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Skullgirls DLC Character vote | The Campaign united us, The Voting will destroy us
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Mauricio_Magus
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have you even seen her backstory or know ANYTHING about her? she's badass and pretty much one of those "she's actually 1000000 years"
toastyToast
Member
She is. With a star motif. She sounds very boring to me and the packaging doesn't have much to do with it. I probably should have mentioned that the new gameplay elements are what got me onto this point.
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Mauricio_Magus
Banned
She is. With a star motif. She sounds very boring to me and the packaging doesn't have much to do with it. I probably should have mentioned that the new gameplay elements are what got me onto this point.
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
she's badass like Cars
Mike has said that Annie would act like a Badass
Pretty hard to tell when the only thing you're doing is complaining about the packaging, lol. Especially when deceptive appearance is literally the whole point. Alex pretty much went out and said that she's a grizzled war hero in magical girl's clothing.She is. With a star motif. She sounds very boring to me and the packaging doesn't have much to do with it. I probably should have mentioned that the new gameplay elements are what got me onto this point.
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But you really don't see any potential in how the galaxy is literally her arsenal? Quasars, spatial tears, sword beams, meteorites, suns, black holes, none of that seems like it could serve interesting gameplay ideas or offer visual spectacle? Stuff like that immediately captures my attention, and I can see so much that could be done with it, just from the hints that Alex dropped.
This sounds like what happens to me, except it's when people talk about Beowulf.
That's the thing with potential. It can potentially be well made or crap. Past magical star girls have sucked aesthetically in fighting games. I'm willing to hold my breath to see Labzero's implementation because their art direction isn't unintentionally nauseating.
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Well when Beowulf is constantly paired up with Scythana he does look like a bit of a girly-man.
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Well when Beowulf is constantly paired up with Scythana he does look like a bit of a girly-man.
Took the words right out of my mouth.
I don't know for sure if Isaac's time travel shenanigans could be as game-changing as it sounds, but the potential is there, and so is the talent, and that's why I've kept a vote on him. The same could be said for practically every other character available to vote. If we're not voting on potential of mechanics, visuals, or story, what are we voting on? What's guaranteed?
toastyToast
Member
That's the thing. All I'm imagining is regular moves (dps, rush punches, flash kicks etc.) with sparkles and galaxy fireballs. Pretty much stars/rainbow Ken
I don't have much of an imagination
With respect to Isaac/Aeon, telling me a character is a time character is a lot more captivating than a regular character that harnesses the power of (blank)
Annie throwing gang signs in fabulous poses would definitely bring me around.
What story there is for him makes it clear he can certainly keep up with her supposed advantages, it sort of is the whole point of depicting them together.
GraveHorizon
poop meter feature creep
I don't like the whole "I'm gonna tame you" feel I get from him when associated with her.
darkblade77
Member
Hot damn. I guess Utsuho wasn't being reffed just for the galaxy motif. It feels great to be wrong!
Wow, this is just awesome. Eliza + Gurren Lagann is an awesome combo. She's still my favorite one, both in looks and gameplay concept/dynamics.
A Huge Battleship
Member
Get hype. Really liking what I'm hearing about Annie's potential playstyle. If she doesn't win this round she's now a lock for my big four in the second vote.
HotGarbage
Member
Holy shit. This is fantastic.
That's not what I see in those pics. The association may just derive from the mention of gigans for both their stories, which have no other major presence in the game with the possible exception of the bigger horned skulls in the Marie boss fight.
She's only mentioned as a captive in Parasoul's story, and he's only briefly mentioned by Andy, which barely counts as a separate character, so it's hard to tie them in nicely with the existing cast in the way fangirl Parasoul does.
It really would have been nice to have the character info, both regarding story/seting and gameplay, expand in the "3rd character" page of he LabZero for a bit more to hold on to when making a decision.
As it stands, some characters simply have more going for them to to more mentions in game and the official site's profiles of the currently playable cast...
It's kind of annoying when stuff gets mentioned in streams (which are kinda long and impractical if you're in the "wrong" time zone), but doesn't get officially compiled somewhere, and odd we hear more from Mike than we do from Alex, who's probably having to twist some story plans to fit time and budget constraints, but now also the whims of the voting fandom, but should still have some solid story concepts that can survive that...
Thanks!
It always feels a bit unfair when this kind of info comes out, and for one character, because it does feel like it'd sway votes, because it's the "hot topic of the moment"...
...but in the end, this kind of detail is par the course for a Skullgirls character. About the only thing that REALLY surprises me, is that they'd give her a BEAM, rather than "GUNFLAME!", as that should really help her full-screen game.
No kidding! It's why I'm most sad when people don't "think outside the box" with what's already there... Look at the amount of detail they went into with Annie here, now imagine that much focus placed on what we've heard of someone like Stanley. People would probably be just as impressed, in some ways.
I wish we knew what kind of moves Issac had. "Time travel!" is nice, but the whole thing would change depending on if he's time looping projectiles, rapid punches, attack-grab attempts, or parts of rekka chains.
Glad you like it! Was afraid it'd get lost amongst all the post!
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Personally, of Mike's "To Do" list, I think I'm most hype in seeing Roxie's "Build" Mechanics prototyped, because I can't really think about any other FG characters that offer such a mechanic; Emmett in PSASBR is probably the closest that comes to mind, and that's an entirely different realm of gameplay.
REALLY hope the character Gameplay-concepts info pages get Upgraded for these final vote rounds. HELP GIVE EVERYONE A LEGIT CHANCE! (It'd be too much to ask for some special move sketch concepts, but that would be wonderful...)
Yes, but at least the good news is that Thursday nights are likely the best time - almost all the voting is apparently over by then, and it's still days away from the new vote on Monday.
But absolutely agree that the final round should have an update with (roughly equal) concepting for the final four. It may not matter, but you never know.
Yeah, most who watch Salty Cupcakes probably voted minute/day 1, so at least that's good.
I really wouldn't mind getting to wait a while before Character Vote 2, and using the time in between to flesh out and explain character concepts better. There could be some real "diamonds in the rough" that people are sleeping on, because their ideas are unfairly swayed by 1 character inspiration example, or a lack of knowing what the characters real "hook" will be like.
darkblade77
Member
I agree here: a DP and Sagan Car are at least two things you could guesstimate out from her inspirations list. But I expect that she will have even more surprising things than a beam or the micro-sun if she gets in.
I mean, many of her other inspirations gameplay-wise were either so generic or vague it was hard to get a playstyle out of her outside of "sword-derivative shoto toolkit", which I knew 100% wasn't going to be the end product. You don't have to look past how Filia turned out to understand why.
I totally agree here. This competition would be a lot more interesting if everyone was running off the faith that whichever character is picked is going to have some unique and interesting concepts guaranteed, but sadly it takes some feature/spotlight work to convince others.
For example, if there had been some concept art of Talesin [literally] objectifying women like they described or a model of his type of gameplay, I bet he would have at least made it past Round One. And I'm not even a huge fan of puppet-style characters.
The only thing I have against everyone getting a chance is really just the 'time is money' aspect. It'd be nice if it was possible, but we'd need someone to clone Mike a few times.
Yeah, I'd love to see even just 1 "key special move" or "unique Normal" sketch'd image, or something of the sort.
Im surprised Mike is even making gameplay proof-of-concepts and such, really. I'd figure the artist would be giving us roughs before he does!
Like words, polls are wind, but FocusAttack.com's Skullgirls poll has Beowulf, Eliza and Annie in the lead, surprising no one.
(No FB account so I can't see any data behind it, if there is any.)
(No FB account so I can't see any data behind it, if there is any.)
Indeed these obscure polls have a habit of being wrong...
But in this scenario the fourth character carries the most importance.
Minette is Ruto:
No one likes Ruto.
And those who do shouldn't.
Haha I totally forgot about her Osaka inspirations. If it was more prominent in fan art I might have been convinced to vote for her.Gigaraver from Gamefaqs has been following this topic and made this picture for it:
SolarKnight
Member
Well that goes without saying.
Are you trying to kill me?
This pic is godlike good job !
commanderpepper
Member
All these cannons with Stanley makes me think he'll play like MvC2 Iron Man/War Machine.
I live like 3 minutes from where the manhunt is taking place. I was forced to sit inside and play Dark Souls all day.
Are whale missiles canon now? That's awesome.
Ultimadrago
Member
It's crazy how much they locked you guys down and they probably did that (in addition to clearing away any additional bombs) because they wanted to make sure if any additional suspects could be found they would have a harder time leaving the city.
I wish for you the best circumstances out of this disaster.
Ultimadrago
Member
Indeed. Best of hopes to you guys out there.
IGG won't do any refunds now that the campaign has ended, but there's always the threat of chargebacks.
