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That's exactly how things work in large corporations, especially game publishers. Development teams are fluid and are always expanding or contracting depending on the circumstances. And it's not like its super expensive to hire more people, especially when most of your prospective employees aren't unionized.
Well good thing modern game development is much more time efficient.
Basically what @Roger Smith said but also how difficult is it to balance Smash? Tekken and Soul Calibur characters have more complicated and technical movesets while characters in Smash are simpler (with a couple of exceptions). Plus Sakurai doesn't care about competitive play. It really shouldn't be too time consuming to balance characters in Smash.
My Lord, that would be amazing. If that were to be the case, could you imagine the story mode we’d get out of that? Huge. Subspace Emissary who?Can you imagine if the development team was as big as Breath of the Wild's? That would be the bomb!
Except, Syurp never used a sword, nor a gun.
and Shiek has literally never done anything that she does in Smash (HW came after Smash so that game is not relevant)
Except her Up B and Down B in Melee/Brawl. She does use a teleport by throwing down a deku nut just like in the game, and transforms into Zelda, just like in the game.
I can definitely see an Octoling as a clone and would welcome it myself.
It really just depends on how long the expansion has been in development. It was just revealed, but it’s probably been being developed for awhile.
Fox and Captain Falcon didn't have fighting moves before Smash either. Ness and Lucas borrow moves from their teammates. Wii Fit, Villager, Duck Hunt, Game and Watch, Ice Climbers, Wario, Sheik, Pac-Man, etc were created using vague elements from their respective games. Zelda didn't really use offensive magic before Smash. There's a ton of examples of why this wouldn't be an issue.
My issue with that is that Camilla isn't a villain.
With Splatoon 2's Octo-Expansion Pack and their character popularity, I would not be surprised if they got in for 'bonus dessert' development.
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Again, why are people saying Mewtwo is a villain? It was not designed to have compassion, so you expect it to be good? Mewtwo does evil things, and it does what it wants. Mewtwo benefits the heroes before. I say Mewtwo is not a villain, rather "his own path" like
is like Co-worker who works for the forces of nature.
Mewtwo only had a villain role in the first Pokemon movie, and then became a neutral force/hero since then in the anime canon.Again, why are people saying Mewtwo is a villain? It was not designed to have compassion, so you expect it to be good? Mewtwo does evil things, and it does what it wants. Mewtwo benefits the heroes before. I say Mewtwo is not a villain, rather "his own path" like
Good point.
I also personally suggest adding Black Shadow and giving him Ganondorf's moveset, so we can finally have Ganondorf as a unique character with no worries.
Well, I was more mentioning Story Mode itself. But yes, Bowser Jr. too is still a villain. Probably why he slipped my mind. Whoops.
If he didn't, he wouldn't have brought in more people to help with balancing, he wouldn't have done patches outside of addressing necessary glitches, he wouldn't have added things that only the competitive community cares about such as the shield patch, he wouldn't have added For Glory, and so on.
The only ones on your list that are inarguably villains are Bowser, Bowser Jr., and Ganondorf. Even King Dedede is a stretch because often times he plays the anti-hero role or otherwise plays a villainous role because he gets possessed. Mewtwo isn't a villain at all, he just happens to dislikes humans and there are no truly villainous Pokémon in the universe. If you're going to argue that everyone that has played an antagonistic role is a villain, where is Mario when he kidnapped DK in Donkey Kong Jr.?Villains
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Doesn't seem very lacking to me.
Rough, but not impossible. Another thing that comes along with Smash besides newcomers and cuts, are balance patches.Gonna bite on this balance topic:
Smash has a lot of variables to consider that aren't present in other fighting games that makes it harder to balance:
First, and most strikingly:
It balances across two completely polarized modes of play. Other fighting games do not have to balance for the 4 player FFA insanity that is this game for most players. How do you even balance it? Not even competitive players have really looked at balance in a FFA setting (just meme level arguments about Ganondorf and Shulk, and maybe Olimar and Sheik being bad) and no other game (except from the broken mess that is PSABR) has tried this at this degree. Imagine being Bandai-Namco and trying to balance this game, with practically no game playing like it.
Second:
The game has a knockback system and increased freedom with aerial movement. You have to account for base knockback, knockback scaling, the angle a move sends you (and DI associated with it), horizontal and vertical recoveries, falling speed, horizontal aerial mobility and jump height, along with traditional fighting game attributes such as frame data, damage, range and mobility. This is only scraping the surface as there's a variety of character and stage specific mechanics they also have to consider.
Finally:
Sakurai makes characters that have bat-**** crazy designs. He literally balances on "extremes" with characters having some polarizing strengths and polarizing weaknesses. The characters that have one or the other (which is usually due to FFA being priority and not translating well with 1v1) turn out broken on either side of the spectrum. Regardless of what you feel about this style (I don't like it, but some people think it keeps everyone from being Mario lmao), it makes balancing really difficult because Sakurai has to avoid either side of broken (especially on the overpowered side).
I think balancing a cast beyond 75 or so characters is going to be rough, so I don't know what will happen if it gets to that point with this game. Cuts will definitely need to be considered after this Smash title, but could happen with Smash Switch. It all depends on how much time they have. Smash 4 without patches actually has a large number of really poorly balanced characters (almost to the degree of Brawl), so I do have concerns even if Smash 3DS isn't going to be a time succubus this time around.
Him being villain is the outlier pretty much. It's literally just the first game and the Spring Breeze remake of it in Super Star/Ultra AAIK.
I'd be alright with seeing him make it in. I could have sworn I read somewhere that Eggman was originally supposed to be the main character of Sonic games, but he was later put into the villain role after losing out to the blue hedgehog in popularity or something along those lines. I'll have to find out where I read about that again.
A 75 character roster would still be about twenty newcomers (or eighteen if wolf and ice climbers return) for the game. I'm just saying an 80+ is insane (honestly 70+ is kind of pushing it too). Some veterans are most likely going to be neglected or other aspects of the game are going to be cut or ported straight from Smash 4. I also don't agree with Sakurai straining himself so much, especially after what happened with Smash 4 and his health. Ultimately that is his decision in the end, though.
If we are stuck to 8 alts per character, then you can count out Octolings, since we already have male and female alts to add as many memorable variations as they can (Mostly the amiibo looks and maybe agent 8)
We're at 58.A 75 character roster would still be about twenty newcomers (or eighteen if wolf and ice climbers return) for the game. I'm just saying an 80+ is insane (honestly 70+ is kind of pushing it too). Some veterans are most likely going to be neglected or other aspects of the game are going to be cut or ported straight from Smash 4. I also don't agree with Sakurai straining himself so much, especially after what happened with Smash 4 and his health. Ultimately that is his decision in the end, though.
I imagine 75 is the magic number. I'm in team half port so I don't think any characters are getting cut.We're at 58.
It's a 17 character jump, 15 if Icies and Wolf return.
Which honestly, might be around what we're looking at.
64->Melee was rushed to all hell and padded itself to 14 newcomers.
Brawl had 18 or 17 depending on your opinion on
And then base game Smash 4 had 17 iirc.
Waluigi
2 Launch 3rd Parties per game. Cresh & Heihachi for arguments sake.Most of Hades's characterization that makes him beloved is an English-exclusive thing due to localization freedom. He's far less of a factor in Japan (and Sakurai's "intended" version of the character).
Opossum
could you share some of your ideas for Celica? Last time I read your ideas for her I was interested, but I'm forgetting some of the specifics!
