So, I do have a question at this point:
Say it's fake. I think it's pretty unanimous that a ton of time, research, and effort went into this, such as custom-made assets, obscure lore-based additions to those assets, insane levels of detail (Banjo's birb reacting to Snake, for example), tying a movie promotion to it, and tying some poor, random, otherwise un-notable dude who could plausibly have an interaction with Smash Ultimate and that random-ass promotion.
Everything could have been researched and determined beforehand:
- An event, that Nintendo is attending, having the Grinch movie as a sponsor
- An employee that was working on promotional material for said movie
- Same employee having a reasonable interaction with Smash via their job/role in the company of aforementioned movie
- A random 4chan speculation post
- Lore and character specifics, such as personality (again, in the case of Banjo's bird)
- General movement patterns for characters in the banner, some that are so minor that I doubt anyone not working on the banner itself, to the level we've seen, would notice. (I certainly didn't)
- A ton of minor other developments that are slipping my mind after this whole circus and after my view of real vs fake has shifted back and forth
Now, the ability to do all of that is legitimately possible. If you list out a ton of random things, all tied together, you can make anything sound like a situation where you'd be force to say, "You did all of
THAT just for a payoff that will only last a few weeks?" 100% possible. If I listed off the process for modding Skyrim in the same style and list format, you'd definitely say, "Dude, WTF" when I told you I played that build for a week then stopped.
So, after all that, you're telling me the dude (or dudes), that put in a ****-ton of work and effort to include details
so obscure that they are unquestionably going to be memed about for the next decade, failed to do the research necessary to find a clean version of Battlefield? One that took us, what, 2 days to find?
That is one of the only few things keeping me the real side. Ya, everyone makes mistakes, but it'll be hard to convince me that something as fundamental as finding and using a reference, again one that we ourselves found very quickly after the leak came up, was that mistake.
But the whole changes in the background deal still has merit, too, and I don't have the tools, nor time necessary to replicate the process that would of lead to its creation in the first place (print, snapchat record with an unknown device, screenshot with an unknown device, upload to discord). So I'm torn.
Really, I'm waiting for the direct to confirm or deny the leak. This stuff is just fun to think about/read about during down time at work. The point of a good, "oops, didn't mean to have this get out!" sort of leak is to have just enough "proof" to cause discussion, backed up with a good back story and a few good events to solidify it. This whole thing fits that bill perfectly.
Just my thoughts. I should get back to the thing I'm payed for, though. Lol
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