Hi everybody! [Welcome post time, hopefully some gentle souls out there will welcome me]
I'm relatively new to this board. Just to provide some quick background on myself, my name is Leo and I've been playing Smash 64 since god knows when, like most of you. I first discovered the existence of this forum some year or so ago, and though I was mildly intrigued by the amount of discussion here, I haven't really found the time to come back and mingle/become a regular. I used to be quite the forum poster on another forum so I'm pretty familiar with forum-speak, the lingo, or w/e infamous quotes/ videos.
As far as my Smash experience goes, I believe that I've always been an avid Smash 64 player. I'm sure everyone goes through the phase where they feel undefeatable at the game. You meet people who talk the most trash (And in my experience, offered money to me if I beat them), just to be sadly disappointed by the fact that they are a Kirby player and try to down-B you repeatedly. Anyway, not that any of you asked/might care, everything kinda began because my 2 older brothers used to play 2v2 matches with their friends, dual Ness vs dual Kirby. I was always pushed aside and never allowed to play, especially since I was an awkward 5th wheel and played Fox. So I slowly began to train on my own and began to realize that even though the 4 other guys were pretty good (At this point, consistently spiking/intercepting each other, just getting into combo'ing), I would play them 1v1 every now and then and was able to beat them.
To make a long story short, I felt that I started to become pretty adept at the game, using Fox and Ness pretty consistently. Only in the past 2 years did I start learning how to play an adept Falcon/Yoshi/Mario/DK/Kirby. I've browsed these forums for a pretty good deal recently to try and catchup on everything that I've missed or learn about new things. I'm still far from considering myself an awesome player, but any random competition for me is pretty easy at this point. After reading the "Learning Curve" post (Which is extremely well written by the way), I'd consider myself between the Level 4 and 5A stage. I'm not gonna lie, I felt pretty unstoppable a 2-3 years ago, but then I started browsing these forums and watching Isai vids on YouTube, therefore it all resulted in a more humbled judgment of my own skill.
I tried to make the transition into Melee. I actually felt that I was learning at a faster pace in Melee than I was in 64, but after watching videos of competitive matches, I realized that I didn't want to invest so much time to become that skilled at it. I've spent/wasted enough time on 64 anyway. I've only met 1 or 2 players who are better than me at Melee, but I sure don't consider myself that great at the game. The speed in Melee was starting to give me a headache too, watching Marth/Fox/Falcon players running around in circles. I tried Brawl for a bit, but in all honesty, I haven't played that game more than 5-10 times. Still a pretty big noob in that game, but I can at least hold my own (Wat chu kno about dat Shiek ultimate smash???!).
Soooooo yeah. I figure that the community for this game is probably pretty small, and hopefully close-knit! I hope to become a regular around here and improve my game. I've been working as a RA in the SacState res-halls for 2 years now and I'm finally hosting my first Smash Bros. program on Saturday. It's kind of a "beat me and I'll buy you lunch" program, and I've had a lot of people talking trash to me already. I'll let you guys know how it goes :]
PS: Some of the things I really suck at/need heavy work on is grasping DJC with Ness/Yoshi (Essential... I know), understanding the concept of advanced DI, and having the mindset to tilt more. Hopefully these are things I can learn/pickup better as time goes on here. I've never played on keyboard/online, and don't really plan to, hehe.
joking of course, melee people are too serious
