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Anonymous Tue May 3 15:46:32 2022 No.8873646 [Reply] [Original]

Melee just.... takes me back, man.
I still remember the day I went and bought my Gamecube, first console I ever bought on my own.
Felt special, arrived home, and proceeded to be blown away by Melee, holy fuck. For months it's the only game me and my friends played. They all bought their own controllers like the next day, the hype was real and enduring.
Bless this game, bless Sakurai, and bless the Gamecube.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 3 15:47:25 2022 No.8873650 >>8873646 No one cares. Your sooner memories are worthless.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 3 15:48:58 2022 No.8873653 >>8873650 damn, what's with the bad vibes? you ok dude? I care about your memories anon, share with us. as long as it's /vr/-related.

Anonymous Tue May 3 16:13:05 2022 No.8873705

I can't see Melee in any objective context anymore because when I was a super depressed teenager doing nothing and failing out of everything this was mostly all I played, dribbling the AI like a ball was a soothing addiction. Now that life circumstance is all I feel if I ever pick it up again.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 3 16:16:37 2022 No.8873715 I own Melee and for some reason I have never played with another person. I only knew one other person who even owned a Gamecube. All my Smash memories are playing Smash Bros 64 with my cousins.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 3 16:29:42 2022 No.8873753 I remember playing this for an entire day straight on release date with a friend. We’ve kept that tradition since then with every Smash game, trying to unlock as much as possible in a single day

>>	Anonymous Tue May 3 17:07:47 2022 No.8873824 >>8873753 I have that tradition with a friend with Resident Evil main series releases/remakes. I hadn't seen him for 5 years when RE7 released (since RE6) and he still came over and I learned about his wife and kids while we took turns. Still going.

Anonymous Tue May 3 19:13:22 2022 No.8874081
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>>8873646
Melee had a magical vibe about it when it came out. Since it was so heavily based on the foundation the N64 Mario and Zelda laid out it really looked like the Gamecube was going to be the N64 but better in every way.... then we got Windwaker and Sunshine...

Anonymous Tue May 3 19:24:52 2022 No.8874113

>>8874081
Honestly, the Spaceworld demo was kind of gay, and even at the time I wasn't mad impressed by it. Adult Link having a sword fight with Ganondorf is like the worst interpretation of what Zelda is supposed to be as a franchise.
Aonuma's instinct to get back to that basic sense of childhood adventure was good. Short development cycle, not so good.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 3 19:28:33 2022 No.8874116 >>8873646 i bought a gamecube just because of melee. I didn't take the disc out of it for 6 straight months, even though i had bought other games to play.

Anonymous Tue May 3 19:39:54 2022 No.8874129
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>>8873646
Melee opened my eyes to Nintendo as a whole. I only had Sega and Playstation consoles, then I got a Game Boy and super into Pokemon a bit after everyone else, wanted a GameCube for the Pokemon games and SA2B. I got Melee on sale one day literally because Pikachu was on the cover and I had no idea what it was, the only other first party Nintendo game's I'd played apart from Pokemon were the copy of Double Dash my GameCube came with and Game & Watch Gallery 2 (to put it in perspective I still thought DK was the main villian of Mario). I wound up trying a bunch of Nintendo games, Mario Sunshine and the Advance series, Wind Waker with the OOT bonus disc, Fire Emblem, Metroid Zero Mission and I remember adoring the trophies and being obsessed with them, especially all the ones that didn't release in Europe like the EarthBound ones and pic related. I wound up actually going back and buying an N64 to play the games I missed like SM64, F-Zero X, Pokemon Snap (and Smash 64 of course). I probably wouldn't give a flying fuck about Nintendo if it wasn't for Melee (and that would probably be a good thing).

Anonymous Tue May 3 19:45:08 2022 No.8874139

>>8874129
The dirty secret is that a lot of retrofags had their interests sparked by Smash Bros Melee's trophies, before they fell down the rabbit hole. It's really the most genius piece of marketing Nintendo ever did. You buy one game, and they basically give you a catalogue to read, and find a way to make it fun.

Anonymous Tue May 3 19:51:11 2022 No.8874152

>>8874129
that's very nice anon. I'm glad you discovered such great games because of melee. I got into pokemon because of smash 64. I didn't know what pokemon or pikachu was when i bought the game, but a friend came over and told me about pokemon. We used to make pokemon battles in smash 64, using only pokeballs as items, then melee came and we got blown away by the sheer number of pokemons in that game.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 3 19:52:27 2022 No.8874156 >>8874113 That wasn't what I was getting at.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 3 20:39:17 2022 No.8874251 >>8874129 Smash's devs had a serious boner for Custom Robo, so their trophies for it made me go play those games despite them being entirely in Japanese at the time.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 3 20:45:51 2022 No.8874257 >>8873824 thats based, hope you get to keep it up

>>	Anonymous Tue May 3 20:55:49 2022 No.8874271 >>8873646 When I saw Ness I thought it was the kid from Monster Party

>>	Anonymous Tue May 3 21:00:12 2022 No.8874276 >>8874113 Go back to bed, Aonuma.

Anonymous Tue May 3 21:36:09 2022 No.8874339
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>mfw people shit on Link because the tourneyfags call him low-tier
IDGAF, Link is fun as fuck to play. Spamming boomerang and bombs all day erryday, and spiking niggas with the spin attack near the edge is satisfying. Sure, he can get whooped up and down by tryhards playing Fox and Falco who more or less know what they're doing, but you can still catch them off guard if they get complacent by switching up your playstyle.

Young Link is fun too, I guess.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 3 22:00:01 2022 No.8874378 >>8874339 based. Blue tunic Link master race.

Anonymous Wed May 4 01:31:35 2022 No.8874848

>>8874129
Trophies from Melee were amazing and there will never be anything like it. Characters most people probably wouldn't have given a fuck about got their first 3D models. A lot of them would never get anything else after. I didn't know who the fuck Bubbles was or a lot of the trophies, but I enjoyed seeing them and learning about them. Plus most characters still had that 90's era render look to them. Hell, the Render96 models used a lot of Melee trophies as a base.

I was so hyped for Brawl and I was interested in seeing how everyone would look in Brawl's style, but all of the trophies were basically ripped straight from other games. It only got worse with subsequent entries until you're left with only jpegs.

Anonymous Wed May 4 01:59:50 2022 No.8874891

The craziest thing about Melee is it was in development for only thirteen months. Considering how much content is crammed into it and how polished the end product is (well, within reason - some characters have glaring oversights in their movesets and were clearly rushed), that is insane. There are scores of shovelware that spend more time in development than that. And it just oozes soul.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 4 02:04:09 2022 No.8874897 >>8874891 It was basically a glorified expansion of Smash 64.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 4 02:06:00 2022 No.8874903 >>8874897 Troll harder buddy

>>	Anonymous Wed May 4 02:11:46 2022 No.8874909 >>8874903 How dare I desecrate the good name of Nintendo and HAL by implying most of the heavy lifting for Melee was done in the original game and they built off it. All hail the glory of Masahiro Sakurai.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 4 02:12:32 2022 No.8874912 >>8874909 Are you even trying? At least put effort into it

Anonymous Wed May 4 02:18:22 2022 No.8874919
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>>8874912
I don't understand how one becomes so cultish for a corporation they get asshurt over a simple observation and takes it personal. This isn't an unusual thing in game dev. I wouldn't be suprised if some of the autists who reverse engineered the codebase found it to be 90% the same. Why this causes you so much ass pain is beyond me.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 4 02:34:21 2022 No.8874937 >>8873646 I've never gotten into Smash Bros since the original and Melee. I played so many hours of those games with my brothers and our friends.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 4 07:28:19 2022 No.8875436 The Marin trophy still has one of the best 3D modeled feet I've seen in games.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 4 07:45:39 2022 No.8875458 >>8873646 The GameCube was great for its time even if it was kiddy, Melee has absolute ages of content compared to the first games and local multiplayer with the boys was at its peak. Life was good, anon. Life was good.

Anonymous Wed May 4 07:50:28 2022 No.8875471

>>8875458
>kiddy
all video games are kiddy.
Gamecube had titles like Eternal Darkness and all the Resident Evils.
Just because it didn't have Nigger Simulator 3 doesn't mean the other consoles didn't also have cutesy games (cute =/= kiddy, cute is popular in japan, just not in USA)

>>	Anonymous Wed May 4 07:59:45 2022 No.8875481 >>8874848 I'll counter that at least the JPGs are able to let them acknowledge stuff that predates the goddamn gamecube.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 4 18:04:14 2022 No.8876993 >>8873646 I don't understand why I love SSB, Melee, and Brawl and I can go back and replay the missions and stuff multiple times a year, but I find every Smash game after Brawl to be boring.

Anonymous Wed May 4 18:34:20 2022 No.8877105

>>8876993
Brawl was the boring one to me. Everyone was slow and floaty as fuck and took forever to die, items were either useless or OP as shit with no in-between, and of course, there's tripping. Modding it was the only way I could salvage it and make it fun.

Anonymous Wed May 4 18:42:59 2022 No.8877121

>sleepover with three friends
>everybody is playing Timesplitters 2 on my new GCN and having a blast
>one poorfag retard spends the entire time complaining about the game while everyone else has fun, also brought his N64 and a copy of Perfect Dark
>begs us to stop playing TS2 so we can play it
>finally take a break on TS2 and let him set it up
>start playing, game runs at like 6fps due to 4 players and all the sims, everybody stops smiling and goes quiet. gay faggot keeps talking about how great Perfect Dark is
>everybody gets bored and we set up the GCN again after 15 minutes
>poorfag gets upset and never sleeps over again
kek bet he never even got a GCN and still holds a grudge to this day

>>	Anonymous Wed May 4 19:28:26 2022 No.8877258 >>8877121 It seems your friend just wanted to share a good game with you guys and you were all graphic whores.

Anonymous Wed May 4 19:41:39 2022 No.8877293

>>8877105
I never minded Brawl's physics, to be honest. I just loved how much content they packed in, and the aesthetics of it all. The items were fun to me too, I always saw the Smash things as more of party games than things that were supposed to be serious and perfectly balanced. I agree tripping is bullshit, even I can't rationalize that. I feel like if the Smash Bros series ended after Brawl, we'd have 3 great games with distinct aesthetics and physics, but the newer games just feel non-distinct and not as special to me

>>	Anonymous Wed May 4 19:56:25 2022 No.8877362 Wow melee is shit but credit to its pedo community keeping it going

Anonymous Wed May 4 20:20:06 2022 No.8877454

>>8877258
we were like 12 at the time, I don't think anybody cared about graphics. Shooting monkeys and baby clowns on custom maps in 60fps was just a lot cooler than playing a shitty 3 year old N64 game that the kid only brought because he couldn't afford the newer toy. mind you this kid used to share drinks with other boys at the movie theater and had a gay cousin so IMO it was a good indication of something being wrong on a larger scale.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 4 20:29:47 2022 No.8877493 >>8873646 I’ll never forget intentionally leaving the Gamecube on before going to school, wondering all day if my mom noticed it was on and turned it off, and then the joy coming home to an unlocked MewTwo

>>	Anonymous Wed May 4 20:31:13 2022 No.8877497 >>8877493 SOUL

>>	Anonymous Wed May 4 20:32:29 2022 No.8877501 >>8877493 kek forgot about that particular requirement. I think everyone did that one. I believe it was shortened if you had more than one controller plugged in or some shit, no?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 4 21:10:26 2022 No.8877686 >>8875436 based

>>	Anonymous Wed May 4 21:11:10 2022 No.8877689 >>8873650 Don't listen to this faggot, OP, I think your memories are aces.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 5 07:29:44 2022 No.8878819 >>8875471 >purple lunchbox with Super Mario Sunshine is going to be seen the same way as black boxes that launched with shooters and racing games. You know exactly what I mean.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 5 09:14:10 2022 No.8878959 >>8878819 >black means machurrr Well then, I'll tell you I got my Gamecube black color, at release, and with Rogue Squadron. You probably got a cum-stained used PS2 with a copy of, I dunno, Spyro the gaydron. What now? Who's the more mature? Gott'em

>>	Anonymous Thu May 5 16:09:12 2022 No.8879970 >>8877362 Projecting?

>>	Anonymous Thu May 5 16:12:37 2022 No.8879984 >>8878819 You could just buy the black GC. I mean, if you're boring as fuck, and you hate distinctive designs, it's an option.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 5 16:23:40 2022 No.8880008 File: 717 KB, 1306x803, uh.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] What? The gamecube launched like this though

>>	Anonymous Thu May 5 16:33:58 2022 No.8880032 >>8880008 Melee released shortly after iirc

>>	Anonymous Thu May 5 20:12:27 2022 No.8880621 >>8880008 >no Luigi's Mansion, Super Monkey Ball or NHL Hitz 2002

>>	Anonymous Thu May 5 22:44:09 2022 No.8881008 File: 220 KB, 800x1227, A-History-of-the-Colour-Purple.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8878819 purple is a cool color though were kings throughout the ages but mere children to you?

Anonymous Thu May 5 23:41:58 2022 No.8881145

>>8881008
Purple was the hardest dye to make back then which is why it was popular with royalty.
I think compared to the black/blue PS2 and black/green Xbox, the bright purple GameCube was definitely more childish looking comparably, but I also think it was the right choice for its strong iconography.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 5 23:59:42 2022 No.8881181 >>8874129 Fuck Sakurai being a fucking gay homo and getting rid of trophies with actual descriptions it was cool as hell and better than gay ass little fuck boi stickers

>>	Anonymous Fri May 6 00:05:32 2022 No.8881198 >>8880621 baby games

>>	Anonymous Fri May 6 00:06:48 2022 No.8881204 >>8881145 see:>>8880008 Retard

>>	Anonymous Fri May 6 02:43:10 2022 No.8881483 >>8881198 And? They're good. You can't be here if you're still a teenager going through THAT phase, this website is 18+.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 6 10:10:36 2022 No.8882372 >>8881198 based Mature anon

>>	Anonymous Fri May 6 10:59:25 2022 No.8882497 >>8881204 It launched with both Indigo and Jet Black. People who only remember one colour when the console released were either born after 2000, or their store had none in stock during launch.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 6 21:24:18 2022 No.8884163 My girlfriend is a Melee fanatic, she follows tourneys and shit she has a crush on fucking m2k and it makes me seethe.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 6 22:53:53 2022 No.8884338 >>8884163 Does your girlfriend have a penis? I've never met a biological female that was actually into Smash more than just playing it when everyone else is.

Anonymous Fri May 6 23:37:43 2022 No.8884440

>>8884338
Kek one time I 1v1d my cousin's girlfriend at brawl, and I went easy enough on her to make the match competitive and make it look like I just barely eked out a win instead of utterly BTFOing her. After the match, she looked at me straight in the eyes and asked me point blank if I went easy on her. I admitted so, and she slapped me, and told me never to go easy on her again.

My cousin ended up dumping her partly because she was crazy, but mostly because she never put out.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 6 23:50:11 2022 No.8884459 >>8884440 >refuses to be babied or be a whore Doesn't sound that crazy

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