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The divide goes back to PC vs. Console gaming in the late 80s early 90s, when most PC games where made by Western developers. The two genre's had similar roots but developed in very different ways, and when both met on an even battlefield (when the first Xbox hit the market place and more Western devs starting making game for consoles) the WRPG vs JRPG labels started being used more heavily to describe the type of game experience you could expect to find.
And why, pray tell, does Fire Emblem not count?
It's a turn based strategy game, not an RPG.
True. A genre has no effect on a character's chances.
Maybe not... still, we have some characters who represent certain genres... especially the characters who are the sole reps of their series.
To find out if Sakurai's Miiverse comment about Shulk had anything to do with the genre he was from.
Nah, I personally think it is because Shulk is from a Japan-only game (well, it was intended to be Japan-only in 2010)... especially from an unestablished series (it is too new)... and Xenoblade Chronicles came to the West on April 2012 (right after Sakurai was done with Uprising) so it was fresh in Sakurai's mind when he was beginning to work on Smash. Xenoblade Chronicles came first and the other two Operation Rainfall JRPG games came too late.
Never mind, I like this idea better...
It's in the same series as Xenogears (1998).
No, it is not.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenogears
You posted the link I meant to. I just got sidetracked reading about xenogears. Dang that was a good game.
Either way, Xenoblade is owned by Nintendo while Xenogears and Xenosaga are not owned by Nintendo.... really, Monolith Soft needs to come up with a new name besides "xeno-".
Same boat as Bayonetta then.
Wolf.
Let's hope so. He didn't deserve to be cut from the game at all.
Neither did Lucas, but he is a bit more justifiable, though.
Oh Scatman, I wish I could be optimistic about either one, I really do.....Vaati.
In all seriousness, Snake.
Are you talking about their models in the Star Fox codecs or their playable models in those two stages?
The codecs.
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Wow didn't notice that, this is interesting. What's your theory on that?
But isn't he already in the game, they announced him at E3.
That it makes the situation even bleaker than I thought.
Mewtwo.
Then why? If Sakurai said he didn't want to vut alot of characters, why cut someone like Wolf early on? Sanke's understandable, and to some extent Squirtle and Ivysaur, and if you push it Gematsu claimed Lucas was cut. Ice Climbers were cut late in development... Or the theory could be turned around, since Wolf's model is different, it could signify a late cut, to hide Wolf's smash look. (Every other character uses an HD version of their brawl look.) I don't think it takes that long to make a model like that, plus they probably did it in the same time it took to remove Ice Climbers, plus Wolf will be in the new Star Fox game, He was a highly requested pre melee character, so why cut him?
Nobody.
Wolf, he's the last villainous veteran we need, and since he's going to be in the new Star Fox game, Sakurai would be a fool to exclude him, Wolf can be free DLC.
