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CrashBash wrote:

Rainbowser wrote: I told you why that example doesn't work:

Son Goku is not a videogame character.

The characters from the Mario RPGs are Mario characters. No, that's clearly not what I was talking about, and that should have been obvious if you actually read what I wrote like I told you to do before. It doesn't even have anything to do with the Mario RPG characters.

KillRoy kept calling Sticks a "TV series character" (even though she's not) and used that as an example as to why she shouldn't be in the game. After explaining that she is not a "TV series character", I then clearly pointed out that even if that was the case, that's just something Sega might do that we know Nintendo does not.

Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed is a game made by Sega, and yet the roster includes Danica Patrick (who is a real person) and Wreck-It Ralph (who is a movie character). Sega are evidently fine using characters who are NOT video game characters.

Super Smash Bros is a game series made by Nintendo, and features only video game characters. A lot of people have wanted Goku (who is an anime character) to be part of the roster, and yet Nintendo have never included him because he is not a video game character. Nintendo would therefore evidently use video game characters ONLY.

Therefore, if Sticks really WAS a TV series character, and not a video game character (which she is), it wouldn't really make much difference whether she was included or not because Sega have shown they are OK using non-video game characters, whilst Nintendo would rather only use video game characters. Since Sticks belongs to Sega, it therefore doesn't matter.

I don't see how much clearer I can make this. ><

Didn't seem all that clear to me. Technically she is a TV series character since the TV show came out before the games. Maybe that doesn't really matter but there are still characters that are way more deserving of this spot in Mario&Sonic than her(and some other characters). They give us Sticks just to promote Sonic Boom again even though everybody knows that it's just beating a dead horse by now. Nintendo and SEGA both don't know what their fans really want, but at least with the sports titles they could give their fans the opportunity to play as the character they've always wanted to play as. It's the only opportunity for Mario fans to play as the Koopalings and the only opportunity for Sonic fans to play as Eggman Nega or the Zeti(even though they are probably there for the same reason as Sticks). Aside from the main cast with the obvious choices, it makes sense to choose characters you normally wouldn't be able to play as but would be interesting to play as, that's why I put so many villains on my list of characters I'd like to see.