Balloon Fighter should be requested for this game

[Pluvia's other account]

I still want BF in the game. Nice WTF character.

I agree.

 

[Pulse]

My thoughts on BF: totally.

He could have 6 jumps, but no up B, and be redicusly floaty, taking 20 seconds to hit the ground. He would have to suck on the ground, though.

 

[A Link to the Snitch]

BF would be awesome, but his chances are pretty much nonexistent.

Also, that sounds really broken. Even if he sucks on ground, with his recovery abilities, he barely needs ground.

 

[DekuBoy]

Balloon Fighter was in the Melee Beta. That means he has a moveset already. All he needs is Sakurai's acceptance.

 

[A Link to the Snitch]

But the one obvious element of his stage was placed in the Ice Climber stage, and we don't know if he has a moveset of any kind.

 

[DekuBoy]

He would have to if he was playable.

 

[A Link to the Snitch]

He wasn't playable, he was in development. We don't know how playable he was. He could have been just a character model for all we know.

Regardless, the fact of the matter is that if they intended to give him a stage, the fish would not be placed in another series' stage, and we wouldn't see the tradition of pairing BF with IC.

 

[EPX2]

He wasn't playable, he was in development. We don't know how playable he was. He could have been just a character model for all we know.

Regardless, the fact of the matter is that if they intended to give him a stage, the fish would not be placed in another series' stage, and we wouldn't see the tradition of pairing BF with IC.

Well, that's assuming that they were planning on giving him a stage in the first place. Assuming he's in the game, it's very possible that Sakurai's team couldn't develop a worthwhile stage featuring elements from Balloon Fight, so they just scrapped the idea for one and decided to have him share The Summit with the Ice Climbers. It most certainly wouldn't be the first time a character was in the SSB series without having a "home" stage (Captain Falcon and Ness in SSB, Marth and Roy in SSBM).

 

[A Link to the Snitch]

How could they not give him a stage?

Lightning balls
Flipper
Fish
Water
Balloons
Birds

That's more stuff than what Lylat Cruise has.

And in the case of Marth and Roy, they had a stage in the beta version. I doubt that Sakurai's going to make the mistake of skipping a character for a stage.

 

[EPX2]

How could they not give him a stage?

Lightning balls
Flipper
Fish
Water
Balloons
Birds

That's more stuff than what Lylat Cruise has.

How am I supposed to know? I'm not on the development team.

And in the case of Marth and Roy, they had a stage in the beta version. I doubt that Sakurai's going to make the mistake of skipping a character for a stage.

Who said anything about it being a mistake? How do we know that Sakurai didn't intentionally refrain from giving certain characters stages for whatever reason? I'm fully aware of Marth and Roy having a stage in the beta, I simply brought them up because they didn't have one in the final game. But that's beside the point - Captain Falcon and Ness still didn't have home stages in the original SSB; they had to claim other stages as their "own." There's really nothing stopping that from happening again with Brawl.

 

[A Link to the Snitch]

In SSB, four characters lacked stages.

In Melee, we had Bowser, Ganondorf, Pichu, Marth, Roy, Falco Lombardi, Young Link, and Mewtwo lacked stages.

Which means that only two non-clones lacked stages. And even then, Pichu and Mewtwo had Pokémon Stadium as jointly owned stages, Falco had a Star Fox stage not made for him but it might as well be, a Termina Bay which wasn't for him but, again, might as well have been, etc. Leaving Marth, Roy, Bowser, and Ganondorf as the only ones without stages that they could call their own that probably needed their own, meaning that Bowser was the only one who didn't really have a real stage to call his own.

Brawl is supposed to be improved in every way, and I doubt that Sakurai would want to take a step backwards with what he did with Melee.

 

[PsychoIncarnate]

In SSB, four characters lacked stages.

In Melee, we had Bowser, Ganondorf, Pichu, Marth, Roy, Falco Lombardi, Young Link, and Mewtwo lacked stages.

Which means that only two non-clones lacked stages. And even then, Pichu and Mewtwo had Pokémon Stadium as jointly owned stages, Falco had a Star Fox stage not made for him but it might as well be, a Termina Bay which wasn't for him but, again, might as well have been, etc. Leaving Marth, Roy, Bowser, and Ganondorf as the only ones without stages that they could call their own that probably needed their own, meaning that Bowser was the only one who didn't really have a real stage to call his own.

Brawl is supposed to be improved in every way, and I doubt that Sakurai would want to take a step backwards with what he did with Melee.

Luigi could have technically had a stage in 64