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I have that small hope that the next general direct gives a road map for the DLC. But that's never going to happen. At very least they could learn from the other games and do a road map for 6's DLC when it eventually comes.
If FP7 is disappointing, Especially after Min-Min, who didn't wow the world like Joker did, Then I wouldn't have High hopes for the rest of the pass
Well, at least in Street Fighter's case, there's also 3 new stages coming, plus new battle mechanics and game balance, according to the roadmap they put on the internet.
Yeah. Everyone knows FP7 will be Dante & Crash, not Dante OR Crash. They will be the best duo fighter in Smash.
That is entirely subjective. Some people weren't "wowed" by Joker so there is no way to judge if a character is "Disappointing" or not
More story chapters, a lot of voiced interactions (which smash lacks completely) and in this specific case it's also getting a new boss fight.
I mean, it has been the same thing for FP6 before the March Mini Direct. And for FP5 before that fateful day in January. And if you wanna be technical, also before the SNK leak, where everyone was convinced that FP4 and FP5 just had to be Ryu Slayer and Doomhayabusa.
I get that, but i think there is an Objective way of looking at this as well. While Individually people might not be wowed, Collectively i think certain characters are more hype than others
Id rather they say right away who the hell is in it, to hell with being ceremonious. Arc sys showed several characters all together for BBTAG and that worked out good. People are going to buy the packs anyway
Yeah, it would be great if they took Guilty Gear Strive's approach and told us when the next reveal would be.
Isn't it the opposite?
This still happens with the current format. People still aren't over Corrin and it's been nearly 5 years with 18 characters since then
That has little to do with the characters themselves, moreso the timing of the reveal.
It kind of sounded wrong the way I typed it.
hey now, we got Inkling
What'd you think of the divisive second half?
People were able to predict 3/5 or 4/5 of the FP1 roster, so it's not impossble. I would think with all the characters we've gotten that people would have more of an open mind and consider all the options and such, but what do I Know
One guy having a max luck stat and correctly guessing four of the characters is like saying the lottery is easy to predict because someone out there wins.
Someone that isn’t crash or Dante
I guess that's true
It still floors me that people haven't let it go, especially when the biggest reason people were mad was K. Rool, and he's in now.
Gen 8 Pokemon or Travis Touchdown. One of the two.
I'm going to go on a limb and say Adol Christin. Seems both obscure enough and with enough legacy to fit. My gut is telling me it's a character not everyone will be familiar with. Don't know why, though.
Okay I need to ask? anyone in here played or seen gameplay footage of Travis Strikes back to know what type of abilities he got in that game. To my understanding, I believe Suda actually made the game's controls and Travis's new abilities to appeal to a potential Smash moveset if Travis got in
He's just a lousy character imo. His moveset's uninteresting, his design is bleugh, and in his own game he's completely unlikable. Getting in over the likes of K. Rool certainly added to his hate, but K. Rool and other great picks getting in doesn't magically make him a good character. And I say this as someone who likes Byleth and was happy to see them get in.
At this point, Corrin's reputation will likely always be "the shill pick nobody wanted" and people will contractually obligated to hate him.
On top of all of that. Crash seems like a character that Nintendo would choose for his legacy and how big he was in the 90s rather than fan demand, especially a missed opportunity for arguably the biggest crossover in fiction if not gaming with other icons like Mario, Sonic, Pac-Man, Mega Man, etc.
If you cast a net that wide then of course you'll get "predictions" correct.
Reimu Hakurei. I can confirm she's coming because I personally donated an invitation to her shrine... Alongside the souls of whoever gave her any competition.
SHILLING TIME: A Falcom rep seems to have a great chance but if one gets in i'm leaning more towards Estelle Bright From The Trails Series as it is getting a new game soon and is more popular overseas SHILLING OVER
I will say that even if you re wrong and Isaac is not in, I still do think Isaac and Golden Sun fans will be winning because the Rumors of a New Golden Sun game are strong (pointing towards Golden Sun HD)Reimu Hakurei. I can confirm she's coming because I personally donated an invitation to her shrine... Alongside the souls of whoever gave her any competition.
Don't worry though, they're chilling with Yuyuko in Hakugyokurou at the moment. they're in good hands
But if we're being honest, I'm risking a guess for Isaac as the Banjo of the pass. He's got much of the same situation as Banjo, just owned by Nintendo-Old, got an objectively better but lesser-known sequel shortly after and a divisive sequel much later, still managed to be popular for a long time and well into Ultimate's era. The only difference is that Banjo got in, and Isaac was snowglobed, after which his support kinda petered off.
That being said, I don't think ATs matter any more. Min Min wasn't chosen because the mascot was an AT, she was added because Sakurai went to Yabuki, Yabuki said "Everyone's the protagonist!" and singled out Min Min specifically, and so Sakurai went with Min Min. In addition, Min Min was a Spirit. Spirits were meant to expand the crossover beyond the fighters, like Trophies, but they were both easier to make and served a gameplay purpose. Cut to now, and a Spirit is now a fighter as well. ATs were meant to be a way for characters to take part in the battle while not being playable, and are toggled off on certain stages for various reasons (Doesn't mesh with the mechanics, already a background character, doesn't have a reflection, etc.). If a Spirit can break free, so can an Assist Trophy.
So why Isaac now? CP7 was presumably to be revealed at E3 alongside Min Min, and E3 has historically brought the big guns. In recent memory, we got the big request Ridley, Japanese cultural icon Hero, and another long-standing request in Banjo. If we're announcing the fan-favorite request, it would most likely be at E3-Except, y'know, there is no E3 anymore. A fan-favorite heavy-hitter would be a great way to truly start off the pass while giving Min Min hype beforehand, but that went down the drain with E3 and Min Min had to start things off by herself.
But hey, the Smash fandom is habitually wrong, and I'm most likely among them. But oh well, as long as CP7's cool.
To be fair, it's not very easy when the scope has been expanded so much and the roster is already packed to the brim with household names. There was a time when the fanbase would at least get a handful of characters right, everyone knew the likes of Inkling, Palutena and Little Mac were in long before they were announced/leaked, and even beyond the stupidly obvious you had a lot of other frontrunners that also felt like solid bets, and of which a fair few would inevitably be in. That's not really the case anymore, for every one of the current frontrunners I can think of a plausible reason why they might not make it in, imo even our safest bets atm are like 50/50 at best.
There's a football stadium's worth of grey area between impossible and easy though. No one's saying somebody won't be able to stumble upon a winning ticket, but even if one person does manage to predict most of it again, it's not like that luck will be chalked up to the fanbase's predictive ability at large. It'll simply be one dude who again got lucky.
