Recent content by Garteam

Seeing this makes me nostalgic for when I first got into Smash Speculation. It was about 4 years before I joined the Boards. Little guy was in everyone's roster back in the day. It's really cool to finally see him join, even in the form of a mod.

Lyn's biggest hurdle will always be the way Fire Emblem is structured as a series. Each game having a unique cast always incentivizes Smash to look towards the future when adding characters because there's constantly new faces that will define what Fire Emblem looks like to new fans. This next...

Even Duck Hunt is Smash for's formal WTF character, I actually think Wii Fit Trainer functions better as a WTF character in practice. Duck Hunt Dog had a handful of people predicting his inclusion, even if people didn't conceptualize the full Duck Hunt team. No one saw the Wii Fit Trainer...

This analysis doesn’t make any sense with the way copyright law works. Copyright attaches to works, not characters. Donkey Kong Country (the work) was almost certainly made under a “work for hire” contract, which has the rights to the work go to the employer (in this case, Nintendo) rather than...

I think the biggest challenge facing Indies is that they tend to be a little transient in terms of their relevancy and popularity, which is a big problem for a third party. Third parties tend to be long-established names that have endured in the public consciousness for about 2 decades prior...

In fairness, I think that’s primarily because there’s a lot more ambiguity regarding how third parties will be treated going into the next Smash: How many third parties will return? How many third parties can return? Will third parties be cut for their own sake or will Nintendo try to get them...

Thinking of characters as "reps", be it for franchises or companies, seems like it's a poor way to conceive of characters. Sakurai will occasionally reference thinking of a franchise to include first and then filing in the character later (:ultsimon::ulthero3::ultminmin) or leaving a spot open...

I don't know how much a handful of characters can really the tilt a needle in a positive direction if the surrounding roster is still largely criticized. Venom and X were Marvel and Capcom's most requested characters that didn't make 3, but their inclusion was enough to distract people from...

“We reworked Mario and Ganondorf!” and “The Champions, Alear, and Noah are playable!” are good ways to sell the next Smash to hardcore fans of modern Nintendo. The problem is I don’t know how much of a sales pitch that is to people outside that demographic.

I'll be honest, improved online and single-player would not make up for 30+ cuts for me, especially if a lot of those cuts primarily culled the third parties back to pre-Ultimate levels. Smash, to me, is ultimately a couch co-op game to play with your buddies/at parties that is essentially the...

I know Pyra and Mythra are the same character. The alleged issue that they show is not relevant is them not having an overarching title that ties them together like Zelda or Pokemon Trainer. They could have gotten around this by just calling them "the Aegis" or just Pyra, but there clearly isn't...

This is going to be the last post on this matter because we seem to be the only ones having this conversation. You also seem to have a new argument each time ("bubble picks", no one in desires them in Smash, lacking legacy/popularity and transforming characters always being one character, and...

You haven't brought up precedent, though. You said "I highly, like seriously doubt anyone (both from the audience and from the team) would go for a 2nd Mega Man character", which is a value judgment about the characters that you assigned as the wider fanbase's thoughts on the matter. That's...

Putting aside that we don't know the comparative size of the next Smash's roster to Ultimate's and we don't know how many third parties will or will not be cut, you're projecting your opinions onto others without evidence. If no one from Smash's audience would go for a second Mega Man rep, why...

There's a lot more to Mega Man's popularity than just nostalgia among Smash's core fanbase. People just really like the games and the series. Here's a screenshot from Capcom's Super Election poll that was released last year. Likewise, Mega Man's characters are still quite popular among general...