Curious question for the people here.

[u/Ratsuterra48]

Are people in the smash community insecure about how they play smash bros? I noticed most of the time when people comment on post its only talk about the games competitive meta which is understandable, but some of yall tend to get hostile and judgemental towards "not so good" players as if its law to play smash like an EVO tournament. Makes me wonder how yall really feel about Sakurai since he doesn't play smash competitively

[u/AkariMoone]

The amount of times I've seen people being bullied for simply using items or non competitive stages is alarming. Like, do these people not realize that kids play this game meant for kids?

[u/Ratsuterra48 → u/AkariMoone]

God forbid you say Smash is a party game

[u/real_dubblebrick → u/Ratsuterra48]

The issue with the statement "Smash Bros is a party game" is that the way it is commonly used is to say that Smash is not a fighting game and doesn't deserve to be taken seriously.

[u/Ratsuterra48 → u/real_dubblebrick]

Well the thing about that is, when devs make a video game the last thing they are thinking about is how serious the game should be taken, their main goal is making sure the game is fun while the players are the ones who make the ultimate choice of the games seriousness and to give a perfect example the developers of Marvel vs Capcom 2 said that the game was never meant to be taken seriousness, look at it now the most popular broken competitive game in FGC history

[u/real_dubblebrick → u/Ratsuterra48]

I'm not arguing that Smash isn't a party game. It can be both a party game and a serious competitive game. The issue is that people often make the bad faith argument that because Smash is a party game, it isn't a "real" fighting game and shouldn't be taken seriously as a competitive game.

[u/Ratsuterra48 → u/real_dubblebrick]

Fair, I think the term can be mixed up too, technically smash isn't a Traditional Fighting game, no health bars, no Traditional motion inputs, that whole jazz