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I'd be over the moon with a Klubba Assist Trophy~
You beat me to mentioning this in the thread, but yeah, we know Club Nintendo responses actually get read by Nintendo staff members. Whether or not they listen to what they receive is up in the air, but consider that, in the latest Paper Mario, the developers removed all story elements because "less than one percent of Club Nintendo responses praised the story." These forms are a clear way to let our voices be heard, so let's squeeze every last drop we can out of them.I was just on my Club Nintendo account to find out that aside from the starting survey (and I could be mistaken) there was also a post-survey! So I filled mine out for Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS mentioning how vital King K. Rool as DLC could be to the game. And I know I already suggested it when I joined the forum, but if we want this to happen. I advise EVERYONE in here to see if they have any surveys/post surveys in their Club Nintendo account and to fill them out for the 3DS (and soon Wii U) version! Here's the responses I gave for mine:
Nintendo DOES read these Surveys for those of you whom don't know, as mentioned in the official wordpress for the Kampaign, they have been known to respond to them sometimes through actions! (Also fill out any DKCR3D / Tropical Freeze surveys of how we want the Kremlings and King K. Rool back in RetroDKC3!)
P.S. in terms of today's words of Sakurai, its merely a marketing strategy saying to get people to at first buy the game thinking they have the full package. And even if Sakurai said no, It really isn't up to him. Nintendo has a wallet that needs money printing
Was that for the better or the worse for Paper Mario: Sticker Star?
Zem-raj said:
Never played the game, but listening to friends who have, absolutely for the worse. The game was apparently lining up to be similar to Thousand-Year Door, by all accounts a superb game, before Miyamoto and other higher-ups demanded that all non-Mario characters be thrown out and the storyline be simplified down to yet another Bowser plot.
The good news is, based on everything I'm hearing... K. Rool is probably the most likely DLC character at this point. Popularity and sales matter a lot, and K. Rool is very popular. Smash DLC seems like it could take longer than we were expecting; namely, it may not start until after Mewtwo is released, or shortly before. Which could be as late as potentially June, around E3. By then we may have already learned about K. Rool's return to the DK franchise.
I actually agree with Sakurai's reasoning, but he contradicts himself too many time for me to take him seriously. When has a Wario game ever portrayed the title character as a fat slob who does nothing but eats and farts? Sure the WarioWare games have their fair share of gross humor, but not to such an extreme extent. As usual, Sakurai just makes things up as he goes along in order to justify his biases against certain characters. I wonder what his reason was for not including King K. Rool.
You've gotta be ****ting me. So the Too Big idiots were right on the money with Sakurai's thought process.
I couldn't agree with you more. Sakurai isn't the only one who does this (looks at Akira Toriyama for some of the more recent info for DBZ) but Sakurai changes his mind like the weather. I will bet money on him making another Kid Icarus game despite him saying he wouldn't. I honestly think it may be for the best if we get a new director for the next Smash.
They weren't idiots, it was brain-dead obvious to anyone who wasn't biased by being a Ridley fan that he's not appropriate as a playable character and that he wouldn't be made one.
I don't think think calling people stupid for disagreeing with you is appropriate forum conduct. I can see WHY Sakurai decided to omit Ridley, but I'm a firm believer in doing things, certain things that you may personally find objectionable, in order to please the fans. Sakurai is far too arrogant for that, and I hope he handles the inevitable backlash with class.
Why do I have a feeling Sakurai would answer to K. Rool fans "I didn't put him in the game because he isn't relevant"? Like you mentioned, it seems like he randomly makes things up as he goes. Can we please start making a list of potential new directors? I love Sakurai to death, but if he keeps doing this and also contradicting himself, then we need a new director.
I stopped caring for Ridley after the 3DS roster got revealed, so I don't care about this news. Still, I sympathize with Ridley supporters because this reason is clearly BS.
"He's a giant, non-humanoid boss character whose size and features would have to be altered greatly for him to be a fighter."
Just saying. I also don't see why they're idiots for wanting a character, if fans want a character playable just make the adjustments for him/her to be playable. I mean this game is fan-service, so fans can't have a character playable just because other people think it would look wrong to them? In the end, it'd be just more content towards the game that would be a unique fighter (you know as in not a clone, the thing everyone ******* about when Smash 3DS released). On another note, Sakurai changes his opinions (and some times contradicts himself in the process) too many times to take everything he says as if its set in stone, this is the same guy who said Animal Crossing characters wouldn't be "appropriate" for Smash due to their cuteness, but look at where we are in 2014 with the Villager as a playable fighter. I never thought Ridley was playable to be honest. I just wanted him in so the arguing would stop, but it SEEMS at this point it is how it is. I honestly don't care if he's never included at this point.Dictionary said:
It wasn't just me, pretty much everyone who wasn't a hardcore Ridley fan knew how it would play out, it was that obvious. It's one thing to simply hope for an obviously unlikely character, but to practically expect him when he'd been clearly teased as a boss and be hostile towards anyone who thought otherwise was stupid.
I don't even drink and that looks ridiculously good.
He already was. Ridley just had a more vocal fanbase.
Don't forget about how Japan loves to think Metroid doesn't exist...
Ya no, these statements always seem off, due probably in part due to translation, but fact is half of the time it seems to be lack of personal interest, and perhaps the fact he hasn't come up with an idea he'd like. Fact is with enough creativity anything is possible, and fact is there are a number of iconic characters that would be great in smash and could be considered too big!
Great, now you have me wanting to do a model of him with some more modern details mixed with NES proportions, fact is Smash should take all aspects of a character not just one, and make a version that fits Smash, which is part of the reason Wario is a travesty
And this is where Sakurai's unending contradictory of himself shows yet again. You have to take almost anything the guy says with a grain of salt. "Animal Crossing characters don't fit with Smash"
, "Marth and Roy will be Japanese exclusive characters in Melee" in NA and Europe, "We accurately represent characters in Smash" would like to say otherwise. And the list goes on and on.
Unfortunately I'm sure the comments about Ridley pretty much are final at this point. But he does contradict himself left and right, which is why I don't buy this DLC comment.And this is where Sakurai's unending contradictory of himself shows yet again. You have to take almost anything the guy says with a grain of salt. "Animal Crossing characters don't fit with Smash"
is an angry, growling hulk ****** in his games? totally has the man's best friend personality in his game. totally could use Mappy's trampoline. totally has the same body size as Bowser Jr., hell all of the Koopalings have the same body size as each other! can use nosferatu, and has the powers to throw beams of energy at people!
You are a Ridley hating bigot, but I like the way you think.
I feel your pain bro.
I want to see Gen. Klump as an Assist Trophy, throwing exploding oranges at everyone.
I don't hate Ridely himself. I was mostly indifferent to him, if anything I came to think he was cool from the Ridley thread, where I saw his designs and found out that he was sentient and had a backstory and not just a mindless savage.
To be perfectly fair, Ridley fans have been bullied since Pre-Brawl.
So what you're basically saying is that the reasons why Ridley wouldn't be playable this game have been obvious to the public since pre-2008.
There is no "obvious" reason Ridley should not be playable, and if you say "He's too big" I will literally reach through the internet to slap you.
