Perhaps I am in the minority, but firmly believe Melee was the better game, anybody else care to way in?

No

i never played melee

This thread is kind of unnecessary but yes, I also like Melee better.

weigh*

There are plenty like you. I have seen them with my own eyes. Though most of my friends only like the original Smash Bros., so finding someone to actually play with is challenging.

A lot of my friends at school prefer that game. I personally like all them.

Never played Brawl, though Melee was pretty fuckin fantastic.

Yes.
It became way too easy to unlock new characters in Brawl. 
No challenge.

I love melee so much more dude but its really because Final destination has a bigger platform to fight on and the nefed the shit out of Samus  in brawl and thats who Iv been  using  since 64 man i kicked ass in melee

A couple fun moves to use in Melee got nerfed in Brawl, like Falco's air down+ A. But overall I think I like Brawl more, just because it has more characters and items and stuff.

 I never played Melee but Brawl was a lot of fun even though the character movement felt slow.

" Yes. It became way too easy to unlock new characters in Brawl.  No challenge. "

" @Ignor said:

" Yes. It became way too easy to unlock new characters in Brawl.  No challenge. "

so thats why you didnt like brawl? the characters were easy to unlock?  "

No, I don't play games.

" @Ryax said:

" @Ignor said:

" Yes. It became way too easy to unlock new characters in Brawl.  No challenge. "

so thats why you didnt like brawl? the characters were easy to unlock?  "

I like Brawl. I just prefer Melee. "

" @Ignor said:

" @Ryax said:

" @Ignor said:

" Yes. It became way too easy to unlock new characters in Brawl.  No challenge. "

so thats why you didnt like brawl? the characters were easy to unlock?  "

I like Brawl. I just prefer Melee. "

i just dont understand. its virtually the same game. but hey. to each their own.  "

I prefer Smash 64 to both of them.

I prefer Melee as well and I don't think you'll be in the minority at all.

I prefer Melee to Brawl, but I also prefer the original to Melee. They should port that over to the DS, I'd play it.

The original is one my favorite games ever, but I've barely played the other ones.

I don't understand this notion. Brawl is literally an upgraded version of Melee. 64 is a completely different game on the other hand. 

" Yes. It became way too easy to unlock new characters in Brawl.  No challenge. "

It's the same game mechanically...

Melee was pretty cool, but looks really dated compared to Brawl. It's a lot less well balanced and is too chaotic.

Fine, here are some other reasons why I, personally, prefer Melee:
-The Brawl announcer is inferior to the Melee announcer.
-The opening cinematic in Brawl is lackluster.
-The stages in Melee are less "helter skelter".
-The Donkey Kong franchise got better treatment in Melee.
-Mewtwo > Lucario
 
I also like some things in Brawl, such as:
-Being able to play as Diddy.
-The stage editor (could've been better)
-The ability to choose my favorite songs for each stage.
-The inclusion of story mode.

" I don't understand this notion. Brawl is literally an upgraded version of Melee. 64 is a completely different game on the other hand.  "

Awesome. 

" @Ryax said:

" @Ignor said:

" @Ryax said:

" @Ignor said:

" Yes. It became way too easy to unlock new characters in Brawl.  No challenge. "

so thats why you didnt like brawl? the characters were easy to unlock?  "

I like Brawl. I just prefer Melee. "

i just dont understand. its virtually the same game. but hey. to each their own.  "

Play both of them to their fullest. As in, the "techs" and whatnot. You'll see there is a large LARGE difference between the two. Anyway, yeah. I prefer Melee by far. Brawl got boring too quick, after a while the only fun thing to do was play SSE on the hardest difficulty. Even that got annoying. "

Meh, I prefer Brawl. Melee is a fine game and all, but they made some effort to distinguish characters in Brawl, that basically were clones in Melee. The only reason I'd play Melee now(hypothetical, I've only played Melee once since Brawl came out) is that Samus and Sheik were badly nerfed in Brawl, but Brawl is definitely the superior game of the two.

IMO there is only a single thing about Brawl that makes it worse than Melee; The tripping mechanic. Pull that part of the game, and the game is entirely better than its predecessors.

It always freaks me out to see people talking about Smash Bros as if it's a fighting game.

" It's the same game mechanically... "

I play video games for the "fun factor"... <=(

" I play video games for the "fun factor"... <=( "

" @Ignor said:

" I play video games for the "fun factor"... <=( "

Fun is subjective. "

" @FluxWaveZ said:

" @Ignor said:

" I play video games for the "fun factor"... <=( "

Fun is subjective. "

As in "not competitive level". "

" @Ignor: That's what I'm saying: for you, that's not fun; for others, playing a game competitively is fun. "

*I* play video games for the "fun factor", and by fun *I* mean not competitively.

" @EpicSteve said:

" It's the same game mechanically... "

Nope.  I think I prefer Melee.  I didn't get all competitive into it as I did Brawl, but when Melee's just faster and less floaty.  Also, people will say otherwise, but the balancing in Brawl is all over the place compared to Melee.  In SSBM, sure some characters were terrible compared to the rest (Bowser, Ganondorf...) but you could be good with almost anybody on a competitive scale.  With Brawl, there are so many characters that are just obviously better than the rest (Wolf, Kid Icarus, Meta Knight...) and so many that are just worse in 1v1 combat (Ike, Sonic, Wario...).  It's because, in Brawl, the game's not made much for 1v1 combat.  Characters such as Solid Snake or Ike rely on the chaos of 4 player FFA to succeed, while Sonic needs items enabled or fighting on a big stage to actually be proficient.  If the game didn't rely on these variables (stages, items...) more people would consider it an actual "Fighting" game, but as it is now, it really is just a "party" game. "

melee> 64>>>>>>>> brawl
 
also i think they should make a portable version of it too on the ds. they do it for all the other ninty games.

" Smash has never been considered a fighting game, not even close.  "

I prefer the OG. You know, before people started taking it seriously...

flamebait.... but prefer brawl to melee, more characters. 
 
Melee was a better fighting game, brawl is a better game. 
 
Hopefully that makes sense.

" flamebait.... but prefer brawl to melee, more characters.  Melee was a better fighting game, brawl is a better game.  Hopefully that makes sense. "

I prefer melee because I liked the controls better, but Brawl is fun too. So is the original.

" I prefer the OG. You know, before people started taking it seriously... "