Goku for Smash 5? I say YES!

[AngryLittleAlchemist]

Simpleton said:

AngryLittleAlchemist said:

The "reason" for Smash 64 and Melee was that it was a brawl of Nintendo characters. The reason for brawl was that it was just a special little event bringing on unique third party characters. The reason for Smash 4 was that they're "celebrating" all of gaming history. 

Reasons deteriorate with time. 

Smash never excluded third party characters. The only reasons Snake and Sonic didn't make it into Melee was due to time. Smash 4 just expanded on the third parties as much as the rest of the roster was expanded.

On the other hand, the fact that characters need to originate from video games has always been a rule.

Well, that's why I almost erased Melee from my post at all, seeing as how third party characters were planned. But the point wasn't some arbitrary "rule set", because the rule set wasn't as important as the intention that made the rule set. Whether or not Super Smash Bros 64 didn't have a rule against third parties is irrelevant : It was marketed, created, and received as a Nintendo oriented brawler. Whether or not Melee(in some alternate universe) or Brawl changed that doesn't matter, because the intention of only allowing a handful of third party characters also changed. Now we have so many third party characters that fans actually bitch that there are too many (weird community). The point I was making wasn't about "rules", but intentions.