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That's..... not how Sakurai works at all. If he wanted to add a Tekken rep in the first place it would be BECAUSE it's Tekken and not to fill a Bandai Namco quota. Likewise if he wanted to add Tales or Dark Souls it would be because he wanted to add Tales or Dark Souls. If Sakurai can't find a way to make a Tekken character work then that doesn't mean he's gonna go to the next best Bandai Namco IP.
Oh, so you weren't even talking about fighting games? Apologies then.
You're arguing semantics at this point.
Dark Souls I think has a gameplay style that doesn't translate well at all to Smash. We're talking about slow, defensive, sluggish movement in a fast-paced all-heights slobberknocker. Plus the fact that the main character is a generic avatar without iconic factor, and I just can't see it happening. However a stage or a boss I could see happening (and I think would be better representations of what makes DS special)
Yeah, personally I think Heihachi is pretty boring gameplay wise, so if we had to get a Tekken character I prefer to see Jin and Kazuya with their devil abilities, but that's not going to happen as Heihachi is the face of Tekken. So hopefully another Namco series gets used.
I'll concede the point about Dark Souls' gameplay, but I don't believe it's that difficult of a translation. In terms of the MC, both Mii Fighters and Villager are pretty generic avatars without "iconic factor," which seems like a rather arbitrary point for or against.
Well if we wanna be technical then Heihachi has appeared in both series as a fighter
Yoshimitsu? Nah.
The issue whenever I see this idea is that Yoshimitsu isn't really popular or iconic, and that's where things go south with him. He isn't appealing to any crowd other than the sole idea of having two franchises represented in one character, and while I can't make claims, I honestly think people would rather just have Heihachi and Nightmare/Sigfried/Ivy/whatever other SC character and pay the 12 bucks.
Yeah but Heihachi doesn't bounce on his (non-existent) sword and commit seppuku as an attack.Well if we wanna be technical then Heihachi has appeared in both series as a fighter
I've seen a good amount of people say this, but considering Terry seems to be repping for only Fatal Fury, it's unlikely that Yoshimitsu would rep 2 series in Smash.
The iconic factor seems to play much larger a role in third parties, however. Plus, Miis are iconic, and even Villager you can recognize due to AC's distinctive art style. I don't think Dark Souls has that, main characters usually look kind of like generic knights (contrast with, say, Commander Shepard and Dovahkiin's iconic default designs, or even Monster Hunter's more idiosyncratic armors).
Because they didn't go for Guy over Ryu to rep two series.
Representing two series with one character can be tricky because it can seriously scam series' icons out of a spot for the sake of representation. Under these pretenses, you could have Professor E.Gadd instead of Luigi or Olimar as he appears in a game where both characters appear.* Obviously, this is a far-fetched example but the idea is still somewhat in tact.
I'm not familiar with this series, can you fill me in?
I agree that dark souls protags lack a distinctive look (unless you count The Ashen One being made of literal ash, which would looks sick as hell imo).
...Yes he is.
Series icons don't have a right to be in smash. They're not getting scammed out of anything, because they don't have a claim to it in the first place.
Aero Fighters/Sonic Wings is a vertical shmup created by Video System and now owned by Hamster famous for it's wacky characters and bosses and Engrish-style quotes that had 5 games in the series. The first one was ported onto the Super NES while the other two were on the Neo Geo system. Sonic Wings Special/Limited was a remix game that never came to the US and Aero Fighters Assault was the final game that took a radically different direction by being a 3D action flight sim for the Nintendo 64.
The beauty of Dark Souls is that your movement is actually all that sluggish, it's just intentional and committal. Dark Souls combat can actually be pretty damn quick depending on your build (lower equip loads mean that you can roll and sprint like mad, and is by far my preferred way to play since I-frames > blocking almost every time). No, Dark Souls is about playing smart and knowing your limits so that you can best work within them. Plenty of bosses and enemies come at you with incredible speed, but it's about knowing how to confront them and how not to overextend yourself in those moments. Dark Souls translates to Smash just fine with that in mind.
No wasn't trying to troll. Trolling isn't fun at all, it's actually evil.
Thanks!
I don't doubt he could be among the DLC beyond this season pass but I'm feeling the 5th one will be Doom Slayer given Doom Eternal's release in November and Terry coming out at that time and then Doom Slayer's release being announced at the VGA. Timing be perfect if true.
He's definitely on the shortlist. Tecmo is one of the bigger (japanese) companies that has yet to have a fighter in the roster, especially considering they already have content in Smash already.
No character is ever a guarantee.
Just like how Hero released with DQXI.
What gives you that impression?
I just know that the last character will be third-party, but that's something I already saw coming all the way back to Joker.
Granted by no means I'm saying its certain and a lock because I will admit I could be wrong about this but I decided to throw the bone and go with this prediction.
I just think the justification is weak considering Smash has never had reveals surrounding game announcements or releases and I really don't see that changing now.
I mean, I think Hero in general begs to differ.
For E3, the trailer for Hero was literally followed by another trailer for DQ11S. Nintendo is at the very least clearly aware of game releases and it'd make sense from a business standpoint to cross-promote if they were related.
Likely? Yes.
