set for that pack.
Sure, but Persona specifically doesn't.
Steam: pazython
le trailer
I am gobsmacked
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I dunno, this has kind of almost completely killed my desire to speculate. It proves that it can be anybody from anything. It was fun to speculate under some sort of limitation. But there's no limitation anymore, it's now virtually all of media. That's too big of an ocean to even bother trying to guess anything.
...And yet guess I will.
Master Chief from Halo. Because Nintendo and MS are on fairly friendly terms, and MS could leverage it as a dig against Sony.
Well, medium. It's still a video game character, and they haven't yet broken that "character has been on a Nintendo system" rule yet.
Persona is a spin-off series from Megami Tensei. The actual Persona games haven't appeared on Nintendo systems (aside from the spin-off Persona Q dungeon crawlers by the Etrian Odyssey folks), but Megaten has a long history on them (most of the main line games, at least half the spin-offs, and the upcoming Shin Megami Tensei 5 for Switch, for instance). Megaten definitely has the clout to earn a rep, but I think anyone who was asked would have guessed at Jack Frost (the face of the overall series and Atlus's mascot) or one of the protagonists of the main series games.
Joker is definitely more recognizable to the public though, personas offer the chance to do interesting mechanics (see the Persona 4 Arena games).
His final smash had better be Santanael / Seven Sins.
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Persona Q and Persona Q2, actually. Joker does, in fact, appear on a Nintendo system already. Er... as of last week, in JP.
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it's a series of JRPGs basically