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Berordn

One Winged Slayer
Member
Oct 26, 2017
9,739
NoVA
the most important thing

daisy, an "established" mario character is little more than a clone
piranha plant, a generic mario mook, is a unique playable fighter

the universe is at peace
 

Gold Arsene

Banned
Oct 27, 2017
30,757
Also if anyone fucking tries to pull that "Zelda is fully represented" shit now I'm going to be pissed.

Because this well and truly throws that right out the fucking window.
 

NotLiquid

One Winged Slayer
Member
Oct 25, 2017
34,748
I'm maining Piranha Plant

I CAN'T BELIEVE PIRANHA PANT CAME IN BEFORE GENO
 

Garrod Ran

self-requested ban
Banned
Mar 23, 2018
16,203
me at Piranha Plant haters:

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the piranha chad has destroyed virgeno
 

DrArchon

Member
Oct 25, 2017
15,485
My heart goes out to all of the Waluigi and Bandana Waddle Dee fans.

I we all made fun of your for backing unimportant characters, but look where we are now.
 

Alent

Member
Oct 28, 2017
2,720
Piranha Plant was legit a cute surprise. Ken and Incineroar are such a boring reveal to end on.

Is Incineroar popular? It feels like it gets an equal amount of hate and love. You can usually tell which Pokemon TPC push to be the nest Lucario but it never quite works. No Issac is super disappointing, but i got my boy Shulk last game so i should always be happy about that if nothing else. The roster is still huge and has plenty of great characters!
 

Kewlmyc

Avenger
Oct 25, 2017
26,682
Part of me loves how troll-y this direct was.

- Issac, Spring Man, and Shadow all deconfirmed for future characters all at once
- But Piranha Plant is in
- Also Rex might be deconfirmed for DLC if costumes count
- Same for Geno if stickers count since there's apparently a Geno sticker

Who would even be left as DLC?
 

MadLaughter

Avenger
Oct 25, 2017
13,086
I usually like dumb ironic choices in things but putting in a literal piranha plant did nothing for me
 

peppersky

Banned
Mar 9, 2018
1,174
What even was that?
Ken is an alright addition, NOBODY asked for Incineroar and Piranha Plant would be a fun addition to the cast if they had actually added other characters people were actually asking for.
Spirits mode seems alright, especially with everything they showed at the end, but it definitely won't be the singleplayer content people wanted.
Their DLC policy is also just baffling. I kinda can't even believe they don't have any sort of release schedule for them. The way they do online also just seems really weird and not particularly well though out.

Wii Fit Trainer was a way better "joke surprise" inclusion last game than Piranha Plant.
Man, I'd take a single newcomer from the fake grinch leak over the three they showed today.
 

Łazy

Member
Nov 1, 2017
5,249
I'm happy I lost the box theory bet lol.
No Xenoblade X at all so it can be DLC.
The story mode is awesome.
Very nice content.

Xenoblade 2 got wrecked.
Isaac got destroyed.
Geno got trashed.
Shadow got laughed at.
Arms got crushed.
The list goes on.
 

Alent

Member
Oct 28, 2017
2,720
On the upside, maybe no Rex DLC so that leaves a door open for Elma as second Xenoblade rep :D Haha, in my dreams.
 

Ithil

Member
Oct 25, 2017
23,365
Well, i appreciate that they ripped that bandaid off real quick. But Nintendo are so fucking dumb. If Isaac/Shadow was an assist trophy all this time and there is all this huge talk going on about them being fighters (along with a shitload of other highly requested fighters) then all they had to do was release an update on their website showing his assist trophy status and in one fell swoop they could have cut that off at the pass.

But no, they let this fake leak simmer and fester until it built up quite frankly unreasonable levels of discussion, hype and unrealistic expectations. Not how i would have played it.

Of course now we know there are 5 newcomers still as DLC the rumours wont stop until they announce the last one. Not paying attention to any leaks from now on though. Fool me once...
I like how apparently it's Nintendo's job to police 4chan rumours.
 

Noppie

Member
Oct 27, 2017
13,763
Sorry I don't know Nintendo's system well. What are gold points, how/where do I redeem them, and do I need their paid service for this?
Gold Points basically give a discount for your next purchases (when you decide to use them). 100 Gold points = 1 euro/dollar discounted. Purchasing Smash throught the eShop means you'll get 600 gold points, or 6 off of your purchase after.

Don't need the paid service.
 

Brandon

Banned
Oct 29, 2017
3,977
Piranha Plant better apply to all users on the console and not just the one that redeems it.
 

Noppie

Member
Oct 27, 2017
13,763

KtSlime

Member
Oct 25, 2017
6,910
Tokyo
Love Pakunflower made it in. Disappointed that we still have no DQ character, that said, glad the next SE rep wasn't wasted on Geno.
 

Peleo

Member
Nov 2, 2017
2,656
I just hope Spring Man as an Assist Trophy doesn't mean they are not considering him for DLC.
 

DevilPuncher

Aggressively Mediocre
Member
Oct 25, 2017
6,685
I'm honestly really happy with these picks, especially Incineroar. The only thing that made it slightly disappointing was the fact that the hype ass leak was fake.

Honestly, if the leak wasn't a thing I think most people would be pretty satisfied with the roster.
 

Sandfox

Member
Oct 25, 2017
24,743
What even was that?
Ken is an alright addition, NOBODY asked for Incineroar and Piranha Plant would be a fun addition to the cast if they had actually added other characters people were actually asking for.
Spirits mode seems alright, especially with everything they showed at the end, but it definitely won't be the singleplayer content people wanted.
Their DLC policy is also just baffling. I kinda can't even believe they don't have any sort of release schedule for them. The way they do online also just seems really weird and not particularly well though out.

Wii Fit Trainer was a way better "joke surprise" inclusion last game than Piranha Plant.
Man, I'd take a single newcomer from the fake grinch leak over the three they showed today.
Incineroar is actually pretty popular. Off the top of my head the only gen 7 Pokemon more popular than it are Mimikyu and Rowlet.
 

Giga Man

One Winged Slayer
Member
Oct 27, 2017
21,209
I'm dead. Piranha Plant killed me. It was quite spectacular, actually.

HA HA HA HA HA.

I've been asking for a joke characters like Goomba for ages so I'm really really happy to see Pirahna Plant as a fighter. It's a dream addition.
I'm ready for my punishment.
 

ASaiyan

Member
Oct 25, 2017
7,228
A fucking Piranha Plant.

I will swallow everything else revealed in this Direct. Except that.
 

Gold Arsene

Banned
Oct 27, 2017
30,757
You can tell who's actually into Smash for reasons other than dumb roster speculation based on who's mad about Piranha Plant as a fighter

So I can't be disappointed that non of the characters I wanted got in?

That I don't frankly care about most of the newcomers?

That I apparently can't get a new Zelda character because it's "fully represented" but a fucking generic Mario enemy can get in?

Look I'm disappointed and frankly I don't get why that makes me a bad guy.