Look, all I'm sayin is stay true to the original, I guess you guys were maybe too young for that games heyday, but Meelee fucked up the gravity we had in the original Smash Bros game on N64 and Brawl gave it back.
Nuff said.
Explains what everyone's beef is with Brawl. I played enough Meelee to unlock everything then decided to wait for Brawl and I was rewarded with what I wanted.
But this doesn't make any sense at all. I'm pretty sure everyone here (in this thread specifically) is old enough to have played ssb64 in its prime. I know I am. And I did. I've been playing Smash since I was five. I've had a nintendo 64 for 14 years, and I still have it. I still play the original with my friends all the time -- and brawl was nothing like it. SSB64 was just as competitive as Melee, and that's the reason why we played it in the first place. Their beef with brawl has nothing to do with age or the original. It's the opposite. People don't like it because it's NOT like the original. There's no way to play it competitively. It's a completely casual game -- and you're a casual, so I guess it makes sense.
And before this becomes an argument: No, being a "casual" isn't a bad thing. It doesn't have a negative connotation behind it. I'm not trying to come off as an elitist because I play a game differently than you.