Official DLC Speculation Discussion Volume II

[Otoad64]

Question for you all. Who are your three personal choices for the final pass and what three characters would you be hyped for if they got in instead?

My three choices are:
2B
Tracer
Chun-li

The Three choices that would make me hyped if chosen:
Nero/Dante/Vergil (Really anyone from DMC)
Phoenix Wright
Isaac (From Golden Sun)

Honorable mention:
Viewtiful Joe

wants:
bandana dee
tails
toad

would still be hyped:
ashley
chibi robo
phoenix wright

Thanatos is getting added for Kid Icarus' 35th anniversary and Kamek will be added for Yoshi's Island 26th anniversary. You heard it here first.
Anyway, I felt like making my own selection of 100 first-party characters.

Spoiler: I'm not letting someone have an opinion again

Yeah, a lot of the characters were also in that list but Pokemon and Fire Emblem needed to be there.

didn't realize thanos was a kid icarus character

i'm gonna make my own as well

Spoiler: that'sa lotta characters!

honestly there are so many 100 was more of a restriction

edit: just realized I completely forgot about no gen 1 pokemon lol
but I would throw in sceptile, scizor, zoroark etc.

 

[RoboFist]

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I know I'm late to this, but...how does this keep happening? Do I have a gross misunderstanding of how multimedia companies handle their own media? Wouldn't they just...go to their "Renders" folder, click "Mario", and choose from a vast library of images?

Because now I'm imagining a graphic designer employed by Nintendo needing an image of the most popular video game character in history and...copy/pasting from Reddit?

Someone more successful than me, please explain like I'm in the age group GameFreak keeps making games for, because I straight up don't get how this can happen.

 

[Rie Sonomura]

I know I'm late to this, but...how does this keep happening? Do I have a gross misunderstanding of how multimedia companies handle their own media? Wouldn't they just...go to their "Renders" folder, click "Mario", and choose from a vast library of images?

Because now I'm imagining a graphic designer employed by Nintendo needing an image of the most popular video game character in history and...copy/pasting from Reddit?

Someone more successful than me, please explain like I'm in the age group GameFreak keeps making games for, because I straight up don't get how this can happen.

i mean seeing as how they accidentally used a fan edit sprite for the Masked Man spirit before editing it out in a patch...

 

[LiveStudioAudience]

Question for you all. Who are your three personal choices for the final pass and what three characters would you be hyped for if they got in instead?

Personal Choice:
1. Crash Bandicoot
2, Amaterasu
3. Dixie Kong

Still Hyped:
1. Dante
2. Habayusa
3. Lloyd

 

[Otoad64]

I know I'm late to this, but...how does this keep happening? Do I have a gross misunderstanding of how multimedia companies handle their own media? Wouldn't they just...go to their "Renders" folder, click "Mario", and choose from a vast library of images?

Because now I'm imagining a graphic designer employed by Nintendo needing an image of the most popular video game character in history and...copy/pasting from Reddit?

Someone more successful than me, please explain like I'm in the age group GameFreak keeps making games for, because I straight up don't get how this can happen.

whoever designed that probably just googled "mario" and didn't bother to check if it was official

 

[SharkLord]

I mean, its good to use to speculate on possible characters reveals. I think it warrants to put some, never all, stock into some

The majority of the time anniversaries don't turn up with anything, though. It's kinda awkward to keep up with every single anniversary out there. That's why I emphasize that the Tales 25th Anniversary Event Theory is based on the livestream and not the actual date; Seeing as Steve's reveal and overview were timed to be around MineCon, perhaps a Tales rep could have something similar. There's also the fact that Amiibo Theory dictates that the next fighter is probably gonna release around March anyways, so there's more going for it than just "Whoa, anniversary!" or "Whoa, specific special event!"

 

[Lyncario]

I know I'm late to this, but...how does this keep happening? Do I have a gross misunderstanding of how multimedia companies handle their own media? Wouldn't they just...go to their "Renders" folder, click "Mario", and choose from a vast library of images?

Because now I'm imagining a graphic designer employed by Nintendo needing an image of the most popular video game character in history and...copy/pasting from Reddit?

Someone more successful than me, please explain like I'm in the age group GameFreak keeps making games for, because I straight up don't get how this can happen.

I'm studying in coding, and considering how html and CSS are a bit annoying to code (that can also be extanded to coding in general), I'm pretty sure that the person googled "hd mario render" or "mario render", and I got the fan made render first. Considering how it looks so official (to the point where it's the second result I got for "official mario render"), I'm not suprised the guy who coded the site made a mistake.

 

[ShrimpScampi]

All this talk about anniversaries but everyone's forgetting the only one that matters:

Spoiler

Bejeweled gems confirmed as challenger pack 10 releasing in May let's goooooooooooo

Question for you all. Who are your three personal choices for the final pass and what three characters would you be hyped for if they got in instead?

My three personal choices for the final pass would be:
- Phoenix Wright
- Estelle Bright
- A Tales character

For three of the characters I'd be hyped for if they got in instead, I'll exclude any of the characters in my signature.
- Professor Layton
- Adol Christin
- Sora

There are obviously more characters I'd be hyped for, but I picked these three because they fill similar spots to the previous three.

 

[GothicSlenderman]

Question for you all. Who are your three personal choices for the final pass and what three characters would you be hyped for if they got in instead?

My three choices are:
2B
Tracer
Chun-li

The Three choices that would make me hyped if chosen:
Nero/Dante/Vergil (Really anyone from DMC)
Phoenix Wright
Isaac (From Golden Sun)

Honorable mention:
Viewtiful Joe

Choices:
-Sora
-Crash
-Ahri

Hype:
-Guilty Gear rep
-King Boo
-Any weird or extremely unexpected fighter. (Something like Angry Birds or Earthworm Jim just cause I like the idea of more out-of-box characters making it to Smash)

 

[SharkLord]

Active Wants

• Adol Christin
• Reimu Hakurei
• Klonoa

Still Hype

• Lloyd Irving
• Dante
• Sakura Shinguji

 

[ahemtoday]

All this talk about anniversaries but everyone's forgetting the only one that matters:

Bejeweled gems confirmed as challenger pack 10 releasing in May let's goooooooooooo

Man, now you've gotten me wanting a PopCap character in Smash.

Oh, right, Plants vs. Zombies was a PopCap thing, wasn't it? I guess that'd count, but I was thinking more, like... Lex from Bookworm.

 

[Rie Sonomura]

Active wants

• Elma
• KOS-MOS
• Neku (I doubt SE would double dip but eh)

Still hype

• Octoling
• Ahri
• Reimu

 

[CommanderZaktan]

We're in the new year and Fighters Pass is halfway done. And we have 2 leaks that could be potential from 2 different sites. Which one is most likely real?

Team 4chan:

Spoiler

"Rayman, Doomslayer, and Hayabusa"

or Team 5ch:

Spoiler

"Reimu, Crash, and KOS-MOS"

 

[Commander_Alph]

Question for you all. Who are your three personal choices for the final pass and what three characters would you be hyped for if they got in instead?

My three choices are:
2B
Tracer
Chun-li

The Three choices that would make me hyped if chosen:
Nero/Dante/Vergil (Really anyone from DMC)
Phoenix Wright
Isaac (From Golden Sun)

Honorable mention:
Viewtiful Joe

Choices:

Reimu Hakurei
Zhao Yun
Agumon




Hype:

Pretty much any character, even the ones I hate.

 

[Swamp Sensei]

We're in the new year and Fighters Pass is halfway done. And we have 2 leaks that could be potential from 2 different sites. Which one is most likely real?

Team 4chan:
or Team 5ch:

Honestly. Probably neither.

 

[SKX31]

Anniversaries might make things TOO predictable. It'd also make discussion here a nightmare. As every popular franchise's anniversary came closer it'd be "X CONFIRMED!" XD

One positive is that franchises that get very-little-to-no discussions would get some when anniversaries get close...

-- But on the other hand, it's not just what you said but also the fact that FP's very limited number (5 character reveals in ca. 13 months for FP1, presumably 6 character reveals in 18 / 21 months in FP2 whether one counts the ARMS teaser or not) would neccessarily skip a lot of anniversaries.

Question for you all. Who are your three personal choices for the final pass and what three characters would you be hyped for if they got in instead?

My three choices are:
2B
Tracer
Chun-li

The Three choices that would make me hyped if chosen:
Nero/Dante/Vergil (Really anyone from DMC)
Phoenix Wright
Isaac (From Golden Sun)

Honorable mention:
Viewtiful Joe

Okay, personal choices? Hmm...

1. I do support Master Chief primarily because I want to see console barriers shattered, and because the gunplay could be interesting / fun.

2. KOS-MOS is mostly due to gameplay potential as well - I mean, any character that can blow people up in various different ways is an automatic "10 / 10 would play again". This is why I stopped worrying and learned to love Magic Burst and Kamikaze.

3. But wait, I have three games mentioned in my sig! Really?! Really. The link ("LAKAD MATATAG! NORMALIN NORMALIN!") is a memetic caster call from a professional Dota 2 game - when the Tagalog (Phillipine language) casters were going bonkers over a sudden reversal of fortune and a hectic closure to a pro match. As such, yeah my most wanted's a Dota 2 character, even as that game has several major obstacles in its hypotheoretical path. Again, that game has a lot of characters that can blow people up near-instantly with little warning.

Asd for Hype... Practically any character developed in good faith (and I trust Sakurai implicitedly on this), but three in particular:

Reimu
Kratos
LoL. Partly because it's got a lot of moveset potential amongst its own characters - as well as interesting characters in their own right.

whoever designed that probably just googled "mario" and didn't bother to check if it was official

Pretty much, there might not have been that much oversight or any real double checking either. Could be time constraints or whatever.

 

[SharkLord]

We're in the new year and Fighters Pass is halfway done. And we have 2 leaks that could be potential from 2 different sites. Which one is most likely real?

Team 4chan:
or Team 5ch:
Edit: hey the spoiler tags aren't working

Probably neither. Right now the only leak I trust is the other 5chan leak, and even then that one could lead nowhere; It's just negotiations that didn't go anywhere, not a leak for an actual fighter

 

[Commander_Alph]

We're in the new year and Fighters Pass is halfway done. And we have 2 leaks that could be potential from 2 different sites. Which one is most likely real?

Team 4chan:

Spoiler

"Rayman, Doomslayer, and Hayabusa"

or Team 5ch:

Spoiler

"Reimu, Crash, and KOS-MOS"

I choose neither but, if I have to.. you know I gotta pick the 5ch leak because of my bias and we already seen 4ch leak too often

 

[ShrimpScampi]

Man, now you've gotten me wanting a PopCap character in Smash.

Oh, right, Plants vs. Zombies was a PopCap thing, wasn't it? I guess that'd count, but I was thinking more, like... Lex from Bookworm.

Oh yeah, Plants vs. Zombies is PopCap. I never really played it though, so I guess I didn't make the connection. Lex would be neat, I played a ton of Bookworm growing up and still come back to it along with Bejeweled when I need a game to just relax with. (I still remember that the highest-scoring word I ever got in Bookworm was the name of an STD.)

 

[Commander_Alph]

Man, now you've gotten me wanting a PopCap character in Smash.

Oh, right, Plants vs. Zombies was a PopCap thing, wasn't it? I guess that'd count, but I was thinking more, like... Lex from Bookworm.

Speaking of PopCap..

Zuma Frog For Smash!

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[chocolatejr9]

Speaking of PopCap..

Zuma Frog For Smash!

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That looks like the Pogchamp face...

 

[RouffWestie]

That looks like the Pogchamp face...

We call him frogchamp wait I think that’s already an emote, dang it

 

[Rie Sonomura]

That looks like the Pogchamp face...

We call him frogchamp wait I think that’s already an emote, dang it

this already aged poorly considering whats going on at twitch...

 

[ARandomFruit]

Man, now you've gotten me wanting a PopCap character in Smash.

Oh, right, Plants vs. Zombies was a PopCap thing, wasn't it? I guess that'd count, but I was thinking more, like... Lex from Bookworm.

You are forgetting the obvious best choice for a PopCap rep.
A Peggle rep.

If you thought Amaterasu was gonna be the next rep to be on 4 legs you were wrong.
Bjorn for Smash.

 

[chocolatejr9]

this already aged poorly considering whats going on at twitch...

Oh yeah...

So much for 2021 being better than 2020. I'll admit, Caillou finally ending gave me false hope.

 

[Perkilator]

Active wants:

1. Sora
2. Crash Bandicoot
3. Sakura Shinguji

Still hype:

1. Dante
2. Ryu Hayabusa
3. Any Xenoblade character

 

[SpectreJordan]

Active Wants:

• Master Chief
• Dante
• Crash

Still Hype:

• Mipha
• Rayman
• Gordon Freeman

I decided to go with characters who I don’t actively support for the ‘Still Hype’ category. Would’ve been easy just to do my 4/5/6 since I want a lot of characters lol

 

[SMAASH! Puppy]

Zuma Frog For Smash!

Hoo boy that game...

If you thought Amaterasu was gonna be the next rep to be on 4 legs you were wrong.
Bjorn for Smash.

Even if no Bjorn we're probably still wrong.

 

[SharkLord]

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Heads up, KOF XV is getting revealed in 11 minutes

 

[Perkilator]

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Heads up, KOF XV is getting revealed in 11 minutes

Oh? I knew it was going to be at a later date, but not this early for a later date.

 

[chocolatejr9]

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Heads up, KOF XV is getting revealed in 11 minutes

C'mon, King of Dinosaurs! Show them who's boss!

 

[Deleted member]

We're in the new year and Fighters Pass is halfway done. And we have 2 leaks that could be potential from 2 different sites. Which one is most likely real?

Team 4chan:

Spoiler

"Rayman, Doomslayer, and Hayabusa"

or Team 5ch:

Spoiler

"Reimu, Crash, and KOS-MOS"

I want 5ch to be real.

I believe both are fake.

Late February, the next character revealed will disprove both leaks, we just have to be patient and wait for it.

 

[Faso115]

Both leaks are wrong because we are getting byleth in a swimsuit

 

[blackghost]

• Hero was revealed a few weeks after Dragon Quest's anniversary, and released one day after XI's anniversary.
• Banjo was also revealed in the same month as his game's anniversary.
• Terry was released on the same month as Fatal Fury's anniversary.
• Min Min was reveal and released in the same month as ARMS's anniversary.
• Steve was reveal and released around Minecon, the presentation was just before Minecon started.

and yet people here acted like the devil may cry anniversary meant nothing when he was expected instead of byleth. aww double standards they are so much fun

 

[Firox]

We have a mage character, it's called Robin.

I'd sort of count Hero as a mage too. He's got even more magic options than Robin does.

 

[SNEKeater]

and yet people here acted like the devil may cry anniversary meant nothing when he was expected instead of byleth. aww double standards they are so much fun

But there was no DMC anniversary back when Byleth was revealed.

Some people foolishly thought it was Dante because the same day as CP5 was going to be announced Capcom was going to share news about the exclusive features for DMC3 Switch version (which is still Switch exclusive, by the way). In fact I think Capcom announced their thing first and then Nintendo announced "we're going to announce the next DLC this day". Then people started hyping themselves and the rest is well... we know how it ended.

The thing is, there was not any actual evidence for thinking Dante was the next character, beyond both things being the same day.

 

[cashregister9]

I still maintain that none of the Rumors we've been discussing are real. not even the Chun-Li one.

 

[SharkLord]

I still maintain that none of the Rumors we've been discussing are real. not even the Chun-Li one.

And that one wasn't even focusing on Chun-Li in the first place. Apparently Lloyd, Yuri, Erdrick and Steve no longer exist.

 

[CureParfait]

Question for you all. Who are your three personal choices for the final pass and what three characters would you be hyped for if they got in instead?

Three personal choices-
1. Darkrai (Pokemon)
2. Thief (MapleStory)
3. Berserker (Dungeon Fighter)

Would be hyped
1. Waluigi (Mario Series)
2. Reimu (Touhou)
3. Ragna (Blazblue)

 

[Schnee117]

But there was no DMC anniversary back when Byleth was revealed.

Some people foolishly thought it was Dante because the same day as CP5 was going to be announced Capcom was going to share news about the exclusive features for DMC3 Switch version (which is still Switch exclusive, by the way). In fact I think Capcom announced their thing first and then Nintendo announced "we're going to announce the next DLC this day". Then people started hyping themselves and the rest is well... we know how it ended.

The thing is, there was not any actual evidence for thinking Dante was the next character, beyond both things being the same day.

It didn't help that certain clowns were peddling stuff that V's voice actor said and took it out of context because "oh this lines up with what I heard"