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Considering Smash Bros' nature of making characters more reoccurring and popular in their home series after their appearance, imagine they put Rufus in Smash Bros, he's actually fun to play and then Capcom and the Street Fighter fans just look at each other and go, "........****, he's going to be a mainstay in future games now, isn't he?"
Look, Smash added KenConsidering Smash Bros' nature of making characters more reoccurring and popular in their home series after their appearance, imagine they put Rufus in Smash Bros, he's actually fun to play and then Capcom and the Street Fighter fans just look at each other and go, "........****, he's going to be a mainstay in future games now, isn't he?"
And no, I am not trying to bring back the whole surprise 3rd party character debacle again. It's just meant to be "For the lols".So It's absolutely on you if you bring it back.
I miss the small videos, so I kinda want them back.
I mean probably, but it still makes sense to add the ones with higher vote counts earlier than picking someone with just a handful of votes to their name, considering that means the character would appeal to the most people possible for marketing purposes and everything.
Well, even if nothing from Blasphemous itself gets in, the dev studio might still get some representation if Hayabusa makes it since they're working on Ninja Gaiden Ragebound.
I miss these so much.
Street fighter 6 has the potential to do the funniest thing.Look, Smash added Ken
It's only a matter of time before we see a trailer open up with "I'VE FINALLY FOUND YOU, KEN MASTUHS!" ...only to show Terry instead
As funny as it would be, I feel like the way to re-add Rufus would be to give him some character development that makes him calm the heck down. Or at least, make him not nearly as abrasive. Heh. Maybe he could have Dan as a mentor. That'd be pretty darn funny, and would work pretty well for developing both of them.
My personal thought would be that he finally finds Ken for real but Ken is in such a low point that Rufus doesn't feel like fighting him and instead ends up being like, the most supportive guy.
He may have lost his apes, but he will gain an unexpected best friend.
Tbh, i don't think it would be an issue, as long as it's a small number, like 5 or 6.
I mean, I wasn't trying to diminish the whole 'high amount of votes' thing. If anything, I figure it'd show Sakurai that there's a desire for characters that he might not think about all too much.
You'll get dame dane
What I would do with this is have fighters awaken core crystals that summon a random Blade, who gives your their weapon as an item. Using the item charges up a Blade Special, which can be executed with the special move button once fully charged. Opponents can get rid of Blades by K.O.ing them like assist trophies and the like.
Which can be immediately reflected through Ultimate in some of its additional Assists and Mii Costumes for example,not just the fighters.
Yup, exactly the point I was trying to make. I should mention that I figure this way of selecting characters probably also includes that of Spirits too.
Including clones/Echoes, the highest amount of newcomers I can see joining the battle is 18, since that’s the number of newcomers that Brawl launched with.
Hero is in this post...and I don't like it.
A lot of them would be considered severely lacking.
I kinda wish he had been.
With EiH2? 6. Without EiH? 10-12.
Man... I remember at the time I was so stupid. My 18 years old mind just didn't take the ballot seriously and voted for Miles Edgeworth just for the "lulz", even though I already knew back then that my most wanted character by far was Crash Bandicoot. I know its like just one vote but it still feels like a big punch on my face whenever I remember I did such a stupid thing.
Right, officially, no guarantee was ever given that characters with more votes would get in first, or that the top vote-getters would definitely get in at all. And, of course, it would've been a bad idea to give a guarantee like that because of potential issues with feasibility, licensing, and other roster construction concerns.
I think you meant "so let's try to be constructive about something that took a lot of thought and effort despite our differing opinions about a video game", but I'll take it. The fact that the video is striking a nerve with people and making them disgruntled enough to carry it across the internet means it's at least resonating - I honestly view it more as proof positive that the community is largely not ready for cuts to the roster at all. If the bar for acceptable speculation is League Of Legends representation and Yakuza karaoke songs, yeah - I'm gonna look like I'm playing the heel when I throw in my 2 cents. Sorry - consider the can of worms re-closed.
To answer constructively - thanks for watching. I kept plenty of new characters and cut many old ones - Steve, Inkling, ARMS rep, etc. stayed and Jigglypuff, Sheik, Ice Climbers, among other old fighters got cut. Beyond my roster - I find it frustrating that the idea that taking a more historically-angled approach (with, naturally, older / long-running series having more of it to represent) is treated as an abstract, personal reading of the material - when it's textually present in Smash beyond any reasonable doubt. Sakurai has stated this - and I think the care here is genuinely what separates the series from feeling hollow like a Multiversus or Fortnite. No doubt, there are marketing aspects and corporate aspects to consider - but that's not for me to consider, that's for me to resent - I'm a fan, not a marketing exec.
Name them.
The answer here is "yes", and that's kinda the problem. You can't make a good sequel title without preserving the legacy characters (unless your series specifically doesn't do this, which pretty much just doesn't happen), but you also need space for fresh faces to make the game feel new.
Eeeeh? 1.6 Million copies is nothing to sneeze at. It's also pretty normal for sequels on the same console to sell less than their predecessors. Splatoon 3, sold less than Splatoon 2, Fire Emblem Engage sold way less than Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Bayonetta 2 and 3 both sold less than the first, etc.
The fact that I don't have to for anyone to know what I'm talking about probably speaks louder than finger-pointing would. I don't even want to blame the fanbases because I think it's something that arises out of the way certain series themselves operate - rotating protagonists, a larger-than average number of characters present within the franchise itself, stuff like this - the way this stuff has been handled has set a bad precedent (imo). Hero handled Dragon Quest spectacularly and with grace. One character that manages to represent the larger series as a whole really well (barring only 4 true costume swaps - but I can only ask for so much). Not to say it could be done this easily in every case, but something more akin to that should be the goal when possible, imo. Cover the most ground with the least amount of space taken up - that way there's room for other stuff. That's how I've always viewed it, even for franchises I'm terminally obsessed with. I would be just as burnt over Slime getting added as a second DQ rep as I would be about +1 character to x franchise that I don't care about. Less is more sometimes. All just my opinion of course.
ARMS sells being somewhat low compared to other 2017 games is also mostly because most of the reported sales were in the first 2 years compared to other games at the time that had more continuous sales after the first year.
when did we all agree ARMS was a flop? I recall it being among the top 20 best selling switch games for a while and I recall everyone being really enthusiastic about it
yes but you also said the people of this forum aren’t ready for cuts. which does make it sound like you don’t know what you’re talking about
Sales aren't everything. ARMS did extremely well, but it's hard to be a "key IP" with only a single 8 year old game to your name. As for people wanting/not wanting more ARMS characters, they're usually either seen as fun clone ideas that get to play with some of the best character designs we've seen from Nintendo, but there's a large group that hates Min Min from a gameplay standpoint, and absolutely does not want more Min Mins. As for what to expect, it's a huge question mark, as ARMS's future is just as unknown. Min Min will probably stay though.
Yes, just not immediately.
