I feel like Alucard is already halfway done into being a full-fledged fighter. Update his model though.
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Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Downloadable Contents Discussion Thread 3 | Seeking Answers to the Un-Bear-able Quest-ions!
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We've seen (part of) Sakurai's PS4 game collection, so we know that he's one of them.
Obviously it won't happen on this fighters pass, but for the next game (or a second pass focused on first party characters), I really wouldn't mind seeing King Boo get a spot, especially with Luigi's Mansion 3 looking fantastic. Could definitely have both his main designs as skins.
King Boo doesn't have too much going on in his LM boss fights. In 1, the real boss is the mecha Bowser. In 2 he has body slams and can summon purple lightning with his gem. I guess it depends on what 3 lends to his arsenal.
I think the best thing for King Boo would to make him an amalgam of all the different Boo abilities in the Mario series like with Pirahna Plant.
Why not? It wasn't that outlandish of a prediction all things considered:
- Could've served as a potential tie-in for the release of Dragon Quest Builders 2 this week.
- An update for Ultimate game is (possibly) due before July 19th, to add support for the next amiibo wave.
- There was a tease for it on the French Nintendo Twitter that was misinterpreted for some time (not being for this week, but for the near future).
- The gap between Joker and Hero is already longer than the one between Piranha Plant and Joker, so people are starting to expect a release soon.
Doubt it. If we really need to wait until August for Hero, i'm sure his release will happen around EVO.
Because...
In Mario 64 DS, King Boo looked like a giant boo with a goofy crown. This may have been to fit the art style better, or because the "real" King Boo didn't work with the DS' limited graphics.
From there, Mario Kart DS came out, and King Boo's Mario 64 DS model was repurposed for a mission mode fight.
Mario Kart DS borrowed heavily from Mario 64 DS, and then going forward, ALL Mario Spin Offs (and future Mario games, even) would adapt Mario 64 DS's designs as the "canon" designs for enemies, with a couple minor tweaks here or there as graphics improved.
So King Boo is stuck in spin offs being a Big Boo with a crown because of an early 2000s DS remake of Mario 64 that somehow became the basis for the art style for Mario spin offs for the next 15 years and beyond.
Eh, I want it like, now, obviously, but there's not anything super concrete pointing to his release, at least not that I've seen anywhere, at least not yet. Summer just started, so who knows. Hopefully not much longer.
Based on what we have to go on though, I'm still going to guess that they're not going to meet their February deadline, at this point. Banjo won't be out until September at the very earliest, and we won't be hearing about fighter number four for a good long while.
The "one character every two months" theory is already busted. I just think they underestimated how long the characters and stages would take to develop.
The "one character every two months" theory is already busted. I just think they underestimated how long the characters and stages would take to develop.
Also people are hoping for his inclusion at EVO, which requires him to be released by the 17th.
Yeah right now I'm expecting Hero in late July or early August. Banjo will probably be in October or November.
So within the next five days?
Eh, probably not, sadly. But anything's possible.
How can Banjo release in November and still have them meet the Feb 2020 deadline?
They're probably not going to. It's July and we have a single character released.
They're gonna delay the Fighters Pass deadline later into 2020, babyyyyy
I mean hey, if my amiibo update theory proves to be fruitful, we all benefit by getting Hero next week.
Really hope someone just gets their hands on the next wave a bit early to prove me wrong (so I don't need to get my hopes up).
Smash DLC release schedules are all weird.
Really hope someone just gets their hands on the next wave a bit early to prove me wrong (so I don't need to get my hopes up).
3/4 of Smash 4's unique DLC newcomers released within two months of each-other.
Smash DLC release schedules are all weird.
As a consolation prize, you'll get Goomba for free if you purchase the Fighter Pass before the end of February.
They can release 2 characters same day like Smash 4.
Nothing is stopping that. Especially when the last major event to reveal is the Game Awards. September direct for character 4 and Game Awards Character 5. February release?
I could see that.
Nothing is stopping that. Especially when the last major event to reveal is the Game Awards. September direct for character 4 and Game Awards Character 5. February release?
I could see that.
The reveal schedule for Ultimate in general has been poorly paced
Sure did love waiting months on end to get any new info with absolutely nothing inbetween Directs (outside of new music tracks)
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You know, they'll have run out of seasons to base the updates around by Character #5 (3.0 was advertised as the Spring update, Hero is set for Summer and Banjo is set for Fall), so in a weird way I can see this playing out.
The wait between the Game Awards and E3 felt like a fucking eternity.
It was either this or not have "Everyone is here!"
Were you willing to make that sacrifice?
Remember when they literally revealed every single stage in the game in August?
They could of held back on some returning stages for the final Direct.
They could of held back on some returning stages for the final Direct.
Eh, I'm glad they just got that out of the way there since they weren't bringing every stage back anyway.
They didn't have to reveal Dark Samus and Chrom in the August Direct. They could have did a little Smash video at some point in the middle where they revealed those two
I don't really understand how "Everyone is here" has anything to do with the awkward way Ultimate news was revealed, or why a different reveal plan would have required the concept to be dropped.
In hindsight it was also basically a big red flag to anyone who was hoping for guys from unrepresented series like Golden Sun, Banjo-Kazooie, etc
We didn't figure back in August that our last few newcomers for the base roster were going to be from Animal Crossing, Street Fighter and Pokemon. What a way to go out
We didn't figure back in August that our last few newcomers for the base roster were going to be from Animal Crossing, Street Fighter and Pokemon. What a way to go out
They wanted to squish everything into three directs because it was a shorter cycle than usual and less to reveal.
Scenario:
The timeline of this fighter's pass has been so weirdly paced because after seeing how insanely successful the game and the pass have been sales wise, Nintendo asked Sakurai and his team to expand the scope of DLC plans for Ultimate. The team is working not only to finish up Hero and Banjo, not only to get solid builds for Figthers 4 and 5, but at this point they've also started development on the DLC content that will be coming after the fighter's pass.
The timeline of this fighter's pass has been so weirdly paced because after seeing how insanely successful the game and the pass have been sales wise, Nintendo asked Sakurai and his team to expand the scope of DLC plans for Ultimate. The team is working not only to finish up Hero and Banjo, not only to get solid builds for Figthers 4 and 5, but at this point they've also started development on the DLC content that will be coming after the fighter's pass.
17th is the last day to get a patch to be used on EVO.
So it is either this week for Hero on EVO or in 4 weeks because it is always on the same week as a famitsu sakurai collum detailing the char
Honestly if they just switched the belmont reveal with kencineroar, I think ot would change everyone's prespective a lot.
They didn't have to do it that way, even with the shorter cycle.
The August Direct also set expectations for the number of newcomers way higher than the final total was. Dark Samus and Chrom did not need to be revealed in that Direct.
Sakurai literally said in that direct after the 4 characters "we have a few more fighters to reveal, so stay tuned." After e3 where he said "so we hope you aren't expwcting too many new challengers."
Yeah, but they needed to reveal the Belmonts in August to reveal the whole stage lineup. Hiding a single stage would've been very weird.
Those were really vague and could have meant literally any number of newcomers.
Yeah, having 2 reveals (+ everyone is here) in June, then 4 reveals in August, then... 3 for the rest of the year was poorly conceived.
I guess they wanted two "full" newcomers per Direct, but yeah, if nothing else I would have saved Dark Samus for the final direct.
I guess they wanted two "full" newcomers per Direct, but yeah, if nothing else I would have saved Dark Samus for the final direct.
It turned out they weren't vague though, and people should beleive what sakurai says.
You can only say this in hindsight, knowing the final roster. They were, in fact, very vague statements.
For real. It's still baffling to me that they revealed two huge newcomers and three (though Richter would have always been revealed with Simon) echoes in the same Smash Direct, aside from all the other stuff they revealed. They could have easily split some of that stuff up over time, especially because what followed was a low-key Isabelle reveal and the dreaded Kencineroar double reveal.
No...it's not hindsight because I literally said it since e3 from last year and kept saying it. I even said this to you specifically a lot. It's not sakurai's fault people think he plays 5d chess.
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