Shantae is growing in popularity, but not enough to merit representation in Smash.
About the difficulty with characters from other fighting games, that's understandable if you think about it. Characters from Street Fighter, Soul, and Blaz Blue are built specifically to fit in their fighting game universe, which is built around them. Translating these characters into another fighting game, especially one as different as Smash, would be way more difficult than giving a slot to any other third party character.
What is a fandom? A miserable little pile of flame wars! 3DS FC: 0387-9377-7408 PSN ID: Raven King SageMake that three-
DSiWare, WiiWare, and then two different versions of Cave Story on 3DS, one of which was retail.
🏳️⚧️she/her | Vio Rhyse AlberiaThat, yeah. The game just keeps being remade, and they seem to work with Nintendo a lot.
Both game series are third-party, neither of which would probably be hard to acquire the rights for, but still hard enough to need an actual reason for them to do it. Quote is one of the only eligible third-party characters I could imagine next to the other big icons. He's an underground star, but within that underground, he's probably pretty similar in status to the likes of Megaman.
Shantae would be great, but isn't exactly something Nintendo shows around like "look guys, we have this!" She showed up at E3 as just one of a bunch of eShop entries. Alas.
I just had a though now. Should there be a retro character, and said retro character was Mach Rider or Excite Biker (but Mach Rider in ths example), he/she would need the bike in order to deal heavy amounts of damage. Obviously the negative being that their air attacks would be dogshit (like Little Mac), but they can also detatch themselves from the bike and attack hands-on (with the negative there being that the Mach R Ider would not be a powerful fighter outside of his/her bike). I'd love to make a moveset if I had the time.
Vote. .#Bayonetta 4 SmashSmash isn't aimed at indie gamers though but at Nintendo fans. If anything that is even more of a reason to choose Shantae over Quote. Shantae has multiple games all on Nintendo consoles while Quote has one game that is constantly being remade stretched out over multiple consoles by different companies.
Okay, i went from page 1200 to 1350, and have at last come full circle, but found only a take on Particle Man by 0dd1
Two steps remain
1) Make a list of who, amongst the Brawl characters and newcomers, hasn't been "done" yet.
1A) Make said codecs.
2) Make a Just for Fun page, somehow (i know how to make pages, just not sure how to index it vis a vis Smash Bros main page)
edited 26th Jun '14 12:38:11 PM by Ogodei
The only third party characters I could see coming in during future installments are Phoenix Wright, Bomberman, a Castlevania character, or maybe a second Sonic character. I don't find any of them likely though, I would much rather just keep the three we have now and maybe bring back Snake.
"And kung fu is a terrible way to run a company" - alliteratorThe potential inclusion of Bayonetta and/or Travis Touchdown gets a resounding no from me. The amount of Bowdlerization that Snake received was at least minimal enough to keep him recognizable. The entirety of Travis Touchdown's personality is over-the-top violence and sex left and right, and Bayonetta's personality can be summed up in the words "YOU WANNA TOUCH ME?", so the Bowdlerization that they'd have to get would leave them pretty much unrecognizable. And neither of them are particularly iconic or legendary, so... what's the point?
What is a fandom? A miserable little pile of flame wars! 3DS FC: 0387-9377-7408 PSN ID: Raven King SageYeah, besides the lack of firearms Snake remained pretty much the same. It really helped that he is a Meta Guy.
"Yeah, it's a shame. Here we are in an underground cave with all these lasers, and instead of having a rave we're using it for evil."I would like if he had a tranq gun at least. Diddy has a peanut gun and the ray gun is an item, so an abnormal ammunition gun might not conflict with the no-guns policy.
Kinda funny how bullet guns are a no-go but high-powered explosives like his RPG and Nikita are A-OK. I guess they're less replicable, though, and that's what counts.
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You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!I imagine that it could have worked similarly to Falco's blaster.
Let the joy of love give you an answer! Check out my book!Man, 0SS' is just so much better than everyone else's.
It helps that I already preferred her to almost everyone else, as of Brawl.
Travis is actually more of a meta guy.
He is also This Loser Is You. However, as swear compilations will show, he does have quite a foul mouth. He does have some lines that don't use it, though.

In that sense, maybe, but Shantae doesn't exactly enjoy a legendary status among indie gamers, either.