Guess I'll post again now that there's discussion about more DLC characters.
Really happy about Banjo joining in the end. They really did him justice in terms of moves, animations and all that stuff, which is amazing. Really brings back the good Banjo times...
Pre-game-release I at first I didn't wanna put Banjo in my top 10 most wanted, because he isn't how he was before (he kinda lost his spirit to me - N&B is .. nothing, RARE doesn't even have all the old and most important people anymore... the Banjo I knew basically died, more or less) and I wasn't sure how he'd even turn out. Without these thoughts he'd definitely been in the list.
So overall I'm happy about the new characters I got that I wanted (K. Rool and Banjo). I just wanted at least one of the chars I wanted, and I got K. Rool, so that's something to be happy about, after getting nothing in Smash4.
Now that I have 2 chars I wanted I can be happy. Not even have to regret the Fighters Pass anymore since at least one char I wanted is in it.
But still, Dixie is one of the last few characters (and most wanted that's still missing) that I still want in the game.
Sadly I feel like 3rd parties could still end up taking most, if not all, of the additional slots. Sakurai wants to combine even more worlds... great. I miss the times when Smash was about Nintendo characters.
Give me Dixie, Waluigi, Geno, Bandana Dee, one of the gen8 Pokemon and even Bayleth from FE. Idc, but any of these would make me so much more happy than any other 3rd party (who I mostly don't know or care about). The chars get less cartoony every time and in the end it'll feel like everyone's just some realistic military/shooter/fighter guy...
Anyway, Dixie was my 2nd-or-3rd (was kinda tied with K. Rool) most wanted since Smash4, and is now my most wanted of the realistic choices (I'm a huge Sonic fan, so Knuckles is always my #1, but he's very unrealistic, even less when Tails and him got their Mii outfits).
Would be so amazing to "finish" the DK lineup like that. Maybe she could also be a good character competitively (since the other 3 DK chars aren't good enough/suck now).
Well, it's gonna stay interesting in what we'll get in the future, but some hope is still there, I guess.
Also I really want them to announce a new DK game. I'm waiting for that each Nintendo Direct... combine with a Dixie release, maybe, but who knows which direction(s) they wanna go.
Realistically I'm expecting another 5 (for now?), with at least 3 third parties again, and 1 or 2 Nintendo chars.
I could see them bringing Waluigi in the end. Maybe another Pokemon or FE char. They could bring more too, but since Sakurai said he wants to expand the worlds that come together (so all the companies/their franchises), it seems they're just trying to include all the big franchises from 3rd parties to complete the whole video game world in this game as much as possible (Sora for example seems super likely to me now).
Hoping for the best, though. Maybe they can surprise me with any character that I still care about (don't care about any 3rd parties (except Sonic chars, which I'm not expecting)).
Chars I still want for this game (without Sonic chars):
#1 Dixie
#2 Waluigi
Dixie gets more and more chances, but she seems to fall off more and more in peoples wishlists. Everyone just seems to want 3rd parties now.
Dixie coming with another beautiful DK stage and a few more tracks would be amazing. A Bramble Blast stage would be too beautiful... (then again any new DK stage would be absolutely amazing, as long as it's an area from one of the games - most DKC2 stages would be amazing. TF levels can also be great, but a bit less iconic/nostalgic to me).