Honest thoughts on Melee?

Good game

Hosted a tournament, was not bad. Fun was had by all.

I hate it for killing the casual fighting games player-base. Before Melee people would play Street Fighter, Tekken, or Soul Calibur at get-togethers just for the fun of it. Now people only play those games online or as part of the FGC. Shit's gay, yo.

>>11849537
quite an odd take. i dunno how to approach that.

>>11849532
I remember back in 2008 on the last day of school before the summer holidays we had an activity day. You could choose to go things like going to a museum, do outdoor activities, that kinda stuff. Myself, my friends and a few other nerdy guys chose to stay at school and my friend brought his gamecube in. A teacher let us hook it up to his projector and we had a melee tournament.
Shit was good

>>11849517 (OP)
we don't need 2 fucking threads for it.

>>11849517 (OP)
I preferred the N64 original's "kid playing with toys" aesthetic over Melee and onwards weird attempts to make it all serious.

My honest thought is that one Melee thread in the catalog is enough

>>11849537
If it killed you then who was shitpost?

>>11849543
Try not posting a reply to it to tell everybody how you don't have anything substantial to say about it

>>11850231
it's telling how insecure you are, that you felt like to had to respond to a reply gently notifying you of your retardation.
chew on that.

>>11849569
This. I'm tired of smash threads.

>>11849517 (OP)
It's a great game. I love the soundtrack, too. IDK why they ruined all the victory themes in Brawl and proceeded to reuse them for the future games.

>>11849517 (OP)
Pedo city. Next topic.

>>11849517 (OP)
It's fun

>>11849517 (OP)
Disappointing. The original was more fun. Series peaked with the first game.

>>11850386
Stop making this argument nobody cares

>>11850386
You're thinking of smash 4 and ultimate. Melee dudes are usually chill normal people with a sprinkle of sports.

>>11849591
Melee still kept with that, but it's "kid plays with statues/figures and imagines that they come to life", much like N64

>>11849517 (OP)
The best game ever made.
Fags like >>11849537 are just butthurt their fighting games haven't maintained a strong community for 24 years (with prize pools as a high as 50k). Btw, slippi is the best online of any fighting game ever.

>>11850628
>Melee dudes are usually chill normal people with a sprinkle of sports.

>>11849517 (OP)
great mechanics, god awful nonexistant character balance that ruins the game. have fun going on slippi and playing 80% falco, fox and marth since the devs decided these guys in particular should have nothing but amazing attacks with no downsides while bowser gets to have one good move in his entire kit and gets raped and edge gaurded by anyone in their direction. fuck melee

I like it's Y2K look and feel

>>11849517 (OP)
Its my least favorite Smash Bros and it has nothing to do with the competitive scene (i only learned people played it competitively many years after its release). I just dont like the physics, it feels like your hits have no weight to them and it takes an eternity to get your opponent killed. In the original, 70%-90% damage was already a good range to kill someone. In Melee it felt like you would always need to go past 100%. Also, Im not a big fan of how it looks. I will concede that i has some great stages, though.

>>11850630
It was originally just plush dolls being made to smack each other by a bored kid in his bedroom (represented by Master Hand). I mean, the Smash emblem was meant to be the frame of the kid's bedroom window.

Melee got rid of the bedroom and turned them all to trophies inexplicably come to life to make it seem more serious. Master Hand is now an entity of creation (with Crazy Hand introduced as its destruction-fueled opposite), and Giga Bowser just comes out of nowhere to be bigger and badder. Brawl doubles down on the "epic crossover of destiny" aesthetic with the whole Subspace storyline, Ultimate further so with World of Light.

>>11849517 (OP)
Great game. Horrible fan base.

>>11849517 (OP)
Arguably has the best single player mode of any Smash game.

>>11851274
>Adventure Mode
Yeah, for the first three or so stages, then it becomes a slightly-less generic Classic Mode.

>>11851274
>>11851291
I'll never understand why they didn't just make adventure and classic one mode, and add branching paths to keep the playtime the same. Replaying adventure mode after the first couple of times is an absolute chore. It would have so much more replayability if you had a choice of the next stage/type of event, or if it was random entirely.

Fun when you don't bother with the competitive autism.

One of my favorite games ever, I think it is cool that it is good at satisfying both casual players and autists. Any debate over the genre classification or whether its a "party game" is almost certainly done by the same people who enjoy console-war-posting

>>11850885
You sound like an autistic schizo

>>11850885
>Smash emblem was meant to be the frame of the kid's bedroom window.
i never noticed that, nice catch

I played it for a couple hours and didn't like it. Smash attacks ask me to slam the stick way too hard, that I worry it'll break after constant play.
Smash 4 by comparison is way more lenient with how hard you have to slam the stick, if anything it's harder to do regular tilts there.
No wonder Melee players keep breaking their controllers.

My copy of the game has a scratch that makes the game freeze every time the opening FMV plays

>>11851296
funnily enough, melee's classic mode is more similar to 64's classic mode. 64 was about fighting each character on their stages in the same sequence, it almost felt like going to visit them. Melee's classic mode is random and has no events like the "mario brothers" or "giant DK" but instead generic team matches with no implied story. It only feels "classic" because it has target test, yet, no board the platforms or fighting polygon team.

>>11849517 (OP)
Controls suck and make it impossible to reasonably play at a high level.
Dudes have devoted decades of their life to grinding Melee and still make mistakes and can't win consistently.
Not to mention fucking up their hands.

Loved it a lot. I used to be good enough where I could have been a tournament player but thank God that I never went that route. Funny thing is, what got me so gud were all the absolutely ridiculous challenges to unlock rumor characters that never ended up being real.

>>11852721
theres also new school players who grind for a couple years and already at top level.

>>11849517 (OP)
It's kind of a time capsule and doesn't really fit the cube with how different mario, zelda and metroid looked and played on it. I kind of like it but also wonder how it would be if it came out in 2005.

>>11849517 (OP)
>>11852789
Like this anon says. Even though it was supposed to show off what the GameCube could do, it sometimes feels somewhere between a Nintendo64 and a GameCube.

>>11850885
In Melee, when you finish Classic mode, you see your character revert back to a trophy on a desk. It's not as in-your-face as 64's ending, but it implies the same theme as 64 before Brawl cut the ties completely with Subspace and Tabuu.

>>11849517 (OP)

fuck numeric healthbars, or whatever the hell its supposed to represent.

For me it's Pichu

Party game meant to be played by children but taken over by degenerates, groomers, pedophiles and transsexuals.

>>11849517 (OP)
it's horrible as a fighting game, it's a party game that trannies and other autists have fixated on way too long now

>>11855140
You're thinking of Ultimate

>>11855140
>>11855150
Mogged by Mortal Kombat. Better playerbase and a better party game. Insane.

Got it at release along with my GC. Nothing but good memories of playing the robust single player game, and endless hours of multiplayer fun with friends.
Couldn't care less about the modern perception people have of it. Although I think it's still well regarded no?

>>11849527
/thread

>>11849517 (OP)
One of my all-time favorite games, even though I'm not into the comp scene. I just like playing it casually. Sadly, I haven't played it with actual humans in over a decade.

>>11849517 (OP)
Fun, but I'm too much of a dumbass to play it seriously at all.