Smash Bros. Ultimate DLC character reqest poll

[Alex Nguyen | 15]

I like thinking about who gets to be in Smash Bros., which is why I made this poll.

[MegaMan52 | 2,440]

Other: Mike Jones from StarTropics.

[Reed Rothchild | 9,510]

Megamanfan

[Hammerfestus | 3,822]

[DoctorEncore | 3,690]

Crash Bandicoot would be a perfect fit.

[cj_robot | 540]

I always thought Ryu Hayabusa would be a good one.

I think an alternate Virtual Boy version of Wario would be cool, or maybe an arena based on that game.

[phart010 | 1,705]

Unfortunately for Geno, on his own, he just doesn’t have the mass appeal that Smash characters need to bring to the game.

Geno is kinda a random unknown character. He could probably work if they could figure out how to merge him with the generic Mage archetype from Final Fantasy.
 

If they designed him in a way that he could look like Geno to Mario RPG fans, but he still looks like the iconic Mage to Final Fantasy fans then you’d have a winner.

@CasualCart Do you think that it would be possible to design such a thing? I’m not requesting a sketch (although if you opted to do one it would be very cool), just curious on thoughts from a known artist. 

Edited December 6, 2020 by phart010

[phart010 | 1,705]

With few exceptions, I think Nintendo is looking for several criteria: 

1. Mass appeal

2. Iconic as a video game character

3. Legacy - Has had a series of games across multiple Nintendo consoles.

4. Diverse enough attacks to make a good move set.

Many of these characters, while very cool, are probably lacking in mass appeal. By mass appeal, I mean huge following, like Minecraft for example. I think Minecraft fails in all the other criteria, but it’s mass appeal was substantial enough to get Nintendo to overlook the other things. 

I’ve thought about this for some time. Iconic and having a Nintendo legacy (but lacking diverse move-sets):

Bubble Bobble, Contra, Master Higgins, Billy/Jimmy Lee

 

These characters could realistically be made into Smash characters. I think they have relatively widespread appeal, are pretty iconic, they’re associated with Nintendo, and could have some good movesets:

Ryo Hayabusa, Ninja Turtles, Shantae, Zero, Rayman, Toad (male and female), maybe Battletoads (if they would just port the new game to Switch..)

 

Crash Bandicoot and Sora are unfortunately more iconic to Sony than Nintendo. But you never know, Nintendo is always up for surprises.

 

Edited December 6, 2020 by phart010

[twiztor | 848]

#1 Crash Bandicoot

#2 Ryu Hayabusa

#3 Waluigi

[Webhead123 | 675]

Personally, I'd want to see one of these two:

[Dr. Morbis | 2,088]

Other: Master Higgins, so I could buy the amiibo and set it beside the other NES-related amiibos displayed around my CRT...

[Alex Nguyen | 15]

4 hours ago, phart010 said:

With few exceptions, I think Nintendo is looking for several criteria: 

1. Mass appeal

2. Iconic as a video game character

3. Legacy - Has had a series of games across multiple Nintendo consoles.

4. Diverse enough attacks to make a good move set.

Many of these characters, while very cool, are probably lacking in mass appeal. By mass appeal, I mean huge following, like Minecraft for example. I think Minecraft fails in all the other criteria, but it’s mass appeal was substantial enough to get Nintendo to overlook the other things. 

I’ve thought about this for some time. Iconic and having a Nintendo legacy (but lacking diverse move-sets):

Bubble Bobble, Contra, Master Higgins, Billy/Jimmy Lee

 

These characters could realistically be made into Smash characters. I think they have relatively widespread appeal, are pretty iconic, they’re associated with Nintendo, and could have some good movesets:

Ryo Hayabusa, Ninja Turtles, Shantae, Zero, Rayman, Toad (male and female), maybe Battletoads (if they would just port the new game to Switch..)

 

Crash Bandicoot and Sora are unfortunately more iconic to Sony than Nintendo. But you never know, Nintendo is always up for surprises.

 

Don’t forget #5, a game that is about to come out.

[Strange | 1,700]

Sora. I wanted a Dragon Quest rep in before a Kingdom Hearts rep and now that they’ve done that I’m cool with Sora being in.

My less realistic pick would be Stanley the Bugman because I’m one of the 5 people in the world that likes Donkey Kong 3.

[Makar | 1,946]

I voted other. I've always thought they should include Slime from dragon quest. He's that series' Pikachu. Give him the moves he had in dragon quest heroes rocket slime and have his ultimate smash be him in a tank or something. 

Other thoughts I've had are Shovel Knight, hammer bros, king boo, Zora, goron, vacuum Luigi, and maybe Zero. 

[Webhead123 | 675]

9 hours ago, The Strangest said:

My less realistic pick would be Stanley the Bugman because I’m one of the 5 people in the world that likes Donkey Kong 3.

Make that 6. Donkey Kong 3 is awesome. A very overlooked and underrated game.

[T-Pac | 7,513]

On 12/5/2020 at 10:45 PM, phart010 said:

Unfortunately for Geno, on his own, he just doesn’t have the mass appeal that Smash characters need to bring to the game.

Geno is kinda a random unknown character. He could probably work if they could figure out how to merge him with the generic Mage archetype from Final Fantasy.
 

If they designed him in a way that he could look like Geno to Mario RPG fans, but he still looks like the iconic Mage to Final Fantasy fans then you’d have a winner.

@CasualCart Do you think that it would be possible to design such a thing? I’m not requesting a sketch (although if you opted to do one it would be very cool), just curious on thoughts from a known artist. 

I think a mashup-character like that would be technically possible, but I don't think people would be too happy about it. Final Fantasy fans would be upset that it's not a proper Mage, Super Mario RPG fans would be upset that it isn't really Geno, and everyone would just be confused haha.

-CasualCart

[Makar | 1,946]

23 hours ago, CasualCart said:

I think a mashup-character like that would be technically possible, but I don't think people would be too happy about it. Final Fantasy fans would be upset that it's not a proper Mage, Super Mario RPG fans would be upset that it isn't really Geno, and everyone would just be confused haha.

-CasualCart

Idk why but when I see this I also think of skull kid who would also be an interesting playable smash characters. Nice piece of work once again btw!

[Strange | 1,700]

“Shit, we really pissed off a lot of people. How do we deflect from this?”

 

(Here’s hoping it’s someone cool.)

Edited December 11, 2020 by The Strangest

[Reed Rothchild | 9,510]

 

 

 

[phart010 | 1,705]

7 hours ago, Reed Rothchild said:

 

 

 

What is this supposed to be all about? Did he turn into this in Final Fantasy??

Funny how he just sliced Galeem in half. Does that mean Galeem is dead now? I guess that means story mode has concluded... No more evil god-like entity to threaten the universe 

[Reed Rothchild | 9,510]

It's been a million years since I played through, but probably.  They always have like 3 (increasingly godlike) forms.

He looked like that in Theatrythm for sure.

[RH | 4,895]

I am not a Smash Bros guy and never have been, though I've considered getting this one if it ever drops below $20. I was thinking last week, though, "man, that game needs Sephiroth to pair with Cloud. If that happened, I'd get the game."

Well what do you know! I saw in my news feed today that he was announced as the next DLC characters, so I guess Smash Bros is moving up my want list.

[Bearcat-Doug | 5,104]

6 hours ago, phart010 said:

What is this supposed to be all about? Did he turn into this in Final Fantasy??

Funny how he just sliced Galeem in half. Does that mean Galeem is dead now? I guess that means story mode has concluded... No more evil god-like entity to threaten the universe 

Here's the FFVII version.

Edited December 11, 2020 by Bearcat-Doug

[Reed Rothchild | 9,510]

5 hours ago, RH said:

I am not a Smash Bros guy and never have been, though I've considered getting this one if it ever drops below $20. I was thinking last week, though, "man, that game needs Sephiroth to pair with Cloud. If that happened, I'd get the game."

Well what do you know! I saw in my news feed today that he was announced as the next DLC characters, so I guess Smash Bros is moving up my want list.

$20? For a tentpole Nintendo title? Never happening.

[Makar | 1,946]

2 minutes ago, Reed Rothchild said:

$20? For a tentpole Nintendo title? Never happening.

I mean brawl did drop below $20 so it could happen, just not anytime soon at all. @RH maybe try to trade someone for it or sell some games you don't care about anymore to offset costs?