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You don't. The website usually does it by itself. Just look.
Reminds me of something I wrote on Discord all the way back.
Hooray! Banjo & Kazooie finally show up on a tournament picture!
Hence the post you quoted is:
We already have people calling knives swords, I think it's better if we refrain from adding shields to the mix.
I don't know what you're talking about. I never seen that image before. Probably someone made it in photoshop.
I guess you found out the truth then; Banjo and Kazooie are just photoshopped Little Mac
Both leaks were from 4chan so they're fake.
Joker was just one trailer man, invitations aren't real. Sora can't steal anyone's spot if he was meant to be included in the first place, same goes for any other character.
I don't see how Kratos is more violent than Bayonetta or Snake, he should be fine.
Uh... pardon?
I think he's talking about the rapper Mario leak, you know, the one that said Phoenix Wright and Waluigi are in.
Simon is a classic NES character, but he doesn’t feel like a case like “Oh, he is such a clearly much bigger character than Ridley, I’m shocked he wasn’t revealed at E3” and it feels like Ridley is iconic enough relative to the Belmont boys where it makes sense Ridley would be chosen for E3.
Roy and Lucas aren’t newcomers, which is something I’d specified and Cloud is not a “clearly much bigger character than Ryu” even though he is a huge icon in his own right. SF2 not only made Avengers Endgame level of money at the arcades but had a lot of cultural impact. See this, this, this, this and this. Ryu’s moves, Shoryuken, Hadoken and Tatsumaki Senpukyaku and Ryu himself codified the very image of a fighting game character. You can argue that Ryu ≈ Cloud in terms of how huge these characters are as icons and you might even have an argument that Ryu is more iconic than Cloud due to arcades, but not that Cloud >>> Ryu. I need to once again reiterate that I am not arguing that Cloud isn’t a huge icon, merely debating the idea he is “much bigger” than Ryu. So Cloud isn’t a pattern breaker.
Actually, we did get a third-party character at the end of Smash 4 DLC.
Yeah, it's because of 2 things, either it introduced someone to a character they liked after doing some research or they already liked the character but never considered them for Smash and then go "Oh **** that would be cool"
That makes sense. I think my mind works a little differently than most others because I tend to just stick with my personal favorites and I don’t really get influenced by that kind of thing, not that there’s anything wrong with that. I don’t think you’ll ever see another person bring up Zegram for Smash, for example. That said, I’m pretty open to most characters and may end up enjoying them a lot once they get in, even if I didn’t really care about them previously (like Terry and Kazuya).
Yes that was a very poor example on my part. Probably could be amended to “huge third party” to make it more in line with the whole theory on decreasing hype people have.
Yeah, you’re definitely right that it’s much closer than “One clearly is the bigger deal.”, though Cloud does have his Smash-specific popularity in his favor as he was a very popular request. Still, like you said, Ryu definitely has the credentials to make a case for himself so it isn’t baffling at all that he was chosen for the E3 spot. Even more when you count the ballot as a possible reason why Cloud is in Smash and that he wasn’t really on the table at the same time as Ryu.
You could also argue that Crash is a significantly bigger character than Kazuya as he was the PS1 mascot who has the advantage of always being the titular cover boy of his 50+ million copies franchise, whereas Kazuya isn’t as all-encompassing in terms of prominence and marketing sharing the spotlight with Heihachi and Jin. Kazuya even missed Tekken 3
Agreed. As much as I don't want Sora in the game (for obvious reasons), I would never make rude memes about it.
Smash Ultimate is on its last legs, saving the biggest characters for last 3 years later is a dumb business move because at the end of the day even the biggest character will only get Smash so far for a short period of time until the hype exhausts itself.
What if it’s true but neither Geno nor Doomguy are playable
I don't know if Sakurai would want to do another Roy situation, especially with a 3rd party.
Geno's a mii costume though. How would that even work?
Sorry, you accidentally slapped a bee, you are going the Dark path now
IF I GET THE GOOD ENDING, ITS THE HERO PATH!
mallow doesnt have to come with geno
Gasp NOT THE BEES!
Oh yeah, personally I don’t think it’s gonna be a huge third party character but that is again partially because only a handful of characters could qualify as such out of the hundred-plus viable characters for Smash in general. Plus, yeah E3 would‘ve been the way to go.
They are waiting until just after TGS is over to reveal the character, and besides the big dlc expansion for Monster Hunter Rise, SMT V is the big game at the event that caps the whole thing off on the 3rd(less than 2 days before the reveal).
