Recent content by ALongWistfulSquiggle

Totally agree on the moveset side of things. Samus is a character I wish I could say I enjoyed. I just don't because of how clunky and awkward she is. Mario's an odd one in this list because in Melee he was designed to be the Smash version of a shoto (like Ryu). So his moveset has the same...

Just to add some context to this, in a previous direct Sakurai had also decorated his office with a jungle theme. I believe King K. Rool was announced the following direct, so people were thinking the chairs were part of a similar scenario. I heard there was a possibility that the chairs were...

Top three most likely new franchises for Square Enix is a tough one, especially now that their western branch is sold. Nier seems like the obvious candidate, but after that it seems pretty ambiguous. They have some older franchises they seem to be giving another shot like Star Ocean and Valkyrie...

My personal guess is that tap-jump exists because it's the same input that is used in traditional fighting games like Street Fighter or KoF. I agree it's awful in Smash, though I have seen arguments that it can be good for specific characters like Meta Knight. As someone who played Brawl on a...

It's probably important to note that the main reason given for disliking Isabelle on the poll is her moveset. It feels a little half-baked. I think that people subconsciously use hype because it appeals to the group in a way that they can't by saying a character is boring. Most of the time hype...

When it comes to Claude, I would just prefer a different archer. It's nothing against the guy, but the only unique things he'd bring over other archers are a penchant for poison that has no gameplay significance and a wyvern that probably wouldn't make it into his moveset. I'm in a bit of a...

Also, barely anything was competing with ARMS for attention at the time. It was either market ARMS or market nothing. I don't know that it would have gotten the same amount of attention if it came out now.

I don't know either, but it's not really dead man's volley if it doesn't ping-pong. It probably would never be included if it can't have that property. I agree with you that it doesn't make a lot of sense on his current moveset, I just don't feel that it would be another shadow ball if he did...

To be fair, Ganon's energy ball is mostly special because you play ping-pong with it. As of right now, the closest thing to that is Dedede's Gordos.

The only thing I've noticed is that it makes down-tilt -> full hop back-air easier, which potentially then combos into up-B if you somehow land down-tilt at 0%. That's something like 42% off of a single interaction, but it may be susceptible to DI (I don't have a good way to test with how...

I don't mind it, tbh. The thing that stuck out to me the most was Ike as DLC. But when I thought about it, he's the one Fire Emblem character in the current roster that could be sold as DLC without people blowing a gasket (maybe Robin, too, but Robin feels very base game for some reason). So...

Something people might want to think about is the possibility of a thought process akin to what went into Guilty Gear Strive. Apparently, when building that game's roster from the ground up, they had a certain number of archetypes (I believe it was 13) they wanted to cover to offer a baseline...

While I agree about it being mostly about priorities, I don't think we can sit here and claim to know what those priorities are. You're talking about popularity a lot, but that might not be a significant metric for the devs at all. It could be, and I think it will to a degree, but they could...

I'm pretty sure it started with people who didn't understand that it's legal terminology, and then it became shorthand for the community because saying fourth parties is faster than saying non-video game products.

Over the years I've come up with so many silly troll ideas for the latter two. Shoutouts to Spinda and Jake as a ballistician. I don't know that I would go with any of them seriously, but there's a lot of fun options if we're willing to go out of the way to get them. Now for my serious, but...