But they really don't have solid reasons. They have, at most, a month of play time. That barely lends them any credence. If in six months to a year, after a good number of tournaments have been run and whatever meta-game Brawl is hiding has been coaxed out(or not as the case may be), people still say that Brawl can't be competitive, then I'll listen to their judgment. Until then, it's all just noise.
Pertaining to the part I underlined:
Let’s see.
-No L-cancel, a tech that allowed slow characters to cover up there weakness and, compete with the faster characters(No L-cancel promotes less roster diversity). It also allowed for more safe approaches and, combos.
-Dashdancing seems to not even be worth it and, it gives a higher chance of tripping, which brings me to my next point.
-Tripping. A random mechanic that just plainly goes against competitive play (nothing random is good for competition. It doesn’t even have a reason to be there…).
-Tether recovery. In a attempt to dumb it down, they made tether recovery characters go at a big disadvantage (again, promotes less roster diversity) towards good ledge hoggers (which btw, has also been dumbed down, seeing as now characters auto-sweet spot the ledge).
-Which brings me to edge hogging (when you roll of the ledge to stop you’re opponent from grabbing onto it). This has been reduced to a very small window of time, making it almost, if not, useless.
-Everybody is much more “floatie” (or w/e the cool people call it nowadays) and, hit stun is greatly reduced, meaning even less combo potential.
-And, lets not forget everybody’s favorite. No wavedashing. Glitch/exploit/tech or, whatever you want to call it doesn't matter. Fact is, it opened up a lot of options for players meaning, more diverse playstyles. Which is good for competition.
I’m sure others that I’m missing some.
It’s sad and, not something I like to hear ether, but you can’t ignore it. Brawl pessimist have reasons.
Not like they "want" Brawl to be less competitively viable. But, they have their reasons that it will be.
As for the rest of the quote:
The same can be said for the over optimistic side. Except much worse because, the optimistic have nothing to back up their claim (don’t even dare mentioning online. There’s plenty of games that are online and, have a meager if any, competitive scene) .
The games been only out for a mouth so no one has the right the claim that it will become as competitive or, more then Melee.
See where I’m getting at?
Sadly there’s nothing to suggest that Brawl “will” be competitive. So, it’s just foolish to say something like that.
After time, if people find some things out that total change the game, then yeah, that would be great.
But, for now, there’s nothing that suggest that it will be competitive but, there are things that suggest otherwise…
