Character Discussion Thread

[PushDustIn]

As you're responding to me, should I take that as indication that you will help clarify this?

Yeah, here's a quick summary without giving too much away:
it has a bit more why Little Mac was chosen, challenges with coming up with a moveset, description of the moveset, and some information about character choices in general (though mostly a review if you've been paying attention to the other character articles we translated). The Looking Back part is about the promotional picture.

 

[Spazzy_D]

Robin x Robin is so I don't see why not by this point.

I'd be intimate with an alternate universe gender swapped version of myself.

...anyway, something, something, Zelda DLC.

 

[Pakky]

I'd be intimate with an alternate universe gender swapped version of myself.

...anyway, something, something, Zelda DLC.

I would to but she better not choose my main in Smash..



So Anyway


I having been playing Shantae, the pirate's curse one, and well yeah, she'd be great for smash. The question is, do I personally want her over anyone else? Well, no. I love her, but fanboy stuff aside, Rayman makes more sense, as well as Snake. I don't need to discuss Rool, or Wolf.

 

[Diddy Kong]

I'd be intimate with an alternate universe gender swapped version of myself.

...anyway, something, something, Zelda DLC.

Samurai needs to give us Impa.

 

[Spazzy_D]

I would to but she better not choose my main in Smash..


So Anyway

I having been playing Shantae, the pirate's curse one, and well yeah, she'd be great for smash. The question is, do I personally want her over anyone else? Well, no. I love her, but fanboy stuff aside, Rayman makes more sense, as well as Snake. I don't need to discuss Rool, or Wolf.

Nintendo should just buy Wayforward, that way we wouldn't need to have this discussion.

 

[Kenith]

Everytime someone mentions Vaati and Ghirahim in the same sentence, I remember this:

Ugh. Starbomb is so distasteful.

 

[Pakky]

Nintendo should just buy Wayforward, that way we wouldn't need to have this discussion.

Well yeah that would help because the girl from mighty switch force wouldn't be a bad assist trophy or character either.

 

[Cutie Gwen]

Ugh. Starbomb is so distasteful.

I liked most of their first album, but then I grew a distaste to the second album

 

[Kenith]

I liked most of their first album, but then I grew a distaste to the second album

I was unimpressed by every single Starbomb song I ever listened to. Many of them I was actually offended by.

 

[Pakky]

I was unimpressed by every single Starbomb song I ever listened to. Many of them I was actually offended by.

That's because Ego sounds like a dying mule in heat.

 

[Spazzy_D]

Well yeah that would help because the girl from mighty switch force wouldn't be a bad assist trophy or character either.

Patty Wagon IS pretty great.

Other Wayforward heroines:

Luna from Mighty Milky Way:

Alta from Mighty Flip Champs!:

 

[Kenith]

Nintendo should just buy Wayforward, that way we wouldn't need to have this discussion.

Yeah, they're a small indie dev and they make content almost exclusively for Nintendo and are very loyal to them, so it seems like a good decision. Not one that Nintendo has any interest in, I'm sure, though.

That's because Ego sounds like a dying mule in heat.

No, it is because Starbomb lyrics universally sound as though they were written by middle-schoolers.
The music itself is not really that offensive to me...but hearing their lyrics just make me go "seriously"?

 

[Pakky]

Patty Wagon IS pretty great.

Other Wayforward heroines:

Luna from Mighty Milky Way:

Alta from Mighty Flip Champs!:

Luna is adorable. Man we can never have nice things. Then again this smash does have one of the best rosters of any fighting game ever so I can't complain.

 

[Spazzy_D]

Clearly the best Wayforward rep is:

There's some old school cred for you. I'm actually not sure who owns this franchise, although I would imagine it's currently Majesco as they published the Wii game.

 

[Sir Gengar de Èctoplasma]

Clearly the best Wayforward rep is:

There's some old school cred for you. I'm actually not sure who owns this franchise, although I would imagine it's currently Majesco as they published the Wii game.

Agreed, although the original Boy and his Blob for NES was a really bad game.

 

[Spazzy_D]

Agreed, although the original Boy and his Blob for NES was a really bad game.

A bad CLASSIC GAME. It was... interesting at least. It was very much a strategy platformer in the days before that genre took off, and it was fairly well known during the NES era as well.

It was always clunky mechanically and has not aged well at all. The Wii game is an under appreciated gem, though.
The game has a freaking "hug blob" button. It is the antithesis of everything that is wrong with modern gaming.

 

[Cutie Gwen]

I was unimpressed by every single Starbomb song I ever listened to. Many of them I was actually offended by.

Again I liked it at first, but, just like witg the actual grumps, they went **** quickly. Hated their Kirby song

 

[Kenith]

A bad CLASSIC GAME. It was... interesting at least. It was very much a strategy platformer in the days before that genre took off, and it was fairly well known during the NES era as well.
It was always clunky mechanically and has not aged well at all. The Wii game is an under appreciated gem, though.
The game has a freaking "hug blob" button. It is the antithesis of everything that is wrong with modern gaming.

You have repeated the same phrase in two completely different posts regarding this game. Assuming this is for emphasis, does A Boy and his Blob for the Wii truly shame modern games that horribly?

 

[Pakky]

A bad CLASSIC GAME. It was... interesting at least. It was very much a strategy platformer in the days before that genre took off, and it was fairly well known during the NES era as well.

It was always clunky mechanically and has not aged well at all. The Wii game is an under appreciated gem, though.
The game has a freaking "hug blob" button. It is the antithesis of everything that is wrong with modern gaming.

The great thing about Smash is that it will never run out of new additions.

 

[Spazzy_D]

You have repeated the same phrase in two completely different posts regarding this game. Assuming this is for emphasis, does A Boy and his Blob for the Wii truly shame modern games that horribly?

It's just a simple, nice game. You can hug your pet blob. The indie gaming scene has really come into it's own since this games release, so we have a lot of colorful and imaginative games out there, but when this game came out so many of the games on competing systems were dude bro shooters in various shades of brown.

I don't know, maybe it's just me, but this game felt very refreshing and it just oozed charm.

 

[Kenith]

It's just a simple, nice game. You can hug your pet blob. The indie gaming scene has really come into it's own since this games release, so we have a lot of colorful and imaginative games out there, but when this game came out so many of the games on competing systems were dude bro shooters in various shades of brown.
I don't know, maybe it's just me, but this game felt very refreshing and it just oozed charm.

...I see. I remember that the game was praised for having a practically useless but incredibly endearing feature.
And honestly, many of the games ON the Wii were also dude bro shooters. That seems to be partially going away though, which isn't really good news considering it's been replaced by a million other problems.

 

[Deleted member]

Nintendo should just buy Wayforward, that way we wouldn't need to have this discussion.

And Next Level Games.
And Game Freak.
And Platinum Games.
And Capcom.

 

[Kenith]

I honestly don't trust Nintendo with the entirety of Capcom. Too many IPs that could go to waste, and too many that would probably stay that way.
The only thing I could see an acquisition good for is Mega Man.

 

[Cutie Gwen]

I honestly don't trust Nintendo with the entirety of Capcom. Too many IPs that could go to waste, and too many that would probably stay that way.
The only thing I could see an acquisition good for is Mega Man.

I'd argue Viewtiful Joe would be good

 

[StormC]

How about we let Nintendo fix their internal problems first before buying half of the industry's intellectual properties.

 

[Spazzy_D]

How about we let Nintendo fix their internal problems first before buying half of the industry's intellectual properties.

I would agree except for the fact that a big portion of their issues could be solved by investing in Western Dev studios.

 

[Kenith]

I'd argue Viewtiful Joe would be good

My point is, people clamour for Nintendo's acquisition of Capcom simply because they think it will mean their favorite series will get revived.
This is not necessarily the case. Especially if the series in question isn't Mega Man. The most I could see Viewtiful Joe getting is a port of his existing games onto the Virtual Console.

 

[Zzuxon]

I honestly don't trust Nintendo with the entirety of Capcom. Too many IPs that could go to waste, and too many that would probably stay that way.
The only thing I could see an acquisition good for is Mega Man.

I agree that Nintendo shouldn't buy all of capcom.
They should buy Mega Man, Phoenix Wright, and maybe Ghosts n Goblins.

 

[Pakky]

And Next Level Games.
And Game Freak.
And Platinum Games.
And Capcom.

What? They own Game Freak.

 

[Deleted member]

What? They own Game Freak.

Nope, they're 'second party', like NLG.

Remember Tumbo the Badass Elephant ?

 

[Kenith]

I agree that Nintendo shouldn't buy all of capcom.
They should buy Mega Man, Phoenix Wright, and maybe Ghosts n Goblins.

Ah, if only it were plausible that Nintendo could cherry-pick Capcom's ripe IPs like this...
As unlikely as that scenario may be, however, I'd be all for it. I would argue that all of those franchises, especially Mega Man, have made Nintendo their true home. Of course, I'd also say Viewtiful Joe and Okami should be acquired in the event Nintendo picks Capcom IPs to take...whether they get used again is another story...

 

[Arcanir]

I agree that Nintendo shouldn't buy all of capcom.
They should buy Mega Man, Phoenix Wright, and maybe Ghosts n Goblins.

Add in Monster Hunter and Okami and you got a deal.

What? They own Game Freak.

They don't, that's one of the reasons why Pokémon is so difficult to work with as it's split between them, The Pokémon Company and Nintendo.

Edit: Greninja'd

 

[A Distant Demon]

What? They own Game Freak.

Then why isnt this coming to a nintendo console?

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[Spazzy_D]

I just want Nintendo to buy the Hudson Soft IPs. Really, I just want NOT KONAMI to buy Hudson Soft at this point.

 

[DustyPumpkin]

Clearly the best Wayforward rep is:

There's some old school cred for you. I'm actually not sure who owns this franchise, although I would imagine it's currently Majesco as they published the Wii game.

Oh my gosh I remember this it was the most adorable thing, there was a hug button and everything

 

[Roaring Salsa]

Megaman
Ace Attorney
Viewtiful Joe
Okami
Monster Hunter
Ghosts n Goblins
Zack & Wiki
Ghost Trick

These series are probably the only ones Nintendo should get from Capcom (sadly, I doubt the last two will ever get a sequel)

While I would love to see Frank West in Smash, Dead Rising doesn't really fit with Nintendo

 

[Pakky]

Megaman
Ace Attorney
Viewtiful Joe
Okami
Monster Hunter
Ghosts n Goblins
Zack & Wiki
Ghost Trick

These series are probably the only ones Nintendo should get from Capcom (sadly, I doubt the last two will ever get a sequel)

While I would love to see Frank West in Smash, Dead Rising doesn't really fit with Nintendo

between RE and DR, DR is better because it's so silly.

 

[Kenith]

between RE and DR, DR is better because it's so silly.

Dead Rising is silly but you forget that Resident Evil has always been intentionally similar to a B-movie plot.

 

[Pakky]

Okay this might be dismissed by the lot of you but if say Smash 4 had a mode similar to Subspace and all the characters on the roster including the presumed ones from the ballot had a role, what role do you think each character would play in the plot?

To makes things a little more structured let's say Master core was the antagonist, and the enemies and bosses present and both Brawl and Smash4 were bosses. However let's replace the subspace enemies with the ones present in smash run if that is ideal.

 

[Roaring Salsa]

Okay this might be dismissed by the lot of you but if say Smash 4 had a mode similar to Subspace and all the characters on the roster including the presumed ones from the ballot had a role, what role do you think each character would play in the plot?

To makes things a little more structured let's say Master core was the antagonist, and the enemies and bosses present and both Brawl and Smash4 were bosses. However let's replace the subspace enemies with the ones present in smash run if that is ideal.

Would it be a sequel to the Subspace Emissary or a reimagining?

If it's a sequel R.O.B. would probably try to find a way to revive his clan and fix his mistakes.