Don't people dread the PAL version?
It's an
interesting version, that's for sure. It's pretty damn off topic, but this is coming from someone that grew up with it:
- It has a selectable 60hz mode, NTSC Melee always runs at 50hz.
- Doesn't have the Special Movie, instead has How to Play.
- Quite a few balance changes and bug fixes - while Sakurai and co. didn't anticipate how long competitive interest in Melee would last (and TBF, it's next-to-impossible to anticipate back then) there were quite a few things changed. Characters like Fox, Sheik and Ganondorf were nerfed, Kirby recieved quite a few buffs. Not enough to make up for the thrashing he recieved in the transition from 64 to Melee, but still.
- In particular, Falco's and Marth's down airs were changed. Marth's is a meteor (can be cancelled) instead of a spike (can't, due to angle). Falco's late hit sends at a strange horizontal angle. Falco's clean hit is still a spike.
It's more or less an issue that the differences are large enough to be noticeable, and while the differences are not big in the overall scheme of things it takes some time to adjust from NTSC to PAL (and vice versa).
So most Melee people stick to NTSC nowadays (both NA and JP have done so since it's the version they grew up with - AUS made the switch over to NTSC), and while there's been
a major debate about versions in EU I wouldn't be surprised if a switch to NTSC is eventually made because of stuff like Slippi (which IIRC is NTSC-based).
(* Sidenote: the way Melee handles meteors, including meteor cancelling - which can cancel out all meteor knockback but not spike knockback to the way the game handles knockback angles - is extremely janky.)
Also, 3BitSaurus's signature just reminded me but..
What if the E3 reveal this year is a LoL character? And during the Nintendo direct, what if, hypothetically, they give us a list "This fighter's from LoL! Find out in just a minute who it is!!" and they give us like half a minute to look at the list?
Welcome to the dreaded "LoL guessing game"! Second only to the "Pokemon guessing game" in terms of size and just as terrifying to the Smash speculation community! Especially since there are like 10-20 frontrunners!
Well, it would certainly be a very interesting (even if extremely hectic) time, and even if it would boil down to a couple characters (like the ARMS guessing game), a crucial question would be how long it would go on. It's a key reason the ARMS guessing game stalled out.
