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Star Orpheus · Oct 20, 2017

So I was in the Blazblue Cross Tag Battle thread when some mentioned how asking not to include Noel is like asking for a Street Fighter game without Chun-li.

And then I remembered didnt Capcom actual try that?

Sure enough....

Yeah she was added later but thats besides the point.

Basically what are some game that for whatever reason left out popular or iconic characters to the series, and how did you feel about it?

boiled goose · Oct 20, 2017

Mgs2
Dkc2, 3.

Mario 64 had no Luigi.
Dkcr had no kremlins or krool

sphinx · Oct 20, 2017

Mortal Kombat 3 before Ultimate.

yeah that went very well with the fans LOL

HellforLeather · Oct 20, 2017

sphinx said:
Mortal Kombat 3 before Ultimate.

yeah that went very well with the fans LOL

Came to say this. Who thought it was a good idea to leave out Scorpion?

Dog Problems · Oct 20, 2017

Street Fighter V and Blanka.

I would have bought the game by now if he was part of the roster.

TissueBox · Oct 20, 2017

Soulcalibur V.

Still waiting for that modern-gen comeback!

slamhk · Oct 20, 2017

- Shinobi to Nightshade on PS2. While it may not be that extreme of a change it was quite dissapointing not to see the iconic red long scarf.

- MGS2 and once again with MGS3 (The real snek)

Jaded Alyx · Oct 20, 2017

Street Fighter V without Sagat.

DVG · Oct 20, 2017

Resident evil for the first few games. Also Super Mario Land 3 is a Wario game

MrCunningham · Oct 20, 2017

No Jill, no Chris.

Nicky Ali · Oct 20, 2017

This one is kind of cheating but Banjo-Tooie basically killed off Bottles just so they could replace him with his estranged brother JamJars.

I'm not complaining though, I thought it was quite funny.

ShadowSoldier89 · Oct 20, 2017

Witcher 3

Iorveth and Saskia. Two of the biggest players in Witcher 2. Saskia especially had her story left wide open based on your choices at the end of 2. Never got closure to that outside of comic that only covers one of the possible way's witcher 2 could end for Saskia.

BiggNife · Oct 20, 2017

Yes, I know the reason, but Marvel vs Capcom Infinite not having Wolverine, Magneto, or Sentinel just doesn't feel right.

NinjaCoachZ · Oct 20, 2017

Tekken 3 is the only Tekken game without Kazuya. His return was a huge part of the hype behind Tag. I honestly feel like that was really cool because his absence and subsequent return gave him this really mysterious presence that tied in with how he became a more villainous character.

Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire and Black and White were basically soft reboots that introduced tons of new Pokemon. In R&S most of the old Pokemon were infamously unavailable in-game, and trading wasn't possible with the GameBoy games. FireRed/LeafGreen and the GC games were made in part so all of the Kanto and Johto Pokemon could be available in Gen III. Black and White, you literally only could encounter Unova Pokemon until beating the game, and it's also the only entry in the series where Pikachu isn't catchable in the wild. After you beat the game it opens up though, and transferring from Gen IV was always possible. B2/W2 also made older Pokemon available right from the get-go.

BiggNife said:
Yes, I know the reason, but Marvel vs Capcom Infinite not having Wolverine, Magneto, or Sentinel just doesn't feel right.

Cyclops, Mega Man, and Cable missing in MVC3 cut pretty bad too.

Reset · Oct 20, 2017

Ken is missing from SFV. No surprise the game bombed, oh and Blanka is missing too.

Jaded Alyx · Oct 20, 2017

DONKEY KONG Country 2 where you can't play as DONKEY KONG

PSqueak · Oct 20, 2017

BiggNife said:
Yes, I know the reason, but Marvel vs Capcom Infinite not having Wolverine, Magneto, or Sentinel just doesn't feel right.

In the sense of the word iconic, it's hard to top this one.

CookTrain · Oct 20, 2017

As soon as I saw this thread, a game came immediately to mind. By the time I'd read through everyone else's replies, it's clean Scott gone from my mind.

Hopefully someone else posts it because now I'm going slightly mad.

Yoshimitsu126 · Oct 20, 2017

Liu Kang is dead.

Mortal Kombat V

purseowner · Oct 20, 2017

Neither VLR or ZTD brings back

Snake

.

muteki · Oct 20, 2017

New Dissidia and no Tifa

adamsapple · Oct 20, 2017

MrCunningham said:
No Jill, no Chris.

well ..

But only in the Dual Shock and further re-releases and in a non-story capacity I guess.

Tali'Zorah · Oct 20, 2017

Bioshock 2 features almost none of the characters that were in the original. Then they did the same thing again with Bioshock Infinite.

Dandy Crocodile · Oct 20, 2017

Pokemon Black and White notably excluded all previous-gen Pokemon until the postgame.
I loved it, made it feel super fresh.

mas8705 · Oct 20, 2017

I was at that age to where I didn't know much of anything and thought that the main characters in MK were Sub-Zero and Liu Kang considering that Scorpion was nowhere to be seen. Yeah... They fixed this later with the ultimate edition, but that doesn't change facts that in some ways, Sub-Zero was the only character to remain as a consistent character depending on who you ask.

Don't know if anyone cared when Liu Kang got left out of Deadly Alliance because he got his neck snapped...

JustSomeone · Oct 20, 2017

DmC left Dante out

spad3 · Oct 20, 2017

ShadowSoldier89 said:
Witcher 3

Iorveth and Saskia. Two of the biggest players in Witcher 2. Saskia especially had her story left wide open based on your choices at the end of 2. Never got closure to that outside of comic that only covers one of the possible way's witcher 2 could end for Saskia.

Iorveth not being in Witcher 3 made me sad. The fact that they had content planned, a model built and ready to go, but then axed is depressing. He was such a great character and the crux of Witcher 2. He could've been included in 3 as a side character, but instead they kept Letho around (if he wasn't killed in 2).

Vital Tundra · Oct 20, 2017

Jaded Alyx said:
DONKEY KONG Country 2 where you can't play as DONKEY KONG

At least the game is way better for it. DK sucked in 1. His presence missing in 3 is crazy. We all have heard of sequels that remove the main character, but twice? Nuts.

MrCunningham · Oct 20, 2017

chandoog said:
well ..

But only in the Dual Shock and further re-releases and in a non-story capacity I guess.

If you want to include that, sure. Also, there is a room in the Police Station with a photo of all the STARS members.

I could also say every single GTA game.

TreIII · Oct 20, 2017

The Street Fighter Alpha/Zero series went a good while without a lot of the "familiar" World Warriors until Alpha 3. And even there, characters like Guile didn't get added until that game's first console port.

Akuun · Oct 20, 2017

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Nephtes · Oct 20, 2017

Dante...

Edit: beaten, but I was looking for boxart...

Ahasverus · Oct 20, 2017

Nephtes said:
Dante...

The hottest of takes.

Dvidus · Oct 20, 2017

The sequel of Final Fantasy X left out the main character because of

reasons

.

MrCunningham · Oct 20, 2017

Akuun said:
MGS2 kinda sorta did that with Snake.

Snake wasn't really in Part 3 as well.

Solid Snake was only in MGS1, opening part of MGS2 and MGS4, as far as the mainline MGS series goes.

Femto. · Oct 20, 2017

Akuun said:
MGS2 kinda sorta did that with Snake.

Raiden is cool though.

Nev · Oct 20, 2017

Miyazaki from Dark Souls 2.

Triforce141 · Oct 20, 2017

Maya being absent from Ace Attorneys 4 and 5

Outside of a quick cameo in Dual Destinies

Jmille99 · Oct 20, 2017

Depending if you consider it a sequel or not:

Shadowman16 · Oct 20, 2017

Well Yakuza 6

basically gets rid of all of the Tojo Clan characters for the entire story, so no Seijima, Majima, Daigo etc. as they are all stuck in prison. So that also means you don't get a boss fight against Majima either

Also some support characters like Florist and Komaki are completely absent as Pergatory and the homeless building where Komaki's Dojo were previously located are not available in the game either...

. Probably forgetting about a few other characters that are absent from the game as well

DiipuSurotu · Oct 20, 2017

EDIT: Beaten like Crono, Marle, Lucca, Robo, and Magus

Tizoc · Oct 20, 2017

King of Fighters '99 was considered to exclude Kyo and Iori but the two were still added in as secret characters.

KoF 2003 and XI would exclude some of the more popular characters such as Joe, Robert and Andy.
It was a minor thing but at the time I was quite surprised at a few of the omissions.

TreIII said:
The Street Fighter Alpha/Zero series went a good while without a lot of the "familiar" World Warriors until Alpha 3. And even there, characters like Guile didn't get added until that game's first console port.

imho that was a good move. SF Zero 2 has one of the best rosters among Capcom's fighters.

CookTrain · Oct 20, 2017

Jmille99 said:
Depending if you consider it a sequel or not:

THAT'S THE ONE. Thank you for posting. You've saved my sanity this day.

xviper · Oct 20, 2017

MGS V

left Big boss

Mr-Joker · Oct 20, 2017

BkzUzi said:
Ken is missing from SFV. No surprise the game bombed

Urm you're sure about that?

And I don't even own or have played Street Fighter V.

Dandy Crocodile said:
Pokemon Black and White notably excluded all previous-gen Pokemon until the postgame.
I loved it, made it feel super fresh.

Yeah that was amazing and acted like a soft reboot for the series without changing too much.

Plus the sequel made the old Pokémon feel new and fresh when they got added into the regional Pokédex.

adamsapple · Oct 20, 2017

Jmille99 said:
Depending if you consider it a sequel or not:

The 3 central characters do appear in Cross. Even Robo appears albeit with his original Prometheus name.

NinjaCoachZ · Oct 20, 2017

Tizoc said:
King of Fighters '99 was considered to exclude Kyo and Iori but the two were still added in as secret characters.

KoF 2003 and XI would exclude some of the more popular characters such as Joe, Robert and Andy.
It was a minor thing but at the time I was quite surprised at a few of the omissions.

Mai and Robert were both missing in the original version of XI, but thankfully the PS2 version brought them back in their NGBC versions.

Then Mai and the whole Women Fighters Team were missing completely from XII.

Adelheid also got totally dropped after XI which still bums me out.

Linkark07 · Oct 20, 2017

Soul Calibur V. Instead they gave us one of the worst protagonist to ever grace the medium.

bon · Oct 20, 2017

where my X-Men at, Marvel?

LastGamer84 · Oct 20, 2017

Johnny Gat from SR3. Sure he's in it for all of five minutes...then out. SR4 did good in bringing him back.

Probably doesn't count.

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