You can't reduce Brawl to ONLY a test of skill, There's always somthing at play, character, stage, stock or time limit, multiple players...This game was never meant to even the playing field perfectly, and tripping enforces that. It has nothing to do with casual/ competitive, its people trying to turn brawl into somthing it's not. Fine you don't like Brawl, go play Melee. I'm not going harass you about the things I don't like in Melee, and believe me there are a ton.
Hows does tripping enforce not having a perfectly even playing field? Tripping just randomly punishes characters for actions like dashing. Even without tripping, there will never be a perfectly even playing field because of the differences between the characters. There's a difference between not liking Brawl as a whole and not liking certain aspects about Brawl. Just because someone doesn't like tripping doesn't mean they don't like Brawl.
Reasons that could be for tripping-
1. People stop being so serious about somthing thats supposed to be fun.
2. Take the edge of the advantage away from flat stage/speed ( like fox )
3. Its funny
4. To make you understand a game could still be competitive even with randomn factors.
5. To troll the hell out of people like you.
6. Add "improvising" to gameplay, sure your perfect little run combo failed. NOW IMPROVISE.
7. Give a slight advtantage to Ariel characters ( Like ness/Lucas ) seriously I RARELY trip.
8. Make the game less about effective running, and more about timed attacks.
9. Make the game less offensive biased.
Hmm...those are just a few guesses. There ya go.
1. What's wrong with being a little serious about the game when played for prize money? Fun can still be had even when playing for prize money. Tripping, according to many players including myself, doesn't add any fun to the game.
2. Anyone is as likely to trip as Fox. Why would Sakurai do, as you call, give someone an advantage on the ground, just to try to take it away with random tripping?
3. Will it be funny when your plan fails and while you're on the ground, you get hit and miss out on thousands of prize money?
4. Sakurai from what I gathered, never intended Brawl (and possibly even Melee) to be competitive, so how does this reason hold water?
5. So you're saying Sakurai went out of his way just to get tournament players fired up?
6. What?
7. If you really can trip in mid air, then this reason fails.
8. So you're saying dash attacks are not timed attacks?
9. You mean to say in Melee playing defensive didn't have any edge over playing offensive so that Sakurai had to reduce the offensive game in Brawl?
Its okay to have complaints, and not like Brawl for the 23987532689 time, I am not telling you not to critic Sakurai, I'm telling you to have some respect. Casual's arn't superior to you, just me. Enough with the labelling.
Look, we can say we don't like some design decisions Sakurai made for Brawl regardless if you tell us we can or not. Just because we say we don't like some design choices that Sakurai made doesn't mean we don't have respect for him. What makes you think Sakurai is so high and mighty that you think people shouldn't question anything he does? Wait a minute, you're saying your superior to someone else, because you said so?
Thats like saying all black people like fried chicken, you can't speak on the behalf of alot of people who call themselves "casual" gamers. I can see why alot of people hate it, but instead of whining about it, figure out how it works into your precious METAGAME.
If you haven't notice, people are looking into ways to deal with tripping when it happens, since we already know it isn't gonna go away.
I don't think stupid people should throw the word "stupid" around
Get off your high horse, seriously. It's time like this I get the urge to really flame you badly, but I'm just not that sort of person, usually.
Not for pointing out "mistakes" but thinking you know better than him, you call him stupid so you must think you're more intelligent, and basically pissing on a game that you're going to play anyway, AND enjoy....Yeah i think that pretty much covers Elitist, Selfish, and Arrogant.
When was anything said about being better then Sakurai? There's a different calling someone stupid and calling something they do stupid. In this case, it's the latter. Are you saying we're not allowed to have any complains about a game that we're gonna play for years to come?
