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1. Because she's a girl (I'm not kidding. This has been given as a/the reason so many times)
Incidentally, Sol, you were absolutely right about his size. I've recently started playing with Squirtle a lot, and a lot of the people I play against have trouble hitting me when I use him because he's so small and fast. If there was a character who was even smaller and faster than Squirtle... I shudder to think.
See? Sol knows stuff. But seriously. If Ray was scaled to about the size of a toy, you would be basically fighting Vanilla Meta Knight mixed with Melee Fox using Falco's blaster. That would be too much to handle. Size him up, give him some reasonable balance, and let him go to work. Ray is honestly the type of character Project M NEEDS!
Not sure about his AT projectiles, but it's possible to have a character use item projectiles (like Ray Gun or Super Scope shots) without actually having the item. That said, it feels kinda jank to me when I use PSAs that do that.
I'm actually one of Ray's biggest enthusiasts in this thread, and yeah I've considered all of those things. Ray's attacks could be balanced and a lot of his attack effects can be salvaged from his assist trophy, or made from existing projectile effects if need be. You see, Custom Robo is an arena fighter where your robots have nearly nothing more than traps and guns, with the exception of a few minor moves. Ray's moveset in particular would be forced around his range game and keeping away. Literally his biggest weakness would be getting too close to his opponent. And things like his grabs would also be modified for keeping opponents away. His Smashes would be a lot like Vanilla Brawl Snake, which require precise accuracy to land. Think of Snake's up-smash for instance. Now imagine a moveset revolving around that gaping concept.
Plus if you played the game (which NO ONE has) you have this awesome appreciation for his design and general thought process behind his being made.I honestly don't understand why Ray MK III isn't further along. He is basically an air-dashing Samus gone pure-spacie.... Kinda. All things of which are apparently hype in Project M. I mean have you SEEN how fast that assist trophy hauls *** and how rapid his shots are? Make him match the height of Luigi, give him a pure accuracy based range game that relies on distance for his combos, and you got yourself one of the most intriguing characters in the game. He would basically be the Mega Man of this group.
Amazing/10. Do want.
Mary me solbliminal? Please desu?I'm actually one of Ray's biggest enthusiasts in this thread, and yeah I've considered all of those things. Ray's attacks could be balanced and a lot of his attack effects can be salvaged from his assist trophy, or made from existing projectile effects if need be. You see, Custom Robo is an arena fighter where your robots have nearly nothing more than traps and guns, with the exception of a few minor moves. Ray's moveset in particular would be forced around his range game and keeping away. Literally his biggest weakness would be getting too close to his opponent. And things like his grabs would also be modified for keeping opponents away. His Smashes would be a lot like Vanilla Brawl Snake, which require precise accuracy to land. Think of Snake's up-smash for instance. Now imagine a moveset revolving around that gaping concept.
Ray's attacks up close would likely wiff the opponent, but they can be used as anti-airs, lock downs, and with other moves he can set up combos that lead into this attack if done properly. This is just a basic concept though. I've got MANY other ideas in mind that have been steadily changing over time that would make for a more balanced character, and unique without requiring too much work on top of that.
I'll take this as a vote for Ray then? Because I'm all about supporting this lil' guy. The Custom Robo series has been a huge underdog that has been around since the N64 (In Japan). Feel free to spread the support if you guys like, because Ray is likely never getting another chance after Project M.
Okay, this is the first time I kick in a damn vote, but me2.
Because no one knows it exists.
Poor advertisement. Fans weren't incredibly vocal.
Pretty much this. It's another one of those series that just never got the awareness and advertising a game needs to become really big.
No vote quite yet. There are so many characters to consider that I'm not sure about who to cast my +1's for yet. Ray's being considered, but just give me a little bit longer before I make my decision. I'm near a good idea of who I want, so it shouldn't be too long. I really hope I don't come off sounding mean. Please understand.
Based Mansta8 is super freaking based. Thank you. Yes this is one of Custom Robo's biggest issues. They never localized the 2 most popular games in the series, that being the first 2. They were said to be greater than the two we got overseas.
I completely understand man. I'm just being vocal because this series has been over looked so many times. Had this game taken off properly, it would be at the calibur of Golden Sun and Advance Wars.
Broham. I was getting votes before you were even part of this thread. Take that weak sauce Takamaru support back to the SSB4 thread dawg. OwaitSol coming in behind me and sweeping up votes when I was looking to snag more for #TakaSquad... I see you.
If he's going to be a clone, then not much aside from parameters (just like every other clone). If he's made unique, then he had his katana, which should play differently than most sword users. Typically, the sword will stay sheathed (unlike most swordfighters, who carry their swords around). When he attacks, he'll pull it out for quick strikes. The way I'd imagine it, his attacks would come out very fast, but his initiation would have a significant delay (and even longer for charged smashes, obviously), allowing players to react. However, since he'll be pulling from his sheath for many of his attacks, he can turn it into any particular strike -- so while the player will have time to react to an attack, they might not be so sure which attack it'll be until the very last second.
Just imagine Sonic, slower (like Fox to Wolf, not Fox to Falco), with Stronger attacks, defined Tilt game, and an easier Recovery, albeit he's a bit heavier (fall wise not KB wise).
S'fine, I'm saying your adding 1 point to a few characters, and half a point to everyone else, which really just means that the characters you gave one point are only getting ahead a half a point because everybody else rose half a point. Relativity, you dig?
Ohhhh... I see what you did there! Because since each character is 1/2 ahead and 1/2 behind, that leaves 1/2 in between the top votes and the bottom votes. Therefore, each vote is only worth the difference (1/2) because you have to subtract the bottom votes from the top votes to get how much each one is worth! Very clever! Very clever, indeed...
Try forward hydroplane f smashing back and forth
I'd actually be fine with it if we got a Metal Gear character as well, because we shouldn't just give Sonic special attention without giving any to MGS--provided we go out of our way to give third-parties extra characters at all.
I would actually have my stomach curl even more from a MGS character than a Sonic character. Snake is fine, but really the whole Metal Gear series is not very Nintendo at all. Snake already is somewhat out of place in Smash Bros and is in mainly because Sakurai was like "lol, okay" to Konami wanting Snake to be in. IMO, characters like Gray Fox and Liquid Snake do not belong at all. Sonic characters at least fit in better as they're more cartoony and have had an extensive history with Nintendo, most importantly, a number of crossover games.
The only Sonic characters I would find to be fairly good additions are Tails and Eggman. The others would feel out of place to me, don't know why. I guess because it's so iconic seeing Sonic and Tails together and since Eggman's been there forever.
