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Unless we're talking about someone like Samanosuke from Onimusha (who is based on a real life person who is still living and breathing to this day), I doubt that being based on real life historical figures who are long dead will be a problem.
Disappointed. Too many regularly speculated characters.
"I'm sorry but even though Lu Bu died in the year 199 you still have to pay royalties to use his likeness sorry."
Would characters whose threads overall are almost never on the top count?
I mean.. we already have Dracula, a real literature/historical figure but since is the extremely well defined, iconic and essential to the series videogamey dracula of castlevania, it never was a problem. I don't see this being a problem for anything dynasty warriors related really.
XB2 sold a million copies on release month and has doubled its total sales since then over the course of 2 years. For a jrpg it has strong legs.
It's peak "I don't care about the games or characters themselves, I just want surprises" talk.
Well the Amaterasu thread as about 6 pages long if your interested in checking it out, otherwise I'm sure you can (somewhat unfortunately) find more support threads like the Ammy's around here if you look hard enough.
Depends on the character. Really, it doesn't have to be limited to Smashboards. Like I would consider Heavy a regularly speculated character in the greater smash bubble, but his thread is 6 pages long here despite existing since 2018.
And then the shakeup becomes boring when that's the only thing people talk about, and it wasn't like Terry was this completely unheard of character either, it was just most people never considered the game that basically spawned the series as a viable candidate.
Here's a steaming hot take: when it comes to Smash characters, surprise is overrated.
Thing is... Terry make sense in hindsight.
Do any of these characters make sense in hindsight?
Vyse would be a dream come true.
I think a balance is important.
Well said.
The point isn't to make people to dwell on shakeups, it's to make them think outside the box. Perhaps Joker fits more than Terry here for the reason stated below.
In what way? As in Sakurai bias or something else? Because if so, maybe not in the sense of Terry, but possibly Joker. IIRC, we weren't aware that Persona 5 was an incredibly important game to Sakurai pre-Joker announcement (correct me if I'm wrong here). I wouldn't be surprised if something like Little King's Story (or any of Yoshiro Kimura's games for that matter) were just the right type of weirdness for him to find them extremely important.
No, we absolutely knew how important P5 was to Sakurai, the guy literally said that he designed the game's menus based on it, and again, Joker wasn't this unheard of character, people just didn't expect it since Sony and Nintendo don't play as nice as Nintendo and Microsoft do, and up to that point, Persona was a pretty Sony-Exclusive series except the Q games.
I've been extremely vocal lately about a certain character that might scratch that itch for you. If you've seen some of my recent posts, she should at least be mentioned offhandedly.
Fair enough. In that case, there really are no examples, at least for Ultimate. We'd have to go back to Melee with Ice Climbers to get a good idea of what I want here.
Miku would be great
Sure, and I'd love the reaction to her, but we're not getting a Senran Kagura character. Speculation should still be at least a little bit grounded in reality I would say.
call me a hipster but i like being the contrarian. It gets lonely liking and wanting characters no one else does but at least im not just being a sheep
That's different.
Oh OH oh yeah you right, you right
Imagine hearing Worlds End Dancehall on the P5 stage
It would depend on what the song list is, which to be fair would feel extremely incomplete without the greats like most of Wowaka's stuff. Not sure how the rights work there seeing as the guy is unfortunately no longer with us.
Y'know, I swear some time ago I saw someone begging for IDOLM@STER anything in Smash on the Nintendo UK Twitter page. Might be long gone, I don't really know.
It was clearly Kentaro Miura
The characters I listed are still ones I genuinely want. Smash is more than just speculation and once the luster wears off, we still gotta use/know how to play against these characters. And it's not like surprises are everything. Custer from Custer's Revenge would be a surprise, but he's hardly someone I'd want on the roster, even if the reaction would be amusing for a day or two.
Well, out of any and all indies out there, she's the oldest many can think of, dating back to the days of the Gameboy Color (given, she released at the tail end of its life cycle, but still). That's the big one I can think of.
Im listening
If you just genuinely want those characters, that's absolutely fine.
Makes it seem you're coming from a different angle.
Just add "that I genuinely want" onto that post then. I just kind of assumed it was a given.
“Damn, I wish they just brought back tMii costumes instead of making them fighters.”
As someone who has fun watching hot topic characters get the boot for the sake of giving some changes in the speculative scene, no matter how small, I agree with this post. There's a reason the DLC isn't someone like Guntz, Cirno, and Gandrayda.
