Post your Smash Brothers launch day horror stories here

[bluemax]

Launch day lulz. I bought the game 3 days early at a store down the street. Avoiding the unwashed masses FTW.

[brawndolicious]

it's not really a fighting game, it's more of a physics-based real-time RPG..that takes place in side-scrolling stages..and has no story.

[Candyflip]

it's not really a fighting game, it's more of a physics-based real-time RPG..that takes place in side-scrolling stages..and has no story.

You do realize there's a multiplayer option, right?

I love stories like this, think they are very funny.  I don't understand the contempt though.  When I'm in the vicinity of extremely nerdy kids I love it.  Are you angry because you think they'll make you look bad by association for being gamers?

Not angry so much as embarrassed. So yes.

[Oblivion]

...BUT I can't help but think that so many Wii owners are going nuts for the game simply because they have nothing else to play, as has been the "Nintendo Difference" since the N64 days. 

I'm not sure why people are so excited. It's a well made game, but not worth going batshit insane over it. Why are people gushing over the music? I mean, it's well done, but people are going batshit insane. I think the game is a fun little party game.. but that's it.

And Lyte Edge is right; the hype is caused by wii owners starving for decent title.

Not saying that Wii was being flooded with quality software, but Smash was always a highly anticipated, popular game, regardless of your own personal level of fondness.

[brawndolicious]

it's not really a fighting game, it's more of a physics-based real-time RPG..that takes place in side-scrolling stages..and has no story.

You do realize there's a multiplayer option, right?

It's got a lot of things.  you can't put it in any one genre is what I'm getting at.