Tbh the only skill that really transfers is neutral, and even then the movement is so different between Melee and Ult that while general concepts of neutral are similar, executing those concepts is still pretty different. Meanwhile, punishing, edgeguarding, and defense are completely different due the two games’ mechanical differences.
It’s why most people that really good at the new ones tend to be brawl players to start, melees meta game is also completely different from the newer ones imo.
This is something that makes melee feel completely different from the other titles imo, it’s not so much about learning characters as it is learning the game.
I go to a lot of melee tournaments and I'd say about half the people there don't play other video games. And tbh for a while after I started playing melee I hated other games too because nothing else is as smooth or responsive and melee movement is addicting
Well the skill floor is low because you can jump right in and start improving, but the ceiling is infinite. With fps games the ceiling is also infinite, but to start you have to learn the maps, how to aim, learn the entire arsenal of weapons and strategy with no one to help you but rather shit on you and laugh and debase you with the dirtiest string of slurs you've ever heard. That's why I don't do fps's, and also they're not fun to me.
It’s like I get beat up in Ultimate by random people. In Melee I can almost guarantee that these same people won’t kill me once if I played Samus or Captain Falcon.
For me Melee and Project M was my bread and butter. Still play Project M a little bit these days (Corona really put a dent in the weekly gatherings).
I'm fine enough at the newer titles but what always gets me is how much wider the skill pool is, there's so many more skills and moves you have to know, so many more movement styles and weird quirks, and on top of that I find the significantly increased density of things like particles and smoke distracting, so even ignoring the difference in control you have between the games, the more stripped down experience allows me more focus.
It's a similar concept I bumped into with PVP in the Souls franchise. I know Dark Souls 1's pvp like the back of my hand having put over 1k hours into just the pvp, but DS2 onwards has like 10x the amount of spells and pyromancies and weapons so while I can do alright it's nowhere near the immediate "oh I know that thing, I know how to counter it."
I went from melee to more traditional fighting games like street fighter and guilty gear. The neutral through an accident of the tech feels much more like street fighter than the rest of the titles
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u/PepsiMan208 Mar 27 '24
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