Betta Lines
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Wow, Skullgirls is the ugliest game I have ever seen.
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The Giant Bomb Quick Look Thread 2
- Thread starter Gowans
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Its pretty well animated, but I am not the biggest fan of some of the character designs...
Betta Lines
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The style really offends my eyes. I just can't handle it.
Hot Coldman
Banned
But it does suck that it takes a totally different game (well, same mechanics, but you know what I mean) for those explanations to exist in-game. You're right, it's definitely good, it's just crappy that a big reason this game was made was to serve a purpose it needn't have had to serve at all.
I guess it's worth it, because holy crap is it pretty.
Same here. The animation quality itself is great, but I don't particularly care much for the style they went with.
Hot Coldman
Banned
They've gone with a style that suits motion, and is poorer for being static. Case in point: the Lesson Select screen is horrid to look at, with that static image of the teacher so big on the screen. But so long as it's animating, it's great to look at.
EmCeeGramr
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says you (i'm probably just used to seeing kinuko's art, which has never been animated before this game)
Felix Lighter
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A Dragonball Z Kinect game is coming out this year, eh? That should make for a good Ryan/Vinny Quicklook.
Hot Coldman
Banned
Is this person's art usually this expressive and exaggerated? It seems like it was made to be animated, because of how much is it those things. They picked a good artist for a fighter anyway, ha.
EmCeeGramr
Member
Did you play Shattered Memories? Same artist who did the art for the joke/UFO ending there.
I'd post a link to the old art blog that she, Paul Robertson, and three other artists (at least two of whom also worked on SG, I think) shared and still infrequently update, but it's extremely NSFW.
(mechafetus visublog)
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
Sounds like someone isn't a fan of BBWs.
Pancakes
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Agreed, very odd proportions.
cuevas. PhD.
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I want to buy it just for the tutorials.
SatelliteOfLove
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Only Peacock and Parasoul look "right" to me. Not a fan of the concept of "gal fighters" either. Love me some Mike Z, though.
Pancakes
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I bet it has something to do with that Namco patent thing they mentioned.
Hot Coldman
Banned
I've been there before, but I kinda skimmed over anything that wasn't probertson's stuff. I should give it another look!
edgefusion
Member
Are we ever gonna have another Quick Look that doesn't have Brad involved? He's been in virtually every single one since the start of the year, or at least it feels like it. I've really disliked the dude ever since he shitted up the GOTY deliberations with his stupid arguments. Does he have nothing else to do at GB other than be in Quick Looks?
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Felix Lighter
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Brad hate? I don't even understand the concept.
Pancakes
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More than just the tutorial. It's the little things like having to hold the start button to pause and "Random Stage" actually randomly selects a stage on rematches.
$5 says you can change the controller config at the character select screen.
SatelliteOfLove
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That's why the VF4:Evo training mode, which should be above all copied rotely by EVERY Fighter after 2004, cannot be. Sega owns that shit hard.
That's basically how I feel. I'm sure that some of it is meant as parody, but the attempted sex appeal is a bit much.
edgefusion
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None taken but if you shiv me I'll die. Just like Brad. Over and over.
Felix Lighter
Member
Brad is the glue that keeps the whole damn team together. He keeps those other crazy personalities grounded. Wishing for less Brad is wishing for the end of Giant Bomb as we know it.
Hot Coldman
Banned
It's because all girls want his skull.
"WHERE MAH SKULL?"
Pretty good stuff actually, considering fighting games are not known for their tutorial.
More interesting than them just randomly hitting buttons, which was what the actual fighting portion came down to. Though Jeff kind of knew what he was doing.
Riposte
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Hold on... watching them play fighting games is compelling? Jeff knows how to end a chain with a super, but I'm pretty sure Brad is rubbing his face on the buttons. Which is fine for them, but I don't know how someone would find that entertaining to watch. Not exactly a stellar display of mechanics, but never it is. No bear farting moment here (I was kind of hoping they'd freak out a bit over Fortune's head... but it never came off).
Vire
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Watching tutorials doesn't give you a good idea of what the game is like at all and isn't that the whole point of Quick Looks? I haven't seen much of this game and all they are showing is them trying out combos, great thanks. I don't mind a little bit of it, but it's literally over half the quick look of them going through a tutorial. From an entertainment perspective it's about as compelling as watching paint dry.
It's basically like watching a friend study for a test you don't have to take. I'd prefer if they did that kind of stuff before the quick look started.
Typographenia
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When there are plenty of other people not on vacation, going to events, or having kids, I'm sure Brad would be more than happy to sit one out.
It's one of the things that sets the game apart, it deserved some time at least. Fighting games don't really explain that stuff much.
Vire
Member
Yup
Will watch SG one later though.
So pumped for Trials. I'm really jealous of Brad right now. :/
Loved the first one to bits and pieces.
I think Brad is great so nyah.
I was really interested in the tutorial aspect of the game, so I'm glad it's there. I mean, what can you really show off about a fighting game if you don't have competitive-tier skills? From a completely new perspective, the tutorials - a near-unique aspect of the game - is the perfect thing to show off. I would have liked some story mode as well, but fine.
Hell, by comparison I was disappointed in the hitting random buttons section because Mahvel-style games are no fun to watch when nobody really knows what they're doing. There's no sense of competitiveness or even challenge.
The tutorial part of the Quick Look was the most interesting for me. It showed off something unique and cool about the game, and it was definitely better than watching them pick random characters and fight (no offense to them intended, I'd be awful at that game when starting out too).
The problem with tutorials like those is that the things they are teaching you are still so complex when you actually try to put then into practice. Knowing what an option-select is, and being able to effectively know when to use one are two completely different things.
All that stuff that the tutorial was teaching is stuff that you could have found out with about 15 minutes of reading, it's just that the actual barrier to playing those games is putting the stuff into practice, which still requires you to play the game a fucking ton.
All that stuff that the tutorial was teaching is stuff that you could have found out with about 15 minutes of reading, it's just that the actual barrier to playing those games is putting the stuff into practice, which still requires you to play the game a fucking ton.