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Vote for Abe in Super Smash Bros.

Almost forgot to mention this here...

Guys, if you wanted to raise awareness for Oddworld or simply see Abe fart on Mario now is your chance. You can vote for him to be featured in Super Smash Bros. All you have to do is fill in the following form:

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Replace "Brawl" with "Smash"
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I voted for MA
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I voted for Ed Miliband. Thought the elections were on 7th May?
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I already did this a few days ago :P
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Heh, Nintendo.
I don't play Super Smash Bros, but I did my part to help and voted for Abe.

Good luck guys, hope it is successful!
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04-09-2015, 02:17 AM
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Hate to rain on anyone's parade but I really don't think Abe stands a chance against every other game franchise in existence.

And on top of him not being as popular as everyone else there's no real connection or reason why he should be in smash brothers, aside from it'd raise awareness to a fan base who don't really have anything to do with Oddworld.
Abe's a weakling who's trying to save his own kind, him fighting people completely goes against his character.

But who knows maybe someone can prove me wrong.
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Hate to rain on anyone's parade but I really don't think Abe stands a chance against every other game franchise in existence.

And on top of him not being as popular as everyone else there's no real connection or reason why he should be in smash brothers, aside from it'd raise awareness to a fan base who don't really have anything to do with Oddworld.
Abe's a weakling who's trying to save his own kind, him fighting people completely goes against his character.

But who knows maybe someone can prove me wrong.
Half the characters in smash bros dont have a reason why they should be in smash bros imo.

But its a fun little 'what if' scenario. No harm in trying, itd be pretty funny.
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It's woefully unlikely. There was a petition way back when to have abe in sony's version of smash, it got entirely filled (something like 100k) and guess who wasn't in the game? Snake, from MGS, that shit pissed me off. Also, abe.
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It's woefully unlikely. There was a petition way back when to have abe in sony's version of smash, it got entirely filled (something like 100k) and guess who wasn't in the game? Snake, from MGS, that shit pissed me off. Also, abe.
I was heavily into Playstation allstars, and im almost offended you referred to it as 'sony's smash'.

Also snake was in brawl, so they got raiden (who was OP).
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and im almost offended you referred to it as 'sony's smash'.
but that's what it was. It brought in a number of new ideas, yes, but it's purpose was to be a mashup game where you could beat characters from games you knew up with other characters you knew.
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but that's what it was. It brought in a number of new ideas, yes, but it's purpose was to be a mashup game where you could beat characters from games you knew up with other characters you knew.


Its a genre. Mascot brawler/fighter.


The same reason we dont call every fps doom clones anymore or every moba dota clones.
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"Mascot brawler" doesn't really have enough games to have a full genera.
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"Mascot brawler" doesn't really have enough games to have a full genera.
but when u say its sony's smash makes it sound like a ripoff. And we fought hard to make sure people knew it isnt a ripoff...






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I was heavily into Playstation allstars, and im almost offended you referred to it as 'sony's smash'.
It's not a genre if only two franchises exist within it. Seriously. Can you name any more?

It was a Smash clone. It was Sony Smash bros. I'm not saying it wasn't a very good game, because it was honestly quite fun. However I'll still never get over the fact all of the classic original Sony mascots (Crash, Spyro, Abe, Lara Croft) which got Playstation where it was today weren't in it... *sigh*
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I think it's a bit soon to call it a mascot fighter genre since there's only been two game series doing it. The difference is that for FPS and Moba's there's millions of them it's really not fair to throw all of them under a blanket or something that I'm not smart enough to come up with.

While speaking about Playstation all stars, I didn't like the idea of him getting into smash brothers but he'd have a better chance there because Abe resonates with Sony fans. He's no significant impact with Nintendo outside the three obscure gameboy ports of the original trilogy.

I guess what I'm trying to say is I want to know what puts Abe above all the other video game characters and why I should be hyped about the idea.
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It's not a genre if only two franchises exist within it. Seriously. Can you name any more?

It was a Smash clone. It was Sony Smash bros. I'm not saying it wasn't a very good game, because it was honestly quite fun. However I'll still never get over the fact all of the classic original Sony mascots (Crash, Spyro, Abe, Lara Croft) which got Playstation where it was today weren't in it... *sigh*
You know full well why they werent in the game

Activision and Square enix.

Also abe was never a mascot.



Edit: how many games does it need to be a genre? Cuz digimon had one and so did cartoon network.
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Abe was a poster boy for the PSOne. He really just was. I don't remember it either (I was under 3 at the time), but looking back on PS media it's pretty obvious. He hasn't stayed a mascot, and he wasn't on the level of some of those others, but mascot is definitely a good word for what he was.
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You know full well why they werent in the game

Activision and Square enix.
Yup.

I just wished we lived in a world where those company were nice enough to let them use the characters. They needed to see that just because they owned the franchise, they were still part of PS history.

I mean, Only good things could of possibly come from them using the characters. Fans are happy and companies are happy because the game is selling well because of the classic characters... But no...

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Also abe was never a mascot.
Abe was a Playstation mascot... Sort of.

Not officially anyway. And not as huge as Crash or Spyro, but trust me. When people saw Abe, they thought Playstation. People remember Abe during the PS1 era.

Speaking of which, Abe was actually planned for a DLC character, but it was cancelled.

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how many games does it need to be a genre? Cuz digimon had one and so did cartoon network.
There isn't an actual number per say. You just need a growing number of games similar to each other which expand or add new mechanics. Take MOBA/ARTS for example. That's a genre now because games like Smite and Heroes of the Storm have expanded upon the original concept, which was DotA.
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It was a Smash clone. It was Sony Smash bros.
It wasn't an entire copy though. It wasn't literally just smash bros everything copied but with different visuals. There aren't even edges to the stage to get knocked off of, the entire knockout system was changed.

I wasn't trying to say that sony smash was a ripoff, but it's also clearly doing what it's doing to compete with Super Smash Bros.
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Replace "Brawl" with "Smash"
I shit myself laughing at the string of lost charachters
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I recall Abe getting attention on the front cover of PSX mag.

A later eddition for AE had a shot from that scene with the muds walking in the desert on the back cover.
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Voted for Abe. Definitely would be cool to possess NPCs who could be used as weapons against your opponents.
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Voted for Abe. Definitely would be cool to possess NPCs who could be used as weapons against your opponents.
But there are no NPCs in smash brothers?

Also the idea of someone mind controlling his enemies sounds cheap and annoying.
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