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I hope not. The first boxart we saw is so much cooler IMO.
I genuinely don't know how people can think that legal issues and ownership rights would keep out Timmy, who seemingly has international rights issues, but then not raise an eyebrow at the thought of getting Catscratch characters when Nick doesn't even own the property.
Okay I genuinely think this is it. Like almost certainly. You can even make out the shape of where the helmet and board would be and the shirt color matches.
I think you got it (last one done by a Discord user)
The moveset would be cool I just wish it was Reggie
Its more likely the team just liked Oto and his moveset potential more. The preference for Reggie seems to be a more recent online thing, but casual fans are more likely to know Oto
Not to mention that the initial pitch poster had Reggie on it, not Otto. Besides, they'll play the exact same anyways.
Just because we get one protagonist doesn't mean that we'll get every protagonist. Besides, Otto is still very popular, the differene between him and Reggie is far from Eliza and Nigel for example. ALso you keep telling in the past that we will never get Angelica but now you think we'll get Tommy, a 1 year old? Come on.
Keep in mind Riley is very inconsistent with whether or not he believes they'd add the Rugrats babies in a fighting game.
finally
The kid is inconsistent about everything.
The only one that I disagree is Hugh, because sure he was a huge request, but so was Jimmy, and Jimmy's moveset potential was huge.
Iirc Oblina was part of an equal ensemble early on but in later season she actually was the main character, having much bigger roles than Ickis and Krumm and most episodes focus on her plans instead of Ickis.
Yeah, I was reaching for a legit reason he would be favored over his son. "Reverse nepotism" was the best I could come up with.
When Hugh first was revealed, people were acting like he was an obscure bit character.
Its because he's far down the totem pole of characters who reasonably fit into a fighting game and far down the list of characters who would be both expected and wanted. If Disney made a platform fighter, said, we're gonna rep Star Wars, and then picked Boba Fett (or a more apt example, Jar Jar) as the first and only rep on the roster before Darth Vader, Yoda, Luke, Obi-Wan, etc. Then yes people are going to be confused and angry.
Reggie herself is really only brought up because of people wanting more female reps (rather than because they love Reggie herself). Reggie (along with Rocket Power as a whole) doesn't really have much of a fanbase. That said, as someone who saw a LOT of Rocket Power back in the day, Otto makes the most sense, since he was usually the face of the show, along with being the one who's always in the spotlight in-universe and often has cameras on him. To the point where, when Reggie got the cameras and spotlight for an episode, Otto was extremely jealous.
How the hell is Hugh comparable to Jar Jar? Jar Jar is an absurd comedic character in a cool action movie, Boba is a cool action character in a cool action movie, Hugh is a absurd comedic character in an absurdist comedy.
That's an inherently bad thing because...???? Like, I can understand if this was Smash where the whole identity is "making dreams come true", but that identity is something NASB needs to avoid like the plague (not inherently granting fan requests mind you, that's fine, just that becoming its identity is dangerous). Ultimately, one's own opinion is all that should really matter, not that of the majority.
Again, how is wanting a character for the meme less valid than wanting them because they're cool or cute or scary?
I find this odd to say when this game already has Spongebob Squarepants, Nigel Thornberry and Powdered Toast Man in it.
Because some of us want to be able to play this game with other people without wanting to rely on 3AM matchmaking pings.
I would still argue that Hugh is a bad representation of the franchise. Sure, he's the funny guy in a funny show, but that's pretty much it. The point of the show is that stuff happens because of Jimmy's inventions, and Hugh moveset have no inventions. At least with Nigel, he still represent the main part of the show which is animals. Hugh doesn't even do that.
But the whole point of Hugh is that he was chosen because of request. That's literally the only reason why he's here. If they really wanted to avoid request like the plague like you want, they should have go with Sheen.
My personal theory is that Nick both approved DLC and ordered a sequel around the same time. When Ludocity was deciding the characters, they probably weren't sure how to handle the Jimmy situation. Two of the three DLC slots being Jimmy Neutron would be seen as unreasonable, and they weren't sure who to pick. So they probably got Hugh in there as DLC as a thank you to the community, and to get him in while Nick still approved of the choice, while saving Jimmy for the sequel. Nick will always approve of Jimmy, but if Hugh's assets are already made and easy to port, Nick might have less of an argument against him if they changed their minds in later entries (more content already made, which is a selling point. Nick won't say no to money!).
That is absolutely true, I was moreso responding to the intent of Gryff's statement than the actual facts - yes, the facts are that Hugh was wanted and was added because of this, making him an example of appealing to fan demand, but Gryff's statement (unless I'm misinterpreting something) is that fan demand inherently = good, unexpected inherently = bad, and ignoring fan demand inherently = bad. That's moreso what I take issue with, the absolutist approach to appealing to fans, (which also doesn't line up with what Gryff is saying about Hugh, in fact Hugh is really irrelevant to this whole debate all things considered) not appealing to fans alone. I don't think appealing to fan demand is bad, in fact I think it can be VERY good - as with Hugh - I think that it's bad in too high a dosage, when it becomes a franchise's identity, and restricts more wild or overlooked choices from making the cut - ESPECIALLY in crossovers. Just look at Smash Ultimate.
Firstly, not really relevant to the conversation, but I genuinely don't understand why people like Boba Fett when he is a slave trader, which is an objectively evil thing. The comparison to Jar Jar is that he's a comedic character and has roughly the same relevance to Hughs relationship in Jimmy Neutron, because he has more of a role than Boba does in the movie. I'm saying you were downplaying Hughs role a bit.
In regards to Nigel, point taken, but there's plenty of material for both of the others that can make them work in a fighting game.
Didn't NASB sell like absolute hot cakes? All things considered, even Jimmy and Timmy, if they were in, would be unrecognisable to the core Nick demographic who make up most of the sales, at least outside of kids who either got SUPER into Nick and started looking up show histories or played the kart games, as are 80% of the roster, yet the game still sold. Even the long-runner FOP (or at least Timmy) has been off the air for half a decade.
I never said NASB was trying to piss people off, nor that they should - just that it's not a side-effect to be particularly feared unless you've made fan demand your identity. Plus, as I said, this game's real core demo - the 6 to 11s - probably doesn't know Jimmy any more than they know Hugh.
FOP still airs all the time on Nick's pluto.tv channel. Also, I thought access to various 90's cartoons on streaming services meant kids were walking cartoon encyclopedias anyway?
The post where I said that was multiple months ago. I can't even respond to that because I can't even remember the original context, let alone know if I still agree with what I said. Can you stop digging up random old comments?
