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I imagine if they went with a Blizzard rep, it would be either an Overwatch or Warcraft character. Warcraft is HUGE in Asia (but not Japan interestingly, moreso China and Korea). Starcraft could be an outside contender. Kerrigan/Queen of Blades seems like the most likely Starcraft character to pick. They have pro leagues for Starcraft in South Korea and I think Japan.
I just searched on a 4chan archive site using the ID number. That post never existed. Not even the number.
More like Big Mac.
Welp I guess we can stop talking about the leak now lol
I don't dismiss their merits, but given that Diablo is on Switch and they even gave it a bundle + amiibo, it seems evident that he could be a frontrunner alongside Tracer (as much as I don't care for Overwatch) in order to promote the game. Those two other franchises are more PC-centric I imagine.
True... however, I think Tracer would be first. Don't get me wrong, Diablo is perhaps my favorite Blizzard Franchise and I consider Diablo II to be in the top 10 all-time greatest games every made. However, I just don't see Diablo being a contender versus other Blizzard IP.
Getting Min Min right, with Sakurai's reasoning and consideration for Ninjara? Could be a "monkeys and typewriters" deal.
That does sound interesting.
I don’t necessarily think Tracer is the front runner of Blizzard anymore. It would have made a lot of sense if the character happened earlier on when Overwatch was still new on the Switch but I think enough time has passed that Blizzard might opt for one of their characters with a longer legacy. It’s pretty much the same argument why people thought Lloyd was more likely than Velvet despite her game being the most recent.
Kind of a dumb reasoning on my part but I do think Tracer would be easier to implement from a moveset potential vs. Diablo. I could be wrong as stated. Diablo, mechanically, would seem very hard to include in Smash especially considering how much Sakurai respects and tries to be faithful to the source material.
It has an online community that could rival Smash's in terms of toxicity /s
Both designs are great but I personally prefer the Diablo 3 design. I feel it is more unique looking where the original has a lot in common with Bowser. I also think Kerrigan and Arthas have a shot as well. I would say Illidan as well but he has too much in common with Kazuya to include both.
Does it have a good Single Player Campaign? For example, I love Halo series but they got great Single Player stories as well. I also didn't mind Star Wars Battlefront II from EA (the new one) because the Campaign was actually good. I think the original Battlefronts are better but I don't think it deserved the hate. Battlefront I (the new one) was trash though. Kind of confusing have two different Battlefronts I & II.
Unless they patched it in recently there is no campaign. It's a game that feels it was made solely to be an esport (in my opinion)
I’m pretty sure there is no single player campaign at all. That was the one thing that kept me from trying it.
Regarding Arthas, I think a human character might be passed over for an Orc. I think an Orc would be something unique to Smash. An awesome pick would be Gul'dan. Thrall could be another good pick.
Guess this means WFT and Inkling can’t be in a hypothetical All Girls tourney even if the female appearance is the default then
I always thought that the perfect OW rep for Smash would be D.Va.
You have to wait until Overwatch 2 before it gets a story mode. And even then, it will more than likely require you to play with other people since it's a Team game.
My number one most wanted is Illidan but I think an orc would be awesome as well. My favorite orc is Garrosh but I don’t know if he’d get in before Thrall.
No single player campaign but there is the Archives event around April with 3 coop story missions.
At least for Sephiroth and Kazuya it was because they were too late
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Well if you're good at FPS games and like cartoony enough art styles, I recommend the game in terms of that...
To be fair, Blizzard did port StarCraft to the N64 so it can be done. I’d love to see Hearhstone on the Switch.I think it is crazy that Blizzard characters are even in discussion (even if their chances are very, very slim). Blizzard was almost another dimension of gaming versus Nintendo when I was growing up.
It seemed like Console vs. PC game back then was about as different as Basketball was to Tennis. They had different fans, styles of play, etc.
The Blizzard RTS games seem to still be a hard fit on consoles but Diablo 3 plays amazingly on a console. I know prefer Diablo on console vs. PC. I wish they could port D1 and D2 to Switch
Great analysis.Well if you're good at FPS games and like cartoony enough art styles, I recommend the game in terms of that...
I don't know how it is now, but the last major time I've touched the game, there ahve been trolls and toxic payers invading COMPATITIVE matches.
Quick Matches are usually fine, so there's that
Lore is kinda neat
Each character has a lot of personality, and I commend Blizzard for that
One unfortunate note though:
According to this Famitsu column, Sakurai's been playing way more Apex than Overwatch, guess he isn't a huge fan of the game : /Sakurai all but deconfirms Overwatch’s Tracer coming to Smash Ultimate - Dexerto
Super Smash Bros creator Masahiro Sakurai may have completely dismissed the chance of an Overwatch hero coming to Ultimate as future DLC.www.dexerto.com
Anyways, Volbound, you asked how big it is..
whoo boy, where do I start
It's big for sure!
- 2016 GOTY, as voted on within Geoff Keighley's TGA.
- As of April 2021, the game has over 60 million players.
- Tracer can be considered one of the most iconic game characters of the 2010s era; she even featured in a 2018 movie called Ready Player One (Box Office: $175M)
- The game's Overwatch League helped it to become one of THE BIGGEST goddamn ESports games of the decade. Heck, to the point where you could watch - Overwatch League matches on TV channels like Disney XD and ESPN
- Game inspired some of gaming's biggest memes in the past decades, e.g. "I NEED HEALING" or that Living Tombstone song "No Mercy"
- Game has a super recognizable theme song, not many games have that honor imo
- It's Blizzard first new IP in a WHILE and one could argue that the franchise brought Blizzard back to glory
I could find more points, but these are the main ones imo
Now let's compare it to the other Blizzard franchises.
The entire Diablo franchise sold nearly 25M units according to WikiPedia. (Yep... OW outside the entire series, THOUGH for a while Diablo 2 was one of the best selling PC games ever!)
Even though it also has less players than OW dows, WoW is bigger than it:
"World of Warcraft was a major critical and commercial success upon its original release in 2004 and quickly became the most popular MMORPG of all-time, reaching a peak of 12 million subscribers in 2010. The game had over one hundred million registered accounts by 2014 and by 2017, had grossed over $9.23 billion in revenue, making it one of the highest-grossing video game franchises of all time. The game has been cited by gaming journalists as the greatest MMORPG of all-time and one of the greatest video games of all time and has also been noted for its long lifespan, continuing to receive developer support and expansion packs over 15 years since its initial release. In 2019, a vanilla version of the game titled World of Warcraft Classic was launched, allowing players to experience the base game before any of its expansions launched" - WikiPedia
Mind you that Warcraft also got a movie of its own
And finally, Starcraft...
Ok Starcraft triumphs for a bunch of reasons, but I'll only list THIS one which should be enough proof to you lol:
"By the end of 2017, the franchise's lifetime revenue totaled over $1 billion.[5] In addition, the series was awarded a star on the Walk of Game in 2006,[6] and holds four Guinness World Records in the Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition of 2008." - WikiPedia
So Tracer DOES have some competition regarding a playable Blizzard rep in Smash, but she'd still be a big deal regardless!
.Companies have definitely tried. Halo Wars is on Consoles. I think Command and Conquer took a stab at console gaming awhile back (I could be wrong here). Still, the controls mechanics fit a mouse and keyboard better than a controller and I think that is why RTS seemed to be mostly regulated to PCs.
You are so based
I made Sarah Kerrigan, Illidan Stormrage, and General Blizzard support threads as well if anyone is interested. I even came up with a pretty cool moveset for Kerrigan utilizing RTS mechanics. None of them really got any attention so that’s kind of sad.
