Recent content by TheDukeofDorks

In Smash 4, Fire Emblem representation jumped from 2 characters to 6, including DLC. 1 being an echo, 1 being a touched up semi clone, and the other 2 being entirely unique. In this hypothetical situation, Metroid would have jumped from 2 to 5, including DLC, with 1 being an echo, and 2...

Except we know when the DLC fighters were finalized. November 6th, or very very shortly before than, based on Sakurai's Twitter. And we know that, when Sakurai wrote his latest Famitsu column, the game had already gone gold. There is absolutely no way content was being moved around in that time...

In lieu of recent events, I don't understand the thought process behind Spirits disconfirming characters. We know the DLC fighters were chosen only very recently, after the Spirits would have had to be finalized. Do people honestly think that would have been a dealbreaker for Sakurai? Was he...

Rayman Chance: 20% Spirits disconfirm characters, huh? That is actually stupid. You think Sakurai looked at the list of DLC characters Nintendo gave him, went through it, and thought "Oh dear, we already uploaded a .png of this one into the game! Guess we can't use them!" Come on people. That's...

DLC characters need to be marketable, people need to want to buy them. I'd argue that's why they chose Pirahna Plant as the free bonus, and not somebody else, you don't expect people to buy the joke character. The ballot gives a direct comparison of "Hey, how many people would be willing to buy...

That is the silliest thing I've ever read on Smashboards. Oh yes, this Direct that topped the trending page on Youtube, rounded out a cast of 75 characters, promised to keep the hype train going, and gave us adventure mode, the MOST REQUESTED THING BY THE COMMUNITY BY FAR. THAT is going to...

I dunno, 9 fighters in the game, 8 of whom are unique, and 3 of them didn't appear in the last game? Perhaps Sakurai thought that was enough?

Have a side by side we threw together on the Source Gaming discord, makes this much easier to talk about

If Incineroar was simply green and shot vines from his belt instead of flames, you'd be clamoring for his inclusion over that "generic fire owl" :p

Isn't that an absurd amount of steps to take for something that's really not going to work in the first place? Let's say you're an avid Smash fan that wanted to avoid Simon getting leaked. To do that, you would have had to avoid literally every single video game news outlet that talks about...

I'd say respecting the wishes of the wonderful man that literally destroys his body to bring us this game is just a little more important than feeding pointless impatience. Or keeping the development team in high spirits so the game we're already buying is the highest quality it can possibly be...

Oh please, that is the most ridiculous excuse I've heard defending leaks. The people who care enough about Smash speculation to the point of seeking out leaks are buying the game regardless of whichever characters are left

I don't think I've ever felt so torn about someone having a meltdown. I empathize with Verge's situation, having hundreds of voices belittling you at every turn will destroy your spirit, to get that for simply talking about video games is ridiculous. But he lit that fire under himself through...

TEDDY ROOSEVELT CONFIRMED FOR SMASH, YOU HEARD IT HEAR FIRST FOLKS!