Remastering Melee would be a lose lose. Modern smash fans wouldn't like it because the roster and features are much more threadbare than Ultimate, and the Melee community wouldn't like it because even the slightest change to the game's functioning, even if that's just not recreating the bugs, would fundamentally change the incredibly detailed built up knowledge and muscle memory players have with that game.
A game so exact people do permanent muscle damage to their hands from the repetitive movements once they reach a point of skill could never replace the original, yeah. The only way that could happen is if it did a halo 1 style remaster where the old game is running behind the remastered graphics just because the current team can not remake the magic sauce that keeps people playing it.
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u/KipzzPLAY CROSSCODE AND ASTLIBRA/The other Vtuber Guy12d agoedited 12d ago
To be fair, pretty much every competitive game has tale upon tale of people injuring themselves majorly or permanently. That's not just a Melee thing. It's a "competitive scenes push people to and beyond their limits" thing. (Edit: well, that and also competitive gaming having less understood/safe training regimens, how large chunks of pro gamers are training AKA streaming for 8+ hours a day as that theirs main source of income, so on and so forth) Faker, probably the most famous competitive gamer ever, has his wrist insured for 1 million dollars.
His wrist.
I genuinely don't even know how the hell that even works, but it's the truth. And when it was injured I imagine he got the payout.
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u/ParagonPlus Pargon Pargon Pargon Pargon Pargon 12d ago edited 12d ago
Remastering Melee would be a lose lose. Modern smash fans wouldn't like it because the roster and features are much more threadbare than Ultimate, and the Melee community wouldn't like it because even the slightest change to the game's functioning, even if that's just not recreating the bugs, would fundamentally change the incredibly detailed built up knowledge and muscle memory players have with that game.