As much as people ***** about brawl tournaments taking forever, I very much doubt the length of time extra is in the 50% longer range. If it is, it's definitely a tournament organiser thing. I would say even a third longer is probably a stretch.
But there's a lot to be said with design intentions. How long should a game of smash be? At the very least Sakurai has given us the nod towards 5 minutes and has correlated that to 2 stocks (where we know 3 stocks would be insane). When only 3 months ago the standard was 3 or 4 stocks 8 minutes (going by their official tournaments and demo defaults), and you're sitting here defending arbitrary decisions from over a decade ago that we now see as standard against other standards based from those same decisions... What was your stance on 4 to 3 stock when Brawl came out... the same?
And comparing any other series to Smash isn't going to be shifting my thoughts much, personally.
A set of time out match ups taking 15 minutes over 24 is a good thing. I'd rather not actually kill the prevalence of time outs being a valid winning option while at the same time appeasing to the viewer audience.
But there's a lot to be said with design intentions. How long should a game of smash be? At the very least Sakurai has given us the nod towards 5 minutes and has correlated that to 2 stocks (where we know 3 stocks would be insane). When only 3 months ago the standard was 3 or 4 stocks 8 minutes (going by their official tournaments and demo defaults), and you're sitting here defending arbitrary decisions from over a decade ago that we now see as standard against other standards based from those same decisions... What was your stance on 4 to 3 stock when Brawl came out... the same?
And comparing any other series to Smash isn't going to be shifting my thoughts much, personally.
A set of time out match ups taking 15 minutes over 24 is a good thing. I'd rather not actually kill the prevalence of time outs being a valid winning option while at the same time appeasing to the viewer audience.
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