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Like it or not, series importance does have a lot to do with how many characters each franchise receives.
I do hate the concept of "reps", because it shovels out shallow reasons that wouldn't make much sense otherwise. We should want a character for their own merits, not whatever cheap label is provided.
Pretty much my feelings as well (though I disagree about any character deserving removal). Though personally, I would not mind Pichu back, and I thought he was the best character to represent Gold/Silver.
Except you're not a video game designer who's working on Super Smash Bros., now are you?
Wario has pretty much doubled the sales of StarFox, and he was just added, while Fox, Falco, and Wolf have all been planned since Melee.
Had Sakurai gotten his way, the only cuts would have been Young Link (of which Toon Link is pretty much the same character) and Pichu.
Shortie talked in the context that we were going to get all three characters in Melee, when pretty much it was either going to be Falco or Wolf. Though it is rumored that Sakurai had been thinking about the idea of a playable Wolf since Smash 64 .
May I direct you to my OC challenge?
I liked Dr. Mario.
For the most part, they're fairly similar, but it always seemed like Ness was the bigger hitter.
There was quite a few people that did like Doc (just check out the Dr. Mario support topic to see how much love Doc gets). He was certainly not as reviled as Pichu, but casuals pretty much thought the only difference he had from regular Mario was him throwing pills.I liked Dr. Mario.
I was fine with Pichu's cut, because Pokemon is becoming over-represented. (Holds up flame shield for people that deny the concept of representation.) And there are more deserving Pokemon reps.
Challenging me to do the job of a team that has tons of experience creating new movesets and balancing games in a timely manor hardly proves a point.
Because people wanted someone to replace Young Link that would bring an original moveset?
Similar, but there are differences. For example, there are certain PK moves that are exclusive to ether. Lucas has Offense Up, Defense Up, Refresh, Counter, and PK Love. Ness has Hypnosis, Paralyze, Teleport, and PK Rockin. However, their other PK moves like Healing, Lifeup, PK Flash, and Shield are shared.
Neither are you, so don't act like your opinion is better than mine k? Why are you so snippy when it comes to game design?
You know what dude...
I'm not trying to put your opinion down, or even convince you.
Alright man. I'm sorry. I should get some sleep... What am I doing still awake?I'm not trying to put your opinion down, or even convince you.
I'm just supporting my statements to keep the conversation going.
It's not like it's gonna influence Nintendo or Sakurai in the slightest.
Here's what I had in mind for the two of them. Lucas is a keepaway character of sorts. His PK Love, functionally the same as his PK Fire, keeps the opponent away and he uses his Offense Up and Shield to help get him in. Offense Up powers up his next Smash attack while his Shield is hyper armor like El Fuerte's EX Dash. Ness is more setup oriented with PK Rockin', funcitonally the same as his PK Fire, keeping the opponent in place along with PSI Paralysis as a great shield killer. He has his Flash working more like a catapult projectile while he moves around carefree with PK Teleport.
Having zero cuts would leave a lot less room for newcomers than most people on these forums would like to admit.
I don't mean to anger anyone, but I feel cuts are necessary.
On a side note, the day is finally over and you guys totaled a whopping 756 posts on this thread for April 6, 2012.
Congratulations!!!!
So what your saying is that we should go with the Action 52 route and shovel in a lot of poorly designed content and sit back while people eat up the ****. I mean, there's no point in having anything good if people will just like the fact there are big numbers in front of them, amirite?
The Wii U disk has 25 Gigabytes of storage. There's plenty of room. The 3DS Cart hold 8 Gigabytes, which is plenty after downscaling.
What's the most hyped part of any Smash game? Characters! Coincidence? I think not. Why? Because Smash's biggest appeal is playing with your favorite characters against your other favorite characters, and if you cut any (especially since Brawl doesn't have any easily cuttable characters), you just alienated people that liked that character.
There aren't too many developers these days that are scaling down content due to disk size. Its not about that. This has to do with development and time management.