well, tbh it just means I dashdance less lol.
I'm definitely NOT thinking too much during a match. My problem's that I don't think enough and just stick to following dumb patterns and w/e lol.
The thing is, I really really wish no-tripping were an option in Brawl. It's ******** that it's not an option. Absurd. Sakurai should seriously be fired, and all the rest. However, I think it's unfair to newcomers that won't have had the chance to have played no-tripping brawl before going to a no-tripping tourney, since it
is kinda a different game; enough that they might feel at a disadvantage facing someone who dashdances a lot, when that behaviour would normally be punished by the game itself.
Then again, I see very few "newcomers" at brawl tournaments anyway; I just see mostly smashboarders... anyone who plays casually but tries to go to a tournament, just gets wrecked so fast that they're turned off the game.... which is kinda sad. Not really a problem we can solve, but it's something to be aware of. We're all better off, the more we get new blood into tournaments. This is an irrelevant tangent tho
Edit: Chis, about WarioWare... I mean, this goes back to what I said about "randomness is bad" vs. "reacting to environmental situations is fine". IMO, the problem with WarioWare isn't that it has a random minigame pop up every now and then; that's a fine part of the level, you need to learn how to play the different games alongside fighting. The problem though are the random rewards for those games; ie. getting a mushroom when your opponent gets a star, is a catastrophic amount of randomness. But otherwise the situations created by WarioWare, even though they're luck based as for which minigame you get, would have been fine on their own. I think.
That's
also sort of an irrelevant tangent, though.
I guess my argument is that small amounts of luck are fine in competitive play; particularly where it's not obviously an advantage for one player vs. another. Tripping, for example, doesn't guarantee a strike on the person who tripped. But it's enough of a disadvantage to be really frustrating and I wish we could remove it without putting newcomers at a disadvantage that I think is unfair.
I hate tripping so much), but there's another valid perspective. In Smash you don't just fight around your opponent, you also need to respond to environmental situations. Even though the trip itself is random and annoying, your ability to respond to that situation is a relevant aspect of Brawl's gameplay on which we are competing.
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