Recent content by Arcanir

I doubt we're getting a MP4 character. They likely already pegged the roster by this point and the game still hasn't come out yet. At best it'll be at the end of this year, but in that case that would mean it'd be in a more similar position to ARMs or XC2 were for Ultimate over something like...

DK just needs a dedicated team that can give it a more consistent output. Nintendo does care about it, it's getting a dedicated world at Universal for instance, but after Rare and especially nowadays the franchise doesn't have a team that can focus mostly on it over other projects. Currently...

But that's the thing: He was already the fan request going into Brawl, at least one of them. Back then you couldn't go on any forum without fans talking about the character, whether it be GameFAQs, Smashboards, hell, even now defunct forums like IGN or other Nintendo forums. Ridley was one of...

Ridley's fanbase was already very big before Brawl's release. Chronobound could probably explain it better if he was still here, but he already started to get support back with the Melee intro as it got people curious about the character. After that point Metroid had its resurgence with Fusion...

This is a weird point to make when characters have been made playable with even less to work with.

Corrins' biggest problem is that they're in a franchise with a lot of characters, which historically are the ones that get the most cuts (look at Pokemon or Mario), and don't have the best case over their counterparts to get higher priority. -Marth is the mascot, he isn't going anywhere. -Ike...

I mean, you can take this point and turn it on its head by comparing it to other similarly selling franchises. For instance, XC2 is a game that is considered highly successful for the franchise, solidified it as a mainstay for Nintendo, and got it a sequel. Yet, it only sold about 2.7M as last...

Ironically, MP4 may have the opposite problem, at least for base game. Even assuming it releases this year it'll still be potentially coming after the next Smash has started development and picked it's roster which means it'll potentially release too late to get a character.

IIRC, K. Rool does have a voice in some of the Peon games and DK Barrel Blast. He also had some grunts (albeit, the generic Kremling grunts) in the DKC games and was fully voiced in DK64 for certain scenes. So he actually has had a voice in most of his appearances.

Which they probably didn't have the time or resources for. Pyrosphere is made with boss Ridley in mind, changing him into a hazard would mean more work would have to be done on the stage as it'd have to be remade for the hazard in question. They're already trying to bring back over 100 stages on...

Thinking about it, Boss Ridley probably was the main reason it got cut and potentially not for the reason often brought up. We do have other boss stages like Wily's Castle and Gaur Plains, but Ridley on Pyrosphere was far more involved than either, having a unique mechanic that had him support...

Overall, I'd say 2. Looking at Ridley for instance, I wanted him because he was a character I greatly enjoyed in his franchise. He had a very cool design that crossed elements of dragons, xenomorphs, and pterosaurs, his fights generally were a highlight of the games he appeared in, and I...

You could, though in turn you could make the counterargument that Ultimate's Echoes overall are closer to their original counterparts than even Melee's (again, aside from maybe Ken). So even in that respect Ultimate's clones may not have taken as much time or resources, though that's getting a...

It had 11 new characters, but not all characters took the same amount of time, resources, and development which is likely what was meant by the previous post. The Echoes like Dark Samus and Daisy certainly did not take as much time as those like Ridley or K. Rool for instance, and thus in that...

I'm going to concur with what's being said on Lucario. While I would like a couple new moves like Bone Rush for him, I feel what Lucario needs first and foremost is a rework to Aura. This is a character that was voted the second most popular of his franchise some years back, and yet in Smash...