Stop being so ignorant...

[Hydde]

welll , the dev team had a lot of time to develop the game.

So if they are focusing now on little thhingis and extra options in online mode... is because they have the roster almost ready. And they know they need to deliver tons of characters.... as people is expecting that the most.

 

[Lgndknight]

Well, actually Melee was rushed, but they'e pushed the release date BACK! that means they have more dev time, as much as they want. Sakurai has a bigger team, he got that with his new company I believe. You said you'd been skimming the boards for six months... yet you've seen nothing about this? I skimmed the boards for a month then joined, and I knew all about the dev times and teams. Obviously they aren't rushing this to be a launch game

 

[~Krystal~]

All signs point to this being the most epic Smash yet in both roster quality and roster size.

Lets just see what happens when the next character slot in the Dojo is filled up. If we don't see another row, then I'll begin to wonder about there being less than 35-40.

 

[Ianthraxx]

I agree with the TC, anyone who's expecting more than 40 characters is probably setting themselves up for disappointment. This game only started development in May 2005, and even then, it was just Sakurai writing the game doc. So that's about two and a half years of development time. Melee's unique characters (that is, excluding the clones) numbered only 20. Any more than double that seems to be pushing it. Yeah, they have a lot of people working on the game, but there's one hell of a lot of content in this game, too, not to mention how much work they're going to put into polishing it to perfection.

I'm not saying it's impossible, and everybody's certainly entitled to their own opinion.
I just can't logically see how there'd be much more than 40, if that.

 

[Alex Tcp]

I'll tell ya what. If there isn't at least 40 characters in this game, your rich uncle Zoo-Bellocks will pay you 200 dollars (via Paypal. If you don't have an account, get one). I promise.

Honestly, there will EASILY be 40 characters. Melee added 8 new movesets and so far, Brawl has added 13 that we know of. I don't know why you think most of these will be unlockables (in fact, other than possibly Sonic and Snake, they're all starters), but you're quite misguided.

At any rate, I will laugh at you when the confirmed number of characters is announced.

I pretty sure all the chars that are and will be announced on dojo are going to be starters, that's just the way Nintendo is

PS - I'm pretty much agreeing with you

 

[Jave]

You wanna know what's really delusional? This:

You dont realize that all of if not most of the characters that are confirmed (other than an obvious starting set of about 10-13) will be locked in the game.

Brawl having LESS starters than Melee? It doesn't make any sense no matter how you put it.

 

[Teeb147]

Umm, there's already 23 characters and there's bound to be alot that we don't know about. And don't forget jiggly and falcon, falco, etc. There's going to be 40 characters wheter you hippothosize or not... haha.

 

[Ralph_Marquee]

As long as the six listed in my sig are confirmed, I don't need anymore new characters. Thank you for your time.

 

[Alex Tcp]

I don't even understand how anyone can take the creator of this thread seriously?

 

[Jave]

I predict 42 playable characters.

Because 42 is the answer to the universe, life, and everything.

 

[Alex Tcp]

I predict 42 playable characters.

Because 42 is the answer to the universe, life, and everything.

lol your right !

 

[Geno_Fanboy777]

lol poor noobs

 

[Lgndknight]

noobs isn't, or rather, can't be an insult on smashboards, and if it were that's rather hypocritical of yourself Geno Fanboy.... save that kind of name calling for runescape

 

[Muffin_man]

It helps that Sakurai outright said the aim for Brawl is 40 characters on the old Japanese site. Sheesh.

 

[Retroking2000]

XDDDD this thread is hilarious

 

[RWB]

I predict 42 playable characters.

Because 42 is the answer to the universe, life, and everything.

You sir, wins teh Internetz.

 

[GaryCXJk]

I'm now looking at this at a marketing view.

Putting up the differences of characters between SSB64 and SSBM, I get about 13 new characters, excluding Sheik. So wouldn't it be kind of stupid to have at most 10 new characters in Brawl?

People expect more. If Sakurai can't live up to that expectation, then he failed. And he sure won't fail us in this game, since it may be his last Smash.

 

[susu_atari]

Right... here's how this works. Read one of SamuraiPanda's translation threads. Somewhere around there, you'll find that Sakurai HIMSELF says that he's aiming for around 40 CHARACTERS.

This was back when the release was going to be QUARTER 1-2 2007.

 

[Enigma14]

I care that at least 35 characters are PC and I care that they're not clones.

 

[Jave]

You sir, wins teh Internetz.

**Adds another Internetz to his collection**

 

[the grim lizard]

n00b topic...

 

[Biggie Smalls]

noobs isn't, or rather, can't be an insult on smashboards, and if it were that's rather hypocritical of yourself Geno Fanboy.... save that kind of name calling for runescape

Runescape is gay.

Enlighten me on why Geno is bad. You better shut up if you can't give the least bit of supporting evidence to backthe claim of Geno being a bad choice.

 

[freeman123]

Hello forum-goers, I would like to bring something to your attention. I have been reading these forums for general news and opinions for many months now... going on six I think, ever since it became resonable to start getting excited for this game on a daily basis. Everybody knows that there are a few annoying instances that can happen in a forum enviornment, and I was willing to accept this fact while reading what you all had to say.

There is one thing that I cant stand however... all this character hypothesizing bs that you people think you can glean from the smashbros.com updates. I have come to find that many of you really believe that the character count is going to be in the 40s. You dont realize that all of if not most of the characters that are confirmed (other than an obvious starting set of about 10-13) will be locked in the game. You are so eager to learn about all these other imaginary characters that you dont realize that you in fact probably have about half of the total new locked character count already.

It hurts my soul to hear someone say that there will be 40 characters in this game so much that I actually went through the trouble of signing up just to post this and make it known. Stop it. Wow im glad I got that out.

Who peed in your cornflakes?


Maybe none of the characters that have been shown so far are hidden. How would you know? Are you involved with making the game? If there ends up being over 40 characters, will you come back and admit what an idiot you are?

 

[Alex Tcp]

I would like your official source... something in print. Or is this just what you think?

Are you saying you need it in writting to know that its 2007 right now?

 

[Alex Tcp]

Have you noticed how not one character from melee who was unlock able has been announced yet, or has ever even said they were in melee by Nintendo. If I could i would bet you that not one character that has or will be announced on Dojo will have to be unlocked, it how Nintendo does and its for the better.

 

[Jammer]

Wow, that actually is an excellent point, Alex Tcp.

If Nintendo doesn't want to talk about unlockables, possibly because it's sort of like spoilers, maybe they've refrained from showing unlockables on the Dojo. Which means we already have a ton of starters.

Then again, I doubt they'd pass up the publicity of having Snake and Sonic in even if those two aren't starters.

 

[blayde_axel]

Why hasn't this topic been closed yet? >.>

Yes. Obviously, there's going to be around 40 characters. Not only from what the translated notes say, but just because of the time that has been spent on the game! Do you seriously think they are going to spend two years and some to just put in 30 characters? No.

And you have no proof that most of those characters on the DOJO so far are going to be unlockables. There.

 

[Alex Tcp]

Wow, that actually is an excellent point, Alex Tcp.

If Nintendo doesn't want to talk about unlockables, possibly because it's sort of like spoilers, maybe they've refrained from showing unlockables on the Dojo. Which means we already have a ton of starters.

Then again, I doubt they'd pass up the publicity of having Snake and Sonic in even if those two aren't starters.

Thank you, and I really think Snake and Sonic are starter for that reason, but say if tails were to be in it, he would be unlock able because the publicity has already been handled by Sonic in that section, and for the very few people who wouldn't would just buy it after a bit, because they'll find on forums or something.

And to add to my other point, there is obviously going to be 40 to 50 chararcters if not more and only about 30 have been anounced, there will probly be about 5 (IDK ok), so thats not enough time, which may be why the moron who created this thread thinks that we may start out with less characters then melee

 

[Levia7han117]

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[aleps]

There will be 40 or even more, because maybe this is the last SSB game and 30 are too few to keep people happy.

 

[TheMastermind]

All the characters being anounced are starter characters. When someone rents the game because
they herd sonic or Snake was in it, they want to have them as starters.
There will be about 30 starters and about 50 characters all together.

This is completely reasonable considering they have double the developement team and more than twice the amount of time as Melee.

And as each system get better graphics and better gameplay
it doesnt take longer to make. With new equipment its easyer and easyer to makes games.
Did you know that Super Mario Bros 1 took the same time to make as Mario Galixies!

This game WILL have 50+ characters

 

[Shuma]

Noob OP, Noob thread, spam post. *posts*

 

[Jammer]

And as each system get better graphics and better gameplay it doesnt take longer to make. With new equipment its easyer and easyer to makes games.
Did you know that Super Mario Bros 1 took the same time to make as Mario Galixies!

Actually, I don't think this is true. In general, the better the system, the more work you have to put in to utilize it effectively. When your system handles better graphics, you have to make better models and textures and particle effects and whatnot. You have to program in more complexity.

If Super Mario Bros. really did take the same amount of time to make as Galaxy, it's because only like 3 people worked on Super Mario Bros.

 

[Alex Tcp]

Actually, I don't think this is true. In general, the better the system, the more work you have to put in to utilize it effectively. When your system handles better graphics, you have to make better models and textures and particle effects and whatnot. You have to program in more complexity.

If Super Mario Bros. really did take the same amount of time to make as Galaxy, it's because only like 3 people worked on Super Mario Bros.

Your both right, the point is that everything that's on Dojo will not be unlock able and that no one should be wasting our time with this moron who created this thread, maybe someone should go ahead and start a thread on exactly the opposite bias of this topic.