[GTAHater836]

Originally Posted by Xenon Odyssey

Too bad he's not in any other fighting games...

Having never played Street Fighter X Tekken, I just looked him up. I can't decide if already being in a crossover fighting game where neither side is strictly Nintendo characters should make me more comfortable or less with adding the 3rd-party character in question to Smash. My senses say I should be more comfortable because it's fighting game experience, and my intuition says I should be less comfortable because it's overdoing a character. My intuition also tells me that when in doubt, a human or humanoid should be selected over a circular character.

[Red Shadow]

the difference is the engine

all kinds of characters would be fun with smash physics

[yangfeili]

I always thought Smash should be about classic characters with a history on Nintendo systems, so Pac-Man would be perfectly fine. I remember playing at least three Pac-Man games on the NES alone.

(Same went for Snake: if you look at old Nintendo Power magazines, Metal Gear regularly showed up on the NES charts, and at one point hit the No. 3 spot. It was a pretty well known and popular game, on the same level as Castlevania or Mega Man. Sonic, however, had no business being on the roster.)

So as for other Namco characters, I'm thinking of looking to games more like Tower of Druaga or Dig Dug first rather than Tekken or the Tales series.

[DusK]

Originally Posted by yangfeili

Sonic, however, had no business being on the roster.

Sonic frequented Nintendo consoles since the GCN days.

[yangfeili]

Originally Posted by DusK

Sonic frequented Nintendo consoles since the GCN days.

Ehhh, that's just a little too recent for me, only one generation before the Wii. But I know that the whole "Mario VS Sonic" was too much of a big selling point for them to pass it up, so I don't really blame them for doing it.

[Overflow]

Originally Posted by GTAHater836

My intuition also tells me that when in doubt, a human or humanoid should be selected over a circular character.

lol whatever happened to Kirby or Meta Knight

[urdailywater]

Originally Posted by DusK

Sonic frequented Nintendo consoles since the GCN days.

I'd also like to mention that Tales would probably be more popular with Nintendo fans than Dig Dug or Tower of Druaga anyday considering a few (3 off the top of my head) of it's games have been on Nintendo systems exclusively. And even more that were later ported over to Playstation consoles.

Unless you were saying you'd personally prefer those games over Tales and Tekken. In which case ok.

[GTAHater836]

If you ask me, things didn't improve for Sonic until less than 3 years ago. Sonic Generations is one of 2011's best games. Sonic's GCN games, for the most part, were no good. I don't recall Sonic Heroes ever getting good reviews.

To overflow: Yes, I know the biggest-name characters in the Kirby series were circular. But Kirby wasn't competing so hard against anything else like Pac-Man is up against Tekken, Soul Calibur, and most importantly Xeno and Tales Of.

[jnWake]

Originally Posted by chthonic

my main problem with brawl is the abysmal single player mode

don't tease me with all those sexy cutscenes if the gameplay required to unlock them is going to be tons of repetitive and confusing garbage

Brawl's single player is very cool imo. Some of the stages were pretty cool, it had amazing boss battles, cool cutscenes and was quite challenging...

I hope the next Smash Bros. has something similar, but better!

[DusK]

Originally Posted by GTAHater836

If you ask me, things didn't improve for Sonic until less than 3 years ago. Sonic Generations is one of 2011's best games. Sonic's GCN games, for the most part, were no good. I don't recall Sonic Heroes ever getting good reviews.

Sonic Adventure DX and SA2 Battle were pretty good. Sonic Advance games were okay too. Rush started pushing a little downward, but still enjoyable.

Let's pretend that Sonic Heroes, Sonic 2k6, and the werewolf stages of Unleashed never existed. Ever. EVER.