New Mario & Sonic Crossover game announced!

[Kriven]

But it's supposed to be the Nintendo fighting game. The fact that you can recognize it as such means it's doing what Nintendo wants it too. You don't add Superman to MvC do you?

Now I'll address your Soul Calibur argument, since it's been nagging me. While it's true that Link, Spawn, and StarWars have appeared in the game, they were very minor minor characters added for the purpose of boosting sales. When you add too many bonus characters not only do they begin to seem less spectaculiar in the eye of the consumer, but you sacrifice the "this is Soul Calibur" feel to your game. At that point you may as well call it MUGEN. If Link, Spawn, Heihachi, Yoda, Vader and Apprentice all appeared in the same game at once, it just would'nt be SC. Bad for business, bad for fans, bad for critics. Just bad. This is the same reason Capcom will only take on one company at a time. They know that there's a magic in MvC that would vanish if they made SNKvMvC. The same applies to SC, Smash and all other crossovers or games with guests.

[TrunkJunky]

Argh!

I'm sick of the damned Olypmic crossovers already!!!! 

They need to make a Sonic Adventure style crossover. Ya know, with the huge world lobbies and Sonic Unleashed style gameplay.

Fighting on trains, running at breakneck speeds the middle of highway traffic, etc.

That would be awesome.... 

[Tenspeed]

But it's supposed to be the Nintendo fighting game. The fact that you can recognize it as such means it's doing what Nintendo wants it too. You don't add Superman to MvC do you?

Now I'll address your Soul Calibur argument, since it's been nagging me. While it's true that Link, Spawn, and StarWars have appeared in the game, they were very minor minor characters added for the purpose of boosting sales. When you add too many bonus characters not only do they begin to seem less spectaculiar in the eye of the consumer, but you sacrifice the "this is Soul Calibur" feel to your game. At that point you may as well call it MUGEN. If Link, Spawn, Heihachi, Yoda, Vader and Apprentice all appeared in the same game at once, it just would'nt be SC. Bad for business, bad for fans, bad for critics. Just bad. This is the same reason Capcom will only take on one company at a time. They know that there's a magic in MvC that would vanish if they made SNKvMvC. The same applies to SC, Smash and all other crossovers or games with guests.

Yes, I understand this, but what I was saying was "I think Smash could stand on it's own without the Nintendo characters. It could evolve into something entirely different. It could progress past being a Nintendo fighting game."

If they made a game full of Star Wars characters that played like Soul Calibur, people would probably say "This Star Wars game feels a lot like Soul Calibur, but with Star Wars. I like it!"

I do understand what you're saying, and it brings up some valid points, but a guy can dream, can't he?
Post Merge: February 22, 2009, 02:43:18 AMAlso, remember when Nintendo first announced Brawl, and they showed that video with Wario, Pit, and Meta Knight, and shortly after launched a website that would unveil new characters and stages weekly. People were talking. Everyone was excited to learn who the new characters would be. It wasn't just excitement over a new Nintendo franchise being represented, but excitement over a new character to play as.

Everything being contained in the Nintendo universe only kept things boxed. we'd just have to expand on that. I'm not talking about taking the million Nintendo characters already here, and adding hundreds of guests that seem out of place, but more replacing people, like how the KOF games make linup changes every year. We could have a few of the staple Nintendo guys, of course, but then everything else is a roll of the dice.

Imagine that excitement like when Brawl was first announced, only with the possibilities being much broader, basically. "Is my favorite character going to make it in this year? Will so and so be in? Guy McDudePerson was just announced, I wonder how he'll play, considering where he's originally from."

Financially speaking ,the advertisement alone would sell it. There are billboard advertisments for real world products in some racing games now, what better promotion would, say, Bleach get, than having it's flagship character in what would be a big deal in the gaming community.

Fans would eat it up like a bucketful of dicks at a gay pride parade, because they are the same people that post in 200 page topics on forums, arguing over who should and shouldn't be in Street Fighter IV.

Critics would enjoy it because it's a fun game, that's playable.

This is my theory, at least.

[Kriven]

I'm all for an uber crossover as long as it doesn't take out Smash or any other established franchise. If you're talking about creating an entirely new franchise, then I'm with you.

[Tenspeed]

well I was thinking that smash would sort of evolve into it over time.