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Character designs you would have preferred over what made it into Smash

Toxi

Toxi

The Fallen
Oct 27, 2017
17,547
HypedBeast said:
Ok, real talk, why dosent the PED Suit get shit on more often?
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Like this looks significantly worse than Other M, and this is the default suit in Prime 3. Like Samus looks like shes about to fight the Covenant or some shit.
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/beginsnobbishrant

Because nobody tries to argue that it looks good. It only reaches tolerable status as you get further corrupted and it sucks that you're stuck with it the whole game. After Echoes had the beautiful Dark Suit and Light Suit designs, Corruption dropped the ball.

The real question is how people can like the Fusion Suit, also known as blueberry taffy Samus. She looks like a Chinese knockoff toy. And unlike the PED suit, people often praise this one.

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Edit: Wait, people actually like the PED suit? Christ.

/endsnobbishrant
 
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HypedBeast

HypedBeast

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Oct 29, 2017
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Toxi said:
Because nobody tries to argue that it looks good. It only reaches tolerable status as you get further corrupted and it sucks that you're stuck with it the whole game. After Echoes had the beautiful Dark Suit and Light Suit designs, Corruption dropped the ball.

The real question is how people can like the Fusion Suit, also known as blueberry taffy Samus. She looks like a Chinese knockoff toy. And unlike the PED suit, people often praise this one.

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I dont know if I like it necessarily, I just like the concept of it. Its basically the same idea as the PED, Samus suit gets contaminated and has to be rebuilt. I like the idea that it is essentially a Metroid Power Suit, plus the organic look of the suit is kind of cool.

At least its interesting, which isnt something I can say about the PED.
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I still would want it in Ultimate as a nod to Fusion.
 
Toxi

Toxi

The Fallen
Oct 27, 2017
17,547
HypedBeast said:
I dont know if I like it necessarily, I just like the concept of it. Its basically the same idea as the PED, Samus suit gets contaminated and has to be rebuilt. I like the idea that it is essentially a Metroid Power Suit, plus the organic look of the suit is kind of cool.

At least its interesting, which isnt something I can say about the PED.
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I still would want it in Ultimate as a nod to Fusion.
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I do think the Gravity and final versions of the Fusion Suit look better thanks to better color schemes.

The Varia Fusion Suit on the other hand makes it look like a clown vomited on Samus.
 
ClickyCal'

ClickyCal'

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Oct 25, 2017
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Toxi said:
/beginsnobbishrant

Because nobody tries to argue that it looks good. It only reaches tolerable status as you get further corrupted and it sucks that you're stuck with it the whole game. After Echoes had the beautiful Dark Suit and Light Suit designs, Corruption dropped the ball.

The real question is how people can like the Fusion Suit, also known as blueberry taffy Samus. She looks like a Chinese knockoff toy. And unlike the PED suit, people often praise this one.

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Edit: Wait, people actually like the PED suit? Christ.

/endsnobbishrant
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It looks fun. More than I can say for the other m suit.
 
foxuzamaki

foxuzamaki

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Oct 25, 2017
21,550
Nauro said:
I prefer Brawl Marth with his baby-blue coloured costume over Awakening Marth, though I really do like his brown shoes and his face is a lot better in the redesign. Hair should be longer though.



It's better than his Smash costume imo

If Travis Touchdown gets him his purple jacket would look better than his red despite it being his main appearance. plus henry as his echo fighter pls



And if Dante gets in it should be DMC 2 Dante imo




Also


Just give them to us you darn fools
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That's not awakening marth, thats his remake outfit
 
TI92

TI92

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Oct 25, 2017
5,598
Being smash ultimate I wish there was a 64 item that gave everyone their original smash looks and they made others in that style who weren't in the game too.

So you could be
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Chie Satonaka91

Chie Satonaka91

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Oct 27, 2017
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Palazzo said:
I've always thought Snake being Naked Snake's head on MGS2 Snake's body looks weird, especially given that Snake has never even come close to having facial hair like that in any of his games.
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He had a decent amount of facial hair when
he was masquerading as Iroquois Pliskin. MGS2 has an item you can acquire as Raiden called a shaver, if you giver to Snake at a certain point in the game, he will use it to shave, and be clean shaven.
My headcanon is that Solid Snake grew the beard because he spent so long gathering Intel on the other Smash fighters before joining the fray himself, and hasn't had the time to shave.
 
Toxi

Toxi

The Fallen
Oct 27, 2017
17,547
People saying Ayami Kojima Simon need to realize that the distinctive style of her art would probably be lost in the transition to a 3D model. You would end up with a much more generic character design in the context of Smash.
 
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Lady Bow

Lady Bow

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Nov 30, 2017
11,284
Would have loved if they went Dark Samus's Prime 2 look, more organic looking and actually creepy. Never liked the how they toned everything down in Prime 3 and made her arm cannon look like an amputated stub (which Ultimate seems to borrow heavily from).
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Oct 25, 2017
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Just use Samus Return Varia Suit and Gravity Suit. Best designs she has ever had.

Also get rid of the heels in Zero Suit Samus.
 
Nocturnowl

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Oct 25, 2017
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Mirror of Fate Simon and Symphony of the Night Richter
They were never gonna happen but it was my dream.
 
Kcannon

Kcannon

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Oct 30, 2017
5,661
Green Slime King said:
Its actually baffling to me how little there has been of alternate skins. Like we got all those Mii outfits as DLC but skins for characters we care about? Naaaaah. Hopefully they are just hiding a bunch of skins in Ultimate and its not just Mario, Ridley, and Ike that have extra ones.
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Mario and Co. don't even have extra skins. They replaced older ones.

But yeah, don't expect anything but recolors with the occasional slight model change. Too much work already goes into the default designs and newcomers.
 
Vampirolol

Vampirolol

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Dec 13, 2017
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I would have preferred a different Samus. Take it from Samus Returns, Super Metroid, Metroid Prime, anything but that Other M design (which has improved, at least).
Brawl had a good mix between Super and Prime, that was the best one.
 
Princess Bubblegum

Princess Bubblegum

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Oct 25, 2017
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A Cavern Shaped Like Home
DrArchon said:
I think barbarian Simon is perfectly fine, but I would've appreciated Kojima Richter to go along with him.

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I wish Richter was modeled more after how he looks in concept art for Rondo of Blood and the the cutscenes in the game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMgAIuov4oI That late 80's/early 90's anime aesthetic. Instead he looks more like a character from Street Fighter.

Also this would be the more appropriate Kojima design, that's his design for SotN.
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Bard

Bard

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Oct 25, 2017
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HypedBeast said:
I dont know if I like it necessarily, I just like the concept of it. Its basically the same idea as the PED, Samus suit gets contaminated and has to be rebuilt. I like the idea that it is essentially a Metroid Power Suit, plus the organic look of the suit is kind of cool.

At least its interesting, which isnt something I can say about the PED.
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I still would want it in Ultimate as a nod to Fusion.
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I don't like the Fusion suit, looks like somebody tried to put spandex over the normal suit and just ended up ripping. Looks like shit.

PED suit looks awesome. I don't know what it is that I like about it, but I do think it's pretty nice that the suit itself doesn't change much as the game goes on like some of the other games. You just see it being continually added on to instead of changing completely. Like how you don't switch beams anymore, they just stack on each other.
 
MrBadger

MrBadger

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Oct 27, 2017
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Sonic is definitely my answer. Mega Man, Pac Man and Simon all got enhanced versions of their best or most iconic designs, completely ignoring the current state of the characters. There was less care put into Sonic's design. Instead of using a look from his good games, they based his look on Sonic 06 because that was the most recent game. And then the same thing happened with Smash 4, with his stage being based on Sonic Lost World. Everyone else is pretty spot on
 

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MrBadger said:
Sonic is definitely my answer. Mega Man, Pac Man and Simon all got enhanced versions of their best or most iconic designs, completely ignoring the current state of the characters. There was less care put into Sonic's design. Instead of using a look from his good games, they based his look on Sonic 06 because that was the most recent game. And then the same thing happened with Smash 4, with his stage being based on Sonic Lost World. Everyone else is pretty spot on
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Probably a result of Sonic being added to Brawl last minute. As for Smash 4, I feel like SEGA would have wanted Modern Sonic.
 
Kcannon

Kcannon

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Oct 30, 2017
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MrBadger said:
Sonic is definitely my answer. Mega Man, Pac Man and Simon all got enhanced versions of their best or most iconic designs, completely ignoring the current state of the characters. There was less care put into Sonic's design. Instead of using a look from his good games, they based his look on Sonic 06 because that was the most recent game. And then the same thing happened with Smash 4, with his stage being based on Sonic Lost World. Everyone else is pretty spot on
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Modern Sonic is the one with actual Nintendo history though, so it's not surprising.
 
MrBadger

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Kcannon said:
Modern Sonic is the one with actual Nintendo history though, so it's not surprising.
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True, although I feel like his 16-bit rivalry with Mario is more relevant to Nintendo history than his Wii game with a talking sword

I mean I know it's obvious why the wrong Sonic is in Smash, because unlike Pac Man, Megaman and Simon, Sonic is an active franchise and the character has a consistent look
 
Anth0ny

Anth0ny

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Oct 25, 2017
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bring back teh chubby pika

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everyone should have their smash 64 designs as an option. especially fox.


also melee sheik pls
 
EloNoolah

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Oct 25, 2017
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Not a "design" per se but I'd prefer if DK and Bowser had their established voices instead of the weird stock animal noises they get stuck with in Smash. I know DK's Scooby-Doo noises in particular get a lot of hate but as they've moved further and further away from that pseudo-realistic Melee aesthetic it's made less and less sense to continue using the "realistic" sound effects.
 
Squid Bunny

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Mandos said:
Or even better, the design from snakes revenge
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Is that the super-buff Snake?

MasterYoshi said:
I'm absolutely satisfied with Smash Ultimate's character designs so far.

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I would have liked this for Young Link but I think that with the Master Sword and Hylian shield it would just look too similar to BotW.
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That's not Young Link though, it's Oracle games Link.
SuperiorTrashTalk said:
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New Leaf proportions for Villager.
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Ughhh I was super annoyed that Smash 4 didn't use them, bit they could have fixed that in Ultimate. I hate the City Folk model.

Although....

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My kingdom for GC Villager design alts.
 
Dreamboum

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Oct 28, 2017
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ALBW Zelda is incommensurately better than BOTW Zelda. I didn't suffer with TP Punished Zelda just to get another aloof, whiny princess. She deserves to be bright and to have a personality for herself and ALBW is perfect for this
 
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