>>718776010
lmao
As someone who was bamboozled into thinking Ultimate was going to be a return to form for Smash, it isn't going to happen. It's never going to happen. Smash will always be actively hostile to the concepts that made Melee a good game, which coincidentally made it a good competitive game. Sakurai and Smash players as a whole are simply too terrified of the competitive boogeyman. Melee was fun as both a casual and a competitive game, whereas Brawl, 4, and Ultimate will turn you into a seething ball of resentment if you ever think to yourself
>Hmm, this game is fun
>I'd like to get better at it
and are only fun as novelties. The irony of this is that none of Sakurai's design decisions prevent people from playing like toxic cunts online or in tournament. He just created a different form of toxicity. Even disallowing people from taunting online does nothing.
Since I mostly played online in Ultimate, RoA2 has replaced Smash for me. I personally find it more fun than Ultimate ever was to me. I'm not eve good, I just like doing stupid shit in it because the mechanics are fun. I'm sure I'll buy Smash 6 if I ever buy a Switch 2, but it's not like I have any hope for the IP.
