So here is the link to a FULL move list for EVERY character. http://wiki.shoryuken.com/Skullgirls

Currently the one on the Skullgirls site is a little old.

Link for people too lazy to copy/paste: http://wiki.shoryuken.com/Skullgirls

I was reading that the game didn't have an in-game move list and thought, "For a game that is priding itself on being so new user friendly and teaching people fighting games, how do you forget that...?"

If this is true then that's a pretty big misstep

That's fucking stupid.

That should've definitely have been included. It's the whole purpose for a training mode.

I have the move list right here.

Mash those fucking buttons.

In other news, I won't be playing this game.

@SoldierG654342 said:

That's fucking stupid.

Hmmmh... That's a mayor setback for my interest in this game, as I really don't miss the times when we had dozens of printed or even handwritten sheets with movelists lying around...

If true that is silly considering they have this robust training mode to teach newcomers the intricacies of fighting games. Seems counter intuitive.

Apparently they couldn't get them in in time. Movelists will be patched in later.

Whoopsie!

It's been stated by the dev team that they didn't put in a movelist because they'd rather spend their limited resources implementing things that are actually important, like not-broken online play, an intelligent system to stop infintes, or hitboxes and frame data in training mode. Mike Z estimated it'd take AT LEAST 2 more weeks to program, make art assets, translate, etc everything needed for movelists for each character. The game's already been delayed numerous times and they just want to get it out so people can play it. He's also said movelists (and several other things) be patched in shortly after launch.

Reverge will be making PDF's for each character and console with complete movelists and character bios. Or you could just, oh I dunno, look them up on the internet you're using right now. There's only eight characters and 99% of the inputs are either quarter circles or dragon punch motions. Hell, you could probably write them all down in about 2 minutes.

@strangone: makes sense.

seems a difficult jpg to implement.

Everyone has to remember this game was created by a very small team. This isn't like Capcom or Namco where a hundred people worked on it. There are only eight characters and by the look of the moves they aren't difficult to remember. Its not like Mortal Kombat or KOF where everyone has drastically different move sets and there are 30 characters.

I was interested in this game but this seems like a glaring omission. If they missed something this huge, how many smaller things got missed as well. I checked out another thread in this forum that says that you can only make two person lobbies in the game.

Some of this stuff is crazy considering what they've said about the game. It's going to be very user friendly to new players... but it doesn't even include a move list to show people basic attacks in the game. It's built from the ground up by fighting game pros to be ultimate fighting game experience... but then you can only have two person lobbies, because no real gamers play in lobbies and nobody who's into fighting games would ever want a tournament like structure, right?

For all the delays, this games seems like it's rushed out the door in a pretty janky state and lacking basic features, some of which have been standard in fighters since the SNES days.

@sickVisionz: Once again, they didn't "miss" it, they decided to include it at a later date because there were other, more important things to put in. Regarding the two person lobbies, they will also patch those to be larger. There's been a lot of talk about having everyone in the lobby fighting someone else in the lobby at all times instead of just having 2 people fight and everyone else watch. It's also worth noting that the entire "online play" division of the development team consists of exactly one person. This isn't Capcom or NetherRealm where they can have 20+ people working on the online (and somehow they still can't manage to make it work...)

I don't care how small your team is. That's fucking pathetic.

@Willtron:Must be nice living is a world where there's no such thing as budgets or deadlines.

@MasterMind34: That would be be all fine and good but a move list for a fighting game, especially for a new ip, is kind of important.

I really dont know much about game developement and probably shouldn't ask this question but does it really take up that much time and resources to add move lists to a fighting game?

@TechHits: You can also find them online very easily or, if you've played a good amount of fighting games, figure out most of them with a minute or two in training mode. They'll be up on the game's website (which it'll refer you to during the tutorial mode), on various wikis, or on those printable PDF's I mentioned. For the limited time and money they had, I'd rather the team work on something like in-game hitboxes and frame data (things that are usually just guessed at or assumed and are very important to the game) than something I can get by spending 5 seconds on Google and writing it down on paper.

@laserbolts: To quote Mike Z, the project lead, himself:

"It's the actual screen UI, making it reflect the character you're using, figuring out how to display QCTs and DPs and getting graphics for them, changing the button icons for the different consoles, laying out the text and localizing it and making sure it all fits, ensuring the contents display properly everywhere it's supposed to at every screen resolution, updating it when things change, checking it for accuracy as new characters are added...and even if it were easy, there are other things that are more important that I would rather do for the game first if time magically became available."

Well, this certainly won't help the limited number of sales this game was already going to get.

I wasn't going to troll or anything but come on guys; buy a printer. I've all ready given you the complete move list link. It's not like it's 1993 and we have to figure it out for ourselves or something; geez... The game is $15 not $60.

Pretty unfortunate but understandable. Still going to get it day one regardless.

I heard this game had a robust tutorial. How can they implement that without a move list?

Oh, well. I'll still play it and do some mashing.

@BraveToaster said:

I have the move list right here.

Mash those fucking buttons.

How I feel about every fighting game.

Except Smash Bros. That's a thinking man's game. (Obviously being a bit sarcastic, but for real, SB was a science for me.)

@MasterMind34: ahh ok I guess there is alot more to it than I thought. A bummer either way but oh well.

Displaying text in a menu option is 2 weeks work?

Are the programming this game via Siri?

As long as the moves are in the tutorial, this is pretty much a non-issue, IMO.

Guess what other game didn't have a move list, Super Smash Bros.
 
If every character only has a few identical inputs to activate special moves you don't need a move list. In fact the concept of the move list is an incredibly stupid, archaic relic left over from the arcade days that could be easily removed in ALL fighting games if the controls were simplified. Having every character's special move be a quarter circle doesn't make the game less challenging, it just makes it more user friendly.
 
Also, they can just teach you the fucking inputs in the tutorial because you don't need a move list to have a move tutorial in the game.

I'm starting to think you guys are genuinely retarded.

@LordXavierBritish: yeah I totally remember 100% of every character's moves from the tutorial...

I mean this obviously isn't the worst problem the game has, but still!

@LordXavierBritish: yeah I totally remember 100% of every character's moves from the tutorial...

I mean this obviously isn't the worst problem the game has, but still!

@MasterMind34: the problem with fighting games, something this game said it wanted to address, is that all the information on them can only be found outside of the game itself. In a time when fighting game trials are trying to teach bnb's and basic links this game fails to have even a move list at launch, I find it odd.

ON NO NO INGAME MOVELIST HOW WILL I LEARN MY CHARACTERS ITS NOT LIKE EVERY FIGHTING GAME EVER DOESNT USE THE SAME INPUTS AND LEARNING MOVES SHIT TAKES LIKE FIVE MINUTES AND COMES NATURALLY WHEN ACTALLY LEARNING HOW TO USE A CHARACTER

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You know how can you make a user friendly fighting game? make a rhythm game that plays like a fighting game, use only 4 buttons and instead of memorizing list of moves each move follows a rhythm , could also colors in the background to keep track of what buttons you're pressing, I don't know you don't have to follow old methods to teach the same thing.

ON NO NO INGAME MOVELIST HOW WILL I LEARN MY CHARACTERS ITS NOT LIKE EVERY FIGHTING GAME EVER DOESNT USE THE SAME INPUTS AND LEARNING MOVES SHIT TAKES LIKE FIVE MINUTES AND COMES NATURALLY WHEN ACTALLY LEARNING HOW TO USE A CHARACTER

HOW DO I SHORYUKEN GUYS

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This is just to force all of us to buy the official Brady guide.

oh come on, in the age of the internet, everything will be available online shortly after release anyways lol

@Tim_the_Corsair said:

Seriously, it's a basic, standard option that should be in the game. If they don't have time to do up button graphics and shit, then just write punch and invest in the arrows from Wingdings.

Did you not read any of what was said by Mike Z himself? Or are you blatantly being an argumentative retard because someone posted an explanation to counter your argument by the game maker himself and you just want to argue for the sake of arguing?

They literally said it'll be in the very first patch the game will have. They had a lot of work to do to get the game in under the deadline, and had to cut something. Movelists are useful but ultimately not essential to the playability of the game. There's also the problem with localization, which with a game being released in multiple countries simultaneously, combined with Reverge Lab's insistence on accurate translations, means a lot of time spent properly translating each move so that it's understandable in the other languages the game will be in, I believe they said INCLUDING puns, which is a big hurdle for translators. And then combine that with all the things Mike Z said, and you've got a LOT of work handling text when everyone involved is probably completely pressed for time doing other things.

Nevermind what's been stated repeatedly, that the movelists are available online. They will be in the final game SOON. This is not the end of the world, stop being a bunch of headless chickens about a nonessential part of a game.

@CaptainInvictus: ." Movelists are useful but ultimately not essential to the playability of the game."

Wha..?

I love fighting games, I will buy this day one, but not having a movelist in from day one just seems totally insane. The first thing I do when I get a fighting game is hit practice mode and learn the moves and work on combos. It's fine, I will print off the movelist. But for other people who just buy the game and see no move list that is a big mis step.

Either way I can't wait to play it! Looks like the closest thing i'll get to a Darkstalkers game with fast paced action and crazy hand drawn 2-D animation.

@Freshbandito: OH NO THIS PERSONS JOKE WASNT CLEVER ENOUGH TO MEET THE GIANT BOMB STANDARDS (read: my standards) SO IM GONNA GO AHEAD AND HIT REPLY HERE AN DTHEN PUT AN EQUAL AMOUNT OF EFFORT BUT BE CLEARLY MORALLY SUPERIOR WHEN I TELL THEM OFF BUT THEN NOT CONTRIBUTE IN THE SLIGHTEST TO A VIDEO GAME DISCUSSION ABOUT VIDEO GAMES

@Tim_the_Corsair: Because being able to throw a fireball is the only necessary piece of information for playing fighting games, right? It's not like there's a plethora of other more complicated mechanics that are more important and that the game does a great job of handling for new players.

Also charge moves are already in. No DLC required.

@Tim_the_Corsair said:

Seriously, it's a basic, standard option that should be in the game. If they don't have time to do up button graphics and shit, then just write punch and invest in the arrows from Wingdings.

Did you not read any of what was said by Mike Z himself? Or are you blatantly being an argumentative retard because someone posted an explanation to counter your argument by the game maker himself and you just want to argue for the sake of arguing?

They literally said it'll be in the very first patch the game will have. They had a lot of work to do to get the game in under the deadline, and had to cut something. Movelists are useful but ultimately not essential to the playability of the game. There's also the problem with localization, which with a game being released in multiple countries simultaneously, combined with Reverge Lab's insistence on accurate translations, means a lot of time spent properly translating each move so that it's understandable in the other languages the game will be in, I believe they said INCLUDING puns, which is a big hurdle for translators. And then combine that with all the things Mike Z said, and you've got a LOT of work handling text when everyone involved is probably completely pressed for time doing other things.

Nevermind what's been stated repeatedly, that the movelists are available online. They will be in the final game SOON. This is not the end of the world, stop being a bunch of headless chickens about a nonessential part of a game.

@CaptainInvictus said:

@Tim_the_Corsair said:

Seriously, it's a basic, standard option that should be in the game. If they don't have time to do up button graphics and shit, then just write punch and invest in the arrows from Wingdings.

Did you not read any of what was said by Mike Z himself? Or are you blatantly being an argumentative retard because someone posted an explanation to counter your argument by the game maker himself and you just want to argue for the sake of arguing?

They literally said it'll be in the very first patch the game will have. They had a lot of work to do to get the game in under the deadline, and had to cut something. Movelists are useful but ultimately not essential to the playability of the game. There's also the problem with localization, which with a game being released in multiple countries simultaneously, combined with Reverge Lab's insistence on accurate translations, means a lot of time spent properly translating each move so that it's understandable in the other languages the game will be in, I believe they said INCLUDING puns, which is a big hurdle for translators. And then combine that with all the things Mike Z said, and you've got a LOT of work handling text when everyone involved is probably completely pressed for time doing other things.

Nevermind what's been stated repeatedly, that the movelists are available online. They will be in the final game SOON. This is not the end of the world, stop being a bunch of headless chickens about a nonessential part of a game.

I'm a little surprised how emotional people are getting about this.

@Freshbandito: OH NO THIS PERSONS JOKE WASNT CLEVER ENOUGH TO MEET THE GIANT BOMB STANDARDS (read: my standards) SO IM GONNA GO AHEAD AND HIT REPLY HERE AN DTHEN PUT AN EQUAL AMOUNT OF EFFORT BUT BE CLEARLY MORALLY SUPERIOR WHEN I TELL THEM OFF BUT THEN NOT CONTRIBUTE IN THE SLIGHTEST TO A VIDEO GAME DISCUSSION ABOUT VIDEO GAMES

@Tim_the_Corsair: Because being able to throw a fireball is the only necessary piece of information for playing fighting games, right? It's not like there's a plethora of other more complicated mechanics that are more important and that the game does a great job of handling for new players.

Also charge moves are already in. No DLC required.

@TechHits said:

I'm a little surprised how emotional people are getting about this.

Truly, this is the most worthless style of post. The "heh, you care about A Thing" post.

It's almost as bad as the people simply ignoring the facts in front of their faces, that the move lists won't be in right away but are the first things they're adding after launch due to time constraints. But hey, Giant Bomb Forums. Not exactly surprising people don't RCP here.

@CaptainInvictus said:

@TechHits said:

I'm a little surprised how emotional people are getting about this.

Truly, this is the most worthless style of post. The "heh, you care about A Thing" post.

It's almost as bad as the people simply ignoring the facts in front of their faces, that the move lists won't be in right away but are the first things they're adding after launch due to time constraints. But hey, Giant Bomb Forums. Not exactly surprising people don't RCP here.

Did you make the game? you can tell me, are you Reverge Labs?