Me: I love Smash! It’s such a fun PARTY game! :)
Competitive Smash Player Still Using a Gamecube Controller in 2018:
Listen I’m still pissed that Smash which started as a fun party brawling game got co-opted by a bunch of dick bag “git gud” assholes who literally took it and tried to turn it into every other fighting game out there.
I just wanna point out that all the “No items, stock only, no stage effects” crew all are complete trash at the game. They’re great at FIGHTING GAMES, but complete Garbage at Smash Bros. Because instead of trying to learn the game, learn to play around the items, learn which stages do what, they just turn it all off (when you first start the game all the items and stage effects are on and you can’t turn them off in any of the modes except multiplayer melee).
And then if you do wanna play with items they try to shame you and claim that you’re “ruining the game” or “cheating” because “you can’t win without using items.” Guess what asswipe the intention is to play with the items that’s why they’re their in the first place for free with the base game.
It’s not my fault you had to dumb down the game to succeed cause you don’t know how to use the fire flower or metal bunny ears correctly.
not to mention the people who claim that items are cheating are usually using a specifically obtained gamecube controller with a defect to give it an advantage against regular controllers and in any other fighting game fandom that would be considered using a modded controller, aka cheating. Essentially, comp smash players ruin the game because they suck and have to resort to cheating and using the most bare bones the game offers in order to stand any chance against casual players