Sony's Smash Bros. competitor all but confirmed, test images revealed

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Mr Khan said:

JOKA_ said:

ASStronaut said:

Andrespetmonkey said:

Paul said:
Does Sony have popular characters? Would the cars from their popular racing series be in the game?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj96XYhwTFI

I watched it.

Apart from Sackboy and that child with white eyes they are all generic 'tough guy' characters, nothing interesting at all.

They could all be the same person wearing different costumes, no imagination what so ever.

 

Because every character in SSB is just so different and looks unique:

 

Fox = Falco = Wolf

Ness = Lucas

Ike = Marth

Kirby = MetaKnight

Link = Toon Link

DK = Diddy

hell, even Mario = Luigi

Okay, your point i am going to have to strike down rather vigorously

A: Asstronaut's point was in regards to how many of these characters from different franchises look interchangeable. You countered by equating characters from the same franchise in all instances.

B: Kirby and Meta-Knight look dissimilar, act dissimilar, and play very differently. This point can also be applied to the contrast between Marth and Ike and DK and Diddy.

A:  I'll give you A.  They are all from the same franchise.   Nintendo actually uses four different characters from a single franchise a few times (Pokemon, Zelda, Mario) and three characters other times (Kirby, Starfox)*.  I guess that just brings up the point that Sony could just do the same thing and include mulitple characters from each franchise.  Ratchet and Clank alone could provide a ton of characters.

B:  We were talking about appearance only, the line he used was "same person wearing different costumes" not play style or actions.  Which in the examples I cited, a costume change is pretty much the only change in the characters appearance.  The first time I heard about MetaKnight was in Brawl and I thought he was a kirby ...thing... in a costume.  Same for the others, minor costume changes is all that separate the character models.

 

*Also holy shit I JUST realized how Nintendo organized the character select list for Brawl lol.  It's vertical by franshise, I can't believe I've been playing it for 4 years and never noticed.  I feel dumb now haha I always thought it was randonly organized.

 

EDIT: Actually make that 6 characters from a single franchise.  I forgot to add Yoshi and Wario to Mario.