Event - MLG Anaheim 2014 Nintendo placed videos of Evo 2k8 onto the nintendo wii channel and their main websit

[sunshade]

I was reading sirlin's book on his website and I noticed on his list of best articles he had an article in regards to smash. I read it and it turns out that Nintendo had sirlin make a 10 part video guide on how to play smash like a professional.

Through out the video super smash brothers is refereed to as a fighting game (not a party game) and the videos show many advance techniques while teaching the basics of smash. This includes telling new players about king dedede's infinites and how to Smash DI/regular DI attacks.

The final video caught my eye the most however. It is a tournament video of Ken playing CPU in the evo 2008 finals. This is a blatant admittance that smash is both a fighter and competitive and that Nintendo is going out of it's way to exile MLG and the entire competitive smash community.

Sirlin's website
http://www.sirlin.net/blog/2008/11/9/smash-bros-brawl-tutorial-videos.html

Nintendo's website with videos (take note of video 10)
http://www.nintendo.co.uk/NOE/en_GB...brawl_2785.html?flashcontent=smash_like_a_pro

 

[Kitamerby]

I love how Nintendo willingly put up false data about their best selling game. It was hilarious at the time. :V

 

[Remzi]

I love how Nintendo willingly put up false data about their best selling game. It was hilarious at the time. :V

What are you referring to exactly?

 

[Apollo$]

Nintendon't cares about competitive play? GASP

 

[Dark 3nergy]

more like pretendonts broski, all dis casual gamin' in homebrew makin'

they wonder why their system aint as popular hmm!

 

[Budget Player Cadet_]

WELL THEN.

This is interesting, I suppose. I saw the sirlin vids but I did not know that nintendo made him make them... Interesting...

 

[Jack Kieser]

So, why are they ****-blocking MLG's LiveStream, again? I still don't understand this.

 

[Spelt]

isn't the official nintendo website nintendo.com...?

 

[Kitamerby]

What are you referring to exactly?

"Backrolls contain startup invincibility, while forward rolls don't." is the first comment that comes to mind. :V

I mean really Nintendo? REALLY? You make a game, tell a guy to teach people how to play the game, and don't give him any data at all, and THEN let him use FALSE data?

 

[Jack Kieser]

isn't the official nintendo website nintendo.com...?

Yeah, he's linking to the British version of Nintendo's main site.

 

[-LzR-]

Isn't this about 2 years old stuff?

 

[Ryuker]

The final video caught my eye the most however. It is a tournament video of Ken playing CPU in the evo 2008 finals. This is a blatant admittance that smash is both a fighter and competitive and that Nintendo is going out of it's way to exile MLG and the entire competitive smash community.
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Not really. Brawl wasn't making as much in europe as they wanted to (due to the long wait) so they hired sirlin to make these vids to get people interested. Wasn't really a good thing since a lot of this advice is kinda dumb. Why on earth they would hire a sf player/gamedesigner to educate about smash is beyond me.

 

[Oracle]

Because he has the SRK mentality of "if it's in the game, allow it" so he doesn't mind items

 

[Jack Kieser]

Yeah, he has the non-scrubby mentality, so he makes a good teacher for n00bs, since he doesn't skip any content.

Oh, but he doesn't fellate our ban-happy forums. Crap, yeah, he sucks. <_<

 

[GunmasterLombardi]

Old news is old.

 

[Big-Cat]

You're late. For second, I thought this was posted on the American website, then it'd really mean something.

 

[6Mizu]

Now I expect MLG Vids!

 

[FuLLBLeeD]

If Nintendo cares about competitive play why hasn't Sakaruai shown up at EVO like Ono did for two years straight?

 

[Big-Cat]

If Nintendo cares about competitive play why hasn't Sakaruai shown up at EVO like Ono did for two years straight?

I take that you have a strong hatred for Nintendo in general for being idiots with Brawl, huh?

Also, Brawl was also only at EVO for one year, 2008. It's too bad we didn't even get Reggie to show up.

 

[theONEjanitor]

"Backrolls contain startup invincibility, while forward rolls don't." is the first comment that comes to mind. :V

I mean really Nintendo? REALLY? You make a game, tell a guy to teach people how to play the game, and don't give him any data at all, and THEN let him use FALSE data?

i thought that was true.
seems that way when i play.