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Not sure about hype culture, but leak culture did, especially during DLC
Well, allow me to reiterate. When I say hype culture, I don't mean that you can't be excited for a character. Hype culture, to me, means that there is an inherent demand and expectation that every character be a mind blowing show stopper and if the character isn't, it's a failure.
Ahhh. Appreciate the clarification. Yes this would bother me. Did it? No actually because I'm mainly optimistic when it comes to speculation. So naysayers who are like oh blah blah character wasn't "hype" so they're a waste or just in it for reasons I'm like whatever and ignore their negativity.
I don't think it was a big negative.
Hoping for that one. I really just want more Ultimate.
Near as I can tell, the only NON-mind blowing show-stoppers were the 1st party DLC.
I feel it did to some extent. This type of culture is what I believe lead to the whole "only bottom of the barrel 1st party characters are left" mindset which grinded my gears quite a bit. While some people talk about how rough it was to try and support third parties during previous Smash game speculation times, which may very well be true, but I feel like the problem kinda reversed during Ultimate\s DLC speculation cycle as we kept on getting big/popular third party requests (and I have no issues with third parties mind you, but they did end up ballooning people's expectations).
Despite the way they do their IPs now, I'm pretty sure Konami is not hard for Nintendo to work with. Hopefully, Contra will be the next Konami series to be represented in Smash, though I wouldn't be surprised if Bomberman gets represented too.
Pokemon cut half its dex and it's trucking along fine.
This is a Nintendo game at the end of the day, bad business desicions are their bread and butter. lol
Towards the end? Yes, because we only talked about the most hype picks and doomsday scenarios.
To an extent, yeah. Many people cared more about the reveals than the game itself. The sense of fan ownership of the game was a lot worse this time around, and whether or not a character was this big, hype crowd-pleaser was being treated as some sort of purity test rather than what it was, which is "kind of neat."
Gotta be honest, i fully wanted a doomsday scenario pick just because i thought it would be hilarious.
You could probably throw in the Mii costumes as well (granted, not every Smash4 costume returned, though ALL the third party ones eventually came back), in which case, there's:
I wouldn't be that optimistic about Squenix. While we did finally get some actual Final Fantasy VII content, the fact that it was all locked behind Sephiroth suggests that they probably want their content to remain premium. At the very least, try not to count on getting their stuff in the base game (Cloud in Ultimate was supposedly a huge hurdle in that regard). And given that their retail games tend to cost a little more than other standard releases, this really seems par the course for Square Enix (though at least in my opinion, it makes them look like they're way too full of themselves).
Marvelous you say? So you're telling me Farmer Pete has a chance?
You don't say?
Only if both parties (Them and Natsume) agreed to use both name.Marvelous you say? So you're telling me Farmer Pete has a chance?
How about Project x Zone 3, but with a twist: All the anime-looking humanoid characters from the first two games are vanished out of existence of their universe and the next generation are an overload of Scrimblo Bimblos of Nintendo, Bamco, Sega and Capcom.
Boi, don't make me pull out my essay and templates.
MK still has the issue of whether or not Sakurai would want to pick such a franchise, even if it was still Midway's property. It has SOME Japanese fans, but overall the Japanese fighting game community wants to play Japanese fighters.
I Mean, The thing is that One of the Main Appeals of Smash is the Crossover Nature of the Series. That's why I think cutting characters is much harder with this game than usual Fighting games, or even with Pokemon. Casuals come for the Crossover nature as well
I think one thing to also mention is I believe Most of the time Sakurai said Everyone is here might be an Impossibility, That was before Smash Ultimate became the Best Selling Fighting game in the World
I would argue building off Ultimate would made having Substantial Single Player content much more likely, since they have already developed the Game Feel and Balance of the game already, as well as the characters
And one of the main appeals of Pokemon is "Gotta catch 'em all", which you cannot do without every single Pokemon in the game.
I mean, like Nelson said, one of the main appeals of Pokemon is how the Pokemon Company keeps trying to push the narrative that these little collections of data are your valuable friends, and yet, Sword/Shield told probably a good amount of your "friends" to go **** themselves.
Yeah, I seem to remember with Smash4, there was almost as much speculation over who would be returning as there was over which newcomers would be introduced. I particularly recall what seemed like bigger hype over Captain Falcon's confirmation in that trailer than there was over both Robin and Lucina (and this was before Fire Emblem received hate for over-usage), and the DLC cycle was absolutely full of demand for returning veterans. This is likely one of the reasons Ultimate decided to alleviate such worries right off the bat, and one has to wonder if it'll really be the best move to start all the way from square one again just to repeat all of that.
Looks at how many people want the next Smash to be an Ult port/convinced that EVERYONE IS HERE 2.0 will happen
So, if history is anything to go by; people are going to "boycott" the next Smash because it cut insert hardcore fan-favorite character and doesn't have a huge sidescrolling adventure mode to justify it.
Truth be told, all this time later, I still find Sword/Shield a woefully below average game.
My theory is that a lot of people are still cautiously optomistic about Pokemon, with some even supporting the franchise more aggressively to counteract the backlash. You also have to consider that the population of people who are into gaming in general keeps growing each year, with the Switch itself being a very successful system. However, if the high sale numbers really do end up telling The Pokemon Company that they don't need to do anything to improve, and their quality continues to slump even worse as a result, THAT is when you can expect the numbers will really start to drop off.
I could see Cloud and Sephiroth coming back in the base game but the music could be locked behind a DLC square-enix rep for example Zack echo fighter DLC with all the FF7 music included and some extra
It's casuals.
Yes. And this is coming from someone whose MW list is like 90% third parties.