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Nothing not on the Dojo, in post-announcement Sakurai interviews, or in the Smash 3DS or WiiU videos are "known."
Oh okay, I thought you were serious. that's why I flipped my **** when you mentioned BioPokevoling
I love secret characters. It brings a child-like curiosity that comes only on Christmas day.
Relevancy doesn't mean crap in Pokémon. I mean, Squirtle, Charizard, and ESPECIALLY Ivysaur weren't new or "relevant," and yet the yet, they were playable.
...Except for Pokemon.
Lucario and Jiggs were dropping significantly in popularity though, but now Lucario has this new form, and Jigglypuff is a fairy type.
Oh, didin't bother reading past the OP.
MAH FREND'S DAD WERKS FER SAKOORYE, AND HE SED NESS AND LOOCUSS ARE BOTH GAWN.
You pretty much answered your own question. It also doesn't help that PT's character design is based on the third gen remake of the first gen games and is essentially four characters in one, making him by far the biggest hassle of all the characters to program. As you said, a new PT could take his place but I could also them doing away with him altogether simply for the sake of trimming the fat.
Sakurai went with Olimar again instead of Olimar lookalike Alph.
Jigglypuff had minimal popularity around the time of Melee's release. What happened there=???
It goes back to that old thing I said a long time ago about priority in building the roster and how there would be cuts, the most likely for not making the final call being lower priority characters like Jiggs, Lucas, TL, and Falco, but I digress...MAH FREND'S DAD WERKS FER SAKOORYE, AND HE SED NESS AND LOOCUSS ARE BOTH GAWN.
But seriously, I don't see why they wouldn't both come back.
Spoiler alert: It's gonna be the whole package, just like how Sakurai kept Sheik, Ice Climbers, and Mr. Game & Watch.
We can upgrade the PT's team to Gen II (Johto) the trainer's appearance and Pokemon change along with him.
Just to be the devil's advocate, what makes you so sure that those characters will return just cause they have before?
How is it an upgrade from gen 1 to gen 2?
But Pikmin 3 wasn't even out yet when SSB4 began development and the game wasn't even officially revealed until E3 2012 months later. That's why, for instance, Brawl barely had any 4th gen pokemon because development on the game started in 2005 and nearly a year before it came out in Japan. There's also the fact that Alph isn't the lead character in Pikmin 3 like Olimar was in 1 and 2 and the staring role is shared with Brittany and Charlie.
I think Jigglypuff is a cut above the rest of them due to her longstanding seniority. I think she is grandfathered into Smash Bros. at this point. Also for those into the whole "relevancy" thing, she represents the new "fairy" type.
I know that. I'm just saying that if it causes problems, Charizard will be the one to stay. I want the whole thing, you saw my dream roster.
I'm well of aware of that. Still, Jiggs new fairy form gives her some potential for a new moveset, and like I said before, Lucario's moveset is pretty bland.
The popular statement seems more like an opinion. I knew of Gen II starters before Gen I. Some people like certain Gens over others, thus making it popular.
Guess we won't be getting a FE13 character then.
Chrono, why are you taunting me with your sarcasm?Guess we won't be getting a FE13 character then.
Because it is a lot easier to return characters than replace them with new ones, in terms of time, money investment, idea focus, and just general pressure. That is a indisputable fact.
Just to be the devil's advocate, what makes you think the air we breathe will return just cause they have before?
Probably would have if I didn't first see it just now, and if I looked at the bits of hair, (that is hair, right?) on it's head first.Also, wonderfully off topic, but did anyone else mistake MegaBlaziken for a male buneary evolution at first glance?
Correction: He does it for new potential Pokémon characters, not for arguments against previously playable Pokémon.
But again, they are the 2 of the 3 most popular Lords in regards to Smash (the other is Marth, the "signature character" of Fire Emblem).
FE13 was released a little more than a month after SSB4 started development and was known about while Lucas was originally planned to replace Ness in Melee thanks to the canned Mother 64 project that later turned into Mother 3.Guess we won't be getting a FE13 character then.
Sakurai definitely would have known about Pikmin 3 when deciding the roster.
Mother 3 was not released until late April 2006 (and no media on the game was shown to the public until the beginning of 2006), yet Lucas had a spot on his roster.
Like I said, you give every character 2 fusions, and that's roughly 1500 fusions.
There has still been no deconfirmation that any of the Pikmin 3 protagonists are in Smash 4, so you can't really make this point until we know for sure.
We don't know if that was Plusle and Minun, actually. And they're the latest Pikachu clones at the time, you know...
Because they were Sakurai's ideas, right? Nope. Means nothing. Nintendo suggested them. He only chose Marth on his own. Don't matter.
1. I was more referring to the whole "Alph would not have worked because he shared his main protagonist role with two other characters" which is the same case with FE13.