When Casual Games Go Pro
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Smash Bros Melee is one of the most competitive fighting games out there. It's amassed a massive following over the years, and people have dedicated thousands of hours to becoming the very best of the best at this game.
But that's not really what the game devs had in mind.
Smash bros was designed to be a casual game. A party game that anyone could pick up. In fact, the reason that smash bros was designed this way is explicitly to lower the skill gap. but despite that, people dedicate their entire lives to becoming the best of the best at this game.
This is what I like to call "Melee Syndrome". When a game was designed with casual play in mind, but has a very high skill ceiling that attracts the sweaty tryhards, who make a tournament scene and compete to be the best of the best at the game.
Games like Rocket League, Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl, Team Fortress 2 and Dead by Daylight are all culprits of such a phenomena
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