TSR's Super Smash Bros Thread|SWITCH HYPE TRAIN NOW BOARDING

[Kriven]

First of all you can't compare Tekken or Street Fighter since they aren't pulling characters or IP from outside their own game (well they do sometimes).

I think you missed the point of that comparison. The point was that taking a fighter out of those games would be problematic, even if the fighter doesn't seem to serve a purpose. A good number of people are up in arms about Ken supposedly not making it to SFV. The fighting genre relies on familiarity from one game to the next, and that extends into Smash.

But if it matters to you that much that we only compare mascot games to mascot games, Sega All-Stars Transformed is naked without Big the Cat and the Chu-Chus. Marvel vs Capcom 3 disappointed fans because it couldn't ever have hoped to live up to the roster of its predecessors.

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Its not really fair that appearing in one game can outweigh everything they've done outside of it.

Let me put it this way. Imagine a guy named Joe who works really hard everyday at his job hoping one day he'll get a promotion. Now image Jeff. He's a lazy employee who has only been to work for three days now and nobody likes him. Well the boss is throwing a party at work and somehow Jeff was invited. Who knows why, but he was and Joe wasn't. Because Jeff was at that party and got to meet all the bosses and higher ups, he's been promoted to a position that Joe has been working years for. Is that fair? Not really. Sure Jeff was a lot of fun at that party but is that more important than years of hard work?

It's not really fair that Roy was created into a franchise which traditionally ditches its protagonists in favor of a completely new cast between iterations. He never stood to make as much of a name for himself because he was given fewer opportunities.

Honestly, you've got your Jeffs and Joes mixed up (particularly if you want this to be about Roy/FE and DK). Roy was given only one opportunity to make an impression on the world, Donkey Kong has been given thirty and continues to ride on the coattails of his more successful best buddy.