agreed...
i think spacing harder to learn than wavedashing...
(i'm not trolling, i promise...)
It is. So?
Meta-Kirby wins the thread.
The reality is, the competitive scene did itself in. If you want to get melodramatic about it, let's go back to our roots. Remember the old SSB 64? Sure you do. Where it all began. Melee was simply supposed to be an extension of that. But it became something the creator never intended it to be, and in keeping with our melodrama, let's say that Sakurai took his game back. And you guys are all pissed off because your legs have been taken out from under you, and you can't use your precious "advanced techniques" to get a leg up anymore. The playing field's been leveled, and you don't like it. I got your advanced techniques right here, buddy. It's called the right moves, at the right time....and a little bit of edgeguarding.
Melee's physics are what made it deep, not its advanced techniques. Sure, those contributed, a lot, but in the end, it's the physics engine which allows for a game that fosters competitive play and doesn't end up heavily favoring the gayer camper. We're not so much pissed about the lack of wavedashing, but simply about some rediculously ******** stuff like camping being so overpowered as to be the only viable strategy.
Sakurai did not "take his game back," because we never took it from him. We played it the way we liked it, with the game rewarding the more skilled player, not always the better camper. Sakurai even said that he wanted everyone to have fun- we did so in an extraordinary fashion, in fact, many of us liked it
more than the way Sakurai thought the game was going to be played.
He couldn't have "taken back his game" if he simply contradicted his ideals by showing us the middle finger. I do not think that Sakurai is a stupid man- perhaps a bit naive, but not stupid- but he contradicts himself. Hard.
Look- he wants everyone to have fun, but if he wants his game to be played only his way, he already actively and purposefuly prevents many people from having fun, and thus fails to fulfill his plan, and even works against it.