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My apologies, as this might've been false information.
in case anyone wants to see exactly where this comes from:
Whoever gets me closer to seeing Ashley as a playable rep in Smash.
Nintendo is doing a DAMN good job so far. Especially with Banjo. I don't think Sakurai would've ever considered it if Nintendo and Microsoft weren't so close now.
Whoever is making the roster right now as they keep making the choices interesting with a combination of characters with different appeals to the different groups of fans.
Probably not.
idk ask those guys who tried to show Nintendo their versions of Link and Samus for their Marvel superhero game...for PS2...BEFORE getting their approval for it.
The difference between that and this would be that the assets you're showing them would be for their own game that they're currently still working on and may not even be of one of their characters. Even so I suppose you'd be wasting your time unless your plan was to get hired by someone else or something.
Unless there's a legit source, I call fake on this one. In his Gameinformer interview, he does talk about Piranha Plant and Spirits (last direct content), but the only thing he says about fan feedback is this:My apologies, as this might've been false information.
The only source I could find was a GameFAQS thread, which then referred to a Gameinformer interview. I tried to find the interview but had no such luck. I do remember this quote being thrown a lot during the stretch between Ultimate's final direct and release though. Here's a
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/234547-super-smash-bros-ultimate/77224647
It just sounds like some displeased people trying to prove just how important their displease.
Whoever considers first party characters.
I doubt that only because I'm confident that if Ubisoft hasn't already done that they will eventually and that won't help them.
Nintendo would definitely not accept any outside resources. And to be fair, to model and animate a character in the style of Ultimate alongside coding said character in the style of Ultimate is borderline impossible. Also illegal too, since you're making unauthorized modifications to Nintendo's code. You'd get treated the same was as the Homebrew scene and promptly taken to court.
I completely misinterpreted your post, my bad. You meant if developers approach Nintendo with high quality models of their OWN characters for possible use in Smash. I was tired a few hours ago, forgive me.
Except that's extremely unlikely to the extent that I'm wondering why this is even a speculation point. They wouldn't go through the trouble of changing proportions of a character to match another for no reason, not to mention replacing an assist trophy with a character from a completely separate franchise.
That's not what he meant...
--Except they aren't required...at all. This is all a massive reach.
I don't even understand what you're on about now. Are you just talking about modding the game? Why are you mentioning the developers replacing assist trophies then?
That's completely unreasonable to assume. We all know that the leaks say Erdrick, and not Luminary.
Honestly, the reasons are typically as follows.I think if certain characters are Assist Trophies there's a good and simple reason why they are and why they are not fighters
Honestly, while I love Alucard and Decidueye more than the Belmonts and Incineroar, I have to say that the latter are more unique and interesting as characters in a playable sense.
If I'd hazard a guess:
How would you even know that? We have no alternate universe Smash Ultimate that we could compare the characters to. For all we know, Decidueye and Alucard could've been far more interesting than Incineroar and Simon/Richter. There's just no way to check.
I didn't think until recently that we could get a Warcraft character. Today, I'm thinking it's underrated for a potential rep.
A lot of people seems to forgot that being an AT is not a death sentence but can only be explained by your third point: interesting characters that just are lower on the list.
Yea, pretty much. Which is why my previous post was hazarding a guess. At the same time, alternate timelines are tempting for similar reasons as speculating is. "What if?" and all.
Honestly, I have a lot of faith in both Sakurai and Nintendo's higher ups (I've been mentioning Furukawa a lot - he's the most prominent exec) Really, I'd keep the current arrangement of "Furukawa and the execs give Sakurai a list, Sakurai makes the final decisions out of the list". Sure, both Sakurai and Furukawa screw up* but both people are very competent overall.
At the same time, he has made his intentions with Ultimate clear. Those two statements plus what we've gotten so far lead me to one belief: While he's fully inclined to suggest characters who appeal internationally (Terry's a good example), he's perfectly fine with what Sakurai chooses.
Ridley fans didn't move on from Sakurai himself saying he's too big. Chrom fans didn't move on from Sakurai adding Robin instead for uniqueness. Guess what that got them?
Yeah but they weren't Smash 4 DLC, they were added in Ultimate another smash game. Both were pretty **** though.
I'm not going to be this extreme but the rest of the DLC characters is pretty much going to be just Banjo's entourage, yeah.
This would be my preferred timeline. Minus a couple more first party reps, those two changes would make me ecstatic with the base roster.
The discussion was brought about by someone saying "Assist Trophy characters could be promoted if their Assist Trophy function was replaced by another character" and we were like "There's a better way to implement that" and then we pondered whether or not they would do that or not for about half a page, decided that they could but probably wouldn't, and then changed topics. No one was droning on about how unhappy they were that X character was an Assist Trophy. I don't think anyone's mentioned these characters here beyond a passing "oh how I wish", and I don't think that needs to be discouraged. Especially since that there is a (super slim) possibility of their dreams becoming a reality.
How about you let people want whatever they want.
Personally I would have prefered Alucard instead of Simon or Richter, but I understand why Sakurai picked the Belmonts. They're the main protagonists of most Castlevania games, so that was natural.
People still going through the stages of grief.
I'm talking about modding Smash Ultimate to reskin assist trophies. And how do you think about my ideas?
I think it's because, especially when you consider the Netflix series, the Belmonts are still THE immediate thought people have when thinking of the series. I say this as a huge fan - Alucard, Soma, and Shanoa may be some of the coolest playable protagonists in the series, but I'd be hard pressed to put any of them over Simon as a first rep to represent the whole series. It's different from Cloud or even Joker, whose games aren't directly tied to the overall series timeline and became iconic in their own right. It's all about what the character is trying to represent as well - if we were only repping the SOTN and up era of Castlevania we'd get Alucard and MAYBE Richter, possibly a Soma echo for Alucard as well.
The difference between Alucard and Cloud is that Castlevainia has the Belmonts as the main protagonists most of the time whereas any character that appears in more than one main Final Fantasy game is either a lore figure (Ifrit, Leviathan, etc.) or is getting a direct sequel (Final Fantasy X-2 for example). The character that comes closest to not being either of these things is Black Mage, which doesn't even refer to a character most of the time. I guess this is a pretty roundabout way of saying the Belmonts are default main characters while Cloud was chosen because his game was the most beloved and there isn't really any overlap in protagonists over the mainline titles.
Of course, since there's a rule for 3rd party playable characters that for primary reps, it needs to be the main protagonist. If Alucard was the 1st Castlevania rep instead of Simon, it wouldn't comply with the rules.
