Impossible that no Sakurai Bias was involved. DK and Star Fox are bigger, not forgetting Wolf was in Brawl so some assets and code potentially could have been used as a base.
Ah, the irony of when Wolf was the last character revealed back in Brawl, people complained about how Sakurai was biased for the Star Fox series... Times do change, indeed.
(I agree that the DK series could have more content, though...)
Umm, that was my point. He wanted to have how ever many characters in the game, but was never going to meet the launch deadline so put aside development of characters who he hadn't worked on yet, threw together Doctor Mario and friends to plug in the gaps of his quota which lets him work on the actual characters he wanted to do and that fans wanted later as DLC.
Sakurai has no quota of characters. He simply adds as many as he can from the project plan, dropping characters mid-way.
He doesn't add clones to fill a quota. He added clones because it was viable to do so.
Oh wow, this tired old argument of "if you cant do X or aren't an expert in X you aren't allowed to say anything".
Have you ever sat down on a computer programming stuff all the way till 4 AM because you had a deadline to meet in a few days? I have.
Have you ever struggled to finish a project due to bugs you can't seem to fix? I have.
You ever had deal with the frustration to deliver a not completely finished project because you had to drop a few things to meet the deadline? I have.
If you have no experience in a professional area, you cannot possibly understand the meaning of working on such a profession and therefore cannot argue about the decisions professionals make.
This is the truth of things. You can only argue and discuss on things you have knowledge on. If you don't know, you cannot possibly understand.
And as the popularity of DLC has shown, people are happy to wait and pay for extra content due to the amount of value smash already provides. Of course Sakurai would never say anything bad about his own game no matter how true. Doctor Mario and friends arent dessert, they are the cheap tacky unedible stuff on top of a cake that if it wasnt there you wouldnt ask why the cheap tacky unedible stuff wasnt there.
If anything, the clones tell that Sakurai wanted a game as jam-packed with content as possible before releasing it.
Then, DLC development starts as what it should be: optional extra content users can buy in accordance to their desire.
And still, I don't see what's objectively bad about clones. This is a crossover game and a huge one at that. More characters is always good. The fact people don't like them doesn't mean they're an inherently bad thing. It only makes them bad for said people.
The clones' addition didn't break the game. They didn't disrupt the game's balance. The clones have no bugs or any cheap exploits. People can still have fun playing the game. The game's quality as far as gameplay and stability goes isn't affected in the slightest, therefore, the game hasn't become objectively worse. It only has a sect of people whining about them, but that is not my problem.
I like how you've ignored the fact that if the customisation was more robust and advanced that Doctor Mario and friends wouldn't be characters as initially intended.
Not necessarily. Depends on how customization would work.
Therefore, that isn't a fact, but your opinion. "More robust and advanced" is meaningless to me.
Of course, a customization system with more options would also require more workload on the game, which could have repercussions in other areas of the game...
The reduction of workload is nonsense, even with his arm still being dodgey he is still working on DLC for months after launch and will continue to do so for many months more it was just poor cover up on his part.
Actually, that's false.
DLC has a smaller team working on it, thus less workload. If you compare the development time-to-content ratio of the main game with that of DLC, you'll notice that DLC, for the time it's been worked on, has much less content compared to the main game.
And admit it, you're only butthurt about the clones because Wolf isn't in the game. Your signature makes it clearly obvious.
This coming from someone who wants Wolf back and threw a vote for him in the ballot, as I stated multiple times before in this very thread. He's pretty much the only character I want now that Lucas, Mewtwo and Roy are back. Any other characters are cherries on top of the cake.
tl;dr
- Clones aren't inherently bad. They didn't break the game, have no bugs, don't disrupt the game's stability.
- I want Wolf as much as everyone in this thread does, but I'm not whining or finding scapegoats. I'm fully prepared for the possibility of him not making the cut at all.
- I try to make an effort in doing research on how games are developed to better understand the game designers' decisions and the circumstances behind them before criticizing them.
