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This man said it all.my opinion
1. modern stage list
2. bracket pools
3. yes
4. i love you guys
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This man said it all.my opinion
1. modern stage list
2. bracket pools
3. yes
4. i love you guys
If MLG has to decide between running Smash 4 with Nintendo support and Melee without it, which do you think they will choose?
Personally, I'm banking on Smash 4 being impossible to run at tournaments because of no wired controllers or some other ridiculous oversight. I know people looking forward to Smash 4 will find that statement petty and similar to the usual barlw hate, but as far as I'm concerned, there is not enough room in the FGC for 2 Smash games to coexist. 64 and P:M are great, but they don't have the potential to be mainstream like Melee does. Which game MLG decides to support may very well determine the future of Smash as a whole. We may have (at best) a somewhat decent Smash 4 that lasts for a couple years, or we can continue the legacy of Melee for as long as I can imagine any competitive game can last. Melee will either fall to the wayside as "just another old competitive game that was replaced with an inferior sequel", or it can be the one revolutionary game that is actually able to withstand the test of time and become something that lasts for decades, coming to resemble major sports like basketball and football that people grow up with their entire lives.
Personally, I choose the latter. If that means sacrificing the short-term population boost a mediocre Smash 4 could provide, then too bad for Smash 4 players. If you are dead set on Melee for life, you have to get it into your head that Smash 4 is not going to be another barlw repeat. The game will probably be much more polished and at least slightly more competitive (I don't doubt the general techniques working well, but who really knows how balanced it will be or what kinds of glitches may crop up to wreak havoc). If you combine that with support from MLG and Nintendo, you'll be hard pressed to find people who'd still rather play Melee even if it's obviously the better game. Unfortunately, MLG is, at the end of the day, a business. I'm not sure the staff can truly understand the repercussions their future decisions will have on this community or if they even care enough for it to influence their decisions. It's not even clear where AlphaZealot's loyalties will lie as an old MLG employee. For all we know, the forums could get a massive overall to promote Smash 4 while they try to leave Melee in the dust. The same **** happened with barlw, which was a much easier force to resist because of how blatantly awful it is. I'm not trying to be all pessimistic, but I'd rather this inevitable conflict not sneak up on the community so at least think about what your priorities are concerning the series and what direction the community should go in.
If you think this kind of thing can't happen, then all you need to do is look at the Halo community. Starting with Halo 3 (and some diehard players that competed in the original would argue Halo 2), gameplay began to get watered down and worse and worse for competition. Halo: Reach showed record-breaking inactivity not long after launch, and Halo 4 was even worse. The community lost their spot on MLG, and a much more poorly recognized league had to replace them. Just a couple of weeks ago, the league tried to host a Halo 3 and Halo 4 tournament, and it ended up getting something ridiculous like 8 teams total for the whole event. There is one last hurrah for another Halo tournament (they're begging for donations to use as a prize pool), but so far only 3 teams passes have been sold, and no one's talking about it at all. Bungie/343's ****ty game design the past few games has literally killed competitive Halo, and hope for Halo 5 is at an all time low. If we accept Smash 4 as the new status quo, you are putting Nintendo in full control over the future of competitive Smash. If Smash 4 is decent enough to stick around for even a full year with most of the community's support, players will not decide to gradually switch back because there will be nothing to switch back to. barlw was so bad that people switched back to Melee super quickly after release. If Smash 4 gets MLG+Nintendo+community support, it could be barlw-level awfulness and still last a year. If that's how it plays out, I don't see any way there will ever be a RoM 7.
This post is spot on... With Smash 4 around the corner the community is (once again) at a crossroads, but this time the very future of competitive Smash hangs in the balance.
My biggest fear is that Smash 4 ends up completely derailing the momentum Melee has rapidly been gaining these past couple of years and ends up taking over. If that happens we all better pray Smash 4 ends up being an enjoyable competitive game...
This post is spot on... With Smash 4 around the corner the community is (once again) at a crossroads, but this time the very future of competitive Smash hangs in the balance.
My biggest fear is that Smash 4 ends up completely derailing the momentum Melee has rapidly been gaining these past couple of years and ends up taking over. If that happens we all better pray Smash 4 ends up being an enjoyable competitive game...
nice sig bro!!! even if i did say that (which i didn't) it could still be true!! like my secondaries don't know wtf they are doing in any matchup, but they are still better than a ton of players because i'm a good player!!!wait what
this is legit
whaaaaaaaaaaat
(free ice climbers)
pokefloats• If you had to add ONE stage to the current stagelist, what would it be?
Battlefield, Final Destination, Fountain of Dreams, Dreamland, Yoshis Story, Counterpick: Pokemon
I wish this would happen, but I have trouble trusting that nintendo will give us good online. The best they've done yet (that i've tried) was mario strikers charged and that wasn't too great either (no, mario kart wii did not have good online, it was just not input lag. It hurt accuracy instead - something smash cannot do... Unless you want it to be worse than brawl online lol)the simple fact that it will have stable online functionality (unlike Brawl) may help the scene grow a lot. Another reason for MLG to take Smash 4 over Melee.
Jesus people, please give serious answers to a serious question :D• If you had to add ONE stage to the current stagelist, what would it be?
Battlefield, Final Destination, Fountain of Dreams, Dreamland, Yoshis Story, Counterpick: Pokemon
As for other stuff: Wobbling should be legal (it is at mostly any tournament)Jesus people, please give serious answers to a serious question :D
To be honest, if you would HAVE to add one stage it would have to be Kongo Jungle 64, I feel like any other stage would favor space animals excessively or be borderline ridiculous (pokefloats lol). Not to say that Fox or Falco could not effectively camp on KJ64, the whole stage is a goddamn camper's delight with a fireplace and sausages. This is the reason why I personally would not like to see this stage added at all, because NOBODY enjoys seeing **** like this, it's not exciting or fun to watch to anybody. I feel like all the other stages would favor excessively spacies who are, needless to say, already ridiculously dominant in the current metagame. Stages like Corneria and Rainbow Ride (PAL bias) are just stupidly good stages for Fox in my opinion. Stages like Brinstar on the other hand seem just plain...stupid and uncompetitive because the stage interferes and affects the flow of the game so much.
Please correct me if I'm wrong on anything
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And to people who are in favor of banning wobbling because you think it's boring to watch, please remember that several people from FGC, relatively unfamiliar to Melee, thought that wobbling was one of the more exciting things about Melee
No they don't. Brinstar and Mute City were two of the worst stages for spacies back before they were banned while Rainbow Cruise and Corneria tended to fall in their favor. DK64 revolves around timeouts so if the spacies can gain a lead it is drastically in their favor vs. a lot of the cast and drastically in the enemy's favor if they aren't because of the huge blastzones and wall-less ledges (severely limits side-B recoveries).(Coming from the standpoint of a viewer, I support the addition of stages. However, it should be noted that most of these give a better advantage to the space animals, especially Fox).
I refuse to answer because we should not "have" to add another stage. The current stage list is fine, and all the banned stages are unfit for competitive play.• If you had to add ONE stage to the current stagelist, what would it be?
Battlefield, Final Destination, Fountain of Dreams, Dreamland, Yoshis Story, Counterpick: Pokemon
No they don't. Brinstar and Mute City were two of the worst stages for spacies back before they were banned while Rainbow Cruise and Corneria tended to fall in their favor. DK64 revolves around timeouts so if the spacies can gain a lead it is drastically in their favor vs. a lot of the cast and drastically in the enemy's favor if they aren't because of the huge blastzones and wall-less ledges (severely limits side-B recoveries).
Just because MLG is picking Melee up doesn't mean we have to reevaluate our stage list. None of the people asking for extra stages were doing so when we were only looking forward to Apex, but as soon as Evo and MLG come around asking for a ruleset, everyone thinks it's their chance to sneak in stages that the majority of the community clearly does not want in the ruleset. Players in support of the 6-stage ruleset got it implemented slowly over time through many locals and nationals. To undermine that long, democratic process by abruptly switching it back for one of the most important tournaments of Melee's lifespan is idiotic.
I wish this would happen, but I have trouble trusting that nintendo will give us good online. The best they've done yet (that i've tried) was mario strikers charged and that wasn't too great either (no, mario kart wii did not have good online, it was just not input lag. It hurt accuracy instead - something smash cannot do... Unless you want it to be worse than brawl online lol)
HAHA Tero I love you!If Brawl is in, please make sure Brawl won't be in
If Brawl is in, please make sure Brawl won't be in
lolIf Brawl is in, please make sure Brawl runs on CRTs as well ._.
Japes is like my favorite stage but it's way more wack than stadium.In my opinion scrap Pokemon Stadium cause that stage is the weirdest of the six.
Or if you hold on to that stage like your forth stock, let's run the Kish's ruleset (where fun happens).
Sake of argument; if I had to add one stage it would be Jungle Japes.
Wobbling legal if that is still up for debate.