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How many retro characters do you think will/should be in Brawl?

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Chibirobo

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The title pretty much says it all, how many retro characters do you think/should be in brawl? Of course,there's a difference will and should. Like many would you like too there to be,and how many do you think there will be? I'd personally like too see as at least eight(Pit,Ice Climbers,Mr.Game and Watch,Balloon Fighter,Mach Rider,Laughing Dog,Stanley the bugman,and ROB) but I know realistically at max there probably have only about four. Pit's confirmed,the Climbers and G&W have been rumored to have been scrapped,and the rumor that Mach Ridr and Balloon Rider were set to have in Brawl in the beta version(although I'm sure all of you guys know of all this),so I don't know where thats puts the others.

So,whats your opinion?
 
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5 Maybe, but I think 8 may be too many. Can never have enough characters to try out though. I'd love to see GAW return, even though I've never even played as him.

I just think he's a comic relief charcter of sorts, plus a friend plays pretty well with him.
 
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Well I hope they keep all the retro characters they had in melee, since they're all pretty cool (especially the climbers)

Pits been confirmed... and for the rest of em Ill just see what happens.

In all honnesty I dont care what characters they are, or what they look like. They could be wireframes for all I care, just as long as the majority of the time developing this game was spent creating beautifuly intricate, unique movesets As for the techs and physics, they really could have just taken what they had in melee, but hey lets just see what happens.
 
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Considering absolutely nothing has been said about how many characters there will be in the game, you don't have a leg to stand on.
 
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I agree, I think like the leap from SSB to SSBM I was almost shocked at the new amount of characters. We aren't sure if it will be like a jump that substantial or a similar amount just a few swapped and a few cut. But an on-topic response would be "what about some of the other Kongs from the D.K series, or even the baddest son-of-a-gun to ever hit the go-kart racing seen, Tip-Tup. :)
 
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the retro characters that are confirmed are:link,pit,mario,and I'm not to sure if samus and fox are retro. The retro characters they need are: donkey kong and luigi.
 
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I don't think those are exactly retro, jsut in the fact that they've been in past smash bros. games. I think retro refers more to like the appearance of Ice Climbers or Game and Watch. I have little room to talk since my suggestions are from the N64 era -.-
 
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The more the merrier I say. As long as they aren unique characters and not clones of one another. and have decent fighting prowess. Oh and they need to be from Nintendo's library.
 
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I can't give a specific number, but I can say this, it'll be one of those things where you play the game, you unlock the character and say, "Well, didn't see that coming." in the most sarcastic manner possible



Here are the reason why (besides Game and Watch) their will only be two more (Sorry just thought of the number)


1. A lot of people have forgoten about older franchises. When a game player thinks old franchises, most of them think Contra and Super Mario Bros (Possibly Sonic) but their are some people that can think of others
2. Not a lot of characters would work under a SSB type moveset (Balloon Fighter worshipers, I'm talkin to YOU!"
3. Once you find the retro characters that meet the criteria for both 1 and 2, THEN you have to break downs which characters wouldn't be an obvious failure Ice Climbers (false cough)
So, out of an retro characters, GW and Cackatella pwn all
 
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k, check it,

What SSB B-R-A-W-L needs, to make it a real brawl, are the ninja turtles!!

I know I know, four's a lot, but they could easily put it into one character, and just have the alternate colour button alternate between the ninja turtles!! OMFG KALABUNGA!! For real who doesn't think that would be awesome????

And they're not third party characters! They were on the Original Nintendo waaaay back in tha day, (lol back when I was 3 :p)

Coz, Sheik is the only ninja melee has, and even sheik isn't really all that ninja-like, (sheiks a woman & im sexist)

aside from the retro ninja turtles, I'd say.. OH MAN!! THE POWER RANGERS!! OMGOSH YEAAAAAA and like same thing! alternate colours == alternate power rangers, man how awesome would that be?!

hmm... lemme see... whoooo else.. :-o ah, well, this is just characters in general: but I think we need more heavy weights, like King DeDeDe, and the three awesome monstruous beasts from Rampage for the N64!

oh, and Waddle-Dee from Kirby super-star! ^_^ that guy waz awesome :p
 
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I'm going to assume that the word 'retro' is not defined in this thread, meaning it'll be pretty easy for someone to come in here and say Metaknight is retro, as he is to a certain age group.

Pit, the Ice Climbers, and Game and Watch are undeniably retro. Do you consider Metaknight retro?

No, you shouldn't. Retro should be considered anyone who hasn't been in a game in quite a while, with Smash games being excluded.

But Ness could technically be considered a retro character....

Eh, I give up trying to define it. Someone else can deal with all that. Anyways, I think as many retro characters as Sakurai feels is right is how many should be in there, so long as they aren't disallowing for more important characters to be in. Like...Balloon Guy taking a spot from Captain Olimar, or something.
 
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Well, by that definition, Pit isn't retro, seeing as he had a sequel for the Game Boy...
 
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You bring up a good point. I guess he isn't. Perhaps we should refer to him as obscure. Yes, I don't see why not.
 
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No, he's definitely retro, though.

I dunon. I'm just causing trouble, haha. I'm pretty sure we all have fairly stable definitions for the word retro.
 
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DrGrimReaper said:
k, check it,

What SSB B-R-A-W-L needs, to make it a real brawl, are the ninja turtles!!

I know I know, four's a lot, but they could easily put it into one character, and just have the alternate colour button alternate between the ninja turtles!! OMFG KALABUNGA!! For real who doesn't think that would be awesome????

And they're not third party characters! They were on the Original Nintendo waaaay back in tha day, (lol back when I was 3 :p)

Coz, Sheik is the only ninja melee has, and even sheik isn't really all that ninja-like, (sheiks a woman & im sexist)

aside from the retro ninja turtles, I'd say.. OH MAN!! THE POWER RANGERS!! OMGOSH YEAAAAAA and like same thing! alternate colours == alternate power rangers, man how awesome would that be?!

hmm... lemme see... whoooo else.. :-o ah, well, this is just characters in general: but I think we need more heavy weights, like King DeDeDe, and the three awesome monstruous beasts from Rampage for the N64!

oh, and Waddle-Dee from Kirby super-star! ^_^ that guy waz awesome :p
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WTFOMG I nominate this post as the funniest post of all time...I think Balloon fighter could work well (my favorite NES game). Please keep climbers atleast QQ...
 
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Pit, Ice Climbers, Balloon Fighter, Mach Rider and Little Mac would be nice.
 
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ret·ro (rět'rō)
adj.

1. Retroactive: retro pay.
2. Involving, relating to, or reminiscent of things past; retrospective

There ya go. Boom chicaboomboom.

Boom boom.
 
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So anything from the past...

So, now it's how many CHARACTERS do you want in Brawl. Hm...40 or so.
 
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I would define retro as characters who came out in the late 80's and early 90's and ones who didn't have series such as Mario and Link.
 
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