Melee Levels In Brawl

[CrashMan]

FightingGameGuy said:

I love Fountain of Dreams and want to see it return. Since its inspired by HAL's game, I bet I will see my wish =D. IHopefully though, Flatzone won't return to vex us all with its darned hammers and ridiculous size.

 

@Crashman [please feel free to ignore]: I respect your opinion but I also hope you can understand the concerns of those who in attending Smash tournaments travel very far and dedicate an entire long day to completing their tournaments. As tournaments results are supposed to be definitive, an overwhelming majority of such people do not want all that effort to be, in their opinion, overly determined by random factors. (The problems impact of items is magnified by the inability to turn off the mechanic that some crates and containers are randomly explode upon contact, which becomes highly problematic in that such an item can spawn once players have already dedicated their characters to a certain courses of actions they cannot change once begun.) Yes, such randomness could theoretically be leveled out by a huge number of trials, e.g., raising the stock or best of x to huge levels, but such parameters would be unfeasible if you wanted to field enough participants to make a tournament worthwhile and still complete it within a reasonale amount of time. Having organized 3 smash tournaments myself at my college, I felt such concerns even amongst my own participants and friends -- and none of them drove countless hours or even had to fly to attend my tournamanents.

I actually played a few brawl tourneys when I was in college and I wouldn't have wanted the items removed.  Besides the point is kind of moot considering the people who win these tourneys were always skilled players.  No "n00b" who gets lucky with items will win one, and if you get knocked out of the tournament because of items, then you aren't very skilled, IMO.

If you are good with items, you can do some great things, that are difficult to pull off but are, in my opinion, some of the purest smash elements.