In the end which characters do you think the community will choose for DLC character additions

[venusandeve]

How do you feel about the fact that after DLC, 3 (4 if you count Robo-Fortune) characters are from the Lab? Not really relevant to gameplay, but to lore telling in general?

[Psycho_Power_J]

Hmm. I guess it doesn’t matter that much to me. Nor to most people with only 13.6% voting for it. No offense to the dev team, but the storyline is pretty much just icing on the cake in a fighting game.

[CrownAxe]

Here’s something that Stanley (and Annie) fans won’t go into: what is it in his play style that you like?
I’m sticking with the novelty theory.

Considering that its hard to talk about play style for characters that haven’t been made or got a mechanics preview no duh people aren’t talking about it.

[Zazzarius]

How do you feel about the fact that after DLC, 3 (4 if you count Robo-Fortune) characters are from the Lab? Not really relevant to gameplay, but to lore telling in general?

personally, i think the ASG is the faction with the coolest character designs.

i’d like to see brain drain, leduc, hive and ileum all playable one day

[lightskintwin]

It was a fan VOTE.

@Light: saltiness doesn’t quite reach this far, it’s about principle. Like I said, out of my 4 original choices, 2 are still in it and at least one (Eliza) is very likely to be there for the final. But I just can’t stand how people are fine with the possibility of 225k being blown on an unsubstantial meme.

Are you referring to Science Shark Stanley? LOL

I’ll admit he’s not one of my preferred choices, and seems to be a very polarizing character. People either love him or hate him.

Despite not initially being appealing to me, I am open minded and willing to see how Stanley’s gameplay style, animations, and voice overs all come together to form a fully realized character before casting judgement. Now afterwards if you still hate the character, then by all means RAGE away. LOL

However if there are people out there that are genuinely excited about him and will play Skullgirls inorder to use him that may have otherwise never played. That can only be a good thing.

[venusandeve]

I disagree, just about everyone is talking about play style, enough hints have been given.

[Rabbit360]

Any information we have is nothing but play-style speculation, and it is subject to change without notice.

[lightskintwin]

Here’s something that Stanley (and Annie) fans won’t go into: what is it in his play style that you like?
I’m sticking with the novelty theory.

Damn, you hate Annie too?

Now you’re just being cruel. LOL

[Fox_Pocket]

Here’s something that Stanley (and Annie) fans won’t go into: what is it in his play style that you like?
I’m sticking with the novelty theory.

Platinum the Trinity (BlazBlue), Warachia (Melty Blood), Sol Badguy (Guilty Gear series)

Combine that with over the top magical girl aesthetics? I want to play this character.

[venusandeve]

Here’s something that Stanley (and Annie) fans won’t go into: what is it in his play style that you like?
I’m sticking with the novelty theory.

Damn, you hate Annie too?

Now you’re just being cruel. LOL

Nah. I’m not really hype for her, but if she’s vote nr1, hekki dayo. It’s just that she plays ALOT like Sol BG (Mike named like 5 things in a row that she gets from him, clean hits and a hand full of moves).

[MizukiTHPS]

Here’s something that Stanley (and Annie) fans won’t go into: what is it in his play style that you like?
I’m sticking with the novelty theory.

Platinum the Trinity (BlazBlue), Warachia (Melty Blood), Sol Badguy (Guilty Gear series)

Combine that with over the top magical girl aesthetics? I want to play this character.

While I agree all that is awesome, can’t we all agree Aeon’s gameplay sounds the best of everyone?

[venusandeve]

Here’s something that Stanley (and Annie) fans won’t go into: what is it in his play style that you like?
I’m sticking with the novelty theory.

Damn, you hate Annie too?

Now you’re just being cruel. LOL

Nah. I’m not really hype for her, but if she’s vote nr1, hekki dayo. It’s just that she plays ALOT like Sol BG (Mike named like 5 things in a row that she gets from him, clean hits and a hand full of moves).

But yeah, Annie’s a bit bland but otherwise ok.

[Dime]

I think we should have a poll: what character out of all of them are you most hype about be ause of gameplay style with no aesthetic considerations being made.

That would be interesting to see. A different way to do it would be to for people to list their top gameplay styles of the all the characters from first to last.

Then we could see whos gameplay styles are actually liked and and who’s being voted strictly cause of aesthetics.

Sure, some will confuse the 2 and vote for the character(s) that they also like aesthetically… But some people would get it.

Im just interested in what gameplay styles people think are interesting… Everyone says this or that characters style is interesting but they dont say what is interesting about it…

[lightskintwin]

Now this may or may not help the 2nd character vote, but Mike Z plans to make gameplay prototype videos for Roxie, Beatrix, Black Dahlia, and D.Violet.

[venusandeve]

Why D. Violet?`

[GirugaMarc]

what’s all this talk about meta-voting. I’m confused

Because of the voting format, people are voting for anyone who would give an edge to their favorite character. Such as if your favorite is a guy, you vote a girl in for your 2nd vote. If the final round is three girls and your one guy, the opposing vote would be split between the three and your guy would get the votes of those who want to have another guy besides Big Band in the game.

Other metavoting parameters are Moe, Science!, Manly, Fish, Time, and so on.

That’s lame and now I agree the voting format needs to be changed or there needs to be 1v1 after top 4

[lightskintwin]

Why D. Violet?`

Well on Mike’s To-Do List it says it’s to help unloved characters. LOL

I already liked D.Violet anyway.

[lightskintwin]

what’s all this talk about meta-voting. I’m confused

Because of the voting format, people are voting for anyone who would give an edge to their favorite character. Such as if your favorite is a guy, you vote a girl in for your 2nd vote. If the final round is three girls and your one guy, the opposing vote would be split between the three and your guy would get the votes of those who want to have another guy besides Big Band in the game.

Other metavoting parameters are Moe, Science!, Manly, Fish, Time, and so on.

That’s lame and now I agree the voting format needs to be changed or there needs to be 1v1 after top 4

That’s not lame, it can be very strategic. Whether it’s smart or not is a different story, because without any actual data this move can easily backfire in somebody’s face and ultimately help vote in the winner they were actually using as bait.

Either way, it’s a very dangerous game to play.

[venusandeve]

LOL, he should be doing ottomo

LOL, Dahlia… UNLOVED?

[Honor_Basquiat]

I think we should have a poll: what character out of all of them are you most hype about be ause of gameplay style with no aesthetic considerations being made.

I don’t see why it really matters, regardless Mike and the team are going to make all the characters play well, balanced and have interesting play styles. If someone is a fan of the game, and they are enough of a fan where they contributed money to support for a character, they should be able to vote for any character they want for any reason, especially if they are going to be built with a competitive spirit in mind competitive. I mean all of them are cool characters that Alex worked hard on that are part of the SG universe.