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Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Downloadable Contents Discussion Thread 7 | King of Fighters: Dream Match Never Ends - (ERA, ARE YOU OKAY!?)
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That selection of quotes sure was a load of nothing
"There will be characters people want, probably not Nintendo ones but also maybe one or two"
The scoopz!
"There will be characters people want, probably not Nintendo ones but also maybe one or two"
The scoopz!
Okami is in my top 10 video games but I feel like there are other Capcom characters that should get the priority.
Ah come off it.
I've said it was nothing much, but interesting to place in context with what other "leakers" were saying and why.
GOOD! We need more unexpected characters, I really don't want any of the characters people are heavily predicting. It's more fun when we get something we didn't expect. Terry is a great addition, probably the best DLC so far. Only character I truly want is Reimu, so I hope it's either that or something completely out of left field.
Literally the only thing I dislike about your list is that I theoretically would have to wait two years for Phoenix and Sora. Other than that it's every thing I could dream of!Sorry everyone, i'm subjecting you all to my shit taste again.
Wabam! Your DLC lineup, coming to a copy of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate near you. Unfortunately; Reimu, Layton, Lara Croft, 2B and some alternatives for the Bandai Namco character could not make the cut (though, I could toss out Sora for one of those).
Now, you may have noticed a distinct lack of first-party characters; and that's because I don't think we'll get any. But to fulfil this desire, i've made two substitute passes!
Beautiful. And why not, have some freshly-picked Echo Fighters too.It's... Rillaboom!
Yes, it's me. I have guessed character 5 and character 6 correctly with my millennium eye.
I think female representation can only be argued as unimportant if you're someone who already feels comfortably represented (most dudes). Smash is meant to be the ultimate crossover of gaming icons and yet only around 12 characters are women by default. Smash isn't entirely to blame, there are absolutely iconic female characters who aren't in Smash but the industry just has so many more male characters to choose from.
Following these leaks is like a self-induced migraine. It's annoying how consistently the same pattern emerges of "established leakers throw around ten billion vague weird quasi leaks", then "random 4chan screencap or maybe fakable in game screenshot gains traction on twitter", then "established leakers scramble to confer with their sources, either confirming they had the right info all along or staking their lives, houses, and families on this info being null and void". Like, whether or not these leaker sources are correct the vast majority of the time any hard definitive leaks come off the back of responses to leaks made by literal nobodies, which kinda hints that these moves tend to be solely about trying to maintain some semblance of status in the little pools where they reign as royal big fishies.
We're following leaks and insiders because we are really just looking for something to talk about while we wait for the official reveal.
There are some pretty good recreations of Terry's train stage online already. I thought it'd take longer for people to do it well. The stages have background (and foreground!) moving backwards to give the illusion of being on top of a moving train and even have the "train" shaking a bit. None of the ones with Mount Rushmore in the background are good though.
Basically. At least it makes discussions a bit more interesting, even if it's fake.
Pretty much everything on the topic has been said otherwise.
Fatmanonice is just a speculator. He doesn't actually know anything.
Thank you. There are still female characters left to include that are iconic or carry a legacy after all.
Daily reminder that Nintendo got the guys who made this to animate for one of their E3 Directs.
A return to first parties would seriously depress me as a Smash player. We've moved on to such exciting possibilities and Smash just keeps making a more and more impressive legacy through the third parties that they're including. This is the only chance that we're going to have to put all of these third parties in the same game too, so I just really hope Sakurai and Nintendo continue to take advantage of this opportunity. There's still so many great and notable Japanese third parties to make a part of the Smash narrative, and we've barely even touched Western third parties!
I also just kind of roll my eyes when people mention "balance" when it comes to Ultimate's roster about the DLC being primarily third party and needing to swing back to first party... Like, we have 67 first parties to 14 third parties right now and 20 years of Smash building up the first parties almost exclusively save for a handful of characters. Let's ride this third party wave til the end. It's honestly just so much more interesting and exciting than the handful of just less impactful major first parties left...
I also just kind of roll my eyes when people mention "balance" when it comes to Ultimate's roster about the DLC being primarily third party and needing to swing back to first party... Like, we have 67 first parties to 14 third parties right now and 20 years of Smash building up the first parties almost exclusively save for a handful of characters. Let's ride this third party wave til the end. It's honestly just so much more interesting and exciting than the handful of just less impactful major first parties left...
Oh I appreciated your compiling of things.
Just that a lot of them are doing that umming and ahhing, where they hint at info buuuut don't really say anything
My ideal next five characters would include some combination of Sora, Travis Touchdown, Dante, 2B, Reimu, and Sol Badguy.
We can return to third parties once we add King Boo in.
His eyes look like a second mouth.
We can return to third parties once we add King Boo in.
Yes, clearly we need more first party Smash characters that are spooky-related.
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I'm not against first parties' inclusions but I would find third parties more exciting this time because they would add more stuffs to legacy roster with something interesting and make it even more ULTIMATE!
Get your mind out of the gutter you horndogs.
I agree to an extent, but I do feel like the first party characters are a core part of the series' identity and why so many people fell in love with the series (being a celebration of Nintendo). Third parties don't need to go away but I feel like we could use a couple of first parties in DLC... the only problem is some of the most likely choices would be kind of trite and played out (Xth Fire Emblem character, Zth Pokemon, etc.). I can also say my favorite Smash characters tend to be secondary characters and villains, not the dude on the boxart, so that's one downside of the third party focus.
I'm sympathetic to the first party crowd because during Smash 4 DLC people were telling me how dumb it was to still want K. Rool when these third party characters were obviously way cooler and more impactful. Then of course K. Rool and Ridley got into the next game and were two of the most hyped announcements. I don't think besides Dixie Kong there are many high-level first party characters left to add compared to the very obviously missing K. Rool/Ridley, but there is a bit of wistful nostalgia for the earlier days of Smash when we were getting cool and weird Nintendo picks. I'm sure that will return in the next game though.
New Adventure Mode: Luigi's Mansion 4. King Boo has captured all the members of the roster and turned them into paintings, except Luigi of course.
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I would be more excited for first parties if they are from new franchises that doesn't exists in Smash Bros but I find them unlikely at the point.
You and me both. Detective Club becoming the only first party IP by Nintendo on Switch to not get an international release after hoping for it to get a revival for so long would be crushing.
I totally agree. Sakurai usually doesn't add characters I want to the roster, but my wishes would greatly be fulfilled if I can hear this song on the results screen:
Beautiful soundtrack
Eternal Darkness would make for such a good stage. Sanity effects as the gimmick pretty much writes itself.Yes, clearly we need more first party Smash characters that are spooky-related.
Exactly, yet people continue to argue that it's either women or iconic characters. Some think that adding more women is just "adding women because they're women". You can have it both ways.
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Same here. There are handful of iconic female characters could belong in Smash Bros easily. A
I've been on the Monster Hunter train since the start of the Fighters Pass. Would be so good. So many colorful and diverse alts. Armor sets that ARE iconic to anyone who plays MH and there are a lot of them. A ton of charming animations and they can even give them palicoes for taunts and the stage, who doesn't love palicoes? The biggest arsenal of weapons than maybe anyone in the roster. Live Kaiju battles on their stage. GameXplain really didn't do their research when they discussed them.
It's crazy too because last game we needed to add more villains yet now when we're actually asking for representation that matters now it's "they shouldn't add someone for a statistic and the character should be fun"
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