| LuckyTrouble said: Almost anybody I know that plays any fighting game at all, whether it be Smash, Street Fighter, Soul Calibur, what have you, they find a character or two they're good with and tend to use them essentially always. Yeah, a different character may get used here or there, but most people focus on getting better with a select few characters, both to take on higher tier in game challenges, and to be able to compete online as is the case with any fighting game basically from the past decade. Now YOU may not play that way, but I assure you, you are in the minority. Or maybe you're just assuming you use more characters actively than you really do. Even then, there is no way even playing that way that you can say you fully utilize a 50+ character roster and that it needs more characters just because your fan service needs haven't been entirely fulfilled. |
I love how you apparently know me better than I know myself, and also know how EVERYBODY who has ever played Smash plays it because you know a few people who play fighting games.
I favour Link, Bowser, Toon Link, Ganondorf, and Wii Fit Trainer as my most-played characters, with Pit, Palutena, Marth, Kirby, Mario, Donkey Kong, Shulk, Pac Man, and Mega Man coming up in the second batch... but there's only two or three I don't seriously enjoy playing as (I still enjoy it, but only once in a while). And while the "serious gamers" out there might try to become experts in one character, I'm quite confident that many people who play a little more casually would just enjoy picking characters, often at random, to play.
Beyond that, if Layton were available for Smash, he'd probably be one of my most-played characters. Not just because I like him as a character (that's not why I play as Bowser, for instance), but because just about any moveset I can come up with for him, I thoroughly like, so I expect that a moveset Sakurai and team design for him will be exceptionally good.
So again, just because it's how YOU want it to be, doesn't mean it's how EVERYONE wants it to be. You want a tight little fighter with just a core set of playable characters with specifically-diverse movesets. I want as many characters as possible, for greater variety (I'll play the game more if I get a more varied experience), and I'm even happy if EVERY character gets a few clones. Heck, I was kind of wanting Sakurai to make it so that every moveset applies to two characters. Mario/Dr Mario, Pit/Dark Pit, Marth/Lucina, Link/Toon Link, Zelda/Hilda, Sheik/Impa, Ness/Lucas, Fox/Falco, Snake/Betty (from Battalion Wars), Pac Man/Mrs Pac Man, Luigi/Mr L, Ice Climbers/Paper Bros, Peach/Daisy, Villager/Pete (from Harvest Moon), Sonic/Shadow, Pikachu/Pichu, Captain Falcon/Jody Summer, Ganondorf/Ghirahim, Donkey Kong/DK Jr, Charizard/Dragonite, Mega Man/Zero, Ryu/Akuma (Ken as an alt for Ryu), Layton/Wright... I think you get my point by now. And to be clear, it's not (just) about fanservice. It adds more variety to the game (the cloning means they can add many more without having to do twice the work).
