The good ending would be to add her 6 design and her alpha design as Alt skins.
Agreed but with the lack of Hot Ryu I'm not holding my breath
Though maybe the next game will greatly expand the selection with paid skins, with whatever has prevented them thus far (as I'm sure the idea has been raised) being overcome.
Does anybody still remember time where characters like Reimu, KOS-MOS, Arle and even Jonesy and Caco Demon were front-runners and solid locks for people in Smash Picks.
Smash Speculation especially 2019/early 2020 went into such wild and weirdly exciting territory.
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Or even the time where Steve was painted as a literal villian with a mock appearance to boot?
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For some people yes, but the community as a whole never saw those characters as front-runners. Well, after Steve, fears of Fortnite grew, but certainly no one was psyched on it.
I do remember the Reimu music leak wouldn't die though. Not that I necessarily have anything against Reimu, but after so long it's just clear the timing didn't make sense for it to be valid any more.
Hey guys...
Why didn't we get any substantial content from Metroid Prime 3: Corruption?
Metroid Prime got a stage and lots of tracks.
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes got Dark Samus and one track.
Even Metroid Prime Hunters got a track.
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption only got a couple of spirits. Why?
I think if a game is western, the chance it gets less content raises based on what else is available for the series.
Oftentimes western games only get the extent of the content they do because fans won't shut the hell up about it. i.e. Diddy and K. Rool both being very popular against DK usually being in a perpetual state of underrepresentation, Dark Samus getting in via popularity (among clone candidates), demands for Ridley in Brawl leading to two boss fights (thus incorporating Meta-Ridley).
Little Mac was also popular, but I wouldn't count him since I don't think he got in based on that. Though if Punch-Out had two recent games instead of one, one Japan developed and one western developed, it wouldn't surprise me if most of the content skewed towards the Japan one. Even then, Sakurai took a lot of inspiration from the arcade title, which was like... the least-well known one. Though perhaps that was different in Japan.
I mean, across the four Prime games (including Hunters - we don't talk about FedForce), there's... one stage. Only Prime 1 has more than a single piece of music. If this EPD DK game comes to pass, I bet you it will see more content from it than any other individual DK game apart from DKC1.
That’s why I never really like to predict likelihood of a character making it in. For one, Sakurai is famous for surprising people with his choices. Who would have ever predicted Pirahna Plant? I haven’t seen many Terry, Joker, or Sephiroth predictions before their reveal either.
That's true. But it's not true to the extent no characters we receive were predicted beforehand, which will sort of keep the engine going. I don't think anyone is realistically going in thinking they'll be able to predict everyone, or that there won't be surprises.
And though spots are limited, some characters do get in based on the online fanbase. Which is pretty effective fuel for speculation.
Secondly, I just find it more fun to talk about characters that I personally like than characters I think have the best chances. That’s just a personal preference though.
Finally, the popular and most likely characters already have a ton of discussion and I don’t know how much I can add that hasn’t already been discussed. By bringing up new character ideas, my hope is to gives us something fresh to talk about once in a while and help people open up to new ideas that haven’t really been brought up much. I’ve noticed that many in the fandom tend to fixate on just a few characters and dismiss almost everyone else. I’m guilty of talking about my favorites too often myself but I try to keep an open mind about everyone’s ideas and not rule out anything.
Can't fault any of that. Makes sense.
The only issue is that it's hard to maintain momentum on a character who isn't among the smallish pool of usual suspects, because expectation and popularity are intrinsically interwoven. If people don't see reason to expect a character, it's tough for them to gain the popularity to become a conversation regular. Mix that against how bringing up a longshot too many times actually starts turning people
against that character, and it's a tricky balancing act.
Not to suggest you stop. Conversation otherwise is incredibly cyclical. It's just real tough for somewhat arbitrary choices to get a lasting foothold in speculation. In part because dickheads like me who generally frame things realistically rather than "wouldn't it be cool?" aren't helpful from a non-pragmatic perspective.
I also noticed that the Embracer Group owns a lot of awesome characters that have among my favorite visual and thematic design. Legacy of Kain and Darksiders have some of the coolest looking characters in gaming and someone like Raziel or Death would be awesome in Smash. Borderlands is also a lot of fun and has really interesting characters with unique abilities. Finally, Tomb Raider is so iconic and it would be great to see Lara Croft make it into Smash one day. Legacy of Kain and Darksiders probably need a big new game to have a realistic shot but I could see Borderlands and Tomb Raider getting representation as is.
(On a side not, yay me for hitting 4,000 posts
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Imo Borderlands' art style does make it conducive to fitting Smash. Maybe not a character, but getting something somewhere wouldn't look out of place to me. Even just a Psycho Mii costume.
Of course since it's M, it's be the weirdness of seeing Smash Bros x Psycho.
Also since Embracer now owns the Eidos catalogue, we'll probably actually see the Legacy of Kain IP not being squandered, which is nice.
On the subject of characters that don’t get brought up much, how does everyone feel about Vi from League of Legends/Arcane either as a stand-alone character or tag duo with Jinx. Vi was the main protagonist of Arcane and has a Smash-mouth fighting style fitting for a game like Smash. Her history with Jinx could make the two an interesting transform duo as Vi focuses on hard hitting melee attacks while Jinx is mostly a quick ranged fighter. I feel like the two styles would play well together much like Alphen and Shionne.
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I have immense doubts it would be Vi over Jinx and not vice versa. Jinx has sort of become the de facto face of LoL, and is more popular than Vi.
For instance, she's the one that got the Fortnite appearance.
It'd sort of be like getting Liu Kang, the hero/actual protagonist, over Scorpion, the morally ambiguous mascot.
Plus we also have a lot of brawlers, another gunner wouldn't go amiss.
But just getting LoL content in general I don't find nearly as objectionable as others do. Still waiting on Wild Rift to show up on Switch though.
Man...remember in the pre-E3 2013 speculation days when so many people wanted and predicted a Skytown Elysia stage?
I miss those times sometimes.
Dread it, run from it... Other M still arrives.
