TheLoneStar posted:

I mean, are we really gonna pretend like every character in the roster is a huge name? There are characters in the roster far less deserving, but only got in because they were in one Nintendo game thirty years ago that no one played. Looking at you, Ice Climbers.

Shadowlyger posted:

Actually, World of Warcraft's devs have managed to implement several secrets in the latest expansion, by putting together riddles in such a way that datamining can't really find them. That wouldn't exactly work in a game like Smash, of course, but...

Mercury Crusader posted:

If PlayStation All-Stars didn't have any third-party characters and wasn't constantly hounded as a "Smash Bros. rip-off," does the PlayStation brand/Sony IPs have enough pull to make people give a crap about such a game?

All I remember about the roster complaints was that there was no Crash, Spyro, Snake, or Cloud, which left me to believe nobody cared about any of Sony's actual first-party stuff.

Wyvernil posted:

Castlevania seems like the best choice for a second Konami series rep, definitely. Simon Belmont would be an excellent choice.

I guess Tekken works as a second Namco pick; Heihachi or Yoshimitsu would both be good calls.

For Square-Enix, I'd go with either Dragon Quest (Erdrick?) or a SNES-era Final Fantasy character like Terra or Cecil. Some people have suggested Kingdom Hearts, but only a few of its games have made it on Nintendo consoles, plus clearing the rights with Disney would be an extra hurdle.

Zore posted:

Realistically if they use a Tales protagonist it'll be Lloyd from Symphonia. Mostly because he showed up in that weird Soul Calibur spin off for the Wii and had a Mii costume in 4. Symphonia was big on the GameCube, had a Wii sequel and was like the last major Tales game Nintendo had (except for the crap JP-only version of Grace's).

And hey he's a swordsman who uses two swords.

Chillgamesh posted:

Despite having shitloads of people on the internet who remember MML1+2 + Misadventures of Tron Bonne extremely fondly (like me), the games apparently sold like dog rear end so they just cut their losses and stopped funding MML3 after the demo had less than stellar numbers.

Oxyclean posted:

Maybe it's personal cynicism but I've felt like Lara/Tomb Raider has never been a big deal. It's one of the most B-Tier franchises out there. Sure it's been around for awhile, but I remember it just always being a series know for being kinda janky and really not that great. I've heard the recent games are solid, but no-one in my social circles have played them. Lara isn't really relevant to gaming in the way Pac-Man is, and Tomb Raider games being on Nintendo systems is kind of the most ehhh argument because I'm assuming they're just half-baked ports - I can't imagine anyone thinks of Nintendo and Tomb Raider as a thing, not like how Final Fantasy was a Nintendo thing for the NES/SNES days.

Zore posted:

She had another movie this year.

It did pretty okay.

Avirosb posted:

And PCs.

HMS Beagle posted:

I'll say

Dragon Quest Hero (or Dragon Warrior, or whatever they'd call the main character from Dragon Quest)

Theta Zero posted:

Speaking of dumb character choices, since I did a bet last time I'll do it again.

For anybody listening, quote this post and give me exactly five characters you think will be announced (or playable) when Smash Ultimate is released along with your Steam account and I'll buy the person with the most correct answers a whopping $10 game on Steam. Ties will be split evenly.

I'll save it all on a notepad document and review it when the game is released and the full roster (at launch, not DLC) is revealed.

glitchwraith posted:

I'd be very surprised to get Master Chief considering he's never been on a Nintendo console. Same could be said of Cloud, but at least his franchise has a history on Nintendo. Minecraft Steve, Banjo-Kazooie or even Battle Toads would make better Microsoft reps. Hell, Doom Guy would be a more likely FPS rep if not for the difficulty of making him PG enough for smash.

Bicyclops posted:

At this point, they should just forget about F-Zero and give Captain Falcon his own game where he adventures around punching bad guys with his fist.

Eiba posted:

Yeah, I don't know why they'd do a whole direct for a new character. They could just reveal that on their website. If there's more information to be released it's probably what the single player is, or if there's some other interesting game mode like that neat mode where you ran around a map to get powerups on the 3DS or the loving awful board game mode on the Wii U.

I mean, I can imagine they might announce a character along side something like that, but I'd be surprised if it was just a character reveal.

Macaluso posted:

Based on this character leak, people are now thinking the leak about Isabelle being playable is very likely which... On one hand I'd be stoked cause I like that character but on the other hand it feels weird for that character to be doing any kind of fighting

b_d posted:

I mean the FF rep being Cloud in particular is still kinda weird

.TakaM posted:

Did anyone realize how Sakurai was worried about his eyes being bloodshot during the Direct was actually a hint towards K.Rool's reveal?

The Kins posted:

I know the original character artist has been retweeting a lot of stuff.

SeANMcBAY posted:

Some people think this image Sakurai posted is teasing Isaac because it looks kinda similar to the Golden Sun battle screen.
https://twitter.com/sora_sakurai/status/1027234926167388160?s=21

absolutely anything posted:

only if it’s fat pikachu

Waffleman_ posted:

Never. Not at all. Was it even going to BE on Gamecube? I mostly remember hearing about it in the context of the Xbox.

RuBisCO posted:

I want a rad axe lady

Bleck posted:

codenameFANGIO posted:

this looks like a fuckin Digimon

Bicyclops posted:

There are way too few of these, too. It's like Castle Crashers and the Scott Pilgrim game. Mashing buttons and leveling up with friends is fun.

Bicyclops posted:

He's very important to FF7, sure, but as a background character introduced most of the way through the game who we know next to nothing about besides that he is kind of the original Cloud. You also don't have to be a fan of FF7 to recognize Cloud, basically the avatar for Final Fantasy. Look at this way: how many Kingdom Hearts games has Zack been in?

Lobster Harmonica posted:

It'll be Geno. I really wonder what's up with Vergeben though, a couple times now he's described having sourced info in a way that I literally can't imagine. Like back around June he said there will be "Minecraft representation in some form" but can't elaborate on the context, whether that means anything from a stage to a trophy, song etc.

How does something so specific yet so vague get passed through the grapevine? Same with him knowing which three pokemon the newcomer pokemon ISN'T, but no clue on who it is. Who the hell at Nintendo is drip-feeding a gamefaqs guy bizarre hints about newcomers (and why is he always right)

Zuzie posted:

Superman makes for a terrible video game character though, and I'm not just talking about Superman 64.

He's usually portrayed as nigh-invincible (flight, virtual invulnerability, super strength, has elemental powers like heat vision and ice breath, can survive the vacuum of space etc.) except for the Kyptonite weakness which was specifically introduced to make sure he has some kind of Achilles heel. He works as comic book character, but it falls flat for a video game where there needs to be an obvious losing state otherwise the game becomes boring to play. Hence why most video games about Superman tend to limit his abilities.