So I guess Beo is gonna be a grappler huh? That suck, wasted character slot for me.
Guys who don’t like Grapplers are girly men.
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I really wish Dahlia made it, but Beowulf is cool so I’m happy. I’m also really glad that Minette, Annie and Stanley didn’t win, so it’s good all around for me!
Plus I’ve wanted to play Eliza (my #1 choice for DLC) since she was Whiteboard Wednesday back in the Reverge Labs days.
Great day for SG
SNK is the only company that can do grapplers well imo. However, after spending the past few days in the lab with Cerebella I have a little more faith that Lab 0 can make Beo interesting.
I honestly never understood the concept of him using the chair for traps or whatever. I haven’t watched wrestling in years but I don’t recall chairs ever being used for big spots or anything other than bludgeoning which is why Beowulf never really struck a chord with me. I also feel his appearance is bland. Still, he can impress me but he’s going to live or die by his in-game mannerisms. I kind of hope they play up his retired aspect. Maybe even make him something of a walking Botchamania reference but that’s just wishful thinking and I know it.
Congratulations Beowulf! Glad to see you’re coming back out of retirement!
Can’t wait to see how Lab Zero works in that larger than life wrestler charisma, The Hurting’s importance (and hopefully Beo’s “imaginary friend” style relationship with Hurting), and the actual Beowulf lore into this.
But phew thank goodness this is over.
No need to apologize; all that salt made reading this thread not only worth it, but delicious.
Incredibely dissappointed unless You can do things like air juggle them into a corner drop the chair jump hp/we then him them when land on the chair then drop down combo.
Beowulf made it? Neat! He was my number 3. As a fan of grapplers, I look forward to seeing him in action.
I do hope the chair is something more then just a way for Beowulf to get more range/damage on his normals ala Claw/Vega or Captain America circa Marvel Super Heroes.
Good at least my top 3rd won. XD I will have someone to occupy me until Taliesin and Scythana come.
Well you guys I have a confession. After I saw Beowolf’s wolf form on shoryuken, I made a back room deal with Mike Z to get Beowolf in over Annie for my ETERNAL SOUL. And it looks like he took it.
The trick is on him though, I don’t even believe in God :p.
No seriously though, the only logical explanation I feel is has to do with Lab Zero finally releasing those character concepts. It got a lot of people that normally weren’t going to vote, but had access to voting to get off their butts and vote. Surprisingly there wasn’t a single character concept of Minette. Conspiracy?
Anybody else have any (wild) speculations as to how Beowolf a 5th ranked character in last round was able to beat both a 2nd and 3rd place (Annie & Minette) this round?
All signs point to Boewolf playing like Fuerte and R Minka instead of a grappler.
I doubt Beowulf will play like such a failure as El Fuerte.
Minette was never intended to be a fighter, so I guess that’s why they never had concepts for her.
As for Beowulf, I guess the new voting system helped him. People couldn’t meta vote in this system so it was harder to keep him out, and people who wanted him were more serious this time, as during the last vote a lot of people were so confident in him making it to the last round they didn’t vote for him and voted for other characters.
I would guess he’ll play like a really good version of Tizoc from Garou and KOFXI. I hope he has a move where he wedges the opponents’ head in between the chair and the seat and jumps on it.
Beowulf missed top 4 by like 9 votes so that doesn’t really count. And it’s because Annie and Minette voters were split whereas those of us that wanted a male character or didn’t want Annie or Minette in realized Beowulf had the best fighting chance. The AV system is what ruined them because we could vote for characters we actually wanted (that were less likely to win) and still have the option to vote for others that were more likely. Pretty much no vote was wasted unlike in the last poll.
Yes it was, but good on you for apologizing.