Sorry, I have had a problem controlling myself since I saw the pic, and the way people reacted, well, as you can imagine, they didn't react the way I did about it, not even to a much lesser degree, but loved it, and rub it in...
But I apologize... I'm just tired, and have been waiting for Brawl for so long, I've just been a bit shorter tempered lately, I'm usually fairly calm, but I'm just worn out from anticipation, it's killing me, just 7 weeks more now though.
A delay was announced less than a week ago, I'm still disappointed by it, though I understand it, I just wish Sakurai knew a bit better what it was like to be a fan waiting for it for years that is can barely wait to play it maybe he'd not be so fast to delay it... Seriously, I've lost count of how many times the game has been delayed...
I'll try get a hold of myself, I know I should, it's just frustrating, multiple people who really like Charizard, but somehow, love seeing him suffer, while I who likes him as much or more feel completely different...
I don't understand, how two people, both who like the same character, could feel so different about seeing a sword stuck through him, it just seems one of the things must not be genuine, either you don't actually like the pic that much (which doesn't seem to be the case...), or you don't like Charizard that much, but he's in your sig twice...
I guess, I'm kind of weird like that though, overreacting about a picture, once I think about it, it seems really silly, now, I'm kind of embarrassed about it...but, that doesn't mean I'm going to start rofl over the picture all of a sudden either.
For what the pic is of, it is well done, I will say that... Ike should be a fun character to play as, I like the slow, powerful characters, as well as faster characters like Fox, or even Link (who I actually use more, I like swordsmen.
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), Charizard just happens to be another powerful heavyweight.
I, personally, don't think that, if two equally skilled smashers had a match, Ike vs. PT's Charizard, that it'd be a very one sided match, but rather close, they both have the same strengths: weight and power.
Though granted, Charizard has just about the best recovery of any characters in Brawl, if not
the best, and it's that, up against someone who when knocked off the edge of a stage at all, struggles to recover, his side special probably is actually better than his upward special for recovery which is completely vertical, but perhaps this could be used directly below an edge?
Ike kind of is partially broken, but poor recovery is the balancer, that, and that he certainly isn't the fastest character, regardless of what buffs in speed he might get in the final, complete version of Brawl, but he should have decent speed, considering the kind of power this swordsman has.
I look forward to using both characters in many matches, a slower, more powerful sword wielding character (and that I like) will be a nice change of pace, his moveset, I must say, will probably be quite effective, as long as some attacks are started in advance, due to lag.
Wow. This is a long post, sorry if it's a lot to read, I just wanted to chat about my thoughts on the two characters, mostly Ike, which is from a game I've gotten through (Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance) and loved, my favourite character probably being Mordecai, I like a lot of the non human characters, but many human ones as well.
Let's just say the difference between the two for me is roughly like this: I like many dozens of human characters, but I like hundreds of non human characters, including Pokémon, Final Fantasy characters and monsters, among many others.
And about the Pokémon hating comment (which I was much too quick to use...) wasn't really directed at you, just the majority in general, but yeah, that was a bit much, and the cursing thing, that was just...wrong.
Anyway, I apologize about it, and am going to move on from carrying on about it so, and move on to the Ike Appreciation part.
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