You're missing my point entirely. I am not saying that having retro roots makes you retro. However, the vast majority of Little Mac's roles are retro. Little Mac is a retro character, and so he has less priority over current characters. Smash is all about representing the most recent and popular characters, and so it's ridiculous to compare Little Mac to characters like K. Rool and Ridley when they are the characters with more significance and support.
Wow you make no sense. If Smash is about the newest and most popular characters then why are any retro characters there at all? Why wasn't Midna in Brawl instead of Toon Link? Why were PT's pokemon all from gen 1, and not gen 4? Why was Snake, a character who's past was with Nintendo rather than present, in instead of some other recent Konami character? Why was Ike in his FE9 clothes and not FE10? Why did Pit and ROB defeat your precious K.Rool for getting in? Why do you think that a cookie cutter villain who's last memorable role was nearly 10 years ago, is recent and popular?
Yes, Little Mac originated as a retro character, but that doesn't change the fact that he is now more recent than either Ridley or K.Rool. (Though some time in 2010 Ridley will show up again, so I digress with him) Retro characters do have priority despite your twisted veiws, and Little Mac is not only that but also has a brand new game that he is the star of. There is no legitimate reason you can come up with for him to be put behind either of the two.
While K. Rool did not show up until the end of the Donkey Kong Country games, you forget that those were not his most recent roles. In DK64 he showed up multiple times during the plot. In King of Swing he showed up in the opening as well as in the Jungle Jam mode. He showed up many more times during the process of Jungle Climber... I'm sorry, but we no longer are in the SNES days. What I'm saying about the show is that it's ridiculous to use it in a point about a video game when it's an old TV show nobody remembers or cares about. lrn2read again, as K. Rool himself was NOT what motivated me to buy the game. His support for SSB4, and his constant discussion, was what motivated me to buy the game, and I don't want to debate this because you're just trying to insult me based off of a footnote. And nobody buys the Donkey Kong games for Dixie either. This goes directly back to my last point where you just insulted me over one thing and ignored my main point. No, a few years is not enough time for either Star Fox or Kirby to get another rep. Star Fox is rather stagnant as far as new games go, and I imagine they'd suck that whorish Krystal dry instead of a new character. Kirby games tend to have rather simplistic plots, with Kirby, King Dedede and Meta Knight being the only main characters, and they don't have much continuity for a new character to appear again and again.
Oh yes, the great and sucessful Jungle Climber/King of Swing games. Wait, wasn't Dixie playable in both of those, while K.Rool was only in one? And you're reasons for it not being valid still don't count. If you totally rip off something old that no one remembers, it still doesn't change the fact that you friggen ripped it off. And reading your post its still your interest in K.Rool that's making you buy these games, which is still a dumb reason. Who in their right mind would buy SMRPG just because they keep on hearing Geno being talked about? At least in that case it makes more sense seeing as Geno is a actual playable character. Also DKC, which sold 3 million world wide was Dixie own gameo I don't get your comment with that. And sure its enough time to get new reps. New games mean new pottential representatives, its quite simple. Despite people objecting to Krystal, she's still viable, and quite frankly a better choice than Rool any day. And the Kirby series could also have a new main character for all you know.
I am not going to argue this. It's ridiculous, you have an entire point to counter a minor footnote in my main one.
Dude its just two sentances. Plus they admited it themselves that they had no idea what they were doing with K.Rool at the time.
Do people outside of message boards even care? Besides, we can't argue about how characters are only popular in message boards when the only thing we have to measure popularity out of them is that horribly biased Japanese poll, which surveyed a small segment of one country for a game which is released in so many. K. Rool's Melee trophy even acknowledged his popularity: "While he fits the evil boss mold nicely, he's just enough of a bumbler to have gained a few fans over the years." Also, K. Rool appeared in Super Sluggers, maybe Nintendo is putting him in your beloved spinoffs now.
Sure they care. The message board community is actually pretty small in the grand scheme of things, and is broken up to boot. And lulz @ trophy pointing out that he's generic. And I already told you that K.Rool was in Sluggers. (lrn2read, lol) The point of me even saying that was to show that it took that long for him to be recognized, and it was only in a game that need loads of characters to fill out baseball teams.
Do you really think that someone would put in so much time and development into coming up with an idea, and run the risk that they might have done something wrong? I honestly think that they would program in some of their ideas as they worked. Yeah, Sakurai has really tried to be true to series. Trophies are littered with errors, and while cloning Ganondorf in Melee was excusable, not decloning him for Brawl shows his utter laziness. Sakurai doesn't give a sh*t about being true to their series. Also, Dixie Kong could more easily be a clone of Diddy, a character who shares body structure and personality, then K. Rool could ever be a clone of Wario, a character with different body structure and personality.
Yeah, I think so. Things don't always work out as you plan them. And you're really wrong about the being true to the series thing, just because of one character (who probably had people that got used to his style, along with Ike basically being the heavy swordsman of this game) and some trophies errors that Sakurai probably didn't even get to proofread. (Actually the error on the Brawl K.Rool one as based around the fact that in Japan, K.Rool ISN'T any of his dressed up forms, but rather those are his brothers) Just make Wario a little bigger, and change around some things on his model, and you've got a perfectly acceptable K.Rool (as long as you think its acceptable to give Diddy's moves to Dixie) Sure K.Rool doesn't use most of these things in his games, but he could if he needed to. Plus, while I doesn't count for jack in your argument, K.Rool and Wario are kind of close. Then again, that's a pointless point in the first place.
