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I don’t see how that disconfirms him.
sorry bro I’m just brain dead
im gonna laugh at you when the final character added to the fighters pass is Scrooge McDuck from the DuckTales gameTfw you've played all of the series from the Fighter Pass.
The Sandbag spirit battle is meant to be a Home Run Contest simulator. We still got the real mode later on.
I'm pretty sure he just said that because it was right after he revealed that Trophies were not returning, and so Spirits were added as a way to fill the gap that Trophies filled in previous games in terms of still including non-fighters in Smash.
Not taking a stance on this either way, but my hypothesis is that Sakurai and the dev team probably used the same rationale they used to not bring the Subspace Emissary, specifically story mode cutscenes, back in Smash 4, in that they probably thought that people just use the Internet for everything nowadays anyway and it would be pointless for them to put in so much effort for something that everyone would just be able to Google.
You include Plant in your observations but forget it has had presence in Smash before.
Yes, it is unreasonable. Because even if you haven't played it, it's still one of the most famous and widely regarded games in history.
Tracer is a series?
Cue the absolute worst argument I've ever seen for why a certain character can't be in Smash: "Heihachi is already deconfirmed because he makes a cameo in Pac-Man's Up Taunt".
Lloyd isn't in it.
Yeah, I know.
Plant isn't a part of the Fighter Pass. That's why I didn't include it. I was referring to Corrin in Wii U.
As I edited it in after you quoted, I could have explained it better. But I wasn't referring to Piranha Plant. I was referring to Corrin in Wii U, as they're the only Nintendo newcomer among DLC. I don't view Plant the same way, as he was free for a limited time an appears to have been planned as a base roster pick pushed back.
I'm still thinking Jill and not Leon. I don't see the rationale for Leon with R3Make coming. Sure, Leon's popular, but why put him in the game when you could put Jill, who can be used to hype the remake and is also an original S.T.A.R.S member? Yeah they put Joker in, but the original Persona isn't even comparable to RE1. Not to mention she's just super iconic for survival horror.
If you honestly think Half-Life is on the same level as Pong, you're crazy. Besides, I still think it's easily possible for a console gamer to be completely unaware of Half-Life.
To be honest, I’m totally down with Jill. I think she or Leon are the two best Resident Evil choices out of the whole group.
Eh, I could go either way, but Leon has the edge just because we might get the bingo quote along with him.
Jill's design is probably my favorite out of the bunch. You have her STARS uniform with the silly blue beret, and then you have the more casual design from RE 3 which just looks nice.
I feel that Assist Trophies were influenced by the ballot too as seen with the likes of Black Knight, Shovel Knight and Zero. Hell, a friend of mine came up with a theory that a lot of 4 star spirits were made 4 stars to acknowledge their fans, as seen with the likes of Geno and again, Zero. Hell, they even chose to have Zero segue into the AT section during the August Smash direcy
Roy still has the green background for Ultimate if you look on his page. Similarly, Ken has Gray.
Have that mofo float down like the CEO boss battle and then they comment on how that took all of the direct's budget.
Look, the Half-Life series is incredibly influential, and has played a pretty big part in shaping game history as we know it today, but Pong? That's one of the founding fathers of ALL games, period. It's in the friggin' Smithsonian for crying out loud. It's perfectly reasonable to understand that the cultural cornerstone of video game history is more recognizable than Half-Life. I wouldn't say it's a fair comparison.
I'd still say you should count Plant as a DLC character. We have no confirmation that Piranha Plant was intended for the base roster from Sakurai, and having 2 Nintendo characters relative to the 7 3rd parties doesn't really harm your point that the last Fighter's Pass character is probably a 3rd party.
1. Website coloring and character choice were never correlated to be exact. If the devs thought of the random color mix, it would be all their decisions. It was never the intention of teh developers to follow a specific color trend; they can just utilize whoever they want. Patterns like this are easily just fan-rules, though the general consensus is that anyone can safely be in the game.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't someone in the high ranks either the CEO or the Executive Director for DMC said Dante wouldn't be in Smash when someone asked. If I'm wrong that's fine, I don't want to bring anybody's choice character down, I just thought that because of that, if he was in, it would be in FP2, not FP1.
All solid theories I can get behind. Those character choices would make sense to showcase during a western focused gaming event, and would generate a lot of buzz. My personal pick that I think seems likely out of all of those is a surprise Bamco rep; I'm thinking Dark Souls or Heihachi.
It's the only comparison I can make for "20-year-old gamer that somehow doesn't know what Half-Life is" because I'm 40 and Pong is literally, like, the only video game in existence that's "before my time".
I don't think it's Ezio. Assassin's Creed has basically no presence in Japan, which hurts it a lot I imagine, nor does it actually hold a lot of relevant gaming history (it has just sold very well, but it largely has done very little to innovate or even really move the wider industry), nor are Ezio or any of the characters requested for Smash. I just don't really see Assassin's Creed as a particularly likely option, and i think it's slept on for good reason.
Piranha Plant was in playable form before the game released (we know this through the talk of play testers seeing Plant and the fact that we saw footage on November 1, 2018 in game) and is the only "DLC" option to have a Palutena's Guidance, which is a giant red flag in regards to what was actually planned. Plant was most definitely a pre-planned character for the base roster through all common sense and should not be counted as DLC in the same traditional way. Corrin is the only first party DLC character to be developed specifically as DLC.
Assassin's Creed is one of the most popular Western franchises in Japan. And considering how every open world since the first AC has copied its structure (even Nintendo's own Breath of the Wild did the towers) I think that covers the influence part.
Which is to say it's not popular at all. It has never had a title break 200,000 copies and most have sold abysmally in general despite an occasional first weekend showing that is above average for Western titles. You're overstating its Japanese popularity by a lot. Also, climbing high to get a point of interest view of the rest of a world isn't exactly that revolutionary a game mechanic to where I'd say it's worth pointing out that Breath of the Wild specifically took it from Assassin's Creed. A big maybe to the "towers" as some sort of influence, but a terribly minor one if that's really what we're going for.
