Is there an argument of driving a cameo through the *music*? Surely we can imply that if a music track appears in both a GTA title and another game, it must follow that those games both exist in the same universe.
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What is the highest-profile gaming franchise that isn’t within the massive Mario Multiverse?
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Is there an argument of driving a cameo through the *music*? Surely we can imply that if a music track appears in both a GTA title and another game, it must follow that those games both exist in the same universe.
Looking at this thread, Ryu is the Tommy Westphall and Mario is just the John Munch.
Yeah. Quickest link would be mobile games, as I know there's one out there that has both SF and Guilty Gear & Blazblue. There's also BB Cross Tag Battle with Persona characters which link to Joker in Smash.
Beyond that, there's Noel & Dizzy in a PSP Queens Gate game that had Ivy Valentine and Mai Shiranui in it too.
Oh, nice! So we can use Ryu's link to GG/BB as a link to Girl's Frontline, which then links to Va-11 Hall-A, which was the thing I was after.
Berserk had a collaboration with Dragon's Dogma Online, and there are Dragon's Dogma characters in Puzzle & Dragons. Rtu is also in P&D, and Mario sort of links to P&D too. There's probably a more direct link for Ryu to Dragon's Dogma though.
Lili from Tekken shows up in a Digimon game. She's in SFxT with Ryu.
I'm nominating XCOM and Hitman. Also, if reference to games as games don't count, then Life is Strange as well, though that's a smaller franchise. I also want to see what comes up for Deus Ex.
To be fair, I'm not certain that I exist in the same universe as Shaquille O'Neal as I've never seen him in person. I've always suspected as much.
Natasha Bedingfield was in the From Russia with Love game and The Sims 2.
We may have to use the latest Atari games for that....
I don't think anyone want to be reminded of these though.
Travis appears in Dragon's Dogma.
Monsters from Puzzle & Dragons also appear in Dragon's Dogma.
There was "Puzzle & Dragons: Super Mario Bros. Edition" which was full of characters from Mario.
I feel like you could make the connection between Breakout and Alleyway which has Mario in the paddle...
Could be argued to be in the same universe as other Valve games, but that's tenuous so:
The Heavy is in Poker Night at the Inventory, and Glados is in Poker Night at the Inventory 2.
Portal and Half-Life are definitely in the same universe, so then it's the headcrab in Super Meat Boy, along with Commander Video, who is in Smash Bros.
Once you throw in smash, you get all the stickers /emblems and that rules out probably 90% of Nintendo games...
So I'm gonna go Knack baby, or go further back to streets of rage
So I'm gonna go Knack baby, or go further back to streets of rage
Axel is in Project X Zone 2.
I'm not coming up with anything for Knack yet though.
Edit: although he is in Ready Player One.
Knack is in Playstation AllStar,
Kratos is in that and also in Shovel Knight.
Shovel Knight->Smash Bros
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PSABR was on PS3/Vita. Knack wasn't in that.
I would kill for a sequel though, then there would be a lot more connections.
Crap, it's all the sequel talk online that induced me in error on this one.
He's not in that mobile game about Playstation all star as well.
Team Fortress is actually a pretty quick connection. In Sonic & All Stars Racing Transformed, Heavy, Spy, and Pyro are all racers (in the same kart really) so they're right there with Sonic, who then ties to Mario with Smash or the Olympic games.
1. Michael Jackson exists in GTA: Vice City. Tommy can listen to Michael Jackson while driving.
2. Michael Jackson is a playable character in Ready 2 Rumble Boxing: Round 2 alongside Bill Clinton.
3. Bill Clinton is playable in NBA Jam: Tournament Edition, alongside Sub-Zero.
4. Sub-Zero is playable in Mortal Kombat 11, alongside Spawn.
5. Spawn is a playable character in Soul Calibur II. Link is also a playable character in Soul Calibur II.
Slightly more direct would be Michael Jackson in Space Channel 5, then Ulala in Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing, and Sonic in Smash.
Knack has another non-connection. It's suggested that it's in the Ape Escape universe at a couple of points (via the same robot nets being in both games), then Piposaru has a lot of connections (Hot Shots Golf/Playstation All-Stars/other games). But it doesn't fit the actual character connection guideline so until that happens...
The answer is Knack.
There have also been Final
Dizzy and NetHack being part of this chain is too good. Excellent work.