Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games

i honestly don't have much feelings about the roster itself anyway but i understand why people would get pissed. like, imagine if baby luigi got added and he's playable in like only one event. that would deeply piss me off

it's one thing not including favorite characters, but it's a special kind of bad to restrict them to special events

the difference between that and say, beach volley folley from mario party 4 is that at least mario party 4 didn't advertise its "new" playable characters, they felt like a bonus. here, it feels extremely cheap and underhanded, and i think it's pretty disgusting.
 
The new Japanese trailer confirms that Nintendo really wants Dry Bowser to be a pillar of the "roster" (in the broadest sense) in the Mario spin-offs
He even magically appears in the roster where he wasn't 2 minutes before, along with a totally random Knuckles the Echidna in Team Mario
 
God I hate Dry Bowser so much
 
Ok, to be honest, the way it was introduced in New Super Mario bros. I think was a pretty horrible idea, as it had nothing to do with Bowser being able to survive in the lava as seen even in the frist Super Mario Bros. and it also opened the way to many horrendous and cheap characters like Dry Kamek, Dry Bowser Jr. and so on.

The way he has been handled in the story mode of the Mario & Sonic games (as one of Bowser's minions or at least a separate character from Bowser) make him more acceptable to me, and fortunately, both New Super Mario Bros. 2 and Super Mario 3D Land, that feature Dry Bowser, show that Bowser doesn't become a skeleton when falling into the lava.

As a separate character I can see his point, as effectively he looks more terrifying than Bowser and might also have an appeal on those who want evil cartoonish characters without Kawaii elements such as padded feet (not me, therefore). I also tend to joke on him being present in every spin-off but honestly, I think that he's an easier character to introduce as I suspect that much of the rigging for Bowser can be easily ported to Dry Bowser, making him a character that can be animated properly in less time.

My only fear is that Boom Boom (presented in the March trailer among the playable characters, as can be seen even in the newer gameplay trailer) has been replaced with Dry Bowser since the animations for the latter in Javelin Throw were already done for the 3DS version, which would mean that again, the Wii U version had some serious issues with development to the point that not even all planned playable characters were introduced (the flags of Dry Bowser were there in the March trailer, but he could have been an ultimate boss like in the Sochi game).
 
Mister Wu said:
I suspect that much of the rigging for Bowser can be easily ported to Dry Bowser, making him a character that can be animated properly in less time.
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Uhh, no, Dry Bowser doesn't even need ported weights from Bowser, that's how easy he is to rig. And I don't think skin weights work like that.

His limbs are literally 0 and 1's in terms of rigging, because he's composed of separate parts rather than it being attached together. I can rig that -----er easily, just select his bone parts by element and assign it to a bone, no need to blend the vertices at all. Boom, you've created roster filler.
 
Well , this is yet another insult of a game for a long running series.

At this point , the only way im going to be surprised is when Nintendo does the right thing since they have been this way lately.

Is this their indirect way to show us how they truly hate the Wii U? Maybe so , since Mario is deeeeeep dead in that console , all the games suck or are lacking to the extend.

So , basically characters that people were excited to play as are restricted ; and they do this in a console version after a loooong time with no newcomers...

And then we have ''newcomers'' like Garbage , err i mean Dry Bowser.

Nintendo is in an emo phase , they apparently hate us and hate themselves to make spin off titles worst than they have ever done.
 
Well, this is a disappointment. :/ To be honest, I don't even really like the M&S games that much. I bought the first one, and that was fun for a little bit before I got bored. It had a fun concept at the beginning (oh the two biggest rivals FIGHTING??? I MUST SEE) before that wore off quickly. I've played the others from my friends who bought it and I honestly didn't really like them at that much. It just seems like they're milking this franchise now.

The whole "limited characters" bit is just really annoying. I can kind of see what they were trying to do there, but I think in the end it just comes off as a disappointment to those who wanted to play as their favorite character who just got added to the roster.

AND NO BIRDO? NOOOOO! I am filled with angry salt! Well, I know that Birdo isn't super well-liked but she's seriously one of my favorite characters. First Mario Kart 8, and now this...Oh, my heart weeps for thee! I will love you no matter what!!!