freeman123
Smash Lord
Why is everybody so convinced that not all of the characters in Melee will be returning? All we have to base that on is Samurai Panda's translation of an reply Sakurai gave to an email question from a fan. Why is it that when the head graphics designer of the Zelda games says in an official interview that he's already designed character models for Sheik and Ganondorf to be in Brawl people don't believe it, but when Sakurai sends a casual response to a fan email while Brawl was still early in development it's taken as the word of God?
When Sakurai said that not all characters would be returning, Brawl was still early in development. Sakurai's reasoning for not all the characters returning, according to Samurai Panda's translations, was time constraints. If you remember, they were originally pushing for it to be a Wii launch title. So Sakurai ended up having a year longer to develop Brawl than what he thought he had at the time of that statement.
When Mortal Kombat Armageddon was still in development, the creator of Mortal Kombat, Ed Boon, said in an interview that all MK characters would be returning except for less significant characters like Motaro, Chameleon, and Meat. When the game was actually released, every character, including those 3, were in it.
No official announcement was ever made about not all characters returning. Sakurai only said that in response to a fan's question. When Nintendo first announced a new Smash Bros. game at E3 in 2004, they specifically said that we'd be able to play Smash Bros. online. Why is it that, based on that statement, people don't consider online play to be confirmed, yet based on Sakurai's response to a fan letter they're 100% convinced that not all characters will be returning? I would think that a statement made at an E3 press conference would be taken more seriously than an email response to a fan.
Not only were Ice Climbers confirmed to return today, but, unofficially, so was Mr. Game & Watch( http://smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=105742 ). A lot of people expect WW Link to be in the game. But what would his name be? Why not just call him Young Link? If Link's new character model is based on Twilight Princess, why not make Young Link's new character model based on Wind Waker? Mario is Nintendo's mascot. They aren't going to give Link 2 character spots and not give Mario 2, so you can assume that if Young Link returns Dr. Mario will too.
I know that basically everything in that last paragraph, other than the first sentence, is just speculation. But my point is that some of the characters that people consider the least likely to return aren't as unlikely as people think. A lot of people doubted that Ice Climbers and G&W would return, and they were both technically confirmed by today's update.
Jigglypuff and Luigi weren't confirmed to return in Melee until with in a month or so of the game's release. Up until that point, people swore on their grave that Jigglypuff and Luigi wouldn't be returning. Their reasoning was that Jigglypuff sucked and no one really liked him, and Luigi was too similar to Mario(both of those things were true in the first SSB). Does that sound familiar to anybody? That's pretty much the reasoning people use to say X Character will not return in Brawl.
And this is all assuming that Samurai Panda's translations are even 100% accurate. Japanese is a very difficult language to translate. If you misinterpret one little thing, it could change the meaning of an entire sentence.
I personally am convinced that all Melee characters will return in Brawl. Not just because Ice Climbers were confirmed today, but because Ice Climbers and Mr. Game & Watch were confirmed today. I had this same feeling back before Melee came out, when people were saying that not all characters would return, and I was right. So I'm confident that I'll be right this time too.
When Sakurai said that not all characters would be returning, Brawl was still early in development. Sakurai's reasoning for not all the characters returning, according to Samurai Panda's translations, was time constraints. If you remember, they were originally pushing for it to be a Wii launch title. So Sakurai ended up having a year longer to develop Brawl than what he thought he had at the time of that statement.
When Mortal Kombat Armageddon was still in development, the creator of Mortal Kombat, Ed Boon, said in an interview that all MK characters would be returning except for less significant characters like Motaro, Chameleon, and Meat. When the game was actually released, every character, including those 3, were in it.
No official announcement was ever made about not all characters returning. Sakurai only said that in response to a fan's question. When Nintendo first announced a new Smash Bros. game at E3 in 2004, they specifically said that we'd be able to play Smash Bros. online. Why is it that, based on that statement, people don't consider online play to be confirmed, yet based on Sakurai's response to a fan letter they're 100% convinced that not all characters will be returning? I would think that a statement made at an E3 press conference would be taken more seriously than an email response to a fan.
Not only were Ice Climbers confirmed to return today, but, unofficially, so was Mr. Game & Watch( http://smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=105742 ). A lot of people expect WW Link to be in the game. But what would his name be? Why not just call him Young Link? If Link's new character model is based on Twilight Princess, why not make Young Link's new character model based on Wind Waker? Mario is Nintendo's mascot. They aren't going to give Link 2 character spots and not give Mario 2, so you can assume that if Young Link returns Dr. Mario will too.
I know that basically everything in that last paragraph, other than the first sentence, is just speculation. But my point is that some of the characters that people consider the least likely to return aren't as unlikely as people think. A lot of people doubted that Ice Climbers and G&W would return, and they were both technically confirmed by today's update.
Jigglypuff and Luigi weren't confirmed to return in Melee until with in a month or so of the game's release. Up until that point, people swore on their grave that Jigglypuff and Luigi wouldn't be returning. Their reasoning was that Jigglypuff sucked and no one really liked him, and Luigi was too similar to Mario(both of those things were true in the first SSB). Does that sound familiar to anybody? That's pretty much the reasoning people use to say X Character will not return in Brawl.
And this is all assuming that Samurai Panda's translations are even 100% accurate. Japanese is a very difficult language to translate. If you misinterpret one little thing, it could change the meaning of an entire sentence.
I personally am convinced that all Melee characters will return in Brawl. Not just because Ice Climbers were confirmed today, but because Ice Climbers and Mr. Game & Watch were confirmed today. I had this same feeling back before Melee came out, when people were saying that not all characters would return, and I was right. So I'm confident that I'll be right this time too.
