Fountain of Dreams is one of my favourite stages. Crying shame it's not viable for competitive stages.
Look at the bright side, every stage is viable in Battlefield form!
... except for Garreg Mach Monastery Battlefield form.
You want wild? I'll give you wild
5/6 of these characters are playable in Smash
I legit miss Lanky Kong.
I know it's impolite to rain on someone's support parade, but christ is Geno support a bubble.
These guys are putting Geno up there with Dante, Crash, Sora, and Master chief like they're on the same level. Sure, he's a character with a legacy of support like Banjo -- which lends to his chances -- but Banjo was also one of the mascots of the N64, and one of the faces of late 90's gaming nostalgia, and not a side character with one appearance in a 25 year old spinoff game. I feel like the only reason people are still asking for Geno is because they've already been asking for him for 10 years.
I know 'attacking' the biggest support group on the site (and the mascot of the biggest name in smash speculation) comes off as aggressive, but I really need to know what this whole Geno thing is about. What about him is worth supporting him for 10 years, even as the goal posts get further and further away?
Geno's support basically boils down to the same things that every character is pushed for, the most common and most prominent of which being nostalgia. Maybe you grew up with the character or grew up playing their games, or maybe you had a bad day and playing their games made you feel better. Maybe you lived life with some sort of affliction, either physical or mental, and those games and/or the characters in those games made you feel better about yourself. You may find it silly, but I'm sure everyone's had that kind of experience.
There's also representation which, while seemingly not considered the most important thing to Sakurai and company, is often given by people as a reason for a certain character, or a certain type of character, should be in. Perhaps you think the roster has too many heroes or heroines, perhaps you think a certain franchise has been neglected for too long and could use a couple more characters, perhaps you think a game or series should be given a little bit more love, perhaps you feel that a certain type of character is too numerous and you think it should be balanced out with character who do something else, or maybe you have this innate desire to see percieved patterns filled. Either way you slice it, there's something you think Smash's roster is lacking, so you rally behind characters whose inclusion would fix that.
There's also their moveset potential. There's some sort of aspect about their design that would make them stand out compared to the other 70+ characters currently in the game, and as such you feel they'd be a great addition to the game. This can be anything, from a certain type of weapon they brandish to a specific kind of playstyle they'd most likely adopt, there's something mechanically that you feel they could bring to Smash that would enrich the gameplay.
Or perhaps you're like me, someone whose already long gotten all of the characters you've wanted for Smash, but still love the whole speculation thing, and so you elect to hang around and support characters who you feel have a shot and who might have a lot of things going for them in terms of rumors and circumstantial evidence.
TL;DR Think of why you like/support a character for Smash, and you'll understand.
Honestly it's kinda sad they dedicate so much time into it when they could do something more worthwhile.
That's pretty much everyone on this site though, if we're being honest. No reason for a bunch of 15-40 year-olds to hang around online ******** at eachother about which fictional character is going to become playable in this game.
I just hate that you can’t have a rational conversation if you even slightly suggest that Geno may not be as likely as they think or may come back as a Mii costume. Just about every argument devolves into using “well they COULD put him in” as evidence. Like don’t get me wrong, I’ve wanted Geno for years, but I don’t think he’s coming.
Funny, that's exactly what I tend to hear on the other side of the aisle. Every time some rumor or potential leak comes around that may mean good things for Geno, you always have people trying to disprove it by simply going "Well, it COULD be fake, though.".
For example, when the Mii Costume List came around (a list of names first shared back in mid/late July that included all of the Mii Costumes from Banjo's wave sans Sans, plus Chocobo, Mallow and Smithy), certain Wynn-esque people who shall remain nameless would often counter this by saying "Well, it COULD be fake, though.". And I agree, it's possible that this whole list could be fabricated. But given that it correctly called 4 costumes out of the 7 names listed, which we know due to it originally being posted back in mid/late july before the September Direct, it seems much more likely that it's legit.
This then leads those people to modify their argument into "Well okay,
those costumes were legit, but the three that didn't get revealed were probably faked, though.", followed by their reasoning being "The guy who posted it probably threw in those fake names alongside the real names in order to troll Genobros, because he knew that they'd see the real ones get confirmed come September and think that those other three
have to be legit.". And at that point the argument just sort of ends, because neither party can really prove anything either way anymore.
You can't entirely prove that it's real because, while it did get 4 out of the 7 names listed correct, there's not enough conclusive evidence to definitively claim that those last three names are real. But you can't entirely disprove it either, because while it's possible that it could've been faked, there's not enough evidence to definitively prove that's the case. Also, I question the likelihood of this being a troll job due to the sheer ridiculousness it suggests:
So a dude who leaks legit information decides one day, out of the blue, to troll Genobros. To do this he adds Chocobo, Mallow and Smithy to a list of legit names and privately passed it on to about 3-4 people on Discord, one of which being the ever-skeptical PapaGenos. He then waits for PapaGenos to reveal this list publicly around mid-October (which he knew would happen, apparently), which would in turn get Genobros to believe that Geno had a chance as a fighter since he wasn't with the names. He then waits until some time next year for the Geno costume to come back alongside who the hell ever, at which point most people will have forgotten about him and his list, and has a nice, hearty laugh at their expense when it turns out that Geno is costume'd again or simply doesn't appear.
And speaking about Geno being costume'd, I just have to ask: How exactly is coming into a character support thread and telling people that the character they most want is going to be relegated to a Mii Costume NOT at the very least a **** move? If someone came into your thread and told you that your most wanted character, a character who you think legit has a shot, would probably only be coming as a cosmetic for another character, wouldn't you be a little peeved by that? It's like someone coming into your house and critiquing your home decor. Are they actively trying to be assholes about it? Most likely not. Do they have a point? Perhaps. But is it rude? Most definitely.
