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Wario Wario Wario · Aug 11, 2021

It's weird to look back on how controversial a Smash pick Pac-Man once was. Of all the third parties who have ever gotten in Smash, Pac-Man is the only one there's literally no downsides to including on paper.

Sonic's reputation was taking a hit during Brawl's times (and even Melee's to a lesser extent)
Snake contrasts the world of Smash a little too much and has controversial themes to his games
Mega Man is only really popular in locations where the NES was popular
Ryu (and the other FGC characters) run the risk of being too technical
Cloud and Sephiroth could isolate the console war Ninty fanboys of the 90s
Bayonetta
Simon and Richter's ties to real religion and historic literature could be out of place
Joker comes from a highly controversial and arguably overexposed game with an extremely polarising tone and aesthetic
Hero has a weird history in localisation that would make it pretty hard for Smash-spawned Western fans to seek out earlier titles.
Banjo has a notoriously hungry yet picky fanbase who may expect any future Xbox Banio outings to get ported to Switch based on a Smash cameo
Steve could isolate older fans and has a creator with a history of very unkind remarks to say the least.

Wario Wario Wario · Aug 11, 2021

Smash speculation threads whenever ActiBlizz are up to their BS again

Wario Wario Wario · Aug 11, 2021

I don't get the "wife's boyfriend" meme - as in, I can't tell if the joke is that the subject of the meme is oblivious to the cheating in his household, or it's just a really poor taste polygamy joke.

Wario Wario Wario · Aug 10, 2021

Kid-friendly 90s synthesised pan flute is the greatest musical instrument ever created by humanity

Wario Wario Wario · Aug 10, 2021

The funny thing about Barnyard is that the franchise is generally really well-liked in every regard except for the movie - but because the movie was its debut, that's how a majority of people view it. Can you imagine if Toy Story was utter doodoo but the SNES game and Buzz Lightyear of Star Command show were considered top class by everyone who looked past the source material to experience them? It's so surreal

Wario Wario Wario · Aug 10, 2021

"if i asked gamers what they wanted they wouldve said faster pitfall harries" - henry nintendo, creator of the modern mario

Wario Wario Wario · Aug 10, 2021

Is it just me or is Google UK down?

Wario Wario Wario · Aug 10, 2021

We need to erase the narrative that collectathons are "objectively better" to linear 3D/corridor platformers

Wario Wario Wario · Aug 10, 2021

rename deku nuts to stun seeds - change dot org

Wario Wario Wario · Aug 10, 2021

90s game ads predicted SSBU trailers

Wario Wario Wario · Aug 10, 2021

One more news post and Powdered Toast Man will no longer be on the front page of SmashBoards. Sad reacts only.

Wario Wario Wario · Aug 10, 2021

While I enjoy the Sega cameos in Banana Mania, I personally would've made it the ultimate monkey crossover, the Smash Bros. of simians if you will. We'd have Donkey, Diddy, and Dixie; Magilla Gorilla; Boots; Curious George; Abu, King Louie and Rafiki; Mr. Teeny; Paul Frank; Mojo Jojo, I.R. Babboon and Dial M for Monkey - basically every fictional, stylised monkey you can name.

Wario Wario Wario · Aug 10, 2021

I just saw someone censor fire is "f*re"

What do they think is gonna happen? That arson supporters will find their comment?

Not like an arson supporter couldn't just search up "f*re" anyway.

Wario Wario Wario · Aug 10, 2021

don't kinkshame the crabs

Wario Wario Wario · Aug 10, 2021

The Rapper Mario leak was disconfirmed before we even dug it up. Why are people talking about this?

Wario Wario Wario · Aug 10, 2021

If Shredder's Revenge ends up being a hit, it'd be awesome for the devs to follow it up with a Bmup game based on a more comical Nick property like how Konami followed up TMNT with Simpsons. Such a game would probably be SpongeBob, but Rocko would be a great fit as you've got the light guy (Rocko), the heavy guy (Heffer) and the guy who's a little in between. (Filbert)

Though, if the Shredder's Revenge guys were to make another Nick game, let's be real, 20 pounds says it'd be Avatar

Wario Wario Wario · Aug 10, 2021

Pixar are the only animation studio who consistantly make good celebrity casting choices - well, other than Onward at least.

Wario Wario Wario · Aug 10, 2021

They really should've upped the durability on Minecraft World's blocks like... a lot. I generally play 4 minute battles with stage morph at the 2 minute mark, and usually most of a Minecraft World battle is spent on the bare battleground.

Wario Wario Wario · Aug 10, 2021

The hero timeline is breaking through into our reality.

The Plight of the Pirates:

Takeshi Shudo worked tirelessly to write the 3rd Pokemon movie. Not just for his (rich) company, but also for Japan's pirate underclass. If the movie failed, who'd buy their bootleg Pikachu dolls? Many would starve.

Full story: https://t.co/iSOIEWQW3m pic.twitter.com/EKqCk6Wlwl
— Reggie-800's Nintendo Secrets (@reggie_800) July 10, 2021

Wario Wario Wario · Aug 10, 2021

Nintendo made a duo of characters who drive a car as their job, have a significant enough size gap they could share a seat, are known speed freaks, love to explore surreal terrain, and have partaken in a drag race in canon - and they refuse to put them in their wacky kart racing game that takes place in the same universe?

Wario Wario Wario · Aug 10, 2021

I can understand why people want Pauline in Smash, even if she feels overwhelmingly like a New Release Bandwagon Pick, but I don't think it's really fair to say Pauline is some super important character just for appearing in the first instalment - especially for a series that has changed over the decades to the point of being unrecognisable. She's really no more important to Mario - if not less - than Koala Kong is to Crash.

Wario Wario Wario · Aug 10, 2021

I would happily trade Bowser's Fury for a Dream Friends-esque expanded character roster in SM3DW.

Wario Wario Wario · Aug 10, 2021

Wario Wario Wario · Aug 10, 2021

I'm fine with Nick Brawl having a 90s-dominant roster. The Nickelodeon brand (or at the very least its prescence in animation and, irrelevantly, game shows) is inherently tied to the 90s, and always will be - even long after the 90s kids have passed on. Of course more 2000s and even 2010s characters would be great (love me some Jimmy Nutrin) but it's not worth complaining about a "boomer roster" in a cartoon-focused game based on a brand adults know for cartoons and kids know for sitcoms.

Wario Wario Wario · Aug 10, 2021

If Illumination are really insistant on recasting Martinet like a lot of people say, they NEED to have Danny DeVito voice Wario if he's in the movie. They've already worked with Danny on the Lorax, they should be able to get him back for a character equally as iconic if not more so.

Wario Wario Wario · Aug 10, 2021

Cinematic Parallels

Wario Wario Wario · Aug 10, 2021

Byleth fans coming up with new theories as to what bizzaro alternate universes (that don't involve removing previous FE characters) would prevent their character from disappointing people.

Wario Wario Wario · Aug 10, 2021

Jellystone has exposed me to the fact a devoted Hanna Barbera fandom, most of them people who weren't even alive when HB closed in 2001, even exists - and that makes me really happy. HB cartoons and their slow-yet-frantic pace aren't my style, but I can't deny there's some great concepts in their shows, they were masters of character design, and the studio has a fascinating history.

As reluctant as I am to praise this series, or more specifically its creator, for anything after what happened earlier this year, I think FNAF really unleashed a positive Pandora's Box for the next generation when it comes to preservation. Scott did his research on the CEC and Showbiz lore, incorporated it into FNAF, and that encouraged the Zoomer age to research these previously niche topics and not only birth a new age for the Chuck E. and Rockafire fandoms, but also create a fascination about the past's entertainment as a whole that will benefit everybody.

Wario Wario Wario · Aug 10, 2021

Chris Chan, to me, is the perfect example of the consequences of retribution. Punish a perpetrator and you've created a victim, turn a perpetrator into a victim and you've given them an excuse, give a perpetrator an excuse and they'll only get worse - this can apply whether you're looking at Christine's side of the story or the trolls'. All things considered the trolls' actions aren't much different from the current day concept of law enforcement, even in its most socially acceptable forms - take a person and ruin their life for revenge giddyness, justifying it by shifting the talk to their actions and not yours. Christine's violent comic books and tales of Mary Lee Walsh also aren't too far off from how real crime TV shows will ignore the perpetrator's side of the story and act confrontational or threatening with no true intent of helping them change, just locking them behind bars.

Wario Wario Wario · Aug 10, 2021

Wario Wario Wario · Aug 10, 2021

I cannot tell if this expression embodies ecstacy or dread.

Wario Wario Wario · Aug 10, 2021

After seeing this image I am extremely relieved to find out Funko Pop Soda is not a beverage and just a silly packaging design.

Wario Wario Wario · Aug 10, 2021

The Blue Shell would unironically be an amazing Smash fighter - you don't even need to give it hammerspace: spikes and wings - while indeed traits other fighters have - are barely used in Smash fighters' movesets. Let it extend and merge its spikes, give it the ability to retract its wings, combine that with its known traits of locking on and exploding and you've got a perfect template right there.

Wario Wario Wario · Aug 10, 2021

A lot of Smash characters were added due to requests from their creators - I wonder what would happen if a game dev or CEO with connections to Sakurai (specifically one who isn't repped in Smash already) asked for a character they didn't create or own? Like if Toby Fox said "don't put in a Sans costume, put in a Kumatora costume instead" during his visit to Sakurai's for example. Would Sakurai/Nintendo try to persuade (or even blackmail) them into allowing their own character? Would they completely ignore the request? Would they openly say that the character/costume was chosen by that person when they get in?

Wario Wario Wario · Aug 9, 2021

Scrimblo Bimblo design I made for the SSBI thread.

Wario Wario Wario · Aug 9, 2021

Reminder that Smash needs a true Game Boy rep.

Wario Wario Wario · Aug 9, 2021

You've seen Mufasa Gaming

Now get ready for Ellie Gaming

Wario Wario Wario · Aug 9, 2021

Mario Tennis is literally the only Mario spin-off where Bullet Bill could logically be playable.

Wario Wario Wario · Aug 9, 2021

Splatoon is basically just "paintball mode: the game".

Wario Wario Wario · Aug 9, 2021

When a lot of people say "Sega fan" they tend to just mean "Sonic and one specific semi-obscure Dreamcast/Saturn-era IP" fan.

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