PixlBit

Back in 2009 when I discovered the big sphere of gaming websites like Gamespot and Gametrailers, I wanted to discover sites like that for gaming and it wasn't long enough when I heard in some places about 1up and in the EGM issue of December 2006. After that I visited the site from time to time and read and saw a couple of features, but never got interested in joining a site (My english wasn't very advanced and wasn't very social). That is, untill 2010 when I saw at 1up a particular club called "Gamers for a Better Tomorrow", created by Keyshire Cat (at that time, Tsura Saki) for discussing not only gaming, but for talking about politics, social issues and the like. I found it to be very interesting, so the following days I visited the club regulary as a lurker, which made me have the urge to participate on it. That and when I started to see the profiles of some of the users, I discovered the blogsphere of 1up, which just helped my urge to join in and participate. Then, the 30th of October of 2010, I created an account there, and the rest is history.

Damm, those were really great trailers. The voices felt kinda off, but the animation, look and fight scenes were impressive. Off to watch the first episode right now.

If you wanna know the current Brawl tiers, go here.

Yeah, except for Toon Link, the rest of the Zelda cast isn't well liked in Brawl.

As for the rest of the tiers, Snake isn't below Meta Knight as the best character, but it's still a high tier, Lucario is in what I call the great to excellent tier, Fox is also there, Kirby, Sonic and Ike are in the average tier and yeah, Link and my version of Samus are at the bottom tier.

Kinda limited because of my little gaming scope, but it's probably Mario, Link (Twilight Princess version more exactly), Samus, Sonic, Kirby, Big Boss (from what i've played of Peace Walker) and/or Master Chief. Raz (Psychonauts) is also a candidate, but I gotta play more of that game.

Yeah, i've seen that while it's still a beloved game, Brawl is a very mixed issue with the Melee veterans. Personally, since I played a lot, but never owned and got more into the mechanics of Melee (I played the game years ago), I didn't notice any drastic changes in the mechanics of Brawl and because it's the only Smash game I own, I played the hell out of it and it became one of my favorite games on the Wii.

Hehe, Link is also my favorite character and it's only now that I discovered he's considered and very low tier character. Also curious is that, except for Lucario,maybe Fox and Snake, my favorite characters aren't of high tiers (Sonic, Samus, Kirby and Ike).

Yeah, looks very interesting. Where can I download the game?

That's even more awesome!

Great interview Jon.

I only managed to watch the finals of EVO, but fortunately I saw the finals of Melee. Although I couldn't see Mango's victory (he won, right?) because I had to lunch and I sometimes got bored and went around the Smash Wiki, what I saw was exciting and shows that the Smash Bros. games can be quite exciting games that also has a big appeal on people, which shows the dedicated fanbase. I also think the internet plays a big role on exposing the fanbase of Smash Bros. Just don't mention the tiering of characters and stages, and the tripping of Brawl though.

Hope to play your Demo soon.

As for the Hawkeye Iniciative, I think it's pretty much the first time i've heard of it. Since i'm pretty burned by the feminism topic, i'm just going to say that you gave some pretty spot-on points.

Damm, that's a very nice collague.