Awesome job P:M!

[Viceversa96]

Ran into a really cool post from a girl named Claire. I thought you guys deserved to here her Smash Bros tier list.
What is your Smash bros game ranking? I'm curious.

"1. Project M. Go figure that a game made by the community dares to say "look how much better we are at this than you, Sakurai". And it succeeds. Truly a game with great balance (when Mario and Bowser are seen in grand finals, you know they did something right), characters being added every so often, and a nice variety of stages (I'm still impressed with Dracula's Castle), it's truly what Brawl should have been.

2. Melee. It set the bar extremely high in terms of competitive play, and also introduced so much to the series, that Brawl seems more like "Melee 1.5" (minus the gameplay) with what it tried to bring in. While Melee's balance often comes into question (which is why I rate P:M higher), it's still a fantastic entry in the series overall.

3. Smash 64. 0-Death combos and ridiculousness everywhere. It's what kickstarted the series, and thus deserves this spot. I especially love the sound effects and how violent they seem.

4. Brawl Minus. Take all of Brawl's characters, take Brawl's gameplay/engine, and tweak it to make every character as overpowered as possible while adding hitstun that's greater than even Smash 64's. Sounds like a good day to me.

4. Brawl Plus. Pretty much what Brawl could have been, had the development team for Brawl cared about proper character balance and gameplay.

5. Brawl. The "black sheep" of the series, and for a variety of reasons. While I do like the game for what it is, it's clearly a step down compared to Melee's polish in terms of gameplay. It's much slower, much floatier, and the random tripping does no favors. Character imbalance is also an issue (Ganondorf is a prime example, where he has not even a 50:50 matchup). Brawl is still viable as a competitive game, because it has its good points, but compared to other games in the series (including fan-made ones), it just isn't as polished as it could have and should have been." By Claire

 

[Medaka444]

3. Super Smash Bros. - This game has very little to it. The developers did not take its creation very seriously, and it shows. You gotta give it slack for being first, but this is just how I feel.

2. Project: M - I would say I appreciate the character balance, but I'm just taking people's word for that. Unlike Claire, I think it has some pretty bad stage variety. For most stages, they just made the main platform, added a couple smaller platforms, then called it a day. Where's Wobbuffet appearing out of nowhere to cause another pointless death? And I can barely stomach what they did to the WarioWare stage. Then again, tournament Fighter. There were character changes (and not changes) that I was displeased with (see: Wario), but these were greatly outnumbered by changes I think were done better than by the canon games. I'm still a bit bitter that the PM website seems to avoid saying, "We kept something from Brawl because they totally did it better", at least in the opening paragraphs. Anyway, this mod was worth the trouble getting a 2GB SD card.

1. Melee or Brawl - Yes, both of them. It's very hard to decide. Sometimes, when I'm getting frustrated by Melee's lightning speed, slightly unforgiving physics, and YOU CAN'T USE THE C-STICK IN 1P, I regret not picking Brawl that day. When I do pick the rather slow Brawl, I wish I was playing something (Melee) a bit faster. It depends on what mood I'm in. For now, I'll just say that Melee has superior multiplayer while Brawl is better at single-player.

I did not rank Brawl+/- because I never played them and likely never will. Also, Brawl- sounds like a Naruto game, where the roster is so absurdly unbalanced that it is quite balanced.

 

[| Kailex |]

1- project m
2- brawl -
3- brawl
4- ssb
5- melee

 

[Scarlet Bean]

1- Melee
2-

 

[Viceversa96]

Mine is
1.Melee (nostalgia ***)
2.PM
3.Brawl-
4.Smash 64 (also has the best sfx)
5.Brawl+
6.Aids
7.Superman 64
8.Brawl

 

[TreK]

Nobody cares about Luigi BBrawl ! :C

 

[UberAndrew]

1-Project M. It's the best of Melee and Brawl in one package. It's not perfect yet, but it's getting there.

2-Brawl. What? Brawl over Melee?! Have I gone insane?! But hear me out. I mainly play Smash with friends, and none of them care about the competitive aspects of Melee, so I've had a LOT more fun with vanilla Brawl than I have with Melee.

3-Melee. It's fun and well made, but it does have it's flaws.

4-Brawl Minus. It's fun for a quick chaotic romp, but the ridiculousness of it all gets voring fast.

5-Smash 64. As with most series the first is usually clunkier compared to the other installments. It's nostalgic and was fun back in the day, but compared to Melee or even Brawl it's prettu painful.

 

[Rikana]

1 Melee
2 Mewtwo
3 Street vended hot dogs grilled to perfection
4 PM
5 Mewtwo

 

[ELI-mination]

1. Smash 64
2. Project M
3. A dead squirrel
4. Melee

 

[9bit]

1. Project M

• Not even a slight doubt or question in my mind. This is the pinnacle of Smash. And it's only going to get better.​

• Story time! So all the way up until earlier this year, like I'm talking Summer, I was still playing Brawl+. I knew that development was over but I wasn't aware that there was a project that took up where it left off. OK so I left my Brawl disc at a friend's house. I didn't know this, however, so when my other friend came over to play some Brawl+, I realized the horrible reality of the situation. Oh god no... Anyway we popped in Melee. I hadn't played Melee in years at this point. My tech skill had of course atrophied, but as we pushed on through the night I started having a really good time. So the next day I came back here, to Smashboards, to see what was up. Somehow I stumbled upon Project M and it was just perfect: exactly what I had secretly hoped for but never dared believe could be real... a mod that makes Brawl more like Melee. I haven't really played any of the other Smash games since.​

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2. Melee

• I have some very fond memories of Melee. I got it on release day (which happened to be 2 days after the Gamecube's release date, which was an agonizing wait) after having been a huge fan of the N64 version for years. Found out about the competitive scene some time in '04 or '05, used DC++ to download terribly low quality videos, fell in love all over again. Also, dat documentary... come on!​

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3. N64

• What can you say about the original that hasn't already been said. It started it all. I used to do all-night 99-stock full-item marathons with my friends.​

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4. Brawl Plus

• The placement of this one seems low for how much I enjoyed it, but I really couldn't put above Melee or N64 in good conscience. I'll always be grateful to this mod for keeping me playing Smash Bros. WIthout it I probably would have played Melee for a bit longer and then quit altogether. This held me over until Project M came out.​

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5. Brawl

• I knew right away. Like within 20 minutes of getting home and playing it. It was like.... the Star Wars Prequels level of hype followed by utter disappointment A big steaming pile of F-you to the competitive community.​

 

[Kerenthar]

1. SD Remix
2. Melee
3. Project M
4. Balanced Brawl
5. Smash 64

But for some reason, I feel that next version of Project M could change that

 

[Viceversa96]

1. Project M

• Not even a slight doubt or question in my mind. This is the pinnacle of Smash. And it's only going to get better.​

• Story time! So all the way up until earlier this year, like I'm talking Summer, I was still playing Brawl+. I knew that development was over but I wasn't aware that there was a project that took up where it left off. OK so I left my Brawl disc at a friend's house. I didn't know this, however, so when my other friend came over to play some Brawl+, I realized the horrible reality of the situation. Oh god no... Anyway we popped in Melee. I hadn't played Melee in years at this point. My tech skill had of course atrophied, but as we pushed on through the night I started having a really good time. So the next day I came back here, to Smashboards, to see what was up. Somehow I stumbled upon Project M and it was just perfect: exactly what I had secretly hoped for but never dared believe could be real... a mod that makes Brawl more like Melee. I haven't really played any of the other Smash games since.​

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2. Melee

• I have some very fond memories of Melee. I got it on release day (which happened to be 2 days after the Gamecube's release date, which was an agonizing wait) after having been a huge fan of the N64 version for years. Found out about the competitive scene some time in '04 or '05, used DC++ to download terribly low quality videos, fell in love all over again. Also, dat documentary... come on!​

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3. N64

• What can you say about the original that hasn't already been said. It started it all. I used to do all-night 99-stock full-item marathons with my friends.​

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4. Brawl Plus

• The placement of this one seems low for how much I enjoyed it, but I really couldn't put above Melee or N64 in good conscience. I'll always be grateful to this mod for keeping me playing Smash Bros. WIthout it I probably would have played Melee for a bit longer and then quit altogether. This held me over until Project M came out.​

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5. Brawl

• I knew right away. Like within 20 minutes of getting home and playing it. It was like.... the Star Wars Prequels level of hype followed by utter disappointment A big steaming pile of F-you to the competitive community.​

That's exactly what I think brawl was a big F-U. It's not bad but not the best game.

 

[Ace55]

1 PM
2 Melee
3 64
4 ...
...
...
...
? Brawl

 

[Paradoxium]

1-Pm/melee
2-Starcraft 2
Pm is combined with melee cus i consider it a sequel
#meleegangordontbang

 

[Xinc]

Personally, it's PM, Brawl Minus, Melee, Smash 64, Brawl, Brawl plus. P:M is closely tied with B- imo, because they're equal, but so opposite. P:M hits the competitive base. while B- attracts the casual and lolsworthy community. Melee and Smash 64 are 3 and 4th because competitive and fun, and somewhat balanced. There's a viable cast to use, not just Meta Knights). I actually like Brawl a bit more than Brawl+, because the Gold release was rather meh and a lot of stuff that should have worked just didn't. Falco, for example, wasn't as good because he couldn't combo as well. In Brawl, I can just sit by with those friends who prefer no hax and TRY to enjoy.

 

[XalchemistX]

1-PM
2-melee
3- 64
4- A moldy sandwich
5- --any game--
6- my ex wife (if I had one)
7- ???
8- Brawl