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Interesting Monkey Ball Deluxe thought...
- Thread starter GDJustin
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It obviously had to be renamed from "Nintendo," but I don't think they could have just retextured the GCN to be a plain indigo block or something. It had a handle, and all the grooves of the actual system, opened up at the end, etc.
So it seems that Xbox and PS2 owners WON'T be getting every single SMB1/2 level after all! Bwa ha ha.
NLB2 said:
Although you should certainly buy the game, be advised: you will never be able to do the things you saw in those videos
I say "never" instead of "probably never" because the best SMB players are... I don't even know how to describe them. "Incredible" doesn't quite cover it. I played for world records for a year or so and at my peak I was 9th in the world, but the gap between me and the #1 player was as large as the gap between me and someone who has never played the game.
Just check out this video:
www.pkfire.com/wp-images/A11-packattack-35980.zip
Despite its short length, its far and away one of the most amazing videogame feats I've ever seen. .1 wires are very hard to cross, let alone GIMMICK OFF THE CORNER of them twice, and land ON one later on while still managing to turn and finish without any loss of speed. Ah... incredible.
PS: Keep this link on GAF, por favor.
I remember playing that level when I rented the game a couple years ago. It took me about 20 tries to beat it for the first time. That video is insane.GDJustin said:Although you should certainly buy the game, be advised: you will never be able to do the things you saw in those videos
I say "never" instead of "probably never" because the best SMB players are... I don't even know how to describe them. "Incredible" doesn't quite cover it. I played for world records for a year or so and at my peak I was 9th in the world, but the gap between me and the #1 player was as large as the gap between me and someone who has never played the game.
Just check out this video:
www.pkfire.com/wp-images/A11-packattack-35980.zip
Despite its short length, its far and away one of the most amazing videogame feats I've ever seen. .1 wires are very hard to cross, let alone GIMMICK OFF THE CORNER of them twice, and land ON one later on while still managing to turn and finish without any loss of speed. Ah... incredible.
PS: Keep this link on GAF, por favor.
Watching these videos has shown me that there is a lot more depths to the mechanics of the game than I originally thought, that's what makes me so interested in the game now. It looks like it would be a very rewarding game to invest time into. Which one is better, 1 or 2? (I don't have an XBox)
talking head
Member
how the FUCK did that video happen? that's freaking crazy.
Well, they both can be found on the cheap, so I'm tempted to take the cop-out answer and say just get both. They really are both easily worth what they sell for, these days.
The single player in SMB1 is a much more hardcore, skill-based affair. Very few levels have moving parts, and the ones that do just have slow-ish platforms or something similar. Unlocking the extra and master levels in SMB1 is also much more difficult. You have to beat the entire mode without dying (for beginner and advanced's extra levels), or without continuing (for expert's extra, and for master).
SMB2, on the other hand, features all kinda of crazy-ass flying contraptions and other such shit in its levels. A lot of people on GAF and elsewhere will claim that this makes the game all about luck, but I disagree. There are absolutely 0 SMB2 levels that don't have a consistent way to clear them. It does make the game less of an absolute, pure "you are one with your monkey and the course" type deal, but it also means there's a lot more variety in the levels. Its also quite a bit easier, overall. They changed how master/extra levels are unlocked, but even if they wouldn't have, a no-death run in SMB2 expert is much harder than SMB1. 1 is BRUTAL.
The single player in SMB1 is a much more hardcore, skill-based affair. Very few levels have moving parts, and the ones that do just have slow-ish platforms or something similar. Unlocking the extra and master levels in SMB1 is also much more difficult. You have to beat the entire mode without dying (for beginner and advanced's extra levels), or without continuing (for expert's extra, and for master).
SMB2, on the other hand, features all kinda of crazy-ass flying contraptions and other such shit in its levels. A lot of people on GAF and elsewhere will claim that this makes the game all about luck, but I disagree. There are absolutely 0 SMB2 levels that don't have a consistent way to clear them. It does make the game less of an absolute, pure "you are one with your monkey and the course" type deal, but it also means there's a lot more variety in the levels. Its also quite a bit easier, overall. They changed how master/extra levels are unlocked, but even if they wouldn't have, a no-death run in SMB2 expert is much harder than SMB1. 1 is BRUTAL.
They've started doing hilight reels.
Sometimes it's not about just hi scores, cuz we all know a flying monkey trapped in a ball is fun.
http://server1.vortiginous.com/smb/compilations/smilingjack13-highlightreel.zip
more at that site
Sometimes it's not about just hi scores, cuz we all know a flying monkey trapped in a ball is fun.
http://server1.vortiginous.com/smb/compilations/smilingjack13-highlightreel.zip
more at that site
Asbel said:They've started doing hilight reels.
Sometimes it's not about just hi scores, cuz we all know a flying monkey trapped in a ball is fun.
http://server1.vortiginous.com/smb/compilations/smilingjack13-highlightreel.zip
more at that site
OMG People can't do this. It's not real. People can't do this. It's not real. People can't do this. It's not real. People can't do this. It's not real.....
O_O
GDJustin said:Although you should certainly buy the game, be advised: you will never be able to do the things you saw in those videos
I say "never" instead of "probably never" because the best SMB players are... I don't even know how to describe them. "Incredible" doesn't quite cover it. I played for world records for a year or so and at my peak I was 9th in the world, but the gap between me and the #1 player was as large as the gap between me and someone who has never played the game.
Ummm, just because you think you can't do it doesn't mean no one else can "never" do it.
I would say "unlikely", not "never".
GDJustin said:
I like them both, but I much prefer the level design of SMB1 to SMB2. SMB2 has more "gimmick" levels that involve puzzle solving more than anything else--once you figure out the "trick" to them, they no longer provide a challenge. SMB1, on the other hand, is pure skill from beginning to end, with no real "gimmick" levels. And it has these beautiful levels now and again that are designed specifically to cull weaksauce players (Expert 7, e.g., which looks impossible the first time you try it, and then seems perfectly reasonable once you've spent more time with the game).
Also: the best I ever did with SMB1 was no-death runs through Advanced. That probably puts me in a pretty high tier among casual gamers, but the leap between "casual" and "hardcore" looks greater for SMB than for any other game I can think of--fighters, shmups, you name it.
http://www.vortiginous.com/smb/compilations/SMB-AllRecords.zip
Shock and awe right there, folks.
Shock and awe right there, folks.
Mr_Furious
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I'm not sure it's been answered yet but I read somewhere that not every level from SMB1&2 is in Deluxe. If it's true then I doubt the gamecube level will be kept. Can anyone else confirm this or am I being delusional.GDJustin said: