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My suit piece game is actually pretty good, although you can never see it in my videos because whether or not I keep the pieces is entirely the whim of how I'm feeling at the moment. You probably don't want to use it as an example though because I do a lot of the same sorts of things that you guys were railing against in the thread (tossing them straight at your opponent, etc). Here's how my suit piece game works:
1. Throw two away or throw two forward, OR throw one up and one forward and hold onto one
2. Perform a special or two to bait
3. Toss down so that when they attempt to punish it they get hit
4. At this point, the opponent is launched, and they will basically repeatedly get hit by any suit pieces thrown at them, so I'm not sure what all the fuss is about. Basically every time your opponent is neutral, toss a suit piece up or down to create a trap and when they fall into it, punish a lot. That's all I do.
1. ZSS is love
2. No, although I am amazingly good at F-Zero GX story modes and I love C. Viper in SSF4. I think she plays really similarly to ZSS, entirely based on your level of intuition and reading ability, and in the words of ph00tbag is sort of a "your mileage may vary" character. If I had a board I'd play that game competitively.
3. Yeah absolutely. IM me at "risemix" and we'll set up a time. I love wifi as long as the lag is yellow or lower (Dazwa, Snakeee, Hippiedude, Sasook, etc and I all get green or blue orbs because we live within an hour of each other and it's fine).
MK is probably in a tier of his own (ban him seriously). Snake, Falco, and Diddy are probably in a tier of their own after that, and I'm not sure what order anymore. Diddy Kong has fallen off just a bit, and though I might get crucified for saying this, I think the same thing about Snake who feels 3rd or 4th-ish to me right now. Snake has a lot of strong bases and is a great character but suffers a little compared to other "top" tiers because his match-ups just aren't "****" like the rest of them; he's just a good character that's hard to beat. Falco is probably closer to 2nd, even though Pikachu supposedly ***** him.
After that, the rest of high tier is pretty close in my opinion. Wario, Pikachu, Olimar, ICs, ZSS, Lucario, King Dedede or something like that.
I think a lot of "fatally flawed" or less popular characters could join high tier too, like Fox or Peach.
I have employed the "level 3 computers" strategy and it's worked for me, although it took a while for me to completely grasp how to mix up correctly using this method and I'm still learning. I'm not saying that's the way to go, that's just what I do. As far as mindset goes, Brawl is not really a standard fighting game or even as close as Melee was. It's much more psychological. When practicing, I have learned that it's not as worthwhile to think of things in terms of follow-ups, but in terms of different strings of moves and at different times that they might not expect. I insist that each good player should be spending at least an hour a day in Brawl goofing off or something to keep up their technical proficiency.
Low-lag wifi is also very effective. Haters gon' hate.
Other M is not a good game, I'm sorry. I think the reason so many people like it is because we're currently experiencing a game drought on the Wii and people will play anything right now.
It's not a total failure as a game, but it is a failure as a Metroid game and as a quality Nintendo experience (the kind we've come to expect). I hold Nintendo to a much higher standard than this though.
I hate texture hacks actually.
I don't hate Lucas. Mother 3 is one of my favorite games. He's also not really emo, he's just scared!
