Yeah, it's crazy that people keep talking about the best selling fighting game ever which is getting multiple years of DLC.
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Yeah, it's crazy that people keep talking about the best selling fighting game ever which is getting multiple years of DLC.
I hope Smash gets a third Season Pass down the line just so these people "suffer" some more.
To be fair, it's much more fun to talk about games and announcements for thing you even have a passing interest in. A lot of people just don't like fighters, myself included.
Same goes for any dedicated Direct though. I just think Smash's fanbase is particularly outspoken.
I'm honestly fine with all the attention Smash receives, the game is an incredible success on so many levels.
I'm curious what Nintendo can/will do with the franchise next... so I don't blame them keeping this in the limelight for years to come.
Realistically, I dont think we'll see another Smash for a considerably long time, so enjoy it while it lasts if it's your thing, I say.
It will be interesting to see if Nintendo approach the next Mario Kart in a similar way to Smash.
I'm curious what Nintendo can/will do with the franchise next... so I don't blame them keeping this in the limelight for years to come.
Realistically, I dont think we'll see another Smash for a considerably long time, so enjoy it while it lasts if it's your thing, I say.
It will be interesting to see if Nintendo approach the next Mario Kart in a similar way to Smash.
I mean, the absence of "Master Chief for Smash" trailer or something won't suddenly materialize an announcement one is interested in its stead.
So to me it reads as something as petty as "why is this thing I don't like getting attention".
I'm fine with Smash and long may its success continue, but just wanted to point out that the fighting genre is one of the smallest selling genres of videogame.
Smash is still a huge success in it's own right, but being the "best selling fighting game" is really not an accolade... Injustice, Mortal Kombat, Soul Calibur, Dead or Alive, Street Fighter... all amazing franchises, but there is always a ceiling on their sales potential - it's actually quite remarkable when you compare their sales and see how flat they are between series entries!
If you dont like fighting games (or ridiculous gore in the case of MK!) then you simply dont buy them, so youll always get people piping up about all the attention Smash receives.
I think Smash Ultimate deserves the spotlight, personally, but largely because I think it's going to be near impossible for Nintendo to follow it up...!
I meant more that it's really not the accolade to convince someone that doesnt like fighting games, and that it actually does Smash a disservice because the sales are in a league of their own compared to the likes of MK and SF.
17 million sales or second only to Mario Kart on Switch are the ones that put Smash into perspective - although, you'll still struggle to convince anyone that doesnt like it!
I still think 17 million people versus best of a relatively small genre is the way forward though!
There is only so much time for things to be developed, announced, and released so of course there's always going to be people vyying for attention and wanting to be catered to.
For people not interested in the fighting genre, they'd much rather see new or different games that they might like with that limited resource. It happens with everything and there's nothing wrong with it unless the outcry is too loud one way or the other.
If you were to remove the airtime dedicated to Smash from Directs it would be replaced by nothing.
Yea. If you took smash out of the 2018 direct, it would just be 25 minutes shorter and nothing else added.
While we are on the Smash topic I think these dedicated Sakurai videos are their best bet going forward. The game really doesnt need Direct spotlight anymore and Sakurai can go as indepth as he wants for fans there without disrupting any pacing Nintendo might want for a Direct.
Not saying it doesnt deserve to be in a Direct or shouldnt be there but I think this new format works best for it and Smash fans tune in for that just as much.
Not saying it doesnt deserve to be in a Direct or shouldnt be there but I think this new format works best for it and Smash fans tune in for that just as much.
Some people probably would've preferred that, and I can kinda see why, but it isn't worth complaining about almost two years later.
Ultimate will, at most, continue to take 2-5 minutes out of each general direct; people can live through that.
Today I have been watching some gameplays of the new ArcSys game, Granblue Fantasy: Versus, and the slower (compared to other anime fighters) gameplay and focus on weapons made me realize that a game like this would be a perfect match for Fire Emblem, and I wonder if Nintendo is going to invest in traditional fighting games in the future.
ArcSys is developing/updating a lot of games at the same time now, and I'm sure Atlus is trying to get their P5 fighter, so I don't even think they're available, but I think Nintendo partnering with them in the future to create a FE traditional fighting game would be a really wise decision and would expand Nintendo's competitive scene a lot. It would also serve to have all the new FE characters in a game that is not Smash, which has been a big complaint from the Smash fanbase the last years.
Watching Versus this morning I realised how great a game that seems pretty fun could be if it had good characters, for some reason I don't feel them at all (random generic anime trops at their worst IMO), and it's not because I never played the phone game, I was impressed by most post timeskip designs in 3H before playing the game. Better characters also means more appeal, so lots of non-FE fans that simply love this kind of fighting games would also be interested and it has IMO the potential to be a really big game (maybe not as big as DBZ, but bigger than their original games or Versus).
ArcSys is developing/updating a lot of games at the same time now, and I'm sure Atlus is trying to get their P5 fighter, so I don't even think they're available, but I think Nintendo partnering with them in the future to create a FE traditional fighting game would be a really wise decision and would expand Nintendo's competitive scene a lot. It would also serve to have all the new FE characters in a game that is not Smash, which has been a big complaint from the Smash fanbase the last years.
Watching Versus this morning I realised how great a game that seems pretty fun could be if it had good characters, for some reason I don't feel them at all (random generic anime trops at their worst IMO), and it's not because I never played the phone game, I was impressed by most post timeskip designs in 3H before playing the game. Better characters also means more appeal, so lots of non-FE fans that simply love this kind of fighting games would also be interested and it has IMO the potential to be a really big game (maybe not as big as DBZ, but bigger than their original games or Versus).
Don't forget the Mother 3 remake they didn't show you because they have shown Byleth instead.
While Three Houses is definitely better with the anime tropes it's still very tropey and if they made a fighting game it would most likely contain characters from all the games with great focus on the last few ones which especially contains Fates and Awakening because they were part of ehat put the series on the radar again.
And while I like Awakening (It's story isn't bad but also not very special) Fates has awful writing is the worst about stuff like this.
If the next direct be it general or what ever doesn't have smash DLC #6, I'll be dissappointed tbh.
That's it? No smash? ...im terrrified of seeing those words
I don't really like animal crossing so I'm not as hyped about the next direct as I should be I guess since it's rumored to have a bunch of ports and shit that I already played on Wii U
That's it? No smash? ...im terrrified of seeing those words
I don't really like animal crossing so I'm not as hyped about the next direct as I should be I guess since it's rumored to have a bunch of ports and shit that I already played on Wii U
Eh, the turnaround from the first teaser to any additional details was a lot faster for Bayonetta 2. It was revealed in September 2012, then mentioned in the January 2013 Direct, and finally the first gameplay reveal was shown at E3 2013 (with a playable demo too); with the final game releasing just over two years out from the original reveal, in September (JP) / October (rest of the world) 2014.
Bayonetta 3, on the other hand, was revealed over two years ago now and we still have no concrete details on it.
Wouldn't expect the Character until E3 judging by Sakurai's comments about being sorry that we will still have to wait for it.
Well judging by how there's 6 dlc fighters left until December 2021..and Nintendo' usually holds 3 general directs a year I hope it's like this tbh. Each general direct having 1 character reveal
2020
Spring direct - dlc #6
E3 direct -dlc #7
Fall direct -dlc #8
2021
Spring direct -dlc #9
E3 - dlc #10
Fall direct -dlc #11
All followed by a smash character direct deep diving into said revealed characters history/ moveset
Byleth wasn't tied to a direct so their release schdule isn't connected.
It's just wishful thinking.
The Fall directs have been consistently in Spetember the last few years (yeah I know patters, just like we should totally expect something every janurary and february lol)
Could totally be a late reveal close to its release in december, just like with Byleth.
Just expect the worst so you won't be disappointed.
Predicting Direct is like predicting weather you have some patterns but you really don't know for sure until it hits.
Can't people, you know, be happy for each other when something gets announced which might excite other people?
Apparently I'm strange, but I'm so flabbergasted sometimes by how people can respond to something which they have no interest in, but feel the need to share how much they dislike the announcement. This always include broken arguments, but hey, its easy to spot who to ignore during discussions.
For example, I'm not a fan of Animal Crossing. If that game would receive future updates and would take up some Direct time, I'd completely understand because so many people love the franchise.
Apparently I'm strange, but I'm so flabbergasted sometimes by how people can respond to something which they have no interest in, but feel the need to share how much they dislike the announcement. This always include broken arguments, but hey, its easy to spot who to ignore during discussions.
For example, I'm not a fan of Animal Crossing. If that game would receive future updates and would take up some Direct time, I'd completely understand because so many people love the franchise.
I was talking about the designs, I don't know if Gacha games have any kind of story, but the designs of most post-skip characters from 3H are quite good, and a huge step for the franchise (no more blue-haired lords, all 3 lords are quite different, most of characters have interesting desings IMO).
And for a fighting game, as we can expect a roster of 15-20 characters at the start (which is what I think is the most realistic for a new traditional game), I would like them to only feature the characters for the newest game (the next one if they ever do this), this way we can guarantee lots of different archetypes.
I mean there is nothing to discuss that hasn't been discussed to death and morale is low. Not to mention yesterday was Valentine's day.
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Less time clicking new pages mean more time reading the wonderful Direct posts of desperation here.
That one more thing will be a BOTW2 release date reveal, and it will be glorious.
Also, I'd expect to see Metroid V, Super Mario 3D World, Super Mario Party 2, and Monster Hunter Next get their reveals at E3. Doubt they'll show up here.
Nah Metroid V will be in this direct, they need a core game in the line up
/s... but they have to right?
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