Super Smash Bros. RPG

[TimeSmash]

Hey everyone, this is kind of just a for fun thread, but maybe it would actually become something haha.
I was wondering what people's thoughts would be on a Super Smash Bros. RPG, and would you buy it? What would you want to see in it, that sort of thing. I think it'd be such a neat idea, and would be really intrigued by the battle system in particular. What would you guys want to see??

Also, a better title than Super Smash Bros. RPG would be great for an actual game haha

 

[Minato]

I mean, one day it could happen. With Wonderful 101 originally being just Nintendo characters in early conception (or so I hear), I wouldn't be surprised if they ever do more crossovers with their own IPs. If they ever did one, I wouldn't imagine it to be straight up turn based of course.

 

[finalark]

I wouldn't mind seeing Nintendo do more with the crossover concept. Maybe make a Fire Emblem-like TBS game where you use other Nintendo characters in addition to FE characters. Or maybe make a Mario Party like game with but boards from various games with a number of Nintendo characters.

 

[RunawayPanda]

I wouldn't mind seeing Nintendo do more with the crossover concept. Maybe make a Fire Emblem-like TBS game where you use other Nintendo characters in addition to FE characters. Or maybe make a Mario Party like game with but boards from various games with a number of Nintendo characters.

OMG A STRATEGY RPG WITH NINTENDO CHARACTERS
WANT NOW!

 

[DJ3DS]

Personally with a Smash Bros RPG I would hope for something which is in a sense more interactive - for example, straight up turn based would be a no for me, and something similar to Mario & Luigi in gameplay style would be much better. Then, I would have it so you choose 2-4 characters (Mario & Luigi has two, but had two buttons in the original incarnation for it, whereas nowadays we have 4 and for such a crossover I think more characters on a team would be better). Each character would have standard attacks, their specials (costing special points or something, you know the drill) while also including cross-over attacks where a combination of characters has their own unique special. For example:

King Dedede + Sonic - Sonic spins into a ball which Dedede smashes into an enemy using his hammer
Rosalina + Bowser - Rosalina creates a launch star which launches Bowser (in his shell) into the opponent
Pikachu + Link - Pikachu charges Links sword with electricity, powering it up
Bowser + DK + Dedede + Charizard - the four slam the ground simultaneously, causing an earthquake

That sort of thing would be really interesting to me. As well as having multiplayer to fight with your team against an opponents team; head to head RPG multiplayer is something that I think is a woefully underused idea.

 

[Crome]

Personally with a Smash Bros RPG I would hope for something which is in a sense more interactive - for example, straight up turn based would be a no for me, and something similar to Mario & Luigi in gameplay style would be much better. Then, I would have it so you choose 2-4 characters (Mario & Luigi has two, but had two buttons in the original incarnation for it, whereas nowadays we have 4 and for such a crossover I think more characters on a team would be better). Each character would have standard attacks, their specials (costing special points or something, you know the drill) while also including cross-over attacks where a combination of characters has their own unique special. For example:

King Dedede + Sonic - Sonic spins into a ball which Dedede smashes into an enemy using his hammer
Rosalina + Bowser - Rosalina creates a launch star which launches Bowser (in his shell) into the opponent
Pikachu + Link - Pikachu charges Links sword with electricity, powering it up
Bowser + DK + Dedede + Charizard - the four slam the ground simultaneously, causing an earthquake

That sort of thing would be really interesting to me. As well as having multiplayer to fight with your team against an opponents team; head to head RPG multiplayer is something that I think is a woefully underused idea.

I would so play this.
I put my money in my wii u and nothing is happening. Why is this not a thing yet.

 

[Aninymouse]

Personally with a Smash Bros RPG I would hope for something which is in a sense more interactive - for example, straight up turn based would be a no for me, and something similar to Mario & Luigi in gameplay style would be much better. Then, I would have it so you choose 2-4 characters (Mario & Luigi has two, but had two buttons in the original incarnation for it, whereas nowadays we have 4 and for such a crossover I think more characters on a team would be better). Each character would have standard attacks, their specials (costing special points or something, you know the drill) while also including cross-over attacks where a combination of characters has their own unique special. For example:

King Dedede + Sonic - Sonic spins into a ball which Dedede smashes into an enemy using his hammer
Rosalina + Bowser - Rosalina creates a launch star which launches Bowser (in his shell) into the opponent
Pikachu + Link - Pikachu charges Links sword with electricity, powering it up
Bowser + DK + Dedede + Charizard - the four slam the ground simultaneously, causing an earthquake

That sort of thing would be really interesting to me. As well as having multiplayer to fight with your team against an opponents team; head to head RPG multiplayer is something that I think is a woefully underused idea.

This is exactly - exactly - what I would want. Perfect use for Amiibo, as well.

Come one Nintendo, FUND IT.

 

[TimeSmash]

I would love to see the items used as well. Or take some inspiration from the Mario and Luigi series and have items be involved in special attacks.

A four-party member special could be like All-Star Band, in which Peach Jigglypuff and Kirby use their singing abilities while conducted by Toon Link to inflict a heavy amount of damage with a chance of sleep.

It would be really cool to see unorthodox character ability crossovers, like Zelda using Din's Fire to set of Ivysaur's Seed Bombs, creating fireworks. Or something more funny where Peach and Ness take turns hitting an enemy back and forth with their forward smashes, then smashing them away and taunting.

Support magic would be weird to incorporate. I guess Ness could use PSI shield on a character to absorb projectile based damage for a turn. Or Meta Knight could use Dimensional Cape to cause temporary invisibility to himself

 

[Sarki Soliloquy]

Personally, I want Smash Bros. to stick to the fighting genre forever. Having it become the mark of all in-company Nintendo crossovers would become messy. Would kinda suck the hype and direction from the main series.

Although, if there were to be a Smash Bros. RPG, the battle system would have to deviate from the norm and create something unseen before, knowing Sakurai. Forget the bland turn-based, TBS, real-time action, CABS, what have you and design something that captures the essence of the Smash series and making the characters fight and function with the same amount of detail as given to their movesets. The Paper Mario and Mario & Luigi RPGs have some great examples of making a bland, traditional combat system dynamic and interactive.

Perhaps the greatest thing that would come out of a Smash RPG is the potential for an epic crossover story, with even more interactions and a fully-fleshed out universe. Just looking into the realm of fanfic brings a lot of interesting metaphysics and world-building in mind.

 

[SS-bros14]

Guess I'm not the only one with the idea.
But seriously, I think it'd be cool.

 

[Ilovetwewy]

Sakurai as super secret final boss please.

 

[qerl08]

If it did happen the main character could be a MII

Also if it was FE styled the weapon triangle could be Fist/close combat weapons -beats-> Sword/Orthodox weapon -beats-> Magic/other

 

[lady_sky skipper]

I wouldn't mind seeing Nintendo do more with the crossover concept. Maybe make a Fire Emblem-like TBS game where you use other Nintendo characters in addition to FE characters. Or maybe make a Mario Party like game with but boards from various games with a number of Nintendo characters.

That was the first thing in mind when I was thinking about a Nintendo RPG starring their stable of characters, and because I'm evil, I wondered if they would have death monologues just like in Fire Emblem

 

[finalark]

That was the first thing in mind when I was thinking about a Nintendo RPG starring their stable of characters, and because I'm evil, I wondered if they would have death monologues just like in Fire Emblem

Somber music plays.

"But... Mario number one!"

Unit fades from the map in a flash.

 

[Minato]

Please no bumping really really old threads or double posting. Making a new thread is preferable if anything.