# The Brawl Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [March 8, 2008, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-brawl-thread/440578 "2008-03-08T09:41:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-brawl-thread/440578/81 "2008-04-23T19:50:12Z")
Well, I’m conflicted. Do I want to be “that guy”, or not? Oh well. I’ll do it. Yahtzee Crowshaw reviewed Brawl. [Here](http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/editorials/zeropunctuation/4845-Zero-Punctuation-Super-Smash-Bros-Brawl) it is. ---
**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-brawl-thread/440578/82 "2008-04-23T21:54:09Z")
I’ll be on the WFC (boy, that sounds like a wrestling thing) for most of the evening if anyone wants to challenge me. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-brawl-thread/440578/83 "2008-04-23T22:24:43Z")
[QUOTE=Spatial Rift 47] I’ll be on the WFC (boy, that sounds like a wrestling thing) for most of the evening if anyone wants to challenge me. 🙂 [/QUOTE] Awesome. I get home about 630 PST. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-brawl-thread/440578/84 "2008-04-23T23:23:40Z")
[QUOTE=Least Original User Name Ever] Yahtzee Crowshaw reviewed Brawl. [Here](http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/editorials/zeropunctuation/4845-Zero-Punctuation-Super-Smash-Bros-Brawl) it is. [/QUOTE] He had some good points, especially about the repetitiveness of Subspace Emissary, and I do find it kind of annoying to have to unlock a third of the available characters through time-consuming efforts, but he was also unfair in a few places. Button-mashing does work better in Brawl, and the Smash series in general, because you don’t have incredibly complicated combo moves that basically rape the other player. In Tekken or Soul Calibur or Mortal Kombat, pressing a bunch of buttons will pretty much just get you a bunch of basic moves plus a few combos by luck. In Smash, pressing a bunch of buttons will get you most of the moves that exist. However, button-mashing cannot beat skill unless it is lucky. Wave-dashing was supposedly nerfed, but precise, well-timed use of shielding, for example, can pretty much neutralize anyone doing random crap. I really don’t see what he means about the camera being zoomed out too far; that’s really only much of an issue on Hyrule Temple and New Pork City. Smash stages are simply much larger than the arenas available in other fighting games. ---
**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-brawl-thread/440578/85 "2008-04-24T01:57:40Z")
I’m online now! Come one, come all! ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-brawl-thread/440578/86 "2008-04-24T01:58:32Z")
[QUOTE=Spatial Rift 47] I’m online now! Come one, come all! [/QUOTE] Give me a few minutes, need to finish my dinner. ---
**Author:** ![Heller\_Highwater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/278dde/32.png) [@Heller\_Highwater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heller_Highwater)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-brawl-thread/440578/87 "2008-04-24T02:17:22Z")
[Quote=Spatial Rift 47] I’m online now! Come one, come all! [/Quote] I’m online, but when I try and enter your Brawl code, it says it’s incorrect. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-brawl-thread/440578/88 "2008-04-24T02:34:06Z")
Ah crap, I mistyped it earlier in the thread. MY ACTUAL BRAWL CODE: 3780-8736-6952 ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-brawl-thread/440578/89 "2008-04-24T03:51:44Z")
Thanks for the fun guys! Even if I did lose most of the matches. ---
**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-brawl-thread/440578/90 "2008-04-24T03:53:48Z")
Hehehe, that was fun! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Heller\_Highwater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/278dde/32.png) [@Heller\_Highwater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heller_Highwater)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-brawl-thread/440578/91 "2008-04-24T03:53:51Z")
Phew! Good brawlin’! Even if you guys did kill my Nana… ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2008, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-brawl-thread/440578/92 "2008-05-12T15:26:28Z")
I played a few matches last night on someone else’s Wii. I don’t get what the fuss is about with this game. ---
**Author:** ![Yumblie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/76d3ee/32.png) [@Yumblie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yumblie)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-brawl-thread/440578/93 "2008-05-13T01:55:44Z")
If you didn’t enjoy it, you didn’t enjoy it. There’s no way to explain it, really. Me, I don’t get what all the fuss is about with the Grand Theft Auto series, but to each his own. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-brawl-thread/440578.md?page=4)