Way to completely miss my point. It's dumbfoundingly obvious by now, as we've nailed it like a cross into the ridiculous crucifixion that this thread has become that we all hail Melee as the superior game. A good majority of us that go to Brawl tournaments still play and prefer Melee. You can call out N64's faults when comparing it to Melee, or any predessessor you prefer. It's irrelevent, no game can compare to the previous game. Brawl is an entirely different game and must be treated how it is. If you treat how it is, though it has its limitations, it has its enjoyabilities as well because it's an ENTIRELY different metagame.
Many of you fail to realize that as Brawl progresses, it's not becoming more campier. Camping is being founded around, I use to camp with Wolf quite a bit, and although I do still camp randomly in the match as a mindgame (and then switch back to aggro to mix it up.) Camping against higher level Snakes (Chops and Afro) DOES NOT WORK. Thanks to the power shield and the fact that generally playing defensive campy DOES NOT WIN, top level players such as Afro and others that have consistently won have even told me that "Brawl is generally a more aggressive game" than it leads off to.
There aren't combos in Brawl, such as Melee, where it's automatic xyz situation in this situation automatic combo button pressing this wins. I'm not saying Melee isn't more complex, it is, and it's way more beautiful. But Brawl's peak of the metagame is different, instead of combos, we have logical though connections, like a web, logical continuations such as walling, to stop walling, to dthrow, to run up shield Rock Paper Scissors react spot dodge, to a single jab mixup games. As the metagame progresses I'm realizing there's more options in Brawl than people realize, mix up jabs, and just a simpler version of Melee.
Don't get me wrong, Melee wins. But Brawl's simpler elements are still good and different when viewed as its own game. And yeah, you can insult Brawl all day. And I can defend it all day. I don't give a ****, and I'm not insulting anyone either. And once again, way to misunderstand my post. I'm not placing a high importance on tournament rankings, I'm claiming that consistent victors shows signs of a learning curve and progression and LEARNING (all that Melee had, prove me otherwise) that the community would experience if didn't have the same high expectations they did for Melee. Melee tournaments will recommence sooner or later, anyway.
lmao what trap? A trap that where I already had prior knowledge that Melee was already better? So the **** what? Deny the fact that there's learning curves in the inferior game regardless, the view of it as being strictly campy is also a common illusion, as camping no longer persists as the dominating strategy. Brawl still requires spacing and intelligence of mixup, and reading, no matter how you look at it. Your or anyone else's counter post of it being less complex than Melee is generally correct bu useless in the discussion, as they are still two separate games with some separate elements regardless.
