My issue with Sakurai is that he seemingly equates less depth and fewer technical mechanics with being more "accessible".
Melee was incredibly deep and technical, yet as a 10 year old kid, I had no idea. I just had fun playing the game. Which brings me to my point - the new players and the casual players don't care how technical or deep the game may be, but the competitive scene does. He can easily satisfy both parties by listening to the competitive crowd.
As a 10 year old kid playing Melee, I had no idea about Wavedashing, L-cancelling, wave bouncing (I still don't understand half of them). I also was never cognizant of the speed of the game. I just had fun playing.
Yet, Sakurai has gone on record saying that Melee was too hardcore, despite the fact that I, as a casual 10 year old (along with my other elementary school friends at the time) still had an immense amount of fun with the game. If he strives to create this level of technical and competitive depth, the hardcore players will love it, and casual and newcomers won't care either way.
That;s all cool, and Im fine with that, would be excited to get in the scene. But I once observed an argument where a guy, with quite a few people backing him up, when the topic of auto-l canceling came up said he wanted it to be harder so only the best of the best that could time that movement could benefit.
I always feel that in most games such as these,most of the battle ought to be in terms of the mind. That's why I enjoy Pokemon so much. Outside of a really crappy team match up, thats what it is
I just want to say that my main beef with the comp. smash community is the elitists who turn their noses up and the smallest things. There are some members of the community that are great and awesome. It's great that after the invitational, you got so many people thanking Nintendo
But wth will happen when Ninty also sees some of the toxic atmosphere already being created by the game. Community is only hurting itself
I sometimes feel like when talking about the comp. smash, the environment quickly changes to that of the same type of feeling many of us complain about with Nintendo threads on GAF- it gets toxic and we get DOOMED talk very very quickly
A lot of people get that feeling, and that's often how I feel about this issue too
And saying elitism doesn't exist in a portion of the comp. smash community would be like me saying it doesn't exist in Pokemon, especially by some on Smogon (not all, but definitely a portion imo)
At least, that has been my experience lurking around the community
Oh, and good news for Sonic fans, to pull away from depressing talk of Smash
DrPP said:
I nearly picked sonic actually. He has some good easyish combo setups and a good fall speed and run speed which help a LOT in this game
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