What would a Microsoft Smash Brothers clone look like?

[totheendofsin]

So the imminent release of Smash Bros and the fact that Sony put Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale up on the Instant Game Collection this month got me thinking. Why hasn't Microsoft tried their hand at making their own mascot fighting game?

So I ask you, what characters would you put in a Microsoft Smash Bros? What would their movesets be? What stages or items would be present in the game?

 

[Extra-Ordinary]

I can only think of a few characters:
- Master Chief
- The Arbiter
- Marcus Fenix
- Dominic Santiago
- Big Daddy (hey, the first Bioshock was Windows and 360 exclusive for a while)

I don't know, I don't own that many Xbox exclusive games so I can't think of too many characters. As for move sets, most of these guys except for The Arbiter with an energy sword and Big Daddy usually carry around a gun so I don't know what they'd do.

 

[totheendofsin]

I can only think of a few characters:
- Master Chief
- The Arbiter
- Marcus Fenix
- Dominic Santiago
- Big Daddy (hey, the first Bioshock was Windows and 360 exclusive for a while)

I don't know, I don't own that many Xbox exclusive games so I can't think of too many characters. As for move sets, most of these guys except for The Arbiter with an energy sword and Big Daddy usually carry around a gun so I don't know what they'd do.

They own Rareware so they could use Banjo-kazooie, Conker, and whatever other characters Rare has created, if the rumored Mojang deal goes through they could have Steve. Maybe something from Viva Pinata. I'm sure they own some other characters I can't think of right now. Worst comes to worst they could have the Microsoft word paperclip as a character.

 

[shrekfan246]

It'd be a shooter.

Starring the Spartans and Covenant, the COGs and Locust, the Hero, Kameo, Banjo-Kazooie, generic Kinect characters, a pinata, a sports car, some characters from Killer Instinct, and then some guys from Crackdown and Dead Rising.

Yeah?

I dunno, I guess some of those characters could fit in an actual fighting game, but I don't see it. Microsoft just doesn't have enough really iconic properties (and even less they're handling properly). You could maybe throw in characters from Ryse and Sunset Overdrive too?

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On the other hand, that combination of characters could potentially make for a pretty unique and insane shooter.

 

[duwenbasden]

It'd be a shooter.

Starring the Spartans and Covenant, the COGs and Locust, the Hero, Kameo, Banjo-Kazooie, generic Kinect characters, a pinata, a sports car, some characters from Killer Instinct, and then some guys from Crackdown and Dead Rising.

Yeah?

I dunno, I guess some of those characters could fit in an actual fighting game, but I don't see it. Microsoft just doesn't have enough really iconic properties (and even less they're handling properly). You could maybe throw in characters from Ryse and Sunset Overdrive too?

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On the other hand, that combination of characters could potentially make for a pretty unique and insane shooter.

- Ballmer and his chair.
- Clippy and his creepy word vomit.
- The Nokia fish.
- Steven Elop as the saboteur.

 

[Rastrelly]

Let's be honest. It would be Halo multiplayer, because any other purely-microsoft-associated character has a smallest bit of memorability.

 

[Avalanche91]

Well, they own Rare.... Banjo/Kazooie, Conker, one or two Killer Instinct reps, maybe Joanne Dark, maybe the protagonists from X360 launchtitles Kameo and Blinx. The avatar's for mii stand-ins.

Items would include Doritos and Mountain Dew.

 

[carnex]

Closest that I can imagine would resemeble Doom multiplayer, a whole lot of space marines

Jokes aside, I don't know what characters M$ owns other than Halo franchize, Banjo Kazoie, and Gear of war characters. Kameo characters would be good fit if M$ owns them for example. Characters from fable too.

 

[josemlopes]

Here is a list of what I think would be a nice final roster picked up from the mentions on this thread:


Master Chief
Arbiter
Marcus Fenix
Banjo/Kazooei
Conker
Someone from Killer Instinct
Joanne Dark
The dude from Crackdown
Alan Wake
The dude from Ryse
The dude from Sunset Overdrive
The dude from Quantum Break (time control powers, could be cool)
Xbox Avatar
Kameo
Blinx
Stig from Top Gear because of Forza
Someone from Viva Pinata
Maybe one more random ass character from some indie game they are trying to promote that is exclusive to Xbox


You know what, its not a bad selection and in the end there arent really that many space marine characters, and all of them would workout great in hand to hand combat (Alan Wake is a bit of a weird one though, his enemies are weak to light but that wouldnt make sense with these other characters, and Stig would be Stig and kick everyones ass)

 

[Rayce Archer]

Here is a list of what I think would be a nice final roster picked up from the mentions on this thread:


Master Chief
Arbiter
Marcus Fenix
Banjo/Kazooei
Conker
Someone from Killer Instinct
Joanne Dark
The dude from Crackdown
Alan Wake
The dude from Ryse
The dude from Sunset Overdrive
The dude from Quantum Break (time control powers, could be cool)
Xbox Avatar
Kameo
Blinx
Stig from Top Gear because of Forza
Someone from Viva Pinata
Maybe one more random ass character from some indie game they are trying to promote that is exclusive to Xbox


You know what, its not a bad selection and in the end there arent really that many space marine characters, and all of them would workout great in hand to hand combat (Alan Wake is a bit of a weird one though, his enemies are weak to light but that wouldnt make sense with these other characters, and Stig would be Stig and kick everyones ass)

-Classic AOE Monk
-Giacomo or the Doge from Rise of Legends
-Spectre (and his mech) from Mechwarrior 4: Mercenaries
-Edison Trent or Jun'Ko Zane from Freelancer
-Jack of Blades from Fable
-'Splosion Man!

Also secret/unlock characters:
-Furious the Monkey Boy
-The pilot from MS Flight Simulator
-Bigfoot from Monster Truck Madness
-The Marathon Security Officer
-The Gears of War chickens
-Minesweeper (a terrified guy in casual, ill-fitting army fatigues with a metal detector and special moves involving land mines and flags)

 

[And Man]

It'd be a shooter.

Damn, someone beat me to it

 

[Jamash]

You could have any number of notable characters from the 5 or so Fable games, e.g. Reaver, Hammer, Garth, Teresa, Scythe, Nostro, Scarlett Robe, Jack of Blades, Briar Rose, Whisper, Thunder, Weaver, Walter Beck, Page, Ben Finn, Major Swift, Captain Saker, Barry Hatch, a Balvarine, a Hobbe, Chesty, Lord Lucien, The Commendant, The Crawler, The Devourer, The Corrupter, Hero of Oakvale, Hero of Bowerstone, Hero of Brightwall, Hero of Southcliff, Gabriel, Sterling, Rook, Ingra, Winter, Shroud, Leech, and Glory.

Also M. Rossi from the Forza games, the Agents from Crackdown, Master Chief, Marcus Fenix, Clipit the Windows Paperclip, the dragon from Crimson Dragon, something from Kameo and probably many others.

There are probably more than enough Microsoft exclusive characters to make such a game if you think about it, but I'm not sure if a lot of the Microsoft exclusive characters would be suitable for such a game... it only takes Marcus Fenix to chainsaw in half Power Pup the Office Assistant for the fun to be ruined for everyone, whereas going the other way and reducing ultra-violent grizzled characters like Master Chief and Marcus Fenix to the family friendly levels of a Smash Brother clone and making them equal with the weakest, lest violent and capable character in Microsoft's line up, could damage those brands.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

Here is a list of what I think would be a nice final roster picked up from the mentions on this thread:


Master Chief
Arbiter
Marcus Fenix
Banjo/Kazooei
Conker
Someone from Killer Instinct
Joanne Dark
The dude from Crackdown
Alan Wake
The dude from Ryse
The dude from Sunset Overdrive
The dude from Quantum Break (time control powers, could be cool)
Xbox Avatar
Kameo
Blinx
Stig from Top Gear because of Forza
Someone from Viva Pinata
Maybe one more random ass character from some indie game they are trying to promote that is exclusive to Xbox


You know what, its not a bad selection and in the end there arent really that many space marine characters, and all of them would workout great in hand to hand combat (Alan Wake is a bit of a weird one though, his enemies are weak to light but that wouldnt make sense with these other characters, and Stig would be Stig and kick everyones ass)

Hell, they could shove Commander Shepard in there or anyone else from the first Mass Effect, since that one is still a Microsoft exclusive.

As far as Alan Wake goes, they could make him kind of like Stryker in Mortal Combat 9 where he shines a light in people's eyes to stun them.

 

[JUMBO PALACE]

going the other way and reducing ultra-violent grizzled characters like Master Chief and Marcus Fenix to the family friendly levels of a Smash Brother clone and making them equal with the weakest, lest violent and capable character in Microsoft's line up, could damage those brands.

Might be interesting to see a fighting game more akin to Mortal Kombat then. Limit the characters who use guns similar to how Stryker's weapons are balanced in MK9 and leave all the gore in. That of course would exclude cutesy characters like Kameo and Blinx but would probably be more in line with what AAA studios think is the only way to make money.

 

[Lazy Kitty]

It would probably have Master Chief and Jack of Blades.
And they might fight on top of an airplane from Flight Simulator.

 

[Methodia Chicken]

A lot of these seem to be only drawing characters from console games, Microsoft has a huge collection of possible characters in old PC titles they own. A lot of which are RTS games, but Smash Bros does have Fire Emblem Characters.
Off the top of my head you could have
- Some sort of historical figure from Age of Empires (Joan of arc, William Wallace, Genghis khan) or just a knight(or monk)
- A similar Mythical figure from Age of Mythology.
- The creature from Black and White
- Rex Chance

 

[nightmare_gorilla]

Actually making basically a team fortress 2 / gears of war horde mode with a buncha different characters from fps's could be a really fun game. imagine using master chief to mow down waves of locust and chainsawing the flood with cole and baird. try and keep the uniqueness of each characters playstyle to it. master chief stays in first person while baird gets 3rd, was vanguish a 360 only game or no? imagine that guy in some arena combat. titan pilots, titans, the agent from crackdown, I know we're all "tired" of fps games but sometimes it's fun to just kickback and shoot stuff without thinking about it. I know nobody played bulletstorm but that game has probably the most fun fps mechanics to date and crossing them with some other abilities. imagine leashing a guy and kicking him into a couple of dudes with lancers chainsawing the crap out of him. bashing him against the lockdown armor ability on master chief. leashing a brumak and holding him while the agent unloads some rockets on it. I think it'd be a blast to watch characters from other games take on the berserker from gears of war. and yeah you could do team deathmatch which I know everyone loves and I don't care about.

 

[Mr.Mattress]

The Character rooster and the Level Selection would be incredibly small, and It'd probably have No In Game Items...

... But it'd look Stunning.

 

[PinkiePyro]

they should add clippy because every fighting game needs that one weird character and everyone would enjoy beating the crap out of him

 

[Lugbzurg]

Is it just me, or do a lot of people here not realize that Kameo and Viva Pinata are in fact RareWare properties, and Microsoft owns their souls? This means we could also get BattleToads stuff!

You could also fight as your avatars or something, like what the new Smash Bros. is doing with miis. Or maybe you could fight them in a "Multi Man" type of game mode. There might be some stages from their Simulator games.

Also, I concur with Clippit. We could always use him!