The Imperial Legion, MD/VA crew. Xanadu Tuesdays, Legionary Wednesdays

[Bandit]

I tend to compare the new Brawl characters to Melee characters, according to the Melee character's strongest point. For example, Falcon's running speed is beaten by Sonic now, but Sonic's killing comboes are nowhere near as deadly as Falcon, so it balances out.
Wario, on the other hand, if stats remained from Brawl, has a faster aerial acceleration than Jigglypuff, who was King of that category in Melee. So if Wario still has better aerial acceleration, or even the same, Wario has a lot of advantages that Jigglypuff has and some even better, like Wario's "Jiggs BAir." I'd say shoulder tackle is much more useful than rollout, and fart could rival rest in terms of a quick killer that requires little setup. Wario doesn't have anywhere near as good of a recovery, but he's almost twice as heavy as Jigglypuff. Etc etc.
Rant on Wario aside that should probably be in the P:M main post, I just feel like all the Brawl characters (and non-top Melee characters) are getting too many various random tweaks, but that is a biased view considering everyone is used to what they used to be in Brawl.

Purely my own opinion and observation here:

Brawl characters keep getting "various random tweaks" because of 2 reasons:
1) They are not melee characters and they have to take out the stuff that would be broke as hell in a melee environment. When they take it out, it results in an incomplete character without a direction, so they come up with a new vision for the character.
2) If you changed a melee character so it didn't work like melee, then people would ***** and ***** and ***** some more about how the creators got it wrong and "this ain't melee."

As a brawl player, I just play what they give me. I never really got into melee characters and I don't play a melee character (Zelda is not a melee character especially in this iteration of the game, Snake, and Pit). I actually like the new "randomness" and while I disagree on some things, I will keep assuming there is an overall direction.

 

[GuruKid]

This just in:

Ivy's getting a rest.

Except we're gonna call it SNORE.

 

[Thunderhorse+]

This just in:

Ivy's getting a rest.

Except we're gonna call it SLEEP TALK.

Much better.

Spoiler

Or we could give it Spore. And replace Ivysaur with Electrode kekekekeke

 

[cmart]

Can we give all the pokemans rest now?

 

[GuruKid]

HEY

If any pokemon is getting replaced it's that sorry excuse for Charizard!

@ Cmart: that would solve Squirtle's downB woes for sure haha

 

[JCaesar]

Umbreon just to let you know, I brought up your thoughts on ROB in the backroom and we're discussing them.

Guru why the **** do you have a premie account but no custom user title? Madness I say.

 

[Plairnkk]

i wanted to play wario, but realisitically i feel his neutral b is too over centralizing. i would like there to be a better approach method of some sort. lol

 

[GuruKid]

Just bought it earlier today, mengs. Gotta wait on the title change.

Soooo sad to see "Smash Developer" gone.

 

[Deleted member]

wario felt really good now that his lunge move can't armor everything. you're welcome to challenge it, but it's still risky because it hits so hard and requires good spacing, and it's really good to circumvent some edge guards. his aerial mobility and odd moves keep him unpredictable but fun. i really like this new version, since he's still quite potent as a character, but it's not based solely on the possible threat of one move.

for the record, i think ike is more too bad than rob is too good. ryoko told me that ike's upair is more powerful than sheik's to correct me, but frankly i just never saw it. ike has NO ground game at all, NO way to deal with safe strategies, no safe strategies of his own, garbage recovery, awful throws, and his punishment game is exceedingly lame for a "power" character. his only selling points are bair and...yeah that's it.

 

[JCaesar]

Just bought it earlier today, mengs. Gotta wait on the title change.

Soooo sad to see "Smash Developer" gone.

You change it yourself. It's in User CP under "Edit your details"

 

[JCaesar]

Hey guys, don't forget to register for Magfest! We should work out the housing situation before too long.

cmart, I realized why the matches I uploaded from when we played on Friday seem so lopsided. We saved 7 matches and you won 3 of them, but 2 of them were vs my ROB, which I had to upload unlisted. I'll try to keep things more balanced in the non-ROB matches next time.

Also, when is your interview? I'd like to find an apartment before the winter weather really sets in.

 

[Thunderhorse+]

Yeah I was talking to Clyde about it yesterday. Him, Seb, and a mutual friend of ours are going, as well as someone else who I haven't met yet possibly going as well. I'm not sure if we want to do one big room or two separate ones.

 

[JCaesar]

Depends how many people we get I guess.

 

[cmart]

haha don't worry JCz. I just would've felt like a **** for trolling plank in that case.
And I had my interview already. It was... interesting. The result is that I was promised a job regardless, since they're cleaning house and need people asap, but I'm not sure what it's going to be until they make a real offer. I'm not sure if I'd really take something that wouldn't give me a substantial increase in hours + pay as that'd make rent pretty much impossible for me. I'll let you know how that goes as soon I've heard something I can be certain of.

btw we doing anything tonight, possibly with Scott?

 

[CTL17]

My school club, Gamer Symphony Orchestra (We play video game music because we're awesome like that. Not as professional as any other orchestra because we don't audition to get in, etc etc) is going to Magfest; actually has been at Magfest for the past many years. I'm not going with them, but... I'm shamelessly advertising their existence right now.

 

[JCaesar]

I remember their booth from last year.

cmart, Scott says next week.

 

[CTL17]

I remember their booth from last year.

cmart, Scott says next week.

Yay you know we exist!

 

[quinnydinny]

hmm may need a A/V cable for my wii when skyward sword comes out... idk wii is pretty much dead to me now though. What do you guys think of Skyward?

 

[JCaesar]

Did any of you guys wanna go to ROM? It sounds like there are a few open seats left in the MD/VA cars going up. I probably will go even if it's just me, since it sounds like Guru wants to go.

 

[cmart]

I got the 19th off from work on the off-chance we would go up. What are the transportation details?

 

[Thunderhorse+]

Can't. Work's requiring me to go in on Sunday for the re-opening. I'm sure it'll be awesome though.

 

[JCaesar]

cmart check Sypher's thread.

 

[cmart]

so yeah looks like rom4 isn't happening for us at this juncture. In that case I vote we find someone's house to hole up at and have fun that weekend?

 

[Deleted member]

I suggest that when a major snow storm is approaching this year, we should impromptu crash at someone's house as a group and play something awesome like Four Swords start to finish. Stuff like that kicks ***.

 

[Plairnkk]

downsies

lets play again!

 

[JCaesar]

Plank are you free this weekend?

 

[cmart]

I suggest that when a major snow storm is approaching this year, we should impromptu crash at someone's house as a group and play something awesome like Four Swords start to finish. Stuff like that kicks ***.

Haha ToS speedrun?

 

[JCaesar]

Bonfire tonight at Bandit's! Who's in?

 

[Plairnkk]

Plank are you free this weekend?

im pretty sure im free tomorrow

 

[quinnydinny]

Sounds like fun, probably be up for it if Oliver is. What time are you guy starting this?

 

[cmart]

bonfire mk II huh?
sure let's try again

 

[JCaesar]

You can come over whenever. Let me know first though, preferably by text.

 

[JCaesar]

Smash this weekend?

Don't forget to pre-reg for Magfest guys.

 

[Thunderhorse+]

League this weekend?

More accurate .

I'm up for shenanigans of any kind this weekend though.

Also cmart embraces his true love. Now if only your avatar was about 12 years younger.

 

[cmart]

Sooo... mid twenties then?
Anyhoo I have a funeral to attend this sat... if I still feel like smash afterwards I'll let you guys know

 

[Thunderhorse+]

Sooo... mid twenties then?

Oh yoooooouuuuuuuuu XD

@Bandit:

y/n/m?

It's definitely my fav Twisted Fate alternate skin so far, even moreso than Tango Twisted Fate, but I'm still not sure I'd use it over the classic Fate skin. I'll almost assuredly be getting it though in case I want to bust it out in a few matches.

 

[JCaesar]

Oh you people, spending money on a free game...

 

[Thunderhorse+]

You're just jelly that I'm not giving you any money for your new streaming computer by blocking ads on your stream.

Also I want to point out that you spent money on Brawl...as did we all .

I am not ashamed to make monetary expenditures on any game that is better than Brawl (read: every game).

 

[quinnydinny]

I think I may have to try Fizz out. Looks like he should be fun. I'm sure if I wait a week though he will be free to play.

Also spending money supports the dev team which is good. In the end you are still spending much less then a full game title(A.K.A. $60 for MW3 which has an 8 hour or so campaign and then you have to pay $60 a year for xbox live for multiplayer). You might even be putting in more time on the game. So yes if you like the game spend some money on it.

Edit:

May have to play skyrim just for this. haha.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZIiDS_RYVY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxjwv5bjQTY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=fhlR7XbphQc

 

[Bandit]

Also I want to point out that you spent money on Brawl...as did we all

I didn't LoL LoL LoL

I think I may have to try Fizz out. Looks like he should be fun. I'm sure if I wait a week though he will be free to play.

By then Fizz will be nerfed lol. His movement capabilities are insane. With a flash and his E, he can probably go from mid tower to mid tower extremely quickly (slight exaggeration but only slight).

I faced him in a match tonight watched him run me down from an insane amount of distance. It's like Master Yi only with health (well... and he can be slowed...).