I no longer want to promote the game this was about.
Just messaged my friend this, dude about to flip lol
People don’t even care about actual Smash games here. They damn sure ain’t gonna care about this hacked shit.
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As a non-Smash player, I’m always impressed and a little bit annoyed by the dedication of the Smash fanbase. I’m impressed because they clearly love the game enough to do all kinds of ridiculous shit like Project M or Brawl Minus. I’m a bit annoyed because of the component that refuses to play the games as-is, and as a lot of us have seen from the Scrubquotes thread, squeaky wheels don’t necessarily know what grease you should be using. Or whatever, that analogy fell apart midway through. My point is that people who bitch online don’t necessarily know how to improve anything and you won’t git gud if you don’t embrace changes. Aside from random tripping, because that shit was just dumb.
So I’m torn between “Man, I wish the fanbase for Fighting Game I Play was this dedicated” and “but thank god I don’t have to deal with people modding Street Fighter V to run exactly like Super Turbo or the tournament scenes still primarily running KoF '98”.
Hey, look, I get it. Like I said, I’m genuinely impressed with the hard work and dedication put into these games. I probably would’ve just dropped it once it was clear the developers were actively trying to push me away and moved on to something else instead. It’s just that extreme love and dedication also tends to bring along the crazies. And it’s probably the extremely vocal minority of crazies that make me feel a little bit uncomfortable around hardcore Smash crowds. I mean, it’s not like the FGC in general doesn’t have problems with toxic personalities. I think Smash just ends up coming off worse because you guys have to communally come up with ways to balance a game that isn’t necessarily balanced for competitive play as-is (or rely on Nintendo, who don’t seem to understand the competitive dynamic even when they’re not actively trying to kill the competitive scene), and nothing brings out the toxic personalities like trying to have a civil discussion about balance and rulings. Well, that and tiers.
So you’ve become the “NO ITEMS! FOX ONLY! FINAL DESTINATION!” guys.