Its easy; those companies just love to purge out their development teams after a big successful project and hire a bunch of new people on the cheap (or lately just outsource everything).
You had me at Ninja nurse. I’m so getting this game it’ll be great to be a part of a brand new franchise.
Painwheel’s not in the demo…I’ma need you to pay 15 dollars.
I don’t see how someone who was meticulously trying to fix the issues of other fighting games could end up making a game that becomes a failure. If Skullgirls fails then I honestly feel there isn’t much hope left in a completely new series gaining any steam and then we just have to hope Capcom or SNK steals all of Mike’s ideas at that point. LOL.
Actually…fuck dat if the game ends up failing hard I think I’ll honestly just be done with competing in tourneys for anything at that point. It’s just that impossible IMO.
All it needs to do is the 2 things that any fighter does…have it be respected by the hardcore, have Joe Shmoe buy it up like crack. That’s it. Not impossibly hard.
I actually had that in there and somehow deleted it while fine tuning my thoughts. Now, there’s a lot of independent crap out there, and I don’t tihnk stuff should be supported just because it’s indie. But game development is hard, and if there is a legit, sincere effort being made to do things right, that should definitely be encouraged. It’s not like i play Battle High: San Bruno or Chu’s Dynasty all the time, bt I bought them both on XBLA (and they cost me a combined, what, 4 bucks?) to support them.
She is ridiculous… Flight loops, flight loops everywhere! I swear she reminds me a bit of SFxT Rufus with how much pressure she can put on.
Do you really had faith in CFJ at some point? it was a mess since it was announced. Def Jam and MK vs DC universe sure is shit, but the companies doesn’t care too much about gameplay on those titles to be honest…
I remember SvC Chaos had a bunch of hype around it before it came out.
I think you’re giving the purported humor of the characters’ designs a bit too much credit…
Another issue is that its hard enough to get people to take you seriously when you talk to them about being seriously competitive in fighting games. It’ll be harder still when you talk to them about it, then they see that most of the roster is made up of female characters with painstakingly animated breasts that are bigger than their heads…
Supporting a Western developer is a big deal. I remember Seth talking on some tournament stream about how hard he’s tried to get a decent button config into Capcom games - which should be a far simpler request than changing anything involving actual gameplay - and he hit roadblock after roadblock until he just gave up. For whatever reason those guys are very resistant to change, even when it’s a total no-brainer improvement.
I’d like to point out that up until her waist (mind you, proportions like this are possible with stupid chicks wearing gratuitously tight corsets), she’s actually practically proportioned…
The nurse from animaniacs is a pretty redonk though.
That aside – there are plenty of MALE characters in all of these cartoons, and most of the time, the proportions of the female characters are specifically exaggerated to send a particular message. The nurse (and her other iterations across the series) was specifically proportioned like that to represent Wacko and Yacko’s youthful and immature sexual interests. The corset girl was designed the way she was for a similar reason – the eyes in the gif are a clear link to what her purpose was.
Outside of her waist line, Wilma’s design is pretty conservative – and that pretty accurate represents the kind of female character she was: Reserved, intelligent, and charismatic – she wasn’t really meant to be about sex appeal.
The issue with parodying these kinds of characters is that most of them were parodies of a specific thing – and filling a game’s roster with parodies of ONE thing can give people who only give the game a passing glance a bad idea of what its about.
which is always weird, HDR has just about the best button config available.
HDR and 3SO had American development teams. So…yeah.
I came to terms with the fact that a lot of people just don’t understand satire when I had people in my high school English class think that A Modest Proposal was seriously suggesting the consumption of babies.
It’s hard to understand satire when you aren’t familiar with what is being satirized, and I (along with many others I suspect) really don’t understand what is being satirized in Skullgirls, and if that isn’t clear to the audience that’s not the audience’s fault. To me it just looks like some homage to early 20th century animation and/or Tim Burton.
Makes me wonder if Western devs would have better success with new IP instead of old ones that are caught up in too much drama. I don’t think Reverge would have it that easy if they were responsible for a HD remix of Accent Core either(maybe not as bad as IG and Sirloin got it, but still).
Western devs are probably better off working on brand new IP or obscure stuff that people might not get so passionate about.
VSav - “Anybody got a copy of Super Turbo? Vampire Savior? What the fuck is that shit!?”
15 years later
KOF XIII - “FUCKING FINALLY. WE GOT A GOOD GAME” C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER!
Painwheel is too sick, she’s like Sentinal meets Qbee. Using assist is going to be the hardest thing to get down in this game hands down.
Can you name a fighting game that doesn’t have overt fan service in its female character design? I can’t.
I dunno how many times I have to pull out the Darkstalkers comparison. Bleh.
At what point did you get the idea that Skullgirls only parodies “ONE” thing? Have you seen all the random stuff Peacock drops or shoots, or nearly everything Ms Fortune says, or Cereblla’s Battle Toads headbutt, or Double’s Gradius inspired level 5?
I don’t get it, are you saying Skullgirls is satirizing the fan service that is in every other fighting game?
I’m gonna make fun of scantily clad women by having a roster full of scantily clad women. Yo nigga I’m so meta.