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Look Entei, Ridley is constantly depicted(even in ssbb) as a GIANT space dragon. Other characters have been scaled to be made playable, but not to this extent. That's not to say it's impossible, but all the optimism and sarcasm in the world won't suddenly resolve Ridley's issue.
Actually, if we're talking pure numbers here, Olimar has taken more resizing than Ridley would if he got in.
This is true, I cannot deny. You do understand what I meant though, right?
Yes, but your point is dumb.
I understand what you're trying to say, even if I disagree with it.
All the pessimism in the world won't keep Ridley from being playable either. I simply don't see the problem, canon matters nothing in this situation, especially when developers like Retro Studios don't even care about his size themselves, changing him from his biggest size to his smallest size since the original Metroid in the very same game.
I think for a dragon he's pretty standard sized.
I think for a dragon he's pretty small, honestly.
Then again, he did specify SPACE dragon, so like how many space dragons have you seen to know Ridley is larger than average???
I dunno. A Google image search of "space dragon" turns up mostly big results, far bigger than Ridley.
You really do get pissed at Ridley naysayers. Even though what I say is just an opinion, equal and opposite to yours, I'll give you my 2 cents even if you are just going to call me an idiot afterwards.
You would've likely saved yourself from at least some of these arguments if you just said you didn't like the sound of Pikachu, Kirby and others beating and tossing Ridley around in the first place, same goes for you preferring consistency. (regardless of the fact at how Ridley's size really hasn't been that consistant throughout the game)
No, we won't get an answer any time soon because Sakurai is King Troll.
Size was never the reason Ridley was intimidating, otherwise his size would be as consistent as Kraid's. He's intimidating for being a space dragon that has always brought the fight to the player and always has some clout to his appearances, not because he's large. Ridley has varied so many times according to what the designers want that it wouldn't be surprising nor degrading to have him be playable size, why should Smash be any different?
The thing is that you yourself have a double standard in place when it comes to Ridley in comparison to Olimar, from what I've read.
I already read what you wrote earlier and that was total BS. A human sized space dragon is not very menacing. There's a reason they made him 20' tall in Super Metroid. Not only would a 6' Ridley be degrading to Metroid as a series, but making a 6' foot dragon Samus' mortal enemy would make her look like even more of a ***** than Other M did. Metroid enemies in general are known for their large size, as their leader Ridley should lead by example.
Nope, I get pissed at hearing the same unbelievably stupid arguments against his inclusion over and over.
Except that Omega Ridley isn't that much bigger than Samus, and neither is Meta Ridley in the first Prime, when you fight him on the ground?
Nope. He's menacing because of his relationship with Samus, his immense intelligence, and his insane ferocity. If he were the size of a tiger, he'd be just as menacing.
How so?
How so?
So you don't care that Bowser's size isn't consistent?
First of all, no he's not. And second of all, I love how you contradict yourself immediately by saying you don't care about consistency here.
And the fact that Ganondorf can get the crap kicked out of him by "Pikachu, Kirby, and the like" is very silly too, but you don't see anyone whining about it.
Other M Ridley is better than no Ridley at all. But I find that design awful, so I'd rather have his Super design.
Literally every boss you have to fight in, say, Super Metroid, is bigger than Ridley.
I beg to differ, if a lion or wolf came towards you, you'd run, and they're smaller then a human. Ridley would be no different in that regard as size doesn't matter to him. As mentioned constantly here, it's what you do with the character that makes them intimidating. Metroid itself also will not be degraded if Ridley suddenly lost a few feet, especially since the series itself does it on basically a daily basis. So again, why should Smash be any different there?
Bullcrap, Metroid has enemies that vary in size, from the miniscule bugs that swarm you to the human-sized space pirates to the large Kraid/Quadraxi. So Ridley is not restricted there either, especially considering the series itself doesn't care to keep Ridley himself consistent.
If you think that Ridley is a menacing and good villain just because of his size, then sorry, that's not a big part of Ridley's character. He is Samus' archnemesis, the head of the Space Pirates, and on top of that he is incredibly intelligent. Ridley's size is far from an important part of his character, it's part of his character, but a much smaller part of his character in comparison to Olimar whos whole existance is based on being little. I also don't see the problem with Ridley being tossed around by Pikachu and Kirby, he was already an immobile boss in Brawl who wasn't exactly very faithful to his original boss battles and he could explode from having small turnips tossed at him anyways, and Ganondorf is already running around picking up bunny hoods and getting KO'd by Peach's exploding butt too. If anything, having him as a boss battle is an even bigger disgrace towards him if we go from your perspective, because he's still getting his butt handed to him by small thunderous rodents and little plant people, but he's simply not able to go in and cause havoc himself because he's put in the little boss cube. I don't see the problem in allowing him to be downscaled in order to make things that are fun. That's the keyword in Smash Bros, fun, and if we begin putting such a tight limit on it, then what's the point of the game?
Did I say he had to be exactly human sized?
Actually, Ridley was probably just made big in Super Metroid because otherwise he'd be too hard of a target to hit in the game. Furthermore, Ridley is already one of the smaller bosses in Metroid, he has never been an example of how big the bosses in Metroid are and has never been intended so.
All this is still true about Pikmin in Smash. Look at Olimars stage. Everything that was huge scary and dangerous in Pikmin is still the same. By making everything in Pikmin proportional they've kept the same aw. You guys want them to take Ridley and make him Samus sized even though it's been explicitly clear for years that he's a giant compared to her. I've never said anyone was too small for smash, Chibi Robo's like a foot tall and I wouldn't be opposed to him getting in. Ridley doesn't belong in ssb4's roster.
Well, I answered, but you probably wrote off my entire post as the ravings of a madman.
I wouldn't mind it, but I'd prefer it if it were a different design.
