Yeah, I don't get it. Why does Twintelle count but Steve doesn't? The only difference is the art-style.
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Steve from Minecraft announced for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Alex, Zombie, Enderman skins too)
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I like Minecraft and I am not a child. Your post comes as Minecraft only be popular with children. Minecraft is popular with people of all ages.
The problem here for me, is that a a charcater designer, Steve is an eyesore (not only in its design, but also his animations), while ROB and even G&W, have a TON of personality in its design and animations. Lets not forget thatn simplicity doesnt make something bad designed (au contraire most of the time lol). Hell, even Pirahana plant, a character im not fond of, has charismatic animations build into it.
Like, its no surprise Minecraft Marketplace content partners are actually starting to, even with when they make NPCs with the shape of steve, bending the knees and elbows to give more personality to their characters (and upping a little bit the texture resolution finally). Hell, even there a lot of offciail minecraft renders from Microsoft were Steve is more elastic that his ingame avatar. But Sakurai just decided to put Steve with its exact smake shitty ingame animations to the game.
Whys smash feel sticky now.
This is the only time I'll say, "I'll take another fire emblem character". I don't mind minecraft, but it's like putting an Angry Bird or a Fortnite Dab Char in the game to me.
This is the only time I'll say, "I'll take another fire emblem character". I don't mind minecraft, but it's like putting an Angry Bird or a Fortnite Dab Char in the game to me.
I don't think anyone is telling you to be thankful and shut up, just that Steve isn't white and still counts as a form of representation - is it good enough, probably not and he's be whitewashed a lot in some merchandise and fan artwork but he is a darker skinned character. That said, PoC representation in Smash, for Nintendo and gaming in general still needs a lot of work and you're absolutely within your rights to ask for better representation in that regard
this is how i feel, but no tracer also due to her rewind mechanic. steve just seems boring to me.
I care because I want more people to share in the experience of playing Nintendo games. If Steve gets more people to buy a Switch and then perhaps play a 3D Mario game or Zelda for the first time, then it's good for gaming as a whole. Playing SMG or BotW is good for society. I am serious. Why not encourage people to at least taste quality?
When gamers only play COD games or FIFA, they are missing out. LEt's introduce more people to games like Portal, Shenmue, Journey, Civ etc.
As fighting game expert Maximilion says, Smash itself it good because it introduces people to fighting games. Maybe then they will try SF2 or KI for the first time.
Being dark-skinned isn't unique to a specific experience or culture. Billions of people in the world are dark skinned, and you would be wrong (and racist) to say they're all the same or share the same cultures and values. When people want "representation," they want to see their culture, the people who look like them, meaningfully represented. Minecraft Steve doesn't do that for anyone who is dark skinned.
This is all regardless of the fact that I am happy with his inclusion. It's so cool.
Nope. Not saying that at all. We definitely need more diversity and representation in games but Steve is a POC. Just stating the facts. Wether or not he's the best representation and we could do better, I think that's a fair assessment and we can have another conversation about that. I'm not sure based off the way you're responding if we can have that conversation civilly with you though.
Imagine being Sakurai and be plagued with this dilemma every night when you rest your head on the pillow.
Should we add shitty one off character from SMRPG or should we add a character from one of the most popular games ever?
Tough choice. Really really difficult decision.
LMAO
Tough choice. Really really difficult decision.
LMAO
They honestly need to just keep making fighters passes. There's no way this isn't going to make them a stupid amount of money. Adding to a game that already is nearly impossible to top is probably the best thing to do. Smash Ultimate could be supported and have new "remastered" iterations on later consoles for the next 10 years if they wanted. This way people have more chances for their favorites to still get in.
I'm confused, why does Shantae have a rich history with Nintendo consoles, while Minecraft (which like Shantae had its games released on every relevant Nintendo platform on the market at time of their release) doesn't?
Halo's relevance in Japanese gaming is non-existant. Banjo Kazooie had the benefit of being a recognised N64 Platformer.
I'm blown away by how mad people are about this. One of the most iconic characters in this decade, from one of the biggest games on Switch, and he's clearly been treated with care and has brought a lot of Minecraft stuff with him. Looks like he plays awesome too.
It was also highly expected to be coming for ages. Literally thought this would be met with mostly excitement, if not a bit of being underwhelmed due to expecting it. But most of the first page is people saying it's the worst character they ever could have chosen? Have I missed some context? This is pretty much the biggest third party character they could possibly get?
It was also highly expected to be coming for ages. Literally thought this would be met with mostly excitement, if not a bit of being underwhelmed due to expecting it. But most of the first page is people saying it's the worst character they ever could have chosen? Have I missed some context? This is pretty much the biggest third party character they could possibly get?
It's really insulting to be handed a poorly defined block man that is replaceable and has no story at all, and then see people like you come in here to say "here's your black character, now take it and stfu".
Why I personally can see Monster Hunter/Sora/Crash. Big characters from big IP's that both the east and west love. Now that Steve is in, I'm curious to see what other 3rd parties they decide to include.
Doc Louis, and Misango. Lots of Pokemon Gym leaders but I doubt they would pick a Gym leader over a Pokemon as a Pokemon rep in Smash.
Isaac, or any of the Golden Sun characters, really. They could pick one of the female characters, to help balance the numbers on male/female characters and sword/not-sword users. (I don't care about the assist trophy thing, the question is which character would have made me happy.)
That's half the charm (for me). Like when we got G&W with his exact poses, 2D and all.
Looks like a really bad mod and even looks photoshopped in on the new banner. Literally wouldve taken anything else lol
Damn that's so true :c He would have completely lost it at this announcement.
I like Minecraft Steve and feel like it makes sense but Crash would have been cool.I already got banjo so I don't care who gets in
Did Sakurai say in the announcement that Nintendo's choices aren't based on fan demand? I'll admit that I actually shut the video off as soon as Steve appeared so I'm not sure.
If thats the case, its probably only going to get worse from here and just be marketing fodder. I pray for those who fully bought the pass and are mainly interested in whatever leftover fan pics we have.
If thats the case, its probably only going to get worse from here and just be marketing fodder. I pray for those who fully bought the pass and are mainly interested in whatever leftover fan pics we have.
Any ideas for a PoC character? I don't know who would be a good fit. I asked in the other thread and got no answer.
Better how and in what way? Better trailer? Better character design? Better stage? Better representation? Better moveset, the thing that matters the most in a fighting game? You haven't even played as Steve yet.
Simon and K. Rool would classify as a "deep cut" to me, especially compared to something like Joker or Byleth who are just "main protag of a popular current game" which to me are the worst kinds of picks because they wouldn't have made it in otherwise if the timing was different.
I actually think Joker might be throwing off my perception of the DLC characters as a whole (he's probably the worst pick in SSB history).
I don't care for Minecraft but to say Steve didn't deserve to be in forever ago would be nonsense. As much as I hate to admit it, same applies to Fortnite.
Personally I would probably like Doomslayer, Urbosa, Dante, Rillaboom, or Son Goku (yes, actually) in the game, but that's mostly because I'm pretty much satisfied with whoever is in the game already and everybody else is just a bonus.
Personally I would probably like Doomslayer, Urbosa, Dante, Rillaboom, or Son Goku (yes, actually) in the game, but that's mostly because I'm pretty much satisfied with whoever is in the game already and everybody else is just a bonus.
Shantae started on the Gameboy Color and the revival games released on the DSi and 3DS/Wii U well before being ported to other platforms. Shantae is more closely tied to Nintendo than any other platform, for Minecraft it's just one of the many platforms that the game is available on and not the original.