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I wish we could do a Q&A with the series writers to ask. I think we only have Tad Stones as far as series creators left since Alan Zaslove died in 2019.
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I got a little emotional when he said something like "I was afraid for my career, and then the first song I wrote with (not Howard) was 'A Whole New World.'"
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Didn't realize Aladdin has a bird pose |
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So uhm... my friends just told me that we are getting Aladdin in Smite 2 (sequel to the original moba Smite) and I was like wtf.
Will be interesting where they will lean to him with him. I kinda hope both the genie of the ring and the genie of the lamp will be utilised for him.
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AladdinsGenie
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So Smite is an MOBA and has all kinds of mythological beings and creatures as playable characters from accross the world. It's more than a 10 year old game at this point and recently got announced that we get its sequel, with the alpha starting this May.
Here's a trailer for it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1PHxmPq5o4&ab_channel=SMITEbyTitanForgeGames Just to see what's really is in short
Now the first game has 130 playable characters, with Nut (Egypitan god of the sky) being the last addition, with everything else being put in Smite 2 over the years (including all the old gods from the first game) and so far both from official and dataming it got confirmed that the upcoming 3 characters for Smite 2 will be Hecate, Mordred and now Aladdin.
Now the reason I was shocked about Aladdin is that... the closest we had such release was... probably Chtulhu and the Arthurian pantheon in a sense, that they aren't exactly mythologies (Lovecraftian being very new) but also quite old tales too. People also compared this to Mulan's release too, since she also has similar origin.
And well... I didn't really expect to play Smite 2 in alpha yet, given the only gods I reguarly play from the current roaster of Smite 2 is Anubis and Kukulkan (sue me, I'm a filthy mage main ) so when my friends pinged about this, my interest spiked to say the least.
Not much known atm as the alpha only starts in May, but will see where they lean with him into. Most thinks he will be closer to the Disney version because that1s what most people are similar with, but I hope they will add their own spin on it instead. I also don't know if he's going to be add an already existing pantheon, or they will create a new one, since he doesn't exactly belong to any of the current ones (my best bet was Babylonian actually, just because how in the Smite lore they are).
Anyway, here's the current list of gods just to see how they do these in terms of design. I think they do an overall good job with them so I do expect them to not disappoint with this one either. Rip my dream of Gilgamesh getting an Aladdin skin though haha.
https://www.smitegame.com/gods/
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AladdinsGenie
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| zitagirl wrote: |
| So Smite is an MOBA and has all kinds of mythological beings and creatures as playable characters from accross the world. It's more than a 10 year old game at this point and recently got announced that we get its sequel, with the alpha starting this May. |
Ah okay, so they pull from Gods and legends. I don't know if I'd put Aladdin in either of those categories? He's not a legend in the Arthurian sense and definitely not a God like the Greek or the Egyptian ones. Maybe a myth? (I think he and Mulan are closer to 'folktales' but whatever).
Although, I'm assuming that opens up the entire Arabian Nights book to the game, which includes all kinds of cool middle eastern mythology to pull from. I think they just want to use the genies tbh |
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with wind accurate Jasmine hair |
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| AladdinsGenie wrote: |
| zitagirl wrote: |
| So Smite is an MOBA and has all kinds of mythological beings and creatures as playable characters from accross the world. It's more than a 10 year old game at this point and recently got announced that we get its sequel, with the alpha starting this May. |
Ah okay, so they pull from Gods and legends. I don't know if I'd put Aladdin in either of those categories? He's not a legend in the Arthurian sense and definitely not a God like the Greek or the Egyptian ones. Maybe a myth? (I think he and Mulan are closer to 'folktales' but whatever).
Although, I'm assuming that opens up the entire Arabian Nights book to the game, which includes all kinds of cool middle eastern mythology to pull from. I think they just want to use the genies tbh |
Yeah, seems more like a Mulan situation, but least for her we had the Chinese pantheon to fit in.
Yeah, this definitely opens up for more folklore stuff from around the world, which would be cool.
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| I think they just want to use the genies tbh |
Yet in all those years they only did like 2 genie skins and there's only 1 Aladdin reference in the whole game. Think it was for a cosmic skin and it goes like "Infinite cosmic powers, itty-bitty texture space"
I just hope the genie(s) won't just be a Genie copy. Wouldn't feel right in my opinion.
Meanwhile the Dreamlight Valley community is also like "nah, it can't be Oswald or Figment, the lucky villager will definitely be either Genie or Aladdin" and while I heavily doubt this, it does make my fan side hope it would be this way. Still need to wait 1 more week for that update but man, it's killing me now XD
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10,000% having Mattan print this the next time he goes to UPS lol
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Yeah wait what??
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