lordvaati
Smash Master
well, it's 2016 now guys, and this year marks something special-the upcoming 15th anniversary of the Nintendo Gamecube, and along with that Super Smash Bros. Melee. with an almost guaranteed announcement of the NX at this year's E3, The chances of something being done for the Cube are VERY high-even something as simple as a compilation disc or the inevitable virtual console updates. Which brings me back to Melee-one popular(maybe joking?) request made by some is for an HD remake of the game for Wii-U(or in this case NX now), which would be cool but has got me recalling something else.
14 years after it's release, Super Street Fighter II Turbo got a new update(excluding the compilation Hyper and the GBA port) named Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix. this game had all the original 17 characters rebalanced, was developed by David freaking Sirlin, and all the art redrawn by staff from Udon. the game was a huge financial success on XBLA and PSN. it was a critical darling, amassing some of the highest scores seen for a fighting game since Soul Calibur.
despite all this, the majority of the ST community stuck with the 94 game.
this is what worry about-people say thy want an HD Melee, but do they really? to make it would inevitably mean tweaks to the core game, so would anyone actually move on or just stick with the tried and true GC version? And even a VC release makes me wonder about a move being doubtful-64 got released on VC(with GC controller support even!) but hardly anyone plays it either(thought it was more due to slowdown issues I believe.)
So I wonder, if a Melee update was announced this year is some shape and form, would you even want it?
14 years after it's release, Super Street Fighter II Turbo got a new update(excluding the compilation Hyper and the GBA port) named Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix. this game had all the original 17 characters rebalanced, was developed by David freaking Sirlin, and all the art redrawn by staff from Udon. the game was a huge financial success on XBLA and PSN. it was a critical darling, amassing some of the highest scores seen for a fighting game since Soul Calibur.
despite all this, the majority of the ST community stuck with the 94 game.
this is what worry about-people say thy want an HD Melee, but do they really? to make it would inevitably mean tweaks to the core game, so would anyone actually move on or just stick with the tried and true GC version? And even a VC release makes me wonder about a move being doubtful-64 got released on VC(with GC controller support even!) but hardly anyone plays it either(thought it was more due to slowdown issues I believe.)
So I wonder, if a Melee update was announced this year is some shape and form, would you even want it?