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GolisoPower · 2025-04-08T23:53:11-0400

So I've been thinking...if Smash Bros. ever gets a FromSoftware character, who'd they pick?

Immediately Obvious Picks:

Chosen Undead: The obvious pick from the moment Dark Souls: Remastered was announced for Switch. Dark Souls was immensely influential in its genre, and while there are other characters in this game that could easily be added to the game (I remember a rumor that Knight Artorias of all characters was being added once), it feels like Sakurai's "heroes first" pattern for games seems to take precedent (Though at times that gets bent like with Min Min ["Everyone in ARMS is the protagonist"] and Kazuya [He's pretty much a villain now but he started as a hero]).
The Tarnished: Another big example, and one that could feel more "at home" with Smash. Elden Ring is no doubt a massive evolution for the genre and brings a lot more fun tools to the table. Especially with the Tarnished Edition coming to Switch, it feels like we have another big-shot here from the franchise.
The Bloodsworn: The spiritual successor to arguably one of the biggest GOAT games in history, Bloodborne, has apparently taken the Bayonetta route and become a Nintendo Switch 2 exclusive (for now, probably). So on the one hand it feels likely that the Bloodsworn would be added as a promotional pick for the game, and let's be real, this would be the closest we'd ever get to the Good Hunter in Smash proper.

Left-Field Picks:

Wolf/Sekiro: This wouldn't be too odd, despite Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice not being on a Nintendo platform. It stands out pretty well on its own in comparison to other FromSoftware franchises.
Nineball or Raven: Armored Core is in a similar boat, but Bowser Jr. is our only "mechanical pilot" character, if you catch my drift. A gigantic mecha seems like a perfect way to freshen up the franchise in my eyes.
The Good Hunter: Now this. THIS. Would be the jawdropper. Because of Sony's iron grip on the franchise it feels like Bloodborne is forever stuck on the PS4...but again, Bloodborne is one of the GOAT games in history. The thought of the Good Hunter hacking Bowser up like he's common prey is something to behold, I'm sure.

GolisoPower · Mar 15, 2025

I had this thought a while back that I'm sharing now: Could the "AI slop" aesthetic work well for a video game? I remember seeing this online piece of fanart on Bluesky by an artist (@sumiao for those who are curious) where AI-generated creatures were interacting with a hand-drawn creature (even that piece was entirely hand-drawn BTW) and that got me wondering about "AI-slopcore" as an aesthetic in specifically a horror game. It would be a very controversial thing to release, yes, but I'd also imagine there being collectibles that are documentarian clips of the developers replicating the "AI slop" aesthetic by hand, just to prove that none of the game is AI-generated.

GolisoPower · Mar 5, 2025

So I've been doing a playthrough of the Apollo Justice trilogy with some friends, and to be quite honest, it makes me want this for the leaked Ace Attorney 7 from a while back:

Make the defense attorney you play as in a case selectable (Between Phoenix, Apollo, or Athena), and make it so whatever choices you make during an investigation influence which Prosecutor (Between Edgeworth, Klavier, Blackquill, Franzisca, and Nahyuta) will go against you in a Trial. It would sort of open up the possibility for interactions that haven't happened before (Like Athena meeting Franzisca or Edgeworth going against Apollo) or have some character interactions that fulfill old loose ends (Such as Phoenix and Klavier having some closure over what Kristoph did to get the former disbarred).

GolisoPower · Feb 8, 2025

In a way, I really wish there wasn't such a major risk of backlash from using Hindu mythology stuff in games. After reading a few stories about the goddess of war Durga, I really want there to be a game starring her inspired by Devil May Cry or God of War.

GolisoPower · Dec 21, 2024

So, uh, apparently Yu-Gi-Oh has lore for one of its Archetypes (Albaz) that spans almost a dozen.

And with Konami increasingly cashing in more on YGO media based on the archetypes themselves, it makes me wonder how cool a Yu-Gi-Oh Albaz MMO could be.

GolisoPower · Dec 17, 2024

You know, I can't be the only person who thinks NOW is the perfect time for Capcom to start considering an actual Marvel 4?

Like, consider:

The Marvel Collection, ~~Justin Wong domination aside~~, has been something of a success.
Marvel Rivals is popping off right now, and it's got a pretty good art direction and roster there.
Capcom just recently talked about making new entries for dormant IPs...right after announcing new Okami and Onimusha games.

To put it simply, the cards are in place, and it's up to both Marvel and Capcom to strike while the iron's hot. Plus, if they decide to ape off Marvel Rivals' art direction for MvC4, I'd just love to see how the character designer for Rivals pulls off some Capcom characters. Hell, there's quite a bit of MvC influence already, Blue Venom from MvC2, Psylocke is essentially genderbent Strider...

GolisoPower · Dec 4, 2024

So I know I'm kinda late to the whole Mouthwashing party, but for anyone who's knowledgeable about the law, I wanna ask.

If Jimmy hadn't committed suicide, what would his sentence in a court of law be?

Now we all absolutely H A T E Jimmy, and for good reason. But unfortunately, he kills himself in some delusional quest to "take responsibility" and "fix everything" before he actually gets tried for his crimes. But it does make me wonder what his crimes would be if he was caught before suicide. Lemme list his crimes real quick:

Mutiny against Captain Curly, as well as usurpation
Intentionally damaging Pony Express property
SA'ing Anya
Murdering Swansea
Intentional endangerment of crew (Especially with Daisuke on the vents)
Cannibalism by virtue of eating Curly's leg
Torture of Curly by forcing him to eat his leg
- Also being cryo-frozen is awful for a burnt-up body like Curly's, or so I've seen someone else say.

I could be misremembering or haven't picked up on any other crimes Jimmy might've done aside from what I've seen, but to be honest it feels like those would be grounds for several life sentences without parole or even a death penalty.

GolisoPower · Sep 3, 2024

To anybody who does voice-acting as a hobby: do they get at least one noise complaint in their career? I was playing/voicing Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney and was doing Kristoph's final breakdown...and got a noise complaint from my dad.

GolisoPower · Jul 26, 2024

Just had a thought:

M. Bison somehow came back from the dead in Street Fighter 6.

Heihachi somehow came back from the dead in Tekken 8.

So with those in mind, why don't we get a little...predictabo?

I'm almost expecting Geese Howard to somehow come back from the dead in the new Fatal Fury game.

GolisoPower · Jul 19, 2024

Been thinking about Gen 10 Pokemon game names and how about...Pokemon Transience and Pokemon Eternity?

It plays with the whole opposites theming for different versions and sort of gives a milestone feeling with this being the tenth generation of Pokemon.

GolisoPower · Jul 11, 2024

So I wanna ponder who might be developing this new Emio thing assuming the rumor about Bloober Team making it in collaboration with Nintendo isn't real.

I at first was probably thinking Nintendo went bat**** crazy and decided to collab with Junji Ito, but I feel there would be a lot more spirals and body horror, so maybe not.

Then I thought Remedy Entertainment, but I doubt that fits the general aesthetic of something like Alan Wake.

I legitimately can't exactly pinpoint who's making this.

GolisoPower · Jun 29, 2024

I'm gonna get a weird idea out of the way for a Minecraft spinoff: a Minecraft arena fighter.

The roster of characters consists of Specialties (Such as Redstoning, Griefing, Building, etc.), and a Mob to call upon as an Assist, and the Arenas are essentially the various biomes of the game.

So lemme give an example of a match:

You're playing as a Builder character, capable of creating large structures in a near-instant, but thanks to you having a Silverfish as an Assist Mob, you can lace that structure with Monster Eggs as a trap.
Your opponent is playing a PvP'er with a wide variety of weapons, and has an Iron Golem to either act as a barrier for defense, launch you up for set-ups, or launch your foe up so they can exploit their mace attack.
The arena selected is a Woodland Mansion, and the gimmick of that stage is that you can knock foes into a party of Illagers camping out in a room to aggro them.

GolisoPower · Jun 7, 2024

I can now say with complete confidence that Aloy has an unironically legit shot at being in the next Smash, but none of you are ready for that conversation.

GolisoPower · May 19, 2024

It just kinda hit me that the origins of analog horror can be traced back to The Ring of all things. Sadako's tape is pretty much the first-ever instance of analog horror.

Recorded on analog hardware (A VHS tape)
Eerie, supernatural imagery
Tied to something not human and supernatural
Features a distorted humanoid figure (Sadako was born deformed)
Some premises are about something coming out of the screen to kill you (Something Sadako's Curse does)

GolisoPower · May 12, 2024

You know what would be fun? A Lethal Company-style co-op game...but it's in the style of something like Inscryption or Buckshot Roulette. An idea I had right now is that you and your friends are basically a TTRPG party and the guy in the position of Leshy/The Dealer is the Gamemaster with a cursed book where they write the story of the campaign. In between rounds you and your friends go and collect stuff to deck your characters out in. Of course, you and your friends lose on a total party wipe.

GolisoPower · Mar 19, 2024

Am I the only one here who thinks a Pokemon pirate/seafaring game would slap?

Imagine, you're manning your own ship, your team of Pokemon essentially being your crew. You have naval battles that will test your crew's ability to fight other pirate crews before going into actual Pokemon battles when boarding.

Probopass could get a nod to its PokeDex entry by being the best navigator you could, Dhelmise could have either a brighter-colored pre-sinking variant or a new evo that uses more ship parts, and you could have unique regional variants that're solely seabound.

It'd be especially fun if it's a Pokemon Legends game in Galar that's based on the Age of Exploration.

GolisoPower · Mar 12, 2024

So random idea for Pokemon Legends: Z-A: we'll get Kalosian Groudon, Kyogre, and Rayquaza, mainly because the latter has a Mega Evolution and seems extremely important to Mega Evolution's lore. Articuno, Zapdos, and Moltres got Galarian evolutions, so why not? Now how we go about it? Well, the Hoennese trio as is represents the more mythological creation of the Earth. Now I imagine a Kalosian version of the trio to represent the more cosmic creation of the Earth.

Kalosian Groudon: Ground/Psychic, representing the dust and gas from the sun that creates the core of the Earth.
Kalosian Kyogre: Water/Rock, representing the comets that have delivered water and ice to Earth.
Kalosian Rayquaza: Fire/Dragon or Fire/Flying, representing the gas released from volcanoes that created the Earth's atmosphere.

GolisoPower · Mar 2, 2024

Just had a random thought:

Pokemon Legends: Arceus is basically waxing off Monster Hunter for its gameplay. Hell, the Noble Pokemon are basically like bigger monsters like Rathalos, Deviljho or Fatalis!

So...Pokemon Legends: Z-A, with its being entirely set in Lumiose...what if it's basically Pokemon Yakuza? Like A Dragonite, if you will. This'd be the perfect "baby's first Yakuza", and I'm not talking about the Gondawara family either.

GolisoPower · Feb 27, 2024

So I'm predicting many things for Pokemon Legends Z-A Z-A (No, I did not typo LOL)

For the starters I'm predicting Empoleon because of course Napoleon, Meowscarada because one its bud looks like a fleur-de-lis from an angle and two it looks oddly French to me, and Charizard because Mega Evolutions are coming back and you just friggin' know it's going to have a Mega Charizard Z.
I got a hunch that Mega Zygarde is going to exist. I'm hoping they go full circle with its Ragnarok theming and model Mega Zygarde around Surtr the fire giant.
I get the feeling that Paradox Pokemon are going to be involved somehow, and there's going to be Paradox versions of the Kalos Legendary duo. Calling them Bloom Antler and Iron Reaper for the moment.
I get the feeling that it's going to take place directly after the war with the Ultimate Weapon.
I'm absolutely hoping it's a massive city-building storyline like with Colony 6 from XC1 or Tarrey Town from BotW.

GolisoPower · Feb 3, 2024

Hey, you ever just imagine how easily some character's monologues could be recontextualized if swapped around? For example:

Like, remember when Yuji Itadori admits to Mahito that he was right and that he was him? That was a very bone-chilling monologue for him, really exemplifies the effects of the trauma that he was put through during the entire Shibuya Incident and his utter breaking of his old ideals.

Now I can't help but imagine what it would feel like if other characters were saying it.

For example, Medaka Kurokami from Medaka Box. She's this veritable force of nature at Hakoniwa Academy, trying her best to help others because she believes she was put on this Earth to do so...but there were times she's lapsed on it like with her battle with Unzen where we first see her activate War God mode. In a sense, I feel like the Unzen battle is somewhat close in tone to the final Mahito fight, so hearing Medaka doing this cold speech to this Cursed Spirit would be sort of chilling.

Conversely, Yuji going against Unzen would kind of place him at a higher mental fortitude than he was back in Shibuya if he was speaking Medaka's "I'm Trying To Be Right" speech. Both Yuji & Medaka have an overlap in that they wanted to help others, and that drive gets challenged throughout their stories (though Medaka's a lot more dedicated and zealous to that ideal), but Medaka Box is an extremely different tone to JJK so while I am aware that some will think it betrays the purpose of both, it makes me wonder how much different the tones of their speeches would be based on their characters.

GolisoPower · Jan 27, 2024

Random thought/semi-science question: if Water-type Pokemon drank alcohol...would they be very light or very heavy drinkers?

Because if you wanna drink something and not get drunk you water down your drink...hell, you can wait to let ice melt in some drinks before so it doesn't affect you as much. So with this in mind, would it be reasonable to see a Palafin not even get the slightest bit drunk after 5 whole barrels of booze?

GolisoPower · Jan 26, 2024

You know what I want?

Imagine a monster-catcher game...but you can also train them to pilot giant super-robots. Like, not Gundam-giant robots, straight-up insane GaoGaiGar robots. Full-on Gurren Lagann mechas.

Stats would not only determine how well they do in the typical monster battle, but also how skilled they would be as mecha pilots. Battles could have the typical "party of monsters" and "1-on-1 mecha" fights, but sometimes you can send your whole team out at once to fight a singular mecha. Wouldn't that be amazing to play?

GolisoPower · Jan 19, 2024

So I am aware Ted Woolsey was responsible for a metric ton of changes in writing across a lot of games that get localized from Japan, much of which are remembered favorably today, but it does make me wonder how the original writing was received over in Japan.

Like, for example: we got a very sadistic and hateful Kefka in FF6 while Kefka in Japan is a lot more childish. Makes you wonder how we'd have perceived the story if they kept the Japanese version of Kefka instead of the more hate-fueled version we got.

GolisoPower · Jan 10, 2024

My fighting game brainrot's been acting up again and you know what I'm pissed off we don't have a Yu-Gi-Oh! Archetype fighting game yet.

A lot of the YGO games I see are just different iterations of the card game, and the games that deviate from that are just Yugi appearing as a guest character. Lemme play a YGO game where I can form a team of Eldlich, Blue-Eyes White Dragon and Witchcrafter Madame Verre and fight Numeronious Numeronia as a secret boss.

GolisoPower · Dec 22, 2023

I've been thinking a little bit: between that first Atomic Breath Shin Godzilla released onto Tokyo and pretty much everything Sukuna did during the Shibuya Incident in his battles with Jogo and Mahoraga, I wonder which had more devastating consequences for Japan's future.

GolisoPower · Dec 22, 2023

I'd love to see a Demon King anime where said Demon King is smart enough to not use military might to conquer the world lest the Hero annihilate him, and so he decides to take a more economic approach to world domination. It'd be cool if they explored some tactics of economics from our world as well (maybe even shouting out the Silk Road too). Bonus points if the Demon King accidentally hires the Hero for some comedy.

GolisoPower · Dec 17, 2023

I kinda want there to be a Capcom vs. Shonen Jump someday. I doubt we'll be getting a new Marvel VS. Capcom anytime soon, so I think having them collaborate with Shonen Jump would be extra cool.

GolisoPower · Dec 2, 2023

Okay, hypothetical situation incoming:

Say you have 2 people standing in front of a wall of 20 GAU-8 Avenger rotary cannons. One has extreme speed like the Flash, the other has god-like reflexes like Ultra Instinct. They can only dodge the incoming fire from the Avenger guns for as long as they're able. Who would go down first, the super-speed or the instinctual reflexes?

My argument is that the super-speed guy would fall first. While he is fast, he still needs to think before he moves, his body needs time to recognize that he wants to move. Whereas the instinct guy doesn't need to think at all to dodge, it just happens.

GolisoPower · Dec 1, 2023

Just thought of the most out-of-pocket fighting game in the world: a crossover fighting game, but it's only the top-of-the-meta characters. So Tekken 7 Leroy Smith, UMvC3 Vergil, Smash Ultimate Steve, Brawl Meta Knight, Kid Buu from DBFZ, Simpsons Wrestling Flanders, all those busted characters. Imagine how insane things would get.

GolisoPower · Nov 12, 2023

Hey, we all know Medusa's gaze can turn you into stone, right? Well, what would happen if she looked at Talos, a bronze giant? Would the bronze be turned into stone or nah?

GolisoPower · Nov 7, 2023

So I've wanted to ask anyone who's done datamining: how do the eyes on Smash Ultimate's characters, more particularly more "anime" characters like Pit, Cloud, and Pyra/Mythra work? Are the eyeballs separate meshes with textures on a UV map or are they just flat textures over an entirely blank face?

GolisoPower · Nov 5, 2023

Random thought: would a Ghostface Devil be somewhat powerful in the Chainsaw Man universe? IIRC, Ghostface is a title and multiple people have taken up the title of "Ghostface" in the Scream movies, so there's some logic in the Ghostface Devil being somewhat powerful.

GolisoPower · Nov 3, 2023

Question for everyone: if we were to get a new fighting game franchise in Smash, who would be more busted between Nightmare from SoulCalibur and Sol Badguy from Guilty Gear?

GolisoPower · Nov 1, 2023

Hey, uh, anybody who's into coding/modding characters into RoA or Smash...I have a bit of a thought exercise for you.

So, say I want to make this character, right? They have a slow command grab Neutral Special that's basically Thwack as a command grab...but this grab has a hard insta-KO percentage that's achieved with this method: if this character is selected at least once, the game will draw squares around each other fighter for a split-second, then calculate damage percentages based on the height and width of the hurtbox of each fighter. For Smash players, this means Pichu and Kirby will be instantly-killed the moment they get grappled while you need to put in the work to do so for Bowser & K. Rool. For you RoA players, characters like Ranno and Ori would be insta-KO'd at an earlier percentage than Etalus and Elliana.

The formula in question is as follows: [((H * W) - b) / 2] (H = Height, W = Width, b = Empty space inside the square in units)

In Smash, Kirby's hurtbox is 9 Units high and 10 Units wide (Units being one of the 100 squares in the 10x10 blocks on the Training stage), and there are 16 Units his hurtbox doesn't cover in the square drawn by the game, making him able to be instantly KO'd at 37%.

If you were to go for a better formula than what I have right now, or at least some tweaks to make the formula I have seem balanced, what would you do?

GolisoPower · Oct 6, 2023

You know, I don't know why Batman never had a cheesy Japan-exclusive tokusatsu show the same way Spider-Man did back then. Dude's literally DC Comic's own version of Kamen Rider and the Adam West show proved that a premise like that could work. Was Japan on a Marvel kick at that time and just skipped over DC back then?

GolisoPower · Sep 27, 2023

We anime fans all know the classic isekai plot, right? The main protagonist gets hit by a truck and dies, a goddess says "Wake up in a new world and slay the Demon King, and I'll grant you my blessing to aid you" and the protag thinks he's about to set out on the adventure with a party using magic and swords and the power of friendship and save this new world and its kingdoms from the Demon King. Well, imagine there was an anime that has that same set-up except...the protagonist was never isekai'd: he was just hospitalized for a few months, and the "goddess" who gave him her blessing was actually a drafting agent who recruited him for a highly-eccentric Fantasy-LARP'ing Yakuza clan at war with other neurotic fantasy-LARP'ing Yakuza clans, including the family of the "Demon King", who's actually just the criminal underground's #1 Most Wanted. The protag has to survive getting roped along in these gang battles against the "Demon Clan" and pretty much come to terms with the fact he got roped into a war with a bunch of violent if a bit energetic cosplayers who look like they just got plucked out of a D&D convention. The "spells" are just random **** they throw at one another like in South Park: The Stick of Truth. So the "Ray of Frost" spell is actually just them shooting liquid nitrogen out of a fire hose.

GolisoPower · Sep 14, 2023

Listening a little more to Wario's new voice in the WarioWare trailer and did they seriously get Steve Blum to voice Wario???

I mean seriously, I hear some shades of his Baraka performance when he talks.

GolisoPower · Sep 14, 2023

You know, it's extremely weird but kind of a good thing that Nintendo went from "oh no, don't make that Toad even a pixel different" in their Mario RPGs to "bring that diverse group of lovable weirdos back, we're remaking their games with everything intact". I wonder what changed at Nintendo and if that'll influence future original Mario RPG projects.

GolisoPower · Sep 5, 2023

There are times when invasive thoughts come to my head. Like, would we have been more successful with an Area 51 raid if instead of Naruto running we just used Tekken crouch dashing? As aerodynamically accurate as Naruto-running is, the problem is that the pose is static, it's easier for the guards to land a headshot. Crouch dashing, meanwhile, has similar speed while implementing rapid, jerky body movement, making it even more difficult to land a shot properly.

Besides, if you saw a group of thugs just Tekken crouch-dashing towards you, you'd probably be ****ing terrified about it.

GolisoPower · Aug 14, 2023

I think Tom & Jerry's premise of "too focused on hurting each other, everyone else in the crossfire is just collateral" in MultiVersus has a lot of potential as the gameplay concept for an entire beat-em-up game.

Like, sure you can attack enemies directly, but if you attack your friends any enemy that gets caught in the crossfire takes bonus damage. Big guy with an unbreakable shield you can't break by yourself? Just land a haymaker on a friend towards them and the shield's out of their hands. Crowd of mooks blocking your path? Throw a nearby ally straight at the crowd to disperse it. That kind of gameplay has as much potential for fun as it does comedy, you get me?

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