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Old 04-28-2012, 10:41 PM   #26
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Good, he should be. Though I did say...

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Though the main point here is that none of those three (that I know of) are in this game.
As much as I hate the way this is looking now, I know my one friend is getting this just because of Sly, so I'll play it at his house, and see if I like it enough to buy it.
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Old 04-29-2012, 03:08 AM   #27
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Super Smash Bros. played upon the decade-old question children had been asking: "who would win in a fight between Mario and Sonic?" They couldn't get Sonic, of course, but they simply applied the question to the stars of their other franchises. It didn't take much, considering everyone has his or her own favorites and could easily be swayed to consider the question of who would win between Nintendo Hero A and Nintendo Hero B. Then, about another decade later, we wind up getting Mario and Sonic in the same brawler after all: and everyone who was a kid in the late '80s or early '90s had his wish granted.

I was never a Sony kid so maybe it's not fair for me to say this, but ... I've never once asked myself "Who would win in a fight between Parappa the Rapper and Kratos?" That's as absurd as asking who would win in a fight between Marth and R.O.B. the robot. Now granted, those ended up becoming playable characters in Smash Bros., but only as 2nd and 3rd gen extras, respectively: never as launch title characters. Now you could say "Well, Nintendo's original Smash Bros. didn't have anyone you'd really pictured fighting either! " but ... I still have an easier time considering the fanboy question "Who wins between Link or Kirby?" than I do "Who wins between Parappa and Kratos?" Again, this could just be because I wasn't a Sony kid, but I think this is why the game's roster feels really weird to me.

I guess the other problem I have is, and no offense to Sony but ... Sony's "mascot" characters suck! Nintendo has Mario, Link, Samus, Kirby, and (at the time) the very new Pikachu. When I think "mascot characters" for Sony, I think Cloud Strife, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro the Dragon, and the clown from Twisted Metal. Not exactly the sorts of characters you see going at it in the same ring. ^^;
You read my damn mind so perfectly. This entire post is correct.

I think we will wind up seeing Crash at least, and I wouldn't be surprised if they managed to sneak in Cloud and Spyro in there, although which design they would use would be interesting. I'd be willing to bet they'd throw in Snake, too, but at that point, it starts losing the "Sony" factor and just turns into "The Kind-of Playstation All-Stars plus Third Party Battle Royale".

This is a problem Nintendo never had. SSB is their perfect IP because let's face it, most people buy a Nintendo system to play Nintendo games. Nintendo is not running short on a list of characters from all their IPs. Sony, on the other hand, only has awkward "realistic", and I use that word lightly, characters like Kratos and Drake and Helghast. It just doesn't work.
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Old 04-29-2012, 05:04 AM   #28
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Crash isn't exactly a Sony exclusive anymore though, as his last four games were multi-platform.
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Old 04-29-2012, 08:12 AM   #29
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I honestly don't know so I'm going to have to ask this like a newb:

Does Sony actually own any characters? Any first-party characters at all? I'm pretty sure that they only Smash Bros. characters that Nintendo don't own are the obvious ones, Sonic and Snake, but I don't know about shit like Fire Emblem. There's no-one like Banjo and Kazooie (Rare) so I'm a little hazy on that, but if Sony doesn't actually own any characters then this all seems a bit pointless.
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Old 04-29-2012, 08:21 AM   #30
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Well, Nintendo doesn't own Pokemon, technically
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Old 04-29-2012, 08:32 AM   #31
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Pokémon is a media franchise published and owned by Japanese video game company Nintendo and created by Satoshi Tajiri in 1996.
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Old 04-29-2012, 08:33 AM   #32
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Old 04-29-2012, 08:59 AM   #33
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Hence all the licensing stuff in the SSB games, and failure to be represented in many other nintendo mediums such as the 3ds' puzzles
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Old 04-29-2012, 09:14 AM   #34
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Old 04-30-2012, 11:29 AM   #35
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Penny Arcade takes an overdue swing at actual video game news that people care about aaaaand ... it's out of the park!
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Old 04-30-2012, 05:04 PM   #36
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Old 05-01-2012, 04:48 AM   #37
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Penny Arcade's being a bit liberal with the history. The guy wasn't fired, he was handed a fat wad of bills, with which he tried (and failed) to buy back his dignity.
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Old 05-01-2012, 10:14 AM   #38
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anyone else find this comic as hilarious as I do atm?

also, even looking at the advertisement it still looks much shittier than SSB
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Old 05-01-2012, 10:58 AM   #39
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Penny Arcade's being a bit liberal with the history. The guy wasn't fired, he was handed a fat wad of bills, with which he tried (and failed) to buy back his dignity.
Spoilers: Webcomics care very little for the fine points and more about the funny ones.

Also I lol'd hard.
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Old 05-01-2012, 02:51 PM   #40
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Just noticed that comic from Penny Arcade... XD. That was really well done on their part. And yes FW, I do find that the advertisement makes it look worse than SSB. Mostly because of the blatant rip-offness of it.
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Old 05-13-2012, 12:34 AM   #41
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Wow, totally blatant rip-off. That fat princess even moves EXACTLY like Peach. Really, Sony?
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Old 05-21-2012, 08:55 AM   #42
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Not that i'll ever play the game, but as long as they add Abe from the Oddworld games, Spike from Ape Escape and Sir Daniel Fortesque from MediEvil i'll be happy to let it exist.
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Old 05-21-2012, 01:13 PM   #43
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Considering Oddworld Inhabitants games for Xbox, I don't think that Sony has enough of a legal right to use Abe without dishing out some serious cash.
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Old 05-26-2012, 07:44 PM   #44
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Wow. Just wow.
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Old 05-27-2012, 02:31 PM   #45
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Old 05-28-2012, 10:30 PM   #46
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Randomly....why the hell does SSBB have Snake?
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Old 05-28-2012, 10:57 PM   #47
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Randomly....why the hell does SSBB have Snake?
IIRC, Hideo Kojima went to Nintendo and asked for Snake to be put in the game. That was something I heard a while back, but I forget where though.
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Old 05-28-2012, 11:28 PM   #48
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Like, everywhere. He asked after he had learned of Super Smash Brothers Melee, but the game was already in post-production so Nintendo promised him Snake would be in the next game (Brawl).

Kotaku has the interview with the producer who said this.
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Old 06-05-2012, 12:06 AM   #49
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I think this says it all, really.
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They've edited the tags now, so they're not there anymore. However, that is freakin' hilarious that they actually tagged their video with Smash Bros. stuff.

Also, I think it's even funnier that Bioshock was originally a 360 exclusive, and now they have Big Daddy in their Playstation All-Stars game. They're trolling Nintendo and Microsoft at the same time!
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Old 06-05-2012, 01:32 AM   #50
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That's fake. I can tell by the pixels.
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