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Unless you meant his old one from Brawl and Smash 4
Unpopular opinions about the Super Smash Bros series.
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Me as well, I could barely handle the fanbase this time around.
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The Smash fanbase has always been terrible, I don't see any change since the Melee days.
Renjamin
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It's always been terrible yes but that's not what we're saying the sorta 'Melee is God anyone who disagrees is factually wrong Excetra, excetra' generally got more tame as the years went on but that sort of fan vitriol is surely gonna be reawoken with a SSBU skin when in the next game when they're gonna have to cut so many characters and with whatever other changes they'll make.
Renjamin
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IDK outside of his grab and final smash Luigi's moveset wouldn't really fit E.Gadd, If he were to be in the game he'd work better as an original fighter
BEEEEEAAARRRS
how about a rousing game of pool
I'd like to believe no one expects smash 6 to be anywhere near what ultimate has given us, there's just no way they'll be able to do this again, and it's probably unlikely that they can just pull a "hey come join the series again everyone" like they did after smash 4.
Like, I guess my unpopular opinion will be that smash 6 is going to have to change the core gameplay in someway (possibly with dumb gimmicks or something) to make the series fresh for next time, otherwise the disappointment of so much lost content will be like smash 4's but in triplicate. On the plus side, if they don't have to spend all their time doing an admittedly good job of balancing 80 fighters, maybe we can get a really cool adventure mode again.
Like, I guess my unpopular opinion will be that smash 6 is going to have to change the core gameplay in someway (possibly with dumb gimmicks or something) to make the series fresh for next time, otherwise the disappointment of so much lost content will be like smash 4's but in triplicate. On the plus side, if they don't have to spend all their time doing an admittedly good job of balancing 80 fighters, maybe we can get a really cool adventure mode again.
Renjamin
Yellow Gooigi paisano
If you think Smash fans are that rational you don't know smash fans
TBH I don't think it'll be like Smash 4 I feel it'll be more like Brawl in a sense, these things usually come in threes (stay with me)
You have the game that's great when it comes out but is VASTLY lacking in single player and is sorta primitive. the next game is generally just an improved version of this and is released soon after so once it's out the former game is generally forgotten (Smash 64 and Smash 4)
The most well received game seen as near perfect by the community, it's competitive community thrives, it introduces quite a few fan favorite characters as well as quite a few clones, it has better single player than the last but it's not perfect, it's not got a story mode but an adventure mode that while having some great moments it quickly devolves to just slightly specialized matches, it's core gameplay is considered the best, cuts no-one (Melee, Ultimate)
And currently all we know about the next game is that Sakurai said there would be cuts and given how many fighters there's looking to be in Ultimate there probably gonna take out quite a few of the clones and probably have to cut of a couple more popular character and it's gonna be a loooooooong while until we get the next game. Given how they can't just sell the same game again but with less characters they'll probably beef up the single player to make that it's unique selling point, sorta like Brawl? Probably not, I'm likely overthinking things
BEEEEEAAARRRS
how about a rousing game of pool
No, you're right, I don't really deal with the genuinely gross part of the fandom, so I tend to assume everyone is just being ironic when they spam about Waluigi and Goku and that people know what's actually likely for the series. I want to say it's a small minority that are the outspokenly toxic fans, but that minority is probably bigger than I realize.
That's an interesting way to see it, I always thought of it in a different way that kind of comes to the same conclusions. Either we both overthink this, or maybe neither of us do:
64 comes out- it's a quick and easy idea that was almost just some niche Japan exclusive
Melee comes out soon after- expands hugely upon what 64 could've been had they known it'd do great, and gives all kinds of great singleplayer content
Brawl comes out- manages to retain basically the whole spectrum of content Melee had (sans Mewtwo), but with much better Adventure mode. The gameplay feels the most unusual in the series personally, and I think this one kind of stands on it's own just because it is the most isolate game in terms of release dates.
Smash 4- Here the content spectrum starts get lost, classic mode is watered down, adventure mode is a board game, certain characters had to be cut. It's kind of a fresh start for the series. (Can't say anything about the 3DS version but I guess you could argue adventure mode became Smash Run)
Ultimate comes out "soon" after- builds right on top of 4 and fills in most missing pieces, classic mode is back, adventure mode is kind of back, no character cuts.
The next game is most definitely going to be a long wait like Brawl was, which means it's most likely going to feel like a black sheep again, but maybe they can retain the gamemode and singleplayer content from last game while expanding upon Adventure mode more like Brawl did. The big difference here is going to be that the significant character losses are going to be much more than just Mewtwo this time... unless they find a dozen newcomers that are interesting enough that you forget again.
With regards to the competitive community thriving in the second of the trios, I'm pretty sure Brawl and Smash 4 had very sizable communities, but it's just Melee was always what you heard about and thought of foremost. I can't say anything personally about Brawl's, but I'd be surprised if Smash 4's competitive scene was much different in size compared to Ultimate's with respect to release dates.
Renjamin
Yellow Gooigi paisano
I hope so too, Subspace 2 would be rad. Granted they improve on what came before (And bring back the Subspace trio) , I love that game mode but man does it have some blemishes.