Snakeee
Smash Master
Hey guys. This is a random rant about how I've been feeling about the game, and what I plan to do with it now. Read it only if you feel like it, but don't post saying how stupid or emo it is because if you don't like it, DON'T READ IT!
My placings lately have been pretty much all over the place. I got 4th at a NJ tourney a month ago which shocked a few ppl here and maybe even myself lol. Then I went to one other tourney that was kind of "so-so" I guess. Now I did HORRENDOUS at today's tourney in NJ. I started off on the right foot for sure, beating RJ (NJ Lucario player who's improved significantly lately and I have quite some psychological metagame with) and then I had a really fun, to the wire set with MVD. He apparently does really well vs NR and knew the MU well. He won game 3, last stock, both over 100% and all. I CP'ed him to Rainbow even knowing that he loves that stage and the one set i saw of him vs NR, the one game NR lost was on RC lol. I still felt that I'd have the adv there, but tbh I haven't played there in quite a while.
Anyway, after that set I somehow managed to lose against a local Fox player o_O . He definitely had some skill, but it was still a huge, huge upset for me. That MU is one where I feel like if I forget how to approach the MU at all, things just go horribly wrong . (Despite having the low % 0-death, they very rarely get hit by it, and using d-smash on Fox too much makes your game ridiculously obvious and easy to combat) I was definitely playing the MU wrong, and I didn't completely adjust until the end of game 3, but by then even though I managed to make a comeback the stress kinda got to me. I find it actually a lot harder to maintain comebacks vs a player that I wasn't expecting to lose against vs even the very top players.
I know what you're all thinking, but I wasn't really "sleeping on" my opponent, and I try and always remind myself not to underestimate anyone. It's especially important nowadays where it seems there are almost no random newcomers at ALL (at least in my region). When we get someone new around here, it's more likely that we'll be seeing some new talent and potential rather than extra money for the pot.
My main issue right now with this game is in losing my motivation. Like a lot of us that were very competitive from the get go since the game came out, things are becoming more and more trite and repetitive within the game itself. There are very few if any new AT's and the like that are any significant nowadays, and mostly the only reason there's still energy for this game is because of the hype we make for it. The smash community has mostly been really cool and fun imo. It's really the only reason some of us stick around so long especially considering all the ppl that seem to complain about the game over and over every tourney >_> .
I'm not done yet though . I don't plan on quitting this game just yet, and the main reason is because I don't feel like I've managed to make it to the level I really wanted to and feel I'm capable of. Yes, during a certain time frame, ranks-wise I had been considered MUCH more highly than I am generally considered nowadays. At first, losing the attention did manage to get to me I have to admit. I realized eventually that it was very silly of me to think like that, and I didn't want to have such a need for attention anyway. I have to admit though, it can still be nice to be recognized, and it can also be very frustrating when people consistently place you at a level far lower than you believe you are even when you're pretty damn sure that you're right .
I really want to make it to the top before I leave. It's not super important that I do, or that I know for a fact that I'll be able to do it, but I'm going to at least try to . I can't do very good at all in anything I like doing without a strong motivation. My random placings almost definitely have a lot to do with this. When I play a top player, I feel much more of a need to prove something, so I end up giving it my all much more than when I play an average player. Against the average player, I lose interest and thus lose focus. But, if I make it a point in my head that I still have these goals to achieve, I'm sure I'll be able to manage to put more effort into each and every match I play.
The degree to which ppl in this community tend to rate each other can be pretty ridiculous though. I'm all for competition, rivalry, and all that stuff but it gets pretty absurd. Someone's skill in a game of any sort shouldn't have anything to do with how someone judges them as a person. Yeah yeah, this sounds cheesy as hell but whatever it's what I see happen consistently, and I just think it's ********. As much as I love the smash community, I think we need to calm down with that stuff. It's great to give ppl credit for their skill and all, but....well you get what I mean probably. Ive ranted too much here. This was going to be just part of a reply I was making on the ZSS Video thread, but my attention-deficit self somehow can't get himself to stop doing whatever he happens to be doing. @_@
My placings lately have been pretty much all over the place. I got 4th at a NJ tourney a month ago which shocked a few ppl here and maybe even myself lol. Then I went to one other tourney that was kind of "so-so" I guess. Now I did HORRENDOUS at today's tourney in NJ. I started off on the right foot for sure, beating RJ (NJ Lucario player who's improved significantly lately and I have quite some psychological metagame with) and then I had a really fun, to the wire set with MVD. He apparently does really well vs NR and knew the MU well. He won game 3, last stock, both over 100% and all. I CP'ed him to Rainbow even knowing that he loves that stage and the one set i saw of him vs NR, the one game NR lost was on RC lol. I still felt that I'd have the adv there, but tbh I haven't played there in quite a while.
Anyway, after that set I somehow managed to lose against a local Fox player o_O . He definitely had some skill, but it was still a huge, huge upset for me. That MU is one where I feel like if I forget how to approach the MU at all, things just go horribly wrong . (Despite having the low % 0-death, they very rarely get hit by it, and using d-smash on Fox too much makes your game ridiculously obvious and easy to combat) I was definitely playing the MU wrong, and I didn't completely adjust until the end of game 3, but by then even though I managed to make a comeback the stress kinda got to me. I find it actually a lot harder to maintain comebacks vs a player that I wasn't expecting to lose against vs even the very top players.
I know what you're all thinking, but I wasn't really "sleeping on" my opponent, and I try and always remind myself not to underestimate anyone. It's especially important nowadays where it seems there are almost no random newcomers at ALL (at least in my region). When we get someone new around here, it's more likely that we'll be seeing some new talent and potential rather than extra money for the pot.
My main issue right now with this game is in losing my motivation. Like a lot of us that were very competitive from the get go since the game came out, things are becoming more and more trite and repetitive within the game itself. There are very few if any new AT's and the like that are any significant nowadays, and mostly the only reason there's still energy for this game is because of the hype we make for it. The smash community has mostly been really cool and fun imo. It's really the only reason some of us stick around so long especially considering all the ppl that seem to complain about the game over and over every tourney >_> .
I'm not done yet though . I don't plan on quitting this game just yet, and the main reason is because I don't feel like I've managed to make it to the level I really wanted to and feel I'm capable of. Yes, during a certain time frame, ranks-wise I had been considered MUCH more highly than I am generally considered nowadays. At first, losing the attention did manage to get to me I have to admit. I realized eventually that it was very silly of me to think like that, and I didn't want to have such a need for attention anyway. I have to admit though, it can still be nice to be recognized, and it can also be very frustrating when people consistently place you at a level far lower than you believe you are even when you're pretty damn sure that you're right .
I really want to make it to the top before I leave. It's not super important that I do, or that I know for a fact that I'll be able to do it, but I'm going to at least try to . I can't do very good at all in anything I like doing without a strong motivation. My random placings almost definitely have a lot to do with this. When I play a top player, I feel much more of a need to prove something, so I end up giving it my all much more than when I play an average player. Against the average player, I lose interest and thus lose focus. But, if I make it a point in my head that I still have these goals to achieve, I'm sure I'll be able to manage to put more effort into each and every match I play.
The degree to which ppl in this community tend to rate each other can be pretty ridiculous though. I'm all for competition, rivalry, and all that stuff but it gets pretty absurd. Someone's skill in a game of any sort shouldn't have anything to do with how someone judges them as a person. Yeah yeah, this sounds cheesy as hell but whatever it's what I see happen consistently, and I just think it's ********. As much as I love the smash community, I think we need to calm down with that stuff. It's great to give ppl credit for their skill and all, but....well you get what I mean probably. Ive ranted too much here. This was going to be just part of a reply I was making on the ZSS Video thread, but my attention-deficit self somehow can't get himself to stop doing whatever he happens to be doing. @_@