...Man. You guys are just getting...man. What the hell is wrong with you, seriously? No, every single one of you who keeps freaking out about this. You're all having bloody effing fits over this. Did Lucario kill your parents? Burn your house down? Jesus H. Christ.
No, I'm going to say this **** one more time, and I'm leaving you all to spew bile and venom about WHICH POKEMON IS MAKING IT INTO BRAWL. Serious business.
"Nobody really knows or likes Lucario, you're dumb." Kids who watch the movies know him. Those are people. People who OWN D/P AND GOT MOST OF THE WAY THROUGH THE GAME (10mill units sold, as was noted,) KNOW WHO HE IS. People who, say, watched D/P news in the months before the Japanese release know who he is. In my experience (yes, I HAVE EXPERIENCE GOD FORBID) people who didn't meet those qualifiers, overheard me and my friends talking about him WITHOUT knowing who he was, actually, yes, LIKED him when they saw his picture and heard about him. Sorry if this contradicts with your experience somehow. Most older pokemon fans who aren't ridiculously elitist about the first gen don't seem to particularly have a problem with him. I'm not telling you he IS cool, or that EVERYONE thinks he's cool. People I know who both knew about him and didn't know about him...think he's pretty cool. Just SAYING what happens in my life. God forbid.
Oh, and apparently, the folks who keep buying this stuff:
http://www.pokemoncenter.com/bin/ve...hex=lucario&searchsubmit.x=0&searchsubmit.y=0 like him.
"Lucario would be just like Fox, you're dumb." Number one, he wouldn't. Number two, even if he were similar (WHICH HE MOST LIKELY WOULD NOT BE,) it would not be the end of the world. Lucario is actually not all that fast in the game, and even though he's acrobatic in the movie, it doesn't mean he actually has to be fast. Freaking hell, I could see him being a workable -Mario- clone. And yes, sorry Lucario is dog-like, and so is Fox. You think anybody really cares in real life? Do you think your friends are going to come over, see Fox, Krystal, and Lucario on a roster of 40 characters, and go, "GOD IT'S ****ING DOG CITY IN THIS GAME IT'S STUPID I'M GONNA GO PLAY MADDEN INSTEAD!" And FFS, the only similarities along those lines are probably height, standing on two legs, and looking dog-like. Sorry, Marth, Roy, Link, Gannondorf, Zelda, Captain Falcon were all reasonably heighted human beings wearing clothes. CALL THE CONFORMITY POLICE.
We want original characters in Brawl. We want interesting characters in Brawl. But if you honestly think every single little tiny character they put in needs to be 200% different from every other character...well, please, don't ever, ever think about making a game. Or movie, or writing a book. Or making art. Or generally any sort of endeavor where a proper understanding of how 'contrast' works is a necessity.
"Lucario is ugly/stupid/unoriginal, you're dumb." Thanks for telling me how you feel. It's nice to have opinions. Everybody has them.
Now, let's try the next step of discussion: respecting other peoples opinions!
"Everybody knows who (X firstgen pokemon,) is but nobody knows who Lucario is, you're dumb." or "I had to look Lucario up, therefor nobody knows who he is, you're dumb." Smash isn't just for 'you.' It's not just for 'oldschool elitists.' It's also not just for 'hardcore pokemon fans' as you keep calling them. (I didn't realize playing the most recent game and liking one of the pokemon in it made me a hardcore fan?)
Smash is for EVERYONE. And, again, from my exposure: people who played DP mostly seem to like him or at least know who he is (again, 10,000,000 copies sold. Don't tell me 10,000,000 people don't matter,) and the people who didn't do that and don't know about him (see: my friends who DO NOT COME TO THIS OR ANY OTHER GAMING FORUM,) seem to like him well enough when they do find out about him. For the most part, it would seem. The poll here seems to say that well enough: I'm sure more than enough people who voted on it only found out how he looks and what he does before voting for him. They're pretty much in the same category as millions of players who would see him in Brawl and go, "Huh, looks pretty cool," which is why we seem to think he would be a good choice: 10mill+ already know about him, and MOST of the rest seem to like him well enough when they DO learn about him.
"But Squirtle is still more popular world wide, you're dumb." WELL YEAH HE IS HE'S GOT LIKE 10 YEARS UP ON LUCARIO. YES, millions more know about the first gen. BUT GUESS WHAT. All you crazy elitest former players, and all the people who never played but just know a bit about Pokemon from it's huge heyday: YOU ALREADY HAVE PIKACHU. AND JIGGLYPUFF. AND MEWTWO. But still, instead of making a choice that potentially pleases A) people who still give Nintendo money by BUYING AND PLAYING GAMES LIKE DP B) most regular folks who would likely think he's at least palettable, you want Nintendo to KEEP THROWING BONES TO YOU CHEAP ****ERS THAT DIDN'T EVEN BUY DP, AND THE SAME ONES THAT NEVER CARED THAT MUCH IN THE FIRST PLACE. You're not even effing putting your money down on the Pokemon series, and you still think Sakurai should keep picking Pokemon that make you happy.
No: People who only played and liked Red and Blue, pick up an effing controller and play Pikachu, Jigglypuff, and Mewtwo. People who never cared much for pokemon in the first place...WHAT DO YOU EFFING CARE? If you just don't like Lucario, that's all well and good, but you don't exactly have much right to be talking. Yes, you might know who Squirtle is and not Lucario, but 99% of folks who never touched pokemon won't care one way or the other what Pokemon gets in Brawl: They've never played Pokemon, it's just another Pokemon. Even if they recognize it, the common reaction can't be anything more than a "Oh, it's Squirtle! Cool! Anyway, back to Fox and Mario," because they were NEVER INTO POKEMON IN THE FIRST PLACE.
No, effing flame me about how ridiculous this all is, go ahead. Like I pulled this all out of my *** or made it up or something. Like I had to really try hard to go to the freaking pokemon shop website and search "Lucario." Yes, get angry on the internets, go nuts and insult me because, dear God, like the other 300 votes on the poll on these forums, I want a freaking pokemon in a video game.
Brawl: serus biznesses
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