At what point are you picking on a weak player by relentlessly pursuing them kill after kill?
At what point are you picking on a weak player by relentlessly pursuing them kill after kill?
So do I, but I don't focus solely on one guy or try too hard to win. Getting too serious about winning in something as crazy as a free-for-all just seems silly to me.
Players naturally gravitate in and out of 1v1 fights in free-for-alls, but focusing solely on one player, especially if you're joining others in targeting them, can make things extremely un-fun. Besides, I think this rule is more meant to keep players from abusing their ability to pick on a single person and make…
Just have fun and play the game. Win or lose doesn't matter if you're just playing with friends.
I'm a fairly competitive player in that I can hold my own in tournaments and at least put a dent in pro-level players' stock count, but to me free-for-alls are strictly 'fun' territory. You do play to win but you don't go to such a length that you ruin it for someone else by making it 'personal' like that.
That's what I'm thinking. People are kind of attacking me over saying they really shouldn't be ruining the fun. Winning isn't what this game is about, and if it is, you're probably a competitive Smash player, in which case you're doing 1v1 matches, because that's what you do. Competitive free-for-alls are basically…
The way I see it there are two "modes" in Smash. Casual play, which is 4 person free-for-alls, usually with items and on silly stages. Winning isn't important at all there. Just have a good time. The other mode is competitive, and I've never seen competitive players do 4-person fights. It's always 1v1, no items on…
Um ok so I take it you're competitive.
The spirit of the game is having a good time playing a fun game.
Competitive Smash is 1v1, is it not?
Sounds about right. It seems more about abusing a person than anything else, though. If you're in a 4 player match and you just single out and constantly harass one opponent while ignoring the others, that seems really counter to the spirit of Smash.
I have never once in any Smash match had to focus solely on one person in a 3-4 player match. The game is far too hectic to do something like that, and it's really not necessary to put every ounce of your strength into giving one person a hard time.
Yup. This game was so ahead of its time we STILL haven't really caught up. The music was highly dynamic, and the gameplay could be massively overhauled via the difficulty settings. I've still never seen another game that lets you change the difficulty of multiple facets of the game, to the point where you can turn off…
What I mean about Sarkeesian representing feminism is, for a lot of people, she IS the face of feminism of gaming. She's one of the first to really start to shine a spotlight on feminist issues in game media, and she's one of the few that gets such wide recognition. For a lot of gamers, she's the only feminist, or one…
Watch her newest one and see how she transitions from talking about how the Hitman games had an ad campaign featuring murdered women in highly provocative positions (might as well have been lingerie ads, except the women were dead... no big deal of course because all that matters is they're still sexy, right?)…
This feels rather forced and pointless, IMO. Doesn't seem to come with an interesting premise, just more or less "here's a simple parkour course with generic 'retro game' motifs."
Reminds me of the ranking system in Metroid Prime: Hunters. You had a star ranking, starting at 1 and going up to 5. Getting lots of wins meant going up in rank, losing meant going down. The problem was, the point system for it was massively absurd. I remember early on, as a 1 star player, when I got beat by other 1…
I want to be clear about this... I want more diversity in games. I want more women given prominent, or at least open-to-interpretation kinds of roles in games. If we're mowing down walking targets with Jeep-mounted turret guns, women should be among them. And women should be among those we're fighting alongside. I…