Okay, so here's my story.
A few years back I bought a Wii before the Wii U came out knowing that I wanted to keep a console capable of playing Gamecube around (I really have no interest in anything beyond Wii). Lately, I am living in Japan and I bought one of these fancy new Smash Gamecube controllers with the extra long cord. This prompted me to look up videos on YouTube.
Suddenly I come across a 4 hour long documentary called The Smash Brothers Documentary. I was astonished.. at the story, the community, all focused on a game that was not intended to be so intensely skill based. I thought to myself, "man it would be great to have gotten into that," but I never even knew it existed, and I am now 21 years old. Tonight I further investigated, wow a 20xx version modded, looks great but I got no one to play with. A simple YouTube comment made me know of Project M's existence, and with Melee like mechanics and internet play compatibility. Maybe I can actually make this a small hobby once I get back home in two months.
Now, I have no intentions of spending hundreds upon hundreds of hours practicing, and have no real goals in mind to become the best, but I do love competitive games, and great communities of people that might revolve around them.
So this is my question, where do I begin?
There are all sorts of fancy moves and I heard weird phrases like some sort of cancelling feature, where can I go to learn everything form the ground up? I found that these forums seem to assume that the people browsing are all from Melee. I played Melee, but I was a kid and I played it exactly how it was meant to be played.
I know I am nowhere near a console I can practice one, but I was excited to know of this Project, and I want some input on where some experienced players think I ought to start.
Thank you very much, I hope to become a member of this community and I hope I can spar with a few of you some day very soon.
A few years back I bought a Wii before the Wii U came out knowing that I wanted to keep a console capable of playing Gamecube around (I really have no interest in anything beyond Wii). Lately, I am living in Japan and I bought one of these fancy new Smash Gamecube controllers with the extra long cord. This prompted me to look up videos on YouTube.
Suddenly I come across a 4 hour long documentary called The Smash Brothers Documentary. I was astonished.. at the story, the community, all focused on a game that was not intended to be so intensely skill based. I thought to myself, "man it would be great to have gotten into that," but I never even knew it existed, and I am now 21 years old. Tonight I further investigated, wow a 20xx version modded, looks great but I got no one to play with. A simple YouTube comment made me know of Project M's existence, and with Melee like mechanics and internet play compatibility. Maybe I can actually make this a small hobby once I get back home in two months.
Now, I have no intentions of spending hundreds upon hundreds of hours practicing, and have no real goals in mind to become the best, but I do love competitive games, and great communities of people that might revolve around them.
So this is my question, where do I begin?
There are all sorts of fancy moves and I heard weird phrases like some sort of cancelling feature, where can I go to learn everything form the ground up? I found that these forums seem to assume that the people browsing are all from Melee. I played Melee, but I was a kid and I played it exactly how it was meant to be played.
I know I am nowhere near a console I can practice one, but I was excited to know of this Project, and I want some input on where some experienced players think I ought to start.
Thank you very much, I hope to become a member of this community and I hope I can spar with a few of you some day very soon.
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