firedragon_jing
Smash Ace
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I like many other people have started to see a pattern to the way Sakurai is making Smash. During the time of Melee, Sakurai held a poll to see who the fans most wanted characters would be, but many fan-favorites were left on the cutting floor... characters like Wolf, Wario, Diddy, Pit, Pokemon Trainer, and Dedede. Oddly enough these were the newcomers to arrive in Brawl, catching on to the conspiracy. Lucas was left out because Mother 64 was cancelled, but was planned to be in, Meta Knight and Dedede were left out because he didn't want to add many characters from his own series, Pit and Meta Knight were left out because of the complications with flying. PT didn't get in because of the difficulties of enabling the ability of the switching system, and Sakurai views PT as someone who can't fight on his own.. As for the rest, Toon Link, Ike, and Lucario were upgrades from the latest installments to replace Young Link, Roy, and Mewtwo, (just for a fun odd coincidence, all the upgraded characters have the same amount of letters between them as the ones they replaced, 18 letters between each set). R.O.B. was the new nostalgic WTF character after G&W. Olimar and Snaker are the exceptions; Olimar being the newest Miyamoto major franchise and Snake because Kojima begged for him to be included. Because Snake got in, this opened the door for the fan requested Sonic to have a second chance of making it after the M&S at the Olympic games was announced, which he did after the characters were picked.
Anyway, now that I've gone through all the newcomers in Brawl, let me actually make my point, Sakurai announced at GDC that he came up with the roster in 2005 when production started and most of the characters were finished by 2006. Sonic was the only exception being put in the game in 2006. This means Sakurai's poll in 2006 wasn't even looked at for characters. He got the majority of his newcomer list from the Melee polls.
Now for the true purpose of this post. Just like Melee's poll wasn't really used for Melee, and how Brawls poll wasn't used to make Brawl's roster, but Melee's poll was used for Brawl, that means that Brawls poll will be used for SSB4.
The point I'm making is, now that Brawl is out, no new suggestions will make any effect on SSB4's roster, because all the data Sakurai will care about, he has already collected. As unfair as it may sound, no newer character really has much of a chance in SSB4, so expect only what you wanted from Brawl to be in SSB4 and be happy with it... do not expect any new fan-favorites outside of Pokemon, Fire Emblem, and possibly Zelda, (series that introduce new characters often) to make an appearance in SSB4. Krystal, Isaac, possibly Geno, maybe Ridley if he isn't just a boss again, and other highly requested characters will be about what we get for newcomers when/if SSB4 comes out.
I wasn't around these forums when Melee was coming out because I only had a PS2, so I didn't see this coming, but now that I know it has happened twice, it will almost defiantly happen the next time around. All I'm saying is don't expect any more than what was requested during Brawl, or else prepare for as much disappointment as when the final Melee and Brawl rosters were first leaked.
DLC was the only thing that could have balanced out this cycle, but either Sakurai has no interest, or is just bluffing. Either way, for now, just heed these words, and just look forward to the Brawl requested characters in SSB4, since that's all that will be included.
FOR ALL THE FLAMERS, BASHERS, AND TROLLS OUT THERE, THIS IS NOT A ROSTER COMPLAINT THREAD OR A LOOKING FORWARD TO SSB4 THREAD. THIS IS A WARNING THREAD SO PEOPLE DON'T COMPLAIN ABOUT THE ROSTER IN SSB4, LIKED THEY DID FOR BRAWL AND MELEE.
Anyway, now that I've gone through all the newcomers in Brawl, let me actually make my point, Sakurai announced at GDC that he came up with the roster in 2005 when production started and most of the characters were finished by 2006. Sonic was the only exception being put in the game in 2006. This means Sakurai's poll in 2006 wasn't even looked at for characters. He got the majority of his newcomer list from the Melee polls.
Now for the true purpose of this post. Just like Melee's poll wasn't really used for Melee, and how Brawls poll wasn't used to make Brawl's roster, but Melee's poll was used for Brawl, that means that Brawls poll will be used for SSB4.
The point I'm making is, now that Brawl is out, no new suggestions will make any effect on SSB4's roster, because all the data Sakurai will care about, he has already collected. As unfair as it may sound, no newer character really has much of a chance in SSB4, so expect only what you wanted from Brawl to be in SSB4 and be happy with it... do not expect any new fan-favorites outside of Pokemon, Fire Emblem, and possibly Zelda, (series that introduce new characters often) to make an appearance in SSB4. Krystal, Isaac, possibly Geno, maybe Ridley if he isn't just a boss again, and other highly requested characters will be about what we get for newcomers when/if SSB4 comes out.
I wasn't around these forums when Melee was coming out because I only had a PS2, so I didn't see this coming, but now that I know it has happened twice, it will almost defiantly happen the next time around. All I'm saying is don't expect any more than what was requested during Brawl, or else prepare for as much disappointment as when the final Melee and Brawl rosters were first leaked.
DLC was the only thing that could have balanced out this cycle, but either Sakurai has no interest, or is just bluffing. Either way, for now, just heed these words, and just look forward to the Brawl requested characters in SSB4, since that's all that will be included.
FOR ALL THE FLAMERS, BASHERS, AND TROLLS OUT THERE, THIS IS NOT A ROSTER COMPLAINT THREAD OR A LOOKING FORWARD TO SSB4 THREAD. THIS IS A WARNING THREAD SO PEOPLE DON'T COMPLAIN ABOUT THE ROSTER IN SSB4, LIKED THEY DID FOR BRAWL AND MELEE.
