RelaxAlax's video on Melee being an accident was hilarious. It's so laughable that someone can make video like that, posing as taking a deep and objective look at Melee's history, and still come off as a biased, ignorant, and uninformed prick. And all his attempts at humor fall short and are as bad as the Game Theorists'. His channel blows. I don't know why you guys always put his garbage videos on the front page here.
If you know better channels send me a PM/
tweet me. This is my first news post for SmashBoards, but I'd like to cover a wide range of the Smash community. (continued in next answer)
Hey man, I personally don't enjoy Alax's videos either (I think the intro is pretty stupid and I don't find him funny or interesting), but there's no need to diss Smashboards because of it.
PushDustin and all the people at Source Gaming put a lot of work into this and that alone makes them a valuable part of this community. It's good that Smashboards featured this video because it helps spread this information, even if it's by a channel I don't like.
Smashboards should be allowed to post videos about Smash or Smash-related content without getting criticised for it directly. I'd say it's fine to criticise a channel, hopefully constructively, but let's not shoot the messenger.
Thanks for the support!
One thing I'd like to raise awareness about is the fact that the community actually includes a lot of people. Brawl and Smash for 3DS/Wii U sold something like...over 10,000,000 copies. The community is huge, and there are a lot of voices within the community that are rarely heard.
Some play casually, some are hardcore fanatics. Some are really interested in the history and the meaning of Smash while others aren't. Some of us play for only a month, while some of us will play for the rest of our lives. Being in one group doesn't make anyone "better" or "more worthy" of a voice.
Right now, I spend at least four-five hours
a day discussing Smash Brothers. On my days off from my actual job, I can spend my whole day researching, discussing, playing and writing the game. I love the game, and I love the community. I know the Relax Alax is the same way. He may make some questionable choices at times, but he has never intended anything to be outright malicious or hurtful. As long as people don't intend to hurt the community, I will have no problem with them.
No mention of Roy making it over Leif in Melee
Misinformation. The post that originally featured that information was where it was said "Wolf was planned for Melee", "Pit was worked on in 64 but his wings couldn't get working". Obviously sources for those and the other claims in that post have NOT been found. Therefore, it seems like it was made up. I've read almost every single interview Sakurai has done...in Japanese. He's never mentioned those characters, and that information is not properly found nor sourced in Japanese (AKA, it only exists in English).
Click here for all the Smash 64 information.
Wavedashing is an oversight, L-cancelling is not and I'm not sure about shine. But the video isn't about that and I'm sure sourcegaming would give him the proper info if he did a video dedicated to these techniques.
We haven't done full research into that question. There's been a couple of things that we've found that point to Sakurai definitely intending Melee to be played a lot more competitively than 64 (and definitely Brawl, which was
toned down due to the Wiimote). @
super_soma , one of the translators on Source Gaming has actually compiled a great article
about Sakurai's viewpoints on Melee. Personally, I disagree with Soma's interpretation of the "creative uses of L-cancelling" quote but he does acknowledge that the quote could go either way, and I must admit that too.
I think the best way to find out if wave-dashing is intentional is to really look at the programming, see exactly how and why it happens -- and collect all of Sakurai's talk on the matter. For Wavedashing, Sakurai did say
he noticed it was in the game which kind of sounds like it wasn't intentional, but it's not a definitive answer.
Basically, until we at Source Gaming can get a better understanding of the techniques, we are unwilling to fully commit to one side of this debate. Even if we were to commit, I'm sure some of the writers would disagree. I try not to force my opinions on the other writers, and as long as they properly source their claims...or add warning tags that it's opinion I have no issue with the post. For example, @
TheAnvil and I ended up
having a public debate on the Gematsu Leaks, which was very well received.
You are SO funny. Grow up and stop sucking up to that garbage Melee game. You can think whatever asinine thing you want but don't kid yourself into believing BS. Any of the pros don't doubt that those are glitches. In fact, that's why Sakurai got rid of them in brawl. He FIXED the glitches. Now go take a time out with your mommy or something 2-year-olds do.
