17th July 2014, 3:24 PM
I guess it's just a matter of opinion. I will say that it's really weird how Japan's comic industry all but requires comic makers to be writers and artists rolled into one. How many comics there have different people making different parts of the comic?
Anyway, the Chronicles one is most likely the one they'd go with, second most likely would be his appearance on the artwork of the original NES games. (Well, Famicom games if they're different. It's just to be expected they'd favor the look the Japanese are most familiar with.)
I gotta say his Judgement clothing was pretty bizarre. Like, Voldo bizarre. I mean, they went heavy on the leather with the Chronicles artwork, but this takes it to a bizarre extreme.
Anyway, I just don't think your thinking about how many Metal Gear games Nintendo gets is anything Sakurai is concerned about. It's not just that Twin Snakes was released 4 years before Brawl, it's that it was the ONLY Metal Gear game Nintendo had gotten from Konami since Ghost Babel on Gameboy Color, which was many years before that. Further, Nintendo had NO promises from Konami, no expectations, of any future Metal Gear games coming to Gamecube or future consoles. They knew that it was a one-off then, and there were no plans for porting over MGS2 or 3 (even though the Gamecube was capable of playing them, sans a number of buttons and pressure sensitivity on every individual button (except start and select) like the Duel Shock 2 had). If Nintendo was willing to put Snake in there despite the utter lack of any recent Metal Gear releases, and, at the time it was released, knowledge that Sony was getting all the Metal Gear games for a while (like Portable Ops, Peacewalker, and of course MGS4), then I don't see why that'd stop them this time. That's what I'm saying.
But more than that, it sets a basic standard. All Nintendo requires to put a character in Smash Bros is that it had at least ONE game on a Nintendo console, not that it comes from a series regularly released on a Nintendo console.
Anyway, I suppose we'll be waiting another month before we see any new announcements. One thing I'm hoping for? Well, Nintendo FINALLY has a good system in place for managing automatic game updates. They've also got a... decent system for DLC (generally, you can get it from their online store on the Wii U, but on the 3DS it must be purchased in-game from individual shop menus). So, for the first time, there's a really good possibility for characters to be added to the game as time goes on. Also for the first time, major balancing issues can be patched. In other words, I won't be TOO heartbroken if this or that character isn't in the game. Patches and DLC have the potential to add more as time goes on.
Anyway, the Chronicles one is most likely the one they'd go with, second most likely would be his appearance on the artwork of the original NES games. (Well, Famicom games if they're different. It's just to be expected they'd favor the look the Japanese are most familiar with.)
I gotta say his Judgement clothing was pretty bizarre. Like, Voldo bizarre. I mean, they went heavy on the leather with the Chronicles artwork, but this takes it to a bizarre extreme.
Anyway, I just don't think your thinking about how many Metal Gear games Nintendo gets is anything Sakurai is concerned about. It's not just that Twin Snakes was released 4 years before Brawl, it's that it was the ONLY Metal Gear game Nintendo had gotten from Konami since Ghost Babel on Gameboy Color, which was many years before that. Further, Nintendo had NO promises from Konami, no expectations, of any future Metal Gear games coming to Gamecube or future consoles. They knew that it was a one-off then, and there were no plans for porting over MGS2 or 3 (even though the Gamecube was capable of playing them, sans a number of buttons and pressure sensitivity on every individual button (except start and select) like the Duel Shock 2 had). If Nintendo was willing to put Snake in there despite the utter lack of any recent Metal Gear releases, and, at the time it was released, knowledge that Sony was getting all the Metal Gear games for a while (like Portable Ops, Peacewalker, and of course MGS4), then I don't see why that'd stop them this time. That's what I'm saying.
But more than that, it sets a basic standard. All Nintendo requires to put a character in Smash Bros is that it had at least ONE game on a Nintendo console, not that it comes from a series regularly released on a Nintendo console.
Anyway, I suppose we'll be waiting another month before we see any new announcements. One thing I'm hoping for? Well, Nintendo FINALLY has a good system in place for managing automatic game updates. They've also got a... decent system for DLC (generally, you can get it from their online store on the Wii U, but on the 3DS it must be purchased in-game from individual shop menus). So, for the first time, there's a really good possibility for characters to be added to the game as time goes on. Also for the first time, major balancing issues can be patched. In other words, I won't be TOO heartbroken if this or that character isn't in the game. Patches and DLC have the potential to add more as time goes on.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)