vesperview said:
Again failure at it's finest, Square Enix won't get special treatment, they have set leads like Chrono and Sora to be able to represent the company in Smash and unlike Black Mage, Mr Game and Watch is his own character who could easily be given a story and if you hate Final Fantasy X and XII is probably because n00b is too lazy to level up and gets owned by Sin or the Mimic Queen, seriously you're just extremely biased, Nintendo probably won't revive a generic old character like Black Mage just so that Square can be in Brawl, that's just nonsense.
There´s no "special treatment" about it. Square-Enix will opt to include characters who better represent their relationship with Nintendo than Cloud, just like they did in--yes, I´m bringing it up again--Mario Hoops. Mr. Game & Watch is
not his own character, he is an amalgamation of the Game & Watch Gallery games created specifically for Melee. And even if he was, he has literally
nothing to work with; his games were simply mini-suvival situations with no backstory to them, while Black Mage was one of the main characters in FFI has since appeared in many other installations of the franchise.
I´m not going to argue that if Square-Enix gets a representative someone from another of their franchises (such as Crono or Sora) might be the one to get in, but we´re discussing Final Fantasy in this thread.
And if I hate Final Fantasy X and XII it´s because it´s the same rehashed plot (Empire and Crystal respectively) with the same rehashed characters (including a whiny imbecile for a main character in both games), the fact that XII´s battle system is a ******** departure from what Final Fantasy is, and the massive grinding required--not to mention that I´m getting sick of Square-Enix making the same design choices, over and over again. And yes, I beat both of them anyway, so I´m not getting owned by anyone. Again jumping to conclusions.
And finally, Black Mage isn´t old or in need of revival, he still appears in many current games (FFT: War of the Lions, Mario Hoops, soon-to-be in FFTA2) and he´s not any more generic than Pikachu, which is a species, or Mr. Game & Watch, who again isn´t even a fixed character.
You should consider this for a while. Maybe it´ll finally sink in.