From what I'm understanding from the completely loosely translated Microsoft machine translation, basically
>Can't overlook selfish criticism of those who don't recognize Dragon Quest's importance in Japan as a whole
I believe he was criticizing that one post that had sleeping Banjo, Rayman and Wallace/Gromit screens over "Erdrick in Smash".
As someone who is just... boldly tired of overall swordsman movesets tier characters and being incredibly afraid of Sakurai's possibly limited vision for this particular character itself (Erdrick), it's not that I have anything against the series. It's more the fear of something that might be half-assed. I've yet to see a actual character that actually requires Sakurai to think of a proper manner to implement it while making it stand out. It's also a wish for me to see more of a certain kind of fighter that I also think is drastically overlooked, but only because there are actually very incredibly FEW protagonists that have this as a focus (Nintendo first party mostly, there's more range in third party if Nintendo were to take that approach and in case they did, I think they'd very easily take advantage of a "certain" character as if it were their own, which, technically, it sort of is)
I wouldn't mind Erdrick for instance, if Sakurai actually dared to implement Slime along with it and make it far less sword focused than first looks might seem to imply.
Banjo and Kazooie for me, is another completely trivial matter. I have no particular feelings for them since I did not grow up with them. I barely played the games, but that's as far as it goes. To me, they're animal mascots. They don't... particularly stand out to me but I can't ignore the characters' fans. Not sure whether they're deserving or not, just that they have a unbelievably vocal fanbase.
I don't understand why that gook is mad at Banjo. That post had 3 other characters sleeping. They weren't implying Banjo or anyone else was better. Just that Erdrick is boring.
Something about sleeping on Erdrick and wanting Rayman/Banjo
Christian Jones
IIRC he called Westerners ignorant for not understanding how important DQ is and why it deserves to be in Smash
Jason Taylor
Japanese players are legitimately more braindead than western players. They thought FFXV was too hard.
Wyatt Lewis
>Westerners ruining Smash
>When we have three western reps as a whole (Diddy, K. Rool and Dark Samus)
I still remember how some people in Japan also unironically called Ridley Captain America and thought Little Mac to be a western pick despite the fact they are old-school picks. Because those are still Japanese creations.
honestly dq is fine, but considering its lesser known and beloved status in the west, the controversy is mostly that it's going to be dlc in smash. it wouldn't be a problem if it was in the base game. because it's dlc and competition for other dlc square reps, though, that's where the issue is.
i don't mind dq at all and i highly respect its legacy, but i think it should have been handled a little better. of course, se is stingy and wants to make money off of fucking everything, so the less controversial option was not meant to be.
Ian Reed
these bait threads have gotten so tiring, i just want E3 to end this
Jeremiah Nguyen
lel
Elijah Harris
Hey look, I'm a Banjofag too, but don't make him out to be the more important than he actually is, be humble about this shit.
What are you on about? Japs love Banjo. I went to Japan the other day, and there was a shrine dedicated to Banjo in Mt. Fuji.
Nicholas Edwards
Honestly, the thought of Erdrick being more of a after-though and DLC rather than base honestly makes me shake my head at Square Enix given that it just feels like a slimy thing to do overall to its fans. Given that there's going to be a movie soon, if they do have plans to bring it stateside/overseas, I'm afraid the whole series might get really generalized and that might actually bite the series' fans in the ass for simply wanting to purchase the character.
Leo Hall
DQfags really need to fuck off. Nobody gives a shit or even knows about your bootleg Gohan from an obscure NES game. We have more than enough anime swordies in the game. He'd just be a Link echo with Robin's specials.
it's pretty fucking shitty. square enix's poor business practices are once again the issue, but dq's fans, nintendo, and sakurai are getting the flak for it because of erdrick likely coming as dlc. i sincerely think things would have been better if they'd put him in the base game instead. this smash addition is going to be a shitshow for everyone involved, pro- or anti-dq. in fact, it already is, and it's sad.
Charles Mitchell
sure
Dominic Russell
>Nintendo doesn't give a shit about him
You Dont know what in tendon gives a shit about unless you work there. Chances are they Dont give a big shit about Mario games but instead the money is makes.
Still sold more and had a bigger influence than Banjo
Gabriel Rivera
He has a point though, it's hard for Nips to get their characters, considering that they are most likely considered literal whos in the West, or has never seen had a release in the West, which Sakurai doesn't seem to favor.
Sakurai panders more for the West, and that makes the Nips mad, they need more respect and love, otherwise we are missing out on a ton of great characters
Japanese rosterfag copypasta Don't put in third-parties Don't put in retro characters Don't put in console peripheral characters Don't put in weird-for-the-sake-of-weird characters Don't put in obscure characters Don't put in characters I don't know Don't put in series that don't sell well Put in characters Japanese know Don't put in old characters Don't put in new characters Don't put in anymore Kid Icarus characters Don't put in anymore Fire Emblem characters Don't put in pointless original Mii characters Don't put in anymore sword characters Don't put in anymore human characters Don't make clone characters Put all your effort into recreating the source material And there are too many characters, get rid of some
>shitposters in japan are just as moronic as everywhere else shock and surprise
Thomas Cruz
It's not our fault Sakurai is dumb as hecc and decided to throw Takamaru under the bus as "literal who", even though he could have given him the chance to finally have a spotlight and get at least fucking something.
John Bennett
Takamaru would've just been called an anime swordsman
> Implying Project Rainfall with Shulk didn't have anything to do with it
Jacob Lopez
fucking falseflaggers. i hate all of you unironically
Asher Roberts
STOP SAYING THAT, NINTENDO COULD NOT BE SO STUPID AS TO PICK A CHARACTER THAT THEY KNOW WOULD GET A NEGATIVE REACTION, AND YES I GET THAT "IT'S NINTENDO" BUT ANYONE WITH EVEN AN IOTA OF A BRAIN WOULD TELL YOU IT'S NOT A GOOD IDEA, SO DON'T DO IT YOU FUCKING JAPS
>Hated in Japan, the country who makes Smash Banjo is the best selling third party N64 game in Japan iirc
Daniel Rogers
Based Kiryu There is plenty of characters more deserving than banjo, but if we are getting a microsoft rep then it should be Banjo or at least someone from Rare
Leo Sullivan
>> Furry character Well darn, Star Fox and Pokémon are deconfirmed forever.
I feel like Sakurai put in the plant just to show you faggots "I will put in whoever I want, shut up already", and you retards still didn't get the message
Reminder that Japan genuinely wanted Chrom and their opinion shouldn't be taken seriously
Michael Sanders
Sakurai said Shulk came from Nip demand
Jaxson Hernandez
Source?
Jacob Cook
Sounds like someone pissed in your cheerios today. Provide citations for all your claims. Every character has a fair chance, even though Banjo is my personal number 1.
Ive been a Ridleyfags for 15 years and it's always been easy to spot false flagging shitheads. If someone wanted Isaac or Rool or Banjo Kazooie but acted like dicks to the others or Ridley, they were shit posting. I never saw legit Isaacfags, Roolfags, Babjofags, or Ridleyfags shit on each other.
I feel like Snake, Cloud, and Joker was another way of him saying that
Benjamin Green
Erdrick isn't getting in because "haha dumb gaijin doesn't know DQ", it's because of how fucked licensing DQ is, especially the music, and Square being retards as usual. Japs don't seem to realize how fucked it is from what I've seen. I'm all for a DQ rep but it'd be more effort than it'd really be worth.
regardless of how impactful he is, there are only so many ways to swing a sword in smash without making the move disjointed and/or overpowered or incredibly underwhelming
Landon Turner
It's ok sweetie go play your bing bing wahay games, this thread isn't for pea brains
Angel Evans
Calm the fuck down, you raging autist.
Adam Morgan
>90% of the roster are jap characters >when western fans want western characters instead of jap characters, japs freak the fuck out and gets tremendously butthurt
Jace Myers
>Chocolate Rain >Rosterfags are a fucking shame >Chocolate Rain >Time to have some fun with Hunger games
West East isn't angry, he's just annoyed that Westerners don't recognize how important DQ is See
Landon Bell
I'd say West since there's no real refutation to the guy's response. Being ignorant of Dragon Quest doesn't mean it isn't more important than fucking Rayman.
Henry Martinez
Have you guys had anyone you want get deconfirmed? For me it was Erdrick
Gavin Ross
He's not butthurt He said he's fine with notable western characters like Master Chief
Julian King
When was Erdrick deconfirmed?
Samuel Ward
Didn't stop Corrin.
John Ward
Bing bing wah-- is that even English? I'm just asking for a citation to the OP's claims? What is a bing bing wahay game anyways?
Eli Phillips
Ever since the 5ch leaks got deconfirmed.
Lucas Rivera
When Vergeben was outted as a fucking fraud.
Asher Ramirez
>Hated in Japan, the country who makes Smash Wrong. >Furry character That's not how "furry" works, you retard. >Dead franchise Who cares. R.O.B is there. >Nintendo doesn't give a shit about him Fanfic >and Rare Who cares. It's like caring about snake because Konami is shit. >Western trash Western soul.
Gavin Smith
5ch leaks both were proven bullshit Vergeben/other """insiders""" never got anything right about DLC so far and
Chase Lewis
didn't stop Chrom either, so maybe they are that retarded
Luis Jones
Doomguy. Doom is more important to the history of vidya than most of the current third parties.
William Jones
I'm glad that was deconfirmed. Trash leaks will always be trash. Even if things are true.
Jordan Robinson
right now, the east the majority of the playerbase is on the west and the east just got their pick (Joker) if anything, the DLC should either be 3 east/2 west characters or 3 west/2 east characters also, enough fucking swordfags. Yea Forums told me over and over that he wouldn't play like a swordlet but surprise surprise he uses his dagger like a sword in most of his moves and has a counter
John Evans
>Smabra Who?
Chase Hernandez
N-no he's still got a chance guys! I-if you improperly translate Erdrick's name, it's Brave, s-see? V-vergeben is still c-credible! T-the 2D Zelda he saw was C-Cadence of Hyrule. H-he can never be wrong!
It still makes me crack up that Vergeben knew all the DLC before hand, and 'didn't want to spoil the surprise'. Yet he's a leaker.
Levi Barnes
They most certainly are.
Eli Green
the only character i liked in that shit leak was fuckin doomguy
Ethan Perez
granted tansut did say we were getting a dq character with a male and female alt, and this is the dude who leaked cloud in 4, so still might mean erdrick could be a mii costume with differences for both genders though
Juan Gutierrez
I genuinely believe he could be a really fun character. He has multiple fighting styles that could be incorporated into his moveset, he has heat attacks that could be worked in. He could be a good character if created right. Also absolute god tier music would come with him
I don't want a Dragon Quest character solely because they're a SE character. If Cloud is anything to go by, DQ will get a stage with two music tracks and the only spirit will be the Smash render of the character.
Anthony Cook
what if we got more Mii fighter outfits for popular picks and also more specific special options for them? would Japan have a meltdown if Erdrick got a Mii costume with DQ themed specials?
Michael Butler
This. There are far too many copyright issues for Sakurai to take care of and there would be a huge lack of content much like with Cloud. Sure DQ fans would be happy but it would be a monkey paw situation because he'd come with almost buttfuck nothing. Idiots who don't understand this will not learn from past mistakes. Don't bother rooting for Sora, Geno, Sephiroth, Crono, Slime, or Erdrick. It's a waste of time. A waste of slot. And a waste of data.
>Sakurai panders more for the West We buy more Smash them then. >and that makes the Nips mad Nips and their weeb lapdogs can stay seething stay losing
Carson Morgan
Based fuck banjokes Stupid delusional autism fags *dabs* *puts on party blocker*
Benjamin Hughes
You know full well it will happen, every game since Melee has had the most recent Fire Emblem shilled.
Aiden Sanders
Yeah and what fucking history did joker have with nintendo There are no fucking rules, sakurai is a creature of pure chaos
Jacob Wright
shhhh that doesn't fit the autist's narrative
Juan Flores
based banjobro
David Miller
Why shill a series nobody cares about?
Isaac Gomez
Probably some sort of Intelligent Systems mandate.
Cooper Reyes
Because Nintendo has gone full Todd Howard with Fire Emblem. They are fucking desperate to make it sell.
Ryder Baker
Ah yes, DQ, the famous series which took western RPGs (Ultima, Wizardry) and casualized them. I also love how some western DQfags pretend like DQ is some kind of hardcore JRPG series. It's not. It's a pretty good series but very casual. Black boxes aren't something DQ invented either while we're at it.
Carter Myers
So why exactly is dragon quest so important in Japan? Is it just really popular or was it some driving force in their vidya culture or something?
Jason Reed
I honestly just hate how ugly the character is. K Rool was already bad enough.
Logan Cox
Falseflagging fag, take off the mask Steve, stop making banjobros look bad
Leo Myers
It was just one of the first, if Bubsy was one of the first we'd see Bubsy people claiming HE was iconic
Hunter Scott
This. They stopped being fun a very long time ago. Ridleyfags were the first sign that it's turning bad
Dominic Carter
First of its kind in nipland and kinda just got really popular.
Jordan Sanchez
This, reminder that echoes only sold 750k copies. Awakening didn't save shit or make FE popular, it was just a one time lightning in a bottle
Matthew Evans
Snake opened the floodgate in the first place. I mean it was the best character reveal that can't be topped (big surprise, first third party character and so on) but you can't deny that shit went overboard with him since anything was possible now
Dylan Wood
This argument of "The game is about Nintendo All Stars" or even "The game is about video game All Stars" has been null in void since Captain Falcon and Ness were considered higher priority characters than Bowser, Peach, Mewtwo, Zelda, etc. The requirements for characters in Smash shouldn't be considered as "Are they worthy of standing alongside Mario and Link?" and instead should just be "Are they worthy of standing alongside Corrin and Dark Pit?"
>Fates doesn't exist >FEH doesn't exist Why be dishonest?
Levi Robinson
Hey at least snake had a reasonable game from a nintendo console to pull him from. Unlike some of the other third party characters that have made it into smash
What was the stupid issue with DQ games again? I always forget but it's so stupid that it makes me smile everytime
Jaxon Cox
> What is roster variety Also Falcon was made from the Dragon King prototype
Jaxon Ross
Divide fates sales by 3, since they forced you to buy 3 versions of the game if you wanted the full content Heroes is gachashit, and not even popular compared to other gachashit like F/GO or GBF
Easton Ward
Based rosterfags
Easton Wilson
The music composer is a hardcore racist and japanese nationalist that is very stingy about how his music is used
Jose Hughes
Koichi Sugiyama doesn't include the orchestral music in DQ games because he thinks it will cut into CD and Concert sales, and that's why we get stuck with the shitty MIDI music.
He's also an old fuck who denies the holocaust or some shit.
Colton Sanders
Western Xbotters should stop making pew pew and vroom vroom games and make a Smash clone instead. Even Sony made an attempt. Smash is for Japanese characters only.
Aaron Ross
The rights are split between five different companies and its creator is a literal nazi.
Chase Cook
Twin Snakes wasn't that good, especially with the music changes. The cutscenes silliness makes sense if you pretend it's being retold by Otacon. You're right but I'd say that the first one was the hardest to get through >Sakurai was also interested in creating a fighting game experience that involved four players fighting at once, instead of the standard one-on-one format seen in most of the era's fighting games I still don't undertand why smashfags don't make use of all the shit that Smash offers and throw most of it away.
Alexander Gutierrez
Ignore this loser we need 4 more fe characters on the double
Angel Powell
>I need more andro anime swordboys
kys nips
Kayden Wright
Doom has more games on Nintendo consoles than banjo
Isaac Ortiz
This let them make there own they don’t need to infest smash
Hunter Powell
So does John Madden, what's your point.
Bentley Lopez
Based fuck Jews
Joshua Jenkins
>stevefags trying still
Andrew Morgan
> If you don't like Banjo, you are a Stevefag Everytime
Hudson Barnes
11 S has orchestrated music Nintendo could just shove money to his face to get it over with
Ayden Allen
seething erdrincel
Eli Torres
>E3 right around the corner >falseflagging stevefags have to make these threads in full force or else their discord overlord won't supply them with their monthly dose of estrogen sad honestly..
Levi Wood
every game since melee has had a new famicom character up until ultimate, let's hope the FE trend is bucked too
Parker Anderson
Banjo has 4 games on Nintendo as well as appearances in other games like Diddy Kong Racing and Mario Artist Paint Studio. He's a much bigger deal than Doom guy.
this. Banjo has been more synonymous with Nintendo than most of the 3rd party characters in the game currently.
Liam Cox
Why are banjofags so goddamn delusional holy shit, the way they talk about him you'd figure he's a more beloved videogame icon than Cloud and Link combined
Digimon didn't start as a game series like Banjo. It was virtual pets and anime.
Cameron Robinson
stevey stevey cope and seethey
Alexander Foster
>patternfagging oh nonononono
Sebastian Young
Founding fathers were chads who fought to get rid of kings and be able to live their own life their own way, they fought for freedom of everyone and weren't some basedboy "artist" slanteye who would sacrifice everything just to blow the emperor
Landon Carter
Reminder to Banjofags Nintendo chose the DLC They don't give two shits about Banjo, if they did Rare wouldn't be owned by Microsoft
Cameron Bailey
Fuck you for making sense.
Robert Perry
They're boomers that think people remember the N64 fondly.
Luis Brown
Game and Watch and Digimon literally have the same background.
Brandon Brown
This I doubt sakurai even knows what kanjo and bazooie is
Samuel Sanders
virtual pets are games, no different than game & watch. also, digimon already had two console games out in japan before the anime even premiered.
Aiden Gray
>has been null in void since Captain Falcon and Ness were considered higher priority characters than Bowser, Peach, Mewtwo, Zelda, etc.
To be fair, those characters mainly got because they were based off of pre-existing fighters.
>Well, I wanted to include Marth in the original Smash Bros. game, as a sword-wielding character. But for Smash 64, there were some features we barely finished in time, and the four hidden characters were created only on the premise of being able to reuse some movements and parts of the models of pre-existing characters, so in the end Marth couldn’t make it in.
Captain Falcon was based on Samus, hence why they shared some similar animations, Luigi is self explanatory, Jiggs is obviously based on Kirby, so really only Ness is the real question mark here because he doesn't have a model that's easy to pin point an origin to.
A very good game series on N64 which is considered the best console ever by many manchildren/""grown up"" nintendofanboys
Lucas Roberts
Currently struggling to think of a better outcome than the Grinch Leak >included three big fan-favorite characters and two iconic third-party characters >on top of even bigger fan requests such as Ridley and Rool alongside incredibly based picks like Inkling, Dark Samus and the Belmonts >no shillmon >more than 4 new stages, one of which is basically a low-effort Prism tower reskin >got Chrom instead of the stupid waifubait we had in 4
I shudder at how great Ultimate's roster could have been. It couldn't possibly be the greatest timeline due to Corrin ever existing, but we'd be pretty close.
Tyler Cook
close. they're older zoomers who grew up with an n64 as their only console while the boomers were busy playing actually good games on ps1 and dreamcast.
user please you’re making me want things that will never happen
Austin Bennett
Pretty sure Ness is also pretty heavily based off Mario, due to both being short humanoids The fact that their Fighting Polygon Team models are both extremely similar also points to this
>Banjo has reached smash peak popularity to the point where he's as ridiculed an hated as Ridley and K. Rool hoping he gets in just so I can look back on how fucking stupid you never-ever fags are acting. Just like good old 8.8.18
What if we got Saber to represent VNs and Mobile games. Frisk to represent Indie games. Doomguy to represent FPS games. And Rash to represent Microsoft and beat-em-up games?
The issues with DQ in Smash have literally nothing to do with popularity, hell popularity (at least in Japan) is the biggest thing it has going for it right now. Japs go fucking apeshit over DQ. The issue with DQ is the people behind DQ. Dealing with licensing Dragon Quest means going through like 4 or 5 different people and companies like Yuji Horii, Koichi Sugiyama, Akira Toriyama, Square Enix (who don't even own DQ BTW), and probably more that I can't even fucking remember. And we already know how Squeenix treats Smash by how we got the bare minimum for FF and Cloud.
But do you honestly believe that Nintendo is gonna go through hell to get the rights for a character and franchise to use for DLC that very few people in the western market are even gonna know or recognize. Joker, despite coming from a previously niche jap RPG that's currently PS4-only, at least had his series boom in popularity as of late in the west while still retaining its popularity in Japan. DQXI hasn't even sold half a million in the US as far as I know.
Not to mention there's a very low number of people in the west who gave two shits when they brought it up in the direct.
Jason Wright
doing something good for humanity doesn't exclude you from also being a bad person
Mason Barnes
Thing is, people wouldn’t be thinking this way if the grinch leak never happened. It implanted thoughts of characters being in that were never thought of
nintendo did not choose to allow joker (a ps4 character) in smash, it was clearly sakurai's descision
Hunter Reyes
uhhhh... You're thinking of the 5ch leak with Erdrick
Alexander Clark
Erdrick
Leo Hill
Just to ask you guys wanting kiryu, do you genuinely want him? Or are you just shitposting
Dylan Gomez
Ness got in because Sakurai is a Mother fanboy, he's mostly responsible for that franchise not being obscure
Joseph Cooper
>coattail you guys are making as much a deal out of him as you were with the lizards. No one thinks of them as a 'trifecta' Banjo's third party, and his series has been dead for a while. His circumstances are much different. But Sakurai never once said such characters were impossible. (like he did with anime characters) Geno was a 3rd party owned, side character in an old RPG and even he was able to make it as at least a costume, thanks to fan popularity. It's foolish to think Banjo is unable to possibly get anything in comparison.
Not them but I'd like him in too. What's the matter with Kiryu?
Evan Garcia
>have to make up shit and re-use old memes to dismiss Banjo lazy lazy lazy
Jose Lee
Cool falseflagging, fag.
Adam Bailey
Who
Hunter Smith
I was just curious, suddenly out of nowhere more people are posting him so I wasn’t sure if it was sudden support, or a wave of shitposting
Owen Parker
>The place where I used to be [New Arrangement] >One of the featured stages is the top of the tower from Yakuza 2s last boss >The madmen actually fuckin make the bomb start counting down as a dumb Easter Egg if you either play on our change the date and time to New Year's Eve
Daniel Robinson
that's not what you said at first faggot
Lincoln Gomez
real talk: the only people mad about what we got are zoomers. boomers love ken because they remember the old days of street fighter at the arcades. zoomers hate him because they think smash is already a fighting game. boomers love based roar because he reminds them of the attitude era of the wwf. zoomers hate him because they grew up watching fortnite streamers and tiktok instead. boomers love piranha plant because she's a gaming icon from the classics. zoomers hate her because she's a gaming icon from the classics.
as an Isaacfag I'd love to see a version for him too. Shit's already genuinely funny, but when he gets in I'll laugh even harder
Lincoln Sanchez
Dilate.
Jason Morales
user PLEASE, IT HURTS. I WANT IT SO BADLY
Carter Kelly
Seethey seethey, cope Stevey.
Joshua Nguyen
It's never going to end, user. Smash autists never shut the fuck up.
Lincoln Jackson
Sakurai said Nintendo chose the DLC themselves
Anthony Smith
Travis honestly deserves to be in more the Banjo or anyone else
>Sakurai and Suda are close friends >Suda has been loyal to nintendo for years >NMH has always been nintendo exclusive (inb4 portfags) >Suda's been literally begging to have him in for like a decade >A decently sized fan favorite
Levi Ortiz
Well yeah, I never brought him up here either and wasn't going to. He's as great as most other third-parties tho
Adrian Campbell
>roar is gay because theres millions of better pokemon they could've put in >plant is gay because theres millions of better mario enemies they could've put in There. Ken is based, though.
>Banjo is NEVER getting in Smash now, literally the most undeserving character at this point. thank fucking god why couldn't the fags choose a more entertaining fursuit character like crash i mean that's at least currently relevant in some way
Eli Bell
I would absolutely love it if he was in, I have nothing but genuine support for him. I think he’d be a great character
>But Sakurai never once said such characters were impossible. sakurai's exact words: "Characters from a series that has no future are rarely chosen" no games in a decade. no games coming in the future. banjo is the exact type of character sakurai avoids.
Samuel Scott
>rarely chosen so that means impossible?
Anthony Adams
i'm happy with all of these, honestly, and i'm still glad i got k rool and ridley as well. just kinda wished we got geno and mach rider as well but it's still cool. for now, i only want crash for dlc. though having no proto man as an echo is an unforgivable mistake
Japan doesnt seem to understand that people arent against DQ
They are against Erdrick, he is a literal who
Jaxon Hughes
>a bear with a bird in his backpack in a platforming game with weird team-up abilities that would never instinctively make sense just by looking >they don't ellipses particularly stand out I think you may be legitimately retarded.
Jaxon Kelly
>decently sized Like Wonder red, Starfy, Saki, Dillon and Takamaru? That's hardly decent
Carson Parker
Erdrick is in, keep crying though.
Michael Garcia
Sakurai also said Ridley was too big
Shitposters were also using the relevency argument against K Rool's inclusion, until he actually showed up, and then they changed the subtext to mean SERIES that are irrelevent
>Shitposters were also using the relevency argument against K Rool's inclusion the same zoomers who did that are the same ones caping for banjo's "relevance" now.
Adrian Flores
Cope and Seethe, you wanted Steve.
Jonathan Clark
>Hated in Japan Landed no. 7 in Japan's spot >Furry No. >Dead franchise Yes/ >Nintendo doesn't give a shit How do you know that? >Western trash lol
Mason Myers
>Shitposters were also using the relevency argument against K Rool's inclusion, until he actually showed up, and then they changed the subtext to mean SERIES that are irrelevent This was the most hilarious part to me. Absolutely got their "made-up rule" shit kicked in, and then went straight back to making new ones for future characters. It's like they never learn.
Jaxon Young
>Suda was one of the first people to see the switch
theres no fucking way in hell he didn't walk into the office and immediately push for Travis
>Horii He's good friends with Sakurai. He shouldn't be hard to deal with. >Sugiyama "Hey can we put in a few midis in exchange for a cut of the dlc sales? Cool, thanks." >Toriyama DQ has crossed over a bunch already with his designs, such as fortune street. This really isn't much different. >SE They let Cloud in, and he's probably the biggest character they got. They would also have an interest in promoting Draque in the west.
Ryan Evans
as this point, fuck banjofags, stevefags and rosterfags in general
It's funny he appeared on more Nintendo platforms AFTER the Microsoft buyout (Grunty's Revenge - 2003, Banjo-Pilot - 2005, Minecraft Switch Edition "with crossplay" - 2018)
Jayden Wood
They're okay at best
Logan Clark
He's very likeable. Either way, the Toriyama argument applies to him too anyways.
This bunch of annoying fags the characters aren’t going to be any of the circle jerked characters I can tell u that much
Camden Gonzalez
He's been in the business forever, so probably a lot.
That said him and Suda go waaaay back, like during their school days or some shit.
Bentley Mitchell
7WUCMx4 and UE6gv7z respectively!
Brody Rodriguez
Who’s the emo granny
Dominic Collins
I just don't see it happening specifically because of that and the music issues.
Nolan Ross
I feel like Isaac getting AT'd again after all of his popularity and demand throughout the years is what made people reevaluate the whole "relevancy" argument to be more about the series rather than the character.
>tfw there is more marths in smash than gokus in fighterz
Jayden Martin
Why would anyone even want another SE Rep after how Cloud was handled for Ultimate. He got in just damn barely and he came with literally the absolute minimum a series can get in this game.
Parker Morales
I feel like the music isn't as big of a deal as it's being made out to be. Also what do you mean by "that?"
William Rivera
>banjofags are so obsessed that they've even made "steve discords" to blame for their own shitposting yikes!
Josiah Brown
Because I like Dragon Quest and want to play as a character from that series.
Cooper James
maybe Sakurai just didn't want to have him playable, its not like he's made an actual statement on Isaac.
Noah Allen
>Sumabra These retarded nips should stop butchering my language.
William Johnson
Sure that's fine, but do you really think an Edrick or any other DQ rep would get better treatment then fucking Cloud?
Cooper Allen
Imagine being so threatened by a bear. A bear!
Luke Howard
its just a wee bear
Chase Foster
Not really, but that doesn't change me from wanting him. Dragon Quest is one of my all time favorite RPG series.
Julian Kelly
Toriyama.
Jacob Myers
This would be the best realistic outcome, only kinda iffy one is banjo but I can see it happening.
Dominic White
Sakurai and Suda having a comfy dinner with their wives and discussing memories for old time's sake >yo Masa, remember our high school days where I wasn't constantly harrassing you over Smash and Travis?
Xavier Reed
Bro, you just exposed yourself as a Stevefag! Now say it, again for a gold star!
When will we be done with these threads because this shit got old 3 months ago and to be quite fucking frank I'm sick and tired of seeing them. Even filters don't do shit because these fuckers don't even have the decency to use some copy pasted meme to open up these crapfests.
Rare and banjo belong to Microsoft you dumb fucking shitposter
Xavier Morales
Toriyama let his designs be used in the likes of Fortune Street, Mario Sports Mix, and not to mention all those Shonen Jump games. What makes you think he would be extremely protective now?
Josiah Myers
Seems like most of you guys find Banjofags to be pretty unbearable.
"Carlos..." Even though I want to see Banjo over everyone else... that pun gave me some happiness.
Ayden King
Never. When February 2019 comes along and the final character (an anti-climatic Pokemon Sword/Shield one fyi) is released people will be speculating if a pack 2 will happen and the whole process will continue. This will continue into Smash 6's development cycle when it is inevitably announced.
You are reading it incorrectly, friendo. It's more like Villager to Toon Link size. The shield size is just oddly high for the size, meaning this character might be slightly wider for its height.
Jeremiah Bell
Literally who
Isaiah Davis
Except the height doesn't mean shit since Joker's far taller than 15
Elijah Phillips
So what you guys are saying is that Smash needs a character that both the East and West both love?
then it'll be "irrelevant characters are only allowed if they had some history with Nintendo"
Hudson Fisher
The only place that would love a SNK character is Latin America.
Gavin Gomez
Banjo is boring as fuck, if you want an interesting bear character go with someone like freddy fazbear
Nolan Thompson
Then how is he taller than Pit in game?
Ryder Reyes
Just to ask, are there any rosterfags that are actually cool and don’t cause a shitstorm everywhere they go?
Zachary Perry
Joker is the most boring fucking character design wise, we dont need some fuck ass swordsman from Dragon Quest.
Brayden Thompson
How does that explain Duck Hunt's inclusion then?
Christian Robinson
No. All rosterfags are pure cancer.
Lucas Roberts
Why?
Ethan Sanchez
You fuckin rosterfags circlejerkin bout the same folks from Digg. You're all sleeping on K.C Munchkin. Think for a second. >Magnavox rep >Magnavox made the first commercial console. Tons of history with video games. >Probably easy to get the rights. >Can probably borrow some assets from Pac-Man, making him easy to develop. >Super unexpected. Perfect for an E3 reveal.
Seriously, just take your noggins for a joggin and see the light, biscuitheads.
just depends, doomguy based off 2016 or 1993 and does chosen undead have alternate skins in the form of the other cover armors? Would be the worst outcome but also the one Yea Forums deserves
Evan Stewart
Nope, but I wish I was.
Carson Cooper
His OG doom skin changes the character’s face when fighting, when his % gets higher he looks more beat up
If they were willing to do it for Fortune Street on the Wii why wouldn't they want to for a game that's far more mainstream, has sold millions, and will sell millions more?
Yet he beats Banjo's history with Nintendo with history on the industry by popularizing the FPS genre to the mainstream back in the 90s. Meanwhile, Mario 64 already beat Banjo at the 3d platformer with collectables.
Asher Parker
Toad is already in, Peach's grabs/regular special.
Juan Parker
Fuck, meant for
Juan Torres
Banjo's niche already was taken by Duck Hunt by that logic. Also Chrom.
Mason Morgan
that doesn't make sense
Jaxson Cooper
Also the DK characters beats Banjo at being a Rare platformer rep.
Josiah Smith
Because trying to make DQ "mainstream" is like trying to blend water with oil. It's impossible. And they know it.
Dylan Ross
Chrom is still Robin's Final Smash.
Dominic Ward
It's already very mainstream in Japan, and is starting to pick up in the west.
Ethan Wilson
>and is starting to pick up in the west. BULL. FUCKING. SHIT.
Justin Jones
cope
Jackson Price
pic related Exactly. Erdrick can't happen. Robin is already the magic swordsman.
Rayman has more love internationally, DQ is only inn the east.
And Rayman is much more creative than boring NES swordsman game.
Brayden Morris
Yeah they sure know it with the way they heavily advertised Dragon Quest XI in the last direct and routinely publish the series.
Nolan Scott
11 sold pretty well in the west. Better than before anyways.
Michael Martin
Oh wow, punching and kicking What a good moveset
Connor Wood
Yes, that exactly
Jayden Sanders
Would be great. and if Chosen Undead happens, I'd hope for instead of palettes it's just different armor so I could use the Elite Knight Armor from DS2's cover, or the Ashen One's armor.
Listen to me you retards. Dragon Quest, no matter how hard Nintendo pushes it for Square, will NOT sell in the West. Deal with it. No one outside Japan cares about it or heard of it. And marketing the newest DQ switch game with Erdrick in Smash is a fucking stupid idea that will just piss off Westerners who will just look at him like a Link clone. End of story.
I want Travis and Phoenix Wright the most. After those two I'd be okay with Monokuma, Kiryu, Terry, Marco, Frisk/Kris, 2B, Leon, Dante, or Prince of Cosmos.
Jackson Ward
I’ve posted this a lot, but it’s seriously the ones I want most
Custom Robo rep. Just throw in Ray or X-Ray from the Custom Robo 64 games. If it isn't too much, maybe instead of palettes have the other Ray models? Also nice choice with Jibanyan and Rocket. Personally I'd throw in Dog of the North Star over Shogun King and Sighborg Y's theme over New Yo-Kai City.
Julian Scott
Ball of light punches, any of his ray3 transformation, punching kicking. Using hair as a weapon.
Jayden Murphy
If we're talking purely who we want in regardless of any actual likeliness:
Banjo and Kazooie Black Shadow Jody Summer Samurai Goroh Doom Guy Scorpion Travis Touchdown Prof Layton Viewtiful Joe
Logan Evans
I hate seeing Mumbo Jumbo because I used to imitate his eekum bokum chant from when he uses a Mumbo Pad in the sequel when I masturbated and that lead to me getting caught once.
Angel Allen
It’s a fucking hillbilly guitar
Parker Martin
He’s never getting on cope
Henry Rogers
Literally none of those Are likely at all Okay retard
Joshua Flores
shut the fuck up esl kun, none of your characters are likely.
I never said they were likely. I just chose who I WANT. You're the retard for not getting that.
Eli Fisher
He's some retard that shits on others for no reason, then acts like his own characters are the greatest. Don't mind it user, your characters are based, and most are actually likely.
Leo Walker
And now you've hit on why I don't take arguments against having a Dragon Quest character very seriously: when presented with all the signs why Nintendo would gladly do it and why it would be a logical inclusion given Sakurai's view of the series now, you just go back to the tired old "I don't like it, so everyone would hate it!"
People interested in the competitive scene would get him because he's a new character with new combos and match-ups. Casual players will get him just to try him out or to have a complete roster. I can't predict the future but even people mixed on an idea can be won over by a good enough trailer; there were people who didn't like Incineroar but found him fun to play. And of course there's Japan, who would gladly buy him.
The idea of this huge swarm of people who would kick and scream at the idea of Dragon Quest appearing in Smash is as much a fantasy as the series itself.
I know but it’s been almost a year at this point, it’s getting absurd.
Owen Wilson
I'd like to add to what you're saying and say that the core audience, children (actual children, not just people who act like them), would be all over a character like Erdrick because he looks like Goku, has a cool sword, and uses cool magic spells. If he has the female alt, then little girls will like her too. This is also something to consider. Also, many of the people who don't like a DQ character will have probably bought him too because they bought the FP before all the characters were known.
Christopher White
I'd be happy with him but I fear he'd be weird to play like Snake.
Andrew Miller
The west knows of DQ. They just do not care for it. Even after Corrin got in Smash, Fates still sold poorly. What the fuck makes you think this won't have the same effect? Especially the little known fact that the Smash community is fucking sick of swordfighters?
You can lead a horse to a river but you can't make him drink from it. End of story.
Imagine caring so fucking much about what some shitters with less than 100 followers on Twitter say that you end up with MULTIPLE fucking threads that reach the bump limit. Anti-character shitposters are the worst. Literally any of them.
Lucas Lewis
We talking what is realistically possible or just anything goes?
>Realistic Rex & Pyra/Mythra KOS-MOS Bandanna Waddle Dee
Kids don't care as much about "reps." Kids just want cool characters. Marth and Roy were popular in Melee even though American kids had no clue who they were.They'd be excited about Minecraft Steve, but they won't be whining about not getting their character like you're probably doing.
Bentley Lewis
It's just annoying. It's like these people do nothing BUT post falseflags and shit all day every day.
Tyler Bailey
>hated in Japan >source for this claim: none LIKE POTTERY I K E
P O E T R Y
Camden Williams
2.8 million is not impressive for a series that's been around since 19-fucking-90. It doesn't have mainstream appeal. And neither will DQ.
Camden Miller
they're fucking kids. its gonna get worse when summer begins, just you wait, user.
Logan Hill
Oh okay kids want cool characters? Then tell me about Erdrick and how he could POSSIBLY stand out from the rest of the cast to get kids' attention.
I literally fucking said how right here but of course you're just going to say "nu-uh they won't like that, they want the bear" or some other shit.
Ian Young
If Rayman is loved internationally, why is his series dead?
Jace Howard
>All these Smashfags hating on Dragon Quest >Dragon Quest's Western legacy is going to be further shat on by shitposters and retards who wanted their character over Erdrick and will claim "no one asked for him!!" Feels fucking bad. If DQ12 doesn't make it to the West I'm blaming Smashfags
>Toad is already in, Peach's grabs/regular special. >Banjo's niche already was taken by Duck Hunt by that logic those aren't even remotely the same fucking thing
To be fair, I feel like the main issue is all of the people who DON'T want Erdrick who are pretending they do and love DQ. I would be okay with a DQ rep, but I'd prefer Slime because it's more unique.
Gabriel Reed
cope esl kun, your list is fucking shit.
Lucas Ward
Kid's aren't going to think about echoes and shit, especially since they will almost certainly play nothing like Robin. Do you really think they are so lacking in creativity that they wouldn't know how to differentiate a character like that?
John Hill
I meant moveset wise dipshit. You really think an artstyle of all things will drive in new players? And we already have a fuck ton of Swordfighters. Erdrick won't be anything special. Period. America does not care about his legacy. Kids will not care about his legacy. Smash fans worldwide save for Japanese ones won't care for his legacy.
Duck hunt is a cartoon dog that has a bird Banjoke is the same thing but he is a bear Chrom appears in robins final smash
Angel Collins
I disregard those posts since they're false-flagging shitposts. I doubt they have a huge bearing on actual opinions on DQ, but maybe that's just me putting too much faith in this board
To be fair most people hate the pac-man and Belmont re-designs so it makes sense they'd disregard those. I've never seen that same dislike for Doomslayer
Connor Collins
I'm going to be honest here. It's not that we are hostile to that character. Would be a fine addition in my opinion. We are more afraid of the 5chan leak (even though it has been proven false) and how it says Steve is going to be in instead of Banjo. Erdrick is alright, but it's who's in speculation that makes people worried, and if Erdrick gets in, the Stevefags will come to harass us, using that character as evidence. As someone who grew up after the N64 era and at the start of the Gamecube era, finding out about Banjo made me happy.
Jason Harris
>Learn about Erdrick thanks to Smash hype >Go through Dragon Quest retrospectives and articles detailing it >Get new respect for series Thanks rosterfags
Jason Gray
classic doom fans don't like doom 2016. it's a console shooter for console players, they just happen to outnumber classic doom fans so you hear them more often.
William Roberts
>DQ's western legacy Literally what legacy? I'm a DQ fan btw, I just hate your delusion
Slime > Erdrick. Erdrick is generic as fuck
Jayden Jones
Kids don't care. They see a cool character, and then that's enough. As said in total: Competitve players would buy him to have more movesets and matchups and such, casual players would buy him to have the full roster, kids would buy him because he looks like Goku with a sword, people like you will buy him because of already buying the FP preemptively.
William Clark
>instead of banjo How could it be instead obviously it was never happening anyway Yikes a lot of entitlement here
Cameron Smith
fuck that one guy
Connor Brown
Why would you be afraid of that leak? It was obviously fake from the beginning. The reason people have thought Erdrick is in is because there's a significant amount of other evidence, none of which hurts Banjos chances.
Justin Anderson
I'm honestly surprised its a Banjofag/Raymanfag who started this mess I thought it'd be an Isaacfag, Sorafag, or Genofag that would have this much bad blood toward Erdrick
Lincoln Hill
The idea is that Banjo and Rayman are western
Elijah Wood
>there's a significant amount of other evidence there is literally no evidence at all. just a vague codeword that could refer to countless other characters and datamined stats that are subject to change.
Luke Baker
Why would they?
Mason Martin
It is more important to route for a character you feel is important yo you, rather than a character of who others say based on "rumors" (realistically of course.) I'm not saying Banjo is in, at this point, it is a coin toss for anyone.
Luke Jackson
>people like you will buy him because of already buying the FP preemptively Are you suggesting anyone was actually stupid enough to do this, after the cataclysm that was the 11/1 Direct?
Jace Edwards
It might even be a stevefag due to the Microsoft connection.
Easton White
>they just happen to outnumber classic doom fans so you hear them more often
Yeah exactly. Regardless of what "classic fans" think, 2016 fans are more common, so of course they'd include Doomslayer, he also has a sequel coming out within the next year, from an advertising standpoint it'd be fucking retarded to exclude that design.
You act as if Sakurai has some obligation to appease Classic fans
Isaiah Williams
Sorafags and Genofags see him as competition Isaacfags are fucking tired of the "anime swordsman" argument and would likely assume Erdrick's inclusion would reinforce that shit
Jacob Reed
>Competitve players would buy him to have more movesets and matchups and such
I'm sorry but don't sword users get a bad rep in the competitive smash community for having movesets that are too difficult to differentiate, therefor picking more than one of them is utterly pointless?
Jose Butler
>They'll get DQ license for multiple Mario crossovers but not for one of the biggest crossovers in gaming Ok lol
Expect it’s not a coin toss Nintendo and sakuri clearly have characters that they want to use It’s not like they throw a bullseye at a board Besides just because one thing happens doesn’t mean the rest will anyway Even if Steve makes it in doesn’t mean banjo was ever considered Imagine crying this much over a game Yikes
Mason Fisher
Even Lucina and Marth have significant enough differences for competitive players. Every difference counts, especially when they would be clearly different. Really, a sword is only an aesthetic difference. A sword vs a club would really just be the sound effect it makes.
Noah Rivera
ESL-kun, are you okay? That user wasn't crying about anything.
Luke Ortiz
>I also love how some western DQfags pretend like DQ is some kind of hardcore JRPG series It's the most annoying thing about discussing JRPGs here. Same with Motherfags.
Jayden Powell
>what legacy? Fair point, but certain games have gained followings such as 8 and 11, so maybe legacy wasn't the right term. DQ11 got a lot of people into the series, so it'd be a shame if that game's quality got overshadowed by Erdrick complaining.
>Slime > Erdrick. Erdrick is generic as fuck
I don't disagree, but if Erdrick got in over Slime I'd still support it, if only because I do want the series represented.
My hope was that he would attract new fans like Ness did for Earthbound and Marth did for Fire Emblem, but so far it doesn't look like that'll be the case.
James Nelson
Brave isn't as vague as you make it out to be. It's pretty much what they call all DQ heroes and they call Erdrick by Yuusha more than they call him Erdrick or Roto. Also, while many like to blow this off, those insiders haven't lost all of their credibility or anything. They still have more to go off of than anyone here and they are saying Erdrick.
Brody Gomez
We really have. We memed Ridley in when he didn't deserve it. Sad how much power Discord trannies have...
Dominic Sanchez
When did you see Isaacfags trying to even attack anyone? They're the ones being targeted by falseflaggers discordfags and "generic swordsman" preachers
They've been cool with Lloydbros too, not sure why Erdrick's sword is a factor
Jackson Rodriguez
It will just piss people off because of the one little detail.
I mean a coin toss for speculation. Sakurai keeps his notes very close to him and the team is under a strong NDA. The only time something was legitamately leaked online was either a mess up of footage/update data or someone from the west who got footage of the game (I.E the ESRB.) Not to mention, the companies that include the characters are also apart of a strong NDA, which deconfirms Steve and the Chief for me (Aubrey Norris, a Senior Manager at Minecraft expressing/replying to a Steve in Smash post would break a NDA, which means she would have to delete the post, yet it remains up to this day.)
Nathaniel Rogers
Remember "Jane?" Datamining is virtually worthless for fighter pass intel.
John Cruz
How didn’t ridley deserve it? ???? Literally in like every Metroid game and all Metroid had was Sams up to this game Besides there’s a new Metroid coming out If anything ridley was the one who was the most deserving
Gavin Reed
I mean, didn't Sakurai dicksuckers overwhelm the people who hated Corrin?
Sebastian Cook
Not at all.
Matthew Martinez
No? I'm fairly sure Corrin is one of the most universally disliked additions
Andrew Lee
>> Hated in Japan, the c Wrong. I live here and he’s quite well requested.
Michael Edwards
>speculation U mean shit flinging Same regurgitated autism shitpost over and over the same circle jerked characters Yikes Also tldr
Josiah Ramirez
Nope. Corrin is still hated to this day. Nobody asked for her/him.
Owen Rogers
>A string in Joker's code vs >A whole new fighter with more than just one string referencing it It's not rocket science that Jane and Brave aren't the same deal dipshit
Joshua Gonzalez
It's cute that you think Square would have a second fighter after all that Cloud nastiness.
Brayden Garcia
I mean, even still, joker and jack were pretty loosely linked. Don't get your hopes up on Brave
Connor Perez
It's still a deliberate choice to put in these words. Chances are they thought Kasumi was going to be a new Joker, when they found otherwise it was scrapped. If that's not it, there was some other reason. It seems pretty clear that they put the name Brave in for a reason, and considering they removed the code when people started talking about it, it wasn't meant for outsiders to read.
Logan Morgan
Fair. I only fancy DQ as a 'fast-food' JRPG because everything feels so ordinary, and Erdrick embodies that for me. However I still think DQ11 is one of the best JRPGs from these last few years. As far as Square goes, I'd be partial to Sora or Sephiroth
t. isaacfag
Jordan Ross
Yeah. Or We could get both of them. >mfw we get both Erdrick and Banjo this e3
How did you feel on the morning of November 1st? What was that like, dude?
Oliver Smith
Theory time! Within a code of the game, there are some files of which you cannot change the names of. You can edit the files within the code, but the codename itself cannot be changed due to the fact that there are extensions in the code that prevent it. The fighter data could be one of those files. When the fighter pass was being developed, maybe Sakurai was thinking of putting different characters within the game (before confirming the characters within the fighter pass), and decided to start working on a character. But as time went on, he decided that he wanted a different character instead, the name of the file can't be changed, so he decided to use it anyways. This could explain why Joker is codenamed "Jack" within the game. Maybe Sakurai wanted Jack at first, but ultimately decided Joker was a much better fit, instead of making a new file, he just used what he had. Same thing could happen with "Brave." Maybe he wanted Erdrick, but before he finalized the characters he could have changed his mind for another Square Enix character, like Crono or something.
Gavin Thomas
Crono is less likely than the actual Goku at this point.
Aiden Carter
I'm just saying any Square Enix character.
Jason Cox
Good theory. I'd like to say though, why would he change Erdrick for Crono? Sakurai loves DQ, with 3 being his favorite, and Crono has most of the same legal hoops.
Connor Hall
I want both MS and Square to be at E3 because the meltdown here would be fantastic
>if both rosterfags picks win >if Steve and Geno are in >if Erdrick and Banjo are in >if Erdrick and Steve are in and Verge was right >if it's Master Chief and Sora
Nathaniel Barnes
For any SE character there's a lot less to choose from. The only real probable alternative to Erdrick is Slime.
Jeremiah Hill
I sleep
James Lewis
I was one of the rare grinchies who were cautious about the leak (too good to be true for rosterfags) so I fully expected Kencineroar and the AT going in. Wasn't mad at the plant, I liked it
Jayden Adams
>microshit No way Also it’s funny because it probably going to end up being noctis
Joshua Green
Nice.
Charles Brooks
remember when the same dataminers initially thought "jack" was referring to raiden from metal gear? face it, you don't know shit. nobody knows anything until the announcement.
Jace Lee
Let's be honest guys. What characters have got deserving move sets since melee?