11-02-2009, 04:33 PM
Eh, that I'm not so sure of.
In the case of characters that are possibly obscure to most players in Smash Brothers, let's look at the actual game, and this hypothetical case of those Sonic characters:
In the actual Smash Bros, let's consider ROB, Pit, and the Ice Climbers to be more on the obscure side. Sure, there are people who know everything about every character in Smash Bros, but others, particularly younger gamers, probably have never seen or never heard about some or all of those characters unless they were incredibly obsessive gamers. In the case of all three, they were earlier projects in Nintendo's history of video games, and thus cherished by the creators of the game. Also, in the case of all three, they were the stars or title characters of their respective games.
The characters like Mighty, Ray, Bean and Bark are perhaps a little TOO obscure, and not only that, they are not the lead characters in their respective series. They also have very few appearances, meritting belief that they are not loved as much as the main characters by the players, but maybe even the creators as well. Even me, with a considerable amount of dorky, useless knowledge, only can remember half of those four characters without seeing a picture of them.
I'm hardly a primary contender in saying who gets put in what, but based on what I've described, you're probably not gonna see a whole lot of support for obscure character appreciation. You'd more likely see Robotnik before seeing one of them, and admit it, that would be pretty awesome too.
In the case of characters that are possibly obscure to most players in Smash Brothers, let's look at the actual game, and this hypothetical case of those Sonic characters:
In the actual Smash Bros, let's consider ROB, Pit, and the Ice Climbers to be more on the obscure side. Sure, there are people who know everything about every character in Smash Bros, but others, particularly younger gamers, probably have never seen or never heard about some or all of those characters unless they were incredibly obsessive gamers. In the case of all three, they were earlier projects in Nintendo's history of video games, and thus cherished by the creators of the game. Also, in the case of all three, they were the stars or title characters of their respective games.
The characters like Mighty, Ray, Bean and Bark are perhaps a little TOO obscure, and not only that, they are not the lead characters in their respective series. They also have very few appearances, meritting belief that they are not loved as much as the main characters by the players, but maybe even the creators as well. Even me, with a considerable amount of dorky, useless knowledge, only can remember half of those four characters without seeing a picture of them.
I'm hardly a primary contender in saying who gets put in what, but based on what I've described, you're probably not gonna see a whole lot of support for obscure character appreciation. You'd more likely see Robotnik before seeing one of them, and admit it, that would be pretty awesome too.