Eddie G
Smash Hero
"An Aba'dingo' ate my baby!"
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People say that because they refuse to allow their minds to be changed. They look at it more as a game within a game, that somehow they'd "lose" if they were wrong or if he was banned.I agree with certain parts of your posts, I just disagree with the severity of some of the points you bring up. I'm also not inclined to debate here. It just doesn't accomplish anything positive.
I'm just teasin'. I've got an image to uphold.Also to the first line of your post...I was bad then lmao. I'm slightly less bad now :D
DAMN. This is some heavy stuff, but it's absolutely true. Good :metaknightbrawl:s are a dime a dozen now. Just look at Vennie's list: you could literally argue *any* of the positions after the first few :metaknightbrawl:s, but every other character has a clear hierarchy of who stands where. I imagine it would be completely unmotivating to be a great :metaknightbrawl: player and just be like "eh, I'm somewhere between the 5th and 9th best with my character." LOL! I can't imagine working so hard for a character and having the pay-off be so vague. I kind of feel bad for them in a way, though they chose the path for themselves. When getting to the top yields so little fulfillment, some people will stop trying - which is exactly what has happened IMO.But that variety still helped fuel people's desires to be better. People didn't want to "get better", they wanted to get better with their character by emulating others who had done the same.
No one wants to be like Mew2King in Brawl. No one.
But you know what?
Everyone wanted to emulate Mew2King in Melee.
It's because he was special, unique. But even now when he's still placing as high as ever and the most dominant smasher to date, no one wants to emulate him because he's just another Meta Knight. No one respects his victories. No one cares about what happens between two MKs.
Stop speaking for everyone LOL. I personally respect M2Ks Skill a lot, in both melee and brawl. And he is one of my Top 4 favorite MKs, next to Otori, Kakera and Nairo. I like M2Ks Style a lot, even though he struggles sometimes. Just because you have a problem with him or his playstyle doesnt mean that everyone else has.No one wants to be like Mew2King in Brawl. No one.
But you know what?
Everyone wanted to emulate Mew2King in Melee.
All of this.Stop speaking for everyone LOL. I personally respect M2Ks Skill a lot, in both melee and brawl. And he is one of my Top 4 favorite MKs, next to Otori, Kakera and Nairo. I like M2Ks Style a lot, even though he struggles sometimes. Just because you have a problem with him or his playstyle doesnt mean that everyone else has.
This post is glorious. I agree 100% on this.Most of you are just mad that M2K is better at your favorite gaming series than you.
But did you know that Smash isn't even his favorite gaming series?
Fact: Megaman is M2K's favorite series.
Fact: He is, and has accepted, his #2 spot on SWF Megaman rankings/
Get at me.
Free M2K.
loool.
This topic is awesome because I agree with both sides, much like an uninformed voter, I think we should allow for people to run whatever event they want.
Items, Giant Brawl, New Pork City, FFA's.
I mean, if you want to run a serious event and get people to come, you should cater to what you feel is best for your scene.
Melee at brawl events is the best thing for my scene, so I do that.
OS, it kinda made me a bit upset that you didn't go to that one tournament just because MK was legal. I mean, I'm never in the OH/KY region and you were like 'Oh, it's MK legal so I can't even come to meet you and hang out". I realize you hate MK with a passion, it's obvious, but being that blinded by hatred can only get you so far.
Yeah, Kel "only" beat me because he went MK in tournament, but he also "only" has spent like 4 years maining this character, and I know he's really big on the ban as well.
I'm fine with the ban.
And you people arguing with OS.
You guys are all really bad at explaining your views compared to him, it's like Juu said, it's like watching the smartest kid on the block vs the biggest, dumbest jock in a lot of these arguments.
LOL so true. All of the post was true but I chuckled here.Melee guys are the cranky kong of smash.
I have no reason to go to MK legal tournaments and had stuff to do up here. Why didn't YOU come up HERE, huh?!OS, it kinda made me a bit upset that you didn't go to that one tournament just because MK was legal. I mean, I'm never in the OH/KY region and you were like 'Oh, it's MK legal so I can't even come to meet you and hang out". I realize you hate MK with a passion, it's obvious, but being that blinded by hatred can only get you so far.
You're making a generalization about one tournament, if you look at results 9b has won more tournaments than rain by a longshot there.Now hang on a second. i was assured that 9B and Nietono were the best players in the world by like everyone ever who has connections to Japan. Why didn't they win? And I remember saying a while back that Rain was considered the best in Japan from what I had heard and everyone told me I was wrong.
So what's the deal guys why are the best players in the world who by chance don't play MK not winning.....and the guy who I was told was not the best who plays MK winning?
That's kind of the point. He was being facetious.You're making a generalization about one tournament, if you look at results 9b has won more tournaments than rain by a longshot there.
I don't really care for arguing about this subject, but there is faulty logic flying everywhere.
Greatest post ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!The only problem is that Melee has a stagnant attendance. Melee guys are mostly in their mid twenties and numbers will begin to dwindle as people get married, have kids, have cars repoed, etc. etc.
The people you play Melee with today will be the same people you will play with in 5 years. The only difference will be that a lot of people will drop out. This will be especially true when Smash 4 comes out in a couple years.
Don't get me wrong, I love Melee, I just love it like I love Ocarina of Time; it was an awesome game for its time, but I've moved on. Plus Melee guys are the cranky kong of smash.
You're overstating your case, OS. I agree with you that MK is clearly the best character and the easy route to winning at tourneys... but that doesn't make him unbeatable like you're implying. Making cases off of a single tourney is rather silly anyway, but Vinnie took a set from Rain and beat Otori (winner of Apex), so..What would be different? I don't even play anymore and beat you at the last tournament, and you still play! =P
Here's the thing. This "live and let live thing" doesn't work, because when MK is legal there is no future.
You have two options with MK legal being a "thing":
1) Play Meta Knight
2) Go to local events
Those are your options. Anything else is you going against the grain. Hell, Vinnie is playing Ice Climbers, a character that just needs three grabs to win an entire game, and traveled halfway across the world to get to a tournament that had a ruleset specifically designed for his character and he still could only pull second to a Meta Knight. Even if he had won it wouldn't have mattered because MK always has, and always will pull out on top. There's no "hero" character, even when someone puts a bunch of arbitrary rules to gimp MK and another bunch of arbitrary rules to make ICs, or Diddy, or Olimar, or Snake, or whoever better.
Again, you're generalizing. We've had some excellent players rise from relative obscurity over the course of the game (Esam, anyone?), and they haven't burned out yet.There's nowhere to go. No one has the "drive" any more, not for long. They practice real hard and get really far sometimes, but then they burn out and disappear.
Expand your views outside of the top 3 and look again. Everyone hates MK because he's MK, Olimar is THE best camper in a slow-paced game, and fighting IC's is one of the worst things in brawl. However, everyone enjoys watching Ally's Snake, Gnes's Diddy Kong, Trela's Lucario, Esam's Pikachu, or Mr. R's Marth. These are players that absolutely dominate their region and place respectably at nationals. (With the help of secondaries in some cases, but Ally's performance at Whobo shows that he wouldn't be crippled by the lack of MK.)People are laving because there's no future in Brawl. No one respects any of the top players in Brawl because no one feels they deserve respect. Our top placers are generally flavors of the month or main Meta Knight. Even when we get a big challenger or someone who practices and refines their technique as much as they can like Vinnie, again, no one really cares. Very few people want to be the guy who sits and practices chain grabs. No one really looks up to that. Nothing against Vinnie's character choice, but it's the reality; I'd personally recommend everyone pick up ICs when the stage list is small, but people just don't like it very often.
Again, you're overstating your case. It's been proved MK is dominant and over-centralized. However, that doesn't mean the other top characters aren't represented.In Melee the top players were heroes of the underdogs and there was a whole slew of them. You had maybe 4 or 5 characters that could really make it at the top. Fox, Falco, Marth, Peach, Falcon. Much later we got Jiggs. People chose the character that suited them the best and people hoarded games to emulate the pros they could find.
Now? No one cares because nearly all of them main Meta Knight. Those that don't have Meta Knight as a secondary.
I'm going to have to disagree with you, at least partially. Variety is definitely good, and M2K in Melee is definitely far more unique and respected than M2K in Brawl. However, I think the reason people don't respect him as much in Brawl is because of his playstyle, as well as his character choice. M2Knight is willing to go to RC and stall for 8 minutes to win a match. Sure, that's a legitimate choice when you're trying to win, but it's horribly unfun to play against or watch. A MK player like Nairo is more fun to watch and is more likely to have the crowd on his side, simply because he's more aggressive.When I was playing Melee I always prided myself in being good at counterpicks; I rarely lost a set 2-0, even to top players. By the end of Melee I was beating some of the same people I had previously looked up to. I didn't look up to those people because they were necessarily the best; they were just really good with their characters. Mathos and Viperboy's Falco's, Drephen's Sheik, Darkrain's Falcon, Tink and Cunning's Fox, Vidjo, Mikey and Iggy's Peach, none of them really compared to the others in the country. But people still looked up to them from the area because they all were unique and special. People joked about "everyone playing Fox", but a good Fox was rare and an impressive sight. People enjoyed playing as and against and watching good Foxes.
If you went back in time and made all of those players play the same character, no one in the midwest would have known half of them existed. It's how it goes.
When you expanded to the national scene, even in Melee, it got even more restrictive. You had maybe one or two Sheik players. Half a dozen foxes. 3 to 5 Marth players. About the same amount of Falco's. One peach, maybe two. Same with Falcon. Towards the end, you'd get one or two Jiggs but most people hated watching Jiggs play because it didn't fit with what they enjoyed.
But that variety still helped fuel people's desires to be better. People didn't want to "get better", they wanted to get better with their character by emulating others who had done the same.
No one wants to be like Mew2King in Brawl. No one.
But you know what?
Everyone wanted to emulate Mew2King in Melee.
It's because he was special, unique. But even now when he's still placing as high as ever and the most dominant smasher to date, no one wants to emulate him because he's just another Meta Knight. No one respects his victories. No one cares about what happens between two MKs.
To summarize, your points have all been at least based in fact, but you let your personal view of things get in the way of the arguments, I think. I'm not going to dispute that MK is overcentralizing or the best character, and I'm not arguing that he shouldn't be banned, either (although I'm undecided on that particular point). However, I will take issue with your claim that Brawl is a dying game. Sure, there's a lot of MK. Sure Olimar and IC's are just as unfun to watch or play against. However, there's also Snake, Falco, Diddy Kong, Pikachu, Marth, Wario, and other characters who have had success at a top level. How many MK's can you name from California, Florida, or Texas? How many non-MK's can you name from those same regions? Esam, MikeHaze, DEHF, Razer, Trela, Gnes, NickRiddle, Ryo, Sebrik, MVD... the list goes on.There's no life in Brawl. The game itself has some issues that make it hard, but MK is the nail in the coffin. No one wants a community that has tournaments that turn out like SRT.
For sure. lolThat's kind of the point. He was being facetious.
You obviously did not follow Mew2King's Melee career. He four stocked Darkrain by camping by the edge and shield grabbing to a spike every time and ran around Bum's DK with lasers on Jungle Japes all day. XDI'm going to have to disagree with you, at least partially. Variety is definitely good, and M2K in Melee is definitely far more unique and respected than M2K in Brawl. However, I think the reason people don't respect him as much in Brawl is because of his playstyle, as well as his character choice. M2Knight is willing to go to RC and stall for 8 minutes to win a match. Sure, that's a legitimate choice when you're trying to win, but it's horribly unfun to play against or watch. A MK player like Nairo is more fun to watch and is more likely to have the crowd on his side, simply because he's more aggressive.
Ah. Well, scratch that point then. I only really started following Melee recently, so I never saw those matches (though I did see his puff Ditto vs HBox recently. XD)You obviously did not follow Mew2King's Melee career. He four stocked Darkrain by camping by the edge and shield grabbing to a spike every time and ran around Bum's DK with lasers on Jungle Japes all day. XD
The same way they banned akuma? Tell everyone he is broken, run your tournaments with him banned. Seems easy enough.brawl has no future regardless of MK being banned or not, even so, you didn't address the concern of how to actually enforce a ban. it's all well and good to say that MK should be banned, but you have to come up with something that will work better than unity. if you don't have actual solutions then all you're doing is beating your chest over being right on the internet
and no one emulates M2K in brawl? -dead-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIct3v-AX04You obviously did not follow Mew2King's Melee career. He four stocked Darkrain by camping by the edge and shield grabbing to a spike every time and ran around Bum's DK with lasers on Jungle Japes all day. XD
Our entire crew beat you, myself included. You played me with Samus, if I recall correctly, and I beat you on game 3. I only remember this because GUNPUNCH! laughed about how mediocre you were in Melee, even by the standards at the time, yet of all people had started doing stuff on smashboards as a mod/admin type player.LOL I played OS in a friendly set at FC:D in melee and beat him the first game with kirby vs his fox. He then went to kongofalls(or whatever the waterfall stage was with the rock on the right) and just ran away from me and spammed lasers for 8 minutes. Third game I 3 stocked him in a fox ditto(because apparently friendlies are important enough to camp for 8 minutes).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxgOkRyG3hohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIct3v-AX04
and you didn't even have money on the line
everyone, search overswarm melee on youtube. none of the gameplay videos will be respectable or entertaining in any way. this is the man that is so full of himself and argues constantly, yelling until he's blue about how broken MK is.
get over yourself
Our entire crew beat you, myself included. You played me with Samus, if I recall correctly, and I beat you on game 3. I only remember this because GUNPUNCH! laughed about how mediocre you were in Melee, even by the standards at the time, yet of all people had started doing stuff on smashboards as a mod/admin type player.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxgOkRyG3ho
Watch that one instead.
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=109534&highlight=DiamondUh, no. I was very bad at melee back then(FC:D was the first time I traveled out of state). I didn't play you with samus I played you with kirby and fox in one friendly set. I played your crew with a bunch of other random players(we were all bad) and lost to Kel pretty badly in the crew match. I also wasn't a moderator much less an admin until WELL after FC:D so clearly you are just full of ****.
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=109534&highlight=Diamond
Singles:
81st Overswarm
193rd Hylian
Doubles:
33rd AlphaZealot+Overswarm
97th Hylian+Artarian
Our crew barely missed out in top 9 in crews (lost to Ship of Fools, my sheik vs. Prime's Jiggs on Brinstar and I got rested real good :\)
I don't recall losing to you, but if I did I honestly don't think it really matters. Maybe I was trying to make you feel better? I dunno.
Edit: Just realized you were one placement above the lowest possible placement.
Get froed.
And GUNPUNCH! talked about that during Brawl times because, well, that's when you were a mod/admin. You're awful touchy.
Then why is it you that's complaining the loudest? Melee players have integrity. When we lose, we figure out what we can do to what we lost to. They don't complain that the character the opponent was using needs to be banned, they don't bring up how good a character is in a results thread for an international tournament. They man up and get better.It's kinda funny, no one ever really complained about a character then. They complained about specific matchups, but never characters.
You are right, I apologize for de-railing the thread.You guys make you side of the argument look really dumb when you say "we" and "us"
I like how this thread turned into a little scuffle about who won a friendly set years ago in a different game somehow....
I did that. I lived off of Brawl for a decent amount of time; I quit my job because it made me more money and I wanted more time.Then why is it you that's complaining the loudest? Melee players have integrity. When we lose, we figure out what we can do to what we lost to. They don't complain that the character the opponent was using needs to be banned, they don't bring up how good a character is in a results thread for an international tournament. They man up and get better.