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[Teeb147]

Honestly as someone who has always wanted Dragon Quest to be represented in smash I kind of agree. I would have love to have been surprised, but considering how.... how do I put this.... controversial he seems to be at the moment kind of makes me wish he weren't leaked.
That said though I'm still quite happy and would be surprised at this point if it ended up being fake.

Nah it's much better for people to be prepared. 90% of people in the west didn't really know about them. imo

 

[Noipoi]

Erdrick has just been standing outside of Sakurai's house for the past several months.

Everyone knows he's coming in, it's just a matter of when.

 

[ClaTheBae]

You don’t need a petition for that since “Erdrick” is a title and not the character’s name

wait are you serious that's not his name?

 

[Cosmic77]

probably the closest thing we have to guaranteed tbh

Maybe, maybe not.

Truth be told, we don't have as much evidence as we think we do. All we have to go off of is a bunch of "insiders" saying something about a SE rep and a vague name found in the coding that may or may not even be a reference to DQ.

Let's just try to not get ahead of ourselves and stay neutral. Remember when Isaac was all but confirmed when we saw a green sprout?

 

[Deleted member]

Man. I wanna try and support Google with Stadia. I love my Google Home and might get Google Wifi.

But at the same time, if you're designing your gaming platform to be solely reliant in your ISP infrastructure, it's going to be bound for failure. Competitive games relying heavily on a stable frame rate, especially fighting games, and with what we saw with the "Cloud Versions" of Assassin's Creed Odyssey and Resident Evil 7 on the Switch, nobody enjoys it.

Who thought this was a good idea? Overall this is looking pretty....

 

[Deleted member]

Nah it's much better for people to be prepared. 90% of people in the west didn't really know about them. imo

That is true. Many people have been checking out Dragon Quest because of this which I do think is great.

 

[Gentlepanda]

The Erdrick can't handle the cirumstances and commits suicide.

good, good

now none will stand in her way

 

[Teeb147]

Erdrick has just been standing outside of Sakurai's house for the past several months.

Everyone knows he's coming in, it's just a matter of when.

If they're in then technically it'd be 'in' sakurai's house, part of projects and plans he's been going over for months.
Unless you mean stalking sakurai

 

[Deleted member]

good, good

now none will stand in her way

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Sephiroth bashes Edea's head against a rock several times.

 

[DaybreakHorizon]

Honestly as someone who has always wanted Dragon Quest to be represented in smash I kind of agree. I would have love to have been surprised, but considering how.... how do I put this.... controversial he seems to be at the moment kind of makes me wish he weren't leaked.
That said though I'm still quite happy and would be surprised at this point if it ended up being fake.

>Wanting Dragon Quest in Smash to be a surprise

Do you actually want the Smash Bros. fanbase to explode in anger?

At the very least the leaks have given people time to get angry and simmer down before Erdrick's inclusion. That's the best thing about them.

 

[Deleted member]

wait are you serious that's not his name?

The fact that he's Erdrick is meant to be a big reveal at the end of the game, but so much for that.
In the first two Dragon Quest games there's always talk of this legendary hero known as Erdrick who the protagonists are descendants of. Then in DQ3 you don't hear anything about Erdrick until, surprise, the king gives you the title of Erdrick.

 

[Teeb147]

wait are you serious that's not his name?

Erdrick (Roto in japanese) is a title given to the legendary hero.
It mostly refers to the hero in Dragon Quest 3, but there's others that have gotten the title too.

 

[Deleted member]

wait are you serious that's not his name?

Yeah, people just call him that because he doesn't really have a proper name.

 

[Noipoi]

good, good

now none will stand in her way

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Who you callin nothing?

 

[Gentlepanda]

Sephiroth bashes Edea's head against a rock several times.

Edea is mildly annoyed and shanks Sephiroth to death.

 

[Deleted member]

I can not belive Erdrick is a Fire Emblem character.

 

[Noipoi]

Wait, so Erdrick's name isn't Erdrick?

What's next? Is Mario's last name Mario?

 

[Deleted member]

Do you actually want the Smash Bros. fanbase to explode in anger?

that's literally the best part of every speculation cycle

 

[ClaTheBae]

I honestly don't even know who I want in at this point. Maybe Agnes? Idk, I'm kind of neutral on whoever could get in, but this hype cycle isn't really hitting like it used to

 

[Deleted member]

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I can not belive Erdrick is a Fire Emblem character.

He's meant to be a jack of all trades, essentially. Using different types of weapons as well as magic, plus they could probably include some unique mechanic for him involving the Tension system.

 

[Wyoming]

Game streaming will be the norm once internet becomes more stable and accessible/affordable. As it is right now they'd be shooting themselves in the foot. However once the day comes I welcome my new streaming overlords.

As for Brave, I actually wonder if they'll be released with Joker. We know they've been working on it since November at the latest. It's possible...but I wouldn't say it is likely.

 

[Deleted member]

>Wanting Dragon Quest in Smash to be a surprise

Do you actually want the Smash Bros. fanbase to explode in anger?

At the very least the leaks have given people time to get angry and simmer down before Erdrick's inclusion. That's the best thing about them.

Every character is going to get salt, what do you expect?
A Smash reveal is much better a surprise than already being leaked.
Sure, fans will get less angry. However, the hype surrounding that character will essentially die.
Look what happened to Roy and Ryu in Smash 4.

 

[Deleted member]

I honestly don't even know who I want in at this point. Maybe Agnes? Idk, I'm kind of neutral on whoever could get in, but this hype cycle isn't really hitting like it used to

When everyone is here...

Everyone is

Seriously I mostly got all the dudes I NEEDED in Sm4sh I'm set lmao

I mean not to say I don't want some folks but nobody is really a heavy hitter for me anymore

 

[Noipoi]

I honestly don't even know who I want in at this point. Maybe Agnes? Idk, I'm kind of neutral on whoever could get in, but this hype cycle isn't really hitting like it used to

Big mood

 

[Gentlepanda]

As for Brave, I actually wonder if they'll be released with Joker. We know they've been working on it since November at the latest. It's possible...but I wouldn't say it is likely.

they released lucas/roy/ryu and corrin/bayo at the same time

given how many insiders thought SE was coming first and that both joker/brave were together in the files (like roy/ryu/lucas), i'd actually put it at fairly likely

 

[DaybreakHorizon]

that's literally the best part of every speculation cycle

Okay but we already had that with the Grinch hoax, and as far as I'm concerned nothing will top that. Why even try at that point?

 

[Hinata]

Watch it be someone else and I laugh at all of your faces.

Be careful where you point that smugness, boy. Because if the next reveal does turn out to be Erdrick, we'll be the ones laughing in your face.

 

[Deleted member]

I am not going to lie, Dante would be cool.
We have an angle slayer, now we need a demon slayer that makes demons cry.

 

[Deleted member]

However, the hype surrounding that character will essentially die.

I think we're forgetting that 90% of the Smash fanbase doesn't obsess over leaks and the such like us

Hell I bet most folks don't even know Erdrick is a contender for DLC

 

[Gentlepanda]

Be careful where you point that smugness, boy. Because if the next reveal does turn out to be Erdrick, we'll be the ones laughing in your face.

you'll find me laughing through the tears

 

[Noipoi]

Okay but we already had that with the Grinch hoax, and as far as I'm concerned nothing will top that. Why even try?

Someone out there's gonna try.

Someone's gonna try and be even bigger than the Grinch.

I await that day.

 

[Deleted member]

Anyways knowing google this new game service will be collecting a lot of your data no matter what, which just makes it seem more blegh to me. Google already knows enough about me.

 

[SneakyLink]

I still think Brave is Edea in a cowboy hat

We need more cowboy hats in Smash

 

[Teeb147]

I think we're forgetting that 90% of the Smash fanbase doesn't obsess over leaks and the such like us

Hell I bet most folks don't even know Erdrick is a contender for DLC

It'll be interesting to see the reactions if it does happen.
I know there's plenty of dragon quest fans who dont come speculate either, so it'll be a pleasant surprise to them.

 

[Deleted member]

I think we're forgetting that 90% of the Smash fanbase doesn't obsess over leaks and the such like us

Hell I bet most folks don't even know Erdrick is a contender for DLC

Oh dang, you got a point...

Still, that 10% of us got spoiled. Nintendo, do a better job at hiding your tracks.

 

[Gentlepanda]

I still think Brave is Edea in a cowboy hat

now that's a mighty fine character y'all got there

 

[Deleted member]

Game streaming will be the norm once internet becomes more stable and accessible/affordable. As it is right now they'd be shooting themselves in the foot. However once the day comes I welcome my new streaming overlords.

Here's the biggest problem, a LOT of places all over the world has quite the poor internet infrastructure. The biggest example being the United States. Very few places around such areas like Asian countries have the capacity to probably go about doing this, but remember, that's only a very small fraction of the world.

If Google is going in expecting this to be a stellar success to stream 4K 60fps on any device, they're absolutely ****ing mental and idiotic.

Also, the controller? Looks like ****. It doesn't look natural, and that D-Pad looks awful. What even are the small buttons indicating? Christ.

 

[Deleted member]

Someone out there's gonna try.

Someone's gonna try and be even bigger than the Grinch.

I await that day.

Just you wait for the Thanos leak

 

[Noipoi]

now that's a mighty fine character y'all got there

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Y'all better not scroll down without sayin' howdy, y'hear?

 

[Deleted member]

I still think Brave is Edea in a cowboy hat

We need more cowboy hats in Smash

Woody laughs at that.