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Let's wait and see if Sonic 2 ends up teasing Shadow. Then we can work things out from there.
The obvious solution is to add Big the Cat, we've been over this.
This guy gets it.
Yeah, I think that’s a good way to go about it. For the purposes of posting a list, I can’t very well hold a ballot so I went with a mix of characters I either hear a lot of support for or I just feel are very deserving. Other characters are just personal favorites that I could at least make some argument about why they should be here. Sadly, a lot of my favorites are Microsoft characters and Pokémon so I had to leave them off the list since those two are already pretty heavily represented. My other favorite characters are probably too random or obscure to realistically have any shot at getting in Smash.
If you start counting from the launch of Ultimate rather than the end of the DLC, we’re a lot closer at least. I could potentially see another Smash within the next 3 years if all goes well.
The reason why the gap between 3DS/Wii U was so short was because the Wii U was a massive flop. The Switch is planned to go on for 9 Years at least so we're not getting another new game until at least a couple years into the next console, likely so Nintendo can figure out whether or not the console was enough of a success to justify needing an Ultimate Deluxe or not.
Is that confirmed? 9 years seems like an abnormally long time for a console’s life cycle. Has any console ever had a life cycle that long?
The Wii and Playstation 2 still had games being sold like a few years ago.
Nope, but judging by some recent quotes, we're only half way through the lifecycle of the Switch, so considering when this quote was said, which was 4 and a half years in, doubling it up gets you to 9 years. Not to mention how NFT's are making next gen chips rarer than ever.
Feel free to post whatever you want to talk about but I’m always more interested in hearing what people want from Smash than what they expect. I have a lot of personal favorite characters I love to talk about here.
I’d say
for sure most younger people only know him because of smash (tbh same with)I feel that would depend on if Sakurai would want to go obscure again. Though with the current direction Smash is going, that gets increasingly harder to justify...
Admittedly all I've done so far is take one of those old Most Wanted templates for Ultimate, and replaced the Least Wanted section with a Mii Costumes section before adding everything else. It's a bit barebones, but I'm holding off from going too crazy until we get a good idea of the next Smash's scope.
I think
are probably the most obscure first party character. As far as third parties, none of them are really that obscure but I suppose I’d say that would likely be it. I’m all for obscure characters. A lot of my favorites are obscure so I have no issues with more joining.Thanks for the feedback. I was torn between EMMI and Raven Beak for Smash. I’m still playing Dread and just got the ice missiles so I don’t know much about Raven Beak yet. I imagine he would have a lot more direct source material to pull from for a moveset than EMMI and he is the main antagonist, which are two strong points in his favor.
Who's the yellow sprite-looking guy? Sheriff?
I’ll second the ice climber and ROB picks, I’d also raise Mr Game and Watch especially when he joined the roster.
Man, imagine if they acknowledged something like Warlocked. Remember that game?
Amusingly enough, I was personally familiar with Game & Watch when Melee came out. I never played the original devices, but I was familiar with the Game & Watch Gallery games on Game Boy, which were fairly recent at the time.
In the roster? Probably ROB. Can't say for third-party characters.
Terry is nowhere near obscure.I think
It's one of the Dragon sprites from Adventure on the 2600. I was inspired to include it because of a version of it in MUGEN whose moveset involved it turning into other sprites from other Atari 2600 games, kind of similar to how they revamped Mr. Game & Watch in Ultimate.
I agree. Like I said, I don’t think any third party character in Smash is obscure. The question was who was the MOST obscure of the third party characters chosen. I’m guessing it’s between Terry and Banjo but within the Smash community, it’s probably Terry.
For first party its probably
or I'd think.
I don't see how either one of them can be considered obscure.
I mean, most people had never heard of SNK pre-Smash...
If you mean some of the Smash fans...probably. I've always found that strange that some fans had no clue about SNK.
Probably
for first party. Like, aside from hardcore Nintendo fans, who would really know who the Ice Climbers are aside from Smash Bros?
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It's probably Ice Climbers, who even when they were included were hardly the most prolific retro character, and over the following twenty years have become even more obscure, were you to put Smash aside.
When I think about it, Banjo&Kazooie and Bayonetta probably are the right answers. I mean, Banjo&Kazooie hasn't really been relevant for a decade now (with their last adventure being an Xbox exclusive that wasn't held in high regard). And Bayonetta, while from a fondly-loved game, is from a relatively new IP (one that would've been literally just one title, and I guess a couple Sega cameos, had it not been for Nintendo saving the sequel). However, both characters have heavy ties to Nintendo, so technically, should they really be regarded in the same vein as the other 3rd party characters? I mean, Banjo&Kazooie got so many requests because of their prominence as first-party characters in the N64 era, while Bayonetta (regardless of the polls' legitimacy) did genuinely get a lot of requests (and blocks by Hideki Kamiya) due to recently being picked up by Nintendo as one of the WiiU's most notable exclusives. If neither of these characters had those aspects going for them, I doubt they'd be widely seen as any more worthy of adding to Smash than, say, Ty the Tasmanian Tiger.For first party its probably
For third party its either
As for if they'd go more obscure...maybe? The only character I could maybe see as more obscure and having any actual shot of making it into SMash is Adol Cristin of the Ys series.
If you go back to before they were revealed, this is clearly not an accurate reflection of the fanbase. Simon carried almost all the expectation for his series, and anyone else other than Alucard was lucky to even be mentioned offhandedly.
Richter was in Castlevania Symphony of the Night. That's like the most popular Castlevania game outside the first one on the NES.
