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Master Chief still isn't live. He's a major character for an exclusive console series. Sakurai has stated that at the very least, 3rd party characters need to be from classic series from like WAYYYY back. That's why Sonic and Pac-Man are in even though one was a huge console rival for a decade and the other is not really known for his games on Nintendo consoles– and now Cloud.

 

If anything just went live, it's Spyro, Crash Bandicoot, and Lara Croft. And Vectorman. Never forget Vectorman.

I kind of forgot that Sakurai had that other stipulation. I don't think of Cloud as being that old (he is 6 years younger than Sonic), but he is actually pushing 20 so he is arguably a "classic". You can also look at FF as a whole when counting him and then it CERTAINLY counts.

 

I'd say Spyro and Crash are the biggest winners. Their series certainly aren't as classic as FF but they have become classic characters. Weird that the characters that showed up when I started gaming are not part of the classics.

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Am I the only one who feels bad for Sakurai that no matter who gets included many people will scream "WHY NOT ____" or if not that at least "Well okay fine but I really want this instead"?

 

I doubt he really cares that much. I mean he should be used to it- most developers by now should know you can't please EVERYONE all at once.

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[spoiler=Potential FFVII Spoiler]

Cloud's personality for a good chunk of the game was based on what he remembered about Zack Fair. If you remember when he talked about his past he would refer to himself as a member of SOLDIER, which he never was. Zack was SOLDIER. Basically 90% of Cloud was Zack. Then Aerith dies and he starts to remember who he really is. By the time of Advent Children, Cloud is basically in a constant guilt trip over not being able to save his best friend and the woman he loved. Add in the fact that he has Geostigma, which as far as they know is terminal, you can probably see why he's so apathetic by that point. His personality in Dissidia is based off Advent Children hence why he's like that.

 

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He willingly put in characters like Villager and Wii Fit Trainer, he definitely doesn't care what others think.

Villager is the player character from Nintendo's like 4th or 5th best selling series sooooo

 

 

Think we can all agree that Nintendo!Cloud is better than Dissidia's.

Uh, that sword isn't balanced on anything in either image. It's like on his shoulder blade, he's not propping it up in either version.

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Yeah, but realistically it's not like either character would be standard fighting game material normally, they're just examples of how Nintendo will put anyone in.

Well that's still not exactly true. The character needs to either be a well liked and classic character or be a popular nintendo character/property or something they're trying to push.

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By the way here's the best player in my state.

 

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Oh also, there's a big regional next weekend that you should all watch in my home city involving MJG, Triple R, JJROCKETS, Falln, Ganon the Beast, The Moon, Prince Abu, Vro, Professor Pro, ORLY, and iateyourpie, among others. I'm making a trailer for it.

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Not that I have anything against Cloud, but he is from a Sony Playstation game. Kinda breaks the rules a bit. If they were gonna put in a Final Fantasy character, why not Cecil Harvey or Terra Branford, or Sabin?

 

Well I don't know about anyone else, but aside from Cecil I have no idea who the other two are.

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I don't know any of those 3 other than Cecil either.

 

Not that I have anything against Cloud, but he is from a Sony PlayStation game. Kinda breaks the rules a bit. If they were gonna put in a Final Fantasy character, why not Cecil Harvey or Terry Branford or Sabin?

Technically though, it doesn't break the rules as Cloud appeared in the GBA game; Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories as well as the DS game; Kingdom Hearts: Re-Coded.

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Well I don't know about anyone else, but aside from Cecil I have no idea who the other two are.

I don't know any of those 3 other than Cecil either.

The other two are from FFVI. In terms of popularity, IV and VII are probably the strongest contenders. X is also infamous. I understand why they put Cloud over others, though Cecil would have been interesting...probably would have played similar to pre-3DS/Wii U Smash Zelda in the fact he could transform, though since both versions were fairly offensive I'm not really sure how the developers would've differentiated them.

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