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We got information that a video relating to the posible leaker about the company he currently works in has been taken down for unknown reasons. I Will let you decide what this could mean.
Adding Banjo late seems like the kind of challenge Sakurai would love, the dude is a workaholic.
Please don't with the delay stuff...
Plus the new mode. The world is not ready for this megaton.My reaction if we get a direct with 7 character reveals
True, though I meant the animations.
Wanna compare the development team now vs. then?
But it's true
I still think we need to see them release a 100/50 facts Extravaganza video for Smash Ultimate like the one they gave us for Smash For Wii-U/3DS (There's still alot more things aside from new characters we need information on such as the new modes)!
Their mechanic had to be meticulously crafted to work on every character on every stage. Including bosses and single player stuff.
We live in an era of booming DLC. If Sakurai wanted to make a last-minute addition (i.e. Banjo), then DLC is the best possible method.
Honestly if this was the case we would have seen max shilling with rare ips... which we see less and less of due to Microsoft rare’s History...
Because it's not just that. A significant amount of his moveset in Brawl revolves (pun intended) around turning into an easily animated sphere including up smash, down smash, neutral air, dash attack, down throw, getup attack, ledge attack, and the aforemented specials.
It's really not hard to understand. So many of the insiders come off as condescending and elitist. Papa comes off as the exact opposite, a down to Earth dude who's just trying his best to get to the bottom of this, all the while being completely honest.
He's openly said he's doing it just to get info out and has taken a real personal stance in spite of the risks to his reputation considering the very real risk it's false. Heck, he even demonetized the video which puts him miles above the rest in my eyes.
Well, you're not wrong.
I mean, let's not forget that people talked about how their mechanic wouldn't work in 4 during its speculation cycle, after what happened in regards to some characters that would strain the 3DS (Samus and Zelda got their alter egos split up, Ice Climbers were a no-show, so were most of the Pokémon Trainer crew). It was a fairly educated guess. So it would make sense that the Inklings came first.
Except that it is completely different to allow another company to use your IP, do all the work for you and earn you money or to develop a completely new game from the scratch. If you ask me, those scenarios are barely comparable.
Thats why I think if the theory is true, Sakurai and Microsoft already had a handshake deal months beforehand and only just got around to finalizing the paperwork at E3. Handshake deals are still legitimate, they’re just not as strong as paperwork. With a handshake deal they could’ve easily started on him months earlier. I also doubt Incineroar was cut purely because of Banjo and moreso a combination of things.
Okay, sure, but I don't think it's terribly hard to believe they could accomplish a character addition mid development, especially they did end up swapping Incineroar's development time for Banjo's or something.
I don't disagree with some of them being asses, but how bad they make people feel doesn't make what they say any more or less valid as far as I care.
Again, the reason why people don't believe the insiders who are against the leak because when they give the reasons they're allowed to share in public--it doesn't directly contradict the banner. And their complete dismissal of the banner is disproportionate to the actual information they are sharing in public. They may know stuff in private--but we don't know, and so we can only speculate on what they give to us.
Yeah, I still find the whole idea pretty out there as well. But on your first point, Sakurai *did* manage to draft Greninja's moveset in a single night, so I don't think that part is necessarily impossible. Especially in B&K's case, when he has things to pull from.
sakurai is a good planner, not a mindless workaholic. also can we stop romanticizing overworking yourself? especially since sakurai has actual physical injuries thanks to his work schedule.
They could essentially rip their moveset directly from Banjo-Kazooie and it would work naturally in Smash. Though, I think what takes the years of work and development is balancing. Adding a character is like multiplication, balance-wise. We'll have to see, though.
As a counterpoint,
and and certainly had much less than a year of development time, and they all turned out fine. (Well, "fine" being subjective in the case of Bayo :V)TBH I've been feeling like Nintendo Live is gonna have something for a few days now. I think chances are pretty good we could at the very least get a Direct date there, similar to 8.8's EVO announcement.
But that still doesn't mean you should automatically believe them less than a source who lacks the same track record. It's not fair to say, "You're being incredibly vague and not giving me the answer I want, therefore nothing you say should be taken seriously".
i've never played a banjo game. how do you think it'd go?They could essentially rip their moveset directly from Banjo-Kazooie and it would work naturally in Smash. Though, I think what takes the years of work and development is balancing. Adding a character is like multiplication, balance-wise. We'll have to see, though.
You can plan around extra work. It's not impossible that they hired extra people specifically to account for this. There's no way of us knowing for sure.
I think his Rider Kick-esque dair is kind of cool.
Especially given that Tooie gives them even more to work with. At that point, it's a game of pick and choose.They could essentially rip their moveset directly from Banjo-Kazooie and it would work naturally in Smash. Though, I think what takes the years of work and development is balancing. Adding a character is like multiplication, balance-wise. We'll have to see, though.
