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Pft, I wish Atlus stood a chance, but no they're pretty much one and done. Same with SNK considering they blew out all possible side content for their other franchies primarily to make Terry that much more appealing.
Square Enix. Neku Sakuraba. PLEASEINEEEEEEEEDIIIIIIITTTTTTT
So you are saying Layton has a chance
The only ones I can imagine coming back are Microsoft and Square. Microsoft for Master Chief and Square for any of Lara Croft, 2B, Sora and maybe Neku and a Bravely character.
What Mii costumes are there that makes you suspect this?
A little late my dude. This was mentioned earlier on the thread.
If I may attempt a rebuttal then: It's about Sakurai being a fanboy (hard to stop that) and Nintendo themselves marking FE as a major point of focus and trying to turn the series into a flagship (hard to stop that too).
I could see Arle or Kiryu though. SNK is probably a no, though - and that stretches to SNK's owners too for now. LeYou owns Digital Extremes and Warframe, but Warframe ain't getting in, 37 Games is a mobile-only developer, and Orient Securities is an investment bank - not a video game publisher / dev. Now, LeYou is in talks of being bought out by iDreamSky (iDreamSky is Tencent-backed, and if the deal goes through
's very indirectly and partly owned by Tencent).
The ancient soldier mii costume. Not exactly the same as the Rex mii costume sure, but considering Sakurai's interesting relationship with the Zelda series, I strongly suspect this is all the Zelda content we're going to see in pass 2.
Most dirt is free. But yes, I agree Reimu wouldn't cost much to licence, if for no other reason than there's just one person to pay.
I'd love a Bravely Default character. The series is a lot of fun, is closely tied to nintendo, has great music, and is getting a new game this year. The dream would be a hero style alt where each of the 4 main characters from the first game are included, but having the character be Tiz or Edea seems more reasonable (I guess anyone but Ringabell, poor Ringabell). I think they have a lot of moveset potential too. Aside from the many weapons, spells, and classes, the brave/default system alone is interesting enough, though maybe without focus attack, Joker down-b, and limit break it could stand out more.
No, I mean literally for free. As far as I know ZUN has no problem lending out his characters to whoever asks for them.
oh well i was away for a full day so you know
Here we go, Monokuma. it's your chance!
Never believe a twitter leaker with zero track record.
i said check if not faked in any way to make it look like its real but not that it matters sure its just a miracle guess
I already think there's gonna be a smaller budget when it'll apparently take longer to release these six than it did to release the five FP1 characters+Piranha Plant.
Nice, next time I want to know future Smash content 15 minutes ahead of the official reveal I'll be sure to check out Vergeben's latest posts
Slightly off topic but clicking on that link showed that the remake of BiS was the 4th best selling 3DS game of the year.....but then I remembered how that game underperformed so much it led to Alphadream going bankrupt.
That's... actually a very interesting point. For fan games, as long as you fund production personally (no crowdfunding), make your own assets, and give ZUN credit, you can use Touhou characters, music, etc.
I can't argue with those points, but perhaps I was unclear in my post. It's not about why the character was chosen, I think people understand the reasoning that went into it, it's about trying to write-off peoples' issues with FE on the basis of the chronic oversight regarding all the other series which have just as much to offer.
There's no predictability or pattern to any of the character choices so it's impossible to gauge which characters are plausible and which are not. Many people thought Master Chief and Dante were shoo-ins for the fifth pass and then Byleth came and squatted all over it. No one thought Joker or Cloud had any sort of chance of making it into the game. Until the waveform collapses and we get a reveal trailer you have no clue what's going to happen. The only way your argument makes sense is if you're telling me you've been 100% correct on character predictions based on your subjective view of plausibility. This is the age of deep fakes and the proliferation of nearly autonomous photo and video editing tools. Anyone can make leaks, even believable ones. The only time a character becomes plausible is after they've already been revealed.
They haven't. Again, it's the truth. Joker and Byleth bring absolutely nothing new. Their moves are functionally the same as many other moves that exist in the game, they're just mapped to different directions. Byleth's down+B is just a falcon punch. His neutral B is Link's bow that can be charged up into a miniature version of Zelda's old Final Smash. His up+B is the same as Joker's grappliing hook mixed with ZSS's flip. The aesthetic is different but the functionality is the same. They don't bring anything we haven't already seen mechanically, and I know people are going to misquote me as saying 'all the characters in Smash are exactly the same' because all they ever do is skim posts and lack reading comprehension, but there is nothing introduced by Joker or Byleth that hasn't been seen in other fighters. And it's not even that I'm saying we shouldn't have characters that don't bring anything new, it's just if you're going to have them at least make them stand out somehow, make them more visually interesting. They don't even do that.
I don't think Atlus will be back, but I could see Sega being back (most likely with Arle, but maybe with Yakuza?), just like I don't see Rare being back but more Microsoft in general (with most likely Steve I feel, but maybe Master chief). I could totally see Square being back with 2B on my predictions, but it might be someone else (for example Lara Croft is a character that I think people are sleeping on). The only one that I don't see coming back is SNK because of how much content they already have and I don't see any of their other franchise really having any chances (as much as I Marco from metal slug, it's not happening).
I didn't take into consideration the possibility that the reason why our first six were quicker was because PP was finishing up development when announced, while CP6 might've just started development recently.
Yeah. I wouldn't be all that surprised if they're dragging it out a little longer to spread out the longevity of the life of the game, or what.
Base game theory wouldn’t work as if Rex and Spring Man were too new, Byleth would have to be as well.
Not believing that for a second, that would mean Sakurai decided to include him during the concept stage before 3 houses even entered proper development, which means we would be reaching levels of bias that shouldn't even possible.
Exactly.... It just feels like people are trying to make up excuses for why they got added..
If Byleth was not originally intended to be FP 5 then it being a last minute decision isn't feasible. At Best, Byleth would have had to be expedited earlier in 2019 either before E3 or around the time of E3. Sabi's Source knew of Terry and Byleth for quite a while before the September Direct So it would have been far less last minute and more of a change in plans early in the Pass's life.
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