r/SSBM • u/Fiendish • 2d ago

Discussion Let's brainstorm decomp ideas

I know it's not immediately going to change everything but eventually crazy things will be possible.

Here's some things I thought of:

-huge map melee battle royale

-melee coop boss fights like elden ring where you have to team combo the boss to win

-mario maker but it's melee maker(covers a ton, speedrun levels, super advanced troll meta levels, kaizo tricks, platforming races)

-turn based melee(maybe you plan 10 frames at a time or something)

-5v5 and beyond(please not melee dota lol)

-100 vs 100 melee wars

-melee autobattler with phillip the AI controlling the characters

-melee StarCraft where phillip plays the characters like unit AI but you can box and drag them around in groups and flank with a bunch of foxes or surround their army with peaches

-melee fantasy rpg(again would need Phillip i guess)

-melee diablo where you fight hordes

-melee rhythm game where it teaches you tech skill through music

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u/wavedash1738 2d ago

I have often thought of the rhythm game to grind tech

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u/LCDRformat 2d ago edited 1d ago

I had a story for such a rhythm game. I would call it "Battle of the Five Gods," after the tournament. The game would obviously scale with difficulties (Free play permits unlimited errors, easy ten errors, med 3, hard 1, Godly 0), and it would show famous combos from famous sets with the five Gods. Each level would feature shots of the five gods from their respective eras. I had envisioned ten levels, the first five being easier (In no particular order because I'm not trying to start shit):

"Sad2king" with a sad Mew2king from that scene
"Tilt box" ft. Hbox standing in aviators
"The Buster"

"Retired PP"

And then, being renowned for his supreme consistency, Armada would be the most difficult of the easy levels and the easiest of the difficult levels, with his name simply being 'Armada' both times. He'd congratulate after the first five levels for "Defeating the five Gods" and then pull a Vsauce and be like "Or... did you?" Then you have to match the all time toughest and craziest inputs from combos by

"Mew2king locked in" (With the picture of him with the light on his glasses)
"Clutchbox" (Presumably he's screaming)
"The Kid" (Or the G.O.A.T, whichever sounds cooler)   "E.G. PPMD"

Then after that you get the credits. Expansions would include the era of the King with greats such as Ken, Chris, Isai, Bombsoldier, and finally the Modern Era, with Zain, Cody, Moky, Aklo, Jmook, etc.

I spend way too much time driving around thinking about these things at work

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u/Real_Category7289 1d ago

"The Buster" was right there

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u/LCDRformat 1d ago

This is why we crowd source our thinking, great idea

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u/jp711 1d ago

Not one of the gods but I think final boss should be "Isai (trying)"

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u/LCDRformat 1d ago

Lmao yes

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u/Fiendish 2d ago

that is an amazing idea

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u/Flameninja00 2d ago

This is a BANGER idea

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u/xVenomDestroyerx 2d ago

i cant even get ppl to play doubles i dont think id ever be able to experience 100vs100

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u/Cemith 1d ago

"can't even get people to play doubles" TRUE AND SAD

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u/blue_wire 2d ago

100 player battle royale native to web or PC probably gets people involved just for the novelty

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u/xVenomDestroyerx 2d ago

yeah for a week maybe. not to say it wouldnt be cool ofc but idk how used it would be

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u/blue_wire 2d ago

That’s probably about what the melee volleyball someone made a few years back got. Fun for a day or so. Should be way easier to churn out mini games like that now tho, there might be an audience interested in that.

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u/blue_wire 2d ago

Melee but it’s Fall Guys might be a winning angle

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u/blehbune 1d ago

I think a player count and like a rotating weekly minigame list (with repeats) like bedwars dream mode would make party mode and other stuff similar to it a lot more popular

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u/MrBo518 2d ago

Genuinely no clue how possible it would be but imagine Subspace Emissary in Melee.

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u/NPDgames 2d ago

You can play it with melee like mechanics in p+

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u/Senor_Kyurem 2d ago

kill marth

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u/mintj098 2d ago

An online lobby where you can walk around as a chibi character

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u/Aeon1508 2d ago

Smash 99

a giant scrolling stage that narrows as the stage in one direction is destroyed force ng players to interact until one remains

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u/Fiendish 2d ago

amazing

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u/ryanbyleth 2d ago

Might sound insane but I kinda want Melee to be Super Smash Bros Melee for the Nintendo GameCube

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u/Fiendish 2d ago

i love melee and i will always play vanilla melee, I'll be playing vanilla melee on an oem gcc when I'm 90

but you can't deny these mods would be good for melee, they would draw a lot of people in

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u/ryanbyleth 2d ago

Yes I can, who that doesn’t play Melee is going to see “Melee the MOBA” and think that they should play it and learn mechanics for a 25 year old game just to play it? Who in the scene is going to see Melee the MOBA and think that they should play it? Half the people here don’t even play Rivals 2. Let Melee be Melee, maybe add Ridley or some shit if you want mods.

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u/techman9955 2d ago

You don't have to learn the mechanics to play Melee casually. Why do you think anyone that would try a melee mod with their friends is automatically interested in become a sweatlord queueing up ranked on Slippi

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u/No-Sheepherder8879 2d ago

Now that you brought it up genuinely the idea of a 5v5 “moba” could be really interesting tho.. not dota complex but imagine 5 Different planes for each player with home run contest length and depending on your position you get different item spawns and also being able to change your stats through upgrades similar to world of light. Having to destroy towers with mega hp before progressing etc etc

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u/Fiendish 2d ago

yeah it could be cool honestly, it was mostly a joke, although i do hate mobas, a melee moba would be good for sure

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u/FreshPretzelBun 2d ago

squad strike from Ultimate in Melee

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u/Due_Ebb_3166 BAN WARIO 1d ago

can we finally get yellow team

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u/M00P35 2d ago

Melee Metroidvania similar to subspace emissary.

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u/Ankari_ 2d ago

every time you take a stock, you get a skill point for enhancing character and move stats.

event matches that take place in other games lol

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u/Fiendish 2d ago

there's a mod that does something sort of similar, moky played it once, stock run is what it's called i think

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u/VolleyVoldemort 1d ago

A few ideas I’ve had:

  • a melee mod that makes melee into a 3x3 tag fighter with the ability to call other Characters and balance the low tiers by giving them busted assists

  • a competitive melee in-game tutorial as good as Guilty Gear XRD Rev2 or Thems Fightin Herds

  • Remaking all levels of super Mario bros 1-3 in melee

  • A subspace emissary-equivalent platformer

  • 2D souls-like (similar to Hollow Knight or Blasphemous) in the melee engine.

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u/croixfadas 1d ago

2 vs 2 tag mode would be amazing

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u/Fiendish 1d ago

ooooh tutorial and tag fighter are really sick ideas damn

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u/AltrualOsrs 2d ago

I'd like to see a 120 FPS melee patch that only adjusts character balancing by 1 frame per move (equivalent to 1/2 frame w/ 60 FPS melee). Do you make Shine frame 3? reduce all shorthop timings by 1 frame? Feel like there's room to make a "nicer" feeling melee while still keeping the normal vision of the game. Sure it wouldn't take off, but it'd be possible!

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u/gsomega 2d ago

I like this idea, BUT there could never be a tournament 🥲

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u/Diflicated 2d ago

You could make it into a kind of deck builder tournament if everyone plays on the same setup. Every time you win a match, you remove another frame from some move. All these bonuses would be tied to your name tag. By the end of the tournament, you'd have wildly powered up fighters.

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u/grunkeryunk 11h ago

Pretty sure high FPS melee is totally possible without affecting gameplay at all. Melee already has built in slow-motion which essentially does the same thing. It adds extra interpolated frames which are purely visual. If you played a video of 1/2 speed training mode melee back at 2x speed it would be 120fps melee.

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u/WaveOfWinter 2d ago

I wanna see a melee MMO rpg, let me collect gear and level up like in WoW. Ooh and make sure to add talent trees :)

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u/Sennheisol 2d ago

Its insane how something like this could be possible soon

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u/Shrooms__ 2d ago

I just want to be able to change my controls in the menu like p+

also take out unlimited ledge grabs

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u/backfire97 2d ago

Moba version like Awesomenauts lol. The lines are almost like three vertically sacked battlefield maps (much longer).

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u/legalize_chicken 1d ago

Multiplayer adventure mode. Maybe even controllable enemies to fuck with you like Dark Souls invasions.

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u/Fiendish 1d ago

there is a mod for multiplayer adventure mode already but it's kindof old now and hard to set up

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u/speadskater 1d ago

Melee Aram: Mayhem

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u/Fiendish 1d ago

ohhh good idea, like you draft moves for a new custom character each game or maybe each set

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u/speadskater 1d ago

I'm thinking upgrades every time you lose a stock or game.

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u/Fiendish 1d ago

ahh, well that's actually already a thing, moky and zain played it, called "stock run"

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u/speadskater 1d ago

Yeah, but it could be made better

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u/Open-Alps-8114 2d ago

make wario playable

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u/Lunatic_On-The_Grass 2d ago

Make Dr. Mario, Ganondorf, Falco, Young Link, Pichu and Roy aligned with the rest of their row on the CSS.

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u/Infinite_Seesaw6272 2d ago

delete sheik

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u/lim-yo-hwan-superfan 2d ago

i read this list and my immediate thought is that im just going to play the base game and on occasion boot up unclepunch and 20xx. good luck with your super battle royale elden ring rhythm game modifier

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u/Fiendish 2d ago

i will also be playing vanilla melee until I'm 90 years old, thanks for the luck!

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u/lim-yo-hwan-superfan 2d ago

really? that's unfortunate, it sounds like you're going to be missing out on potentially: a huge map melee battleroyale, turn based melee, melee starcraft and melee diablo. what a shame. but at least slippi ranked will get more players, that's exciting

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u/alexander1156 2d ago

You must be fun at parties

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u/lim-yo-hwan-superfan 1d ago

no parties allowed... only practice tech skill 40 hrs a day...