I mean, he has been rumored for a while now, a lot of people were expecting Dante to say the least, he was trending in twitter, then out of nowhere Capcom (who is infamous for their sometimes barebones ports to Switch) is updating DMC3 (one of the best action games ever adding a really significant feature that makes the game even better) and they are teasing dates (jan 16th), then Sakurai comes and says out of nowhere the next character is going to be announced on that very same date, then Kamiya retweets it, then a lot of youtubers made their "Dante in smash?!" videos, hell the very same Maximilian did one, it all made soooo much sense (After all we got Bayonetta for Smash 4, and Bayo X Dante has always been a thing a lot of people have wanted), the hype was palpable, hell most people of gaming cycles/groups I am in where expecting Dante in smash and some of them don't even play smash, or Nintendo games for that matter, its was everyone and their mothers waiting for it, then the all mighty hammer of truth fell upon us and now we know we are on the darkest timeline and it all was just a coincidence and some of us set ourselves for disappointment, but how could you not get baited by this? it was too easy to fall for it, most of us did and now we are paying the horrible price of sporting avatars of fucking Donte.
We might still get Dante in the future, after all, six characters are still coming and at least he didnt get disconfirmed and turned into a mii costume (at least not yet). But oh well.
So yeah, question is, has something similar to this happened ever in gaming? where some circunstancial stuff lead to the believe of something, only for it to be completely unrelated? is this the biggest bait ever plotted by Sakurai to make us suffer eternal pain in all cycles of hell in Dante's ínferno?
Don't announce me for Smash and reply to Byleth's thread if not interested in this topic.
We might still get Dante in the future, after all, six characters are still coming and at least he didnt get disconfirmed and turned into a mii costume (at least not yet). But oh well.
So yeah, question is, has something similar to this happened ever in gaming? where some circunstancial stuff lead to the believe of something, only for it to be completely unrelated? is this the biggest bait ever plotted by Sakurai to make us suffer eternal pain in all cycles of hell in Dante's ínferno?
Don't announce me for Smash and reply to Byleth's thread if not interested in this topic.