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Yea, that might have been me. I dunno, I did it in certain situations. I liked to go there when I was focusing on fighting style. A specific fight against swordsmanship (I did some Marth vs. Roy fights there) and when I was training people in how to attack properly. My girlfriend was obsessed with Hyrule Temple though, and random stages. So I had my fair share of the stages, and yea, they are half the fun of the game.

Flat Zone has awesome music though.

Venom has glitchy edges, that Fin in the Center and walls to recover when your in the cave... I dont like it.


@People-There is nothing wrong with Simple stages People, FD is one of my favourite stages and Dreamland is my favourite... Complexity is not a sure way to make fun.

True, flatzone does have nice music, and the pause zooming out thing is awesome.
Venom... I dunno, don't use it that much.
I do like Final Destination, simple can be good. Especially in epic 4 player matches.

I think people play with no items for practice for tournaments where items are banned. I won't argue that they can't be fun though. I don't like playing against computers myself, or with items because it sort of turns the game more onto the side of luck based, even if it is only a slight difference.

You make a good point, but I disagree a bit. The legal stages in tourneys are most of them, and there are 6 Neutrals. I think There should be an equal number of simple and complex stages, but not so Directly. If there was 10 stages in Melee and 5 were like FD and Battlefield I can see that getting very Dull, same as having 8 or 9 Complex stages would make things seem to Gimmicky.
I would say Why cant the complex and simple come together then I look at Brawl.

Pokemon stadium 2: 2 of the stages are simple and basic, while 3 are gimmicky (Ice, Conveyor belt and the Low gravity)

Wario ware's basic Hub is a flat stage with platforms, then You get the Microgames.

Halberd is Flat with a platform but then there is a freaking Canon later on and who knows what else.

I think people are so annoyed with the Tourneyfag (not my word but still..) community because the jump between interesting and simple in Melee was too visible. Rainbow Cruise-FD is an enormous change and I think that there are only 2 categories in Melee (gimmick and Basic). Where the ideal thing would be (Gimmick-Hybrid-Basic) and Brawl seems to be doing this quite well so far.

Some of the stages for Brawl are kinda lame. They are just a stage with 3 platforms and some crazy s**t happening in the Background. Of course, I might be missing some stuff.

At the same time, stages like WarioWare and PictoChat, are totally awesome. RAWK.

I have this feeling that we will be getting an Old smash character, or Assist trophie.

>_>;

but deep down i want more music. xd
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speaking of, does anyone else think that we will receive another Mini game?

i mean we have Break the targets, race to the finish, trophie catch, home-run contest.

any other ideas?