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« on: October 19, 2007, 06:02:57 PM »
Hey all. Your resident Smash tourney goer here with my two cents on this whoole fiasco.
First off let me start out by saying that I feel very alienated and attacked by all the tournament Melee player hate in here. Yes I study and practice wavedashing, teching, etc etc but by no means do I somehow no longer know how to have fun with the game. I just have fun with it in an entirely different way than it would appear most here do. I do still occasionally play with items and on random stages with up to 4 people, but at the same time I like to tourney style it and fire up some no items on Final Dest or Battlefield and have at it. Who the hell is to say either way is a "right" or "wrong" way of playing the game? Some non-tournment players sound just as arrogant and buullheaded as the very people they love to hate!
Ahem, anyway, back to the subject at hand. I am ESTATIC at all of these gameplay changes! At its corew is still the Smash I know and love but on the outside is an entirely different ebast for me to understand and attempt to master once again. No wavedashing? Who cares?! Peach (My Melee best and favorite character...mmm...Peach) nerfed? Sweet! Time to re-learn her! I did the same thing with Pikachu in the transition from SSB64 to Melee only to discover that Pikachu had become an even more fun character for me to use! Sure he was no longer my best but I loved using him even msot and was better with him in Melee than 64.
I don't know if anyone will even care but at least one tournament player doesn't just like the changes but WELCOMES them! Dec 3 was already an eternity away for me with the passion I have for this game....Feb 10 is just torture, but, it is torture I welcome. I celebrated the delay as well. I want my ever so precious reason I bought my Wii to be as good as it can be. I was right there Dec 2001 with my beloved Cube buying the game that would latch on to my life for 6 years and you know what? I look incredibly forward to seeing the next one latch on for another 6 if not more.