This is some what of a rant, so feel free to move on to the next thread if you don't like it.
I was bored and decided to google in some stuff about brawl to see peoples opinions on the different characters. I came upon a under construction tier list, which for those of you that don't know, basically lists off the characters from best to worst.
Although I didn't really agree with this list, as I feel that how much potential a character has can be situational; depending on things like the stage, opponents, number of opponents and if items are in play, but whatever, thats not what I'm really about to go on my rant about.
Apparently, this list was made up by some of "the best" brawl players out there. You can find it here. Now, if you read this list, you can probably see that the person who started the thread, is a bit of an elitist jack ***. Whenever someone gives an opinion, he basically just drills in, "I r big dawg u r n00b!" over and over again. But, get this, the thing that really bothers me is the fact that he has already stated that all of the characters are pretty much even. He goes on to say that the only way they are able to make the list this time around is by numbering the amount of cheap tricks certain characters can use.
Now, this is where my problem lies.
Since when the hell did becoming a skillful player mean learning and exploiting as many of these "cheap tricks" (I call them glitches) as you can? There are some things in this game, that were quite obviously, not intended to be done, yet people do them and some how they think it makes them awesome. What the hell happened to just flat out cheating? You know, doing things that are not intended within the game design?
If you are one of these players, then please, stop going around telling everyone that you are so badass at this game, cause really, you're far from it. The truly skilled players are the ones who can play the game, without using any of these glitches and still win.
I know someone is going to come in here and say "blah blah blah if the game lets you do it, its not cheating" or "blah blah blah its a perfectly reasonable strategy", but you know what? You know what you're really doing, and deep down inside, you know the game designers didn't intend for some things to be done.
I'm talking about those people who back during melee thought "wave dashing" was perfectly fair play. You know damn well the designers didn't intend for people to be doing crap like that, but hey, I guess there are just some people out there that suck so bad the only way they can win is if they exploit those type of things in the game.
Edited, Mar 24th 2008 3:19am by DarkKnightZero