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PeridotGX said:
Me, Two months ago: "Meh, Dragon Quest getting a newcomer is inevitable, but I couldn't care less about them."

Me, now: "I'm a hero main, and must play a dragon quest game soon."
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DQ8 on 3DS or DQXI S.

Hear me out on this one please, both games are awesome!
 
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PeridotGX said:
Me, Two months ago: "Meh, Dragon Quest getting a newcomer is inevitable, but I couldn't care less about them."

Me, now: "I'm a hero main, and must play a dragon quest game soon."
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Square Enix hearing this working in getting people into Dragon Quest.

"Bros Glad! Bros Glad! [x24]" :ulthero:
 
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Smash Crusaders said:
I do hope Nintendo shifts their attention away from Pokemon and focus more on their other franchises. Maybe its better to give Pokemon the zelda treatment release a big game every once in awhile Skyward Sword, Breath of the Wild had a large gap between releases.
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Pokémon is second party and has new stuff nearly every year, unless The Pokémon Company holds off on the next gen for a while it’s gonna get a huge focus every year especially with the amount of stuff the franchise has.

However, if you mean focus as in Nintendo developing stuffs, you don’t have to worry about that because Nintendo doesn’t code any of it. They own some of it, but all the coding is done by Game Freak while the spinoffs and mobile games are handled by some other team The Pokémon Company gets. Nintendo basically just promotes it and offers help if they need any.
 
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That's Solo's game, right? I might look into it, but my first priority is getting DQ8 for the 3DS. I hear it's one of the best games in the series.
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It truly is!

It is the best one to start with plot and gameplay wise and the 3DS version even adds more awesome content including playable characters!

I grew up with the PS2 version and I can say that the 3DS remake does a lot of justice to the original game.
 
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Smash Crusaders said:
I do hope Nintendo shifts their attention away from Pokemon and focus more on their other franchises. Maybe its better to give Pokemon the zelda treatment release a big game every once in awhile Skyward Sword, Breath of the Wild had a large gap between releases.
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he says as breath of the wild gets a sequel
 
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PeridotGX said:
That's Solo's game, right? I might look into it, but my first priority is getting DQ8 for the 3DS. I hear it's one of the best games in the series.
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Im getting into the series too. I plan on going through IV, V, VIII, XI S, IX, and III.
 
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Smash Crusaders said:
I do hope Nintendo shifts their attention away from Pokemon and focus more on their other franchises. Maybe its better to give Pokemon the zelda treatment release a big game every once in awhile Skyward Sword, Breath of the Wild had a large gap between releases.
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I mean, I hope I wake up tomorrow and I win the lottery. Gotta dream big.
 
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Smash Crusaders said:
I do hope Nintendo shifts their attention away from Pokemon and focus more on their other franchises. Maybe its better to give Pokemon the zelda treatment release a big game every once in awhile Skyward Sword, Breath of the Wild had a large gap between releases.
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I want nothing more than for the Pokémon series to space out releases more, giving the games more dev time and polish.

But TPC’s gonna TPC
 
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the thumbnail and the title sends 1,000,000 cringing bruh moments up my back

edit: is it me or do his eyes and mouth look photoshopped
 
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Can Warner Bros. please do this for Maxwell, I'd really be down for Scribblenauts to get (more) love and attention.
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I loved the Scribblenauts games a lot when I was younger!

Maxwell would be so creative for Smash!
 
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TheCJBrine said:
Pokémon is second party and has new stuff nearly every year, unless The Pokémon Company holds off on the next gen for a while it’s gonna get a huge focus every year especially with the amount of stuff the franchise has.

However, if you mean focus as in Nintendo developing stuffs, you don’t have to worry about that because Nintendo doesn’t code any of it. They own some of it, but all the coding is done by Game Freak while the spinoffs and mobile games are handled by some other team The Pokémon Company gets. Nintendo basically just promotes it and offers help if they need any.
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Nintendo doesn't code any of their games? Sounds cheap to me. Though they did give us a shoddy joycon joystick so I'm not very surprised by the laziness.
 
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Nintendo doesn't code any of their games? Sounds cheap to me. Though they did give us a shoddy joycon joystick so I'm not very surprised by the laziness.
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Gamefreak develops the games, Nintendo owns the IP. Something like that, the ownership of Pokemon is kind of complex, I don't think nintendo fully owns it
 
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JDCabrera said:
Nintendo’s main focus is Mario.

Zelda and Pokémon are just close to Mario, but it is the latter who serves as the face of Nintendo in general.
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Not really a direct response to your post, but just for fun, here's my tier list of Nintendo's most notable franchises. I tried ordering franchises within tiers.

A: :ultmario::ultpikachu::ultlink:
B::ultvillager::ultinkling::ultkirby::ultmarth:
C::ultyoshi::ultdk::ultwario::ultsamus::ultfox::ultolimar::ultshulk:
D::ultpit::ultness::ultfalcon::ultlittlemac:
?::ultwiifittrainer:
 
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Smash Crusaders said:
Nintendo doesn't code any of their games? Sounds cheap to me. Though they did give us a shoddy joycon joystick so I'm not very surprised by the laziness.
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Game Freak always coded the mainline Pokémon games; Pokémon is owned by Game Freak and Creatures, Nintendo also owning it (all three (I think) forming The Pokémon Company to handle the franchise when it got big) but it’s not like Mario or Zelda because, of course, they don’t fully own Pokémon and don’t have anything to do with its games’ development unless they need Nintendo’s help. It’s like how Kirby is primarily Hal Laboratory and completely coded by Hal.
 
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Nintendo doesn't code any of their games? Sounds cheap to me. Though they did give us a shoddy joycon joystick so I'm not very surprised by the laziness.
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The Pokemon IP is split three way. Nintendo has 33%(I think) ownership of the IP and deals with the marketing for the games, Game Freak has another 33% and develops the games, The Pokemon Company owns the last 33% and handles Pokemon as franchise ie. the TGC and the anime.
 
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TheCJBrine said:
Game Freak always coded the mainline Pokémon games; Pokémon is owned by Game Freak and Creatures, Nintendo also owning it but it’s not like Mario or Zelda because, of course, they don’t fully own Pokémon and don’t have anything to do with its games’ development unless they need Nintendo’s help. It’s like how Kirby is primarily Hal Laboratory and completely coded by Hal.
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About that Kirby statement: There's occasions where a Kirby game isn't made by HAL (Kirby & the Amazing Mirror, Epic Yarn, etc.) :yoshi:
 
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Even though Nintendo only owns part of the Pokemon franchise, they do fully own the trademarks.

In other words, every Pokemon A-Z is a Nintendo character, and if something were to happen with TPC, Nintendo would still have the older characters and games. They just wouldn't have the team responsible for making the games, nor would they have the marketing powerhouse Creatures Inc.
 
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Zinith said:
Flagship (which I believe is a Capcom developer) made Amazing Mirror and Squeak Squad. Good Feel made Epic Yarn (but of course I of all people would know that :yoshi:)
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Didn’t realize they made Squeak Squad too.

Slightly off-topic but I kinda wish they made Prince Fluff one of the Dream Friends in Star Allies, granted it wouldn’t have helped the game that much be he still would’ve been fun to play there.
 
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TheMightyP said:
Yeah, they deleted their stupid LP policy, but their new policies hurt Music Channels. And by that, I mean BrawlBRStms3, because I don't see anyone else getting targeted.
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brawlbrstms wasn't targeted they just removed all their videos because they saw other people be targeted
 
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Dude. You’re just wrong about this. K. Rool, Ridley, Geno, and Banjo have all been the huge requests since the original game. But beyond their popularity within the community, they were all united because their inclusion was thought to be impossible for one reason or another. It shouldn’t really be “the big four”. It should be “the impossible four”.
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The original game? Wow. You, my friend, are waaaaay off base.

Let's go in the order you listed.
K. Rool: obviously took a backseat demand-wise to Diddy, who was a front-runner for both Melee and Brawl. K. Rool's popularity didn't rise until the latter days of Brawl, after Diddy had already been included. Then, once again with Smash 4, Dixie surpassed K. Rool for several months in anticipation when people caught on that recent appearances were what was being prioritized. K. Rool returned to overtake Dixie during the ballot. He is actually the newest of the four to have leading popularity, and was the most sustained.

Ridley: Ridley does have notable popularity dating the furthest back, to Melee. Well, of the popularity that was sustained. However, back then, Ridley was just one of many voices in a crowd. He was not leading the pack. Keep in mind there had only been three Metroid titles, and none since the SNES, while, according to ChronoBound (who has been around since pre-Melee) characters such as Bowser, Peach, Wario, Diddy Kong, Ganondorf, Zelda, Sheik, King Dedede, Mewtwo, Meowth, Charizard, and Banjo-Kazooie dominated discussion. After Melee was revealed, to quote ChronoBound, Ridley was then within the top ten, though not top five. This was in part thanks to Melee's opening having raised expectations for him, Wolf, and Goroh. But even leading up to Brawl he was simply just one of many front-runners in a crowded race. After Sakurai's late Smash 4-era statement that Ridley was basically infeasible, expectations took a nose dive. Hence why everyone was very skeptical upon the first Ridley in Ultimate rumours.

Geno: Geno was a cult-favourite dating back fairly early, but he didn't gather the clout to be a front-runner until the lead up to Brawl. Perhaps you'd cite the Melee poll, but keep in mind Geno wasn't even in the top thirty on that thing. Early Nintendo memes such as Geno's Forest or whatever it was called help popularize Geno during the pre-Brawl lead-up. Then during the Brawl cycle when people misinterpreted the quantity of mentions on the Japan-only section of the DOJO, Geno's four mentions were inferred as actually being tied for second on the poll, which wasn't the case, as the poll has never been released (though it has been confirmed that Mega Man was the second-most requested third-party, Sonic being first). But by then Geno popularity was in full swing. However, after Brawl, Geno's popularity took a plunge (from all the ballot exit polls, it seems like he wasn't in the top 10), which only resurged when both his costume and the statement Sakurai had considered him for Brawl were revealed.

Banjo: Banjo is the only character who genuinely would've been a front-runner since the original game. He was at his height then, and during pre-Melee. However, once Rare was bought out and made exclusives to the Xbox, the discussion and expectation dried up completely and for thirteen years. He's the only one of the four that was ever actually seen as impossible. Had the other three been seen as actually impossible, they wouldn't have been at the centre of so much expectation over the years. I urge you, go back and survey the discussion from 2003-14 and see how scarcely he's brought up. People wanted him, but a huge request? Absolutely not. He wasn't seen as possible. He didn't even have a thread for Smash 4 until 2015, which then didn't even get a second post in it until the following month, when Spencer's tweet reignited the flame.


Have they all been huge requests? Absolutely. Since the original game? Not a chance. No character has. They've either already been included, or their popularity eventually curtailed. I understand fans like to exaggerate the tenure these characters experienced top-tier popularity, but much of it is untrue.

Keep in mind I can speak both from first-hand experience since from about 2005-06, and from my many talks with ChronoBound ChronoBound over the years, who is basically the grandaddy of Smash spec at this point, having followed and kept track of the series since before it even released.
 
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TheMightyP said:
Also, CaptainZack admitted to matchfixing with Ally.

So he might be in some deep trouble, and Ally DEFINITELY isn't coming back anytime soon.
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man, is the competitive Smash community just teeming with awful people or???

Bocchi (the 15 year old who beat Ally and then got bullied) isn't innocent herself, she said the N-word (hard R) REPEATEDLY in a discord server. ugh why
 
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