puffy on 18 November 2009
| angrypoolman said: wow, i never would have thought that there actually could have been... a good reason for this. how would adding a few characters to punch out diminish their returns? i dont get it. it seems to me that it couldnt do anything but help. does it cost that much to program a character and add it to the roster? |
Yes designing even one character takes time:
- General art design
- 3D model design
- Gameplay design
- Dialogue and voice acting
- Character theme and cut scenes specific to that character
- Q&A and quality testing of this specific character
Also adding more characters would mean that the difficulty curve would have to be altered for all the other characters as Punch-Out!! is already a pretty tough game and just adding harder and harder characters would mean the majority of players would never see the added characters anyway.
