I wouldn’t go so far as saying friendship and such makes a soft player.
If you don’t have a good group of guys to lab with, its tough to come up on your own.
Tournaments are of course the wild wild west, but that’s only for one day, the other 29 days in a month, you and your scene can and should be getting together to play and improve, share stories and share strategies, and hey, if you happen to find something in common beyond your love of pushing buttons on a controler, whats the problem with that?
Missing the point is an awesome forum trait that a lot of people here posses.
Outside of the ‘creepy and weird’ community this series has created, the fighting game is the only real thing I care about, honestly. I guess if not for the show, then certain people’s talents wouldn’t be expose in creating such a game.
At first, when they posted that AJ mirror match, I thought it was a random fan base game that would eventually be canned due to lack of any real motivation. I guess the game is getting a lot more attention than expected, and seems to be getting a hell of a lot of support. I only hope for the best once the game is released.
INDIE GAMES ARE DA FUTURE!!
[spoiler=]Also, I’ve never seen this show. I’m not a little girl[/spoiler]
Seriously it is a good show, lots of people like it to be ironic or just do whatever the internet is doing, but honestly it’s a pretty good show. Well written characters, good animation, interesting plot, pretty funny, its got everything that a good show consists of and now we are getting an unofficial fighting game, which is like mixing two of my favorite things.
I really don’t see how that’s any different than fanbases like Touhou, Nasuverse (Fate/Tsukihime/Melty/KnK), Scott Pilgrim, Star Trek, Star Wars, DBZ (not the kid fans), and etc, only unlike those, it has no real niche that makes the fanbase to be a constantly challenged minority.
Call it bitterness, but I don’t know what makes MLP so special that a sense of moderation isn’t necessary. It sometimes gets to Furry Fandom levels of lack of self-awareness.
I can say that it may just depend on where you look. Some sub-communities in the entire ‘brony’ fanbase could be better than others. For all I know, it might not be very different from other fanbases you mention, but I wouldn’t know since I am not familiar with them.
I don’t think anyone really cares about being a ‘constantly challenged minority’ in the community because we’ve all kinda learned to just enjoy what we like and be okay with it. It’s hard to make comparisons to the furry community because they are based off two different things. One is based off a fetish, and one is based off a children’s television show about magic and friendship.
I’m not sure if that properly answers you because I had a hard time understanding what you were saying there, but I’ll try to explain better if you can clear up what you’re saying.
DBZ, Star Wars, Melty Blood (a fighting game spinoff), and Star Trek? Seriously?
I cannot agree with that at all. Skullgirls for example would have never even gotten on the map if its staff and fanbase were just fine with it being a game where its forum has two year ago “recent” posts.
And that’s where I had my case in point.
The furry fandom is based on Anthropomorphism as a whole first and foremost, not just it in sexual context, yet people see it as a fetish as they groups themselves together regardless.
(Believe me, the Touhou fanbase makes a LOT of porn, yet there’s a clear line between that and the games.)
Where as with MLP, it isn’t as much sexual deviants, as more the internet equivalent of vegan exhibitionist hippies.
EDIT: Now that I think about it, that also goes with my previous statement. Making a concentrated group that will be the first impression of the fanbase for an ignorant mainstream is exactly a case of not being okay with just liking what you like.
Just like Trekkies before them, which are actually the first memetic level fanbase.
Okay, clearly there’s some miscommunication going on here. I am familiar with the IP’s in question, I meant that I’m not familiar with their fanbases, which I assumed is what we were getting at.
As for the ‘minority’ part, I don’t think we’re on the same page. I’m not even sure if I understand what you were getting at in the first place. All I was saying is that most people that watch the show don’t really care if they’re a minority because they enjoy the show, if that makes sense. I think the case with Skullgirls is something completely different. But then again I may just not be fully understanding.
And yeah I know the furry community isn’t really just the fetish, sorry. But, ya know, it’s kinda, just, everywhere. I dunno, it’s not really relevant if you ask me, because again the two fanbases are fundamentally different.
Yeah, something’s wrong here. Sorry but could you be a bit more clear? I’m just having trouble understanding what you’re actually trying to say when you say “vegan exhibitionist hippies.” I don’t want things to get all hostile up in here.
A popular franchise’s fans’ majority are almost never part of the fanbase, or the sympathetic subculture to be more literal. Little girls and young women don’t care if Rainbow Dash’s image can reach Krystal from Star Fox and Renamon levels of wrongness because they don’t even know that happens.
In the case of Melty Blood and Touhou, they are, were for Melty, super-niche indie games just like Skullgirls at their birth.
They are both fanbases that at this point, have a loud minority that acknowledges themselves as true aspects of culture rather than being like any other fanbase.
Just like Trekkies for Star Trek fans. Just like Western Otaku for anime fans. Just like…well pretty much everyone who identifies themselves as a 4chan poster in real life for 4chan’s community. The difference is merely just the broadness of what the fanbase covers in their interests, which is irrelevant to an ignorant mainstream in the first place.
Vegans, exhibitionists, and hippies are all stereotyped as merely people nonconforming just for the sake of nonconforming while ironically wanting to be accepted as something normal. Those in combination was just to put emphasis.
tl;dr "Yes, you like MLP, I do too. Why does it need to be a big deal?"
If that’s too much I’m done.
You guys need to stop talking or this thread is gonna get closed like many pony threads before it. :shake:
I’ve been in plenty of fandoms and MLP is no different. Probably won’t reach Harry Potter, Star Wars or Star Trek levels but it’s up there with Touhou and Minecraft I’d say. Once the show stops airing the fandom will slowly fade leaving only a fanatical core, others will move to new fandoms. And that’s really all there is to say on the matter.
Though to get back on topic, the backgrounds were…dare I say dull regardless of being pre-Alpha?
Minimal motion in backgrounds can work just fine, but I like it in Melty where it gave a sense of isolation.
When its just “Oh Applejack’s farm is usuallly seen in the day, so lets just put it in the day and give it country music”, its kinda dull.
Could remedy that with just day changes though, but I haven’t seen much of the blog since the Dev Room isn’t up.
We’re probably going to be waiting 'till BroNY Con for anything new unfortunately.
Still, if anything gets recorded, we should have a ton of new info, plus, I think Mane6 is supposed to have an update slated to come out right after the convention anyway.
It’s a nice show (It’s got Rob Renzetti working for it, for God’s sake) but it’s not for everyone. I didn’t like it at first, I watched several episodes to give it a chance, and I still didn’t like it. It isn’t bad, it isn’t hateful, it just didn’t appeal to me. I found it boring and uneventful. And if things get famous enough, they get cons made after them. It isn’t that big a deal. It happened with the Matrix, it happened with steampunk, it happened with furries. It can happen with MLP.
And, yes, it’s filled with creepy, obnoxious jerks that order on Mr. Hands territory, but you’ve got to stop looking at it from simply one perspective. They just happen to be the more outspoken part of the fandom. Try to appeal to the more sensible part of the fandom.
Now can you please stop going at each other’s throats about this?
Hm, never thought of it that way.
After hearing Twilight’s theme, I feel like they need to rework AJ’s theme quite a bit.
I dunno, the 2 themes feel like they’re in 2 different types of games kind of deal.
@Neutrino
Wait, who? Toaster was trying to keep the mood as calm as possible and I was going the wise and aged culture buff angle.
Ehhh, never mind.
I see that too. Though the music as it is now overall seems a bit…muddled? Like the composer needs to work a bit on his ducking, or volume shifting if you prefer.
The percussion is well into the background, except with noise cancelling, and the digital instruments seem a bit on the low quality side. They start to blend in each other for dominance at times.
I hate to compare it to Melty Blood…again, but that’s what I consider a great ensemble. Listen to Fearless andSevere Person for example, each instrument transfers to being the primary one, still playing while not distracting one’s attention.
With Twilight’s theme, I can’t even tell if I’m hearing a cello or a bass.
While Applejack’s theme, the banjo is REALLY harsh but then it goes into a metal motif which conflicts it, rather than alternating fluidly. As it is now, a speedy ska like tempo and arrangement could work.
