Recent content by Mikhas

I agree with the ban, but this is very sensible.

Well, actually you said "Melee is one of the hardest fighting games ever created." While Melee may require more button presses than most other fighting games, it doesn't require the precision, timing, or planning that most others do. In Melee, the control scheme is much more simplified and you...

Perhaps you should actually play other fighting games before assuming your favorite to be the most difficult.

I'm not saying they're all "ridiculously harder." In general, other fighting games are more difficult and have higher skill ceilings. Don't get me wrong, I love Melee, but it's not particularly difficult, technically. Doing combos with 1 frame links that are fairly common in other fighters are a...

Every other fighting game is more difficult than Melee and nobody seems to have much of a problem with them. I really don't think Sakurai had any intention of making any of the Smash games balanced and competitive.

Waiting for your opponent to do something laggy and attacking is called "punishing," a concept which is foreign to the competitive Brawl scene, so I understand your confusion. The "running away" part is like pokes in traditional fighting games.

Gonna have to go ahead and disagree with you there. I've seen successful camping only a handful of times in Melee. Being on the ledge is a disadvantage in Melee, unlike in Brawl, and the risks involved in attacking are less, as well as there being fewer defensive options like multiple air...

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They're not telling you how you can play. You can play with whatever rules you want and nobody is going to stop you, but if you want to play in their tournaments then you have to play by their rules. If you don't like the rules, don't go to their tournaments. Also, the reason MK should be...

It seems to me that a developer like Nintendo, for a game as big as Brawl, with as much time as they had after all those release delays, would be able to find where the code for tripping is and create a toggle for it. This is all speculation and is beside the greater point anyway. Nintendo has...

I was more referring to the people saying tripping puts the player in an advantageous position due to the invincibility frames he gets. I agree that tripping doesn't make it unplayable, but I believe it shows an intent in the developers to make the game less palatable to competitive players.

I can't believe some people are saying random tripping isn't a horrible thing that was blatantly added to decrease the competitiveness of the game. Really guys? It's beneficial to trip? So if you tripped 50x more often, would that be beneficial?

That is interesting, thank you. Is planking only such a strong strategy for MK, or is it equally as good for every character? Will Brawl still need the LGL after MK's ban?

I don't play Brawl and, honestly, I think it's a poor competitive game. However, I am very interested in competitive games and their rules and balancing. I've read quite a few posts in this thread and it seems to me that a lot of the posts are arguing about the wrong things. Yes, Metaknight...

Awesome thread.