Super Smash Bros. Ultimate features every single fighter from the series, but not all of the characters are going to be quite how you remember them.
Aside from the obvious balancing changes and new moves, we're noticing that some fighters have received cosmetic changes, too - and not all of these alterations have gone down that well.
Take Metal Gear Solid's Solid Snake, for example; the rear-end of this famous super-soldier was the stuff of legend in Smash Bros. Brawl, but footage of Ultimate suggests that he's been forgetting to do his squats lately - much to the chagrin of his voice actor, David Hayter:
Could Hayter's complaint fix this injustice? Ultimate isn't out until the end of the year, so Snake certainly has time to beef up that posterior. Fingers crossed, eh?
[source twitter.com]
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A proper spy would've had eyes on his rear at all times.
You've got to be squidding me....
Here comes a Nintendo direct with a 30 minute explanation on how they improved Snake's model in Smash Bros Ultimate.
Butt? Butt?! Buuuuuuuuuuuuuutt!!!!!!
If you hit snakes butt it cracks
Squats don't train glutes very well at all.
wt ffffffff
Buff the Butt
#FixSnakesButt
If it improves his hitbox to make him smaller, then this makes him all the better!
Now he's more snake, snakes normally don't have butts anyways
I would have thought it would have improved his Stealth.
Snakes Arse is not the only thing that's flatter... #zerosuitsamus #boobgate
Omg no .. not Snakes AAA Butt .. Snake? Snake? Snaaaaaaaaaaakkkeeeee
whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy??
Hayter's gonna hate 😉 Nah but that is a big change. Hopefully they change it back to the way it was, lol
Ya hear Nintendo? Fluff that Snake's butt post-haste!
....I wish Twin Snakes would be re-released on Switch.
I trust Nintendo to release a stability update for Solid Snake.
@GregTheFoxOwens Okay, first people complain that her boobs were made bigger in SSB4, now they're complaining that they were made smaller. Make up your minds!
It just looks weird. His upper legs are so muscular, and then his booty isn't at all. It looks like a plate.
Snake has obviously worked hard to make himself sleeker, so that he is better able to fit into cardboard boxes. #doesmybumlookbiginthiscardboardbox
@Saego
Well, now, instead of having his foes handing his ass to him on a plate, he can now, er, serve his foes appertizers on his, er, plate shaped ass?
@KayFiOS I demand a consistent C cup!
This is worse than the Samus thing. Her breast size can be anything, it's not like she's not wearing power armour usually.
But Snake is always wearing this skintight bodysuit and his giant thighs look weird when ending in flat buttocks. I'm sure there's real people looking like that, but video game characters are usually idealized.
Not to mention main character's backside has always been important in video game design as that's the side the player usually sees the most of in action games.
@GregTheFoxOwens Or just make it consistent. Consistency is good.
I remember when Lara Croft's continual "growth" was ridiculed by everyone, and that was before the whole "sexism in video games" shaming trend
... That flat model looks so weird with the massive bulging thighs attached to a plank.
Cya
Raziel-chan
Why does the brawl textures look better !!
@Abes3 because brawl had very realistic textures. Like the denim on mario. Smash 4 and ultimate have a more clean and cartoony look.
@NickOfTime90 Bayo would like to have a word with you.
@SmaggTheSmug ah yes the 90's... Lara was a victim of what a call sequel inflation, where EVERYTHING must be bigger than before, until the balloons pop and a reboot is in order and now she's a respectable B Cup
@NintendoFan4Lyf yeah it’s the same with overwatch and fortnite, it just looks straight up weird and abnormal. It should be fixed, it’s nothing to do with sexualisation as lots of people are trying to spin it in other places.
Snake is sick, lost alot of weight... He is dying... Snake SNAKE!!!
Zeldas arse +up
Zero suit samus arse and boobs +up
Free their arses
It really does seem strange that they made his ass flat as hell for no particularly good reason that I can see. No one wants an "old man" ass.
We're talking about a snake and a bum and no one has made a sexual reference yet? GJ guys!
@KayFiOS Of course it's not gonna be the same set of people complaining about each of those things.
It’s the same butt, except now he’s not wearing a thong, and his man garters aren’t as tight, thereby less lift and bulge.
#FirstWorldProblems.
MGS4 had the most advanced man-butt tech of its generation and it is a true travesty to see the perfectly genetically engineered "ASSets" of Solid Snake be misrepresented in such a manner!
@Bread-Not-Toast Lighten up, Hayter's just joking around. It's not like anyone's sending death-threats to Sakurai while demanding Snake's buttocks to be tightened up... yet. ~ sigh
RIP Snake's assets.
@finalstan Indeed. Gotta do deadlifts for that posterior chain.
But this isn't exactly the forum for the topic.
What the hell, internet...? -_-
I don’t know if someone’s already made this joke or not, but the reason Snake’s butt is smaller is because there are too many fighters in this game, meaning that Snake’s extra butt had to be redistributed to the returning and new fighters.
Y’know, for processing and developing reasons.
I think they fixed it for the better to be honest.
@TeeJay I know, but this drama could've been avoided if Samus's boobs stayed the same size. Because apparently, the Internet can't tolerate anything involving the chest region... "Gasp! Mario has nipples?! What does he think he is, a human being?!"
...Once again, the internet doesn't cease to amaze me.
@RC_Russ98 I don't give a crap what her bra size is, I just don't understand why the Internet makes a big stink when it changes.
To be honest that's a big flattening.
Maybe it's the lighting?
@Findonovan95 "Hayter's gonna hate" LOL I like that.
See this is one of the reason why it not a port. If Sakurai fix the butt problem then it will be like a port.
Don't forget about Zero Suit Samus, they reduced her from. A c-cup down to a tiny b-cup.
@Handsomistic15 "Don't hayte, appreciate." 😂
He blocked me on Twitter because I suggested that Kiefer Sutherland was a better Snake. Very professional of him I suppose.
This article seems like such a missed opportunity. You're telling me no one at the NL office thought to use "Butthurt" in a clever way in the title?! For shame lol
"Oh man, I wonder how the Internet is going to react to Samus's bust getting shrunk."
Instead: "WHY IS SNAKE'S BUTT GONE????"
Ah man, I laughed so hard when I saw people complaining about both though. I mean, I love their older designs too, I just find it extremely funny.
Oh, wow, that's a huge difference. It's just as egregious in the opposite direction, so they should have left it alone, or made it closer to something in between those two extremes if they were rearranging his buttocks.
@TJSpyke did this site do a story on that? Fairness would dictate they have to (if they haven't).
Okay... When will David Hayter and Paul Eiding Discuss the topic over the codec?
@Abes3 They don't
Nintendo Censorship back at it again I see!
Snake's butt will be character DLC to give it the spotlight it deserves. All jokes aside, I wonder why they decided to give him a non-anatomical butt for the sake of uhh... trying to not let it be a distraction perhaps? I dunno. Better not do the same for Captain Falcon.
Who doesn't have a problem with smaller butts.
(Why did anyone even notice this?)
Butt this is an outrage! GRAB THOSE PITCH FORKS! BURN THE VILLAGE! SMASH 5 IS RUINED FOREVER!
I approve he has the flat butt like me!
The reason why it stands out and looks so bad is because of his legs. They are massive in comparison. You don't get legs like that in the gym and your ass not get a workout. It's like he decided to leave his ass at home on leg day.
Where is our Male gaze going to go if Snake doesn't rival the gluttio of a certain space lady?
He'll show you moves.
@Ryu_Niiyama My first reaction was the same. Then I remembered Sakurai kindly taking 10 minutes to show us specifically how the ink marker on the inkling's ink tank is in a sightly different position on the Amiibo to accurately portray ink usage for a Smash special versus a splat bomb in Splatoon 2. And it all made sense. This is just how Smash people are in their natural habitat. Just don't make eye contact or any sudden moves and you'll be fine.
Maybe if snake wins a few matches he will get Dr Mario to fill up his cheeks Minaj style!
We've fallen far from the days of MGSV which had distractingly visible butt clenching animations whilst crouch walking in the sneaking suits.
His snake has also been nerfed, RIP.
@TheOpponent
That or your existence and it's proof are just a waste of his time. That is why twitter has a block option.
@GregTheFoxOwens I'm into girls and Samus' model looks hotter than ever to me in this game, size isn't everything
Oh no....
@May_Nyan oh no, don't get my wrong, I think all women are beautiful. Period. I'm just goofing at the fact that this is even a discussion
@NEStalgia Yeah but that was sakurai and that was kinda a "look at what the dev team painstakingly did for you...even though it's zoomed out and frantic and you aren't going to have time to notice..." type thing. Dev pride.
this is...well not that. Next folks are going to count his beard hairs.
@Ryu_Niiyama Well, I mean, it's Kojima's baby. Maybe it's really Liquid who took over Ocelot who is really just an avatar of Naked Snake who is really Zero, and the only way to tell is the flat posterior, which was teased to us all along in the Naked Butt Guy trailer for Death Stranding! It's a message to all the fans told by Sakurai through Solid Snake's buttocks! It's all so clear now! La li lu le lo!
@NEStalgia Between what you just posted and the database dumpster fire that just erupted at my job for two of my clients...yeah I'm done for the day. Brain is fried.
@Ryu_Niiyama It's the Kojima effect. You only think there was a database dumpster fire because that's what they want you to think. But it's all a diversion to obscure the fact that all the clients are actually the same client operated by a shadow organization that splintered from another shadow organization that was once tied to a covert military program that somehow involved Nam but it was actually a soviet operation all along, and the answer is hidden in Snake's derriere. But most have been too desensitized by the PMCs to notice.
When I can start making something that actually makes more sense than an actual Kojima storyline in an impromptu forum post as a mockery, I think it's time to stop playing Kojima games for good....
@NEStalgia Oh no this database is hosed...duplicate tables, data missing, merchandise codes are wrong and most of the interface logs are missing data. Granted the last i think is because the clients are lying about where they made their transactions, but I can't prove that till tomorrow. For today.....log digging and database recovery. I'll take Kojimaverse over this today.
@Ryu_Niiyama ouch. Picking kojima as a lesser mind searing paradox is pretty bad...
Hayter is a bum. Oh and Kojima is completely nuts. (while we're at it) Both are narcissists of the highest order.
If its ok to make a post about Snake's butt, can we get confirmation on if Peach got her underwear back?
Lol, its that time of the day already...
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