*sonikku88

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The Super Smash Bros. Brawl Quiz!

1. When did you first get SSBB?

I think it was a few days after the US launch. I imported it. Then I had to buy the UK version cuz the Wii update made the Freeloader useless. I got it a week after the launch date.

2. Who are your top three favorite Brawlers?

1) Link
2) Captain Falcon
3) Sonic

3. Who is your favorite newcomer?

Most definitely Sonic

4. Do you have a preference for the stages you battle on? What are they?

I like big stages like New Pork City and Hyrule Temple. I also enjoy playing on flat stages since it's easier to hit a character with a protectile or if the character I'm using's Final Smash in a liniar shot like Samus or Ganondorf. I'm not a huge fan of the hazards in the various stages, e.g. the stream in the Pikmin stage when it's raining. That thing can really get my annoyed.

5. Timed brawl, stock brawl, or coin brawl? (List also how long or how many stocks)

I prefer Stock Brawl with 10 stock. 'tis how I've been playing since the first Smash Bros.

6. When choosing a character, do you leave the colors alone or do you change them? (If you do change the colors, tell what color you prefer.)

For some characters I like to change the colour. Such as Dark Link, which looks badass. Also, Link's gold suit looks pretty cool. I also like Samus' Fusion and Dark suits. For others, I generally just leave their normal colour.

7. How often do you partake in team brawls?

I guess when I have friends over and I want to make things easy on them, so I have like 2 friends against me and a computer. I don't think I'm ready to have 3 against me just yet

8. Do you ever go online and brawl with others around the world?

I do, and I have kicked many a butt, but the times when I wanna go online are quite late and most people in Europe have gone to bed. I need to find some more friends to play against.

9. When playing Brawl, do you usually play alone or with a second player?

I hardly play it by myself, but I will have to in order to get all the trophies and challenges. Two player is always fun, but it's a shame that the complete All-Star mode with every character challenge doesn't work if you do co-op with a buddy.

10. What kind of controller option do you use? (Nunchuck, Wii-mote sideways, Gamecube controller, etc.)

Gamecube controller mostly, but I have been using the Wiimote and Nunchuk too.

11. Have you tried battling against a level 9 CPU character? Did you win?

I haven't tried yet, but I will do someday.

12. When fighting CPU characters, what level do you usually set them on?

Level 5. Though they are getting a bit too easy to beat now. I should probably go up a level.

13. Have you beat the Subspace Emissary?

Yup. Not got 100% yet, but I had in the US version.

14. What is your favorite movie from the Subspace Emissary?

It has to be the one where Snake hides in a box from Lucario and Meta Knight and gets discovered by Lucario. Tis a classic. XD

15. On a scale of 1-10, 10 being perfect, what would you rate Super Smash Bros. Brawl and why?

I cannot give this game a 10 because it's not perfect, like no other game is perfect, nor will it ever be. Instead I shall give it a 9.5. It's a fantastic game, but I think there are few things that should have been improved or gotten rid off or replaced or added. But mostly, I'm pretty happy with it.

16. What/who is your favorite assist trophy and why?

GREY FOX! Cuz he's awesome and his attacks are really useful and I love saying GREY FOX everytime he appears. XD

17. What is your favorite item to use in a brawl?

Hammer and Golden Hammers, for sure. I also like the Deku Nut and the ! ball thing cuz it stops Brawlers in their tracks.

18. Whose Final Smash is the best?

I think Sonic's Final Smash is the best, cuz it's FREAKIN' SUPER SONIC! HELL YEAH! Having said that, I think it's a bit unfair because you could kill the same person twice with it. They should have cut down the time limit for it.

19. Did you become a fan of another Nintendo series because of Brawl? If so, what series?

Well, Pit intreged me to go and play the original Kid Icarus game on the NES, which I'm not impressed by, TBH. So no.

20. If you had any suggestions to improve the game, what would it/they be?

Oh God, where to start? First thing that comes to mind is more stages for Snake and Sonic. Seriously, one stage each? C'mon... I would have liked the flower field at the end of MGS3 as a stage and a Final Hazard stage from Sonic Adventure 2 where players would fight on top of the Biolizard while it's traveling through space. I would also like Snake to have the MGS3 costume like Wario has his original outfit. Also, more Sonic characters should be playable. I know it's a Nintendo game, but they should have put in Knuckles or Amy, and maybe Tails if he stops being a pussy. As for MGS characters, I would have liked The Boss from MGS3 to be playable, cuz she'd kick some major ass. Though I can imagine if she was programmed like she is like MGS3, she'd be even more broken that Ike. D: I would also like Raiden, cuz even though he gets a lot of shit for looking like a chick and being gay, I still like him as a character. And if other people don't, they can just beat the crap out of him.

As for characters I'd like to remove, they are as follows:

Ice Climbers (because they come from a crappy NES game that nobody cares about)

Jigglypuff and Lucario (because there's way too much Pokemon stuff in Brawl already)

Game & Watch (okay, I can understand the retro factor with the guy, but c'mon, did anyone really play, nay ENJOY the G&W games?)

Olimar (I really see no point for him to be in the game. He's not a fighter, he's not even the size of the other Brawlers! He's supposed to be smaller than a 50p piece, for Christ's sake!)

R.O.B. (GTFO, YOU REJECTED NES ACCESSORY!)

As for characters I think should stay but should be improved:

Ike (he's just broken. His moves are WAY too powerful)

Yoshi (put him back in the Mario series. The Yoshi series only got 4 trophies WTF?!)

Meta Knight (his moves are too slashy and he doesn't have enough launching moves)

Mario (put his tornado move back in B-down. FLUDD is rubbish)

The Star Fox characters (different Final Smashes please. Preferably Fox in the Landmaster, Falco in an Arwing and Wolf in the Wolfen)

Lucas (needs to be much less of a Ness clone, and if that's not possible, keep him out of the game)

Sonic (should have had more involvement in the SSE. I know they added him in at the last minute, but the screenshot with the floating island got me really excited for some game time with Sonic and company)

Snake (his moves are extremely weird for a Smash Bros character. Smash Down to plant a bomb? ...seriously? Surely B down has got that covered)

Okay, now to the online. The main thing that bugs me about this feature is the fact that I play online, moves take about half a second to respond to the button input. This is something I can live with, if the sandbag practise stage was delayed too, but no, it's like playing offline which complicates things. Next is the friends system. Nintendo loves Friend Codes, unlike its customers. God, they are annoying. I really REALLY want an online service as good as the 360's and PS3's where random players can be added to your friends without having to input codes. I heard Nintendo are going to start charging for online on some games soon. Hopefully then, their online will be as good as the 360's and PS3's.

There's loads more I would change but this journal is too big as it is.

Hi again, y'all!

Woah, I ain't updated in like over a month. Which is unfortunate because I'VE BEEN DOING SO MUCH STUFF LATELY! I have so much to tell you about. D:

Okay, I'll start off by saying that college is finally over. HOORAY and all that bollocks. Unfortunatey, I don't think I've done enough work to get into the second year, which sucks cuz we were gonna stop motion animation and 3D models and stuff. But I would have probably left anything to the last minute as usual. Besides, I've had enough with education. I just wanna get out there and get a proper job and not this stacking shelves in grocery shop bullshit that I've done in the past. I have my Diploma in IT I got last year, so that should get me somewhere.

I got some games with the money I got from my emeralds, new and old. First the new, I got the Orange Box for PC and Garry's Mod. I'd been looking forward to getting Garry's Mod ever since I saw the various screenshots online, but I wanted to wait until college was over to get it and the Orange Box. Gman's expressions are hysterical. I've made a few screenshots myself which I may put up in my gallery later. I also discovered that other models from games like Zelda, Mario, Sonic and Resident Evil 4 could be downloaded and used in Gmod. I have downloaded these and any more, and I'm having a blast posing them and creating all kinds of weird and hilarious situations. As for old games, I decided to pick up F-Zero GX and Soul Calibur 2 from eBay. I once has both games but I traded them in for new games. Now I can relive the good times I had when I first played them. Plus, *SephirothBeatrix is a HUGE Soul Calibur fan and I wanted to show her how Link played in the Gamecube version of SC2.

Speaking of SehpyBea, she and our mate Ryan came over from Ireland to stay at mine for a week. IT. WAS. EPIC. We had Ryan's PS3, along with me mate Dan a.k.a ~LtMcLean's 360 and projector and my Wii. A lots and lot of booze! HELL YEAH! XD Ryan showed us MGS4 which looks fantastic. I really want a PS3 now. >.< Unfortunately, he couldn't manage to get a VGA cable for it, so we had to use the HDTV in my room to play it instead of playing it on the projector in the basement. Well, we tried playing it on the projector using composite cables, but the picture quality was so bad... SephyBea has brought some Singstar games with her cuz I asked her to, I wanted a go to see how good my singing was. Not to brag or anything, but I did pretty well. On one song (I think it was We're Not Gonna Take It by Twisted Sister), my score was over NINE THOUSAAAAAAAAAAAND! ...what? Anyway, we had fun, drunk a lot (it was the first time I was drunk 3 nights in a row ), got takeaway pizzas (yum...), and played loadsa games, including Brawl, on which SephyBea found out that she actually plays better when she's drunk!

But I made a huge mistake that night. I wanted to show Ryan all the awesome retro games on the Virtual Console but I had to update my Wii. I thought about whether it would disable my Freeloader or not, but I thought it wouldn't because I hadn't read anything about the latest firmware disabling it. So I updated, and wouldn't you know it, my Freeloader DOESN'T WORK ANYMORE! That wasn't the thing that pissed me off the most though. When I tried to turn my Wii on, after I had updated it, I got a message saying the Wii memory was corrupted and I needed to format the memory. Now, a lot of things piss me off, but the one thing that pisses me off the most is lost data, because it can't be recovered. Fortunately, this wasn't what happened. I ejected the Freeloader disc from the Wii and started it up again, and the Wii menu loaded with all my data intact! I guess you only get that message when the Freeloader is in the Wii when you turn it on. I was relieved but still annoyed that I couldn't use my Freeloader anymore, hence I couldn't play Brawl anymore either. I checked on Codejunkies, the Freeloader's website, and there was a message stating that the Freeloader no longer works on the latest firmware that came out 3 days ago. 3 days. Plenty of time for the news of the Freeloader's demise to spread all over the net but no, no one bothered to spread the news. In fact, the news STILL has not reached the various Wii homebrew sites. *sigh* Anyway, this has forced me to sell my US copy of Brawl on eBay, and I'll have to buy the UK version in town or something. Sorry about the rant, it's just something I needed to get out there, y'know?

So yeah, all fuck-ups considered, we had a pretty awesome time. Then it was time for SephyBea and Ryan to return to Ireland. I went with them as SephyBea's mum had told her to invite me over, which was awesome of her. We missed the first ferry because Ryan was staying with some other people on the last day and they got him to the port too late. So we had to get the ferry on the next day which cost Ryan and SephB another 20 euro for tickets. Even though we were on the slow ferry, the trip seemed pretty quick and we docked at Dublin Port in a few hours.

So that's part 1 of what happened recently. I shall port part 2 sometime this week, methinks.

P.S. WTF is up with the DA moods?!

I checked to see how many people I've been watching on DA recently, and it was 176. So I thought it's time to clean up.

The reasons why I removed the people are varied. Such as they never update anymore, I watched them just cuz they watched me, I've lost interest in them, and in one case, the user had passed away.

So now I'm down to watching 107 people, which still seems like a lot to me, but I really want to watch these people.

Decided to change some things around, and I think it looks much better. Plus the text is easier to read now.

One thing, I've made this design too wide to view on my user page. You'll need to go to the journal page in order to read everything.

I'm going to delete my last journal and the images I needed for it cuz they're useless now.

If anyone has any problems with the design, by which I mean like if the text is too big or something, not if you don't like Sonic and say it's crap because of that reason , feel free to tell me so I can improve on it.

EDIT: Okay, it's come to my attention that some of the journal gets cut off in resolutions of 1024x768 or lower. I use 1152x864 so I don't notice. Anyway, I may go back and edited it....again. But not tonight. I can't be bothered.

EDIT AGAIN: Now I've found out that the header goes to low in Internet Explorer. Ugh... I dunno what to do anymore.

Ooooh, fancy header! O:

I decided to buy something I've wanted ever since I started using this website regularly. LEATHER PANTS! 8D

...lol, not really. I now have a 3 month subscription. I know the year is more value but I wanted to see if having a subscription is worth it or not. Man, everything is layed out so differently, but I can definitely get used to it. I can finally use my CSS skills I learned in college to make a sweet ass journal design. And looking through deviations and messages will be quicker now too.

Welp, I'm off to explore DA as a subscribed user and see if it feels any different.

Latah!

AND A FOOTER! Holy hell, this IS fancy!