They probably spent all of twenty minutes with the game and moved on to the next big thing they are handling right now. I'm not complaining about the score though. The game should speak for itself once it is in our hands and we'll have lots of other good reviews coming in a few hours.
Wait.. there's no move-list in the game? Why is something so fundamental, necessary and arguably simple left out? That should be pretty high on the priority list, something you would consider obvious. What's the rationale for it not being in?
They were concentrating on getting the rest of the game working first, and when it came time to finalize for cert/release, it was either take an extra 2-3 weeks for all the localization & additional testing of the move list according to MS/Sony's specs, or go without for now and patch it in after launch.
That's good to hear, but this can severely hurt it's appeal to the casual audience. These are the kinds of things I expect to be in first even before you consider additional content, though.
You fail to understand the issue. A niche image is a niche image regardless of whether you personally think it's good or not. It doesn't have much to do with oversexualization aside from there's explicit amounts of it in Skullgirls which compounds with the all-girl cast to fit it in it's niche which many will avoid off the bat. And it is a major issue for this game's image. I respect the devs for sticking with it, but they should already be prepared for a truncated breadth of appeal. It can produce a barrier before you even consider gameplay, which seems to be the sell of Skullgirls anyways. At some point you have to accept that others will not like it, and that it does not have to do with any sexism continuum you place people on.
It was not as important as making sure that the game is in working order. Hell, there was even a gamebreaking glitch with Ms.Fortune just a few weeks ago in France that was fairly easy to experience and they cleaned it up quick before it was sent for evaluation at MS and Sony. They focused on making sure we could play the game above all else. It does suck, but I can wait for the move lists.
Patches are pretty important for them, but extremely costly. I hope the patches are as meaty as they want them to be(replays, HD uploads, move lists, spectator and 8 man lobbies). Color editor is not happening with this game and it shouldn't be hard to see why. It's art direction already getting enough flak as it is. It has so much potential that I wouldn't mind it being paid DLC though...
Yep...
It hurts the appeal even for folks like me. I spend a lot of time looking at movelists when I'm playing UMvC3 or BlazBlue. It's a pretty important feature. I'll settle for just a character or two since it'll make learning the game a bit easier.
The palette thread on SRK is amazing. There are so many references and ideas that it just leaves me in awe. I would have loved to see a custom color option, but the whole gender ratio reversal here could make things unnecessarily hairy.
The shit matchmaking and no ability to tweak the delay on lobbies hurt it most. It was still not a very good implementation. My cousin lives less than five miles away from me and we always had a yellow/orange connection until I upgraded my internet. We previously had perfect connections on all other fighters we played except for MvC3.
And Blazblue also uses extremely generous hitstun and input buffers. At least half of the perceived quality of BB's netcode is simply the way the game's designed.
