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I think you have a very good point. If Sakurai presents, then I think we're definitely going to be in for something big. It reminds me of how Sakurai wanted to hold back K Rool from the Donkey Kong franchise so that he could make the revival reveal himself. If Geno is going to make in into Smash, there's no way Sakurai wouldn't want to have the honor of revealing him personally.
I’m personally expecting the next announcement in the Fall around when BK are released in Oct/Nov just because there’s really not too big of a window between there and February when you think about it. I also think that the last character is going to be released in February and announced in December. Getting 2 at the same time would be cool but they gave themselves a big window for the FP release and I don’t see them releasing the final FP character before that stated endpoint considering how spaced out the character releases and announcements have been.
And I agree with this notion. It is crazy and maddening to think of a possibility of another announcement so soon after E3. Is it a possibility...maybe? We are in such a weird state with Geno. 3rd party with a 1st party history. Simliar to Banjo, but he was not the face of his franchise like Banjo is.
I think another character reveal only works if it’s an Echo, which would be clearly different from the stated content of the Fighter’s Pass and requires minimal work to develop... or another temporarily free fighter. Which seems super unlikely, especially for someone like Geno who is third party and costs money to license. I feel like that works best with first party content if they were ever going to do it and I really don’t expect to see a unique fighter outside the Pass until it’s concluded, if then.
Not disagreeing with you, but Sakurai did say this was the game the team had a surplus of time and money in.
I remember him saying this, but I do not remember. Do you have a link handy?
Frankly, I'm less and less motivated to post in this thread because I fear that any assessment I make of certain possibilities/circumstances that isn't "HE'S GONNA BE IN!" will be met with manipulative posts like these.
Epic burn from someone I've literally never seen in this thread before
Five DLC characters in the pass, six overall. Two have been released, another two have been revealed.
I don't think so, but maintenance for an unknown game (probably Smash) is coming on the 11th at 2:30 AM (Europe Time), hopefully something happens.
To my time that would be 7:30PM CST today....about the time Joker's video was dropped....Could it be time? Doubtful. But maybe....
Honestly, I getcha. I know I can be OVERLY pessimistic sometimes, but the reality is that Geno has some things for him and a lot of things against him right now, more against than for. I believe people should offer a dose of reality, too, because as much as I want him in, I can't get behind sticking my fingers in my ears about his chances. If people want to put others on ignore for that reason, sure, go for it, but they are just as valid in posting their opinion (negative or otherwise) as anyone else. I do NOT want that kind of conversation stifled myself. Being extremely pessimistic and sulking is one thing; giving a valid argument towards what may or may not help or hinder Geno's chances is another.
My comment on Nintendo not letting that fly was in regards to free DLC. They probably wouldn’t stop Sakurai from making DLC in any way, but I’m fairly certain they’ll want him to charge for characters in the game as much as possible. No more freebies when they cost so much money to develop and license in the first place.
Well, we’re two characters into DLC with a pretty consistent pattern of two and a half months between releases and Hero will be dropping pretty much any day now, so that’ll be two Fighter’s Pass, three DLC out. We’re perfectly on track for Feb 2020.
Don't worry about immediately getting the Hero downloaded. If history continues to repeat itself, the servers will take a dump for at least a day.
I had figured that is what you meant, just wanted to make sure. It would make sense to keep the ideas coming and have them on hold till the pass is done.
There is not a single character right now that has more going for them than against them.
I would argue Doom Slayer does.
Yeah, Doom Slayer, Crash Bandicoot, Lloyd Irving, a Resident Evil character like Chris, Jill, or Leon... A lot of really solid third party candidates have quite a bit going for them right with very few tangible negatives. Especially with the state of the Fighter's Pass and the focus on bigger name third parties. It's mostly just Nintendo characters that are suffering in terms of the more going against them than for them. Well, those, and the remaining fan favorites honestly that are currently in Spirit form.
You know the point of people sharing their unpopular opinion on Geno's chances isn't to win public opinion through attrition or something... it's usually just to, you know, share their opinion. I don't think any supporter relishes saying their character's odds don't look so hot, especially in this thread.
The hell do you mean pretend, man, you TOTALLY can, like. LOOK AT THAT.
I'm a pretty massive Doom fan and I haven't seen anything that makes me think Doomguy is more likely than any other 3rd party character. Pete Hines saying they have cool stuff in store for switch doesn't mean a Smash character and Sakurai acknowledging the existence of John Carmack doesn't make him a diehard Doom fan.
Um, Doom Slayer MIGHT have something going for him, but to my knowledge, there is no more "tangible" positives for the rest than there are negatives. The only pattern we've seen thus far with the FP is third parties, but that precedent only needs one exception to be made totally null. Granted, spirits have yet to show any kind of positive impact on a character's chances, but thus far, the only iron clad rule that Sakurai seems to obey is that Smash is exclusive to video game characters only. My point is, we don't have enough evidence yet to confirm or deny anyone, so let's not be too quick to bust out the bagpipes for Geno's funeral just yet.
Sakurai has never mentioned Doom by name. Just that he considers John Carmack "the father of FPS."
"Appearing on a Nintendo console" is not a basic criteria. That's an outdated rule that was mistranslated. It's a courtesy, not a criteria. At best, it's taken into account, but that's not what criteria even means. The way he words Cloud is it never crossed his mind to begin with and he just added him because he's goddamn Cloud and that was it.
For as crowded of a genre as FPS, I feel like that's an important distinction though, along with how I think it was the only non-Japanese developer he mentioned in that interview too.
