this may or may not be common knowledge at this point, but i'd still like to draw more attention to it because of how cool it is—there's a lovely little detail added to the dungeon music in breath of the wild that you might have missed


this is the music that plays when you lurk inside the body of the divine beast Vah Ruta, who, in the game's plot, is essentially a war machine designed to protect hyrule from evil, along with three other divine beasts located in each of the game's four major regions—but the beasts wind up becoming corrupted and possessed by ganon, eventually causing the great calamity, so, of course, it's up to link to basically secure and liberate them from ganon's influence

the beasts have to be liberated from the inside out, so they essentially function as the game's dungeons

the music that plays in vah ruta's dungeon is beautiful on its own, but listen closely at the very beginning—repeatedly, you'll hear three short tones, followed by three longer tones, followed by three shorter tones

that's an "S.O.S." in morse code

no, seriously, listen for yourself

that's right—because the dungeons are more or less sentient warships, they actually integrated a distress call into the dungeon music, which is pretty chilling, given the right context, as it subconsciously adds another layer of urgency to the already grim situation

some people have claimed to hear other morse code messages as well, like "SAD" (... .- -..), but i don't know if i hear that myself—others have speculated that there could also be messages in wabun code, which is the japanese variant of morse, but i haven't looked into that as much

good games are good and all, but it's little things like this which separate the games i love from the games i cherish

ridley still looks bizarre to me

maybe it's just him standing upright, or they made it him too small

definitely

i feel how godzilla fans must have felt when the 1998 american version was made

the way it was explained to me was when you get thrown onto the ground in a way that bounces into the air ie: sheiks Dthrow, you now have the option to tech it and remove the chance to follow up.

nah, this is what it is

mario and bayo tried to grab each other at the same time, so it cancels

it's the change i'm probably the most excited about, because i always felt that grabs were a broken mechanic in smash

first time checking in on this site in a while and i couldn't have asked for a better embarrassment of a thread to greet me. thank you deci

i was able to make light of it

Quote from: Verbatim on June 14, 2018, 05:12:21 PM

Quote from: Onion on June 14, 2018, 05:12:00 PM

Mon hun

really

yea

doubt

Of all the complaints I've been, people not liking Pikachu getting double kick is kind of ridiculous. Did anyone care that Charmander got Metal Claw in FRLG?

That's probably one of cooler changes tbh (even though it even further nullifies the point of forcing you to catch a Grass or Water-type...)

Quote from: Verbatim on June 14, 2018, 09:10:44 AM

do people really think this game is not a port

like, it's okay that it is, but there seems to be a lot of people who are convinced that it's not

That's because it isn't.
https://twitter.com/SSBUNews/status/1007107258164174850
More reused assets than normal game to game but that's because it's Ultimate. It's not a port.

the dubiousness of that claim aside, i don't see how that doesn't make it a port, you can build something from the ground up and still paint by the numbers established by the previous game, you can still follow the blueprint

if this isn't a port, then i'd be really disappointed if i were everyone else

every other smash installment made huge strides from the previous game, that's what makes a new installment

I will play as:

Samus
Ridley
Meta Knight
Link/Toon Link
Solid Snake

why not young link

yeah, i was feeling nostalgic

vintage memes

watch everything at 1.5x

i know several people who actually do this and it absolutely disgusts me

pokémon trainer is cool and all but i just never enjoyed playing as literally any of his pokémon

wolf is the first returning character i'd wanna pick i guess, but i kinda despise his new design

post your characters

Roy, Sheik, Lucario, Ganondorf, Jigglypuff

new character i'm most interested in is inkling

going to be referring to ridley exclusively as baby ridley from now on, because he's not the real ridley

Maximum accessibility

pretty infuriating

i can't even think of a grass or water-type pokémon you can even get at that point