GofG
Smash Champion
First off, if a Mod decides that it isn't right to have a discussion thread about combo videos in the Combo Video section, go right ahead and move it, I just thought it would attract more attention in here.
Now, in Melee, there were combos. There were true combos that were unavoidable, that, with no amount of DI, you could break out of. There was nothing you could do to avoid being hit by the specific sequence of moves. So arose the combo video, a compilation of all of the combos a player has pullen off.
Brawl, as the vast majority of competitive players have decided, does not have the same capacity for combos. Air dodges are now OP. Hit stun has been drastically decreased. Combos simply are few and far between. I, for one, am a Lucas main. We only have a few discovered combos that will actually work. Dthrow > Upair, Nair > ftilt. Nothing gamebreaking.
As a result, most of the combo videos that i've seen haven't really been "COMBO VIDEO"s. They have been "CLIPS OF [NAME] BEATING HIS OPPONENTS" videos. This looks much less impressive. What does this mean for the future of combo videos? Will they just be less impressive? Or will they require thousands of hours of more footage, since true combos are scarcer? Will they look less impressive?
The most famous combo video to date is Soldier of Fortune. The first clip in that video isn't a real combo. It is still, however, the most impressive stock i have ever seen. It impresses me a hell of a lot more than a video of some marth ken comboing every character in the game. Is that what combo videos will become? Is that a bad thing? I don't think so. Some people seem to, though.
Discuss.
Now, in Melee, there were combos. There were true combos that were unavoidable, that, with no amount of DI, you could break out of. There was nothing you could do to avoid being hit by the specific sequence of moves. So arose the combo video, a compilation of all of the combos a player has pullen off.
Brawl, as the vast majority of competitive players have decided, does not have the same capacity for combos. Air dodges are now OP. Hit stun has been drastically decreased. Combos simply are few and far between. I, for one, am a Lucas main. We only have a few discovered combos that will actually work. Dthrow > Upair, Nair > ftilt. Nothing gamebreaking.
As a result, most of the combo videos that i've seen haven't really been "COMBO VIDEO"s. They have been "CLIPS OF [NAME] BEATING HIS OPPONENTS" videos. This looks much less impressive. What does this mean for the future of combo videos? Will they just be less impressive? Or will they require thousands of hours of more footage, since true combos are scarcer? Will they look less impressive?
The most famous combo video to date is Soldier of Fortune. The first clip in that video isn't a real combo. It is still, however, the most impressive stock i have ever seen. It impresses me a hell of a lot more than a video of some marth ken comboing every character in the game. Is that what combo videos will become? Is that a bad thing? I don't think so. Some people seem to, though.
Discuss.