Help me see the joy of smash brothers please.

I enjoy Mario Kart (always liked crash team racing more until this gen) and I enjoy many mario games, but was unfortunately never that into many of the Nintendo characters that much. Example, I never played a Zelda game until this Gen with one exception (I was about 10 and saw zelda on the gameboy and thought it looked awesome and really wanted it but had no gameboy). I'm a fan of Yoshi, but otherwise not massively into any particular Ninty character. Love my Wii U though and my Wii and gamecube were fun. My favorite video game characters were always Crash bandicoot, Solid Snake, and Abe (abe's odysee), as I had so much fun in the ps1 era.

Now in a few words, can some of you guys convince me to buy the game? It looks fun, but I'm worried that I won't have that "joy" that I have for mario kart. Is it exclusive to people who already have played it on GC (nostaligia) or can I pick it up and love it? Also, I need to get my wife to like it or she will just hog all of our time with Mario Kart 8.

Well I've always been into Smash games and Nintendo games in general so it's just something I thoroughly enjoy.

For someone coming in without that same feeling it could definitely still be a great game for you.
The different modes help provide fun for everyone. Once you have the basic controls down pat you can play your 4 player - 8 player modes with items on/off depending on what kind of madness you want. When you start to get better that's when a lot of people tend to enjoy playing with no items and just have certain number of stock/lives.

The game is just absolute chaos and so much fun. I think your wife would enjoy it as well, as long as she is somewhat into video games. I never tire of playing online having 1 on 1's but it's also great to play local multiplayer and just have some crazy matches.

I know there was a demo on the 3DS, is there a Wii U demo you could look at getting first?

Demo eh? I'll have to take a look tonight. My wife and I like similar games but they vary wildly, like civilization and mario kart. I am getting more into the Nintendo Characters this generation. I enjoyed many mario games, but always thought of Mario himself as just Mario. Man I can't wait for Abe New N Tasty on my U. :O

The game is awful, terrible, horrible. Runs in 5p resolution at 5 frames per second and only has 10 characters, 9 of which are clones, the other one is a trophy so it's actually not a character. There's no save feature and load times take longer than installation times if you're lucky.

Buy it anyways, you'll be pleasantly surprised.

You can see pantsu of some characters u otherwize couldn't have and you can create nsfw stages via stage builder and gamepad.

8 player mode is also very fun and the online is functional. There are custom move sets which you can apply to virtually every single character and miis for endless replayability. It has over 400 soundtracks and a lot of the stages are very fun to play and a joy to look at and it will keep you entertained for months and makes a great party game

I imagine that being a fan of the characters helps, but even apart from that it's a very unique and fun fighting game. I've never been a big fan of traditional fighting games, but Smash is a whole different story. Definitely play at a friend's house first though to see if you like it, as that situation's where you'll have the most fun anyway.

You don't really need to have an affection for Nintendo characters to get into Smash. The opposite usually happens. I don't think Earhbound would have been a cult classic without smash. Just play it and use a character that looks cool to you. That's how many people fell in love with Smash. That's how many people got introduced to their favorite nintendo franchises.

Funny that you should mention earthbound as I am checking it out lately. I might give it a download on the U. Would be great on the gamepad here and there. I like god sims and it has a taste of that side of things.

Yoshi whooly world also looks interesting as does toad treasure trecker. 2 games I'll buy later, so whatever Nintendo are doing with their spin offs must be working. I would just kill for a realistic gritty game on Wii U (like the original metal gear solid, or c&c red alert). Back then all those games were quality and lately I feel like it's a quality I only find on pc and Nintendo consoles.

Yes, for example if Abe or Crash were a DLC, I would drop a nut and leave work right now to buy the game. If Snake were in it, it would make me a little more likely too buy it. I loved Pokemon as a kid, but they don't do it for me at all now.

P.S I love Derp Sandwiches. Nom!

One of my major criticisms of Nintendo as a company is that they don't widen the variety of games and audiences they make their games for. There's no reason Nintendo shouldn't have a girth of more mature games. XenoBlade is a move in the right direction, but not nearly enough in that regard. The fact that they don't is hurting them.