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It could happen. I just feel if The Hero drops, he is going to be apart of a (theoretical) 4.0.0 drop as well. If that happens, then a Smash direct after EVO would not make sense any longer. 4.0.0 would have dropped, what more could be talked about other than a solid release date for Banjo and a potential DLC 4 fighter tease?
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PapaG has said that no one in his group used The Hero in their findings. At least that is what I remember.
I've considered this because the timing of the Smash Directs seem to have been deliberate. Ridley and Banjo were both E3 announcements and K. Rool was essentially an EVO announcement, along with Simon, Chrom, and Dark Samus who have long histories in the Smash fandom. Ken and Inceniroar's announcements seemed to be kind of an afterthought, Isabelle's was honestly more of a vessel to announce an AC for Switch was coming, and Joker was tailored to the VGA audience. In a hypothetical Smash Direct announced at EVO, the takeaway would probably be a character announcement that means a lot to the Smash fandom specifically.
Oh man, now the only way for use to know if Google Theory was real or not is if Ryu & Doomslayer make it in or not. Those two would be great, but I'm good with anyone else besides a mook enemy and Steve.
If we do get Ryu Hayabusa and Doom Slayer, I have to wonder what they would mean for the 5chan leak? With Google Theory, it would just because other DLC triggered the add and Artorias was in the Dark Souls DLC title. So that's why it triggered for him. But with the 5chan leak, it would basically mean Steve was leakbait. Meanwhile, the Jack Frost thing with Joker would have likely have been scrapped.
Yeah, I don't buy it either, I'm just discussing a possible what-if scenario. I'm on team Doom/Resident Evil as far as DLC predictions go.
mario gonna perform those 360 no-scoop sick kills at the doritos urban warzone center
Well I'm just thinking that seeing how Banjo got in, nobody tried out The Hero, and Artorias triggered it because of the Dark Souls DLC could potentially mean that Google Theory might be real. People were trying Erdrick and not The Hero, so if The Hero was able to trigger it then Google Theory might have been legitimate. Well know when the fourth DLC fighter gets revealed, but it's interesting to think about.
Well, Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 comes out this week which is a big deal seeing as it's another Nintendo exclusive (and is arguably a bigger reason for Hero not to release this week than the final Splatfest since this date has been planned for some time as a major release). We also just got the news that Luigi's Mansion 3 drops on Halloween. Super Monkey Ball Banana Blitz HD was also just announced. And I feel like the Switch models are a pretty big deal too. There's actually quite a bit to talk about and we're about to go into Nintendo's most jam-packed holiday season ever anyway:
I didn't express that as clearly as I intended, so I do apologize. There's a group of people wholly uninterested in Smash who are more interested in new games. And those people want to hear about Nintendo's future beyond Smash and they've been given the back seat for pretty much a full year now. The only time that Smash hasn't had the prime time slot in a general Direct was February. They may not necessarily be as vocal as the Smash community is at screaming at reveals, but it's a tension that has generally festered a bit over the past year as far as I've seen. The admittedly quite sizable Smash community is the one who's responsible for the Banjo overshadowing everything else. That's more of what I was getting at and hopefully that clarifies my point a little.
I've never seen this guy, has he predicted / leaked announcement times before?
While I think this would be great, do you really think they would announce the whole Fighters pass before the second character is even released? If there is a Smash Direct, I'd be surprised if they even revealed Fighter #4 seeing as it's only been a month since the last two reveals.
Well, I'm not fully convinced that Nintendo would follow in the same steps but, I thought of it as a possibility. Capcom did it, and I gotta say, the trailer was pretty hype. And in that trailer, the returning characters were both new, and some were fan favorite veterans (like Sagat).
I could see them revealing the rest just so they won't have to deal with leaks anymore. But I also have heavy doubts that the next Nintendo direct would be a smash direct.
It was a former Xbox exclusive called Descenders coming to Switch. Never heard of it.
Sakurai did say he didn't like the idea of people buying something while not knowing its contents. Maybe the direct will make sure that people know what they're paying for.
To be honest, it's kinda late for that.
Naturally other fandoms exist, and I imagine they're quite vocal as well. Smash is in a unique position of bringing together fans of a myriad franchises, each as large as the next, so the size of the smash fandom, and subsequently it's overwhelming vocality is an unfortunate symptom of that fact. Fans of smash are never just fans of smash, they're fans of zelda, of animal crossing, of mario, of franchises yet unrepresented. There's no feasible way the fandom cannot be vocal. It's understandable to feel some sense of irritation at it's demanding nature from time to time, but it can no more be helped than water can help being wet, a community of this size is bound to have more rough edges than a community of smaller stature. People are always going to be anxious when you get a bunch of them together for a thing they're excited for and you're like "we're gonna tell you some stuff, but we're not gonna say it just yet *cheeky smile*" I agree that people in general need to be more patient about things, but allowing yourself to get mad at it is more an exercise in futility than anything. I also think it's fair to guess that most of the complaining you see comes from a loud minority of smash fans, but let's not kid ourselves here, it is a big minority, and it might seem like the whole of the fanbase is discontent when that's unlikely to be the case.
OK, what? I never heard about a Nintendo and/or Smash Direct coming. Also, on November 1st, Sakurai stated very clear the contents you would get from the Fighters Pass: one fighter, one stage, and a few music tracks from their series.
Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but there have been rumors of some type of direct coming from leakers and Jon from GameXplain "otter posting" which he supposedly does before a direct or something. People have been speculating that the direct, whatever it may be, could be revealed at EVO.
Oh, I get it. Could it possibly be revealed along with THIS bad boy?
Yeah it was a bike game. Thought is was going to be something else.
Hero content + Mii costumes + free content coming with Hero + Banjo content + 4th character reveal = ~25-30 minutes, maybe?
I doubt we get Banjo content, I bet it'll be Hero/SE focused exclusively so that Hero gets his time to shine. But everything else you listed I agree with, so I'd expect around 15 minutes give or take. Hero showcase along with stage and music, costumes, updates to online/new mode (HRC), end with a character teaser.
I'm of the opinion that, if they can spend a good five minutes just explaining how to turn your brightness up or down, they can fill just about any freaking time allocation they need to.
That's exactly a day before last August Direct so imagine if they revealed Geno there (if Geno is a DLC character) like how they revealed another fan favorite last time with K. Rool. That would certainly be amazing and by all means I would love that. I really hope that would be the case.And comparing that to the dates of last year, we could be seeing this on Wednesday (8/7/19) after EVO with an announcement beforehand, maybe the 5th or 6th at latest.
EDIT: Anyone reading this and wants to make a fake leak, here is your date to focus on!
Yeah with how Hero brings a fully unique mechanic + 16 specials I could totally see them burning around 10-12 minutes on his moveset then 5 minutes on his stage, 5 minutes on the music he brings, 3-5 minutes on Mii Costumes, 5-8 minutes on the extra mode he could bring with him and of course if Geno is indeed a bonus DLC character spend 5-10 minutes on him. It could very well be a 20 to even 30 minute Direct if needed.
Not to mention that Hero has 4 separate character ALTs and Sakurai will probably wax poetic about all four of them and explain their histories and design details.
Yup. So is Warlock's Tower, it figures that they'd eventually dropped the 3DS plans for that.
