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I understand its significance to Nintendo and all, but you can't base roster decisions on that alone. By that logic, we should have the SNES as a playable character as that is where a number of series reached their high point or launched on that console.
Did Disk-kun ever have his own game like R.O.B. did?
Its because he's an AC character, which are unsuited for fighting, stated by the Smash god Sakurai himself.
This "Smash God" also gave us a crappy Adventure mode storyline. I supposed you say otherwise, huh?
To be more specific, he says, "Characters like [Villager (I think that's the Crosser's true name) and Nintendog] that do not seem plausible for them to fight will not appear."
What's wrong with sidekick characters or villains?
Like I said, throw those other Nintendo series in. An increase in third-party characters doesn't necessarily have to affect them or be affected by them.
Everyone's going to see that coming; it'll lose a lot of WTF value, but w/e.
WTF.
For some reason, I think an increase of only 10 characters just wouldn't sit well with Sakurai. Besides, the next Smash game is years away. Things will change.
Brawl's roster only offered a 13 character increase over Melee despite there being 18 newcomers. I said that I am expecting there to be 45 slots. Some of Brawl's characters could very well be cut, meaning that there could be more than a minimum of 10 newcomers added to Smash 4. I expect Smash 4 to be a renonvation of the Smash series as opposed to "bigger and more", as Sakurai has said that he thought that simply adding lots of new characters would not make Smash 4 worthwhile (the number that Sakurai used was 50, and it is important to note that Sakurai keeps transformations in mind when he talks about the number of characters on a roster, as he has referred to Melee as having 26 characters and Brawl as having 39).
Chrono's point is that lists shouldn't have as many "stupid" characters as he said, because undoubtedly it'll have the smallest increase in characters than 64->Melee or Melee->Brawl.
I know what he means, but I personally wouldn't put an imaginary limit on Smash's roster just yet, especially when there are so many factors that affect the newcomers in the first place.
Indeed. But who knows, really. Did he say that right after Brawl's release? Like I said, things can change after many years.
I believe Sakurai said in an IGN interview around GDC of last year that they tried their best to balance the characters, and that there was no characters that was better than all of the other ones. Sakurai believes tires don exits.
If time's the issue, then if he develops the next one, he needs to prioritize much better. It's obvious that the Adventure Mode took the majority of the time invested.
☆ Better said, he was rushed, he had years making this game so that can't be it. That and when did you became a mod?!? ☆
Have you ever developed a game?
☆ Only thing I did was help program one of my frineds game for a project, but never developed one. Well, I thought he was rushed. =/ ☆
This. Where would you get that from? I actually heard the other way around; apparently Sakurai stated, on an interview, that Brawl was going to have 35-50 characters. I don't believe this, because the person that told me had no proof. Still, the fact that Sakurai confirmed that he wanted to put more characters in Brawl than those found in the final product makes me doubt the newcomers' list will decrease for SSB4.
Whoa, I got misquoted.
That is the only thread that I know of off-hand. I will try and find more. Sakurai has actually developed the entire series, and knows the limits of development time and programming. I say we take the 50 mark as a precaution, else you will all be doomed to "baaaaaaww Sakurai didn't make 60 slots in the game baaaaaaw". Sakurai used 50 because that is the number he is thinking that he can get to in Smash 4 (including transformations), if he can get above that number, good for us, however, we must take heed about that number or risk being disappointed if it does indeed being that number or possibly lower (49 or 48 lol).
Still, speculation is fun, and since SSB4 is not coming out in a long time, we can speculate to pass the time. I still think we may get 52 character spots, excluding transformations. With Melee having 13 newcomers and Brawl 15, I can see 17 newcomers in SSB4. Of course, this is only if no characters get the boot. An accurate prediction of the roster's size in SSB4 is pretty much impossible. Sakurai can always surprise us. Right now I put my money on 50+, but who knows?
Well, take from it what you will.
Unfortunately, everyone is partying while the Titantic is going down (the Titantic being the age of large newcomer lists). If you don't learn to temper your expectations in regards to the roster number, you will be severely disappointed in Smash 4 even if it were to rectify all the flaws Brawl had.
Well, it seems you're trying to be all doom and gloom on us when the next game is many years away because you want attention. You want to be right about something, and you want recognition for it.
