Namco Bandai is Helping Developing Super Smash Bros. 4

[Guild McCommunist]

I always wanted costume packs for my Super Smash Bros. characters.

But in all seriousness, they have more experience developing fighters than Nintendo, cut them some slack.

You bring up a good point. Although I never saw smash bros as THE competitive fighter game (that title belongs to SF), it is very competitive nonetheless. Having Namco on board could result in some (better) sexy balanced competitive gameplay.

In all honesty the only reason it's "competitive" is because Melee had way too many exploits and glitches to abuse. Tekken, Soul Calibur, etc, are competitive because of their intentional design.

Mind you I don't expect Namco to be making this too far off the beaten path here but they may try to give some advice on balancing. I'm not too sure what Namco's track record on balance in their fighting games is but it has to be leagues better than any semblance of "balance" in SSB.

 

[WiiUBricker]

There are a few Tales of characters I would like to see in a Smash Bros. game. Then they can battle with Fire Emblem characters.

 

[Ryupower]

so a tales of symphonia(both games) character
could make in into the next smash

 

[Hop2089]

Idolmaster Dearly Stars Assist Trophies have a chance of being in.

I want Kohak Hearts in for a Tales of Character or anyone in Tales of Phantasia.

 

[YoshiKart]

Pac Man's Butt Bounce from the World series. And the Rev Roll... Oh boy.
But at least this will speed up dev progress. I hope.

 

[Hells Malice]

The chances of a Tales character being in SSB4 is probably around 0.1% chance.
As much as i'd love it. There's really no point being optimistic about it for two reasons.

1: SSB only has Nintendo characters.
2: Bamco is fucking awful.

 

[Deleted_171835]

The chances of a Tales character being in SSB4 is probably around 0.1% chance.
As much as i'd love it. There's really no point being optimistic about it for two reasons.

1: SSB only has Nintendo characters.
2: Bamco is fucking awful.

Solid Snake was in Smash Bros. Brawl.

 

[Hells Malice]

The chances of a Tales character being in SSB4 is probably around 0.1% chance.
As much as i'd love it. There's really no point being optimistic about it for two reasons.

1: SSB only has Nintendo characters.
2: Bamco is fucking awful.

Solid Snake was in Smash Bros. Brawl.

... *checks producer*
Wut. I thought he was Nintendo.
You got me there.

Given the way Bamco treats the Tales series though, i'm still highly, highly doubtful. If they add anyone from a Bamco game, it very likely wont be from the Tales series.

 

[awssk8er]

At first when they announced this at Nintendo Direct, I was like "Whatttttt?"

I hate Smash anyway. This is good news for me, because the new game will be completely different from the other three and have a chance of being good.

 

[Rasas]

Balancing issues exist is Namco Bandai fighters look at Soul Calibur 3 and 5 while Tekken is usually almost perfect Soul Calibur always had issues which with the variety of characters and other things balancing isn't bound to be that great.

 

[ShadowSoldier]

DLC

Hopefully Nintendo won't listen to Namco Bandai once they start talking about DLC. People complain about Capcom's In-Game DLC too much, but that's because they don't know about Namco Bandai. They started the trend first and they still hold the title, numerically speaking.

DLC in Smash Bros would be a sign of the apocalypse. But seriously, i hate how Namco handles DLC lately, the DLC they had on Tales of Graces F was ridiculous. 4$ for a new costume

 

[Kioku]

They said the people were working on it were the best from Namco Bandai, such as people from the teams of Tales, Mobile Suit Gundam Extreme VS, SoulCalibur, and Tekken..

I'm so excited.

SC V was just terrible btw.... So I have little hope for this game.

 

[MakiManPR]

Namco is also working with Capcom and Sega on Project X Zone and it looks awesome. Namco is publishing it.

 

[dgwillia]

DLC

Hopefully Nintendo won't listen to Namco Bandai once they start talking about DLC. People complain about Capcom's In-Game DLC too much, but that's because they don't know about Namco Bandai. They started the trend first and they still hold the title, numerically speaking.

DLC in Smash Bros would be a sign of the apocalypse. But seriously, i hate how Namco handles DLC lately, the DLC they had on Tales of Graces F was ridiculous. 4$ for a new costume

 

[Coto]

If I were to see Lloyd Irving as character, I'm sold. But that's unlikely because of 20+ protagonists tales of - series.

DLC characters'd make good money and bring them to Smash series. Oh, and Smash series were great in N64/GC/Wii but I feel like Nintendo doing something fresh, and namco helping could be a great addition to this.

 

[Midna]

The chances of a Tales character being in SSB4 is probably around 0.1% chance.
As much as i'd love it. There's really no point being optimistic about it for two reasons.

1: SSB only has Nintendo characters.
2: Bamco is fucking awful.

Solid Snake was in Smash Bros. Brawl.

... *checks producer*
Wut. I thought he was Nintendo.
You got me there.

Given the way Bamco treats the Tales series though, i'm still highly, highly doubtful. If they add anyone from a Bamco game, it very likely wont be from the Tales series.

Know who I expect to be in if Bamco gets a rep?

Spoiler

Regardless, I have a few things to say. Bamco isn't taking over development of Smash Bros. They've hired some Bamco employees to work under Sakurai as part of his development team. They did the same thing for Brawl. Sakurai still has full creative control over the entire project. The only difference between this and the mad scramble to form a team for Brawl is that Bamco apparently wants their label on the box.

 

[gamefan5]

The chances of a Tales character being in SSB4 is probably around 0.1% chance.
As much as i'd love it. There's really no point being optimistic about it for two reasons.

1: SSB only has Nintendo characters.
2: Bamco is fucking awful.

Solid Snake was in Smash Bros. Brawl.

... *checks producer*
Wut. I thought he was Nintendo.
You got me there.

Given the way Bamco treats the Tales series though, i'm still highly, highly doubtful. If they add anyone from a Bamco game, it very likely wont be from the Tales series.

Sonic was also in Brawl. XD

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[DSGamer64]

Bye bye Smash Bros....

You can't just expect the game to rot just because Namco's helping. In fact, I think it will be better. Besides, do you want this game to get delayed just like SSBB?

Yes, the longer it takes the better it will be. I don't want no stinking lackluster game.

 

[Deleted User]

Offtopic, With DLC that means they can bring out more Characters/stages

DLC doesn't always mean that it cost money, but in some cases free additional items..

The fact that 3DS now SUPPORTS DLC doesn't mean Nintendo is going to charge 15 dollars for ever new character they make.