Ah Stongers, you're back early. I was expecting to surprise you.
I've been itching to have a reason to post all of this for a while now, and I think this is going to count as my 9000th post(Gentleman's club gays my count anyway so whatever lol). Here we go!
1. I am bad at Brawl. You all think I'm being modest when I say this, and for a while, it was modesty. This was in 08. As soon as Brawl has been out a year I saw the level of play rapidly improving, while I had very minor improvements in my game at all. Getting wrecked by Hungrybox's(who doesn't even play Brawl unless he's bored) DDD at HERB 2 in pools and getting 2-0'd is just embarrassing as a "top player" from my state. I have seen videos of other players, and their styles are so refined, so practiced, and I just feel like I don't have the adaptability in this game to combat it. I know Marth should **** Fox, yet I let Duo DJ FF AD through my hopeless FF Uair over and over and over until Duo learned my other patterns, baited me, and just got his hits until I lost. I had to have Mits tell me to be more patient vs Shady's Snake last weekend.
"But PP", you say, "you could always pick up a secondary for your bad matchups." No. Because I am bad at figuring Brawl out, I only understand Marth and can only stand the game as long as I'm playing as him. Unfortunately, I'm doing so badly with Marth I can't do any strings, which is one of Marth's great strengths and gives me a sense of pride to know that I can predict and condition my opponent to do what I want them to and get my hit(s). That disappointment enough is daunting enough to make me want to quit.
2. I don't care about money. Maybe, if I got insanely serious, talked to every good Marth on AIM, and did loads of thinking/playing(somehow) then I could keep making money in this state. Too bad for you guys I value prestige and respect wayyyyyy over money(they just happen to come together usually).
3. Brawl itself and tournaments just aren't fun at all. At HERB 2, I walked around in Brawl day. I observed a noticeable difference from the Melee players and Brawl players as well as the atmosphere. The Brawl players were awkward and not very outgoing socially, and those who were chill either played Melee as well or were really good at playing in a way that made Brawl boring. I don't enjoy watching camping unless I want to pull for one of the players(they'd have to be from NC). I don't enjoy MK going offstage wrecking other characters unless it's for a top spot. I don't enjoy DDD CG'ing to Bairs or run away shield. I don't enjoy Snake nade dropping and shielding and tilt spamming. It is, on the whole, unappealing to me. I appreciate the skill it takes to do some of these techniques on a high level, but it all looks gay and unexciting to me.
4. I can't play with anyone. There are some guys on campus who I've played with one time, and now they won't even get back to me. I'm alone out here, while I have Seven to play Melee with, as well as others in Gboro and WS. No one to practice on.
5. I can have more time on weekends to do other stuff. I can now skip Brawl day of 2-day tournaments to play Melee friendlies with people who stick around, or I can miss parts of Billfests/all of other tournaments so I can do school work or....yeah pretty much school work.
6. Other people are stepping up. I don't need to worry about representing NC in Brawl anymore when we have up and comers. I've been wanting you guys to beat me so I could quit, but the reason I wouldn't quit beforehand was because I wanted to try to prove NC's worth in Brawl in order to get people to come back to our tournaments when you guys did finally start beating me.
There you have it, ladies and gentlemen. My 6 reasons why I want to quit Super Smash Brothers Brawl. I am wholly unashamed in writing this. I'll probably play until January when Omni wants to MM me so I can play my last serious match of Brawl.
Thank you, and good night.
