You're kinda deluding yourself if you think DP's presence didn't make MORE people unhappy though, which is also a matter of facts.
Sadly, you may indeed be correct, if only because ignorant people assume the work that went into Dark Pit could've been put into "someone else". People are unhappy because of their own lack of understanding.
Honestly, he probably took more work than all 7 Koopaling costumes put together considering all their voice clips are recycled and modeling takes next to no time and work at all, hense why trophies exist. Dark Pit meanwhile took programing and balancing his (admittedly minor) changes, a little bit of modeling work for the Staff, electroshock arm, orbitars, and alt colors.
You're mistaken here. A professional-grade model that needs to be made from scratch, revised twice for 2 different systems, each with their own rigs, offsets, texture-allignments and scaling, not to mention testing sessions to see if every single one of them works in-game without glitching out
(something hardly necessary, nor actually done for Dark Pit as seen in his Final Smash animation having clipping issues: http://www.ssbwiki.com/images/f/fe/SSB4_-_Dark_Pit_Screen-8.jpg).....takes
a lot of effort. I'm not saying it takes "forever" for a team of professionals, but in comparison it's already more effort by far than Dark Pit took. As for his weapons, they were taken from Sakurai's own KI:U game, already in the correct 3DS format.
Alt colors take no time at all(minus a few exceptions like the Pikachu hats, Villager Alts, Wario, etc). Dark Pit was going to be an alternate costume regardless. More info on that on my reply to
Magikarpow.
Of the recommended characters from only his list that could be represented fairly and done in similar if not the same time, Louie (or another Pikmin Captain since Alph is already in the game), Daisy, Funky, and Black Shadow could all be fairly represented, but let's toss Black Shadow since we don't need another falcon clone. That leaves a second pikmin rep, admittedly another Mario Rep, or throwing the DKC series a bone in a game where it got next to no representation already. All of these characters have easily recyclable voice clips or no voice at all, meaning we don't need to bring in an additional VA, modeling is very simple and most of them already have models in the game as trophies or could be recolors, and all three would represent a more well recieved and popular series than Kid Icarus.
I'm afraid you let bias cloud your judgement. To fairly represent Daisy, Funky, or Black Shadow in a professional setting, do you have any idea how much more effort is necessary? Even little things like Peach's heart effect getting replaced by flowers
(And Final Smash art and tune. What would she even drop as food? And when did Daisy ever throw turnips?), and the....well....funkier style that Funky Kong moves has to be taken into consideration. And when you make huge changes, like Black Shadow obviously being much heavier and more powerfull than Falcon
(huh, that sounds familiar), alot more testing and balancing comes into play. The whole point I'm trying to get across is that Dark Pit was the fastest and most convenient clone Sakurai could've made. This is hardly even argueable. But just to drive my point further home....
Yes, you can hack a halfassed low-poly unoptimized model into a finished game without ever fine-tuning it's hitboxes or animations.
Yes, you can then recycle out-of-place voice clips from unrelated games like Mario Kart or F-Zero. But that's
not how things go from a professional point of view. You must pay respect to the characters you've been proudly given permission to borrow.
(Even if you DID half-as.s your characters like that, it would VERY likely still take more time than Dark Pit)
1. Many of these characters are the same, or have slight differences, like Marth-Lucina.
2. A lot of the characters I suggested are the same actor/or don't need an actor, like Dark Samus.
3. He has quite a few different attributes about him, most notably his Final Smash.
4. True enough. But I can't imagine it would be too hard to get rights for a character from a universe he already has in Smash.
5. That's debatable. His Final Smash only would probably take quite a while to create.
1. Dark Pit has the least changes of any clone in the Smash Bros series by far, both visually and mechanically.
2: Dark Samus has no real voice actor(neither does Power-Suit Samus), but makes different sounds nonetheless, not to mention the countless different animations and properties necessary to do her justice. Think from a professional developer's perspective, one who wants to do every character justice.
3: You miss the point. I meant that his skeleton bonedata, sound effects(footsteps, slashes, etc), animations, etc would require no finetuning at all. He's all set and ready from the very start.
4: Paperwork and meetings.
5: Same attributes as Zelda and Sheik's with an edited blast that uses recycled effects. Even in his FS animation his hair clips through his face. If that's not the epidemy of a quick rushjob, I don't know WHAT you think it is. Most of his special move effects are all recycled from Ganondorf, Pit, or Pikachu. Hell, even the "custom" weapons like the Electroshock Arm and DP Staff are simply ripped from Kid Icarus Uprising, which was already conveniently in the proper format since it was made by Sakurai on the same platform. Convenient pretty much sums up Dark Pit.
Convenient pretty much sums up Dark Pit. I don't know what you think you're mad about. If anything, the only thing you COULD hate is that Dark Pit's not classified as alternate costume. And you're half-right. He could EASILY have been an alternate costume like the Koopalings, because that's just how easy it would've been.(Except he's a recolor in design, so it'd be even EASIER than the Koopalings) In fact, it's how things were planned from the start. But they decided to spend 2 hours of their time to change some mechanics, and now he's seperated as character. And then people like YOU come around and pretend like his "slot" could've been replaced by anything else.
Ah, right. Excuuuuse them for doing little extras, in what was probably done during some poor guy's lunch break. Are you honestly suprised about Sakurai's reaction to pretentious people like you?
http://nintendoeverything.com/sakurai-on-the-clone-characters-in-smash-bros-wii-u3ds/
There was no "choice". There is no "replacement". There will only be ignorance. If you wished so badly to see other characters in the game in favor of other things, go hate whatever actually hogged development time. Like that one mode you hate, that one from-scratch character while Ganondorf is still a clone, that one stage with way too many chaotic features, or that stupid feature that mirrors character animations to always face the screen.
(Sakurai actually complained it took effort too...)
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