Smash Bros. for Wii U, 3DS may need change of direction, says dev

Can you put Alucard and Richter from Castlevania symphony of the night in the game.

plus Kazuya from Tekken and Akuma or Ryu from Street Fighter that whould be so cool!!

I am so excited this is the sort of thing I have been waiting for ever since I play Super Smash Bros. Brawl for the wii. Honestly I am super obsessed with Rhythm Thief and think it would be awesome if Phantom R could be in this game. (Not like that is gonna happen :( Which is a bummer.) It would be cool and I agree with Metroplex300 that they should allow you to use the miis as characters! I don't think they should get rid of any of the characters they used in the previous game. They're all great. I personally perfer the pokemon based characters and Pit. I just like a game like this if there is at least one of my favorite characters and a new one to keep things interesting. I will be waiting for this to come out! :)

They need to make the level editing more creative like little big planets level making so you could take pictures, shape blocks how you want, choose colours, choose game theme like a bunch of mario blocks with power ups and items and you could choose your character to test the stage and play multiplayer testing, also the should add machine items to make blocks move, grow, shrink, rise up, fall down. They should also add spikes that appear and disappear like the spikes on sonic the hedgehog. They should also add a racing mode so you can...you know...race and use power ups to beat others on wifi, so it's like 2d Mario kart but without the karts. With customising you should add taunt making, mii characters, characters you can make on brawl so you could make sonic wear marios hat. You should have skins on characters like instead of change marios colour you can make him cosmic Mario and super sunshine Mario or the N64 Mario, and sonic into metal sonic or wolf sonic and classic sonic. One more thing, they need to add custom moves for characters, like pokemon, you can unlock new moves like sonic can have homing attack and change it to a boost attack from sonic unleashed. And you can download new content FOR FREE online. Those are some custom features I think they should add to the game, oh and you can change final smashes like super sonic changed to wolf sonic. Samuel Bland :) (sonic forever!!!)

i want 5 different marios, 3 luigis, pikachu ryachu jiggly puff and wiggly puff i want as many rehashes as nintendo can do. its a unique feature in my opinion.  if nintendo does  any rehashes im not getting this

Luigi FTW

keep Ness and Pikachu and bring back Dr. Mario!!

Keep Ness and Pikachu. Those are the only characters I need. Plus I hate it when they take out character that have been there forever like they did with Soul Calibur 5

Even though it's believed that there won't be too many gameplay changes, I still hope that they'll bring hitstun back allowing true combos like in all the other smash bros games. 

i really dont care about new characters, but itd be nice if theyd give sperate move sets to the ones they have now instead of half the characters move sets being ripped from another character

If Namco is making it, im excpecting Pac Man. But I understand that too many 3rd party characters would ruin the Nintendo purpose. And whats with the Playstation Allstars game? Thats just a fail PS version of Smash Bros. Sorry, but its true.

I always think its funny when a gaming company acts like, " its new characters and we screw up everything about the game mechanics, or we fine tune the game mechanics and no new characters" they act like they cant do some work on the game and add new characters, here's the real truth of what they're doing: "Well.....we are definitley way too lazy to come up with new characters and move sets and voices and everything else in between so we're just going to pretend like we are doing a major update in combat, maybe add some new shiny gimmicks to get fans to shut up, and see how it goes".  You would think that if they're that good they would'nt have to put every one of their eggs in one basket.

It's obvious the series main characters will be in the game. It's like having a naruto fighting game without Naruto, sasuke, sakura and kakashi. Everyone knows that those four characters will be included. Even if they haven't been confirmed. it's obvious people should expect Mario, link, samus, donkey kong, kirby.

i think they could change the pokemon trainer's name to whoever the character is suppose to resemble. i thought it was ash but idk, im not a big pokemon fan(i watched the series in the 90's when i was a kid). they could add another pokemon trainer as well and then you could control different pokemon. the only 2 other pokemon trainers i know from heart would be brock or misty. maybe they could use team rocket.

Melee on the gamecube is undoubtedly the better game. They should try and re-create something closer to that rather than try and take the game in a new direction. What direction could you possibly take it in and still have it remain a true Smash bros.  game? I'm thinking maybe a more extensive adventure mode and character specific adventure modes to add more depth. As well as bigger more interesting maps. Melee is awesome, but every time I play with friends we tend to play at the Hyrule Temple Map 60% of the time because of its size. Maps that size and bigger with more than 4 people able to play at a time would be more than enough to satisfy. Also what is this BS about not wanting to add too many characters? Who cares if some characters are slightly unbalanced and more difficult to use? That's half the fun. They should have all the characters from all the previous games and then some. To leave any of previous characters out would not be progress. I want to play as all the Pokemon dammit, not Ash! Having a wide variety of characters is just as appealing, if not more so, than a questionable new direction. More characters mean more appeal to a much larger audience. There is a reason when it comes to games like this characters lists are googled so often. In many case it can be the difference between buying the game and not buying the game. Altering the game too much is just going to morph it into something it's not meant to be. It's a simple game, and that is why it's so much fun.

Collaborations are always interesting, because you don't know quite to expect and whether it will be a good step forward or a collossal failure.

I choose to be cautiously optimistic.

The point of this article is that they don't just want to add a ton more characters. They're looking for new ideas and concepts to push the game's limits further.

So why is everyone just replying with "yeah, they should add characters from ___!!"

Did we miss the point?

i LOVE smash bros game melee was amazing brawl was pretty good. but im not wasting money on a wii u to play the new one. i have a 3ds so maybe ill finally charge it and get a game for it....

The whole changing things up sounds great.

I think they should have us vote for the top characters that should be on the game and then we can find out which ones made the cut when the game comes out

Change is always good. Would be nice if they threw in some fighters from Namco's roster as bonuses. 

I'm kinda glad they're taking the game in a different direction.  Maybe that'll mean different playstyles for each character. What I hope for, and probably everyone else, is no more copies. 

The number one toon I hope for is  a 'Majora's Mask' Link, in which he'd be able to switch out between the Deku, Zora, and Goron masks. (Think Pokemon Trainer.) 

Please do away with Toon Link and replace him with Skull Kid or someone else from that series.

Change all Starfox character movesets, except Fox, and add Krystal.

Add DAISY!

Add Rosalina!

Add Dixie Kong!

Add Birdo!

Add King K. Rool!

Add Bowser Jr!

Fix Meta Knight!

Fix Ganondorf (Give him a **** sword)!

NAMCO BANDAI: NO CHARACTERS FROM ANY OTHER FIGHTING GAMES! Tales characters could be interesting though.

PLEASE NO TRIPPING!

Add more Pit characters, Phosphora?

Add new legendary Pokemon, Zoroark?

Change Pokemon trainer's pokemon.

Add a friend (or enemy) for Samus. NOT RIDLEY! OR A COPY!

Get rid of assist trophies and add most as characters. (Waluigi, Lyn, Isaac...)

NO. MORE. COPIES!

I'm sure Lucario, Snake and Sonic will be gone, so with all these changes, it gives us roughly 46 characters. 

Reasonable?

IF YOU DON'T AGREE WITH DAISY, LOOK AT MY PAGE, I HAVE AN ENTIRE MOVESET FOR HER. 

They could have 300 characters for all I care, it's still not going to be half as good as Melee.

While it would be nice to have more characters, I agree that the next SSB must be better balanced. Too many characters were either underpowered or overpowered in Brawl. The most balanced SSB had to be the original. You felt like every character could win a match.

Hopefully it will surpass the previous one, can't wait <3

If a game is fun for you play it, if not don't. None of you are being forced to play or buy a video game. Depending on your own circumstances, but I don't want to get into that.

Whatever, Im going to buy it anyway, I just got tired of Brawl faster than Melee

i dont care what they do to it, super smash bros is still one of the best franchises of all time

I LOVE ICE CLIMBER CANT WAIT FOR IT

If you don't like Smash Bros don't buy it. All the people whining about it needing to have combo systems and all the other BS just get out because this game is not for you then.

I would like balance and better online.

I love SSB ever since the N64, change can be nice if they handle it right and keep it fun also i hope they add a nice story mode.

Im all for balancing but i hope they dont change any of the core gameplay elements of SSB on on the wii u or 3ds. Not saying i dislike change but major changes should be reserved for games that arent so popular and need a good boost. Minor changes would work better for an extremely popular game that sells quite well or one that generaly achieves good ratings such as the SSB series of games. What happens if u take a good game, take away some elements and add some others that are newer but dont work as well and u tarnish a good series reputation. Remember DMC 2?

To stay on topic, I would be perfectly content with the same formula except bigger (more caracters, modes, levels) and a great online MP. Give me that and I'll play this game forever.

Despite what everyone says, I always though each caracters were balanced even though some are harder to play with then others. In the hands of a competent player, they are all very good.

I think Nintendo is trying to be as classy as possible, they probably acknowledge that Sony is cloning their game, so they are probably like "fine, feel free to clone our old game, we will evolve it into something better, so you can clone this for the sequel of your game too"...I'm really hoping for this scenario to happen, haha.

What the heck are you children whining about?

a) if u think smash bros is a masher, u must be awful

3) u have an option to change the mode to HP's that drop to zero, (ie: like a Life Bar) where u simply fall to the ground and die like a regular fighter, but after playing the mode once, you see that it sucks and doesnt fit smash bros at all

#) stop comparing smash bros to reg fighters...The mechanics in smash were never meant to cater to fans of games like tekken or SF

and finally....

W) The entire Smash Bros series is a game built almost SOLELY on your ability to land perfectly timed smash attacks. The depth in the fighting comes from when and where you use the 3 different tiers of attacks (weak,mid,smash) as well as knowing when to toss in a special attack, dodges/blocks or use an item to your advantage. It's about taking advantage of open opportunities and chipping away at your opponent until you're able to launch them across the screen (preferably with a HOMERUN BAT). If you suck at the game, don't complain about the game itself sucking.