BurnOutBrighter
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I just discovered these videos and they are awesome. Great idea to show off the gameplay.
TRUE MARKSMAN ACHIEVEMENT
Win a match with Green Arrow using only arrows.
A few emails later...
I know everyone's saying center ???, top right Raven.... I think center might be Raven, and top right is... Captain Cold? Either way I think they're both wearing hoods.
If Raven's a villain I kinda hope she heel face turns during the story.
The more I look at the center character, the more I see a hood, too. The top right character looks male.
Center = Circe?
Top right = Eclipso?
I think the middle character is Raven. The "hair" looks more like a hood.
If she's in the center of all the characters, who says she even has to be a villain? We don't know anything about Battle Mode yet.
Top right looks like Spectre, to me.
For reference:
Now that he's in color, and his skin is obviously chalk white, I'm thinking that's the dude.
He's not really a bad-guy, though.
Well Eclipso is evil Spectre, maybe they just combined the two characters into one?
Also, Spectre's not being a bad-guy doesn't really factor in when it appears (I haven't read the prequel comic) that the whole point of this game is that Superman is essentially a bad guy that Batman has to stop, yes?
Will there be more characters besides the Battle Arena ones?
Yes. Not all of the officially revealed characters are even in the Battle Arena.
The Battle Arena only features 16 characters. The game is going to have 25+ characters (probably 28 or 30, plus DLC ones).
Phobia kinda looks like upper-right, but upper-right seems to look more masculine than feminine.
Dark hood, chalk-white skin: I gotta imagine they're going for characters more known, than not. Phobia is cool, but nowhere near as known as Spectre.
How crazy would it be if Spectre, in-story, is what happens to Hal Jordan?
If Raven is in (which is extremely likely) Phobia also sort of works as a direct villain to her.
In regards to the bold, that would be pretty awesome. Would love to see it happen.
Either way, The Spectre is more known than Phobia but for the mainstream audience (which is obvious what this game is primarily catering to with its character choices) I think they are both going to be seen as equally obscure.
eh. I thought it would be funnier after reading the title. Just felt really forced.
I really do hope there are more character/story reveals, since there's nothing else new coming out of Battle Arena.
Assuming the worst with a bare minimum of 24 playable characters, that's still five left to be revealed, so there's going to have to be at least one new character reveal per week until the beginning of April.
I just put my pre-order down on this last night. I don't even really like dc or mortal Kombat but these videos have me sold.
Same here. But I'm not easily amused *shrugs*
TDLink said:I'm positive it will happen. We have 6 weeks left till launch. They're going to need to put out at least a few reveals between now and then to keep hype up.
That pre-order bonus includes "zombie mode" (and I'm assuming zombie skins for the characters), so I'd say it's unlikely they'll get any more than that.Where did you pre-order, if you don't mind me asking.
If there are two more black lanterns to be shown with batman, I am going amazon/best buy (whomever).
Otherwise, I'm going with the red son pack.
I want to say they didn't unveil all of the characters for MK9 prior to launch, so I have a feeling they'll do the same here and leave a few surprises.
That pre-order bonus includes "zombie mode" (and I'm assuming zombie skins for the characters), so I'd say it's unlikely they'll get any more than that.
The worst/bare minimum is actually 25 characters since they confirmed it will be more than 24.
Best Buy mainly due to the 800 reward zone points in Canada. I'm not even sure if there is a dlc bonus as I didn't see anything on the Canadian website. :-(Where did you pre-order, if you don't mind me asking.
If there are two more black lanterns to be shown with batman, I am going amazon/best buy (whomever).
Otherwise, I'm going with the red son pack.
I don't believe it was ever confirmed. Hector Sanchez was asked about the character select screen and said it was a "decoy," but that doesn't necessarily mean its roster count is inaccurate.I've seen you say this a whole lot but I don't remember ever seeing the source for this information. Was it a Boon tweet?
I've seen you say this a whole lot but I don't remember ever seeing the source for this information. Was it a Boon tweet?
Roster
http://st3.speedforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/IGAUgameplay1.jpg
If you cut each of the character icons at the chest (roughly where the P1 and P2 indicators appear), then a fifth row could easily be added. Here's my mock-up:
Power Heroes
Gadget Heroes
- Superman
- Wonder Woman
- Green Lantern
- Aquaman
- Shazam
- Cyborg
- Hawkgirl
Power Villains
- Batman
- The Flash
- Nightwing
- Green Arrow
- ??? [Raven]
- ???
- ???
Gadget Villains
- Lex Luthor
- Sinestro
- Bane
- Solomon Grundy
- ??? [Black Adam]
- ??? [Ares]
- ??? [Doomsday, if he's playable]
- The Joker
- Catwoman
- Deathstroke
- Harley Quinn
- ???
- ???
- ???
http://st3.speedforce.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/IGAUgameplay1.jpg
If you cut each of the character icons at the chest (roughly where the P1 and P2 indicators appear), then a fifth row could easily be added. Here's my mock-up:
Power Heroes
Gadget Heroes
- Superman
- Wonder Woman
- Green Lantern
- Aquaman
- Shazam
- Cyborg
- Hawkgirl
Power Villains
- Batman
- The Flash
- Nightwing
- Green Arrow
- ??? [Raven]
- ??? [Martian Manhunter]
- ??? [Damian Wayne]
Gadget Villains
- Lex Luthor
- Sinestro
- Bane
- Solomon Grundy
- ??? [Black Adam]
- ??? [Ares]
- ??? [Doomsday, if he's playable]
- The Joker
- Catwoman
- Deathstroke
- Harley Quinn
- ??? [Captain Cold]
- ??? [Circe/Spectre?]
- ??? [DLC Slot]
I'd say Martian Manhunter is a lock for DLC -- Ed Boon just Tweeted this, even. He's a power character, and there isn't room for him on the default roster (I truly think NetherRealm will equally represent each). I agree with Robin. The last gadget hero might even be Beast Boy, whose voice actor will be featured in an upcoming Battle Arena video.Yes, I agree with this. Good catch on the placement of those P1/P2 indicators. With this mock-up it would also be possible that one of the icons you marked as DLC would open a sub-menu for all DLC characters (think how Soul Calibur has done their bonus characters) with the other being for Random Select.
If this was the roster count too, for the last 5 gadget characters I would probably go with (based on hints):
Damian Wayne
Martian Manhunter
Captain Cold
Mystery Woman Villain???
True ??? (Aquaman villain maybe?)
I'd say Martian Manhunter is a lock for DLC -- Ed Boon just Tweeted this, even. He's a power character, and there isn't room for him on the default roster (I truly think NetherRealm will equally represent each). I agree with Robin. The last gadget hero might even be Beast Boy, whose voice actor will be featured in an upcoming Battle Arena video.
For the remaining gadget villains, Killer Frost, a Flash villain, and Ocean Master are my current top picks.