In terms of characters, I only really care about Dark Samus as I haven't played or just don't care about the games for the others, but it's cool to have Simon particularly so you can have Samus vs Simon, the faces of Metroidvanias and K. Rool is another unique character so that's always good.

Lots of cool things announced otherwise, but the stage morphing to another stage thing looks awesome.

looks like i'll need to update this

i'll probably replace roy with simon, so then all five of my mains will be characters from series i've actually played and have emotional connections to—i'm only emotionally connected to roy because of melee; not only have i never played an FE game, the series also looks like it's gone to complete shit lately, and the game in which roy appears is still exclusive to japan anyway, so even if i wanted to play his game, i literally can't

he'll be demoted to potential, i guess

Might reverse Simon and Richter later. Not sure yet.

]are old school NTSC-J games compatible with US NTSC consoles?

I can’t imagine it being too much of a workaround to play it on an original console, excluding game rarity

(I know you’re super against emulation so I won’t suggest that)

yeah, the nice thing about the GBA is that it's region free, so i could even play mother 3 on it

the only issue is that i cannot read moon—so i'd need a translation guide as well, among other issues

Pretty ecstatic about K. Rool. This game is Skull Kid away from being my perfect Smash roster.

I'm kind of blown away by how much content we have now.

Finally I see fox on someone's list

Fuck it. Dat chain. Imma try him out and see if I wanna main

so is it just me or is the numbering of the characters really bothersome

like, it seems so inconsistent. the third party characters arent all together, characters arent grouped by series

i thought it was based on the characters first appearance, but thats not right either

help

they're ordered by first appearance in a smash game, not in general

first of all, echo fighters are grouped with the character they're echoing because duh

01-08 is the initial smash 64 roster, in order in which they're identified in the original intro

09-12 are 64's unlockable characters, in seemingly arbitrary order (Luigi and Captain Falcon appear simultaneously in the intro, with Ness and Jigglypuff showing up after, yet the ultimate order is luigi/ness/falcon/puff, so i dunno what's going on there)

then we get to the melee newcomer starters (13-17), which is an interesting case, because instead of going by melee's disc intro, they actually chose to go by the trailer they showed at E3, when the game was first revealed to the public

for the disc intro, it goes like this: Peach, Bowser, Ice Climbers, Zelda, and Sheik—which is close, but does not correspond perfectly with ultimate's ordering, where Sheik is listed before Zelda

this is because there's a very slight difference between the two intros: the original E3 intro doesn't show Zelda at all; just another clip of Sheik throwing some needles—the familiar Zelda clip of her using Din's Fire was added later when the game actually came out, and that's why Sheik is listed before Zelda

18-26 are all of melee's unlockable characters, and i honestly couldn't tell you what they're going by here—they seem to be ordered roughly by who would be most likely for the average player to unlock first (with Dr. Mario and Pichu being considered "early" unlocks, and Mewtwo and Mr. G&W being considered "late" unlocks), but that's just a spitball

then we get to the brawl characters, and i think you get the idea by now

27-31 is Meta Knight, Pit, Zero Suit Samus, Wario, and Snake, which is the exact order in which they were revealed in Brawl's extremely memorable E3 trailer which i don't even think i need to link, and the rest (i believe) are based on the order in which they were posted about on brawl's old blog site, the Smash Dojo

from there it's pretty straightforward i think, you get the idea

The Melee hell community is in the exact same spot Bungie forums were in 2015. Completely dominated by attention whoring/incelposting and the most coherent users have just turned 14 and think the term ‘cuck’ is the greatest word in the history of the universe. Also being as far extreme right wing as possible is considered v important

I can’t wait to get called a veteran and lose to people who unironically Floss/do emotes from Fortnite/Destiny in real life once Ultimate drops

Imagine being the kind of person who unironicly thinks that Fire Emblem is underrepresented in Smash Bros

this is so sad can we add 2 characters that ruin the game completely and nobody asked for to the roster

Playing as Samus made me buy Super Metroid. It's a game I've always wanted to play but never had a chance to because my older brother had a Genesis instead of a SNES.

Playing as Samus made me buy Super Metroid.

Good man, have a great time. It's an absolutely wonderful game.