you're not talking to the thirteen-year-old emo boy though

Metroid isn't a series famous for its vast array of interesting and notable characters, because it doesn't have one. Not that it needs it. It's a series famous for its open exploration and eerie game feel, the sort that makes you feel alone when playing the games. I would say that a bevy of Metroid-themed stages (like Brawl had) would be a more prudent form of representation for the Metroid universe.

And Ridley is too big, shrinking him down to be fair wouldn't be fun or cool, etc. etc. etc.

Dude a lot of people go back on their word.

*cough*George Lucas*cough*

Well it doesn't matter at this point, Lucina is already in the game and there is nothing we can do about it.

Doesn't make it right.

But in this case, I don't care that Sakurai sort of lied, because I'm cool with clone characters.

Just because he maybe (?) eluded to wanting less clones for brawl doesn't mean it's the same for smash 4. He also said during brawl's development that villager and miis would never fit in to smash. Did he betray us lol

sakurai lied people died

Apparently Sakurai said nothing of the sort. My bad. I wasn't entirely sure he said it to begin with, it was just a rumor that spread fast during that time.

People just need to stop believing in the "there's only this many character slots so whoever takes it up makes it less likely for MY character to be in."
Just, stop. STOP. Nobody and I mean NOBODY besides the development team knows who or what is going into the game. There is no such thing as someone "wasting a spot" or "replacing" another character. If Sakurai wants something in the game, he'll put it in there. Only he knows what the limit is. There is literally NO reason to debate a character or feature from a certain franchise deserving more things by how much it sells or how popular something is, it clearly doesn't matter from what we've seen of the game so far. But of course, if there's always something to complain about, people will complain.

Little weird they went back on that. This looks a bit more Nintendo-y.

This makes me wonder what his future might be. Saki says this isn't a guarantee for anything, but Mac has leveled up.

YESSSS THISSSSSSSS QTF


The dumbest argument ever, and it runs rampant in the smash bros fandom.

in case this is in any way directed at me

I was never a part of that "slot" camp. I learned about how that stuff works back in Brawl. I don't think any characters "deserve" to be in more than others based solely on their game sales. I was just trying to say that it made sense to me that they'd use such a criterion if they actually did.

but yeah you're right if i don't like something i'm gonna complain about it regardless of any silver lining that may be found
the imaginary character roster "slots" are not one of those things

it was a joke brah chill

didn't kyuub make that same exact argument
you have to be a moron to not notice you just used the same argument that the person came up with

also there's a world of difference between wanting ridley and thinking ridley will be in
look ridley is totally cool in my book but i doubt he could be added without looking goofy

and a lot of ridley supporters make the dumbest arguments
"the wings could just not have a hitbox"
"his tail could be coiled around him"
"he's as big as samus in metroid NES"

I could care less if you joke about it, go ahead but I just needed to get that out there because the people who talk about that stuff seriously need to wake the f*** up and realize how selfish and stupid they're being.

selfish

what

I think the biggest they could make a character would be somewhere around twice the size of Bowser. A big character could and would definitely have an interesting playstyle, while having the same flaw huge characters in all the other fighting games (and Super Mushroom'd characters) have, they get juggled to death. It's not like Giga Bowser wasn't a thing, either.

Not that these arguments counter anything, per say, just my own opinion.

And on the whole Fire Emblem rep thing, lets be honest, they wanted to make a challenge where Lucina fights Marth, and they needed a female rep. (And, for some reason said Lyn wouldn't be a good choice, probably because of the first thing.) But I'm fine with all that, the thing that really bothers me is all the swordsmen. Hello, it was called the weapon triangle for a reason. At least Lyn had an alt weapon like Robin has.