The Grim Heaper
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Josuke Beatrix makes me want to vote for her.
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Skullgirls DLC Character vote | The Campaign united us, The Voting will destroy us
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I'm not fully proeficient in the finer points of the game, but Fillia for sure, and Ms. Fortune and Valentine seem to qualify for the category.
Well, decided to give my Minette from yesterday a companion piece... So much of Eliza's fanart seems to concentrate on BOOBS Blood "Goddess" stuff, but one of the more interesting things about her, to me, is her dual life. A secret, subtley hinted at, but kept in the shadows..
To be in the public eye so strongly, and for so long, yet to keep such a large secret hidden? She's gotta be pretty good at this. I hope this works into her in-play personality, and she's not just trying to sell "Ohh, I'm evil, EEEEEVIL!" all the time.
And the Minette too, since they're suppose to be companion pieces:
-nod!- She might have to swim through some Salty Waters, but I'm sure she can manage!
To be in the public eye so strongly, and for so long, yet to keep such a large secret hidden? She's gotta be pretty good at this. I hope this works into her in-play personality, and she's not just trying to sell "Ohh, I'm evil, EEEEEVIL!" all the time.
And the Minette too, since they're suppose to be companion pieces:
-nod!- She might have to swim through some Salty Waters, but I'm sure she can manage!
DaRabidDuckie
Junior Member
It could be argued that anyone who isn't Peacock could be rushdown.
Sigismundo
Member
Sounds like my type of fighting game.
I'll just pick Valentine and be on my way then.
If you like rushdown with magnus type resets then Filia is for you.
Delusibeta
Banned
Question: what's an "eff gee sea"?
Seriously, there's pretty much nothing over here. I'm not sure there's even a regular Street Fighter 4 meet in my city.
Seriously though, I hope the art in question ends up looking like some kind of poster homage like Peacock's "Murder-go-Round" and the others from the intro:
* Eliza: cabaret night show poster format
* Annie: TV show/toy commercial ad format
* Minette: restaurant ad/"try our specials"/"service with a smile" leaflet
* Aeon: religious art theme
Or, you know, just have every other character depicted chasing the winner carrying torches and pitchforks, with the exception of someone using a chair instead, and a huge umbrella filled with eyeballs further in the back.
CrazyTank940
Member
Man the wait till sunday is gonna drive me insane. If it's Aeon or Annie, I'll be happy. If it's Minette or Eliza... well there's always character 2
And if the other is character 2, well at least I have Big Band and Squigly to look forward to
And if the other is character 2, well at least I have Big Band and Squigly to look forward to
needsmoreIsaacandPanzerfaust
Don't worry, Minette will be happy to help you for all your Round 2 desires!Man the wait till sunday is gonna drive me insane. If it's Aeon or Annie, I'll be happy. If it's Minette or Eliza... well there's always character 2
And if the other is character 2, well at least I have Big Band and Squigly to look forward to
needsmoreIsaacandPanzerfaust
Troubled Bat
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*cough* I uh... do post here guys, you know that, right?
Glad to see you guys liked my post. ^^;
I was honestly, just damn, don't know what to say.. Hah. What got me the most is that you live in Austin, TX as well. Its great to have someone like you in the community.
That would be cool
darkblade77
Member
So, SG-GAF.
I think this was touched on a bit earlier with people saying the original 8 wouldn't make it out of a voting setup like this. So I'm curious--let's say the entire current roster was determined by fan-vote, excluding Robo-Fortune(to be precise, not counting half a character).
I mean that the cast is 8 now, and in a little over a year it will be 12. Who would be your ideal 12 from the full roster?
Mine would look something like this:
It's a cast that touches on the Cirque da Cartes(?), Black Egrets, Anti-SG Labs, and Trinity factions, but doesn't explore any faction or their sub/parent faction(s) too deeply, while including 4 wild cards that are/can be involved with multiple sides (Filia, Beowulf, Annie, Valentine). The Little Innsmouth crew is absent, but I think that--for example--if a sequel had a heavy Medici Mafia focus, they'd go hand-in-hand with that.
It also covers a pretty robust variety of playstyles, and 3 Skulldudes.
Who would you want the game to launch with, assuming 12 characters from the start?
I think this was touched on a bit earlier with people saying the original 8 wouldn't make it out of a voting setup like this. So I'm curious--let's say the entire current roster was determined by fan-vote, excluding Robo-Fortune(to be precise, not counting half a character).
I mean that the cast is 8 now, and in a little over a year it will be 12. Who would be your ideal 12 from the full roster?
Mine would look something like this:
- Filia
- Cerebella
- Feng
- Talesin
- Parasoul
- Panzerfaust
- Peacock
- Painwheel
- Valentine
- Annie
- Beowulf
- Marie
It's a cast that touches on the Cirque da Cartes(?), Black Egrets, Anti-SG Labs, and Trinity factions, but doesn't explore any faction or their sub/parent faction(s) too deeply, while including 4 wild cards that are/can be involved with multiple sides (Filia, Beowulf, Annie, Valentine). The Little Innsmouth crew is absent, but I think that--for example--if a sequel had a heavy Medici Mafia focus, they'd go hand-in-hand with that.
It also covers a pretty robust variety of playstyles, and 3 Skulldudes.
Who would you want the game to launch with, assuming 12 characters from the start?
Master Milk
Member
So you took out Fortune and Double and then added people you wanted to see?
Lol, sir!
Lol, sir!
darkblade77
Member
Hey, I explained my motivations. There are actually people I'd like to see in over that cast that I'd rather see in sequels, TBH.
I am too meta to *just* go for who I want.
EDIT: Just for fun, if I only just picked who I wanted:
And I might swap Black Dahlia in over Molly.
I am too meta to *just* go for who I want.
EDIT: Just for fun, if I only just picked who I wanted:
- Minette
- Feng
- Molly
- Issac
- Panzerfaust
- Adam
- Painwheel
- Eliza
- Annie
- Beowulf
- Brain Drain
And I might swap Black Dahlia in over Molly.
That's too much work.
They kind of already ran a poll asking us who our favorite of the original 8 are, and if I recall correctly the top 3 were Peacock, Ms. Fortune and Parasoul. So those are the three I would expect to get somewhat far in a vote. I think Peacock would have the best luck out of those 3 if we're talking mainstream popularity.
They kind of already ran a poll asking us who our favorite of the original 8 are, and if I recall correctly the top 3 were Peacock, Ms. Fortune and Parasoul. So those are the three I would expect to get somewhat far in a vote. I think Peacock would have the best luck out of those 3 if we're talking mainstream popularity.
Master Milk
Member
Hey, I explained my motivations. There are actually people I'd like to see in over that cast that I'd rather see in sequels, TBH.
I am too meta to *just* go for who I want.
Nah, you're good. I'd actually only take Double out of the current roster, because her implementation would be best left for when all the other characters are in.
So, adding another five in
Marie
Stanley
Andy
Beowulf
Panzerfaust
Gotta get rid of that unplayable boss. I think the four guys I picked bring a visual diversity to the cast that it needs.
CrazyTank940
Member
Might just as well have the character sorter in the official SG site with the default characters included, plus Squigly and Big Band, I guess.
Ideally there's a balance between what the devs like, since they have to spend hours on it, what makes sense for the story/setting, what can get the interest of less invested players and what tickles the tasts of the more invested fandom... yet I bet it was tricky enough for Mike and Alex to reach an agreement when the project first started, let alone now that the public has paid to express its preferences.
Just remembering about how vehemently Mike's been campaigning against one of the characters makes me think they're still not quite on the same page (otherwise the character in question simply wouldn't have been up for voting, or at least not without a more solid gameplay plan), so tackling the peculiar whims of the public must be doing interesting things to that team dynamic...
Seriously, I don't care about Aeon, but isn't her thing the fact that her eyes are always shut and what she does see when she opens them is the canonical reality or something?
If that's the case, couldn't her playable moveset be restricted by spending meter to have her open her eyes to pick the moment she gets to "save" and "import" to a later moment of a fight, while a computer-controlled version wouldn't have such a restriction, having the whole fight to pick from or something?...
I guess I'm just worried about the day when Aeon and Venus do become bosses and Mike's attitude toward the whole thing is make a fighting game version of I Wanna Be The (Skull)Guy/Girl, only with even less concern about making the battles beatable, since he gives off the impression that only Versus mode counts as the "real" game and the rest doesn't matter, so the rules of the game can go out the window there.
Hopefully the results from the early poll help to discourage that attitude, if it's still lingering...
Ideally there's a balance between what the devs like, since they have to spend hours on it, what makes sense for the story/setting, what can get the interest of less invested players and what tickles the tasts of the more invested fandom... yet I bet it was tricky enough for Mike and Alex to reach an agreement when the project first started, let alone now that the public has paid to express its preferences.
Just remembering about how vehemently Mike's been campaigning against one of the characters makes me think they're still not quite on the same page (otherwise the character in question simply wouldn't have been up for voting, or at least not without a more solid gameplay plan), so tackling the peculiar whims of the public must be doing interesting things to that team dynamic...
Seriously, I don't care about Aeon, but isn't her thing the fact that her eyes are always shut and what she does see when she opens them is the canonical reality or something?
If that's the case, couldn't her playable moveset be restricted by spending meter to have her open her eyes to pick the moment she gets to "save" and "import" to a later moment of a fight, while a computer-controlled version wouldn't have such a restriction, having the whole fight to pick from or something?...
I guess I'm just worried about the day when Aeon and Venus do become bosses and Mike's attitude toward the whole thing is make a fighting game version of I Wanna Be The (Skull)Guy/Girl, only with even less concern about making the battles beatable, since he gives off the impression that only Versus mode counts as the "real" game and the rest doesn't matter, so the rules of the game can go out the window there.
Hopefully the results from the early poll help to discourage that attitude, if it's still lingering...
*full-stop* Oy. I wonder what we'd have ended up with. Probably with whatever had the best mechanics video, and that's about it. I have no confidence in the FG community ever voting in the weird old man, non-sexually-charged older women, animal-races, or generally off-kilter ideas that make fighters such an interesting character pool...
Looking at the story, I can't say I'd take anyone out. Even "Boss Marie" is a better solution than "posessed shadowlady version of Filia for the Skullgirl", or something like that.
However, bringing up "factions" gets my attention. I'd have loved to see the races and factions put into groups, and then have each group, 1 at a time, get a character. Example:
Circus Group: Regina, Feng, Hubrecht
Dagonians: Stanley, Minette, Yu Wan
Egrets: Roxie, Panzerfaust, Molly
Outsiders: Issac, Beowulf, Scythana
Unfinished Business: Annie, B. Dalhia, Eliza
ASG Labs: Brain Drain, Hive, Illeum
Etc.
It would have been great to have more to-the-point, limited voting pools, so that some of the characters that have almost NO chance of winning "popularity contenst" style votes in a 30+ man system, could have had a greater chance VS others of their group.
Too much fan control (Go ahead, pick the whole roster!) would probably just make a mess, but dev controled fan input (For the first quater, choose your the next B. Egrets member to join the cast!) could be great.
commanderpepper
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Troubled Bat
Member
Don't worry, she's going to be the winner. Now rest easy my friend.
Oingo Boingo is better than Slayer, to be honest.
HiddenWings
Member
*grumble, grumble*
The third round really was a killer.
Stanley, Beowulf, Feng, Mrs. Victoria
Stanley, Beowulf, Feng
Stanley, Beowulf
Minette
I really hope one of my picks makes it to the end next time. Or at least someone I like over the current Final Four, like Isaac, or Panzerfaust, or Black Dahlia, or even Umbrella.
Edit: To be clear, I do like Minette more than the other three in the final round, but there are a number of characters I would have preferred over her.
The third round really was a killer.
Stanley, Beowulf, Feng, Mrs. Victoria
Stanley, Beowulf, Feng
Stanley, Beowulf
Minette
I really hope one of my picks makes it to the end next time. Or at least someone I like over the current Final Four, like Isaac, or Panzerfaust, or Black Dahlia, or even Umbrella.
Edit: To be clear, I do like Minette more than the other three in the final round, but there are a number of characters I would have preferred over her.
Oldschoolgamer
The physical form of blasphemy
Sekhmet looks like a follower of Dio. Eliza might get my vote next round, over Isaac and Venus.
Oldschoolgamer
The physical form of blasphemy
Was SG streamed at all during Civil War? I missed it.
Ultimadrago
Member
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Officially no one yet. But one character is way far in the lead that she's winning no matter what.
Here you go:
holy fuck, cuteeeee
Nice Beatrix art!
If I remember right they're not really sprites, but actually textures, right? How they make them act like sprites though is a mystery to me.
Noone has clearly won yet, to us. Ravi has mentioned that the votes are pretty much overwhelmingly 1-sided, though, and that a winner is known by him, but we won't know until the emails go out.
I like the pics of her that give her those Megaman / Astro-boy style non-ankles, just because the style fits her look so well.
And it's kinda funny how similiar much of her design is to Eliza... Same upside-down triangle central bang, both have pearls in their hair, both her long cloths draped before mini-skirt-ish designs...
SouthernDragon
Member
Annie is likely to win, but Eliza stands a chance, too.
However, I sincerely hope Beowulf takes the next round.
However, I sincerely hope Beowulf takes the next round.
There probably is, but you have to find it. I didn't think there was a scene in Boston until Boston had it's first regional. Then I found out all the Marvel and Street Fighter players were playing at a Bar on Tuesdays.
Really nice palette work there, Mista Koo!
She's pretty much the only character of these 4 that I'd think would have a chance of NEVER appearing in the game /sequel, if she doesn't make it now. We basically have 2 boss characters and a near-necessairy plot point character as her opponents.
I don't see how anyone could doubt Eliza, Anne, or Aeon eventually making it in to a SG release, at this point, unless Lab 0 gets sucked into an alt timeline or something...
She's pretty much the only character of these 4 that I'd think would have a chance of NEVER appearing in the game /sequel, if she doesn't make it now. We basically have 2 boss characters and a near-necessairy plot point character as her opponents.
I don't see how anyone could doubt Eliza, Anne, or Aeon eventually making it in to a SG release, at this point, unless Lab 0 gets sucked into an alt timeline or something...
The Grim Heaper
Member
Widdly Scuds
Member
whoever wins round 1 doesn't matter, as long as Molly wins round 2.
she rides a mech!
she rides a mech!
That's cute. Panzerfaust's tank rides his fist - man over machine and all that.
Did you ever post the pic of the original palette with the shoulder correction?
I sure hope so.
devastatorprime
Member
Officially no one yet. But one character is way far in the lead that she's winning no matter what.
Here you go:
Damn this is so legit, thank you so much.
NEO0MJ said:
I'm no programmer, but I would say that since the PSone era most 2D games actually puts sprites on polygon textures, since it's just much more efficient to use the hardware acceleration than write specific sprite-handling stuff.
The thing we did that others haven't done much of was actually use that for shaders, lighting, etc.
Thanks. We should thank the guy who made the vector
Not ye..
Yes I did :3
(The original artist - I assume - was the one who said he will post it.)
For some reason I didn't like these aesthetically (the hitsparks and the like).
Thanks Vectorman! (...)Thanks. We should thank the guy who made the vector
Not even the fact that the sparks actually effected the lighting, and accurately shade/highlight the model, as if it's a 3D object in 3D space? Because that stuff is a great trick
Watching the Argus Agony lasers fly over & swiftly highlight the bodied of fallen Skull-gals never gets old... (come to think of it, Big Band is going to be a stupidly-big reciever of corpse-lighting.)
Mauricio_Magus
Banned
My friend that doesn't know anything about Skullgirls liked her design and drew her for me!
Extracted this Andy from an official(?) artwork:
Hopefully that gains him at least one vote next round
It is technically impressive but I don't like the way it looks.
Although to be fair I've yet to actually play the game, but I've seen enough videos to judge.
Hopefully that gains him at least one vote next round
That's the thing I don't likeNot even the fact that the sparks actually effected the lighting, and accurately shade/highlight the model, as if it's a 3D object in 3D space? Because that stuff is a great trick
It is technically impressive but I don't like the way it looks.Although to be fair I've yet to actually play the game, but I've seen enough videos to judge.