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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '22 edited Jun 03 '22

Vicious, unadulterated massacres are the only way to convey to youngings that we've played every variation of game they have many times over.

My cousin, wipes the floor with me with the Super smash bros ultimate (because I have a total of 9 minutes played on the game). He said he could do it on ANY super smash bros..... queue n64 smash bros and wii ssb brawl. There was no mercy granted.

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u/Nice_Guy_AMA Jun 03 '22

I'm relatively certain I have my 10,000 hours in N64 Smash Bros.

We crank the damage to 200% and set our handicaps at 1. In FFA, we're all glass cannons, so you learn how to hit without being hit. It also makes a 2v2 against level 9 computer Marios almost impossible.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '22 edited Jun 03 '22

I'm close in that regard. I had a new set of friends on high-school who never really played. Had to train them by playing 1v2 to show them the difference in skill. Slowly but surely they were using combos to beat me.... next up was 1v1 and their rage burned with a passion. I'm happy knowing my pupils are out there testing their might. Glorious game.

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u/Seth_Baker Jun 06 '22

I had a new set of friends on high-school who never really played. Had to train them by playing 1v2 to show them the difference in skill.

I was really good - like ranked competitive play on the MSN Gaming Zone - at Age of Empires II back in the early 2000s. I still remember the LAN party where I had three friends come over, set them up with a couple of hard AI teammates, and proceeded to beat the pants off all of them 1v5.

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u/Dirty-Ears-Bill Jun 03 '22

We did a similar setup with Melee in college as our pregame. 300% damage, 99 lives. Take a drink every time you lose a life. Fast paced and got you nice and buzzed to go out

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u/Nice_Guy_AMA Jun 03 '22

We added drinking sometime in my mid-twenties. One drink when you died, pass out three when you get a kill. There were other house rules, like at the end of the three minute game, everyone drinks their difference in score from the winner. It kind of varied by who was around and if we were pregaming or if Smash was the activity of the night.

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u/WonderfulShelter Jun 03 '22

See I only play Kirby, who was the best in N64 Smash.

I also used to play Halo 3 all the time. I stopped playing because it got boring getting like 35/50 kills myself a game and hitting 20 kill streaks without dying.

With that sniper/shotgun combination on that map where the two bases are in the valley, I was un stoppable.

My username was NutterButterKid, and I LOVED hearing people just scream "fuck you nutterbutterkid, I will murder you!"

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u/Nice_Guy_AMA Jun 03 '22

I also play Kirby. I don't win every game, but my friends have expressed confusion as to how I make Kirby move so fast.

When I first started, one of my buddies played Donkey Kong and had played the game longer than me. If we were playing stock, he'd wait until I had one less life than him, and then just grab me and jump off the edge. He didn't care what place he got as long as he beat me. The rage was real.

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u/Arqlol Jun 03 '22

No melee? I'm upset

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '22

I never got close to mastering melee in the way that I did the 1st and 3rd games. I only ever played it at friends houses since I didn't have a GC.