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I remember Jon Kazama and still wanna Photoshop Jon Arbuckle’s head on Jin’s body for the lulzThis might actually be one of the best typos I've seen someone make on Smashboards, second only to that time we rated Jon Kazama from Tekken in the RTC thread.
Please don't fix this.
The rankings that I used are from Capcom's official sales figure for each of their franchises, so:
was this character in Smash 4 and was this character in Ultimate. While Travis hasn't had Nintendo directly involved in the development and publishing of his games like the above characters, every entry in his series began as a Nintendo exclusive and Nintendo has been pushing the upcoming No More Heroes III pretty hard. Through this niche, Travis has a much more direct path to the battle than Dante, who's stuck competing with a much larger pool of applicants.While it doesn't harm Dante in a vacuum, it harms him in the sense that he lacks certain attractive qualities that substantially set him apart from his peers and thusly puts him into a greater pool for competition. For example, if Capcom did have a pattern of choosing their largest franchises to be the next Smash rep, then that automatically elevates him above the likes of Phoenix Wright and Amaterasu. However, that pattern doesn't exist, therefore Dante can't leverage his series' size into an increased probability for his chance at joining Smash Bros. He's still entirely possible, but he's not a guarantee like many assume him to be.
I gotchu fam
I have to hand it to this weeks Nintendo Direct rumor. At least they stayed within the realm of reality (for some of it). Even though I know they’re fake, I still enjoy reading them haha. pic.twitter.com/mg4Xm2JoBR
— Stealth (@Stealth40k) August 11, 2020
I feel old now
I was going to post that fake leak with Grovyle, like I do everytime someone asks this, but the uploader isn't working.
This is most likely fake but I would do many things to get a New Tomodachi Life
Yeah, this is fake. Honestly, it feels like it's putting TOO much emphasis on the Mario content. Like, I get it, it's Mario's 35th Anniversary, but I feel like this is going a little overboard. At most, I can see the 3D Collection (which everyone and their mom is saying is coming) and 3D World Deluxe (which may as well be a new game because not many people owned a Wii U. No offense).
I suppose that's true, though I'd argue nobody currently has anything that sets them apart from the others in terms of likelihood.
Does there really need to be a pattern of choosing the largest franchises to know that Amaterasu isn't getting in over Dante? lol
Agreed. There are no guarantees. I don't think there has even been a single "guaranteed" pick that actually got in during that speculation cycle outside of proven leaks.
Is there a way that this would allow you to go into the negative? That's a big part of the Brave system, and if that's possible with a meter system I think it would stand out enough.
Not just any lunches. She can walk with lunches, jump with lunches and make consecutive smash lunches.
I still wanna know who Ogre's counterpart is in that universe.
Yeah. Generally if they had the star power for DLC their franchises wouldn't be dead like they are now. The only exceptions are like...Frogger or something.
Frogger is one of those characters I feel has that sort of mainstream notability, but doesn't quite have the "oomph" to be a playable character, at least not as DLC. Frogger would be sick, but he's kind of in the same boat as Dig-Dug and Q*bert where they could make it in, but it would take that Sakurai luck (making something random into a WTF character.)
Well, they're from the 90's, I believe. At the very least, the 80-90's era is where the bulk of the roster comes from.
hmm, you're right, that's an important part of the system in-game. If it's not affecting general stats, only special moves (cancelling aside), maybe if you spend more BP than you have, you disable specials for x-seconds, depending on how far in the red you are.
Re: Min Min: Think you forgot
(who's got the same normal and chargeable system with his pellets, with it functioning as his jab, walk-able tilt, forward air and Smash attack. Min Min extends this to the backwards direction and the B button. Air Shooter - Up-air - is also a non-traditional Up Air that MGW later effectively got.)That said, IMHO the buffs outweigh the nerfs, especially Shulk's ability to escape combos / KO setups via switching to Shield (even if that has practically a cooldown).
Kinda like a "everyone knows them but nobody cares" kinda thing? I suppose that's fair. Frogger is definitely the biggest of games of this type, though his target demographic would likely consist mostly of people who wouldn't likely enjoy Super Smash Bros., and would more likely go "they added Frogger to Smash? That's hilarious!" and move on with their day.
In Japan the series is called Like A Dragon. I could see the yakuza part being a potential problem, but I think that if that was the case Sakurai would be able to do work around it in some way.
I think that people says that because Resident Evil and Monster Hunter are already repped in some form. I personally think RE is super deconfirmed with the spirit board they released a few months ago. And while I don't see MH as deconfirmed for Pass 2, I don't think it's very likely at this point.
To actually answer your question instead of joking around:
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mentioned Dota 2 AoE a few days ago... how would Status Resistance fare in Smash, I wonder? 
I always keep my expectations low, but yeah, some seem to expect a new Pokémon or other first parties because it's their personal worst case scenario.
Anything that is more than 20 years old is considered retro in gaming so Banjo & Kazooie can be considered retro reps.
Kiryu seems like the kind of character that would subvert expectations but I do think that the series being based on the Yakuza clan could clash with Age rating boards regardless of how Sakurai handles it. Sega seems to be giving the series lots of attention and the series was released on the Wii U, unfortunately not selling very well and I remember someone saying that's the reason the series director doesn't release on Nintendo platforms anymore. Kiryu in Smash would definitely change that.
Yeah, I could totally see Sakurai going for Kiryu, but as you said, we don't know if the yakuza part could suppose a problem. I'm not an expert but I'd guess that putting Kiryu there, maybe without showing his tattoo? And a Kamurocho stage with some cameos, wouldn't necessarily be yakuza related, at least not in an explicit way.
When I was working on a moveset concept for Juggernaut, I actually thought about Items as his gimmick. Earning gold through landing attacks and KOs, losing gold by getting KO'd, and using the gold to buy items through a shop to improve his attacks and stats. I even toyed with the idea of Divine Rapier that'd give him a massive boost to his attacks with one caveat; if he's KO'd, the opponent getting the KO credit would steal the rapier and gain its buff. I scrapped this idea because I figured it was too complicated and probably too awkward to work out in practice.
I think legacy and adaptability to Smash are more important than sales figures in this case, something that we've seen many times. The whole "only 90s kids will get this!" thing because of their importance on what they did for gaming. Megaman basically invented the action platformer alongside Ninja Gaiden and Smash wouldn't exist without Street Fighter. Yes, Resident Evil revolutionized survival horror, but the two aforementioned genres are far more relevant to Smash and it seems survival horror representation isn't a priority seeing as we still don't have a pure one after 2 decades.The rankings that I used are from Capcom's official sales figure for each of their franchises, so:
One relatively common argument I've heard for Dante's inclusion is he's the main character of the largest Capcom series not to have content in Smash, so he's therefore the next most likely character to get into Smash. However, this doesn't really correlate with how Capcom has licensed characters to Smash before. Rather than starting with Resident Evil and working down for each franchise, they instead started at Mega Man and worked up. Likewise, Street Fighter and Mega Man got the greatest amount of content (characters, remixes, a stage, assist trophies, etc.) while Monster Hunter and especially Resident Evil got comparatively little, so it's also not a case of the largest getting the most amount of content either.
- Resident Evil (98 million copies)
- Monster Hunter (63 million copies)
- Street Fighter (44 million copies)
- Mega Man (36 million copies)
- Devil May Cry (22 million copies)
Ultimately, why I rank Travis higher than Dante is due to his Nintendo connections. I definitely agree with you that, by most other objective criteria, Dante outedges Travis. However, we've seen in both DLC cycles a common trend for one of the characters, a smaller third party who got in (mostly) due to their strong Nintendo connections.
While it doesn't harm Dante in a vacuum, it harms him in the sense that he lacks certain attractive qualities that substantially set him apart from his peers and thusly puts him into a greater pool for competition. For example, if Capcom did have a pattern of choosing their largest franchises to be the next Smash rep, then that automatically elevates him above the likes of Phoenix Wright and Amaterasu. However, that pattern doesn't exist, therefore Dante can't leverage his series' size into an increased probability for his chance at joining Smash Bros. He's still entirely possible, but he's not a guarantee like many assume him to be.
Plot Twist: They add Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine instead.
Wait, wouldn't that mean...
The main thing that makes me 100% a fake leak to me is that they said plants vs zombies 3 is coming on switch. First off PvZ 3 is only in pre-Alpha right now and isn’t even on iOS, so it isn’t even fully released and also PvZ 3 is only playable in portrait mode (for some reason stupid EA changed a game that has always been landscape to portrait only)
I'm fine with this if it gives us the Multiplayer VS. theme in Smash.
I don't think Nintendo or Sakurai think that hard about genre representation, honestly. It's not like it doesn't matter, but I just think they wanted Megaman "because he's Megaman and he's popular" plus also being a character associated with Nintendo, which of course helps. Being so influential and everything also helps, obviously, but I don't think that's the key in all of this.
Crap, those new spoiler tags suck.
So to clarify, the area under insert when typing called inline spoiler is the spoiler blur while spoiler is how it was before maintenance?
Yes, that is correct yes.
