Will you play Rivals of Aether 2 now that a certain controversial figure has quit publisher Offbrand Games?

>>714417895 (OP)
>Boosts visibility of SKG
>Boosts sales of Aether 2
How is Pirate Software the bad guy?

>>714417895 (OP)
She's fun.

>>714417924
So whats the drama with this guy. I keep hearing people talk around the drama without ever addressing it.

hooves

>>714418415
Basically he tried to make sure that developers could kill/take away the games you paid for at any time. Naturally this was a controversial take.

>>714417895 (OP)
Been playing it since first beta.

>>714418415
>asshole who thinks he better than everyone else on the entire planet
>people are ok with it because he's an asshole to blizzard
>for whatever reason, decides to have zero reading comprehension on stop killing games movement and tries to sabotage it
>reveals he's more anti consumer than blizzard
>people start hating him
>also he's a roach
worst thing is that his asshole persona means he can't back track any of the garbage decisions he's made.

>>714418415
he keeps committing mistakes and instead of going "i guess i fucked up there my bad" he double downs and refuses to acknowledge he fucked up. on top of that, he advertises himself as a wholesome know-it-all indie developer that gives you tips on how to start developing games, while the fact remains that its been 8 goddamn years and he hasn't finished his (1) game.

>>714421319
>instead of going "i guess i fucked up there my bad" he double downs
So he's a man and not some cum-slurping faggot.
He's right about everything, by the way.

>>714421319
>>714420660
Did he have any involvement with RoA2?

>>714421891
He was a founder of the company that published it

>>714421891
sadly yes. He was a part of offbrand games and RoA2 did a charity event with a pirate software maypul skin.

>>714417924
>mass review bomb them
>not a single one on Steam got bad reviews
STOP FUCKING LYING ALREADY
JUST STOP TALKING IF YOU CAN'T STOP LYING

>>714422371
So, what was it that spurred this "review bomb?" Mean tweets from the stop killing games crowd?

>>714422371
There were negative reviews ~130 in 2 days, but were promptly removed by steam.

>>714423456
wtf is this real

>>714419691
>>714420660
>>714421319
The usual self sabotage. Crazy he would have as bad as take as siding with devs to delete their own games over the consumers, but I guess its right in line with the usual dev mentality

>>714426345
There's nothing that narcissistic know-it-alls like to do more than "erm actually here's why the thing you like is bad", with the more people who like it the more people that they get to be smarter than

>>714418415
Europoors are raging cause he made a good point

>>714417895 (OP)
No, it is forever tainted.

>>714422371
guys.... its so... *cough*... brutal.....

>>714428532
He didnt have to be an asshole how he did it. An annoying internet personality got what was comming for him.

>>714417895 (OP)
Do they still have a gay pride icon in the game? Not touching this shit until it's removed.

>>714429393
Grow thicker skin and you won't be upset by rainbows

>>714417895 (OP)
She's so cute.
I love her.
I don't even play these games.

>>714429545

>>714417895 (OP)
I'll play when someone creates a melee-like mod for it that just removes buffer and makes it very input/tech heavy like melee.

>>714422201
The game is self-published by Aether Studios, it's a KickStarter game. Offbrand just invested in it and does some of the marketing / esports stuff. It's also primarily Ludwig who was involved with it.
tl;dr it doesn't have shit to do with it

>>714429882
Play Melee.

>>714430040
I do. I like having multiple games to play

Her visage is suggestive of reproductive ritualistic leanings towards XY chromosome representatives of a particular species of primates.

>>714431265
built for BHC

>>714417895 (OP)
She looks better with chest bumps.

Fleet is my favorite

>>714431867
Me?
Añi

>>714417924
What a magnanimous soul. Truly... selfless...

>>714417924
>popular eceleb
>fine with spreading personal opinions to millions of people knowing fully well that some people will make it their own
>downplays his influence when his bullshit has real life consequences
I hate jewtubers so much

>>714429887
They do good marketing at least.

>>714417895 (OP)
I'd like Oly to get a summer skin, but she already wears a micro tube-top, so anything else would likely be a downgrade.

>>714429393
they've doubled down unfortunately. Really don't understand why video games have to be a platform for political stances nowadays

>>714433846
being gay isn't a political stance for the same reason being straight isn't

>>714433895
being straight is normal

>>714434352
Having 20:20 vision is "normal" but wearing glasses isn't political. Albinism isn't "normal" but it isn't political either. The point is you need to be less fragile especially if you're on a rough and tumble badass hardcore website like 4Chan where only the meanest nastiest posters converge. That means not getting butthurt over rainbow flags.

>>714429545
>>714433895
>>714434557
>-ACK!

>>714434557
a key difference is that people with albinism or glasses go about their lives without constantly pointing out they should be "proud" of their albinism or glasses. they just exist.

they don't make obnoxious flags to shove down your throat at every given opportunity and force into every form of media known to man

It shouldn't have to be unreasonable to not want to see this activism in games. it's a platform fighter about elemental animals

>>714429393
>Do they still have a gay pride icon in the game?

No, they removed them to appease retards like you who still won't play anyway.

>>714417924
If they fired him for this he was most likely not doing anything anyways and acting like a faggot getting on his coworkers nerves, they only hired him for the sake of publicity but now the public hates him so what the fucks the point

>>714417895 (OP)
>>714433098
Literally too sexy for the 80s Toy Commercial Themed Smash Clone. Who's responsible for this travesty?

How the hell can anyone look at this animal and then, at some point in his life, think goat = SEX? Is this some goat equivalent of toxoplasmosis?

>>714439171
Wait a second, that isn't Absa!

>>714423456
Where's the screenshot of them?

What if the game isn't really good? Its at 73% and most reviews basically say that it is a mid tier game with generous bias because the fan base really like the characters. I mean its furries, cmon.

Then you have that this specific genre only has one specific series that actually is good and is successful, smash bros. Every game besides Ninetndo made games get utterly slammed and forgotten. Rivals of aether doesn't add anything great and probably would be forgotten by now right next to Ikons or that WB game if it wasn't for furry coomers.

Maybe the game isn't that great.

Personally, I prefer the beady eyes.

>>714434557
Putting the lgbt flag inside of a video game is political

>>714417895 (OP)
I have had the money set aside more or less but I'm waiting for Elliana
I will wait as long as it takes
I know she will be free, I'm only not buying her now in case Dan "subverts expectations" by giving Ayala the slot instead

I need to hear her voice. I want her to have a southern accent but as long as she has the temperament of a hot-blooded mecha protagonist I will be happy

this game was better when it was the MUGEN of platform fighters instead of this furfag OC pandering shit

>>714440462
>when it was
It never left, you can still play it.

>>714440612
Play with a bunch of weird queers? Nothnx

>>714440791
Ok.

>>714435802
Your use of punctuation shows how bothered you are

I like this game conceptually and I like several of the characters but I just don't have the energy to play fighting games nowadays. It sounds silly because I'm only 24. But I used to go to boarding school and having friends in dorm rooms was a huge motivator to play fighting games. Online play isn't as energizing for me...

sovl vs sovlless

>>714441853
Hope the next character is a newcomer.
They already said La Reina is next year.

>>714423456
>negative reviews ~130 in 2 days, but were promptly removed by steam.
good on valve. sounds like some unhinged trannies got butthurt someone talked about reality.

>>714442485
What?

>>714439667
Agreed but it's not much of a downgrade. giving him anime puppy eyes is cute too.
>>714441301
>t. seething people in the real world are disgusted by own actions

>>714441853
>old is good... because it is!

No. Should've kept the sprites. Lazy cheapshit 3D models killed the charm.

>>714441853

>>714442876
You basically want to fuck the same girl over and over with different hats

>>714417895 (OP)
Where is Pomme?
Is she ok? Is she alright?

>>714443287
no he wanted to self-insert as kragg and give all the kemonofriends his bug dick, get it right

>>714442849
No one cares what you think

>>714417895 (OP)
Sorry i'm not a gossipy tranny faggot like the typical 4tranner.
I couldn't give a fuck about whatever shit tranny drama you faggots are gossipslopping.
I just play the game.

>>714443501
It seems, that in your lust, you raped her.

>>714442849
Good spritework is dead for fighting games
>>714443531
tasteless 3dpd nigger

>>714443653
>Not a 4tranner
>Posts in the 4tranniest board.
Can you trannies believe this?

>>714443501
this was the worst workshop newcomer in 1 next to the tranny moth. hodan was the only good workshop design

>>714443749
stop being a faggot

>>714417895 (OP)
I want to lick her Hooves

>>714443869
stop liking lazy 3dshit first

>>714443723
kek'd

>>714441853
top is 1 and bottom is 2 or is it an update?
Also, is there a mod with the previous screen?

>>714444002
the model work is fine. sorry they didn't give absa massive tits but devs clearly don't want people to make porn of these characters. guess dan fornace doesn't want to be like overwatch devs with shitty loot boxes and porn advertisment. good for him.

>>714441741
go to locals then
>B-B-B-B-But I-I-I can't-
STFU

>>714444402
what the fuck are you actually talking about you projecting schizo?

>>714435775
If people with glasses and albinism faced obsessive bullying at all times I think pride for those things would be a natural and even healthy response.

>>714444402
I don't care if they fully modeled absa's goat puss, her 2D sprite from the first game would still look better

>>714444787
i think the spritework of rivals 1 was mediocre. there i said it. and i've been playing these games since rivals 1 was in beta.
>>714444770
dumbass

>>714445249
I think passable spritework looks better than lazy shit 3D models. There, I said it. And I started playing right after the beta. I would even occasionally grab the skins off of smash.gg when they still did that

>>714445249
the spritework and art style only went to shit the moment they hired that faggot beezi. the cartoony proportions and eyes started happening as early as elliana. i bet you hate orcane's old beady eyes too you tasteless faggot

>>714444787
>>714445495
The Dan sprited characters look outright bad. It's only Clairen/Ranno and onward that look good

>>714445873
>posts shitty compressed screencap comparisons
>clairenfag

>>714445873
Wrastor, orcane, and zetter are flat, I will not deny it. I still think top is easier to look at than bottom right there, even with the jpgenning aside

>>714446164
I do not know of a Rivals 1 frame data viewer like there is for 2. But the very silly torso-disappearing act is clearly visible even in that jpeg

i do not care about publisher drama just post more goats i WANT TO FUCK GOATS

>>714445846
>i bet you hate orcane's old beady eyes too you tasteless faggot. this was me >>714442803 so no ofc not.

>>714446272
God damn looking it now, 2's particle effects are also too damn noisy. Another reason why less is better

>>714446272
>NOOOOOO THE TORSO DISAPPEARS FOR A SINGLE FRAME, SPRITES ARE OBJECTIVELY WORSE!!!
But....top still looks miles better regardless?

>>714445846
>i bet you hate orcane's old beady eyes too you tasteless faggot.
this was me >>714442803 (You) so no ofc not.

they could have spent the money to upgrade the pixel art to a glorious level, but I think it's easier to work in the long run as a GAS game with 3D if they want to sell skins

>>714447156
im not against spritework but dude's pretending like the roa1 sprites were like your pic. A lot of the skins are great and make up for it+the devs have more ethical business practices than most games nowadays with skins.

>>714446272
>I do not know of a Rivals 1 frame data viewer
actual fucking secondary and anon with the most shit taste in this thread

>>714447717
i meant without having to boot the game up. a website. don't be a dipshit.

>>714447636
I'm not against the 3D work in this game, but knowing that this is just another pixel art game going 3D is heartbreaking.

>>714447760
>I NEED AN EXTERNAL WEBSITE TO PLAY WITH FRAMES BECAUSE I DONT ACTUALLY PLAY THE GAME
Color me shocked

>>714447760
>hurr i'm going to post why 3d > 2d in this extremely compressed garbage file format and make no effort to back-up what I say
and it's not "torso disappearing", it's an anticipation frame. I bet you think taking screencaps of half second smear frames somehow means the animation is bad, retard secondary

>>714439638
>that WB game
MVS was only popular because 1. it was free and 2. it was full-on IP wank rosterfaggotry that appealed to the lowest common denominator. In no point in its development, even the beta, was the game ever good.

The people who cling to RoA1's spritework are fucking deranged contrarians. I will never understand it. I'm one of the many people who refused to give the game a chance for years because I took one look at it and though
>this looks like cheap garbage
I am not opposed to spritework at all and I love good spritework. Metal Slug and KoFXIII are art. There are plenty of games with simplistic spritework that I like. RoA1 simply looked like shit for much of its life (with only later and redesigned spritework looking good).

>>714448196
>>714448349
Really making a mountain out of a molehill.

>>714449205
>your opinion is wrong bro
>*argument crumbles apart*
>i-its not even a big deal bro let it go
Kek

>>714449205
>worthless nothing reply
concession accepted secondary clairenfag scum, here's me fucking ur shitty marth clone waifu

1fags can't stop winning

>>714448349
If you tried to pass this off as a windup frame to any 90s studio you would get your ass laughed out of the building. This is what /a/ calls QUALITY. She looks like she got hit by a Koopa and turned into Small Absa. She looks like one of those quadruple amputees. Absa chicken nugget. She ain't tucking her legs and bringing her knees to her chest, she has no chest or knees.

>>714452136
>omg one frame where she's squeenched.......unreal...what kusoge....

>>714452545
Hey how'd you post in the thread without bumping?

S.Knight is coming to Brawl for some reason. I am surprised anyone gives a shit enough about Shovel Knight to backport him of all characters
https://youtu.be/0sEO-vzyUaQ?t=537

>>714452136
>does the exact retarded thing I mentioned of screencapping a singular frame I mentioned and passes it off as QUALITY
ahahahaha your grasping at straws at this point. also
>comparing a lower-res sprite vs. 90s studio that animated a show at a higher resolution with cels and is STILL 2D
you are an actual retard and know nothing about animation or readability for that matter. please keep replying though, your retardation is keeping the thread alive

>>714452136
also here's me fucking what I assume to be your main btw :)

I swear I'll learn how to use this shit just to remove her shorts.
Unless someone already did.

>>714454452
cover them up, slut

>>714454513

>>714455446
i-is she ok?

>>714455446
>Absa after pelvis-destroying sex with her human bf

When will they add an option to turn off buffer? I'd rather play without it (pm gives you this option)

>>714423456
Quit lying fur nigger shit didnt get removed at all
https://youtu.be/lU67ZuiofX0?si=CFQHshLMrrLqpI4h&t=155

>>714455873
how does this debunk his claim exactly?

>>714455873
at 4:42 he acknowledges some of the reviews were deleted. is there no way to find out what was deleted? where does the 100+ deleted reviews claim come from?

>>714452696
newfag

>>714417895 (OP)
No. 1 won

Absa

>open e621
>type absa
>literally every drawing there sucks
ah.

>>714460548
be the change you want to see anon

>>714455446
I fucked up somewhere but I can't stop laughing.
Good 4 hours spent.

>>714454452
There's probably a Rivals 2 modding discord you could consult

>>714462737
>discord

>>714462737
yeah go and do that im sure they havent been suggested that 6,000 times already

>>714460548
Gives me comfort that people arent gooning to my girl.

>>714417895 (OP)
Glad the devs know what's what.

>>714462737
Eh, I don't think I'd be really welcome there since my only goal is to remove the clothes of the girls.
Either way, Gamebanana has a guide, I think I messed up on two steps cause I don't have the correct stuff installed, will definitely try again, it was fun.

>>714463590
They won't care. And if you get any pushback at all (you won't) just say you're making a Classic Absa skin that would also remove the armbands and 2/3rds of her skirt

>>714463685
go back discordfag

>>714463149
>>714463758
how DARE you suggest a chatroom might have specialty knowledge or learning resources that surpass my own ability

>>714465862
yeah maybe you can circlejerk in there instead of shitting up thread faggot

>>714466008
>instead of shitting up thread faggot
ESL. Also my suggestion is helpful. You've done nothing.

>>714466227
pls stop typing to bots thanks

>>714422782
there never was a reviewbomb
the game had mixed reviews already, well before all this
people saw that, spun some narrative about reviewbombing because "wow people must hate pirate software that much huh"
so now that he left they're pulling RoA2 out of mixed reviews for literally free

>>714466332
to be fair i did see a lot of posts in rivals 2 threads about plans to review bomb but i guess they never did it. people just assumed they were actually going to do it so they ran the story without ever checking

>>714466227
??? that's not an ESL sentence, you're trying way too hard. please lurk or fuck off back to discord kudasai

>>714455446
lewd
the bibi thread was right, it really is the new meta

>>714417924
I don't have to read this to know he's going on about being harassed for no reason and himself being the reasonable good guy. It's literally all he does.

>>714418415
He's an annoying retard who wouldn't admit that he fucked up in a video game and people are treating it like a moral issue.

>>714466482
What the fuck that's like the third post I've seen related to that OC thread. /v/ feels smaller...

>>714419774
nice image

>>714429882
Melee literally breaks its players hands, causing permanent nerve damage. There are a lot of things you can say should be more like Melee, but why would you copy the part of the game that physically harms its players?

>>714469014
do you just believe anything you hear on the internet?

>>714469503
Are you trying to imply top Melee players haven't had to retire due to nerve damage caused by playing the game at a top level for years?

>>714421425
>So he's a man and not some cum-slurping faggot.
No he's a gay furry. Quite literally a cum-slupring faggot.

>>714418415
He's a narcissistic nepo cunt who unironically thinks he's better than everyone else, he's given himself a hell of a highlight reel this last year
>accused of grooming some teenager in Second Life
>streamed himself fucking over his own guildmates during a hardcore raid in WoW that resulted in multiple character wipes he could have prevented, actively refused to take any blame despite the video proof he made himself, got kicked from the guild later
>went out of his way to misrepresent the Stop Killing Games initiative, refused any attempts by Ross to have a respectful discussion or debate, actively attacked him and the initiative live during streams, almost singlehandedly cratered the movement until Ross actually called him out on his bullshit, resulting in the massive wave of support it has now
>posted the OP pic in response to hi getting called the fuck out by Ross on top of lying about how he totally would have had a discussion with him before the rabid fanboys hurt his feefees
He's just a complete and total faggot. Unrelated but he unironically says "stay frosty" during his streams and videos, he's a fucking loser.

>>714469554
those guys didn't destroy their hands from playing melee. they destroyed their hands from playing video games 15 hours a day nonstop for years. this is NOT something any of us will ever have to worry about... unless ofc you are playing video games all day every day

>>714429887
>It's also primarily Ludwig who was involved with it.
That makes it even worse.

>>714469697
But why is it only Melee doing that and not other fighting games? Why aren't Street Fighter players who live and breathe that game ending up with nerve damage? Some of them have been playing for decades

>>714469768
two reasons. no one plays more than melee autists and melee is more tech heavy (for lack of a better word) than any of those games. so you are right in a way, it IS melee but theres obviously a bit more to it than just that. anyone can play melee and be fine. but youd be a fool to expect to play melee as much as hax has in such short periods of time without having issues. its like blaming the alcohol for destroying some persons health and not the alcoholic.

>>714469727
Ludwig is in the TO mafia. Without offbrand, I dont think they could get themselves into evo and stuff. Sometimes you just gotta work with with the devil.

>>714470026
EVO is happy to have a token game for the Smash viewers

>>714470115
Smash viewers dont care about some indie without bing bing wahoo game. They yearn for steve vs snake finals

>>714469768
l-cancelling + movement in melee is a lot more frantic/back and forth and you had to play with a gamecube controller for the longest time whereas in sf, arcade sticks provided a way to rest your hands and give space to not cramp up pressing any of your buttons (assuming 8 button layout, 4 per row).

>>714469998
>its like blaming the alcohol for destroying some persons health and not the alcoholic
If the alcoholic applied their addictive personality something else it probably would have caused less harm. It's why I don't drink
But beyond the seriousness of hand damage, making the game harder without any real benefit (e.g. adding a hard but optional technique to the existing game would be beneficial and add to player expression) would just gatekeep and reduce the playercount. Fighting games are hard to play even when the inputs are easy, between mental stack and knowledge checks and reactions time, but what would making the player fight to get their inputs to come out in the first place add?

>>714470251
>if they did meth it would be less harmful

>>714470251
i disagree i think if my suggestion were implemented in rivals 2 the player count would increase (if implemented correctly). people would hate it at first but would fall in love with it with time. also i disagree with adding difficulty not adding any real benefit... to a literal fighting game. thats just an objectively incorrect take

>>714470715
>people would hate it at first but would fall in love with it with time
I'd like to hear your reasoning for this. Personally speaking I hate when my intentions in a fighting game clash against a tight execution window and I get hit or drop my combo for it. The character I play in GBVSR—a game with a generous input window and optional one-button specials—has an unbufferable 1f link in one of his BnBs, and finding myself forced to go for it in situations where I can't convert with anything else and need it to kill, then failing to get it, is endlessly frustrating. I would change the game to make that link bufferable in a heartbeat if I could, I like the mindgames and mental stack aspect of fighting games but not the "input this in 1/60th of a second or eat shit" aspect of older games that predate regular input buffers.

>>714418231
He became the villain for us..
He was a Martyr..
And a true.. Gamer!

>>714470715
>but would fall in love with it with time
Melee train has sailed, bro. There will be no game, ever where you can have buggy, shitty mess and require you to execute technique that gives you hand aids and people be okay with it. And even if they were to add it, meleefags will still play melee.

>>714471313
ENTER

>>714471538
2 more weeks!

>reddit screenshot

>>714471723
My bad! I should've posted the trailer. Or a screenshot. Or some concept art. Haha. Oh wait.

>>714471792
reddit post

>>714470883
the way melee works is, the links/bnb's/combos with tight execution and barely any room for error arent really required but are more of a bonus. the faster you play the more you are rewarded, the more frame perfect you are the more you are rewarded. the harder your inputs are the more you are rewarded. melee is just a game that rewards you for playing the hard way in an optional way and its why the game feels so satisfying to play. on top of rewarding you for playing faster/more frame perfect it also rewards you for having a good sense of neutral/fundamentals and punishes you for playing in a spammy way. i would like to see some of these things in rivals 2. currently everything in rivals 2 just feels so braindead easy and it makes the game no fun to play as a result.

>>714419774
this is going to turn me into a furry, isn't it?

>>714472393
only one way to find out, anon

>>714417895 (OP)
Breed

>like the furry girls
>don't want to play a multiplayer platform fighter
oh well

>>714472393
If you have to ask you're already partway there

>>714423456
Just stop lying. It costs you nothing to be honest.

>>714421425
A man would take responsibility and admit when he's wrong. This faggot furry is literally the furthest thing possible from that.

>>714428532
>he made a good point
May we see it?

>>714433895
The rainbow flag and the LGBT movement are. But you are not arguing in good faith anyway and we both know it.

>>714442803
People in the real world are disgusted by faggots. Go outside sometimes.

>>714417895 (OP)
This furfaggot even lied about review bombing LOL

>>714475998
Only in your shitskin degenerate hellhole, monkey.

>>714418415
He was a proud american patriot trying to fight back against communism.

naked and best