Still no. He didn't call them fanatics, he said he didn't want the game to only be understood and truly enjoyed by the one percent. Of course he wouldn't cater to them, or we'd have a Mario Kart DS situation where the one percent enjoys the game while everybody else hates it. Competitive players wouldn't be seen as "right" today if Melee had online, much like how people don't complain about snaking in Mario Kart Double Dash. He didn't try to sabotage competitive play, he just designed a game without thinking about them like the previous two times.
Now please, this isn't Smashboards.
I've heard it as him calling people fanatics, but that's beside the point. He obviously has a problem with competitive players or brawl wouldn't have been how it was, plain and simple. I'm not hating on the game by the way, I love Brawl just as much as any other smash game, in fact it's the game that got me into competitive smash, and a game i still like to watch. However, that doesn't change the fact that sakurai got rid of as many competitive things from melee as he pretty much could. things that
no one was complaining about. the only time the debate about competitive or not became an issue was after brawl came out, when Sakurai
made it an issue. Had brawl been competitive in a similar way to melee,
everyone would've been happy. but Sakurai was out to get the community and so he tried to destroy the game for them.= This is further proved if you look at the things he removed and added. Things that
could not have been things he got rid of just for making the game the game. Not to mention he pretty much bragged about purposely spitting in competitive players' faces by adding random tripping and strutting around about it. I don't know why you're trying to pretend this is some myth or rumour people out for Sakurai have made up. there are boatloads of evidence to support these claims. People absolutely love smash, the competitive community moreso than anyone else. At the time brawl came out, absolutely no one was looking to jump down sakurai's throat, if anything he was worshiped. He made the game everyone loved so much. He made an enemy where there was none before. That's just the history, plain and simple.
Also I don't know hoew you can claim he didn't think about them when he's already more than acknowledged theur existence, and further more stated that they
did factor into how he created the game, except with a negative bias. That's completely contradictory.
Also I don't know where you live that everyone hates MKDS. I never played that game competitively, or even met anyone that did, but i knew a LOT of people that had it, and all of them loved it to death. Myself included. Same for double dash, although i don't even know what you're talking about how if they were online people would have called them wrong. Wrong about what?
Finally I have no idea what you mean by "this isn't smashboards" but I think you should take a little look into who the forum is partnered with, who it's named after, and where a massive percentage of this community comes from. I think you'll find that this forum is much more smasboards than you think it is.
