There seems to be a fair bit of excitement about this game, so I thought it deserved its own topic.
Obviously the Solid Snake thing is a big deal, because it means some other non-Nintendo characters could be in the game as well.
So, what are you looking forward to/hoping for? Characters? Stages? Items? Controller functionality? Online play?
Personally, I really hope they don't do like they did with Melee and make half the characters nearly identical to the first half. I would certainly like for there to be as many characters as there were in Melee, but I hope they make an effort to make every character different and interesting.
I hope the Fire Emblem guys come back, because I love the series, and Pit and Meta Knight look like they could be really cool too.
I actually got a complete [well pretty complete] list of the characters that will appear. I got it from my friend who has "pipelines", The number is astronomic!
1. Wario
2. Waluigi
3. Bowser
4. Bowser Jr.
5. Pit
6. Samus
7. Dark Samus
8. King K Rool
9. DK
10. Luigi
11. Mario
12. Peach
13. Toad
14. Fox
15. Krystal [she's my favorite out of the Star Fox serious]
16. Captain Falcon
17 Black shadow [from F-Zero GX story line]
18. Ridley [from the Metriod serious]
19. Dixie Kong
20. Diddy Kong
21. Yoshi
22. Geno [yupp, from Mario RPG]
23. Mallow [from Mario RPG as well]
24. Dr Mario
25. Wolf
26. Falco
27. Samurai Goroh [from F-Zero]
28. Balloon Fighter
29. Poo [from Earthbound]
30. Jeff [from Earthbound]
31. Ness
32. Link
33. Mr Game and Watch
34. Ice Climbers
35. Pikacho
36. Marth
37 Vector [from Fire Emblem]
38. Lyn [from Fire Emblem]
39. Little Mac [from Punch Out]
40. Big Bull [from Punch Out]
41. Paula [from Earthbound]
42. Young Link
43. Zelda
44. Kirby
45. King Dee Dee Dee
46. Jiggly Puff
47. Pichi
48. Roy
49. Andy [from Fire Emblem]
50. Ike [from Fire Emblem]
51. Skull Kid [from Zelda; Majora's Mask]
52. Ganondorf
53. Tingle [I wonder how he's gonna fight
]
54. Meta Knight
55. Mewtwo
56. Mike J. [from "I have no idea where"]
57. Sonic [yupp, Sega gives it's props]
58. Knuckles
59. Pokemon trainer [yeah... I'm not to thrilled about this one either
]
60. Solid Snake
61. Zero Suit Samus
and there's more to... but this is the ones I know for certain.