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Nice work!
Glad that ended quickly
Your avatar is a perfect representation of today's events. Got a source for it?
I can't believe that Banjo died in Endgame.
"I don't feel so good, g-guh huh..."
Rare: "I hope they'll remember you"
Thanos kills Geno to get the soul stone.
Hey, c'mon, spoiler tags are a thing.
Ah **** here we go again.
I love how in a span of 24 hours we went from:
I think the exact way it went down was that the source said he knew Banjo would be in at some point. But all the other characters confused him and he couldn't verify any of them. I believe PapaGeno was just saying he thought it was personally real.
I remember his source was also confused why incineroar wasn't there.
No I remember now. It was that video where he had a script and talked about how it was Banjo's inclusion that made him believe it, not necessarily that the Grinch Leak itself was right but that Banjo was in the game in some capacity.
Finally Forza Racer is getting into smash.
Where exactly would the games be displayed at? Is it like part of the selectable games on the xbox you can play? Also isn't this an older display since it still has the kinect?Get me off this ride Sakurai. Started with "Banjo is a goner" to "Banjo has a good chance"
Fan demand takes a lot and it takes a long time. Ridley took years and years of fan demand and K. Rool had to blast a large cannonball shaped hole in the ballot.
I'm aware which is why I made that statement. Seeing happen back in Brawl was ok I was new to the scene and there was a big gap between it and 4. 4 came and a lot of obvious inclusions were skipped not once but twice with DLC. That hurt but mostly it was able to be dealt with because there was always this separation between Nintendo and the fanbase that made the lack of fan characters we usually get tolerable and then we had the ballot happen which removed that barrier. And then Ultimate comes and looks to be this big celebration for fans. Sadly that wasn't the case and here we are at the DLC. Fan demand should matter a lot more than it does. Definitely more than getting two characters from a master list of what the world wants to see. It shouldn't be this hard for the community to see additions they want. And to see that happen to Banjo a character near and dear to my heart who belongs to a company they have to work with to get Steve will be just too much. The fact is as a community we shouldn't accept how little our voices matter but since the community will continue to do so and fan demand will continue to be such a small part in Smash I will no longer a see a reason to do this.
Erdrick is hip and mainstream in Japan.
We definitely got more than just 2 fan characters in Ultimate though. Not only did every single veteran return which is something many fans wanted, but Ridley, K Rool, Simon, Chrom and Inkling were all characters that a lot of fans wanted as well
Joker already puts that theory on thin ice as it's still a pretty niche series especially compared to the other third parties already in the game. And that's great every vets returning is a nice thing Sakurai did but that doesn't change how Sakurai is selecting newcomers.
Fixed it. Now I'm not saying Inkling wasn't popular but they weren't in the game for popularity. Even Sakurai didn't try to pass them off as a ballot pick. Chrom is here because Sakurai couldn't add real characters and he was able to be added quickly as a glorified costume. The Belmonts weren't picked on a ballot basis either, they had middling popularity during the ballot era. I'm sure they had enough support to justify it as a ballot pick but I have no doubt they are here because of Sakurai's love of the series and already negotiating with Konami for Snake. If he was actually going for a third party based on popularity it's highly doubtful Simon is who he would have landed on.
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When you compare the two. I think Ridley finally got in because Nintendo had a lot of plans for metroid behind the scenes when Smash Ultimate was being developed. Fan demand wasn't really enough. I think game plans is what pushed him over the edge of getting in.
Are we still pretending like Ultimate isn’t heavily based upon listening to the fans’ collective voices? Just because only two of six newcomers polled well on our super limited online fan polls does not mean that other characters did not get in because of fan demand. I’m not going to go through every part of it again, but considering how many cuts we were potentially facing in a Smash reboot, how many were brought back specially, and every character that got brought into Ultimate specially for fans, we’re looking at a good 20 that likely exist in this iteration due to fan demand.
