Were you disappointed with Brawl?

[Level_9_Chao]

Since a few years ago, the Japanese site was apparently open for fan input/requests, and I was under the assumption that because of that there was no way they could possibly screw up, because heck, the fans almost always know best.

I didn't like how easy it was to unlock the characters. In Melee it took months (I was in 4th grade, but still); Brawl took maybe a week to get everything. I don't understand the reasoning for Wolf, Pokemon Trainer, ROB, and maybe some others as characters, although at least Pokemon Trainer is cool.

Gameplay is too watered down. In the Melee days, I kicked all my friends' asses, but in Brawl, somehow they can spam smashes and be competitive.

It's not BAD and at least all 3 smashes have distinctive gameplay, but I suppose I still prefer Melee.

[HTA!]

 :(

[Someguy13]

Why are people listing Stage builder and online as reasons why Brawl sucks? I mean at least it has them...
I was not disappointed with brawl and even like it a bit more than melee.
It's not as fast but it's just as fun.

[JrDude]

Not really, it's fun, the adventure mode had a storyline (and for a storyline with 1% dialogue, it was very interesting), online, stage builder (I rarely used it, but it was a nice addition), kickass characters (too bad for the removed characters though), and a bunch of other awsome modes.
The only thing that disappointed me was the removed characters and modes, I liked Race to the Finish, and I also liked the platform jumping thing (which was removed in Melee).

[Nayrman]

Why are people listing Stage builder and online as reasons why Brawl sucks? I mean at least it has them...
I was not disappointed with brawl and even like it a bit more than melee.
It's not as fast but it's just as fun.

With online that bad they shouldn't have even bothered including it X_X;;

Stage Builder is good, too bad there aren't a good amount of tools and backgrounds and such. For Smash 4 I hope they expand it a lot more.

[Captain Justice]

Stage Builder is absolute trash.

Dumbass Sakurai thought that by giving us that horrific game mode then he wouldn't need to include a good amount of actually decent stages. That would be true if stage builder wasn't just a bunch of cookie cutter pieces. Not a single stage builder stage is even half decent or good to look at.

Without "stage" builder then I guarantee that we would have gotten more than 31 stages (10 Melee stages don't count, they only show laziness.....poopty Melee stages at that). Melee had 29 stages, and average of around 2 stages for each franchise included. Brawl's 31 stages average out to only around 1.6 stages for each franchise (19 franchises). But don't forget that some stages didn't even belong to a franchise. (Battlefield, FD, Smashville, Pictochat, Hanenbow)

[Tsumaru]

Subspace Emissary was a bit of a letdown, but that's about it as far as disappointments go.

[X-3]

I didn't feel disappointed, and I ended up liking it better than Melee.

Many aspects could have been improved, though.

[Light]

Let's look at it this way: would we rather have Brawl, or no Smash 3 at all? I wasn't disappointed; my anticipation for Brawl was that it would be a good fighting game, a decent follow-up to the current series. That is what I got, and I liked it.

Brawl > No Wii Smash Bros. Game

[Captain Justice]

Let's look at it this way: would we rather have Brawl, or no Smash 3 at all? I wasn't disappointed; my anticipation for Brawl was that it would be a good fighting game, a decent follow-up to the current series. That is what I got, and I liked it.

Brawl > No Wii Smash Bros. Game

No Smash 3, that way Melee would still be focused on.

[The Baron]

Just disappointed with the Wi-Fi and characters.  Thought that they would have more third-party characters.  Still, I like it better than Melee.

[Jono2]

if Brawl didn't exist, we would have recieved Melee Online.  This was stated some time ago by official sources.

Brawl was a huge letdown, and overall, a piece of poop game.


Laziness shows through in every aspect of the game:
-clones
-lack of stages
-poopty stage builder
-lack of DLC
-poopty online
-only 5 BTT stages
-cloned final smashes
-lazily chosen melee stages
-a lot of music, but a lot of poopty music.
-the way trophies were handled
-overall, boring story mode, despite being able to ramp up difficulty
-lack of rep by pop (metroid needed more, as did F-Zero)
-ROB


On the subject of ROB, Not only was it a piece of poop peripheral, but it was the start.  It showed nintendo for the first time that they could release peripherals with ANYTHING, and still get sales because it had this new "toy".  The e-Reader.  The multiple GBA hookup cables.  The GCN/GBA thing (though I do admit, it is useful).  Gamecube ports to the Wii.  The Wii in general.  ROB was NOT a failure in any sense of the word.  Just because ROB was a piece of poop, doesn't mean that it didn't accomplish it's job, and more.

That said, it got in Brawl because it marked the first time Nintendo used cheap peripherals to steal money from their loyal customers, and that is EXACTLY what Brawl is.  A cheap piece of poop.

[Captain Justice]

if Brawl didn't exist, we would have recieved Melee Online.  This was stated some time ago by official sources.

Brawl was a huge letdown, and overall, a piece of poop game.


Laziness shows through in every aspect of the game:
-clones
-lack of stages
-poopty stage builder
-lack of DLC
-poopty online
-only 5 BTT stages
-cloned final smashes
-lazily chosen melee stages
-a lot of music, but a lot of poopty music.
-the way trophies were handled
-overall, boring story mode, despite being able to ramp up difficulty
-lack of rep by pop (metroid needed more, as did F-Zero)
-ROB


On the subject of ROB, Not only was it a piece of poop peripheral, but it was the start.  It showed nintendo for the first time that they could release peripherals with ANYTHING, and still get sales because it had this new "toy".  The e-Reader.  The multiple GBA hookup cables.  The GCN/GBA thing (though I do admit, it is useful).  Gamecube ports to the Wii.  The Wii in general.  ROB was NOT a failure in any sense of the word.  Just because ROB was a piece of poop, doesn't mean that it didn't accomplish it's job, and more.

That said, it got in Brawl because it marked the first time Nintendo used cheap peripherals to steal money from their loyal customers, and that is EXACTLY what Brawl is.  A cheap piece of poop.

[The Seventh]

The online sucked, and it wasn't as fast paced as Melee.

That's my only complaints.  Also, some parts were a little easy.

Oh, and I can't forget the watered down stage builder....

[tollhouse2006]

I didnt expect it to be perfect, but the character roster was good except for a few.  Characters were way to easy.  I regret playing SSE before unlocking everybody.  Watching ten pop ups of characters I unlocked just because I saw them was painful.  It was basically getting something I didnt work for.  Plus you dont even have to fight the chars you unlock in SSE.  I miss Mewtwo, Roy, and Pichu.  They should've stayed, infact everybody should've stayed.  I dont mind having three Links.  The more the better.  Toon Link and Young Link have slight differences.  The most pointless features in brawl were the 30 second demos of games we already played or own, and the stickers.  I thought the alot of the items like ACs and Pkmn caused too much damage and knockback than they should.  (Like ZSS's armor)  The stage builder is fun to use but needs more tools.  Tripping I've gotten used to but I think the tripping happens too often.  Besides that I think Brawl is a great game and was worth the wait.  I do like it better than melee mostly because there are more characters and stages and also because I'm not good at melee anymore.