Hello,
I remember when people use to play 5 stock and then it moved to 4 when the tournament scene really solidified. Its been that way for forever. A friend of mine plays other fighters, not just Melee, and came to town for a week so we played a crap ton of melee. We were talking about why melee is the black sheep of the fighting community and at first we thought it was because of the cartoon graphics, the non-standard KO design, the totally free movement, among other things that I won't get into. But then we thought the biggest difference in the game is how long matches last. We messed around with the idea of playing 3 stock (like in brawl) but then just said **** it and went 2 stock. This pretty much matches the live count for 2D fighters and my friend liked it more. We noticed it was way easier to keep up the intensity of the match among other things.
Why don't we play 2 stock regularly? When there are multiple players there is less down time between matches, tournaments would go faster (even if every match was changed to 3 out of 5 instead of 2 out of 3), suicides would matter less in tournament (in a 3 out of 5 system), and the game would be way more stream line. I am just curious to what you guys think.
Also, give it a shot. Its fun and really does feel (tempo wise) more like a 2D fighter which is way more intense because you only have two lives. Also, we got lazy way less than in a four stock match and people can't just win by getting a stock lead and crouch canceling for a victory which really does happen a lot.
I remember when people use to play 5 stock and then it moved to 4 when the tournament scene really solidified. Its been that way for forever. A friend of mine plays other fighters, not just Melee, and came to town for a week so we played a crap ton of melee. We were talking about why melee is the black sheep of the fighting community and at first we thought it was because of the cartoon graphics, the non-standard KO design, the totally free movement, among other things that I won't get into. But then we thought the biggest difference in the game is how long matches last. We messed around with the idea of playing 3 stock (like in brawl) but then just said **** it and went 2 stock. This pretty much matches the live count for 2D fighters and my friend liked it more. We noticed it was way easier to keep up the intensity of the match among other things.
Why don't we play 2 stock regularly? When there are multiple players there is less down time between matches, tournaments would go faster (even if every match was changed to 3 out of 5 instead of 2 out of 3), suicides would matter less in tournament (in a 3 out of 5 system), and the game would be way more stream line. I am just curious to what you guys think.
Also, give it a shot. Its fun and really does feel (tempo wise) more like a 2D fighter which is way more intense because you only have two lives. Also, we got lazy way less than in a four stock match and people can't just win by getting a stock lead and crouch canceling for a victory which really does happen a lot.