Thread 724135760

Why can't anything Dethrone Smash? Warner Bros failed. Sony failed. Nickelodeon failed. Well, at least Nick Brawl had Azula.

fortnite is way bigger than smash will ever hope to be.

>>724135808
Fortnite isn't a platformer fighter, so I'm sure what you're getting at.

They could do a Marvel smash but companies are too retarded to realize the majority of people don't want to spend hours everyday in practice mode analyzing and perfecting every tiny frame, combo and matchup in a fighting game when they could make a smash clone.

>>724135760 (OP)
Smash is the perfect mix of good characters and good gameplay. As evident by the recent Kirby video, Sakurai knows how to make a good game. Give him good characters and it "just works."

>>724136325
t. cultist

>>724135760 (OP)
Because Smash had the secret sauce from the start-nostalgia, tight mechanics, and Sakurai molding it like it's his life's magnum opus. All these other games feel like they were made in a boardroom by people who don’t even play games. You can’t just throw in a bunch of IPs and expect it to click. Smash feels like a love letter to gaming, the others feel like SEO bait.

>>724135760 (OP)
it's amazing how much appeal a female villain has as if she's much bigger than the product she came from

Because the games are either poorly made or some absolutely retarded crossover.
If there was a well made Smash-style game built around Sonic, Marvel, DC or any sort of franchise with a good amount of characters to pull from, and it didn't do any crossover bullshit, it might not dethrone Smash, but it would at the very least survive.

>>724135760 (OP)
Multiple layers of reasons honestly.
Smash has both unique and polished mechanics, even at its lowest point with tripping nothing came close to it.
Actual effort from Hal, Sakurai and the devs to make all the IPs blend and mix together, is not Fortnite that just throws shit at the wall to see if it sticks, Smash legit feels like a celebration instead of a product made by comitee.
The competence did absolutely nothing for 15 years. Sure with Smash 4 and Ultimate clones became a common thing but every company had the chance to try something during the 6th generation and no one did anything beyond that TMNT game, Viewtiful Joe and that weird Konami game, why no one tried to do an Smash clone with an original cast for th3 ps2?
Mosr IPs that get in Smash get a lot stuff: characters, items, stages, movesets, music, assist trophies, stickers and so on. Not even Multiversus could compete in that regard

>>724136526
people post fern and frieren 20x more than they post this bitch doe

>>724136495
this is exactly the reason
even if you complain about the modern smash mechanics compared to melee, or you hate that subspace is no longer a thing, the next smash game is going to still be a hit with the crowd and people will still wait hand and foot on the next smash bros reveal just because of sakurai's presentational direction alone, but coupling that with the aforementioned qualities really puts it over

in saying such about mechanics thobeit, one other thing is that some of the games are a kneejerk reaction to sakurai's supposed dumbing down of mechanics to appeal to casual players supposedly, and that alone isn't going to interest people either

like "we're the REAL smash game when sakurai didn't water everything down for casual scrubs!!!" isn't going to pull numbers

>>724135760 (OP)
because they try to be competitive instead of fun

>>724137445
they're the ones still alive afterall
that's just american behavior to begin with, they also love main character syndrome
but aura is included in plenty of merchandise despite being dead and a one off villain that lived onscreen for all of 7 minutes, and recently they invited her va for a 2nd season promo despite her character not appearing in that for clear reasons kek

>>724137547
>americans out of nowhere
what? lmao
also on booru frieren has 11k posts and fern has 7k while aura has 1k
majority of those are JP artists so i dunno which american fucked you in the bussy

No other company is just able to capture the soul the same way Nintendo can.

>>724135760 (OP)
Normies don't actually like platform fighters that much.
It's why everyone buys smash and then stops playing it after 50 hours except for when friends are around or a DLC drops.
It's entirely propped up by it being a lightning in a bottle cultural icon and having smart devs that know how to capitalize on that.
NASB did nothing but pander to melee-fags who are nearing their 30's.

>>724137625
>1k
wow, that's a lie
>断頭台のアウラ danntoudainoaura 5,532Works
underselling much? even turning off ai, it's a good deal over 3k
btw frieren's name alone still ends up tagging other characters even if the series is called sousou no frieren even if you search by perfect match/tag, just because some artists do that
i'm not saying they don't pull bigger numbers since they're characters who are still alive afterall and aura wa mou inai ja nai, but for the aforementioned aspects i've enumerated earlier, she gets a lot of love even outside the fanbase before they even find out what happened in the series

>>724137927
n/m i noticed you said booru
why are you using booru as a measurement

since we used booru tho, let's bring up azula's numbers
she only has 300 on the same booru that was looked at, but clearly, she's way more loved than that
not really a fair measurement to use a booru like that, especially danbooru of all places

>>724135760 (OP)
Because it requires the mental retardation and desperate loyalty of tendies to work

>>724135760 (OP)
Easy... Sakurai or at the very least a person who TRULY loves the media + money from Nintendo since they know he can be trusted 100%

Marvel Rivals and Smash is very successful because the characters were actual combatants in their own stories. Where as random shit like spongebob and bugs bunny came later.

>>724135760 (OP)
Because only smashfags have the determination necessary to reject soap for the rest of their lives.

>>724135760 (OP)
Smash is the only platform fighter series to have Earthbound/Mother related content in it, so