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Oh my goodness...@M15t3R E
On the Porky thing, yes, it has been requested and I'm that thread's creator actually.
It comes down to whether Sakurai and the Metroid team see Ridley serving a better role as a boss character which he has always been or as a playable character. Waluigi is a must!
Yes, there will be an update. I am sorry that I have been so busy. I am going to have to edit a lot of the analyses I have already done. All of the edits will be done before Wednesday.
This suggests otherwise: http://www.polygon.com/2013/6/17/44...director-masahiro-sakurai-character-selection
I'm actually all going to throw out against Mother's face that Mother also has Masked Man AND Giygas (Well Giygas would be impossible but...) and in a series like that, it's not the reoccurring part that matters. Meanwhile, Ridley has been the main villain (or close) in almost every Metroid game. Mother's not all that niche in Japan and the U.S. fanbase is for sure nice, but even as a huge Mother fan, I think it can stay the same and fans will be satisfied.
Sakurai does have to have character models and presentations approved by the studios that use them. That is already known by us and is not up for debate. There are no "...maybe Pokemon too" or any silly speculations like that. We know for a fact that he has the hardest time with Game Freak because he told us that with the last game and he has said it again since E3. We know from the "Sakurai Asks" interview that even Fire Emblem character models needed to be approved for Brawl. Please don't make up some tripe narrative about how the approval process works and parade it around in this discussion. Smashboards has enough bad unsourced rumors and disinformation making the rounds.
Thank you for understanding. I have been completely inundated with higher priorities to get done. Fortunately, I am going to have some free time pretty soon. However, next week I definitely going to be very busy.
>Mother Series
Mother is only as irrelevant as Star Fox and F-Zero are. Yes, it's a lot less successful, but it's still more than earned its spot in Smash Bros. Though there's definitely the possiblity that Mother's representation on the roster is gonna get halfed since Lucas is looking like a very safe cut. Either way, with Earthbound getting the A+ treatment by Nintendo on the VC with a full fledged trailer, don't expect to see Ness go anywhere.
Well, to be fair it was a miracle that Mother got another rep in the first place, and even in Japan it's sort of a cult classic, though it's hardly that as much as it is overseas. Also, japanese demand is only part of what Sakurai is looking into, it's far from everything that matters, if that'd be the case then we might aswell give up on Little Mac and Ridley.
read everything Chrono said about the Mother series, including it's not really that popular in Japan, it's overrated, and that too many representatives is unwarranted. So, I've got one supporter on my side in this regard. And when it happens, we need to make some drastic cuts if we ever want newcomers again. The Mother series is as expendable as any, but even more so because of its cult like status. Are we going to be denied characters like Geno, Lloyd Irving, and Prof. Layton because of irrelevant Ness and Lucas???
Honestly, if Ness or Lucas was removed to make room for Lloyd Irving, or, of all things, Geno, I'm sure I'm not the only one who would be pissed. And I find it funny that you call Ness and Lucas irrelevant and then vouch for Geno...
To answer your questions, Ness in a heartbeat.
That's just the thing, though. Why would Sakurai go through the trouble of adding him as a 3rd Party character when he's waning in requests, he's a minor Mario character, and his company is notoriously hard to work with?
Mother is popular in Japan, but it never sold on the same level as many of Nintendo's other franchises (Mario, DK, Zelda, Kirby, Pokemon, Animal Crossing). For reasons others have already mentioned, that series is never going to be axed from Smash Bros., at the very least Ness is guaranteed to return for Smash 4. Lucas may be cut, but only if the issue of time constraints (or possibly 3DS hardware constraints) comes up.LOL
The Mario RPGs likely will not get a playable character in Smash 4, with the exception of Paper Mario who still has a pretty decent shot. Geno's chances I feel now are shot after Sakurai has talked about the need for third-party characters to be "legendary". Along with Balloon Fighter, Geno is probably the only the other character that I am going to remove from the contender list when I make revisions.Geno is just an example, there are others. But still, whether we like it or not, Mother's chances of surviving future cuts aren't the greatest, all our biased opinions aside. I mean, what else will we get rid off, other than Jigglypuff?
All of the characters you mentioned in support of replacing the Mother characters (Geno, Layton, Lloyd) are third-party characters, which have a much higher bar of entry than Nintendo characters do. All of those characters (aside from maybe Layton) are pretty obscure.What about the other points about Mother I've mentioned? That still has to count for something in regards to its cuts. Otherwise, it's just a slot waster of a franchise.