2013-11-18, 03:27 PM
Lozmaster Wrote:It happened once. That's hardly proof of anything. Roy was a no-one from a game that never got an international release, whereas Marth was the first lord AND his game had a rerelease in the pipeline for later the same year, even internationally, which obviously Nintendo knew was going to happen. And Roy was a clone, most of which were wiped from brawl. I'd say there's still a very good chance Ike is going to be in Smash Bros 4.
For that matter, Ike shows up multiple times in awakenings dlc, often being called the strongest fire emblem lord, and he's the only fire emblem lord outside of marth to be mentioned in awakenings story mode (other than that games lords, obviously), in the very last bonus chapter where his descendent turns up wielding his sword. Hector didn't even get a dlc character version.
I think ike and roy are both far more known than hector. I'm not arguing marth's popularity. Roy being a clone isn't really important either because it's probably the popularity (and whether they have a new game to get inspiration from or whatever) determines their inclusion, not their moveset. I think both roy and marth being in melee was to get more attention to fire emblem in the states though but that's just me. I also think there's a good chance of ike being in smash 4, but we still don't know what kind of limits they're setting for number of characters.
Again, i'm not arguing ike's popularity at this point either. All 3 of them are essentially flagship characters for the series at this point...because of melee and brawl. Could be the same for hector...but i doubt it because it'd be more out of left field than villager was, even though everyone adopted him as a good character pretty much immediately.