Quick Look: Skullgirls

@RudeCubes said:

Also in an age of ipads and laptops, not having the movelist in-game doesn't seem like THAT much of a problem when you can pull it up in front of you

It has been an age of laptops for over a decade, doesn't mean basic features should go bye-bye.

@BananaHace said:

Hey this game is pretty fucking good and people should play it!

Agreed!

also one of the dlc characters is a guy with a tank for an arm

That's right! Vinny getting things done!!

Ah laks it when Brad screws up, I get a lil shot of the rear.......

Jeff is very straightforward. Not mean, just blunt.

Did that girl just pulled a knife out of her breast?... that's hot I guess.

@bighat_logan said:

@Willtron said:

This looks like a pedophile's wet dream acid trip.

I don't think any of the characters in that game are under age. Arcana hearts on the other hand.

Filia is 16 years old, Peacock is 13 years old and Painwheel is 15 years old. You can find this info as well as other things like their bust size on the official site:

http://skullgirls.com/characters/double/

Man it looks like they way too much time on animating boobs .I'm not a big fan of the art style and the constant upskirts . But its probably a good game .

@SuperWristBands said:

I feel like if "their age says so!" argument means that Fillia is for the pedophiles then those obviously 12-year-old girls who are, like 110-years-old or some shit are fair game for normal people. I don't want that so let's not go there.

He thought that all characters were of legal age. I corrected him. I don't see why you're responding to me.

Love the character design and animation. Not a huge fighting game person, but this is really neat looking. Seems like a quality product.

I love hearing Brad talk about "high-level" fighting game stuff. Reminds me of that TNT of 3rd Strike: Online Edition where he went "yeah, these guys look like they know what they're doing" and Jared just rolled his eyes. haha

This is a really fun fighting game, I think I will stick with it. Online is solid and I love the animation style, it just looks so fluid in motion. However, I can not defend them not putting in a move list from day one. I understand it's a $15 game, they are a small team and localization and all that jazz... but come on dude? Delay that shit and put a move list in, it just turns off so many people at first glance.

I love fighting games, so I will look past it and print out a move list, but so many other people won't and will avoid your game all together. It's a shame because this game is great.

Also if you have the choice, get the PS3 version. Seeing the load times on 360 makes me cringe.

@Devoid said:

I love hearing Brad talk about "high-level" fighting game stuff. Reminds me of that TNT of 3rd Strike: Online Edition where he went "yeah, these guys look like they know what they're doing" and Jared just rolled his eyes. haha

Yeah you're right, Jared is a dick.

@DeepSpaceJesus said:

@BananaHace said:

Hey this game is pretty fucking good and people should play it!

Agreed!

also one of the dlc characters is a guy with a tank for an arm

What. Tank Arm. I have to check this out.

Only watched like the first 20 seconds but that main menu totally looks like BioShock's, and the logo behind where it displays what mode it is is like Assassin's Creed II's health meter.

This game fuckin rules.

@Willtron said:

This looks like a pedophile's wet dream acid trip.

Pardon?

Do not use terms you do not understand. Pedophilia specifically refers to prepubescent. Meaning children. To use this term in reference to this game is both incorrect and insulting to the designers.

For a $15 downloadable, this game looks fantastic. 'Love the art and music.

I love the art and animations, but this definitely isn't for me. I look forward to watching the pros play it at EVO, though.

Also this.

I wish Jeff dipped his foot into the game a little bit more before seemingly turning off from it. The hand drawn art style is unique, but I recognize that it's not for everyone.

All of the game's technical shortcomings are due to the small, indie-sized development team and the deadlines. At the end of the day, they were left between option of implementing a move list, which apparently is much harder than it seems, or the online experience with GGPO, all that ping info, and streamlining that altogether. They chose to devote their resources to that.

It's pretty unfortunate that had to be the cards that were dealt, but that's how it went down. Pretty inexcusable, yeah, but understandable. The delayed implementation of a move list if the game sells enough isn't out of intentional, that's where they get the funds to actually do it.

That aside, I think the game is incredibly fun. The tutorial really delves deep. I consider myself an extreme fighting game novice, and I think it's an excellent way to begin playing fighting games that I wish other games would do. It's informative and doesn't just leave you with a training dummy and say "Here hit this with that."

Anyway, I just think it's fun and it's only $15. Try it out if you're even a little bit curious.

@HerbieBug said:

@Willtron said:

This looks like a pedophile's wet dream acid trip.

Pardon?

Do not use terms you do not understand. Pedophilia specifically refers to prepubescent. Meaning children. To use this term in reference to this game is both incorrect and insulting to the designers.

You know who else was pedophiles? Just a little group named the Nazis.

I really dig the art style and animations in this game. Too bad I have no love for fighting games.

Mechanically, this game seems like something that I could really get into, but I'm pretty sure that I would feel like a giant creep playing it. I guess I'll stick with MvC and MK.

@InfamousBIG said:

@HerbieBug said:

@Willtron said:

This looks like a pedophile's wet dream acid trip.

Pardon?

Do not use terms you do not understand. Pedophilia specifically refers to prepubescent. Meaning children. To use this term in reference to this game is both incorrect and insulting to the designers.

You know who else was pedophiles? Just a little group named the Nazis.

:D

Wow, I didn't realize how horrible the character design was until this quicklook. I love the animations, but the art style and look of the game is just terrible.

@chiablo said:

Wow, I didn't realize how horrible the character design was until this quicklook. I love the animations, but the art style and look of the game is just terrible.

It really subjective, many people really like the style.

@InfamousBIG: CANCER MERCHANT!!

wait, what?

"Punishment?... I'm into that" - Brad Shoemaker

@chiablo: I don't even mind hypersexualized nurses, but please, not like this.

On the topic of in-game move list:
 
I post on shoryuken.com forums every once in a while and have been following the progress of development for this game as posted by some of the people from Reverge.  The move list issue did come up a few months ago.  My interpretation at the time is that the decision came down to two things:  limited people available to work on UI stuff (I think the UI was mostly done by one single guy?) and Mike Z, being a hardcore fighting game fan and regular tournament participant, didn't feel the need to push for it as he didn't see it as a critical feature.  So lack of budget, manpower, and lack of motivation strong enough to override the two former points to make it happen anyway.  
 
On the upside, I don't think a movelist patch is contingent on sales.  I think that one is near the top of the list to add to the game as soon as the developers can. 

I like this game. I'm just not sure I'm good enough to play it.

bewbs bounce

Japan taught me that.

The constantly morphing shapes of the characters (not just Double, the others too) seems really hard to follow and get a feel for where the hitboxes are. I know some of the 2D fighting games get pretty crazy artistically, but do they get this crazy?

I'd that cat lady

Does Namco just hold a patent to all of video games?

Someday I really hope some of those are contested or something.

Ugh, teachers HATED that I'd do none of their homework, but ace all their tests. Maybe because it calls the whole system into question.

Definitely didn't help my grades, though. Averaging 90-100 on all the tests with 0s on the majority of the homework turns out to be a not very good grade. I was bitter about that for some time.

I'm starting to feel like fighting games are there own thing. Its life depend on if the tournament scene picks it up making scores not even matter for them (which is kinda cool). Your enjoyment depends on what level you play at and how much you care about winning alot. If you ever want to get really good you most likely will have to go a certain direction to learn the combos and what not which most people don't agree with because of how the fighting game community is.

Jeff is a great example because he is good enough to beat your average joe, but to play against tournament level players he would have to make a commitment to each fighting game that he would want to get great at which most people don't want to do or simply just don't have the time. Fighting games wont ever go away but they are stuck in a hole that is preventing them to grow larger than the crowd it has.

That horrible amorphous blob appears to be the game's mimic character, from the way she kept transforming into other sexy ladies from the roster. Also, that hitbox thing definitely seems like a bug... And if it's not, they should probably reconsider it as a feature, since it makes the game look broken.

Also, has anyone else considered how this game will affect the fighting game community's (fuck your stupid acronyms) outlook on women? Because I gotta' say, as a fan of sexy ladies, some of these ladies seem offensively sexy.

Anyway, game looks okay, I guess.

@HerbieBug said:

@Willtron said:

This looks like a pedophile's wet dream acid trip.

Pardon?

Do not use terms you do not understand. Pedophilia specifically refers to prepubescent. Meaning children. To use this term in reference to this game is both incorrect and insulting to the designers.

It's also insulting to people who have a painful history with pedophiles. People like, for example, me and my family. And I play games like this. Because they're made for normal people. ...who fucking cares what pedophiles like, they're the scum of the earth and if you let what they enjoy get in the way of your entertainment you're letting those cunts win.

...excuse me for getting worked up on this subject but I hate it when content I enjoy gets pushed aside into entertainment for goddamn, blood-sucking parasites of human beings that are those who would abuse children. Goddamn it.

@HerbieBug said:

@Willtron said:

This looks like a pedophile's wet dream acid trip.

Pardon?

Do not use terms you do not understand. Pedophilia specifically refers to prepubescent. Meaning children. To use this term in reference to this game is both incorrect and insulting to the designers.

A pedophile would say that.

/obvious troll

But seriously, hypersexualized, underage girls? Yep. Nothing wrong with that.

Looks really cool, just too bad I tend to stick with Tekken these days.

With every new fighting game released, I feel more and more like I just don't "get" that scene. The full tutorial is nice but the lack of a move list kind of makes that a moot point. Also, the teenage girls with bouncing boobs is a little off-putting as well.

@HerbieBug said:

@Willtron said:

This looks like a pedophile's wet dream acid trip.

Pardon?

Do not use terms you do not understand. Pedophilia specifically refers to prepubescent. Meaning children. To use this term in reference to this game is both incorrect and insulting to the designers.

It's also insulting to people who have a painful history with pedophiles. People like, for example, me and my family. And I play games like this. Because they're made for normal people. ...who fucking cares what pedophiles like, they're the scum of the earth and if you let what they enjoy get in the way of your entertainment you're letting those cunts win.

...excuse me for getting worked up on this subject but I hate it when content I enjoy gets pushed aside into entertainment for goddamn, blood-sucking parasites of human beings that are those who would abuse children. Goddamn it.

@Milkman: Filia and Painwheel are the only under-18 girls on the cast and while one could incorrectly argue that there's an unnecessary emphasis on her body, Painwheel is definitely not sexualized.

So "underage girls with bouncing tits"? Nope not really.

@CableCarrier said:

@jeak: Without a lobby system it'd just be Brad/Jeff getting dunked on for 90 minutes.

Sounds good to me xD

@Milkman: Filia and Painwheel are the only under-18 girls on the cast and while one could incorrectly argue that there's an unnecessary emphasis on her body, Painwheel is definitely not sexualized.

So "underage girls with bouncing tits"? Nope not really.

The character designs are so genius in this game. Since all the characters are so different from each other, and have crazy normals, its easy to identify the different normals when playing against another human or the computer. It makes to really easy to quickly identify the properties of the moves.

@Milkman said:

@PerfidiousSinn said:

@Milkman: Filia and Painwheel are the only under-18 girls on the cast and while one could incorrectly argue that there's an unnecessary emphasis on her body, Painwheel is definitely not sexualized.

So "underage girls with bouncing tits"? Nope not really.

Why would I be incorrect in arguing that emphasis on her body is unnecessary? Seems pretty unnecessary and creepy to me.

Define 'emphasis'. She has tits, yes. But the camera doesnt zoom in on her. They characters have cartoonish proportions, yes but to say the game puts an 'emphasis' on it i think is a bit crazy.