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This makes the announcer voice call leak list even more unreliable, since he was listed alongside other likely placeholder names.
First of all, needlessly harsh. Also in my defense, I blew through Arcade with all the characters at launch and never touched it again (except once when Garfield dropped) and the experience must've been so forgettable that I completely forgot home stages don't even correlate with the character you fight there like you'd expect in an Arcade mode.
What's the likelihood of none of those showing up in the first(?) wave? Sounds silly, but that is also a possibility depending on how much the staff follows their hearts.
They legit can't do that though. Timeline is just not good since delays and unexpected things happen a lot with the devs. This patch was delayed beforehand due to internal issues. Them not releasing any dates saves Ludosity from the pressure of meeting any expected deadlines. NASB is in a state where the updates need to be good, they cannot afford to rush **** anymore.
This, things that would be taken for granted for other fighting games are touted as upcoming features here, because Nick execs care less about fighting and more about tennis balls, apparently.
With Ludosity being more in touch with fan requests than Sakurai and knowing this game needs more players ASAP, I'll expect more unusual choices much later.
More accurately, having an easier time talking to fans who speak the same language.
Seeing as the Nick pool is pretty small overall anyway, it's not like they have much of a choice in the matter in regards to going after lauded fan requests. Even characters from "safe" properties like TLH and Ren & Stimpy needed some prodding for Nick to allow.
Four is still more than one half of a fighting game's season pass.
IMHO, near-zero, primarily because we know at least some of the staff want Rocko.
I'm not saying they should announce release dates in advance and obviously crunching to release dates would be bad (though that should be avoided by Sweden's strict labour laws, at least on the Ludosity side of things). But a basic "In 2022, we aim to do the following things big-picture" announcement would be nice and avoid the elephant-in-the-room feeling we have about things like items that we all know are being added to the game but are officially unannounced.
They already did something like that. They don't really need to go into further detail, making promises is risky and also lessens a lot of the surprise.
Yes, though we don't know if they'll do all of them right off the bat, or spread them across a couple of seasons. The former, most likely, but right now it's not exactly clear.
I find it interesting how Squidward of all possible characters hasn't been explicitly ruled out.
When your game is much smaller than Smash to the point where its Steam player count struggles to reach triple digits, you need to do the fan requests ASAP. Smash can survive without Crash conspiracies meaning anything, because it appeals to far more people than just those who played platformers on the PS1.
Fine, but regardless it's still going to be a long wait with how stuffy the Nick higher-ups are for things as simple as color swaps. It's been around three months or so just to push out the bonus fighter stuff, so I wouldn't be shocked if we don't hear anything big until the middle of the year at least.
That could just be for polishing rather than Nick being stingy. After all, Garf and Shred have more distinct aerials than just air versions of their light attacks. Likewise, waiting a few months for the next fighter to be announced would be because...it takes several months to make a fighter regardless.
Everything is gonna take a while regardless. Multiversus is probably in a better position in regards to random picks since Warner Bros/Turner has a huge warehouse compared to Nick/Viacom's rather puny toybox.
Of course, but there's still the issue of having no idea when the season pass structure will be announced. Especially since simpler things like items have yet to be implemented due to said polishing taking priority.
Acknowledging plans for crossplay in Q1 2022 and being coy about VO in a way that semi-confirms it during a tourney event is not doing the same thing as outlining a big-picture plan for your game on one of the largest gaming news websites in the world.
Eh, it is what it is. The fact that the awaited stuff will come at all is better than only knowing about it on short notice, so best not to look a gift Mr. Horse in the mouth too much in this case (especially since there's no prior established patterns to rely on unlike Smash). I'm just hoping the VO is still considered, mainly.
Oh, I'm very happy the game is continuing to get this type of support! I guess I'm just frustrated how Smash's approach of every update being treated/advertised as an "event" is bleeding into other games of the genre, which I don't think is always the best from a consumer-focused PoV, but... Oh well. If it keeps the game trending consistently and that results in extra sales which allows for longer/higher-budget for support, then it's probably not worth complaining about...
Personally, I'm expecting Rocko first considering he has a datamined item, and if that gets released before he does, it'll be very suspicious to the average consumer. Other than that, either Jenny or Jimmy I could see being second (I lean towards Jenny given how consistently demanded she's been since the game's announcement), with Timmy dropping after all three of those. (Plus, in total fairness, Jimmy could warrant a lot of original assets being made for him as well, what with all the inventions he'd likely bring to the fray.)
You know, I hadn't considered the animation angle, so you bring up some good points.
what is it?
Except they can easily mess him up as many games before did (looking at you Globs of Doom).
pfft, the Timmy in jail emote
Two ways you could interpret that, but I assume they mean of the aesthetic kind.
Yeah. They didn't want to have four characters that looked almost identical to each other. Kart Racers 1 only had 12 characters, but it featured all 4 turtles, meaning that they comprised a full third of the entire roster.
Yeah, that's what I'm gonna assume. They wanted four main TMNT characters, but not four with similar designs.
I had believed for a while that was the reason why they chose April and Shredder over Raph and Donnie, and it's good to see that my theory is officially confirmed.
Wouldn't this have already been obvious with Alex Mack? I dunno who else they wanted that would've needed additional licensing, but I think Timmy's supposed licensing issues are overstated, so I doubt it's him. Pelswick?
Only voicepack with Shredder, it's minimal:
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