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I believe Smash started development in late Feburary. KI:U went gold in January. If you are curious, that's why I said 16.
it would love it if it came out by my birthday in September. too bad it's never going to happen
Well it is two games although I personally think there's a separate team for each one, Interesting thing to note though is that Melee was made in 13 months so it probably is more than half way done at this point.
Ah, cool beans. cheers. seems like a fair reasoning.
cool. more's the point, so. They're not starting from a blank slate with the online, it's probably one of their highest priorities.
It started development in about October, but I suspect it may have been later than that. They had to hire extra staff for Brawl. Also, they were using Game Arts, which was a smaller team. They seem to be moving pretty well with Namco.
So they've made some progress. E3 will be about 10 months from that time. So this holiday is possible, but I'm doubtful. If development started in October, Brawl would have been released in about 25 months (a little over two years). Given this is two games, they could come out around April or May of 2014.
The first delay was probably Sonic since they did have to add a new character and stages just for him. The second delay was defiantly online, but I think it was only pushed back a week or two in Japan.
Brawl actually has 10 more roster spots than Melee (25 to 35) but we had 18 newcomers total, even if it was at the expense of 5 cut characters.
Kraid can be resized like Ridley. He was smaller in the NES game like Ridley was.
you gotta be kidding me...
You cannot have it both ways... claim that Ridley was small in the NES game means he should be resized to be small in Smash and then in the same breath, claim that Kraid cannot be resized to be small in Smash even though he was small in the NES game.
Difference is Kraid was resized to be 10 stories tall.
I don't care about spots on the stupid menu, I care about how many characters are actually playable. That's the actual definition of roster size. I mean, it's not like anyone will care about if we get say 5 more roster spots if we got say 15 more total characters. They'd focus on the roster.
Sonic added, one character, one stage, lots of music, new custscenes, new stickers, new trophies, reworking SSE and all star mode, etc.
Anyone who uses NES Ridley as the primary counter-argument against the "too big" issue needs to be decapitated right away.
There's really no evidence that it took a lot of time though. For example, it's estimated that by the time the first Brawl trailer was shown, everybody aside from a handful of characters (Toon Link/Wolf/Jigglypuff/Sonic) had already been added to the game. That would be about 35 characters in about seven months with 16 characters being completely new. There was only one piece of Sonic music that was a remix with the rest being ripped straight from their respective soundtracks, one cutscene involving Sonic, a couple of character models ripped straight from their respective games, a couple of stickers that were simply original artwork, and one largely simplistic stage. Sonic was a late addition but with Sakurai complaining through the whole development process of what an enormous pain making Brawl's online features was (sometimes even going as far as saying he didn't want to include it at all), it's much more likely that this was the cause of the delay.
You are referring to Melee's Kraid who is 10 stories tall in Brinstar Depths. Kraid looks like he is about 2 stories tall in Zero Mission and Super Metroid.
that's still 2 stories tall. I think the "too big" argument actually WORKS for kraid.
If Olimar can overcome his "too small" argument from the size of a quarter to roughly around Mario's height, then Kraid can overcome his "too big" argument from two stories tall to roughly Ridley's suggested size.
Oh come on. Double Standards was the best character in brawl
perspectivly, olimar wasn't small. sure, he was realistically, but not perspectivly. kraid, on the other hand, is big perspectivly AND big literally.
can I see the link to wear sakurai says they be less newcomers?
It's not that noteworthy, trust me. What it's more saying is "There needs to be more done this time around than just adding new content to the gameplay."
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We had 17 newcomers (18 if you count Toon Link) in Brawl.
