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Smash Bros roster may have 'reached the limit of what's feasible'
by Andrew Yoon, Jul 02, 2012 11:00am PDTIt's odd to remember that the original Super Smash Bros on Nintendo 64 debuted with only 12 playable characters. Since then, the franchise has expanded quite a bit, from 25 on Gamecube to 36 on Wii. Given sequels are supposed to be bigger and more badass than their predecessors, logic suggests that the next Smash Bros game for Wii U and 3DS should have even more characters, right?
Unfortunately, game director Masahiro Sakurai may have dashed hopes for a Smash Bros game with a giant roster. "In terms of quantity, we've probably already reached the limit of what's feasible," he said. "I think a change of direction may be what's needed."
"It isn't a matter of 'if the next game has 50 characters, that'll be enough,'" he told Nintendo Power (via Nintendo Everything). "There is a certain charm to games that have huge casts of playable characters, but they tend to have issues with game balance and it becomes very difficult to fine-tune each character and have them all feel distinctive."
Certainly, having characters feel "distinctive" is a challenge for Nintendo's fighting franchise. For example, Brawl featured numerous characters from the Star Fox universe: Fox, Falco, and Wolf. While they did play slightly differently from each other, the differences were quite minimal.
Still, Smash Bros games offer Nintendo a unique opportunity to revive some of its oldest franchises. For example, Brawl reintroduced Kid Icarus' Pit to gamers--years before the character had a new standalone game, Kid Icarus: Uprising. Here's hoping to some surprises in the next game.
Image from @Sora_Sakurai.
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Given sequels are supposed to be bigger and more badass than their predecessors, logic suggests that the next Smash Bros game for Wii U and 3DS should have even more characters, right?
Given sequels are supposed to be bigger and more badass than their predecessors, logic suggests that the next Smash Bros game for Wii U and 3DS should have even more characters, right? : Shacknews
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And you never refute my argument, so who is weak here? You've never actually given proof against my claims, simply said that they are wrong and that I am bad for saying them. You've never said "Oh, well, ____ isn't a clone of ____ because ____", you just got "BAAWWWWW BAWWWWW IT'S DIFFERENT SMASH BROS IS JUST SUCH A DEEP GAME GUIZ"
IT's not. Smash Bros is a fun, but super dumb, party game. It rocks, but what it rocks at is going crazy with a bunch of friends playing a bunch of crazy characters and just womping out. It is the only thing it is good at. I hear "Depth" coming out of Sakurai's mouth and I think of the travesty of SSBB's story mode, or the retardation that is the Super Smash tourney scene, or even worse the train-wreck that Kid Icarus game turned into.
Again, I'm sorry if maybe you've invested a lot of time and money into Smash Bros and consider it the god-king of fighting games. I'm sorry also because that probably means it's the only thing close to a fighting game you've ever played. But it's not a fighting game, it does not have any depth, and it SHOULDN'T. It should stay just the way it is, and stay in just the awesome niche it already sits in.
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