Board 8 > Theory: Smash Bros. Made the Character Battle Obsolete

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I believe that Smash Bros., particularly hype for Ultimate and it's release, rendered the 2018 character battle outdated and obsolete.

Why speculate about Mario vs Cloud or Mario vs Link when you can just play it out in game?

While the contest was a cool, novel idea before the mainstream-ization of Smash, that series reduced the impact that our character battles have on people.
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It might be just late night musings, but it's something I really felt during 2018 contest season. That feeling of ennui, people not caring like they did back in 2003 or 2004. I was looking for a reason why, and I think Smash is one of the bigger reasons why.
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Or I might be crazy
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I think it's more Gamefaqs being obsolete.

In the golden age, even a boring blowout would probably have one/two whole stats topics for the matches. There, even hilariously close matches barely got one topic and half. I won't even talk about the votals as it's self evident.
The fact that everyone already knew Link would win also ruined Cloud/Mario and Cloud/Zelda.

Yeah. If you read the analysis when people tried to rally on Reddit almost everyone said that Gamefaqs still exists? Because let us be real the site isn't needed anymore. There are better places to find info and help.

Man I remember when we constantly got over 100.000 votes per match! However myself and I guess most other people will never leave here as long as the site exists.
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my dude, you do not need a convoluted theory of why people find it harder to get as pumped about things when they are like 30 as they did when they were kids; father time is a harsh master
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SuperNiceDog posted...

Or I might be crazy

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Averia posted...

I think it's more Gamefaqs being obsolete.

In the golden age, even a boring blowout would probably have one/two whole stats topics for the matches. There, even hilariously close matches barely got one topic and half. I won't even talk about the votals as it's self evident.
The fact that everyone already knew Link would win also ruined Cloud/Mario and Cloud/Zelda.

Gamefaqs itself dying, ok. Yea that's a big part of it too.
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Safer_777 posted...

Yeah. If you read the analysis when people tried to rally on Reddit almost everyone said that Gamefaqs still exists? Because let us be real the site isn't needed anymore. There are better places to find info and help.

Man I remember when we constantly got over 100.000 votes per match! However myself and I guess most other people will never leave here as long as the site exists.

As recent as 2015 we were getting those epic vote totals. Granted it was due to Undertale, but still.
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Safer_777 posted...

There are better places to find info and help.

Like where? Reddit doesn't do advice, and 4chan will tear out your spine and use it as tooth whitener if you dare ask them for help.
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SuperNiceDog posted...

Safer_777 posted...

Yeah. If you read the analysis when people tried to rally on Reddit almost everyone said that Gamefaqs still exists? Because let us be real the site isn't needed anymore. There are better places to find info and help.

Man I remember when we constantly got over 100.000 votes per match! However myself and I guess most other people will never leave here as long as the site exists.

As recent as 2015 we were getting those epic vote totals. Granted it was due to Undertale, but still.

Undertale vs Melee was actually the second most popular match ever.
Of course, it involves a mega rally against the strongest "normal" rally we have had in a while (probably still weaker than Starcraft run back then I guess ?).

Averia posted...

SuperNiceDog posted...

Safer_777 posted...

Yeah. If you read the analysis when people tried to rally on Reddit almost everyone said that Gamefaqs still exists? Because let us be real the site isn't needed anymore. There are better places to find info and help.

Man I remember when we constantly got over 100.000 votes per match! However myself and I guess most other people will never leave here as long as the site exists.

As recent as 2015 we were getting those epic vote totals. Granted it was due to Undertale, but still.

Undertale vs Melee was actually the second most popular match ever.
Of course, it involves a mega rally against the strongest "normal" rally we have had in a while (probably still weaker than Starcraft run back then I guess ?).

I miss the 2015 contest so much. It was truly awesome.
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Yeah beating up someone in Smash is totally the same as a popularity poll

Logience posted...

Safer_777 posted...

There are better places to find info and help.

Like where? Reddit doesn't do advice, and 4chan will tear out your spine and use it as tooth whitener if you dare ask them for help.

YouTube and wikis.
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