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I’m sorry lol.
id say hypocrisy is one of the most human things there is. I’d don’t like sexualised characters either but I can be tolerant of them in the cases of most of XC2 and cia but not in the case of bayo and Shante. Though the former has other things.
Yeah, Lulu’s design never bothered me either but I could understand if someone complained about being a bit revealing.
Hmm... you're right.
Last year the president of Nintendo said the Switch is in the middle of its life. It’s going to go on for another 5 years before the next console.
I know it's only a joke, but technically we did get Mega Mewtwo X and Mega Mewtwo Y, which are kinda like Mewthree and Mewfour.
In discussing likelihoods, popularity should be considered, as it has been stated many times to be a factor. It's not completely subjective, as you can make some baseline statements like "Krystal is a more popular Smash request than Peppy Hare" or even more meaningful ones like "K. Rool was more popular than Dixie in the ballot days," but when you get to things like "Krystal is a more popular Smash request than Ashley," I agree that it gets pretty difficult to confirm one way or another. But like just about anything else you just do the best you can to assess in spite of the imperfections.
I was pretty unsure about Waluigi to be fair; he barely made it on the list.
It was 10th in the big 2020 poll, 2nd for Kanto. Outside of that, its popularity in general has just really taken off in modern times, as has its marketing. Gengar is one of only a few PKMN to receive both Mega and Gigantamax forms (from a quick look, I think the only one besides the Kanto starters). Gengar appears consistently in spinoffs, even in ones like Pokken and Unite which have a more limited roster. It has merchandise, too. In-game it doesn't have a particular standout appearance like Garchomp or Gardevoir do, though it has a strangely high frequency in appearing on gym leader or elite four teams, for whatever that's worth. There's also the whole Lavender Town thing for its evo line I guess. But at this point it has a case as the most iconic gen 1 mon not in Smash outside of, like, Eevee (IMO it passed stuff like Snorlax and Dragonite, more arguably even Gyarados). That's how I look at Gengar.
CYL has several quirks and issues, like the oddity of previous winners being removed in the later ones, certain characters doing way better than they would otherwise due to the poll being Heroes-centric, meme choices like Gatekeeper (which happens in just about any poll anyway), and naturally skewing towards the game most recently released at the time of the poll.
Well, if there's not that many of them then that just makes it easier to consolidate support for the select few!
There is a chance that was just PR speak and “middle” could have been not been meant literally.
Now what can I say and what can I write about this topic? Only that we can continue to watch the next games of our favorite series for the next five years on the Switch or wait to see what awaits us in 2023 or 2024.
It's still a poll that is only centred around a specific group of people who happened to play FEH or have an interest. Its definitely not a significant group within the much bigger gaming audience - marth performed like **** in it, but so many more people know about him outside of said FEH group. Chrom also did worse than the likes of lyn or hector, but he got his slot by polling way better with outside polls like the ballot.
I understand the issues with it, as I stated. My base argument is just that it's "not useless" and is a "decent snapshot." Note that I haven't done any calculations or analysis on how good the sample size is relative to the whole FE audience, but the results compare fairly favorably against what I would expect. I never meant to imply that it was reflective of a general gaming audience, but rather just an FE audience (and maybe I should correct that to "a dedicated FE audience"). And regardless of the strength of the sample size, it is an official poll that IS itself has paid active attention to.
Well, Lyn fans will probably take the support in just about any way they can get it...
Hot take: Dahlia's design isn't THAT bad. In fact, it kinda fits her personality: a Southern belle with a motherly side (at least, that's how I saw it).
If that’s how she turned out, I don’t think I want to even look at her original design. Thankfully, so far, Xenoblade 3 seems to have addressed all of my complaints with design from what I’ve seen so far so I’m really looking forward to that game.
I'll discuss popularity to be sure, but only begrudgingly.
It seems that while XC2's skeleton crew development team let the commissioned artists have free reign, Monolith is taking a more active role in directing Saito's choices.
You say that now, but wait until we get to the swimsuits...
Pyra's swimsuit looks more normal than her regular wear tho.
Then why isn't it in Smash like Shulk's?
But it's probably right to expect the vast majority of swim outfits to be more risqué than the standard ones...
Yeah, I’m mostly against the idea of choosing the latest starter or lord just because they feel obligated to. If they happen to be one of my favorites, I’ll still support them but not due to the fact that they’re starters or lords. The chances that either will end up among my favorites are pretty low judging by past games but you never know.
I actually actively supported Ike way back, didn't think he'd come out as a slower type of swordsman, but still play him often. I also supported Byleth, but they also didn't quite turn out the way I liked. Which is also why I support a moveset change for them, a lowkey excuse to root for Dimitri especially who's totally deemed redundant cause of Byleth's moveset using his weapon.
I didn't play that newer mobile game, but I thought the free-to-play 3DS game was actually a rare example of monetization done right. The basic idea is that there's an upper limit to the number of gems you can buy, and once you reach it, you can't buy any more, but you're given a dispenser that gives you a good amount of gems regularly AND the cost of entering each world is reduced significantly. It's not quite 100% as free-reign as a retail game, but you effectively make it come pretty close to being one (and they actually did release a physical retail version of it later, I guess with all the premium content already included). I haven't played it, but I heard the free-to-play Kirby game has something similar.
On that note, do anyone think it's possible to have 2 Smash games on the Switch if that's the case or nah.
No not for the Switch, but for the next console yes.
Is Byleth so much a Persona character then? I never played those games, never owned a PlayStation. In terms of abilities, yeah Byleth was cool, their backstory too. But I can't quite get why they went from very interactive Avatar main characters as Robin and Corrin to a totally stoic Byleth. Not even Chris from FE11 was like this, they also had a clear set personality and talked (what was also cool is that Chris didn't took the spotlight from Marth, but that's another topic).
I played the 3DS game and it was fun for about an hour until the timer kicked in. I’m the type of person who will never spend any amount of money on games like that so I just stopped playing altogether at that point. Even if it might have been fair compared to other similar games, those types of games just aren’t my thing.
Nah. I can't see two Smash games happening for one system, especially for one that has one already and in the middle of it's lifespan. Like if they are doing DLC for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe rather than do a 2nd Mario Kart on the same system, I can't see them doing a 2nd Smash game on the same system.
If their schedule is such that they, for whatever reason, won't be able to get a new Smash on the system within the first couple years, they may throw a port out there to satiate the crowd and move units in the meantime. Whether that's Ultimate w/DLC, Ultimate Deluxe, or even the fabled-but-probably-unlikely Melee HD, who knows.
That part yeah, and everyone seemed to praise them all the time. And am wording that nicely.
But I don't get it, they could've done all of that, and still give Byleth actual lines they'd talk. It's been done before. Fire Emblem had great interactive Avatars with their own personality as Robin and Corrin (even if Corrin didn't always make sense, especially in Conquest).
Honestly, this does seem to be a good bit of rewriting history to me.
TLDR: They overreacted to Fates criticism.
I love Xenogears and Xenosaga, but do not press your luck on getting either of them in smash under the Xenoblade series. Maybe you could get KOS MOS as a Xenosaga character, but both Xenogears and Xenosaga are sadly kind of dead right now. Xenosaga will probably get a re release at some point similar to how Chrono Chross did, but the Xenogears series is right now dormant. On the other hand, Xenosaga does have the potential to see its trilogy get a remaster, but right now the odds of that happening does not seem great sadly. Its a shame. Xenogears is one of my favorite PS1 games and favorite games of all time, while I am a big fan of Xenosaga and its world and soundtrack too.
Yes, in the leadup to the Robin/Lucina reveal I don't remember much hate for FE. But I still think featuring Lucina in the trailer was a mistake, despite me seeing how, from their perspective, it would've seemed like a good idea. They should have either come up with the Echo branding back then or maybe left Lucina as a secret character or alt costume or something, because after the reveal a lot of people just saw "4 FE characters on the CSS" and the grumblings started. The rep count after the Robin/Lucina reveal was absolutely seen as an issue by many of the people rooting for more reps from series like DK, Kirby, or Metroid, which all ended up with smaller rep counts than FE in base 4. It's easy to whitewash the rep count complaints now because so many people have given up on them, but back then it was seen as a legitimate problem. I view this trailer as the essential origin of the FE hate in Smash, despite that hate not blowing up until later.
Yes, because people basically all expected it to happen, that is, expected a mon from Alola specifically to happen, and were speculating on which one (again, from Alola specifically) they either wanted or thought was likely.
