outofphase
Smash Apprentice
ive lurked here for a while, so say what you will about my inexperience/being new. it seems this forum is the most defining and central point of communication for the community, yet it is still owned my mlg, receives no updates, appears cluttered/disorganized making it sometimes hard to find the right info, isnt the most friendly to new users, and the whole lets keep it pg/e/clean deal simply doesnt fit the community's style. i mean who actually wanted mango banned? smashers are all kind of trolling jack@sses on the inside, we all love fun and jack@ssery is an integral part of both fun and melee. theres no reason to deny our nature. we also need to find a way to get this forum on the front page when you google the words "super smash brothers melee." it took me like 2 days of trying to find info on competitive melee before i ended up here the first time. id propose we create a new forum, geared more towards bringing in new members/hyping tournaments to energize this community. we need to bring in some casuals and convert them by making it easy for them to learn the game and have very easy access to information about game mechanics/at's/basics of their character. i honestly think this game is good enough to sell itself to them so long as they dont get discouraged right from the start. the more casuals/semi-casuals we can get, the less theyll be forced to get destroyed by veterans, and the more they will enjoy the early learning stage of playing the game. i myself have mainly played as long as i have because i had a friend learning with me. we forced one another to become better, little by little. i doubt id have stuck with the game if id been on a schedule of practicing for a a few weeks only to get chain grabbed out of 10 dollars at monthlies over and over. we have a strong dedicated group of players, as evidenced by the turnout at recent nationals/internationals, but our local scenes arent doing as great, i feel due to the high learning curve coupled with a lack of similarity between smash and other fighting games. this puts us in a bad spot, seeing as many people who consider taking up the game are either brawl players who dont like the learning curve, or other competitive gamers who will often overlook melee as an outlier. hell, they may even be turned off simply by the lack of activity on this forum. all that aside, WE SHOULD HAVE OUR OWN FORUM, SEPARATE FROM 64 AND (ESPECIALLY) BRAWL. melee is the standout and most competitive of the 3 imo, we dont need to be associated with dair/ledge camping mks. just some thoughts, but id really like to see this game/community thrive. what do you guys think?
tl;dr - i think its time for the community to make some changes, most notably concerning this forum (being the most common form of communication for players) so that we might have better control (mods, mlg) over our scene and bring in new players to create more hype/fun for everybody. looking for thoughts/responses on this.
tl;dr - i think its time for the community to make some changes, most notably concerning this forum (being the most common form of communication for players) so that we might have better control (mods, mlg) over our scene and bring in new players to create more hype/fun for everybody. looking for thoughts/responses on this.
