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You try to set up a tournament not twenty minutes ago, and because no one comes rushing in, you assume Brawl wasn't popular. I recall the game being quite big here when it came out. Maybe people have moved on.... Or maybe there is another reason no one is signing up.
Personally, I hate that fucking game, and if I never hear that music or those sound effects ever again, I may have a chance at dying a less miserable person.
Unless you bump it every once and a while to keep it on top of general discussion or that it gets stickied you won't get many participants since hardly anyone will even see the sign up thread. GiantBomb's forum structure is a pure nightmare for organising events and solid community interaction.
I would have entered myself but since I am no where near to where most of the players will be from it would be a pure lag fest me.
Keep in mind a lot of newer games came out, especially for this year. Here is a list of the major fighters come out after Brawl. So take in consideration that there so fairly arbitrary Dragonball Z and Naruto games in the mix.
2009 fighters Street Fighter 4 BlazBlue Marvel vs Capcom 2 (first time to be viable online multiplayer) Tekken 6 Battle Fantasia King of Fighters 13 Soulcalibur: Broken Destiny Dissidia Final Fantasy
2008 Fighters Bleash: Dark Souls Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo HD Remix Soul Calibur 4 Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe
We've all moved onto Jackie Chan: Fist of Fire. It's just the better fighting game with much tighter tiers and all around better community. You can join my JCFoF tourney if you want to move to the brighter side.
" We've all moved onto Jackie Chan: Fist of Fire. It's just the better fighting game with much tighter tiers and all around better community. You can join my JCFoF tourney if you want to move to the brighter side. "
Giantbomb launched four months after SSBB. It stands to reason that it isn't an incredibly popular forum here because most people can't stay that excited for a game for four months (though I suppose that it did come out in Australia and Europe only about a month before Giantbomb launched). Combine that with the fact that the "tournament scene" for this game is even more niche than most fighting games, and you have a general lack of enthusiasm on the Brawl boards.
" @ZombieHunter: I DID THE FRICKEN TOURNAMENT FOR SFIV.... scrub. "
If im a scrub your and idiot because 4/5 is Great for a game and brawl is certainly not a 5/5
second who the fuck wants to play brawl over all the better fighting games out now, also don't make a thread bitching because nobody wants in your you brawl tournament that game kind of sucks and getting a tournament on the wii going is a ridiculous hassle
" Giantbomb launched four months after SSBB. It stands to reason that it isn't an incredibly popular forum here because most people can't stay that excited for a game for four months (though I suppose that it did come out in Australia and Europe only about a month before Giantbomb launched). Combine that with the fact that the "tournament scene" for this game is even more niche than most fighting games, and you have a general lack of enthusiasm on the Brawl boards. "
I don't think that you can really compared the SF4 and the SSBB brawl forums. I'm sure hell of a lot of people on the site have SSBB perhaps even more then SF4 but it is more of a casual audience (myself being a big example of this) that does not check out the game it's own board and thus will probably not even see that there is a tournament in the organisation since a thread only stays on the front page of general discussion for so long. Whereas the SF4 players actually form a community.
I'm pretty sure that a SSBB tournament thread if it was made a sticky would have plenty of people wanting to give it a go.
The way that the Giant Bomb forums work making threads on less visited game-page "invisible" for those who are not refreshing general discussion every 20 min is the thing that is to blame for this in my opinion.
@ZombieHunter said:
" @demontium said:
" @ZombieHunter: I DID THE FRICKEN TOURNAMENT FOR SFIV.... scrub. "
If im a scrub your and idiot because 4/5 is Great for a game and brawl is certainly not a 5/5
second who the fuck wants to play brawl over all the better fighting games out now
Because it's fun? Were it not for my connection issues i would have joined even if I am pretty terrible at the game it would be nice to play it with other GiantBomb members.
" @ZombieHunter: I DID THE FRICKEN TOURNAMENT FOR SFIV.... scrub. "
If im a scrub your and idiot because 4/5 is Great for a game and brawl is certainly not a 5/5
second who the fuck wants to play brawl over all the better fighting games out now, also don't make a thread bitching because nobody wants in your you brawl tournament that game kind of sucks and getting a tournament on the wii going is a ridiculous hassle "
yeah I'd rather play war gods than brawl because brawl is not a fighting it's a party really
" We've all moved onto Jackie Chan: Fist of Fire. It's just the better fighting game with much tighter tiers and all around better community. You can join my JCFoF tourney if you want to move to the brighter side. "
Who's your main? My Jackie Chan will completely crush whatever character you are.
@Rallier: That's my point, isn't it? The release of Brawl meant a lot to a very very small group of people. For everyone else (myself also being an example of this) it was just a normal release to be excited about for a few months and then the interest eventually fades. And since it came out before Giantbomb officially launched, the forums for it didn't even benefit from the people who were casually interested in it.
" @ZombieHunter: I DID THE FRICKEN TOURNAMENT FOR SFIV.... scrub. "
If im a scrub your and idiot because 4/5 is Great for a game and brawl is certainly not a 5/5
second who the fuck wants to play brawl over all the better fighting games out now, also don't make a thread bitching because nobody wants in your you brawl tournament that game kind of sucks and getting a tournament on the wii going is a ridiculous hassle "
Sorry, should not have called you a scrub.
4/5 seems kinda low for sucha good game.
The reason I wanted to have a tourney is because, while SF is in fact better, I wanted to change it up.
Lot's of people here play Brawl. I have about four friends who I play Brawl with at my place, or theirs. It's more enjoyable when you are playing with people in person.
I think it could have been a five star game, but Jeff's review is great, and it reflects the four star rating.
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