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Why Malos? I get he’s a villain, and helps fulfil the trinity of the series, but as DLC? In what would likely be the late 2020’s? Unless you were thinking of a future Xenoblade 2DE…
I think online usage will be taken into some consideration. But obviously marketing is a big part of it too.
Honestly…there’s a lot of characters I want but Estelle Bright is one of my more “out-there” picks.
it's the best game in the series
We do know hes apparently a judge of those who are about to die!
hey she may not be there but her spirit lived on through her sister and cousin
Maybe not PURE bias because I think she has a decent shot, but my personal most-wanted is definitely Arle. I think Puyo Puyo is shaping up to have a large enough international presence.
if it were up to me we'd have two more non-clone Pikmin characters at this point
I unashamedly want Baby Mario.
Klonoa. No shot he ever makes it in, even with his games getting remastered a few years back, but I've always been a fan of the little guy and his series. Would jump through the roof if he ever got announced.
If we mean "things I want that aren't getting in".....Sakura Shinguji and Shiori Fujisaki. They're both in the same camp of being characters from very well-regarded 90s Japanese franchises who are probably never going to get in because of how regionally lopsided they are. A shame, because I love them both.
Nintendo never shared the sales of Mii costume. I don't get where those "this costumes sold more than the others" come from. We have no idea.
A while back people found that they could sort Eshop items by "most popular" and used that to determine what were ostensibly the most successful Mii costumes and characters in each region. It should be noted, however, that the validity of this listing was debated, namely in terms of whether it factored in all-time sales or recent sales
Nope. I've seen trailers of it and I remember seeing one for Marina, but I've never taken the time to play Smash hacks.
But iirc the "most popular" sorting is just like, best selling in the past 2 weeks. So of course, the newest wave will be more popular than the oldest. If anything it could still mean that Doom Slayer was the most popoular of his own wave, but that's not saying a lot considering that he released alongisde a Octoling wig and Judd hat.
Yeah exactly, the listing likely wasn't what people thought it was - but it seems to still be used to determine these things sometimes even though it's been more or less discredited
I remeber back during the Fighters Pass I was gaslighting myself into believing The Knight from Hollow Knight was FP5 and they remained my 2nd most wanted for the rest of the DLC.
in fairness to team cherry a massive global pandemic probably set them back quite a bit
Fulgore from Killer Instinct. The underrated mascot, the GOAT, and, fun fact, a Native American.
Fulgore is in my top 5 most wanted characters for Smash. He has such an awesome design and I was really into Killer Instinct back in the day. The 2013 game is great too and I played that one quite a bit as well. The whole series has amazing music too. I actually don’t think he’s out of the question for Smash thanks to the recent focus on bringing RARE games back to Nintendo consoles. Killer Instinct was even the focus of that announcement in the latest direct. There’s also rumors that there’s a new game in development. Maximilliandood has posted a few videos about that. I feel like things might actually line up in his favor this time around.
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It was wild hearing @TheRealBeano's Killer Instinct theme on a #NintendoDirect!
— DK Vine (@dkvine) February 21, 2024
For context, Killer Instinct was once viewed as a big-time Nintendo brand. In the era right before Pokémon, it wasn't uncommon to see Fulgore or Spinal positioned right next to the Kongs or Mario. pic.twitter.com/rmz27lyH1o
The arcade classic returns in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Wrath of the Mutants on #NintendoSwitch! Dominate the Foot Clan to foil the Shredder’s maniacal plan on April 23rd! 🍕 pic.twitter.com/CzHfGVkhr5
— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) February 28, 2024
I’d have to agree. TMNT is my favorite franchise ever and it’s always great to see it get more love. I actually played this on in an arcade years ago with my friends and thought it was pretty fun. Not quite on the level of Turtles in Time or Shredder’s Revenge but it was still enjoyable.
Don't know where you got the "2 weeks" from. And there were other high ranking costumes that came out long before the Doom Slayer Mii costume, so it wasn't because it just came from a new wave.
Halo X Super Smash Bros 💥
— D.M. Galloway | DGDX Animation (@DGDXAnimation) February 24, 2024
Master Chief has landed. Can Mario, Ryu, Pac-Man or Pikachu take him down? #stopmotion #animation #halo pic.twitter.com/sxL71WdiUm
Because that's not enough to discredit it. The fact that it might not be what people thought, but also maybe totally is, makes it a useful tool.
Well that's just how online shop work. Usually when you sort by best selling it doesn't show all time best selling, it's just a key period (usually 2 weeks or a month).
Then again, Mario vs DK is the newest game in the series to be released right now, so it's really no surprised that it would be at the top. That sounds a lot different from the Doom Slayer costume, which had older costumes ranked above it but was still ranked pretty high itself. even moreso than the other costumes that came with it.
It was a fine game for the most part, so long as you're not looking to 100% it, the only thing I wish was that the Nintendo and Rareware coin's weren't mandatory to collect to get to the final Boss and that they cut down on the minigames a bit for the Golden Banana's, iirc DK64 had more minigames than even some actual Mario Party games did...
Mario party also never, as far as im aware, told you to get out before sniping at you
Honestly the more I've resonated on it, and after some good points posed earlier in the thread, I feel like Killer Instinct is a good choice for a secondary Rare "rep" - even though that circumstance is pretty unlikely. I had forgotten just how prominently it used to get showcased alongside those big, longstanding Nintendo IPs. I suppose at one point this was Nintendo's signature fighting game series, predating Smash and it still stands as one of the only traditional fighting game IPs they've had to their name. I guess it probably counts for something that it was treated as sort of the lead-in / main attraction for the recent NSO reveal too. I certainly think Fulgore holds a bit more weight than the likes of Conker, not sure how he stacks up with Battletoads.
This is a really fun animation, but yeah I feel like if Chief made it in he probably wouldn't go on such a massacre. Then again, that wouldn't be so different than Mega Man immediately throwing hands. I just imagine Master Chief's reveal being one that poses is a bit more like a friendly sparring with a respected opponent like Samus. But maybe it'd go something like this if they want to make a big show of the crossover appeal.
I'm very happy seeing Marina's name pop up this much, she's one of my big pipe dream picks too. My words aren't really properly coming together on it right now, but she just fits the essence of Smash incredibly well. I adore Treasure games and their designs are so much fun to boot, you look at Marina and you can already garner how unique she'd be. There must be some sort of unspoken understanding about how nicely she slots in with some of the other big boys at Nintendo, validated even further by her inspired moveset in Smash Remix.
As someone who has the Battletoads as their most wanted, I feel that Fulgore actually makes more sense as the second RARE rep over them. Unlike Battletoads, Killer Instinct was actually partially owned by Nintendo themselves. I think the Killer Instinct 2013 was a lot more hyped than the Battletoads 2020 game too. The latest direct seemed to primarily focus on Killer Instinct as their main attraction for the RARE announcement even though Battlemaniacs was also included. Finally, Battletoads was multiplatform before RARE was partially acquired by Nintendo but KI was exclusive to Nintendo consoles (and arcades) before being bought by Microsoft. My dream would be to get both of them but I feel like that’s a bit unrealistic and greedy on my end.
Marina deserves better for what she has currently
On that note feels like folks really underestimate the importance of characters with a solid distinct game play hook. Like even the most basic non-semi clone newcomers in Ultimate Ridley and K.Rool have some more mechanically complex stuff going on compared to 64 and Melee's characters with the instakill attack and blunderbus respectively.
I do think it's a bit more of an uphill climb for another character to make it without sheer Banjo levels of support, putting it lightly, but with how openly Microsoft has been supportive of bringing Rare back to Nintendo I wonder if they would suggest it themselves. Like hey, we'll give you Banjo back and you can do whatever the hell you want with these guys. I can see that happening to varying results - maybe one ends up an AT, a few costumes, we get a bunch of scattered Rare spirits, etc.
