**Important information for all those speculating the starting roster.**

[the grim lizard]

OK, I don't even care if this is locked, but I'm tired of all the people who either have poor memories or were too young when Melee came out that keep asking this. No one seems to be able to get the story straight on what was released prior to Melee. I am one of the few who actually remembers, apparently.

First, there was nowhere near the hype for that game as Brawl. Melee was a release title (more or less). While the hype wasn't near that of Brawl, the rumor mill still was out and about. However, the only characters that were known prior to Melee's release were the starters. This means that Bowser, ICs, Peach, and Zelda/Sheik were the only new characters known. We also knew that Ness and Captain Falcon were for sure in the game. This information was released at that year's E3 and was also shown in ads for the game such as this one:



One side note is that near the game's release, actual screenshots of the final roster were in fact posted online, but no one seemed to believe the real ones. Plenty of fake ones were shown to be sure, on these very boards. But, the real one (posted here) wasn't believed. People saw the inconsistancies in how the clones were offset, they noted that M2 looked 2D, etc. Actually, though, Mr. G&W was still a question mark if I recall correctly. Perhaps if he was revealed, people would have believed it more simply due to the oddity of picking him of all characters to add to a fake roster.

I also remember still being excited about that game and checking the updates whenever they were released on a sister site of this: smashbrosmelee.com/

I checked this about as religiously as the current DOJO site. I believe it was even this site that got me into checking out Smashboards.

On a final note, I believe most of this information is still documented in that site's archive section.

 

[TheBuzzSaw]

Speculation is fine. Declaring truth is what members become obsessed with. Just wait for the game comes out, people.

the grim lizard wins.
Double Flawless.
F A T A L I T Y

 

[Pluvia's other account]

Then again, that's Melee, not Brawl.

 

[vesperview]

What does this have to do with Brawl?

 

[Terrabottuti]

What does this have to do with Brawl?

I think Grim's point is that it's pretty pointless to speculate about the starter roster for Brawl considering that Melee told us pretty much everything about the starters, and then left all the secret stuff to after the game's release. It is pretty likely that Brawl will follow this tradition and leave the juicy stuff to after the game's release as well... or maybe at the very last minute, given this huge delay and Sakurai's knowledge that the roster will be leaked anyway.

While Grim's post has lots of logic to it, I do have to say that speculation is just a force of nature on these forums. You stop it, and you stop smashboards... or at least the Brawl section anyway.

 

[vesperview]

I doubt all characters shown on the dojo are starters.

 

[Pluvia's other account]

I don't understand why Sakurai would wait till after January 25th to show us all the Characters..

What would be the point in it? It wouldn't be surprising, everyone would already know. Half the people that go there now would stop going, it would be all over YouTube and Google within hours.

So even if Sakurai waits till after January 25th to show us the Characters, it would make no difference, as they would already have their own Character section here before he shows us them.

So really what I'm trying to say is, he has to show us all the Characters before then, if he doesn't want his game to be spoiled by anyone else.