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[not_so_saint_1]

if there were 30 or so characters what kind of character design would you guys like them to have?

I’d like to see Ahad’s spin on voodoo magic. There were some generic voodoo chars in FGs but all of them sucked: clay fighter, shaq fu, war gods, eternal champions… So yeah. You can’t really say that every fighting game already have one. It’ll probably fit well with SG’s grim style if you implement it carefully. Also top hats =]

[DaRabidDuckie]

I wouldn’t mind getting my hands on Lunch. She could be one of those characters who damages people through indirect means, like fawning over them and clumsily tripping over something and landing on them, or excitedly throwing them something tasty to eat that actually hits them in the head.

[Shig]

The 40 characters are Alex’s plans, like… up through Skullgirls 3, if we ever get that far.

Also, someone please go deal with Polish Tamales in the comments section. It is really impressive how he can write so much and be so ignorant of… pretty much everything?

He is also apparently the ultimate arbiter of all marketing… which is something he cares very deeply about for some reason.

Usually I like to address unfounded things like that, but the sheer volume of nonsense he’s posted is… daunting, to say the least.

Don’t reply, don’t get involved. You are the only thing that can make him stop being insignificant. Posting here counts as getting involved.

[jmcrofts]

I’d like to see Ahad’s spin on voodoo magic. There were some generic voodoo chars in FGs but all of them sucked: clay fighter, shaq fu, war gods, eternal champions… So yeah. You can’t really say that every fighting game already have one. It’ll probably fit well with SG’s grim style if you implement it carefully. Also top hats =]

Yeahhh voodoo/witch doctor characters are treading the racism line methinks, which is why they’re not really something you see a lot.

[Vulpes]

I don’t think anyone really cares about the Trolls. There’s an assload of complaints about SFxT by actual people and it will become the biggest selling FG to date anyways; do you really think there will be people steering away from SG because of some 13 year old whining dumbfuck posting trollshit? And even if that was the case, would you really want these people (they would have to be pretty darn stupid and blind) to be part of your community in the first place? :3

Yeahhh voodoo/witch doctor characters are treading the racism line methinks, which is why they’re not really something you see a lot.

What… why?

[LKArtillery]

Honestly if there did end up being a ton of playables, I’d just like to see a huge variety. Not just of character designs, but archetypes and ages.

It’d be kinda awesome to get some older folks in there as playable too. I remember an admin answer on the FB page being “yes” to if there would be a middle-aged or older female character, which sounds wicked… A badass old guy would be cool too. And hell, maybe a little boy to balance out the ages between the genders?

[OneSanitarium]

I’d love a hot blooded character (actually hot blooded, not that Kamina bullshit.), or a robot guy/girl that at least references a cool mecha (like Getter, or GaoGaiGar).

[Shig]

I don’t think anyone really cares about the Trolls.

No one does until the dude who has his face on trailers and interviews and has the reverge logo on his avatar posts here about how it is important that someone deals with them.

[Pterodactyl]

Half-demon character (or full for that matter) - Man/Woman (with a tail please !)

D.Violet is a character that is half demon in the SkullGirls universe, she’s a teacher by day(the one you see in the training stage and a tutorial video that is posted somewhere) and a demon by night.

picks of her are in the DLC voting thread.

[Crocodile]

if there were 30 or so characters what kind of character design would you guys like them to have?

All I ask is that if there is a robot girl/guy that he/she says “Commencing download…” as their intro and “Download complete” as their outro. I also want to see some art of Beowulf. We still don’t know what this guy looks like and he sounds hype. Put it on the whiteboard!

[adrua3dg]

I want an aikido user with counters for every situation that leads into combos and yells PREDICTABO! when his/her lvl 3 connects

[not_so_saint_1]

Half-demon character (or full for that matter) - Man/Woman (with a tail please !)

D. Violett

[PyroquinFran]

if there were 30 or so characters what kind of character design would you guys like them to have?

I could spout off alot of crazy things but, I want to be a bit logical. Monster dude in a pinstripe suit that wields a sword.

[SteelyHawke]

1. The more characters, the more difficult a game is to balance. While nobody forces me to pick lowtiers, it makes the game in general look worse (If the last 20 characters are never picked, one might as well not have them). It also increases the danger of having a broken char thrown into the mix.
2. The more characters are built, the more difficult it becomes to differentiate the playstyles. In a roster of 40, it’s very very hard to not have any or multiple of a) ‘palette swaps’, b) bad character design (eg chars on the extreme end of the spectrum, with several 8-2/7-3 matchups and several 3-7/2-8, turning the pickphase into RPS), c) characters that don’t ‘play the game’ (eg SF4 Viper/Elf)
3. The more characters, the more difficult it becomes to PLAY. If you run a team of 3, you essentialy have to learn all matchups for all three characters - and unlike other versus titles where you can kill people fairly easily, or “normal” games, where you have time to figure out what to do during the match, here you might run into a 3v1 scenario where you start to figure out what your point char should do against character X’ gimmick, and then your point char is dead, character X still at 80% HP and you have to start from scratch.

Having just one character is pretty boring, but having a roster of 40-50-100-whatever basically only works properly if either most of the cast is literally never used and one can just focus on the Top20 (in which case the big roster makes no sense), or half the cast plays like the other half (in which case the big roster makes no sense).

20-25 characters are plenty; should give everyone at least one that they really like to play (and they can decide to run it solo, then) - while not being a rollmass that makes picking this game up at a later stage impossible (for people that are playing and gradually adding 1-2 characters, this isn’t that much of a problem; for someone who starts out with SG a year after it’s release and has to learn 110 matchups before he is able to play properly, it is).

I want moar characters. These complaints used to be valid, but fighters in this generation have been exceptionally good at increasing roster numbers while maintaining solid balance. SSFIV turned out great(even though Ono/his team shit up AE) despite adding a ton of characters, UMvC3 has been a marvelous improvement that has something like 30/50 tourney viable characters, KOF XIII is enjoyable no matter who you pick in the big roster, ASW has made BB very balanced since the free CS2(and extend is even better) even though the cast is 70% larger than CT.

It’s a good time to shoot for the stars, bro.

[Squire_Grooktook]

Don’t reply, don’t get involved. You are the only thing that can make him stop being insignificant. Posting here counts as getting involved.

Too late, I already posted as Fat Tony, and asked him if he was sober among other things.

[jinsaotomex3]

I’d love a hot blooded character (actually hot blooded, not that Kamina bullshit.), or a robot guy/girl that at least references a cool mecha (like Getter, or GaoGaiGar).

Shout outs to Subaru (aka GaoGaiGirl) for being the best Magical Girl ever.

Warning : Contains the usual Magical Girl Transformation nudity.
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Vita gets 2nd place because of that GOLDION HAMMER.

[jmcrofts]

What… why?

Because the grotesque media depictions of traditional African religions have marginalized and demonized them and are the reason why most westerners consider them less “legitimate” than other faiths. It’s pretty disgusting actually but it’s off-topic so I’ll stop talking about this now.

[MWisk_2]

PREDICTABO

This guy gets me! xD

[Mr.Unbrockable]

I want a character similar to 3s makoto, high-risk, high reward with an emphasis on resets and chocking bitches and supreme offense but no defense. and make her tomboyish too (Im into that kinda stuff)…Please? Pretty Please?

[Kristoph]

Seconding the call for awesome old ladies. Hell, even boring old ladies, I don’t even care.