64 characters in Brawl:Believe it.

[leprechaunlink727]

I'm sick of seeing those mock rosters with over a 100 characters. No sane game developer would put in the amount of work necessary for that many characters in a fighting game.

I think there will be 64 characters in Brawl. Its about a twofold increase over melee, its a nice round number, and who can forget the Nintendo '64'?

 

[Tera253]

that seems like an awful lot. Tera reckons mor around 46.
(if that was the case, McFox, that's Paras' number!)
~Tera253~

 

[CrazyFoxBrawler]

I woudln't expect more than 50 characters, and if they were they would be clone characters.

 

[leprechaunlink727]

I just envision 64. It may be a little much, but its way less than most of the custom rosters I've seen.

 

[Red_Maniac]

64 characters?

Doubt that will happen.

 

[Chidosengan]

Unless they decide to include a bunch of clones and genetic characters, I don't see 64 happening.

30-40s sound about right

 

[Red Exodus]

It'd be funny if he was a guy working from 'the studio' and he was giving information he knew we wouldn't believe. I'd do that if I was working there, as long as it wouldn't get me fired X|

 

[leprechaunlink727]

Maybe I'm just being too hopeful... But if you guys think 64 is ridiculous, you obviously haven't been to the official Nintendo thread.
SSB-12
SSMM-25
SSBB-64
I don't know, it just has a nice ring to it. SSBB is running on a Wii-vamped (tee-hee) version of the SSBM engine. They don't have to make a new engine this time around. Development started in May 2005. What do you think they've been doing for 2 years, adding ripples to Mario's Overalls? They opened the character poll to Japan late last year, which means they must have saved room for a tleast a few characters.

 

[leprechaunlink727]

I'm by no means working for Sora.

I'm just a dreamer.

 

[leprechaunlink727]

And apparently Red Exodus is too.

 

[Sculelos]

I don't see 64 happening eather, they struggled to add 8 original charactures to melee, but since they have a much larger team and they have about a year more of development time then Melee assuming it doesn't get delayed again, so since they have about 2/3rds more to make the game and their working with a much bigger team I think they should be able to put out maby 14 original chars, 14+21=35, thats what I'm expecting if theirs no clones, or if clone type chars return we might get the magical 42 number, I hope they put in some clones if it helps the roster go from 35 to 42, honestly I would be perfectly fine with 35 chars although if we get more I will just think of it as a bonus on the already nice roster.

 

[Sculelos]

Maybe I'm just being too hopeful... But if you guys think 64 is ridiculous, you obviously haven't been to the official Nintendo thread.
SSB-12
SSMM-25
SSBB-64
I don't know, it just has a nice ring to it. SSBB is running on a Wii-vamped (tee-hee) version of the SSBM engine. They don't have to make a new engine this time around. Development started in May 2005. What do you think they've been doing for 2 years, adding ripples to Mario's Overalls? They opened the character poll to Japan late last year, which means they must have saved room for a tleast a few characters.

I don't think they had much else done except for what was shown in the trailer in E3 06, since that was may and they didn't want to spoil us in the next trailer they just showed us more moves and announced fox, since then they have been working on it for amout 11 months, but who knows how much they have actually gotten done in that time, I'm just hoping for a 2007 release, if it has 35 original chars I will be more then pleased, although if I'm right that only leaves 9 slots left open to newcomers.

 

[leprechaunlink727]

And considering the heated character debate, 9 slots is pretty lame.

 

[Mic_128]

Please do not doublepost.

There was 12 then they added 14. I'd expect another 10 or so to 34. Not a "nice even number" but a more likely one, concidering all the characters are being redone AND not all Melee ones are coming back.

 

[silver777]

46 is too much .

40 is more beliveable.

 

[Vampirekain]

Around 40 will be more than enough! 64 is just insane! To put 64 in Brawl they will have to put lots of clones and I think Sakurai said he'll try to stay away from cloning this time.

 

[~Tac~]

It could happen. This IS the Wii afterall. This isn't Mortal Kombat(Ew) where theres 3 clones of Scorpion in a different color suit and a different name and element.

Never underestimate Nintendo. People said there'd never be over 200 Pokemon. Guess how many there are now? Over 450 including the Diamond/Pearl set.

My hopes/estimate would be 30-50. Very low chance there will be under 25.

 

[Chibirobo]

Around 40 will be more than enough! 64 is just insane! To put 64 in Brawl they will have to put lots of clones and I think Sakurai said he'll try to stay away from cloning this time.

As sweet as 64 character would be, thre are two problems. 1.the one above, and 2. Even if they didin't include clones,the game would probably take a really long to make, with making event matches,trophies,and other stuff for them.

 

[GreenMamba]

I don't see 64 happening eather, they struggled to add 8 original charactures to melee, but since they have a much larger team and they have about a year more of development time then Melee assuming it doesn't get delayed again, so since they have about 2/3rds more to make the game and their working with a much bigger team I think they should be able to put out maby 14 original chars, 14+21=35, thats what I'm expecting if theirs no clones, or if clone type chars return we might get the magical 42 number, I hope they put in some clones if it helps the roster go from 35 to 42, honestly I would be perfectly fine with 35 chars although if we get more I will just think of it as a bonus on the already nice roster.

Melee was in development for two and a half years. If Brawl comes out in December, it will have been in development for less than that.

 

[oxyborb]

I think this is a good amount. Heh. I've never seen a screen with over 60 chars that was not made for humor.

40 characters seems about right.

 

[Red Exodus]

Miis? That just brought your slection screen rating from 8 out of 10 to 0.5 out of 10.

 

[Fawriel]

I like the number 42.
Probably a LOT of work on the poor little team, but it's about the maximum possible number according to my calculations.
As long as the characters are awesome and balanced and the stages nice, they can slap together a crappy single-player mode like they did for SSBM for all I care.
A December release shouldn't be TOO far-fetched with a roster of about 40...

Also, even without time constraints, 64 sounds like too much. The more the merrier, sure, but at some point, you're just overwhelmed by stuff.

 

[~Tac~]

....Rofl. I ridicule a Mii being in there...at the same time. Its Nintendo..it honestly could happen..o_o;

I hope not tho. >_>

 

[linkw00t]

I'd hope for around 45. I really didn't like that roster too much, I'd rather see more new characters. It's a welldone roster, but I don't want a full cast of melee characters then a few new ones.

 

[McFox]

Here's a number I made up, it's obviously going to be the number.

Give me a break.