Recent content by Garteam

"Every floor looks like it has been buffered to ****" and "the game's framerate has been cut in half" are indeed visual changes. They're not exactly what I'd call positive changes, but they're changes nonetheless.

I think this is backward. Hardcore fans who have been playing Ultimate for five and a half years now and Smash generally for longer than that seem to be the people most open to a pseudo-reboot that focuses more on competitive gameplay, veteran overhalls, and a more robust set of modes. It's...

I will be an optimist and say Smash 6's base roster will be in the high 60s to low 70s in terms of the number of characters, possibly reaching the high 70s when echoes are factored in. Ultimate was able to bring back 57 unique characters from Smash for Wii U, recreate 7 veterans from scratch...

These results are in no particular order: 1. Waluigi 2. Octoling 3. Bandana Waddle Dee 4. Meowscarda 5. Tom Nook 6. Ring Fit Adventurer 7. Issac 1. Bomberman 2. Leon/Jill/Chris 3. Shadow/Tails/Knuckles 4. X and/or Zero 5. Chun-Li 6. Alucard 7. Geno

I don't think this is true, otherwise we would have gotten Cinderace or some other Gen 8 Pokemon in the Fighter's Pass.

Rock has emotions. He doesn't full free will, though. Mega Man 7's ending has Mega Man getting so angry that he threatens to kill Wily, who replies that a robots can't kill him because it would break the first rule of robotics. Rock hesitates (in the Japanese version) and it's unclear if Wily is...

It seems like this post is saying two contradictory things. In the first paragraph, you establish that Zelda fans are divided between Impa, who some view as too boring to be worth supporting, and the more popular one-offs, who some view as too unlikely to be supporting. The next paragraph, you...

I really think that Zelda is stuck in Triforce Purgatory until the fanbase either rallies around a singular character (like DK fans did for K. Rool) or a fourth character gains enough prominence to appear with the same consistency that Link, Zelda, and Ganon do. If Midna, Ghirahim, and the...

I don't really see why they wouldn't continue using the Brawl code and engine if it is functional and saves development time. Reusing established assets isn't inefficient, it's the opposite. Using a new engine and having to remake old characters just to say you're using a new engine is...

I'm still in the "Nintendo will try to bring back every third-party in Ultimate and only scrap them if they can't reach a deal with the licensor and/or devs" camp. Will it be expensive? Yup, but this is also the series that went out of its way to license additional .pngs spirits from third...

Smash is a lot closer than it is further at this point. We almost always get a new Smash within the first two years of a console's life (the exception was Smash for 3DS, which can be explained away by being a companion game to Smash for Wii U). That means the furthest Smash could theoretically...

I agree with you that Ultimate is finished. There was a brief opportunity of between FP11 in 2021 and the release of the final spirit events this year where Sakurai could have theoretically returned to Ultimate for more content if he and Nintendo felt that was best for the franchise. That...

That's true, but that statement after Sora's release was far enough in the past that he could have walked back on it. This new statement feels too close to when another DLC wave would theoretically drop to be something that was true at one point, but has since changed.

A lot of this is a symptom of Smash targeting a more casual fanbase that isn't focused on the minutia of gameplay and instead treats the series more like a digital toybox. So long as the game doesn't feel generally slow and clunky, a lot of people will be satisfied because they're not pushing...

Here's a question for the thread: Are there any characters you feel are generally slept on as far as base game newcomers go? I'd say Bomberman, Alucard, X, and (a unique) Octoling personally.