Got dayum Cyborg a ranged character with a self heal? Count me in! Definitely a potential main now that I’m actually paying attention to this game, unless Raven is cool or they add Black Adam (possible), Dr. Fate (kinda obscure), or Bane (highly unlikely, too hard to differentiate from Grundy. I was gonna suggest a heal or a buff as his gimmick to tie into Venom but seems like Cyborgs got that on lock. Also another Batman character).
Anyway, the thing that got my legitimately interested in this game oddly enough was the stage gimmicks. I was already kinda interested just for the sake of it being a DC fighting game but my disdain for MK graphics and the initial thought of stage gimmicks were off-putting. After watching that 15 minute stage demo from Evo though, the stages seem like they could add an interesting dynamic to competitive play instead of just being casual-bait. If they’re viable enough, it could add an emphasis to spacing and zoning to keep control of the parts of the screen where the gimmicks activate. Or it could make it into a completely non competitive piece of shit. Something to look out for.
Nightwing uses his staff in different stances and seems to be more nimble and much more acrobatic true to DIck Grayson. Just because he is Bat family does not make him a watered down clone.
I really thought how different characters use the stage gimmicks would kind of just be different ways to do the same thing. Like, how Batman slams the opponents head into the car while Superman just slams the car into the opponent. Both just getting damage from the car. But then Nightwing was just shown jumping off of the car getting a way to escape corner. This is rad. I am kinda borderline in love with how some of these stage gimmicks will change the fight on a character to character basis. My hype for this game grows every time I see it.
I’m liking what I’m seeing from Nightwing. I like his stage hazard moves (awesome that the hovercar gives him a divekick), his attack strings look great for pressure in his twin stick stance, and appears to have decent poke range with the staff stance. I wish that the demo showed off more of his mobility.
Cyborg got a zip line and a bionic arm. Couple with his zoning tools and self heal I can see I’m going to hate to fight against that guy. He seems to stay in a stationary position for healing.
Cool, cool cool cool. Reallly liking Cyborg’s gameplay. I hope he’s voiced by Khary Payton again. I’d like to say it sounded like him in the demo but I’ve been wrong before.
>Was hype for the Green Team (Hal and Oliver) to be announced at SDCC
>Saw Nigga Iron Man
>Saw zoning tools
>Even more impressed.
>Saw Proton Cannon.
>Found his main.
Sorry Green Team, gonna have to do a lot now to impress me lol.
I definitely like how cyborg looks, this game just keeps getting better and better, Im glad to see netherealms are trying something new, the fact that the stage your in and which section of the stage actually matters in something we haven’t seen in 2d fighters yet(watch someone name a fighter thats done it and I overlooked). As for who else is prolly gonna be on the roster, we definitely getting at least 1 green lantern, maybe sinestro as well if they are feeling generous, aquaman seems like a given at this point, ed boon posted some picture of aquaman from the comic and someone posted some concept sketch of him a few pages back. Lex, joker and prolly captain cold are certain since lex and cold were in the trailer while the joker is the joker.
Other than those though, the rest of the roster is wide open imo, we could see captain marvel and/or black adam, some member other character from the young justice tv show(I hear thats really popular so they might wanna ride some of that) prolly m’gaan or someone. Maybe we might get some swamp thing/animal man since their comics are flying off the shelves right now, or some other character from dc’s horror line-up like a member of the dark justice league or the demon knights(although I think etrigan would look a lil outta place). I wonder if we will see some new 52 characters, maybe the court of owls might make an appearance, maybe some rot characters.
Either way should be fun watching the roster unfold.