in response to both
http://smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=163073 (a method for determining brawl skill level)
and http://smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=158790 (gimpyfish's sakurai didnt want competition post)
ive got it!
we all thought sakurai didnt want competitive brawl, but we were all playing matches, trying to beat eachother. this is obviously wrong and defies all laws of competition. the art of war, the bible, greek mythology, shakespeare... read them all and you will see that we've been thinking wrong.
here it is everyone. sakurai wants competitive brawl. new MLG circuit event: SMASH BRAWL HOME RUN CONTEST! STREAMING LIVE FROM LAS VEGAS; AVAILABLE PAY PER VIEW.
/sarcasm
(i bolded the key bits for you, and now with grammar! if that matters pssh)
On a more serious note: I dont know what Sakurai is talking about in that article Gimpyfish wrote about, but either he's being a politician to please soccer moms or hes just plain stupid. You don't make fighting games so people have fun. You make them firstly for money and second for simply making an awesome game.
Lets take some samples here: Starcraft. released in 1996?7? Still played in the biggest tournaments today. Wins game of the year x amount of times, still played and patched today. Has sold 10 million copies.
Brawl has so far sold 1.5 million. It could pass 10 million, who knows.
To summarize: Sakurai has upset the smash community by implying that he does not support competitive brawl, stating that he made brawl to be fun, not about winning. However, taking that statement alone, we know that there is something fake about Sakurai, because the statement is false. Either he is trying to please some group, or he just doesn't know anything.
Here's my stance.
I DON'T GIVE A SHI T ABOUT WHAT SAKURAI SAYS, HIS OPINION HAS NO BEARING ON BRAWL'S COMPETITIVENESS BECAUSE HE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT HES TALKING ABOUT
Here's why.
He says he doesn't get excited at sporting events. You know what happens at sporting events? Grown men on the losing team cry. Players get into fights on the rink and knock their teeth out. People at home cry and cheer, and they put money on games. The sporting industry is bigger than the video game industry and it always will be (atleast in my lifetime).
There is no sport that is marketed for "fun". Kids buy balls and equipment so they can be the next Jerry Rice or Michael Jordan, not so they can figure out how to play and quit when they get bored 2 weeks later. Sakurai simply doesn't understand that, probably because he's Japanese and doesn't understand the correct perspective. yes that is serious. my mom is Korean and she has the same problem.
So. Leave it to us to decide if smash brawl will be played at the tournament level.
discuss.
http://smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=163073 (a method for determining brawl skill level)
and http://smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=158790 (gimpyfish's sakurai didnt want competition post)
ive got it!
we all thought sakurai didnt want competitive brawl, but we were all playing matches, trying to beat eachother. this is obviously wrong and defies all laws of competition. the art of war, the bible, greek mythology, shakespeare... read them all and you will see that we've been thinking wrong.
here it is everyone. sakurai wants competitive brawl. new MLG circuit event: SMASH BRAWL HOME RUN CONTEST! STREAMING LIVE FROM LAS VEGAS; AVAILABLE PAY PER VIEW.
/sarcasm
(i bolded the key bits for you, and now with grammar! if that matters pssh)
On a more serious note: I dont know what Sakurai is talking about in that article Gimpyfish wrote about, but either he's being a politician to please soccer moms or hes just plain stupid. You don't make fighting games so people have fun. You make them firstly for money and second for simply making an awesome game.
Lets take some samples here: Starcraft. released in 1996?7? Still played in the biggest tournaments today. Wins game of the year x amount of times, still played and patched today. Has sold 10 million copies.
Brawl has so far sold 1.5 million. It could pass 10 million, who knows.
To summarize: Sakurai has upset the smash community by implying that he does not support competitive brawl, stating that he made brawl to be fun, not about winning. However, taking that statement alone, we know that there is something fake about Sakurai, because the statement is false. Either he is trying to please some group, or he just doesn't know anything.
Here's my stance.
I DON'T GIVE A SHI T ABOUT WHAT SAKURAI SAYS, HIS OPINION HAS NO BEARING ON BRAWL'S COMPETITIVENESS BECAUSE HE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT HES TALKING ABOUT
Here's why.
He says he doesn't get excited at sporting events. You know what happens at sporting events? Grown men on the losing team cry. Players get into fights on the rink and knock their teeth out. People at home cry and cheer, and they put money on games. The sporting industry is bigger than the video game industry and it always will be (atleast in my lifetime).
There is no sport that is marketed for "fun". Kids buy balls and equipment so they can be the next Jerry Rice or Michael Jordan, not so they can figure out how to play and quit when they get bored 2 weeks later. Sakurai simply doesn't understand that, probably because he's Japanese and doesn't understand the correct perspective. yes that is serious. my mom is Korean and she has the same problem.
So. Leave it to us to decide if smash brawl will be played at the tournament level.
discuss.