Which is good, considering I don't like taking chances for no real reason. The current state is pretty much fine, I think.
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Competitive Super Smash Bros. Melee Discussion Thread
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Which is good, considering I don't like taking chances for no real reason. The current state is pretty much fine, I think.
Except the part where pretty much everything required to play this game has been discontinued. Things are gonna have to change sooner or later.
LucidMomentum
Member
Yuup. Just had to get rid of two CRTs last week that died on us. More and more are getting recycled or dumped, and the ones that survive are usually the ones too big to move.
HDMI setups will be the main thing keeping the game alive in a decade if nothing changes.
As much as I hate to see the original materials wearing down and fading, I think we'll be alright. I love the authenticity of playing Melee on a Gamecube attached to a CRT, but I could see that becoming more difficult in about 5 years.
Lagless LCD setups are already possible, and I think more people will come around to it when they have to (I'll admit, I don't like it and avoid them when I can.) Wiis loaded with homebrew and Melee isos are also becoming more common. Cube controllers just got a new run, so that's pretty nice; controllers may eventually be replaced with new products though; we're already seeing efforts like that with the Smashbox-likes.
Lagless LCD setups are already possible, and I think more people will come around to it when they have to (I'll admit, I don't like it and avoid them when I can.) Wiis loaded with homebrew and Melee isos are also becoming more common. Cube controllers just got a new run, so that's pretty nice; controllers may eventually be replaced with new products though; we're already seeing efforts like that with the Smashbox-likes.
Gootecks started tweeting about the Scar and Toph show and the latter has been pushing an announcement. The reason I bring this up is because like 5 years ago or something a Melee Excellent Adventures had a semi push, maybe we'll finally get this, just like 10 years later we might have an EVO Japan, rofl. Maybe 10 years from now all the old people who play Smash will take over Nintendo and have a real melee HD.
chaosblade
Unconfirmed Member
For that to happen, he probably would have had to beat both Swedish and M2K so winners finals was SFAT/Plup. Then M2K would need to eliminate Hbox in losers semis.
WF SFAT, M2K, and Plup are basically toss ups, any of the three could have won from there. GF SFAT would have gotten destroyed by Plup just like he did M2K though.
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lvl99 Pixel
Member
that syrox lucky set tho (taken from reddit)
chaosblade
Unconfirmed Member
Wait, Plup and Westballz were playing for top 48? Shouldn't both have been top 10 or at worst top 15 seeds? How does that even happen?
I think that was top 48, they just played their set a bit early.
For anyone not in the know, Dreamhack is on right now and the bracket is STACKED.
chaosblade
Unconfirmed Member
N0ne with the reverse 3-0 over M2K. He's like M2K's kryptonite.
Well that knee on Hbox's shield will be the weirdest hit of the tournament, and maybe the year.
Well that knee on Hbox's shield will be the weirdest hit of the tournament, and maybe the year.
Merchandise
Member
Chudat is the GOAT and there's really no argument otherwise
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chaosblade
Unconfirmed Member
The worst top 3 we could see. Normally like M2K but not his Peach.
The twist though, lol.
chaosblade
Unconfirmed Member
IC/Puff makes a lot of sense, since Peach hard counters IC's but Puff hard counters Peach.
chaosblade
Unconfirmed Member
M2K's Marth looking good. Please drop the dumb Peach counterpick.
What was that grab through the platform? A wobble there would have been so dumb.
What was that grab through the platform? A wobble there would have been so dumb.
chaosblade
Unconfirmed Member
Just looking at them, you would think Hbox is older. But he's 23.
LucidMomentum
Member
This is good honest Melee right here.
Love the strategy at play.
Love the strategy at play.
LucidMomentum
Member
This ain't Smash 4, son. That's just a part of the matchup, especially with SoPo involved.
wait how many stages are left in smash 4, i dont follow that game
LucidMomentum
Member
Duck Hunt and Lylat are out, Dreamland is the same "stage" as Battlefield for bans despite having different blast zones.
So basically it's down two counterpicks and a neutral from the most recent ruleset.
The main reason DH got removed is that certain characters can gimp off the top easily and then run around to stall a match.
Lylat got removed because people don't like it's odd ledge snap issues for some of the cast.
Basically it makes mid-high tiers less effective with counterpicks and the top tiers stay top tier :/
theprodigy
Member
Lylat is not out, what
chaosblade
Unconfirmed Member
Wasn't all the stuff he mentioned at least proposed? I know the community was pretty divided over it though so maybe some of it was changed.
fredrancour
Member
The lylat ruling got reversed. We're at smashville, t&c, lylat, battlefield, and fd for neutrals with omega stages and dl as alternate versions on counter picks.
Lylat also has a Pokemon stadium style fall-through glitch but as far as I'm aware it's never killed anyone at a key moment.
LucidMomentum
Member
My b, you're right. Version 1 of the 2017 2GG ruleset had it out though.
Yeah we didn't even use the new ruleset because no one at my biweekly wanted to.
With EVO in two months I need to get the kids practicing on it though.
Thanks for clarifying!