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It seems that it's less like they want Pac Man and more like they expect him; even though Sakurai's said that Namco-Bandai characters won't get special priority over other third-party characters, they'd be in the best position to get one into Smash Bros. if they wanted to, and Pac Man is the company mascot.
Its sort of true, the idea of both games is to remain away from enemies that can kill you pretty easily (much truer in the early stages of MGS1 and the original MSX games since you had a lot less health) while getting objectives completed.
I'd much rather have Lloyd from TOSymphonia, not just because he's a cool Namco character but his attacks just work for Smash Bros.
I'm far from the first to make this comparison. Pac-Man is all about evading enemies in narrow labyrinthine corridors, Metal Gear takes that basic principle and expands upon it in a thousand different directions.
The theory is that Pac-Man's chances are because Namco is helping out with this iteration of Smash despite mentions that they lave no priority. Of course, for all we know, this could be a coverup. Same with Kojima's statement from months ago. That said, the first part I agree with. If Snake doesn't get revealed at E3, he's not coming back. Period.
Almost agreed. With Ike in, I'd say it'd be very frustrating to see characters like Ike, Toon Link, and Lucario in over characters like Snake (I swear, if there's no Snake, I'm going to get to angry), Lucas, ROB, etc.
I believe Sakurai said that they couldn't add everyone, even though he wanted to.
ike returning definitely gives me hope for snake. Everyone though he was cut and look what happens.
http://nintendoeverything.com/sakurai-not-enough-time-to-bring-back-every-smash-bros-character/
Now that I think about it, yeah, that was a bit... vague. But something that makes me want to keep believing is that they're using Brawl as the base. Meaning they would most likely just have to modify appearances of moves, etc. which shouldn't be too hard. And Sakurai stated that he's "not going to fully recreate the characters" in which I assume he's not making them from scratch, which further supports no cuts from Brawl. Hopefully there's more clarification once E3 hits and interviews come in.
It seems you're basing this on the word choice of "practically begged," something Sakurai said through a translator while describing Kojima's effort to get Snake into Melee late in its development. Nobody here knows exactly what that means, or how the Metal Gear deal went down during Brawl's development, or how that really pertains to Smash 4. I wouldn't be drawing any conclusions yet.
Uuuuuhhhhh..... wat. Sakurai is a Metal Gear fan. And, as numerously stated by many, Sakurai and Kojima are buds. And this:
Didn't know about that. I still stand by what I said about Snake being last in the pecking order though. If it comes down to pretty much any Brawl vet vs. Snake, Snake is going out the door. The only way I can see him staying is if every other Brawl vet manages to make it.
Bingo. Nailed it. There are many who still haven't figured this out. If Sakurai does decide to waste all that work... then there's some serious issues here.
The only character that didn't really have any presence was Roy. The rest had a decent amount at least.
I think what's really doing it for me is the fact that we haven't seen anything of him yet. Like I said before, 3rd parties are always revealed before release for marketing and promotional purposes. They made a huge deal about him being in Brawl, and even Sonic got revealed for Smash 4 despite him probably being unlockable. No word on snake. No stages, items, etc.
I think that's why everybody is saying that if he doesn't turn up at E3, then he's not turning up at all. E3 would be the perfect time to reveal both Snake and Pac-Man.
If Sakurai didn't want Snake in the game at all then he would not have added him. Obviously he was won over to the idea if he went through that much effort to implement him in the first place and he has since expressed that he has no regrets about his inclusion. And then we should note, if we're talking about lack of fan support, that Snake is wanted by a large number of fans for this game.
W-where did you get this?! What is this? Explain, young sire!With the recent leak, it looks like Snake AND Pac Man have a high chance! So far, no one has proven this one wrong (yet) but still, this is exciting!:
It was just barely discovered on 4chan! Okay, yeah, bad site, but this looks pretty legit. I mean, the layout looks very similar to some of the menus shown in the direct. As well as the fact that the font is perfect.
4chan, eh? Hmm...it looks very realistic...there's at least 31 spaces left, assuming the other confirmed characters are all on there...
True, but Sonic was added because of fan demand. He was a pretty popular addition to Brawl. Snake was a perfectly valid addition, but the fact remains that he mainly got in because Sakurai's friendship with Kojima. Perhaps I should have said it could be a matter of Sonic vs. Snake. That's a whole other story.
And now we have their friendship and a large group of Smash fans who want him back.
Yea. They can have him look like this from Twin SnakesI know this is going into old territory and many here are already in agreement with it but as somebody has noted on another board, this image seems to work as a good proof of concept that Snake could work with the style used in Smash 4. Ike appears reasonably anatomically correct and seems to have a "gritty" appearance like Snake would be expected to have. If Ike can work it hardly seems impossible for Snake to work.
I actually think this is a good point. People have kind of forgotten about this, but when Raiden but no Snake was in PSASBR, everybody assumed it was because Snake "belonged" to Smash already. I'm staying optimistic guys, I think he might be okay.
