Why did this guy react so badly to Smash being played differently? What do you think of him?

Why did this guy react so badly to Smash being played differently? What do you think of him?

His picture should be in the dictionary under "whiny pissbaby".
>doesn't like how people play his game so he makes the next game complete shit
>it's so bad that even casuals hate it because of shit like tripping and spin2win
>the Melee players just keep playing Melee
>when the Next Big Thing comes out the casuals stop playing Brawl completely, and the Smash scene completely dies for a few years

The original idea behind smash brothers was to be a casual fighting game. he was concerned that the bar of skill for most fighting games had become too high and that that had contributed to the decline of the genre and it's unpopularity. He mixed fighting games with a platform or a game in order to make it more accessible the fact that Mielee competitive play had such a high bar of skill meant that he had failed in his goal.

At the same time he has expressed regret at making brawl too casual so at least he learned his lesson

he's just a manchild

who even cares, smash isn't a game anymore. it's just a product, look at their "wow great deal lots of content" angle from the directs, like a cheap 200-in-1 tiger electronics toy

melee being good was due to bugs that became tec hes a retard who cannot recreate his beautiful mistake

I honestly thought he was a woman.

I hope he trips and cracks his skull.

He is a great representation of Nintendo. Stumbling around and occasionally falls into genius but since he didn't deliberately make it the way people see it: hates it. Nintendo is bleeding money and hopefully the Switch will change that but only a fanboycuck would hold their breath of the wind on that.

He correctly took issue with his series being appropriated by autistic manchildren.

I played competitive smash for a while before realizing it wasn't nearly as fun or satisfying as casual FFAs with items on, but now nobody wants to do that. Sakurai was right all along.

they're not doing too bad right now. they made a lot off pokemon go

They made money but no one plays pokemon go anymore.

It's been like a decade and people are still playing melee.

fuck you you fucking piece of shit. Trying this hard to hate new smash argh. Cringe

He managed to make a Smash game with Mega Man, Cloud Strife, and Bayonetta unfun and anti-hype. That's fucking incredible to me. If he's still inncharge for Smash Switch, I want nothing to do with it.

>I played competitive smash for a while before realizing it wasn't nearly as fun or satisfying as casual FFAs with items on,

Even those were more fun in Melee.

He was right. Smash is super popular because a complete novice can still take down AI opponents relatively easily, and items allow them to get the advantage over more experienced players. Most people don't bother with traditional fighting games because you have to memorize inputs and combos to anything beyond blindly mashing buttons, and those are usually unique to a single character. For someone that doesn't already love fighting games, that's a lot of learning to do just to get into the game, and even then you'll end up getting stomped by other players for quite a while.

He didn't... ?
He said on his famitsu column that it was an honour that it created such cult folowing, but those people should look for other games because any competitive depth in Smash is a bug or a error of design

Wavedashing was discovered during development and left in the game because it was cool, not technically a glitch. L-cancelling, also intentional.

That's such a short sighted thing to say, especially for anybody who seems to care about video games as much as he does. Shouldn't he realize that people cling to competitive Smash because there's literally no alternative that isn't some budget made trash like Punch Time Explosion? It's not people desperately wanting a game to be competitive at, it's people who enjoy the mechanics of the game itself and you can't get the same thing out of Virtua Fighter like he tells people to.

Autism is usually looked down upon in society. People will be polite, of course but no one would ever wish their child to be afflicted with it.

Smash confirmed for people that can't get good

Sakurai knows cancer when he sees it and goddammit if the man doesn't know the cure for that cancer!

Smash is popular because of nintendo characters, thats it.

There's a fuckton of smash clones out now and none have even the fraction of popularity that smash has.

>speed through development of a game
>made for everyone to be able to play it
>small autistic community ruins the game for everyone
No wonder he basically gave them a big fuck you with Brawl, I would have done the same.
The worse part is the fact all the Melee fuckheads continue to shit on all the other games rather than sticking to their game and leaving the rest alone.

>small autistic community ruins the game for everyone

What do retards mean by this?

>Melee fuckheads continue to shit on all the other games rather than sticking to their game and leaving the rest alone
Is that why Melee tournaments are still going and there's very little overlap in the player bases?

>At the same time he has expressed regret at making brawl too casual

So what the fuck was Smash 4 then? The SAME fucking shit.

That all makes sense but the skill ceiling is not the reason for the decline of the fighting genre. A noob will never stand a chance against a skilled player no matter what the game is like. All the problems with fighting games happen in the lower rungs of the ladder. You can pretend skilled players and a competitive scene don't even exist for this example.

Casuals just don't want to do the homework and practice that's required for fighting games. And I don't mean to be good at fighting games, I mean to play at all. You have to learn the movesets, some combos, and how to survive cheese/spam just to be an initiated player. And the difference between someone who is totally new vs someone who is familiar with the game but still bad is massive. And that's the problem. You can't get into fighting games by playing your friend who sucks because his small amount of knowledge is enough to destroy you. There's no little league.

Smash has none of these problems. All the moves are one button press with a directional modifier, you don't need to know combos to have some success, and there's little cheese you need to google how to defeat. An autistic smash player will always destroy you, but you stand a chance against your friends that are a good bit better than you without time consuming barriers.

>Makes a crossover fighting game
>Said game does actually affect how characters are treated by their own fanbase (And sometimes even leaks into the games)
>Shows personal bias, screws characters over and accidentally gives characters stupid character traits
>Confronted on it
>"You entitled pricks, have you ever made a game?!?"
>Meanwhile FE gets a shitload of support from jintendo because of HIS game

I'm not just talking about le feeling it man. This guy pretty much controls how people in japan view Nintendo.

>There's a fuckton of smash clones out now and none have even the fraction of popularity that smash has.

Can you name some good ones? I want to try them.

Smashfags are some of the biggest whiners in the industry. He could be the nicest motherfucker on the planet and they'd still piss and moan about him.

who cares if its not as good a game as street fighter

What? I didn't say anything was better than anything. I'm just saying sakurai's concerns are misplaced and the skill ceiling of melee didn't harm its casual appeal.

>Can you name some good ones?

There aren't. That's why "none have even the fraction of popularity that smash has", because Smash has godly gameplay.

Rivals of Aether( Early Access)
Lethal League
Brawhalla(F2P)
Jump Ultimate Stars
MegaByte Punch(No onlnie)

These are pretty much the best smash clones IMO.

>I played competitive smash for a while before realizing it wasn't nearly as fun or satisfying as casual FFAs with items on, but now nobody wants to do that.

I play Smash 'competitively' because I got sick of FFA with items and loved the intensity of 1v1 far more. I assume you just played like that because that's what other people were doing.

It's one of the reasons why I don't bother with fighting games. I play them sometimes for story mode and shit like that.

Smash was casualised because nintendo has to remain 'kid-friendly.' It kinda goes against their image when one of their in-house franchises is marketed to hardcore fans at the expense of the casual audience.

Except it does harm the casual appeal when you've got a bunch of toxic tryhard spergs shitting up the online forums.

Sakurai did what he did for a reason that your kind will always deny.

Strange how the rest of reality doesn't seem to agree with your "correct" view of things, eh?

How utterly confounding it must be for you that Brawl and sm4sh turned out the way they did!

>Except it does harm the casual appeal when you've got a bunch of toxic tryhard spergs shitting up the online forums.

You just contradicted yourself you moron.

He wanted a game where casual scrubs who put no effort into improving and aren't willing to actually try are on equal footing with autists who spend 12 hours a day in a dark room grinding tech skill.
It just isn't going to be possible, and trying to force it ends up with shit like tripping.

>Except it does harm the casual appeal when you've got a bunch of toxic tryhard spergs shitting up the online forums.

Why would anyone go to these online forums?
Why do we care about what happens to people who do?
And what could you possibly change about the game to stop tryhards from existing?

>Sakurai did what he did for a reason that your kind will always deny.

The black race is capable of changing its mind

>Strange how the rest of reality doesn't seem to agree with your "correct" view of things, eh?

Well facts do have a retarded bias.

>How utterly confounding it must be for you that Brawl and sm4sh turned out the way they did!

Sakurai backpedaled on his changes in brawl. Which shows he partially understands.

I lost interest in smash when it became nothing but anime guys with swords and heaps of anti-fun desperately trying to just turn the game into another generic fighter.

They may as well just go the final step and put in life bars.

>bugs

Name one example of important tech other than wavedashing that is a bug. Even wavedashing is reaching since it was found during testing and left in intentionally.

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Prove me wrong. When it was just a gimmicky N64 game it was great. The moment melee came out and tried to be a 'real' fighter, it brought in the crushing autism of the fighting community; One of the most obnoxious and spergy in all of gaming. They're basically the niggers of e-sports.

What cracks me up is all the melee autists talk a big game about how hardcore they are but would get shit-stomped in games like Tekken or Street Fighter. They are the niggerest of the fighting community.

He's just trying to start shit, but he's not completely wrong. Part of what made Smash Bros stand out so much and feel so accessible was the movement. It's ultimately a platformer that you compete in. But as the games go on, they try to limit what kind of movement you're capable of, and it's taking steps to actually becoming just a generic fighter with only dashes and jumps while poking each other in a neutral.

Wait, that's a dude?

>user doesn't know Sakurai is trans

>no one plays pokemon go anymore

maybe where you live, but weirdo asians are still going ape

>but would get shit-stomped in games like Tekken or Street Fighter

People who play Tekken and Street Fighter get their shit pushed in when they try to play Smash.

>The moment melee came out and tried to be a 'real' fighter

It didn't try to be a "real" fighter you dumb faggot.

Having a skill ceiling above button mashing =/= "real" fighter and even then smash64 still had hidden tech like L-canceling.

At not point did Melee stop from turning on items and have a crazy FFA with your friends, it just expanded on What Smash64 had done.

He Didn't want to be responsible for Hand cramps

I haven't played or heard of any of these games besides Lethal League, but seeing as Lethal League is nothing like smash I'm going to assume you conjured up a list of games that are just barely similar to smash in some way.

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