Smash Bros Brawl Creators Hint at Sonic

Wowzer writes "Nintendo hopes that Solid Snake's appearance in Super Smash Bros. Brawl on Wii will encourage other publishers to allow their characters to join the Smash Bros. line-up, and is already actively negotiating for the rights to include at least one or two other non-Nintendo character. The plot thickens when Smash Bros. series director Masahiro Sakurai and Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto say that 'Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog is the character that Smash Bros. fans have requested the most.' This begs the question, which non-Nintendo characters are most likely to appear?"

Comments

Sega fanboys?

[bsharitt]

If anything, this will give the old sega fanboys a chance to beat up on Mario with Sonic.

Re:Sega fanboys?

[pecko666]

Bad Blood ? Would not sa that .. Sega is currently pretty big supporter of Nintendo.

Re:Sega fanboys?

[despisethesun]

Yeah, there's so much bad blood between Sega and Nintendo that Nintendo had Sega develop the Gamecube F-Zero title! Those two companies sure do hate each other.

Re:Sega fanboys?

[Impotent_Emperor]

I'm not sure why Sega would be angry over the Genesis/SNES feud. After all, it was the time when Sega was most successful. They went from almost no marketshare to a close 2nd. The only ones who could have lost something in that feud was Nintendo (as it was the established leader). Their later problems were largely internal.

I know!

[JFMulder]

Master Chief! Yeah, like that would happen.

Seriously tough, how about someone from the Street Fighter series, but the baby version of the character, not the grown up one, which were showcased in some jewel Street Fighter based game.

Please, NOT a Final Fantasy character, especially Sephiroth, Cloud or Vincent. Those characters have been showcased in other games enough.

Seriously tough, how about Mega Man? He is similar to Samus tough gameplay wise, unless you have combos that allow him to change his style? That would make him pretty unique.

Or, even tough he is not a video game character, maybe Samuel "The Man" Jackson? He's badass enough for this yet doesn't take himself seriously.

Re:I know!

[enharmonix]

Megaman

I second that motion. Make him like a cross between Kirby and Samus. Kill another player, and Mega Man inherits their powers. That would be way better than macaroni.

Re:I know!

[Solra Bizna]

From Namco... Mappy!

-:sigma.SB

Re:I know!

[Belgarion89]

Or, even tough he is not a video game character, maybe Samuel "The Man" Jackson? He's badass enough for this yet doesn't take himself seriously.

And he could beat up on Solid Snake on a Plane!

Re:I know!

[Anonymous Coward]

Bah, no one would want to play as a spoony bard.

What a good family game like this needs...

[enharmonix]

... is Sierra's own Liesure Suit Larry. I don't want to know what his special weapon is, though.

Re:What a good family game like this needs...

[nura78]

Duke Nukem!

Yes. Then we can wait ten years for the game to come out.

my vote

[SharpFang]

Pyramid Head from Silent Hill.
Would love seeing him vs Princess Peach.

Old school Nintendo-based guys make the most sense

[ClarifyAmbiguity]

How about Simon Belmont? Wario, too.

Two words...

[RipperMortis]

Pac Man.

...Zero!

[HaloZero]

From the Megaman X series!

A yoshi character might be cool, too.

Re:...Zero!

[Donniedarkness]

I like Yoshi and all, but his character SUCKED on the origional Super Smash Bros. I'm not gonna ask them to bring him back, that's for sure.

Re:I don't think it does....

[Rubzo]

She was already in Smash Brothers Melee, wasn't she?

LEEEROY JENNNNNKINS

[AcidLacedPenguiN]

I wouldn't mind seeing Leeroy Jenkins in there. . . maybe the cast of FF1, Fighter, BlackMage and Ninja would be pretty awesome. Again some of Capcom's characters would be pretty sweet, someone mentioned Gem Fighter SD style chars. . .In Fact, I wouldn't mind seeing Nintendo, Capacom, and SNK, to collaberate, like maybe making the "funny, non serious" Smashbros style, then the more serious Capcom VS SNK VS Marvel kind of thing.

Re:LEEEROY JENNNNNKINS

[myster0n]

This hasn't been said in this article, but there are some rules about adding third party characters :
1. The character must have appeared on a Nintendo console in the past.
2. Characters from manga/anime/cartoons that where made into a game are excluded (so no dragonball, xmen or spongebob characters for example, but sonic, which was a game character before he got his cartoon may be included).

More pokemon

[Turn-X Alphonse]

I'd like to see them include some more Pokemon characters. Maybe have a Zangoose (would be a great speedy brawler) or a Farfetch'd/Marowak who would use a club and a boomerang style attack system.

Maybe even include some Digimon (Bandai arn't too harsh with their licencing) where you digivolved every time you beat another player. That way if you could rack up say 4 kills you would become quite powerful and instead of all going at it suddenly you'd be the main target.

If we're talking game characters (even though the above have been in more games than a lot would even realize) I'd like to see Bomberman (old school) included, with alternative skins to include the Punk, cowboy and maybe the female bomber from 3.

A Koopa troopa would be cool, they could even include a variety of shells on a level, so you can change your powers by jumping into them (Use the mario world system for this, it's simple and everyone knows whats going on).

What I would really like to see expanded though is the maps. Melee was full of small maps where you had no real tactics other than to spam your best moves if you played more than 1 on 1. Where as some larger maps like Hyrule Castle would make for a weapon change.

But then I suppose my "real" hope is they include some of the Mana series. Even if it's only making a kameo where Rabites appear in some level.

My Requests

[rubberbando]

Sonic
Megaman
PacMan
Bonk
Crash Banditcoot
Banjo-Kazooie
RayMan
Strider
Shinobi
Arthur from (Ghosts N' Goblins)
Little Mac (Yes, I know he's a Nintendo Character)
Spiderman
Ryu (From Street Fighter)
Heihachi (From Tekken)
Dirk The Daring and Singe(From Dragon's Lair)
Gizmo and Stripe(From Gremlins)
Bub and Bob (From Bubble Bobble)

That's all I can think of for now...

Objection!!!

[Turken]

The character that really needs to be added is Phoenix Wright and his Index Finger of Doom!

"Take That!"

Because no one else said it...

[hords]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. If done well it could be cool.

My personal favorite would be Thundercats. It'll never happen, but I can dream.

Re:Obligatory SNES RPG response:

[7Prime]

Oh god NO!

I love ChronoTrigger, but this is just a BAD IDEA! If you introduce one Square RPG character, a good 90% of Square RPG fans are going to be yelling, "why not Terra from FF6, why not Cecil from FF4... (gulp) why not Cloud from FF7?!!!", and thus begins WWIII. Suddenly you open up the series to becoming "Final Fantasy Bros", and as much as I like the FF series, and Square's other RPGs, there are WAY too many characters, there's way too many hot-issues, including a lot of bad blood between fans of games like FF7 and FF8... And you're headed down a slippery slope. I love Final Fantasy, I love ChronoTrigger... but keep it out of Smash Bros! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!

What, no CatS!?

[SuiteSisterMary]

Hundred and eighty some-odd posts, and no requests for CatS from Zero Wing?