Skull Girls discussion thread

Monkeyto

New character reveal!

She's got an umbrella!

http://revergelabs.com/2011/06/e3-is-over/

Nice

Sairus

They revealed the whole cast a while before they started releasing the trailers or gameplay vids, but then removed them from the site.
Here's the ones I can remember from when I browsed the character roster screen before:

Squigly - http://pub.tenkuu.net/Images/060706_sg_lj_update/squigly_portrait.jpg

Miss Fortune -http://pub.tenkuu.net/Images/060706_sg_lj_update/mfortune_portrait.jpg

Parasoul - http://pub.tenkuu.net/Images/060706_sg_lj_update/parasoul_portrait.jpg

Umbrella - the younger sister of the recently revealed Parasoul
http://pub.tenkuu.net/Images/060706_sg_lj_update/umbrella_portrait.jpg

Painwheel - http://pub.tenkuu.net/Images/060706_sg_lj_update/painwheel_portrait.jpg

Yreval

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nseioFH_FLw

Peacock combo video, featuring a special guest appearance by... well, you're just going to have to watch it through to the end to find out.

Placebo

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

Didn't realise Konami picked up Skullgirls -- that's great news!

did they ? good news but what does that game offer in comparison to others?
My compassion exists solely because they seem like a new startup. I dont like the graphics, they seem too rough [i know they are hand drawn] , 3 bars look odd and it doesnt offer anything new, seems bit like those melty blood type games for pc X Aarcana heart

Good to see the scene grow and startups like this, i would buy to support but its kinda like looking at a kids drawing and rewarding them for the effort, excuse the pun

unless im missing something completely here.

Sairus

Peacock gameplay trailer. Nothing in it that wasn't shown in her combo exhibitions above.
http://ie.ign.com/videos/2011/06/22/skullgirls-peacock-trailer

There should be a trailer for Parasoul up later tonight.

Also, here's an old look at some of the characters when they were still pixel art sprites from an old build of the game. I won't display the actual image though as it contains thus far unrevealed characters in case people still want to be surprised.

http://img809.imageshack.us/img809/4035/umbsprite01collar2.png

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EDIT: Very short Parasoul character preview. Her stuff starts at 1:30ish.

http://www.g4tv.com/videos/53860/skullgirls-gameplay-and-character-preview/

Sairus

Kotaku have a great run down of some of the many randomly selected items Peacock uses in her specials. There's some fantastic and obscure nods in some of these!

http://kotaku.com/5816326/from-kuribos-shoe-to-requiem-for-a-dreams-fridge-skullgirls-great-visual-gags/gallery/1

chopperbyrne

East Coast Throwdown had this on the stream for a few hours. It doesn't look great to be honest.

Sairus

chopperbyrne wrote: »

East Coast Throwdown had this on the stream for a few hours. It doesn't look great to be honest.

I'm pretty much completely certain I'm going to utterly hate playing this game - I really don't like massive combo games - but still, pretty pictures. :pac:

Doctor DooM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPpJtVUnmlI

Yreval

So, this is what the character select screen will look like:

K.O.Kiki

Actually, reading the blog entry this is their TEMPORARY char-select.

Still looks very nice!

Sairus

Not even temporary, it's the drawing of what the menu eventually will be.
The character select is still the dodgy text only thing they've been showing at E3 and whatnot.

Yreval

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1uRvbt0bNA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDsKxsbZClA

EDIT: Entire panel from Evo has been uploaded.
Part 1 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB7ylho3Gq0
Part 2 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRSlaFveM7Y
Part 3 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLZgZyZ_ECk
Part 4 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDB_2esh2Do
Part 5 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emXlAD0oSUg
Part 6 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ixn90c5sI1A
Part 7 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBxN--jhSxs

Yreval

http://shoryuken.com/2011/10/05/skullgirls-ms-fortune-scores-a-decap-attack/

Looks like Ms. Fortune will play similarly to Eddie or Carl Clover.

Sairus

Man I'm looking forward to this game. Ms.Fortune looks like an awesome addition, which is a nice turnaround considering she used be the one character I thought looked awful from the old concept art.

Yreval

http://shoryuken.com/2011/10/12/shoryuken-skullgirls-exclusive-painwheel-revealed/

Painwheel is sort of an “aerial dominance” character, and can fly using the Buer Drive blade in her back. Being full of rage, a lot of her normal attacks can be charged up, and damage she receives while charging them will be added to the attack when the button is released. Since she is in constant pain, she has a lot of brutal-looking moves, such as attacking with spikes that painfully erupt from her body or contorting herself in inhuman ways.

Dreddybajs

http://shoryuken.com/forum/index.php?threads/questions-answers-thread.146958/page-32#post-6306352

If the game is half as good as Mike Z's posts about it lead me to believe it will be, I'll be a happy man.

1man3letters

what you guys think the chance of this becoming a disc release in time if proves popular?

Dreddybajs

1man3letters wrote: »

what you guys think the chance of this becoming a disc release in time if proves popular?

Wouldn't say there's much chance of it at all.

Sairus

Reverge have basically said there's not going to be a disk release ever - and if there was it would be a loooong time coming.

Sairus

The full move list for ninja-nurse Valentine was recently posted on Dustloop.

http://shoryuken.com/2012/01/23/skullgirls-valentines-full-move-list-revealed/

She's got one really interesting super:

QCB+Tag=RESURRECTION!
-Costs 5 bars
-Stand over a fallen ally and revive them with defibrillators for like 25% health.
LIVE! DAMN YOU, LIVE!

(For those not following Skullgirls much, when one of your characters dies, their corpse stays on the field.)
5 meters is harsh, but getting a character back is pretty sick.

Yreval

http://shoryuken.com/2012/02/15/final-skullgirls-character-to-be-revealed-on-gttv-this-thursday-at-10-pm-pst/

Final character to be revealed Friday morning.

Sairus

I spent almost the entirety of my trip to Cannes when not in tournaments playing this. So far it's looking to be the most fun fighting game I've ever played.

It's dead easy to pick up and has really smooth, tight controls. DooM will testify that it also looks a lot better in person than the videos online are showing.

Those worried about its small roster of 8 characters don't need to fret - due to Ms.Fortune being broken in the WGC build, Painwheel and Fillia being too technical for most people and Double not being revealed yet, almost everyone was just using Cerebella, Parasoul, Valentine and Peacock. Despite this it never got stale as every character has so many options (Cerebella has 12 specials and 3 supers - 6 of which are command grabs of various types).

You'll be doing yourself a big favour to get the trial of this when it drops next month. Every person who sat down and played it said it was one of the best fighters they'd ever played.

Also, the eighth character is purty:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O38gNCDuZQ

Special highlight is her level 3 super at 1:40. There's some blink and you'll miss em cameos of not yet officially announced DLC characters Squigly, Umbrella, Mrs. Victoria and Black Dahlia.

1man3letters

why was ms.fortune broken in wgc build?

that Double looks crazy,loving all the morphing stuff

UberPrinny_Baal

Sairus wrote: »

I spent almost the entirety of my trip to Cannes when not in tournaments playing this.

+1 on this, really really enjoyed what I played, and looking forward to checking out the chars in the training room.

I hear it being compared closely to Marvel 2, which I never played, but I'm hoping it ends up closer to street fighter.

If the metagame becomes about ridiculously long Blazblue or Marvel3 combos, I'll probably keep it solely for casual fun.

My time with it at WGC was more than enough for me to say "Shut up and take my money" to Mike-Z.

1man3letters wrote: »

why was ms.fortune broken in wgc build?

From what we heard, the game has an achievement related to disconnecting her head from her body; and in the dev build, the process of tracking whether you had gotten the achievement ground it to a halt.

It was fixed in the later days by the guys who had the dev kit just unlocking the achievement so the game wouldn't track it anymore.

I am also assuming it won't be an issue in the final build (which this wasn't)

Sairus

UberPrinny_Baal wrote: »

I hear it being compared closely to Marvel 2, which I never played, but I'm hoping it ends up closer to street fighter.

If the metagame becomes about ridiculously long Blazblue or Marvel3 combos, I'll probably keep it solely for casual fun.

The game will definitely have long combos, but the infinite detection system prevents loops of the same inputs. In order to keep a combo going you have to keep changing up every sequence of attacks you throw out.
Eventually you'll run out of variations on your loops and you'll have to end your combo, but with some work they still look like they can stretch out a good bit.

This page explains pretty clearly the limits of the combos possible: http://wiki.shoryuken.com/Skullgirls/Game_Systems#The_Infinite_Prevention_System

UberPrinny_Baal wrote: »

From what we heard, the game has an achievement related to disconnecting her head from her body; and in the dev build, the process of tracking whether you had gotten the achievement ground it to a halt.

I am also assuming it won't be an issue in the final build (which this wasn't)

Yar, this has been fixed, as has the dodgy macro input issues we had in the hotel room.
The version we had is a few weeks old because all later versions had Double in it and they didn't want to send over a version early with such a juicy reveal.

However, Mike Z did say that the frame dropping when a **** tonne of objects and characters are on screen is still an issue they haven't fixed and hope to either have it done by launch or soon after in a patch.

1man3letters

Sairus wrote: »

The game will definitely have long combos, but the infinite detection system prevents loops of the same inputs. In order to keep a combo going you have to keep changing up every sequence of attacks you throw out.

so no liu kang abc 123 x3 combos,i dig it

Sairus

Also, achievements and trophies have been revealed. There's a couple of exclusive PSN trophies

http://www.xbox360achievements.org/game/skullgirls/achievements/

http://www.ps3trophies.org/game/skullgirls/trophies/

And to save you looking it up, 'sesquidecemvir' means 15 things. I'm guessing that achievement is do a 15 hit combo that makes Double turn into each character at least once.

I'm liking these!

Dreddybajs

Marvel 2 combos are in general a lot shorter than Marvel 3 or BB Dave, apart from a handful of infinites.

Can't wait for this game, glad you had such a good time with it Sairus. Hyper than ever now.

UberPrinny_Baal

Dreddybajs wrote: »

Marvel 2 combos are in general a lot shorter than Marvel 3 or BB Dave, apart from a handful of infinites.

Good to know!

I was a guaranteed customer for this either way, I was just trying to honestly gauge how likely I am to get frustrated playing it in a tournament setting.

Sairus

The final 'box art' that was leaked in tiny thumbnail form a few months back has finally been shown off in full.

Fun fact, all the images in the poster aside from Double and Bloody Marie (chick with the glowy skull coming out of her back at the top) are actually sprites from the game. Fairly mad quality.

Sairus

In celebration of the eighth character reveal I'm double posting.

Here's the SG sets we had in the hotel after WGC.

I'm on at 0:20:20 with Painwheel/Cerebella/Valentine and Cer/Val, then again with Cer/Val at 1:02:20.

I think Uberprinny gets his thing on at 0:13:10 with Cerebella/Parasoul/Peacock and at 0:58:40 with Par/Pea.

UberPrinny_Baal

Sairus wrote: »

Any Parasoul/Peacock combination is probably Uberprinny

I'm actually finding it really hard to tell which player is me without a player cam, since I was more adventurous with character selection in the hotel room and I never figured out colour selection.

This was definitely me though

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O56oMWI4lJE&t=0h17m55s

Best super!

Sairus

UberPrinny_Baal wrote: »

I'm actually finding it really hard to tell which player is me without a player cam, since I was more adventurous with character selection in the hotel room and I never figured out colour selection.

This was definitely me though

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O56oMWI4lJE&t=0h17m55s

Best super!

Ar, I updated my post with more accurate indicators of when we were on... the Level 3 being my only indicator when you were on at the start :pac:

Sairus

So according to this Marketplace appearance, Skullgirls is dropping on April 4th: http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/Product/Skullgirls/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d802584111db (Go to page 2 of the Overview)

Neither Mike Z or Ravidrath over on SRK have confirmed the date. They've both said they're not allowed to announce it until MS gives the go ahead, and these sorts of launch date leaks have been wrong in the past.

Sairus

Launch party erryday just became April 10th on PS3 and April 11th on 360. This time it was confirmed by Mike Z and Ravidrath over on SRK.

Also, Skullgals confirmed for handhelds in 2013: http://skullgirls.com/2012/04/skullgals-coming-to-handheldgaming-systems-in-early-2013/

Scavenger XIII

Going to go right ahead and call april fools on that ****.

TheMightyTM

Found myself getting hype for this game over the last few days. Right before final exams it's gonna be a baaad month

Sairus

Reverge are issuing a bunch of sticks as prizes for some upcoming Skullgirls tourneys.
Stunfest's is ****ing beautiful:



Gonna have to win Evo Qualifier and trade the Vegas ticket for a France one. They let you do that right?

Orim

That's a beautiful looking stick. Have you a link to the rest?

Sairus

The guys at Reverge are looking for upcoming major events in the UK to sponsor with SG swag. I doubt we could get the Evo Qualifiers added on such short notice and SG won't be represented anyway, but do we have any other big events on the horizon?

You can check out all the shots of the currently revealed sticks here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/revergelabs/ FoeHammer make them.

The engraved logo on the Stunfest stick is especially sweet:

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Texas Showdown:

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Power Up:

Orim

Step 1 : Fly to Power Up
Step 2 : Win Skullgirls stick
Step 3 : ???
Step 4 : Profit

Those sticks are gorgeous. We could do a qualifier for Stunfest and then get two pretty sticks :P

Owwmykneecap

Sairus get in contact with the Skullgirls dev about doing a launch event. Mike z innit?

You are the game's biggest proselytizer in the atlantic archipelago.

Sairus

Peter Bartholow the Skullgirls PR guy might be a better choice - he runs the Facebook page and is organising these prizes for the events. He goes by Ravidrath on various forums (SRK, Dustloop, etc).

I'm waaaaay too busy at the moment to be involved in any launch event shinanigans despite my obsession with this game so if anyone else wants to do something, go ahead.

Sairus

Also, the release dates were finally confirmed this morning:

April 10th - PS3 - $14.99
April 11th - 360 - 1200 MSP

The PSN date is only for the US. EU will be getting it a week or two later.
XBLA is worldwide.

D4RK ONION

Oh my god those sticks are the sex... DO WANT

Sairus

Double trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkYluQmIwpI

0:28 Dat teacup.

Sairus

Skullgirls is out now on the American PSN. XBLA is up tomorrow, but if you're impatient like me the trial is there for you.

Also:



( ^ MikeZ )
I'd say it's fairly unreal to have a game you designed up on the PSN like that.

Doctor DooM

OMFG Parasoul is a cross between BB Rachel and Guile.

And she's an actual girl, not a frenchman pretending to be one. Just need to find a good assist.

Best game.

Also, sonic boobs.

D4RK ONION

I'll be playing Parasoul as well, battle for best French Guile/Rachel!