You mean Brawl commentators, right? The Melee commentators were pretty good if you ask me.
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You mean Brawl commentators, right? The Melee commentators were pretty good if you ask me.
Yeah D'ron was pretty good on melee commentary. Who else did melee commentary?
Prog, Dogysamich, Wobbles, and D1 I think was all... Oh, Tw1n and TwinA. (Yes, they're actually twins!)
Prog, D1, Dogy and Wobbles. They're all pretty good.
My favorite commentators are Husband and Wife, don't think they're really around anymore unfortunately.
Yeah the only one I recognized was D1 (D'ron). Thanks
Yo husband and wife is lol. memories man
Nah, I only watched melee and the commentators I was referring to were the ones who were on during the grand finals. It was just reeeally dry- like golf commentary dry.
Things are getting interesting now.Some updated stats:
MLP: $3574
Skullgirls: $2041
SSBM $1974
DOA5: $1262
GGXX: $1000
Divekick: $512
Skullgirls now number 2.
"God's Beard!"
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Just like Pet Shop!
zerokoolpsx
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MLP will make EVO really interesting this year. Do people stream it on twitch, justin.tv or own3d? Barely know anything about it.
scytheavatar
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Do those who donated for Skullgirls realize that the game probably will struggle to hit 100 players if it's in the EVO lineup? They'll end up streaming the top 8 of it on Friday and that'll be the end of the story, it'll be barely different from organizing a side tourney for it.
SolarPowered
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I hate you guys for making me believe that Skullgirls has a chance at being official this year.
You are such a Tsundere for Skullgirls. I just know it.
I don't think they care, whatever produces the most lulz gets in. Low showing Skullgirls and mad Melee salt is a double whammy.
WesternHeretic
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Didn't it get like 140 last year? I think if it's in the official lineup it can totally get 200. Since guys like Chris G, Justin W, etc.. didn't enter for time constraint when they were side games.
Master Milk
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$1000 pot bonus doesn't give a fuck.
lol, don't listen to him. motherfucker is like the OMGitzAndre of the FGC-GAF. Sounds like he never heard about side streams.
He doesn't know shit, and never will. REAL TALK.
Unless he's doing it for the troll, then lulz
God, you're awful.
We had 100 people in our side-tournament last year.
Yeah, it's a year later, but I'm pretty confident that every person that was in last year's tournament would do it all over again if they're there, and there will probably be more players for the big stage, too. Hopefully some Japanese players, even.
Man I feel so conflicted now. On one hand, Skullgirls making EVO would be the feel-good story of the year and the devs deserve it since the game is just brimming with good stuff and considerations for fighting games as a whole. On the other, I'm a Smash kid first and Melee at Apex was almost Vanilla Marvel at EVO 2011 levels of hype out of nowhere. Having that on the EVO lineup could bring about lots more curious eyes.
Hmm...
Hmm...
EDIT - Whoops, I read this the wrong way.
Professor Beef
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It rarely ever happens, but I agree with scytheavatar.
Being a main game at EVO and being on the main stream is a massive deal in comparison to being just a side game that nobody streaming knows is even happening.
And also, I really do believe this is also a case where it really doesn't matter how many entrants it gets and there is nothing to "realize" here.
Being an EVO game will help it so much, and I'm pretty sure it'd break 100 entrants by bringing folks out of the woodwork who like the game or maybe have stopped playing it. On top of being a huge promotion for the game alone.
Yup. Smash and the other games are already pretty popular and well known with a dedicated fanbase. Skullgirls could use the spot the most. And I'm sure there would be more people joining this one because it's a main event. At the very least it will attract pot hunters.
It would be pretty sad for any game if the only way to attract players is to desperately trying to be on the EVO lineup.
But I saw this coming a long way. Some strange design decisons made this game even more niche in a niche genre already packed with strong competition.
No surprise here, but good luck to them though.
But I saw this coming a long way. Some strange design decisons made this game even more niche in a niche genre already packed with strong competition.
No surprise here, but good luck to them though.
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scytheavatar
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You are massively overestimating the impact that EVO can have in its games and the community, if EVO had such powers games like TvC and Blazblue would have been much more popular. It's the games and the communities that make for a great EVO, not the other way round.
What are you waiting for to donate for its cause?
I remember when that game was voted in for some reason. How much attended it in the end?
darkblade77
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Nobody is expecting some grand resurrection here. It'll definitely be a big shot in the arm for a game that needs it, though. There will be thousands of eyeballs on this game that have either never seen it before or have only given it two seconds of their attention, if it makes it to Evo main stage.
And honestly, while a permanent, massive scene/popularity surge is unlikely, I think only events like Evo are where such a turning point becomes possible. The community is clearly hungry for that right now, though it'll take some herculean effort to beat Melee over the next two weeks.
Vote DoA5 and play the VF characters.
The game's 6 years old at this point, right?
FallingEdge
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Final Showdown was released in arcades in July 2010.
Console version was release June 2012.
Virtua Fighter 5 was released in July '06. So 6.5.
Final Showdown is a very significant update and is pretty much a completely different game from 5. 5 had two major updates. Virtua Fighter 5R (Only in Japanese arcades), and Final Showdown (which just came out on console in summer 2012 and had main stage play in EVO 2012.)
I would bet on Skullgirls as the favorite. It's made itself the #1 option on its own merits but as we move forward it's going to become clear that people looking to donate have a choice between Smash and Skullgirls (or Not Smash), and I think the people most interested in Evo will rally around Not Smash.
APZonerunner
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See, I look at it differently, I suppose. The reason I think Smash deserves a chance in the spot is because I could in time see that series becoming as much of a staple of Evo as SF, Marvel and Tekken, one day.
Do I personally give a shit about competitive Smash? No. Did its devs intend it a competitive game? Double no. But I was pretty impressed with what I saw of Melee at Apex, and I'd welcome that into EVO as long as it doesn't clash with or clog up finals day. I don't want to see smash at SCR, but I think as the 'king' Evo has a responsibility to take as broad a definition of fighting game as possible and draw as many people into the FGC through it as possible. If that means inducting the smash lot, I am down with that.
Time will tell if SG gets the numbers if it wins, but there's a lot of factors at play there that do make it difficult. It doesn't exactly have a history of big numbers, and some of the draw of being on grand finals is gone purely because it won't be one of the five on Sunday, but done earlier, probably Friday. Then there's the question of what version, the patch issue - are people with the 360 version potentially going to be shit out of luck for practising, or will it be run on an out of date build? It's a fun game, but a lot stands in its way of being successful there even if it wins.
The one thing Melee has is a relative guarantee people will show with an established ruleset and all that crap.
The 360 patch issue should be resolved in plenty of time for Evo.
...But this could be a good thing to bring up with MS, anyway.
FallingEdge
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The games are wildly different. FS is like playing a new game. That's like saying that AE2012 is a 4/5 year old game.
scytheavatar
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AE2012 is SF4 with more characters and balance changes, but otherwise it's not a new game. The graphics are the same, the gameplay is more or less the same. For the case of VF5 the fact that the game came out early in the current gen is pretty obvious, and FS can't compete graphics wise to games like TTT2, SCV or DOA5. Like it or not there's much more to having a successful game than gameplay.
Except that AE2012 IS a 4/5 year old game with character/stage additions and balance tweaks.
SFxT 2013 is essentially a new game, but it's still SFxT, and had it come out next year, I don't think its chances for making any major line ups would have been good. Timing matters.
notworksafe
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The donations are as much to keep Smash out of Evo as to put Skullgirls in it.
The VF communty is concentrating on the Sega-Sponsored Sega Cup in April, a sure thing instead of an EVO vote. Also Sega has hinted that the Sega Cup will be annual, so the VFDC folks want to make sure it does well. A Sega-sponsored national not doing well would be much more harmful to the VF comm than not getting into EVO. Also, many serious VF players are just VF players. If you want to support VF, hit Sega Cup if you can.
With TFC, if I can get the time off around April, I might want to hit Sega Cup, skip Evo, then hit TFC for the non-VF stuff.
Didn't know that. But I always felt that when it was voted for evo 10/11 it was somwhere between wanting to see something new and for the lulz.