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Yeah I think Smash fans have it in their head that Nintendo is Smash and that's it. Last year Smash was being released the next day or whatever (I remember being at a midnight release when I heard about Joker) so it makes sense they'd add to the hype to boost even more sales so that people who were on the fence would be like "What? Joker is gonna be in Smash? Well count me in now."
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Not to be pessimistic but I just don't see that happening. With Hero's release, we see that it wasn't Square Enix being stingy about Cloud and FF music but it being the FF director/main manager that was against parting with their precious IP. Have to keep in mind Cloud was the one character that feels tacked on due to them being so reluctant. Couldn't get more than 2 songs despite the fact that FF has 30 years of great music (not to mention FF7 has a lot of great tracks to offer outside of two battle songs), Nintendo not being allowed to use any original artwork for FF spirits leaving them to rely on snapshots of Cloud, and didn't get any spirits of any FF characters despite there being so many games + characters to draw from. This again wasn't the case with Dragon Quest which received lots of songs, spirits, and nods to the series (Mii customes, events, etc.) so it's not purely a Square Enix deal but something regarding the Final Fantasy division. I don't see them adding another another character when they are being so stingy and especially with Sakurai mentioning he wants to add more *game worlds* to Ultimate which would suggest other IPs like Sora or Lara Croft would have a much higher chance or priority of getting added due to Final Fantasy already being represented in the game IMO.
I mean, if your "theory" only works for 2 out of 4, it's not super solid. Not to mention, Nintendo just released their quarterly earnings and they've done 41 million Switches, which is now neck and neck with X Box One. I think any series wants to be advertised on Switch.
I know it doesn't look solid right now but I just haven't looked into Terry yet and the only thing I can see towards Terry is SNK heroines. There is nothing for Joker but I just need to look into this because I have a feeling there is a connection between Dragon Quest and Banjo Kazooie advertising to Doom's advertising. I'll have to get back to you on this.
I have no idea who this character is.
I think that's the System Shock player character, but I am probably wrong.
Is it... Is it Riddick? Or is is that guy from that really awful PS1 game "Haunted" something or other... Caddicarus had a video about it years ago
Why do you say that? I don't see a reason that it would be anything but Terry at this point
The line of thinking works for Joker as well because Jokers placement in Smash acts as a precursor to the Persona 5 Royal Announcement. It also works for Terry because the inclusion of him in Smash will draw attention for the upcoming King of Fighters game planned for its 2020 release.
The name was "Shadowman" and it looks like it would be him... strangely
Okay, but what was the common theme of those? They were released way ahead in advance of those games. When was Doom Eternal supposed to be released? Next month. Doomguy being announced the same time as Doom Eternal's original release would not follow the pattern. The fact it got delayed is irrelevant since the DLC was chosen a year ago and I doubt iD decided to delay the game a year ago.
That's Cortez from TimeSplitters.
Persona 5 the Royal was teased back in December 2018 when Joker was first announced for Smash DLC and the game was revealed in April 2019 in the month Joker was released. The only pattern that needs to be discerned is how much advertising a series is putting out there and with the amount of advertising Doom is getting, I think it's a safe bet that he could be the front runner for Fighter #5.
I guess we'll never know...
P5S was also revealed to be in bound for the Switch and PQ2 was nearly out for 3DS at the time. There was some precedent for Joker
Eh, cut 'em some slack. It IS basic human nature to see patterns where there are none. It helped out our ancestors with hunting and survival. But with smash speculation? Not so much.
Watch it be that but with the Mii costume like with Ryu's 4 reveal, lol.
I mean, I suppose it's your speculation, so go ahead and proceed with your advertising theory--we'll find out soon enough anyway.
How in the **** is this indicative of anything?
Wait, does it mean anything for releases when Nintendo VS tweets? Remind me what this meant so far.
People are still trying to speculate in a speculating thread, yes.
It’s not concrete, but after the Tetris spirit event announcement there’s been nothing but tournament related tweets when talking about Smash. This is a non-tourney related one. I seem to recall some mundane smash related stuff tweeted pre-Joker and Banjo presentations. Hero’s presentation was announced in advance but to be fair they were also advertising DQXIS with it
Didn’t the Japan smash account post the same thing earlier?
Wait, they did? What about the VS UK account?
Ah darn, I forgot about that. iirc, I think it's changing on the 3rd or 4th, which would sort of imply that new advertising (possibly for Terry) would have to come after it.
Hey if it's an older variant on the costume I'd be slightly okay with it! I know that Bamco has some heavy competition for a rep.
Ezio. Here we go.
I would love Dante as well. There's a lot you can do with the character for a game like this.
Ezio would actually be cool. I wouldn't even be mad if we got him.
Am indifferent to Pheonix Wright, but Sephiroth would be cool. Would be another Villain rep (and one from one of my favorites games of all time), and would hopefully bring more FFVII music with him.
Ezio is interesting in that I've had a gut feeling he's super plausible and I've had that feeling since around February. He'd be really hype.
Considering your works on potential Smash characters, I'd like to hear your reasoning. Unless of course, it's merely a darkhorse
