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Please explain why Melee is so awesome
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maelstrom99
Smash Apprentice
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Melee is so awesome because I don't have to listen to some scrubby kids saying they're good at Smash, because they all get *****. =)
3747373796432
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Captain Falcon isn't garbage in Melee.
Geist
Smash Master
Well, just like any game, it is possible to get good. I've seen some very good brawl players before, and know some of them too. But again, the problem with becoming better is the skill gap.
The gameplay in brawl is just waaaaay too restrictive towards the better player, because it's designed to be more of a leveled playing ground. Instead of having almost limitless potential like melee, players are stuck by the boundaries of the game, and get stuck on that very low cieling of Brawl's possible metagame. It's not that brawl's metagame hasn't developed, it's that it can't develop, unless something BIG is found like, canceling moves in mid animation.
Cosmo!
nerf zelda's dsmash
hi .
I can't be bothered reading the topic...
But what made melee so awesome for me was that there always seems to be more to learn, and I can see that I still need to get better.
Also, its one of the few fighting games I can get other people to play (guilty gear and street fighter are kinda boring by yourself....)
But what made melee so awesome for me was that there always seems to be more to learn, and I can see that I still need to get better.
Also, its one of the few fighting games I can get other people to play (guilty gear and street fighter are kinda boring by yourself....)
He was awesome in Melee! I'm talking about brawl.
Toadster5
Smash Journeyman
Melee is intense and exciting. Brawl is not.
L1M3
Smash Cadet
Melee is awesome, because there's so much depth, many defensive and offensive options, and its also intense.
Skler
Smash Master
Dazwa makes the best puns ever.
Grunt
Smash Master
Radical Dreamer
Smash Ace
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Haha, too good.
You are too powerful.
Zodiac
Smash Master
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king0'smash
Smash Rookie
Brawl > Melee
Sliq
Smash Master
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Looks at post count. Ignores post. Feels satisfied.
Spartan1841
Smash Journeyman
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DUDE YOU SO WRONG!!!
Its actually more like this
Brawl >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>melee
Aye
Zodiac
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If I was a mod you would both be sooooooo banned, get you melee hating faces outa here or I'll be forced to sick Mew2King on you.
that would b hilarious
but, both melee and brawl have things that make it bttr than the other
melee - wave dashing etc
brawl - bttr characters graphics and no more pichu !!!
Black Waltz
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fail post is fail.
zhao_guang
Smash Lord
Wanna know why Melee is awesome? There's a small mouse with goggles and a backpack, a young dude with a small sword, a Doctor who throws pills for teh lulz, a crazy guy with a flaming sword and the definition of irony ( aka Mewtwo, since he sucks in melee, but is the best in Pokemon.)
Now you tell me, does brawl have any of these? I THINK NOT
Melee> Brawl. Case closed.
Now you tell me, does brawl have any of these? I THINK NOT
Melee> Brawl. Case closed.
slartibartfast42
Smash Lord
Has anyone else noticed that all the people who randomly make "brawl < melee" posts with absolutely no logical explanation behind them all have join dates after the Brawl smash dojo went up?
Yet more proof for why Melee is better than Brawl, most of the people who like brawl more aren't any good at melee.
Yet more proof for why Melee is better than Brawl, most of the people who like brawl more aren't any good at melee.
Brinzy
Godfather of the Crimean Mafia
That is an incredibly brash statement...
Grunt
Smash Master
i still dont know what the smash dojo is.
Tee ay eye
Smash Hero
Your friends are stupid; Brawl is probably more unbalanced than Melee, but people are still hanging onto the new-release bull**** where nobody knew what the **** they were doing.
slartibartfast42
Smash Lord
Well, every time I see someone make a pro-brawl comment on the melee boards, I look at their join date, and indeed almost all the brawl advocates have recent join dates. As for skill, of course, there's no way to know for sure, but the way these people also are often against tiers, the fact that pretty much the main reason to like melee over brawl is because of the possibilities in melee opened up through technical skill, and the fact that Smashboards tournaments are pretty much the only way to get good, I think my statement is pretty safe/accurate. So why don't you try suing me for being elitist on an internet forum? Actually, I'm not that good when compared to most melee tournament regulars.
This is the Smash Bros Dojo
game set
Smash Apprentice
the game has an amazing balance of the usefulness of your mind game and tech game, so you can play and win or lose however the **** you want. The amount of options makes the game feel like an extension of your mind, i no longer have to think when i play, in fact i play much much better by simply looking and the screen and subconsciously moving my fingers.
this just isn't so in brawl, it lost the balance of mind and tech that made me play melee. From character to character you have to change how you think to play, for some characters you can play with as much mind as a computer, but as long as you know a simple tech your ability to win is unproportionately increased. On the other hand, some characters like can be played like melee. but they are alot slower. after playing this game for awhile i began to think that someone had purposely tried to sabotage the competitive scene. the only reason i bought a wii was so i could play brawl online, but i've sold both my wii and brawl disc because i would much rather play melee than have a few nice things like a crappy online service. im not saying brawl is necesarily a worse game than melee, only that imo its a worse competitive game.
i could keep going on if anybody cares but right now im going to go play melee
ps. in metroid starfox zelda mario games and ect. have you ever seen the characters trip???? wtf are they tripping over anyway? randomness has no place in any competitive game. pm me if you disagree
this just isn't so in brawl, it lost the balance of mind and tech that made me play melee. From character to character you have to change how you think to play, for some characters you can play with as much mind as a computer, but as long as you know a simple tech your ability to win is unproportionately increased. On the other hand, some characters like can be played like melee. but they are alot slower. after playing this game for awhile i began to think that someone had purposely tried to sabotage the competitive scene. the only reason i bought a wii was so i could play brawl online, but i've sold both my wii and brawl disc because i would much rather play melee than have a few nice things like a crappy online service. im not saying brawl is necesarily a worse game than melee, only that imo its a worse competitive game.
i could keep going on if anybody cares but right now im going to go play melee
ps. in metroid starfox zelda mario games and ect. have you ever seen the characters trip???? wtf are they tripping over anyway? randomness has no place in any competitive game. pm me if you disagree
FishkeeperTimmay!
Smash Ace
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game set
Smash Apprentice
sex is an amazing metaphor for melee, in many more ways than that
slartibartfast42
Smash Lord
lolmindgames
that's the point, you have to search HARD to find good brawl match, while countless good Melee matches are just right there in front of you
JJR.O.B.
Smash Ace
Melee is such a fun game to play even if you lose all the time (like me). What makes it fun is the speed and strategy involved in it. Once you get really good at it you dont even have to think anymore.
Parker1006
Smash Journeyman
I feel that Melee is better than Brawl because of the amount of options you have during competitive combat. In Brawl, it seems like competitive playstyles all break down into camping and abusing the one safe and/or broken tactic that a particular character has (i.e. DDD's chaingrab). Characters that must be played aggressively (like Ganon or Captain Falcon) easily get crippled by the metagame of Brawl. Realistically, characters like Pit and Olimar should be winning Brawl tournaments left and right. All they theretically have to do is spam a projectile until the damage is high enough to close in for a finishing blow. In Melee, you can camp, be aggressive, combo, mindgame, and play defensively. Tech skill is important but not nessecarily needed if you are a smart enough player. In Melee, matchups are only part of the equation of who wins. Mewtwo sucks majorly, but if the person playing Mewtwo is better than a Fox player, the Mewtwo player will win. In brawl, Jigglypuff is horrible. The best Jigglypuff in the world will probably lose consistantly to a decent Snake player. I am a perfect example of this. At my second brawl tourney, I placed second because I used Metaknight. I only used Metaknight maybe twice before that tourney. A win shouldn't be so heavily decided by the game's natural counter matchups. Skill should be the main factor. Also, there are basically no combos in Brawl, so camping beats out everything.
Proverbs
Smash Lord
Read this and watch this.
The first is mine, the second is not.
The thing is, some people think that Melee just had a whole load of cheap techniques that made it competitive. But the thing is, any monkey who knows how to press 'R' can escape a combo in Brawl. How does that make it more competitive?
In Melee it required things like DI, wiggling, and thinking. I played Brawl for three months and realized we were all getting seriously gypped.
I play Melee because it stimulates me mentally and I enjoy it because the game is difficult. Playing Brawl is like playing timed chess against a narcoleptic opponent--it's just downright ********.
Sorry if I'm a little blunt, I'm just annoyed that Nintendo thought they could bribe us with eye candy and take away what made the games great.
I would play Smash 64 before I'd play Brawl (I actually love Smash 64. Brawl on the other hand I'm selling pretty soon).
Edit: I forgot, there are some combos which don't just take monkeys pressing 'R'. They're the stupid ones, like the release grab.
The first is mine, the second is not.
The thing is, some people think that Melee just had a whole load of cheap techniques that made it competitive. But the thing is, any monkey who knows how to press 'R' can escape a combo in Brawl. How does that make it more competitive?
In Melee it required things like DI, wiggling, and thinking. I played Brawl for three months and realized we were all getting seriously gypped.
I play Melee because it stimulates me mentally and I enjoy it because the game is difficult. Playing Brawl is like playing timed chess against a narcoleptic opponent--it's just downright ********.
Sorry if I'm a little blunt, I'm just annoyed that Nintendo thought they could bribe us with eye candy and take away what made the games great.
I would play Smash 64 before I'd play Brawl (I actually love Smash 64. Brawl on the other hand I'm selling pretty soon).
Edit: I forgot, there are some combos which don't just take monkeys pressing 'R'. They're the stupid ones, like the release grab.
Wuss
Smash Champion
I think you mean "brawl>melee"
might wanna fix that...
and dazwa, I lol'd at tents pun, too good.