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Yeah for me it's the Square Enix trio of Cloud, Sephiroth and Sora getting swept that worries me. Especially Cloud because that's like MY guy in Smash. Easily my legitimate main though I like to play other characters for fun. First time I ever got a big character I wanted in the game. I voted for him on the ballot (Crash Bandicoot too!) and I'm just so attached to the character with FFVll being one of like one of the earliest games I'd ever beaten as a child. I ordered the guidebook over the phone and everything. That game was borderline the book that got me reading. Loved the story obviously and became a Final Fantasy fan in general afterward (haven't played anything below 6 though) and man just writing all that out there really reminds me of how cool Smash is for me. Banjo and Kazooie was my first video game ever and THE first video game I'd ever beaten and getting them in Smash is truly incredible. Them potentially getting swept is almost as big of a deal as losing Cloud because of that.
Yeah. With the rumors of Sony buying Square Enix the SE reps are the most likely characters to be cut from the next Smash game.
For whatever it may be worth, even if the next game has substantial cuts, I absolutely think they'd at least try to get the SE crew back...Cloud especially, since he'd be a two time veteran at that point. Like even in a weird made up case where like, the budget only accounted for like five third parties at base, for some reason, I think they'd try to go for him.
FWIW, Jim Ryan recently reconfirmed that there are more acquisitions coming:
Jim Ryan Q&A
— Benji-Sales (@BenjiSales) May 27, 2022
• PlayStation was focused on "rather narrow" console market. PC, Mobile, and GAAS will bring growth
• 2 Unannounced Live Service Games launching this FY
• More acquisitions coming
• Live Servive games will be "completely transformational" to PlayStation business pic.twitter.com/64UGTOBNxU
sony wouldnt gain control of sora though. it wouldnt make things easier but still
Nintendo operates on their own wavelength which only occasionally intersects with what the others do. It's not unfounded Nintendo would make an acquisition in the coming years, but it seems likelier they'd aim for an existing partner or a supplemental developer as opposed to some company that would shake up the industry and take a major third-party off the table.
You just asked an important question and generally with what you wrote to me I thought again I would say that Nintendo will not consider buying for example Capcom or Konami or any other big company.
I actually agree, but there might be ONE thing that makes Bandai Namco a bit hard to buy not just for Nintendo, but for anybody: apparently, Bandai Namco is a LOT bigger than people think it is. As in, the Bandai half alone does SO MUCH STUFF, not just gaming. Like, no joke, it'd be more likely for Bandai Namco to sell off their gaming division seperately to focus on other things than for them to sell themselves outright.
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They basically have a monopoly on anime licenses. If you want your anime property adapted into game format you get them to do it.
Except that that's exactly what Sword and Shield did anyway. The models may have the resolution scaled, but they're very much the exact same ones that've been used since Pokemon XY nearly 10 years ago, and it's all the more reason why many of us feel completely cheated out of the National Dex.
I mean, for what it's worth, the Craft Yoshi alt that replaced the black one is complete crap. Just a blatant advertisement that barely looks different from the default coloring. Though I wouldn't have much of a problem with it existing if not for the fact that it replaces a far superior alt. Of course, a simple solution to this would've been for Ultimate to not strictly tie every single Fighter to 8 alts with no room for exceptions (something I don't get, considering Brawl's Wario and Smash4's Little Mac managed to be such exceptions).
Yup. Should help to keep the Melee whiners at bay, and really, just so long as the Smash6 engine remains the standard for tournaments and random online, they probably don't even need to worry too much about balance.
Not only is Smash steeped in its own traditions, but Smash is a series all about having legacy characters in the first place, which makes every single member of the roster seem all the more crucial. All the more reason why the sheer magnitude of Everyone Is Here can not be underestimated. It's not even purely about characters with unique gameplay, either..... I mean, just look at Sakurai's comments about why Dr. Mario didn't just come back as an alt in Smash4, even though his playstyle already mostly existed in Mario (and even Luigi to an extent). And even characters like Pichu, Young/Toon Link, and Dark Pit doubtlessly have their fans, to say nothing of characters who actually do have unique functions like Corrin (no matter how divisive they may seem at a glance).
Gosh you're right the timing lines up for the end of the Switch's life cycle to be soon if it's anything like previous consoles, but it sure doesn't FEEL like it's nearing the end does it? It's still selling and getting hella support. Maybe it's the pandemic pausing the whole industry for a couple years or something? Or maybe just a new cycle Nintendo's trying out.
i think i do i just can never remember the name
I don't mind the crafted alt so much but yeah it's pretty unimpressive. My brother who knows nothing about crafted world immediately commented that it looked like crap when he saw it. I think it's a perfectly serviceable alt. As much as it'd be pretty insignificant I'd really like a darker green Yoshi too. They'd transitioned him to a the brighter green he currently has for quite sometime but I'm a bigger fan of the darker green look on him though I like the new standard bright green version well enough because at the end of the day it's still Yoshi and everybody loves Yoshi.
I gotta say though I do love me some Melee physics/tech. I recently got a 3DS that I went ahead and modded it and played some Smash 4 today though and I gotta say that despite Smash 4 not being what I'd like Smash to be (Ultimate was a stride in the correct direction) I still really appreciate how unique it is compared to the other entries. In fact all of them are really special in that regard. Brawl and Smash 4 are the most similar but even they're different.
I agree. I really feel like Smash should be above cuts (mostly when it comes to characters obviously though I hate losing any content) or at the very least work exceedingly hard to avoid them. I know it's unrealistic but is it? Ultimate DX kind of serves as my platform for believing it's not unrealistic. There're so many ways they could go about it even being able to include a humungous package at launch with the double release strategy I elaborated on a page or 2 back. They could go about it the way you said by almost getting everything back from Ultimate and then drip-feeding missing content back through DLC and/or free updates. And both of these strategies could deploy a continuous developmental strategy from the onset if they wanted to.
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:"Bigger and better" has its place, don't get me wrong, but the reliance on it as a perpetual standard rather than something that's balanced with making a distinct sequel experience is a big problem with developers AND audiences.
You can really sense this with the constant talk of Sony buying Konami being clearly driven by a desire for the latter's IP's becoming active again. This in spite of the fact that Konami's current gaming business model (largely modestly budgeted Japan oriented titles with a lot of profits coming from Switch releases) is fairly at odds with Sony's (many AAA Western focused games while demonstrating inconsistent interest for mid-level games back home).
I'm in support of using Ultimate in such a way that everything (licensing issues aside) can be brought back. I just want the things to be reused to include models, animations, and particles and to exclude the whole core gameplay.
Both sides of this debate are using very confusing terminology tbh. "Ultimate DX/2.0/whatever" does imply that it's a re-release whether you like it or not, and "reboot" does imply that it's going to be a ground-up revamp with many characters and stages rebuilt completely, right down to their design. Neither option is good, and I'm just willing to refer to the next Smash as a "sequel", because that's literally what it is.
Well, we do know that Ultimate itself had its engine updated to allow for Steve to mine the stages, so you have some point there. That said, I'm more in favor of just retaining all (if not just 85-95%) of the characters and stages. There's a lot of things about Ultimate that I won't miss if they were cut, like the horribly repetitive Adventure Mode. And I actually appreciate that Classic Mode in each Smash is different from the last. I'd also like to see Spirits be revamped so that they at least have the descriptions that made trophies so fun; just make them "Spirit Cards".
Hey Smash Bros fans you guys wanna check this one out these are technically viable Disney reps as their games released before the movies. pic.twitter.com/eIrpIsU53E
— Axem Red ㋡ (@RedAxem) May 29, 2022
Let’s not forget about Lightning McQueen either. Especially considering Cars got an entire series of games unlike the others.
Wherever you stand on that debate, I think we just need to accept that every possible definition of "video game character" is imperfect.
That's the funniest part: the Cars novelization came out before the video game.
So is Joker since SMT started as a book (light novel?) series.
Shoutouts to that one Smashboards user who unironically claimed that Joker opened the floodgates for Goku because his game was too anime.
Smash is anime by nature. It has animation work done in Japan.
At that point, you're just playing a degree of separation game.
I guess it's like Bravely Default being considered its own thing despite lifting classes directly from the Job-based Final Fantasy titles and Default and Second having elements directly from an actual FF spinoff.
