Melee State of the Game: We will be back in late January!

[Dimitris]

Just listened, the show is a lot of fun.
Good job on moderating too, PEEF.

Genesis 2 hotel Live Show is a brilliant idea.
The random gossip subjects are brilliant too. Like Tink in jail.

I think this will grow if you manage to get interesting guests each time.
Doesn't have to last 2 hours all the time.

 

[MTKO]

Well, I for one, will definitely like to talk about this. That could be a good subject to talk about.

Thanks. I'm looking forward to it.

 

[Wake]

Hmmm I wonder if the debate about whether or not Smash should be considered a fighter game could be discussed a little.

 

[Bones0]

Hmmm I wonder if the debate about whether or not Smash should be considered a fighter game could be discussed a little.

It'd mostly be semantics. People would say "it depends on how you define a fighting game." They would go on to describe their personal definition of a fighting game and explain why or why not Melee fits in that category. I don't think it would be a very deep conversation, once you get down to it. There is no real relevance to whether or not it is a fighting game or not.

 

[Divinokage]

Well.. this is about the melee state of the game. Melee being a fighter is not really beneficial to that as we've been through this x1000 times already. Other communities have their own opinion on this but it's mostly just scrubs that talk **** everywhere, it's nothing new.

 

[prog]

Prog should go on there every time.

Oh gosh :3

 

[Wake]

It'd mostly be semantics. People would say "it depends on how you define a fighting game." They would go on to describe their personal definition of a fighting game and explain why or why not Melee fits in that category. I don't think it would be a very deep conversation, once you get down to it. There is no real relevance to whether or not it is a fighting game or not.

hmmm Yeah I see your point. I guess being newer to the smash scene I was just curious as to the content of the debate. But yeah, I think better things could be discussed

 

[prog]

Also kage brought up a cross counter esque idea of analyzing portions of matches etc. i love that idea and would love to participate weekly on that portion

 

[Pengie]

Also kage brought up a cross counter esque idea of analyzing portions of matches etc. i love that idea and would love to participate weekly on that portion

This would be an amazing idea; ever since I saw that show I've wanted to see it brought to the Melee community.

 

[Divinokage]

This would be an amazing idea; ever since I saw that show I've wanted to see it brought to the Melee community.

Well this is perhaps time to do this! =P

 

[MacD]

did we want to try and get the video chat working this time? either figure out what we did wrong or find a program that let's multiple people do it for free

and if we do include a like analysis of a vid or part of a vid, we should practice it before we actually record the first time, just to see how it would all work out. ie make work out any kinks ahead of time that might come up

 

[Dimitris]

Yo Kage, in the show you mention you played RockCrock in tourney, how did that go?

 

[Divinokage]

I did? Umm.. I don't think I've ever played him in a tournament match.

Edit: Ya I did play almost all of them, it generally went pretty even. Right now though, I have no idea but I like to think that I won't be beaten in a set. =P

 

[Bones0]

I believe you said you played all the top Ganons in dittos.

did we want to try and get the video chat working this time? either figure out what we did wrong or find a program that let's multiple people do it for free

and if we do include a like analysis of a vid or part of a vid, we should practice it before we actually record the first time, just to see how it would all work out. ie make work out any kinks ahead of time that might come up

Even if you can't get a video to display on the stream, simply letting people knowing ahead of time to load up a YouTube video in a second tab and then the people discussing the matchup can just reference times ("At 3:21, you can see Mango do such and such... etc.").

 

[KirbyKaze]

I should go on one of these :D

 

[Divinokage]

I should go on one of these :D

Well if you have skype and a microphone, you can! =P

 

[KirbyKaze]

I work thursdays though D:

 

[Cactuar]

And I do werk on Thursdays. If you know what I mean.

 

[Dimitris]

Is it on today?

 

[MTKO]

Is it on today?

I think it's tonight.

 

[TheZhuKeeper]

I'll try to make it from 6-7, but I have class from 7-820 (Pacific Time).

Am I in?!?!

 

[Lovage]

i want to say this as supportive and positive as possible, but a weekly show is kinda a bad idea lol

 

[KirbyKaze]

they'll probably run out of things to talk about or devolve into more matchup discussion. god i love matchup discussion.

and by love i mean hate because kage is a goose.

 

[Dimitris]

Yeah, that's probably true... maybe monthly. Then you can prepare stuff.

 

[Divinokage]

they'll probably run out of things to talk about or devolve into more matchup discussion. god i love matchup discussion.

and by love i mean hate because kage is a goose.

Nah there's always something to talk about, hell maybe the shows will simply take less long to do at worst. =P

Zhu.. assuming we dont have 1 hour of technical difficulties like last time, LOOOLLL.

 

[Dark Hart]

I has skype, I know about melee and the community and stuff, i talk to Kage and macd in nc threads all the time, cans I join you all one week?

 

[Divinokage]

I has skype, I know about melee and the community and stuff, i talk to Kage and macd in nc threads all the time, cans I join you all one week?

I don't see why not.. on episode 3-4 maybe? Different perspectives are always nice, mix it up and stuff, etc.

 

[PEEF!]

I has skype, I know about melee and the community and stuff, i talk to Kage and macd in nc threads all the time, cans I join you all one week?

Yeah I have quite a lineup of people who have requested to be on. Probably 12-15 and plus there are about 10 people that I really really want to have on that haven't volunteered. I'll do my best to get people on =]

 

[Divinokage]

Yeah I have quite a lineup of people who have requested to be on. Probably 12-15 and plus there are about 10 people that I really really want to have on that haven't volunteered. I'll do my best to get people on =]

So what are we doing for tonight exactly? I'd like at least to get a bit prepared before hand. =P

 

[PEEF!]

So what are we doing for tonight exactly? I'd like at least to get a bit prepared before hand. =P

Yesterday I got overwhelmed. Ill try to get you a list soon, but do you have any ideas I should know about?

 

[Divinokage]

So far I've got something like this.

- Camping vs Aggressive styles.. What styles do the best in the current metagame? What styles lower skilled players use or how do lower skilled players attempt to improve? How do you improve yourself from this moment on? (This could be more player specific of course) Where does the metagame go towards from now?
- Character vs Player.. Why did you choose your current character? Do you think you can win a large tournament with this character? Is it your character or yourself that is holding you back from winning tournaments? How do you deal with bad or good matchups?
- More recent tournaments (IE the one I've been in last saturday and what I've experienced and gathered from it.)

Edit: Maybe you can add stuff in this?

 

[PEEF!]

We are starting at 6:30, just a little late. I'm doing it from someone elses house and I have to hope to get it all set up.

 

[Dr Peepee]

This was legit, but I think less people would make it better next time. Not a big deal though. From what I heard this was good.

Sorry about my skype shenanigans by the way lol. =p

 

[MTKO]

I ended up missing the last half of the show because I had to go do something with my family, I'll check out the rest later on the recording.

 

[MacD]

dude idk what was even going on with my mic at the end, like i had it turned off so idk how it could still be going crazy

 

[Mr.Jackpot]

Damn...this is good. It's like if Show Me Your News actually talked about smash again!

 

[MasterShake]

Too many people imo, led to some off topic discussion.

Also a little salty that no super in depth analysis was done lol.

 

[SSBMLahti]

*****es definitely have to check this out. Most legit thing ever. I honestly have no complaints.

 

[Dimitris]

Yeah, was fun. Featuring Zhu and HMW

 

[Wake]

This was awesome, and I didn't expect HMW, Hbox, and PP. This was a great idea Peef!