Actually i think you’d be surprised how many people would take a further look at the game if there were another male… As far as it goes now if you want to play a male character you are forced to solo big band… Not the most amazing prospect in theory. However, voting in Beowulf makes a duo possible with bigband at anchor seeming on paper like a very viable team.
And Beowulf being more of a “ryu” style character as far as clothing and looks are concerned (with the obvious exception of his chair) means that many male only players will see this as a team with which to get into skullgirls and perhaps make a main game out of.
Seriously its surprising how many people simply do not like t use female charcters. Even before skullgirls it was obvious if you look at your group of friends… How many of them only main male characters in fighting games? Ive got a couple of best friends that adhere to that.
Whereas those that traditionally are more open to female characters (chris g morrigan, justin Wong, storm,chun) were much more willing to get into skullgirls early.
Im just saying not to underestimate the want to play only male characters.
Maybe they should just grow a d*ck and stop worrying about not feeling manly playing a woman. Welcome to the 20th century boys. #kappa
I came up with an idea to keep aeon balanced: when u use a time control super, your assists (not ur dhcs) are affected by it too. Time stop/slow/reverse and even rewind. Reasoning being that Aeon is unlikely to be very high damage. Also, you should be unable to use assists for several seconds after using a “get off me” move (if she gets one. I’m thinking of something like mu’s dp+c).
I think you’re overestimating how many people who would be interested in Skullgirls if there were another male. If somebody’s not a fan of the art style, gameplay mechanics, or the individual playstyles of each character than simply adding another y chromosome isn’t going to magically attract a significant amount of players.
I guarantee if Arcana Heart added 1 or 2 male characters, the number of additional people who support the game wouldn’t be noteworthy.
Now with that being said, I do think if Skullgirls ever gets an opportunity to make a sequel or further expand the game and include a packed roster with NUMEROUS diverse and interesting male characters and playstyles such as Stanley, Panzerfaust, Isaac, Beowulf, Hubrect, Talisen, Samson, etc… then that has a far greater chance to attract a demographic that might’ve not otherwise played Skullgirls due to it’s all female roster.
You know, BB had a 50/50 m/f ratio, but I think all of SG’s girls kick more ass than all of the former’s cast put together. The advantage of a Moe free cast.
At this point I’m split between Eliza and Annie. Annie seems like she’d be more straight forward and thus a character I’d use. But of those left, Eliza is my favorite design by far.
this is where the real tactical voting begins. of the 4 characters, there are 2 that i would really love to see in the game (eliza, minette) and the other 2 i would be really displeased to see in the game (annie, aeon)
now i know that eliza has a better chance of winning than minette does (at least i think she does), but of the 2 of those, id rather have minette in there tbh. however, i would kick myself if by voting for her, it allows one of the other 2 to creep ahead of eliza and win the final round.
so do i go for the character i really want and also risk losing eliza if she doesnt get enough votes, or just bite the bullet and vote for eliza in the hopes it will push her ahead of the 2 crap characters?
im thinking minette would have some sick alt colours, she may even get a maya one from the phoenix wright series
I think that this type of tactical voting really leads to a slippery slope, I actually believe that special voting strategies explain why characters like B. Dahlia and Marie got eliminated earlier than expected. The reality is we have no idea who’s more popular. We have no idea if Minette and Annie are splitting votes and so forth.There could be a shy tory effect (people not wanting to admit they like certain characters so they support them in silent) so I feel it makes sense to just vote for who you actually like. I mean look how far Aeon’s gotten in this thing.
If you like Minette you should vote for Minette, if you like Aeon you should vote for Aeon and so forth.
And yes, a Maya alternate art for Minette would be freaking awesome!
all the previous rounds i have voted for the characters i really wanted, regardless of how popular i thought they were. this is the one that really matters though, so its kinda hard not to put some kind of thought into it before sending that reply.
Man, reading about the PayPal drama because some assholes might want their money back because the character they wanted didn’t make it in pisses me off.
I would definitely follow your gut on this one and vote for the one who is most likely to win.
I wanted Panzerfaust to win, but I voted for Eliza as a back up because I knew she was the best chance to defeat Annie, who I don’t want in.
My situation is a bit different from yours since your two picks got in.
But your logic is sound, it’s really going to come down to Annie and Eliza this round, and a vote for Minette is intrinsically a vote for Annie.
I don’t understand why you would like Minette and not Annie though. I see very little difference between the two.
We have no idea if this is the case or not. Purely baseless speculation. While they are both characters that are cute with small hitboxes, Eliza and Annie share more similar playstyles than Annie and Minette. I could argue that it’s going to come down to Minette and Eliza and a vote for Annie is a vote for Eliza but it’s just all baseless speculation which is why I think people should vote for the character they like the most.
Do you honestly think no one finds any of the SG cast moe? You’re probably just defining the word incorrectly if that’s the case, to be honest.
Furthermore, the people on this forum are a very small percentage of the people voting on the poll, so I don’t think the top 4 has any strong indication towards what the Skullgirls tournament players want. I mean, just look at the numbers from round 1:
Do you intend to attend a fighting game tournament in the next year?
今後1年間に参加する予定はありますか？
Yes / はい : 37.2%
No / いいえ : 62.7%
In the next year, do you plan to attend an anime, comics or game convention?
今後1年間にアニメ・漫画／コミック・ゲームなどの会議・コンベンションに参加する予定はありますか？
Yes / はい : 69.5%
No / いいえ : 30.5%
Almost twice as likely to attend a convention than a fighting game tournament doesn’t really sound like the competitive community is screaming out, to be honest.
Anyhow yeah,
Annie - Fav Design, adorable~
Minette - Fav Playstyle, thumbsup
Aeon - Strong all around
Eliza - Not my cup of tea, but objectively the most interesting character
Makes it kinda hard to vote.
On the other hand, it’s pretty good that I don’t care who wins as they’re all dang good choices.
I actually agree with this analysis a lot, although I wouldn’t quite say I feel Aeon is strong all around, but she’s cool. But I love Annie’s design, I think Minette’s playstyle is awesome, and Eliza is very interesting. That being said, because I’m pretty competitive, I value playstyle a lot more than other factors when determining which character to play in a fighting game which is why I’m voting for Minette. That being said, I also think she has a great design, is adorable, and interesting. I would say it’s a vote of confidence. But overall, I feel like I can’t lose and would enjoy playing any of these 4 characters a lot, probably more than Squiggly and Big Band.
Yeah i voted for the new system, as well as speeding the process up. Its to much of a hassle to be waiting a week for results… With salt being applied. The new voting system has us rank the characters from most prefferred to least prefferred… Will be hard to do on the first and second vote…but 3rd vote and on It should get easier and gives us a more accurate look at what people actually want cause we can rank them and vote… I mean peoples 5th and 6th favorite votes in the first round didnt matter before whereas now they will. And the characters with the highest points amassed will move on… Meaning that voting a character first gives them very good mileage as that will be 30 points in the first vote… And yet the last character on someone’s list only gets one point.
I like this idea better, though i dont think the results will be much different. Though even a little is enough to make things very interesting.
That’s not quite how it works, each person only gets one vote and that goes to their first choice, after everyone has voted, the candidate with the lowest score is eliminated and anyone who indicated that the eliminated candidate was their first choice has their ballot recounted with their one vote going to the highest ranked candidate remaining on their ballot. This process is repeated until one candidate receives more than 50% of the vote or, for the first round in this case, until there are only 20 candidates left. basically this system makes it so that if ur favorite gets knocked out your vote will count for your next favorite. Basically this system eliminates the whole “meta voting” thing by letting u recast ur vote if your character gets knocked out
