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The New Smash Bros. Might Need A Change of Direction - Sakurai

haziqonfire · 2012-07-02 11:40:40

Smash Bros director Masahiro Sakurai had an interview with Nintendo Power and he had some interesting things to say.?It isn?t a matter of ?if the next game has 50 characters, that?ll be enough.? There is a certain charm to games that have huge casts of playable characters, but they tend to have issues with game balance and it becomes very difficult to fine-tune each character and have them all feel distinctive?. In terms of quantity, we?ve probably already reached the limit of what?s feasible. I think a change of direction may be what?s needed.?Masahiro SakuraiI'm going to have to agree with him - If they just made another Melee/Brawl, that's not enough. The series needs some new direction, it's also why I'm glad they're going with Namco Bandai, they can probably add some new perspective on the series and add some new characters to boot.Source.

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#51 ActionRemix

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I'm really not sure how much you can change Super Smash Bros. without fundamentally altering what it is. :?
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Nintendo's done pretty well transitioning from 2D to 3D in the past.

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#52 DarkLink77

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[QUOTE="DarkLink77"]
I'm really not sure how much you can change Super Smash Bros. without fundamentally altering what it is. :?
ActionRemix

Nintendo's done pretty well transitioning from 2D to 3D in the past.

If you put SSB into 3D it's not SSB anymore. It's Power Stone 2.

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#53 ActionRemix

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[QUOTE="ActionRemix"]
[QUOTE="DarkLink77"] [QUOTE="ActionRemix"]
[QUOTE="DarkLink77"]
I'm really not sure how much you can change Super Smash Bros. without fundamentally altering what it is. :?
DarkLink77

Nintendo's done pretty well transitioning from 2D to 3D in the past.

If you put SSB into 3D it's not SSB anymore. It's Power Stone 2.

If you put SMB in 3D, it becomes SM64. If you put LOZ in 3D, it becomes OoT. They just need to make it more like Soul Calibur than Power Stone. 3D fighters are usually terrible, but maybe they can make it work this time.

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#54 DarkLink77

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[QUOTE="DarkLink77"][QUOTE="ActionRemix"]Nintendo's done pretty well transitioning from 2D to 3D in the past.
ActionRemix

If you put SSB into 3D it's not SSB anymore. It's Power Stone 2.

If you put SMB in 3D, it becomes SM64. If you put LOZ in 3D, it becomes OoT. They just need to make it more like Soul Calibur than Power Stone. 3D fighters are usually terrible, but maybe they can make it work this time.

Super Smash Bros. would not work as a Soul Calibur-ish game, and I say this as a huge fan of both series. And Power Stone 2 was legit. Great game. I still want a sequel.

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#55 djmaster1994

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Sakurai is going to put more characters he only said that adding more will increase the chance of it being unbalance because your will have more characters to work on to balance.

Look at Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi games over 100 characters so unbalance.

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