Skull Girls discussion thread

Here's the finals in better quality:



Also, Mike Z mentioned "There will be Surprises!" on this Thursday's Salty Cupcakes donation drive stream. It generally starts 3am-ish UTC on http://www.twitch.tv/eightysixed

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

Wow, game looks MUCH faster now that resets are the best option for damage!

Yerp. Some characters still combo for way longer than I'd like (Painwheel particularly), but halving the length of the IPS tolerance was a massive improvement.

Also, here's proper details on the donation drive majigger should y'all be interested:

MikeZ wrote: »

- January 24th, 8PM PST until at least 11, probably till much later (^.^)
- Streamed on twitch.tv/eightysixed
- There will be Surprises with a capital S. Be sure to wear socks.
- So far we have $3,000 pledged for matching donations made during the drive. I can hardly believe it! (If you'd like to pledge some more matching funds, which I can also hardly believe, PM me.)

Skullgirls donation drive stream is now active: http://www.twitch.tv/eightysixed/

Virtually all the voice actors are at the venue and they're doing a bunch of stuff. They're currently doing a voiced run through of the story mode. Story mode has also been altered for this build so that player two is now player controlled - including Bloody Marie for the first time.

There's also going to be a signed Skullgirls art book auctioned off soon enough.

You can donate here http://tinyurl.com/sg-evo

chopperbyrne wrote: »

Much rather see SSB:M at Evo than Skullgirls.

As a huge Melee fan, I absolutely disagree with you.

chopperbyrne wrote: »

Are we still waiting for the patch that was announced on something like day 6 of the game's release?

Nobody plays this game.

These two points are related. A lot of people aren't playing because they're waiting on the patch. The patch was delayed because the company laid off the dev team, and then the patch exceeded the size cap. It's out on PS3 just not 360. They're working on it though.

chopperbyrne wrote: »

Melee was featured at a recent major and was positively received.

It was a Smash major it was featured at, so it being positively received is a pretty redundant point. Apex has been running for a number of years, the Smash community doesn't need any help keeping their 12 year old game alive, they're doing a good job of it themselves.

The biggest challenge to the Smash scene is going to be the incorporation of Smash 4 into their rosters, and how that will affect/split the pre-existing Melee and Brawl communities.

The fate of Skullgirls on the other hand will likely live or die based on it being featured at Evo; and people from the FGC worked hard on that game so I'd personally like to see them get a chance at having the product they love get some stream monster acclaim and maybe some knock-on commercial sales.

They badly need it.

Sairus wrote: »

donations putting you into a raffle for a dual modded SG TE

Do you know if you need to donate during the live stream to be entered in for the stick?

Stream is gonna be on 2am to 8am GMT

Squigs is way too adorable. That forward walk. Great little gift to give to all those watching the stream too.
Guess it's time for me to back and practice Gen in preparation for her stance sheniangans..

And it's really nice to see SG to start getting picked up for toirnaments. Hopefully it can maintain the buzz surrounding it at the moment.

Doctor DooM wrote: »

God help me if SG, Tekken, and Marvel are played on the same day sometime!

I find it entertaining that you think Skullgirls will ever have tournaments in Ireland :pac:

I'm realise I'm likely to sound like I'm repeating myself, but here goes: Melee is arguably my favourite game ever. I like it way more and am more skilled at it than I could ever be at Skullgirls.

But I still wanted to see Skullgirls at Evo.

The reasons are pretty simple:

• Being at Evo would really help the sales of Skullgirls, but wouldn't do anything for Melee, Brawl or Smash 4 (Smash Bros is already a very strong brand in US, not so much in Europe)
  
• Those sales would help the Skullgirls company not go bankrupt, Nintendo is not in such any such situation.
  
• Mike Z and the Skullgirls staff really want SG at Evo, Nintendo (trust me on this one), couldn't care less.
  
• SG was specifically developed with awesome factors in mind to make it more convenient for tournament play (auto-button check, tournament mode etc). The most recent Smash game that was released was specifically designed to make it UNviable for tournament play...

Being honest I don't even know why the Melee community wants to be at evo so bad. It's not like their 12 year old community will fracture and die without Evo support. Aside from their top players having a crack at a decent prize pool (a prize pool they had to spend 94k to buy their way into...)

I fully expect the fracturing/dying to happen when Smash 4 is released on Wii U and 3DS; and no amount of Evo participation is going to change that.

So yeah, I'm glad SG got a commiseration prize for a good showing, but I'm disappointed it didn't win.

Melee casuals at Evo overnighter anyone? :pac:

Woohoo~

Skullgirls coming to Japanese PSN

Now to start Tempest.co.jp

Also, MikeZ was on Cross Counter tonight.



He talked about a bunch of stuff and showed more Squigly animations at about 0:50:00. He also revealed that she will be crowd funded. They actually are delaying that crowd fund initiative by a few weeks because the donation poll happened right during their original planned start.

Ravidrath then posted on SRK with some more details:

But, yeah, we're crowdfunding her! This won't be a typical crowdfunding thing, though: when she comes out she'll be free for a limited time for everyone, and after three months or so, her price will go up to $5. This is to add a "ticking clock" element to it and try to minimize possible freeloaders, and encourage people to pay $5 now if they were planning on doing it the "normal" way.

We're still finalizing the rewards, but I can say that we'll have PC codes w/ beta access for one of the tiers. I think people should be excited about, since it means they'll get to playtest characters in development and provide feedback, something that... really doesn't happen outside of Japan? Or even inside of Japan, unless you're Daigo or something.

And...

The first stretch goal is a male character.

The free to download thing is an interesting route to go - especially after a Kickstarter, but he goes on to explain some of the reasoning for it:

The "free for everyone" bit is actually because this method is a lot cheaper than the alternative.

Sony and MS charge for codes, and it would be really expensive to buy them for everyone and distribute them. So this is a good way to work around that, and also hopefully get more people interested in the game, too.

UberPrinny_Baal wrote: »

You can take the Sairus out of Ireland, but you can't take the Skullgirls Rep/RS.ie reporter/TO out of Sairus!

If only I spent all this time actually getting good at Skullgirls :pac:

Also, a fairly great screencap from Squigly's snap back:



:cool: Dat ass.

Anythings possible in a land where fighters are actually popular. :pac:

G'wan Skullgirls!

(actually kind of surprised something drawn by Westerners is doing well there)

First stretch goal reached, so Squigly is getting her own stage and a story campaign.
The pool is now at $195,000 with the next goal being Big Band at $375,000.

Also, they expanded the top reward tier during the night where you get to design a background character for one of the stages. I wasn't awake, but someone grabbed one for me so expect to see a bandana wearing chap lurking in a corner somewhere after Squigly is released :pac: