Smash or die eh.
#ranttime
When I had melee I wasn't even a fraction of how good I am now. There were so many people that were better than me where I live. I wanted to be as good as them so I played.
But I never got to play against those people. So I hit a plateau. just stayed there.
Brawl came out and I loved it far more than melee because of all the craziness since I would play with friends exclusively. One day we went to a friends house though and I didn't want to take brawl.
We took melee instead. Played it. Despite not having all the brawl chars it was even more fun. Insane. This was around 2011-2012 ish.
We started playing melee a lot and everyone was just getting into it. Eventually my friends were getting as good as me and my normal competitive nature kicked in.
I took it up a notch, and started learning the things I wanted to learn a few years ago but had no motivation to because no one would play with me. I started using these techs and incorporating them into my style and I ascended a step further.
Just like in the past though, people were starting to get sick of playing smash with me because I got to that level they think that's too far to reach.
I had made a smash brothers thread on another forum I frequent and someone told me about Project M.
Initially I shrugged it off and was like "eh", but I decided to take a look at it. I was interested, I won't lie. I REALLY wanted to play it. But I didn't have a 2gb sd card and I wasn't about to buy one with my $0 income to get a game I might not even like.
One day my friend found an extra 2gb sd card and I said I would get it set up eventually. I waited about a week because I wasn't sure if I was ready for the change. The day before I did it though I said my goodbyes to all the fun custom stages on brawl and started transferring the files. I did some pre reading and research on the character changes so I would know what to expect.
We loaded it up.
Blown. The ****. Away.
My friends were able to get even better after finding characters they really hit home with and I was able to get even better because of more exposure. The better they got, the better I wanted to, and made it a point to get.
To this day, Smash brothers is one of the only fighter games I can actually still play with my friends.
Uhhh. /endrant
Yes I know it had nothing to do with what you were talking about.