this game is extremely important for our community. if the gameplay itself turns out great (coupled with the amazing set of features outside gameplay), this means we have a real developer originating from our ranks that knows EXACTLY what the community wants!
a developer that is hungry and enthusiastic to prove itself and not a greedy blasé company that thinks it can get away with anything!
therefore i will support MikeZ and his crew in hope that he will do more fighting games. i would like to see his next project be something more appealing for a larger player base (a SF2/3-like game with fluid 2D art and all the features of Skullgirls + more).
I actually never thought about it like this. Even though I despise the art style (I don’t mean panty shots and cleavage, the actual art style is fucking dumb)/characters, I’ll be buying it. Maybe I’ll end up liking it.
I hope SGs will be a success. But I also hope the team will do something different, with a different art style (hopefully one I like this time) rather than doing SG 2.
I plan on supporting Skullgirls because it looks to be a very good game with a very interesting cast of characters, not as some half-assed attempt at sticking it to Capcom.
Why wont it be great. From what people have been saying, it has the freedom of games like XvSF with a simple yet intuitive infinite prevention system (in pace of the usual, complicated forms of proration, scaling, etc.) that’s designed to reward people who are willing to learn the system. And that’s on top of all the other little bright ideas that Mike has put in the game (non-arbitrary input windows, unblockable protection that rewards mixups by giving you hard to blockables, etc.).
That’s why there’s a demo really. If you only have a PS3, I dunno what to say
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About ‘supporting’, there are 2 things; first helping somebody out who’s taking a risk and living their dream (which I"m all about, but I can afford to throw the money away too), and second there’s if you like the game or not.
Saying people should support a game with mechanics/play they don’t like for the good of the whatever is just silly.
I never said that the gameplay of the game won’t turn out to be great, but like xesale said trying to get people to support a game with mechanics/play they don’t like for the good of the whatever is just silly. The whole idea that there’s some kind of consensus in the FGC about what they want in a fighting game is nothing short of laughable.
I agree with this. Mainly because the game IS going to sell well because it’s cheap as fuck and out of the box fixes a lot of issues that other fighting games of the past have had. Anyone who thinks this is going to be some dud when Capcom is getting backlash for 60 to 80 dollar games is crazy. This is pretty much the perfect time for a game like this to come out. Something that is cheap and DLC where they can literally buy it in their bed and it more or less magically appears on their Xbox/PS3.
Which means since the game will sell well there’s no need to buy the game simply for Mike Z and the FGC. The game you were supposed to buy to simply support the FGC was like Final Fight Double Impact. Capcom wanted you to buy the game to show interest in GGPO but nobody cares about GGPO in a game where near just frame timing isn’t necessary. I’m sure that sold alright but it wasn’t something that everyone on SRK or even casuals bought simply to support GGPO in games.
If you do buy it then yes, even if you can’t stand the game you’re doing a great thing for the FGC but there’s plenty of ways to support the FGC even if you don’t buy the game. Telling people to buy the game literally because you should and MikeZ is making it will just turn more people away than anything IMO. I simply just tell people about the features of the game and why it will be where fighting games should be headed. Even then that still allows people to be like “well yeah that sounds good but…not my shit won’t buy for now”. Which I’m completely fine with. I promote the game without totally making it seem like it’s imperative to save the FGC like a time bomb needs to be diffused in a movie or something. That just makes the game seem desperate instead of just a good game you should buy.
That’s borderline impossible considering the shit that’s come out from Capcom lately. Basically it’s going to fix a lot of the issues of the older Capcom games or do better. You can’t go any worse. We already know what was good…we just have to go back to it and then fix what wasn’t good about what we already considered as good.
They don’t need to reinvent the wheel once they’ve fleshed out the roster for the first Skullgirls(through DLC). There will be plenty of world building and tag team madness to add to the game with their plans for 30+ characters. They can make a 1v1 GG/SF style fighter once they are done with this series. I want to see Skullgirls 3: Age of new Heroines with a globe select screen and giant clock towers in the background. I want to see it rain ice, Haagen Dazs and pringles potato chips on the 720, PS4 and PC.
The OP did not say anything about supporting the game if you don’t like the gameplay. Why are you pushing this point? Don’t buy it if you don’t like the free DEMO on release day. BUY if you do like it.
simple
It’d be nice if we could just skip the big C word altogether. It just brings fighting. Skullgirls is good and it’ll do better if we antagonize the fans of other games less. I’m sure Capcom fans may consider trying the game if people aren’t shitting on SFIV and UMvC3. Don’t know what to say about SFxT…
It’s funny that you say this when MvC2 outsold HDR on XBLA. I think tag fighters have plenty of appeal. The fact that you go 1v1 in Skullgirls should satisfy most people too.
He’s speaking hypothetically. Frankly, I agree with him. I’d be shocked if this game turns out to be anything but amazing, but if it isn’t good we shouldn’t be expected to support it for the good of the community.
Also Mike’s next game needs to draw inspiration from Vampire Savior
It all kinda fits into the same deal though. People won’t buy things for something as simple as the art so, you might as well just keep the title as is since it’s a form of media/art and people are extremely opinionated about what is good and bad when it comes to entertainment or art.
