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There are many non-playable characters that still make an impact. Most notably boss and lore characters.
A genuine attempt at fanservice doesn't become an insult just because it didn't appeal to every single fan of the character. For example, I don't like how Lucario plays in this game, but that doesn't make his implementation a slight against the character.
Normally, I don't bother with you acting so annoying. But I can only imagine what kind of tangents you'd go on if you played MVC1 back in the day, and talked about how Arthur is a "loser" compared to Captain Commando or something.
It's still kinda surreal to me it took this long to get Terry despite how much Smash took from KoF ever since Smash 64 and still did in Ultimate even before Terry got added, ****'s especially wild if you look back at every time someone screams Sakurai bias
He probably had enough self control to ask for the really big name third parties first like Cloud and Pacman.
He held back until he was fully confident in his ability to give Terry his entire Fatal Fury moveset.
Smh he failed to let Terry bob and weave as intensively in FF3, might as well remove him despite being the best DLC character by far
I think each DLC has a lot going for each Joker being as stylish and fresh as he is kicked off the DLC great, Hero finally making it in after years of DQ fans asking, Banjo making it in after years of fans asking and calling back to the N64 days of Rare and solidifying even more Nintendo’s relationship with Microsoft, Terry calling back to the legacy of SNK and Fatal Fury being the other grandfather of the Fighting Genre, and Byleth promoting and solidifying Three Houses as an achievement.
Considering that franchises like Donkey Kong, Metroid, and Fire Emblem got some fresh faces on the roster, I personally think that it’d be weird to witness the ever-so thriving Kirby franchise go even more than 12+ years across two entries without a single new rep. Especially someone who could rep not only a core era of the Kirby franchise, but also a species that has been with the franchise since the very beginning.
Gotta ask and as someone who has only played a bit of King of Fighters 98' but how did the SNK fighting games influence Smash Bros? Is it the special moves or game speed?
Some mechanics are shared like dodges and short hops.
As someone who sucks at fighting games, I'm forever grateful to that noobs. Even with the more crazy mechanics which recent newcomers tend to have, I can still pick up and play any character on the roster.
As Platinum said, Smash 64 took quite a few mechanics from KoF and those mechanics never left Smash and Sakurai's core inspiration for a fighting game both casuals and core fans could enjoy happened with KoF, but there's also how KoF is a crossover for multiple SNK properties, the Smash Invitation's very clearly based on Rugal's invitation as seen with Terry's trailer using the original intro, Classic Mode slowing down and fading to white when cleared ends the same way a KoF match does, which while basic, really stands out for Terry's Classic Mode and Squad Strike works just like a KoF match
I think that of the already represented franchises, Kirby is the one with the biggest chance of getting a new rep (if not the biggest, almost).
Is King of Fighters that similar to Smash then? Never knew that. Then again, I never knew of Terry, KoF or even SNK before his reveal.
Pretty late response, I know, but I think you can't discuss bad takes on here without bringing up the guy who kept going on about how Joker - or Ren, as they insisted on calling him - should be an Assist Trophy, and that Bomber Man should be playable. All going by his ideas of "iconicness", which is something you can easily measure and probably put into numbers, too.
Short hops, perfect shield, spotdodges, rolling, etc were what made KoF stand out alongside being an crossover of SNK's cast.
Oh my favourite bad take was from a guy who used a white supremacist youtuber as an avatar claiming that we could sue Nintendo for claiming Bayonetta was the ballot winner to get the real results because of false advertising
Because that was his name in the anime, ignoring how he was Akira in the manga and whatever you want in Persona 5 itself.
Agreed. As much as I love Bandanna Dee, I'm not holding my breath for him. I do think he's at least a definite possibility but I'm not willing to go any higher than that.
It took 6 entries for Metroid to finally get a character that wasn't Samus (Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is the sixth game*). Metroid had a single representative until Samus was split in two for Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Super Smash Bros. for WiiU (probably because of hardware limitations of the Nintendo 3DS that prevented transformations, and so was kept separate for the WiiU game for consistency reasons). Kirby had 3 representatives by the time of Brawl (the third entry). Metroid is represented by the main protagonist (Samus and Zero Suit Samus, the same person), main antagonist** and most recurring villain (Ridley, Samus' arch-nemesis), and main focus villain of the Metroid Prime Trilogy and part of the Metroid species (Dark Samus, a doppelgänger entity, formerly known as Metroid Prime who absorbed the Phazon suit and Samus' DNA, and is an Echo Fighter in Ultimate).
Well, they said she got the most amount of votes among "realizable" characters. Regardless of what that means, I think it was pretty obvious that they weren't talking about every voted character.
I think Bandana Dee or any other such character’s chances would need to ride on the “promotion” coattails at this point. Byleth had the ongoing 3H DLC in their favor, and as for the ARMS rep, I have a strong intuition that Nintendo has some big plans for ARMS this year, whether it’s a sequel or that comic they commissioned Dark Horse to do finally coming to fruition.
It wasn't a poll to win. It was a suggestion box. And they were vague in their wording as is. First, it was implied she got in due to the ballot, not literally stated. It was a "happen to have high votes" thing. And as somebody pointed out, she had high votes among "realizable characters"(number 1 in the UK, top 5 in the US, not noted for JP), which at least is a fairly non-vague term. It means some characters he had no ability to use for whatever reasons. However, the datamine suggests she was already in the game, via the bare minimum of proof of concept and at most was already intended to be playable, so that could alone be what they meant be realizable. Or part of it.
I agree, but moreso due to Bayonetta's DLC slot being added to the game's code two weeks after the ballot started. Either negotiations went extremely well and she was decided a few days in, or she was negotiated in advance of the ballot being published.
We'd be lucky to get 2 fighter (not including the ARMS character) by the end of the year.
Oh, I wasn’t trying to put the blame, surrounding a lack of a new Kirby character so far, on other franchises like Metroid and Donkey Kong since those franchises have finally gotten their glory days after being poorly represented for far too long.
My personal guess is that we're going to have 3 characters released by year's end. We did get Terry Bogard in November of last year, so my personal feeling that FP8 is going to release at a similar time frame.
