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SMITE x TMNT Crossover Announced
- Thread starter NeoRaider
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So I'm not like 100% up on Smite, but isn't it a game about deities fighting?
I mean Aang from Avatar made it in right? That kind of makes sense and all with the lore of Avatar...
But the Ninja Turtles? Gods? I don't know...
hmmmm...
well I guess they were mistaken for "Kappa" or demons in that third terrible live action movie... that counts right? 🤔
I mean Aang from Avatar made it in right? That kind of makes sense and all with the lore of Avatar...
But the Ninja Turtles? Gods? I don't know...
hmmmm...
well I guess they were mistaken for "Kappa" or demons in that third terrible live action movie... that counts right? 🤔
The avatar stuff was just skins for other characters, so it's kind of a workaround.
That is true, these battlepasses however are for skins on existing gods ( Osiris, Loki, Sun Wukong and Mercury).
There'll be emotes and voicelines that will be TMNT related but otherwise they'll play the same as the mentioned gods.
Also, I'm fuckin in - Smite has been consistently my most played game for 4 years and these creative collabs do nothing to slow me down.
This is my PC centered goblin goopy brain not even thinking about that. You're right and that makes a lot of sense.
True (RIP Paragon)
How HiRez manage to churn out such updates ensuring each of the 100+ gods are unique and viable is astounding.
There's enough magic shit in the various series I wouldn't be surprised if they'd fought deities at some point.
Are the turtles skins just 4 different Kappa skins? lol
Smite's been pretty good with these, I remember hopping on when they did the RWBY one.
Those radical recolors are fucking awesome.
Smite's been pretty good with these, I remember hopping on when they did the RWBY one.
Those radical recolors are fucking awesome.
It's always been the 3rd in the moba space, a very distant third though, but at least it's still going on unlike Heroes of the storm.
Someone at nick fucking loves SMITE lol.
I hope this stuff is successful and eventually encourages Nick to use their IP (more avatar games pls)
I hope this stuff is successful and eventually encourages Nick to use their IP (more avatar games pls)
I'm wondering if there'll be any Series X/S enhancements for Smite/Paladins etc. They did a really decent update when the One X came out. Although I guess it already runs at 4k/60 so maybe not a great deal left to do. I don't know if PC has many graphical settings far beyond what we get on One X?
The main thing is seeing if Nick/Viacom will ever get so encouraged to give their IPs the games they truly deserve, and not just more rushed fodder like they did with the Activision deal.
Injustice 2's depictions of the TMNT are, without a doubt, the best treatment the four have gotten in a game in AGES, and they were in a game that sold millions. But have Nick since capitalized on that? Nope.
They're skins for existing gods, not new gods unto themselves.
They have a lot of wacky skins that don't look like gods.
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its very popular on PC too
It's kind of like a small scale version of what Disney is doing. Disney pulled out of game dev entirely and decided to just license out their IP to other devs to make the games. In this case, Viacom might not be willing to go all in on full games but are willing to test the waters with licensing deals for games that are already popular. Hopefully they eventually decide scaling up to whole games would be a profitable decision.
If it was I in that chair at Nick's offices? I would just say, leverage the partnerships and collaborations you got right now, even if you don't want to fully go at it "alone".
For example, the last few years have seen the TMNT and Batman palling around with each other in comic crossovers, an animated feature, and then having them stand shoulder to shoulder with some of DC's biggest names in Injustice. In another time, another place, maybe we would have gotten Rocksteady or WB Montreal making a Batman+TMNT-styled Arkham game, instead of what we're getting currently. Or imagine the kind of buzz the game Gotham Knights turned out to be if it was a 4 player Bat-fam + TMNT fam game that truly modernized that classic co-op brawler formula?
Missed opportunities~!
Hell, while we're talking about missed opportunities, TMNT is the kind of brand that should've had a Musou game to its credit, ages ago.
I usually don't care about these types of crossovers, but if it is what it takes to get more people to notice Smite, then I'm all in. It's a great MOBA and the devs have been doing a consistently awesome job of keeping making it better in recent years.
If anyone is interested in the game because of the mythology theme like me...
If anyone is interested in the game because of the mythology theme like me...
Next year they'll be adding the Mesopotamian pantheon, which is basically the last pantheon that was highly requested by the community, with Tiamat as its first god, and many are expecting that other well known names like Gilgamesh and Ishtar might soon follow
I was super hyped until I saw the gods getting skins.
I hate all of those gods lmao. SWK probably being the one I hate the least. I get they had to go with melee characters, but RIP me. Though to be fair, I haven't tried rework Loki yet.
I hate all of those gods lmao. SWK probably being the one I hate the least. I get they had to go with melee characters, but RIP me. Though to be fair, I haven't tried rework Loki yet.
Fuck I require those skins.
I mean it's massive on PC as well, so yeah. It's the 3rd most played MOBA.
I mean it's massive on PC as well, so yeah. It's the 3rd most played MOBA.
Unless it's massive on some other launcher I think massive is the wrong word. Somebody linked the Steam charts and it's 1/30th of Dotas playerbase which means it's like 1/100th of League of Legends
Same just went I thought I was out they pull me back in lol