What killed Skullgirls?

>>715071054 (OP)
Censorship.

Backstabbing scheming women

>>715071054 (OP)
The fact that they were petty enough to go back and censor the art book

>>715071054 (OP)
they stopped making content

>>715071054 (OP)
Skullgirls was the project of a horny indian.
No horny indian, no skullgirls.

society not accepting it

>>715072976
>they stopped making content and started censoring it instead

It's a fucking tag fighting game bro, it's the niche subgenre of a niche genre. Even cunny couldn't save it.

>>715071054 (OP)
>fighting game that made trannyism normal in the FGC
>why did it fail
big think

skullgirls can never die

Remember that the chick that nuked Skullgirls now works on Deltarune
Toby Fox rape allegations this year

Not saying it was a bad game, but it never felt like a finished game when I played it.

>>715073156
>horny indian
Mike Z is a New York jew.

>>715071545
>>715073820
What did Kinuko do? Thought everything was that one fag's fault.

>>715071337
This. Why is it so hard to accept such a simple fact? People don't like it when prudes come into their space.

>>715071054 (OP)
>be a nerd that loves fighting games and hot ladies in games
>decide to make a game about that
>game gets traction and support from similar nerds
>everything is perfect
>women start looking at main nerd because he is "famous now"
>nerd feels happy about getting attention from women and lets them in his dream project
>women slowly start changing shit
>nerd loves the attention of women so much he lets them do whatever and starts fighting other nerds telling him the game is getting worse
>nerd goes full SJW because of women
>women get enough evidence to out the nerd as a creep forcing the nerd out of the project
>women and sjw own the game now
>they now can add and remove everything they want
Skullgirls is the proof that women ruin literally anything they touch and they shouldn't be allowed in gaming studios, also this is proof that a nerd will change everything he says and believes for a crumb of attention, not even sex, just female aproval

>>715073920
kek, the left eating their own

>>715071054 (OP)
gullible autist unable to navigate through femoid scheming and office politics had everything taken away from him
many such cases

>>715074238
Didn't the bitch that cried sexual harassment send Mike sexually charged messages in the first place? I swear when women smell autism, they become full fledged manipulators, more so than usual.

>>715071054 (OP)
Unironically censorship.

>game is called Skullgirls
>is killed by women

pottery

>>715074048
Conspiracy to steal the company's business by turning Mike into a sacrifice, forming a new company and petitioning the publisher to switch to them.
She and the HR girl made the rookie mistake of planning their conspiracy on the company slack so Mike had logs of everything and countersued them.

It should be illegal to take away content from a game like the devs did.

>>715073820
Why would you even work with someone like that
Is toby retarded

>>715075086
why do you even ask

>>715071054 (OP)
Censoring the artbook was too much of a middle finger to the fans, it was actively taking away something that they had paid for. Besides that, they put too many chips on their mobileslop department instead of churning out more characters and stages, but by then the actual ideas guy from the team was pushed away and the well was nearly dry.
SG is not dead dead of course, a fun and good game will always have fans, but it's never gonna make a comeback unless everything goes back to how it used to be.
>>715074737
Life imitates art

>>715074238
not false but certainly not true
>the main backstabbing "hot ladies" in question, were actually in the team early on, as animators
>financial troubles way before the takeover, including first autumn games publisher, fumbled indivisible kickstarter, and its eventual troubled development and release
>alex ahad, the lead art behind skullgirls, was dismissed, presumably in a "take this money and keep your mouth shut" sort of way
>mike z, being a tech autist, said cringy shit which was used to fuck him over both legally and clout-wise
this is not an excuse for anything that happenned, keep your hate towards HR and any women in the same working space flowing
but i don't wanna hear you say it's exactly like that one mspaint comic complaining about bitches and normalfags

It's a shit game made by an autistic jew GG player(GG players should never make games) with a worse secondary problem than guilty gear and with the only people actually consistently playing it being people such as sonic fox throughout all these years.

>>715073920
Mike Z was the programmer, not the guy that wrote and drew the game.
And like the jew he is he backstabbed the man with the ideathinking he could overtake the project. Then he got metooed by the carrion eaters.

>>715075086

Because Toby can easily wipe her off the map if she tries to do anything. He isnt like Mike who was already in hot water after the Floyd joke.

>>715075086
Toby is too high up the totem pole to be manipulated by someone who he only hired to do art under the actual art lead.
He probably doesn't even interact with her except at an arms distance.
As to why hire her? Probably just looked at her credentials rather than any drama she was the creator of.

>>715075465
What are you talking about retard this was always mainly Mike's project he just got ahad to help.

>>715074547
yes
>>715075330
you are correct, but the greentext is still mostly true, also after Mike got "metoo'd" more and more people joined with the cringe ideology, they removed even more stuff and added the furry, etc,etc, etc. Didn't they years and years after everything still patched the game censoring the artbook?

>>715075465
He didn't want to but was "forced" into firing Ahad by the rest of the company, he was a retard who tried to keep the peace with a bunch of backstabbing rats instead of sticking to his guns and got fucked over in a poetic display of karma.

>>715075664
yes-yes, not!nazi armbands, pantyshots, artbooks -- all adjusted in the name of ${current year}, as if anybody besides the ideologues in the studio would actually care, considering how niche the game really is
i am not arguing against the max payne post, just saying that it's half-truth at best, which can be worse than a full-on lie, depending on who you ask

Is there any hope of skullgirls returning to its former glory? Other than a saudi arabian billionaire buying the IP?

>>715071054 (OP)
it was never good

>>715076317
atleast the sexy arts were

mediocre ryona animations

>>715075664
One correction to that, Mike is the retard who added the furry and called him a friend etc etc., then he got backstabbed by him immediately. People on steam kept telling him to remove him and that his inclusion was bad for the game's reputation.

>>715075664
>Didn't they years and years after everything still patched the game censoring the artbook?
Yes, everything that MikeZ and Alex Ahad made was defaced, censored or removed YEARS after they had lastly touched the project. The new management unironically looked at what was a slightly-above average tag-animu titty fighter and they said:
>"If we sanitize this IP for a [MODERN AUDIENCE] we can turn this into a shitty mobileslop game and earn loads'a'money!"

All they ended up with was a toxic development studio that broke more than they fixed or added to the game, legal troubles, PR nightmares and 2ish IPs that were both dead shortly after they started messing with them.

>>715071054 (OP)
i cant beat tutorial...
nice arts tho

>>715071054 (OP)
whatever happened to this disgusting faggot nigger?

>>715071054 (OP)
You, by not entering mix masters today.

>>715076814
Got a plush :3 https://youtooz.com/products/sonicfox-plush-9-inch

>>715076941
I'm not clicking that.

>>715076941
Hello faggot

>>715071054 (OP)
The Skullgirls curse. You shouldn't have censored those panty shots all those years ago.

>>715071054 (OP)
nortubel crossover killed skullgirls

>>715071054 (OP)
I bought it yesterday so I will keep it alive

>Game who's entire hook and popularity was the character designs/art
>fire the artist
>censor the game
Gee dunno

>>715075592
You have that backwards.
Skullgirls was Skullgirls long before Mike ever joined.

>>715074238
lol I remember when everyone loved Kinuko because she was asian, bi and drew hot anime girls
how the times change

Fun fact: Mariel Cartwright, the bitch who killed Skullgirls, worked on Deltarune Chapter 3 & 4 as an animator.

>>715075086
toby can crush her like a bug if she gets any funny ideas

>>715077412
Deltarune is going to die too then, isn't it?

>>715075592
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVE1Zj1mgzs
https://skullgirls.fandom.com/wiki/SkullgirlS#Gameplay
Ahad made a very shitty demo of Skullgirls far before meeting Mike, who came to him to turn it into MvC2.

>>715077464
the same scene posted in that post got censored less than a week after the chapter released

>no one is posting sexy girls
damn this place did become normie central

>>715077253
>praised by gameplay
>programmed by autistic pro fgc player
>fire the coder

>>715077513
I know, cowardice itself

>>715075592
No nigger Alex had the skullgirls concept long before the game existed, Mike was the codemonkey who had the ability to bring it to life

>>715077412
Toby should know better being a /v/fag himself. Even if he doesn't interact with her it's like keeping a jar of bedbugs in your house.

sonicfox is a guro faggot btw.

>>715077517
We're talking, coomer. Alien concept but it does happen on here now and then.

>>715075086
Deltarune fans would genuinely eat her alive if she tried something like that. They were already growing rabid during the wait between 2 and 3+4. Just wait and see what they would do if they found out that someone made them wait indefinitely for the rest because of an accusation.

>>715077517
more proof that skullgirls is dead beyond revival
at least the r34 is still there

>>715075475
>>715075560
>>715077448
>This fucking cope
Were you fuckers hatched from an egg in the last couple of months? Woman's word is fucking law. They had literal screencaps of their conversations plotting against the guy and they still got away with everything.
And they're so fucking spiteful that I could see her getting her hands on future development and leaking it to cause drama, because again, the fucking screencaps have shown them to be as duplicitous as they are cruel.

>>715077701
if I had the money I would buy the IP and bring the fanservice back.

>steam deleted all the negative reviews

>>715077660
this is a imageboard and im a coinsure mam
>>715077701
skullgirls was supported by the arts. and now it withers away only its boring gacha beatem up to remember it by

>>715077867
Mine is still there.

>>715077513
I haven't reached that far into the game yet (bought it yesterday) but what was so bad about the old scene that they had to censor it and what is the context here? Is Noelle supposedly getting "raped"?

I assume that this is the genocide route since so far everyone has been happy'go'lucky for me (I've just reached the three ro/bros store after winning by getting them all to dance), the only seemingly "disturbing" hing I've seen so far is the fakeout just at the end of Chapter 1 where Toby implied that Kriss is a murderhobo regardless of what choices you make.

>>715077513
Yep and now all hype for chapter 5 is gone. Whether or not you attribute this to the Skullgirls curse, I leave for you to decide.

>>715077949
nta. afaik you need to edit your review to count again.

>>715077873
I just want an actually-happened story mode
is that so much to ask??

>>715077448
>>715077587
just wait until enough zoomoids and tumblrettes discover his history with ero games and being a perv
if he has balls, he tells them to fuck off

>>715078075
Thanks for heads up.

>>715077986
the final sprite animation of the flower got removed because it is literally "deflowering" and troons around the world cried rape, so they removed it completely

>>715078210
Everyone on /v/ and /utg/ assumed it meant rape as well

>>715078101
yeah its weird. they dont want to go with another story but more whatif a guy worked with the skullgirls sorta of deal.

the story from the main game is fine as the skullheart gives player's what they desire or not

>>715078101
the true story mode is about how I married to Filia. I thought Samson would be annoying but has been a cool guy so far.

Squiggly best girl.

>>715075475
>He isnt like Mike who was already in hot water after the Floyd joke.
Toby "Radiation" fox has said the nigga word repeatedly.

>>715078278
it is, and it actually gives the scene a powerful meaning and made it more serious, Toby should've put his foot down and keep it, removing it only caused more drama and now he is looked at as more of a bitch, the people that complained originally still won't support him because "it is too late" and now more people are against him for removing it.
Still he will make millions

>>715078138
>if he has balls
he doesnt, he posted a bunch of blm donation links in his twitter during the jesus floyd riots after people spammed him enough for being racist due to not talking about it
taking the least attrition path with these people always fucks you over, he will know soon enough

>>715078210
>>715078278
So the webm posted is the uncensored version? What the FUCK are people crying about? If the scene still looks exactly the same minus the flower then the implication hasn't changed at all unless your a sub-80 IQ mouth breather that can't understand subtext.

It changes nothing and only shows that Toby is a massive fucking pussy for going along with such a pointless fucking change.

>>715078529
>If the scene still looks exactly the same minus the flower then the implication hasn't changed at all unless your a sub-80 IQ mouth breather that can't understand subtext.
Which makes it even funnier when it got changed because "it wasn't supposed to mean that" because it implies Toby Fox is a sub-80 IQ mouthbreather that can't understand subtext.

>>715078529
you answered your own post

>>715074870
Did Mike win?

Incredibly cursed game indeed.

>>715078519
Should have just ignored them and rode it out

>>715078726
Doesn't go to court until next year.

>>715075086
Toby is rich and popular enough that he's functionally immune to bring canceled.
Also if by some miracle she managed to get Deltarune shut down, I'm pretty sure she would be murdered within a week by a rabid fan.

>>715071054 (OP)
It being woke shit made by woke devs. Feminism only knows how to kill and eat their own. Never censor and never bend the knee.

>>715078603
>"it wasn't supposed to mean that"
If that is true then he isn't a retard, just a massive fucking coward that don't have enough of a backbone to backup his artistic vision, it's impossible for him to just stumble into a situation like this on accident unless he's an extremely shitty writer that only adds stuff to be shocking instead of meaningful which at this point in his career seems unlikely, he might not be "good" but he isn't so bad at it that the entirety of both Undertale and Chapters Deltarune C1-2 are flukes.
Although, he does kinda seem like a onetrick pony IMO.

>>715078454
a good girl with a good butt

>>715079361
It wouldn't surprise me if he originally wanted the scene to be more ambiguous, and the literal deflowering made the rape too obvious.

>>715077769
Unlike the circumstances of lab zero, Toby is the sole owner of the project. He can terminate Mariels contract work, there is no room for her to try to make a power play to wrestle control of his project away.
The worst she can do is levy an accusation at someone who has no physical contact with her since the entire team works out of their own home and not a fucking office.
The fanbases of homestuck and beyond would also crucify Mariel for tabling a false accusation. They're far more rabid than the FGC should have been. But SG was small potatoes and many members of the community and staff were and still are pushovers.

>>715077867
>the review score still has the asterisk to denote that Jewish trickery was afoot.

I am so tired of these devs getting their slimy hands on these games, and they will always get away with it

I removed the game from my account after they censored the art book I paid for, The retarded furry was just another strike on them.

>>715071545
You could've just said women.

THE ICE AGE

>>715079892
>The fanbases of homestuck and beyond would also crucify Mariel for tabling a false accusation
This is how I know you have no idea what you are talking about. Part of the reason Homestuck went down the toilet was because Hussie began associating with crazy women who often collaborated as side artists.

Women were a mistake

>>715080349
Except for my mom.

>>715071054 (OP)
>Tutorial stage background character is a hot teacher lady in a skirtsuit and glasses
>They replace her with a gay furry nigger

>>715080107
holds my rage

>>715080523
reminder they hate you and want you to suffer

>>715080523
Didn't they make her a playable character?

>>715071054 (OP)
>Fight tooth and nail with the community to keep this gay nigger in the game because hes some hot shit player or something
>The moment shit hit the fan he was one of the first people to crucify Mike online
Has this dogfucker killed himself yet by the way?

>>715080523
Its a 50:50 of which version of the stage you get

>>715071054 (OP)
At it's best, it was only on life support. Shit was cursed from the get go.

>>715079892
>The fanbases of homestuck and beyond would also crucify Mariel for tabling a false accusation.
I've never understood the absolute cults of fan bases the Homestuck, Undertale and now Deltarune are.
What exactly makes them so extremely popular with the mentally deranged? They are all just cookie-cutter teen dramas with, at best, slightly above average writing and "cutesy" art.

You could pretty much just go to any library and then find a section that is written for teens and randomly pull any book of the shelf and you would arguably get the exact same experience out of it minus the absolutely rabid fans.
I also don't understand the "shipping" in these communities either, I've never interacted with anything Homestuck (thank the lord for that) but Undertales themes are clearly centered around the very thing you see repeated over and over again in the game "D E T E R M I N A T I O N" and so far I've yet to see anything even hinting at romance in Deltarune except for the first Chapter 2 scene that is supposed to be a throwaway gag about how (You) a clearly MALE character is going to spend some alone time in a small cramped closet with a FEMALE character and how the painfully naive other FEMALE character is trying to come out of her shell and be friendly towards someone who she is obviously afraid of.

I've yet to finish chapter 2 but I can't imagine Toby being so creatively bankrupt that he plays into the fanbases delusions just to make a buck off of their delusions.

>>715078519
I think he apologize for the tdlr eat shit faggots for that one romhack game granted he was young we all had edgy phases he could said nigger and I would still play his games

>>715081414
I don't care if he was a 100 year old ex nazi ss officer. I'd still play his game because I'm not a redditor who can't seperate art from artists.

>>715071054 (OP)
PEACOCK!

>>715078751
These people are everything but persistent
The moment they smell someone not following along they will backstab them just to make them an example out of them

>>715081830
and her big ass combos

>>715081028
faggotfox was a cameo and many people would have let it pass if it was like 5%. but 50%? hell no.

skullgirls quite literally has never been more popular, it's more active than most old games of the same age. a better question is does anyone here even fucking play the game to warrant even talking in this thread?

>>715080306
>Part of the reason Homestuck went down the toilet was because Hussie began associating with crazy women
this is the exact opposite of what happened, homestuck went down the toilet because he was on a giga anti-sjw arc and kept inserting that politics into his writing.

my beautiful and kind wife, Cassandra

>>715082445
that maimed pos that calls itself Skullgirls isn't Skullgirls

>>715082445
I used to play it a lot. I supported the game fundraiser. I drew art and I participated in a lot of threads.
censorship ruined everything. I don't feel like playing anymore.
I haven touched the mobile version in like 2 years.

>>715081381
Skullgirls had hot monster girls and edgy plot.
Homestuck followed successful webcomic from same author and was really great at first, until dropping off hard.
Undertale and Deltarune are just well-written stories with likable characters.

>>715082626
why dont you post her on here often?

>>715082445
>/v/
>playing games
how new?

>>715082653
there are no devs that work on skullgirls anymore they all quit, the only people that care about the game are people that have been playing it for 10+ years and host weekly tournaments for it that consistently gets new players to learn the game.

>>715082445
>Never been more popular
>Current playerbase is less than half the average from before the game was completely fucked over by the new management
lol, lmao even. You can't lie about this shit when literally anyone can look up the games numbers on steamcharts

>>715082897
you literally do not know how to read graphs

>>715082829
Okay, but why is the majority of their fanbases to completely unhinged then? Zelda is also a very popular IP, especially with girls/women yet it's not nearly as bad as the 3 IPs you mentioned. Even Pokemon isn't as bad yet it's one of the most rabid communities on the internet.

>>715082305
Agree, I dont mind him, but 50% is too much for a cameo. I cant remember how many times Ive had to explain to friends who try the game why there's a faggot furry in that stage.
>>715082445
I still play it now and then, it's one of my favorite games, but there is a bitter sensation that comes with knowing the bullshit behind it and why it will likely never grow or get sequels.

>>715083278
i never thought skullgirls should have ever gotten a sequel but i can be happy knowing that all the devs quit without getting paid and the game somehow got dlc characters. now we have one of the best tag fighters ever made with an active playerbase

>>715083189
Japanese led fanbases, people follow by example

>>715071545
My goodness that's idiotic. I heard about the game itself being censored, but the artbook?

>>715083187
Yikes.

>>715075849
Mike was specifically socially retarded. Mike's just autistic and like most autists, he was really, really, REALLY easy to take advantage of and swindle just by coaxing him to put his foot in his mouth and banking on him not knowing how to navigate all the intricacies of public controversy.

>>715082897
The game's had a steady playerbase for over a decade. It's impressive for a fighting game community to be that dedicated especially in a genre so susceptible to hype and 'current game syndrome'.

>>715083674
you do not understand how good this is for a fighting game thats 13 fucking years old

>>715082835
because /v/ is a bad place that doesn't deserve her
also /v/ is more obsessed with Fillia, for obvious reasons

>>715083890
I like Feng more.

>>715083189
tumblr attracts the mentally ill and they refuse to get better

>>715083979
that's pretty based

>>715084162
communities in general don't get better they just get invaded by people that never liked the original fandom or thing they follow. and then complain "now is worse"... than what they expected.

>>715083890
v maybe bad but its our home. our smelly dirty home for us gamers

I can't believe they replaced the milf teacher with a furry.

>>715084364
Hey, I like Undetale (and Deltarune so far) and I'm not afraid to say it, but I'd rather have Toby personally kick me in the balls with steel tipped boots than have anyone think that I have any affiliation with anyone in the games fandoms, I don't want to ever have to interact with any of them.

>>715077528
>praised by gameplay
This is the kind of ESL I'd expect from the kind of revisionist negroid that'd say Skullgirl's gameplay was ever worthy of praise.

>>715083770
You're on borrowed time, anon. Enjoy it until the money starts to dry up and the blue hairs find another "Problematic" game to latch onto.

>>715084789
is one of the few western games that can stand on gameplay alone. specially in the FG genre where even mk after so many years is still a joke.

btw I bet I have less melanin than you.

>>715084974
i too love moving goal posts, but yes i will keep playing skullgirls until the last person other than myself gets off. cause i actually play video games instead of posting steam charts in 4chan threads. kill yourself faggot.

>>715084789
>Skullgirl's gameplay was ever worthy of praise.
how is it not? it's the last tag fighter with an insane variety of characters that all play completely differently, is incredibly balanced where you can practically run any team you want, has an astronomically high skill ceiling and matches are actually different from one another. it's unironically one of the best fighting games ever made from a pure gameplay perspective.

>>715071054 (OP)
Just realised I have this game in my library. Purchased it years and years ago. Checked the discussions tab, saw this exchange
>Is this version uncensored?
>Yes, but it's an inferior version of the game. If all you care about is lewd girls fighting and not, you know, GAMEPLAY, by all means play it
All I care about is lewdness, so I guess I'll play this version

>>715082445
>has never been more popular
>hemmoraged a huge portion of the already small playerbase that actively is exhausted with all the fake posturing and tiptoeing around eggshells over every single slight transgression
>many oldheads have straight up moved on or are so entrenched that they can't
Without Mike and Alex, the game doesn't have an actual driving force behind it. Its just money chasing, if the gacha wasn't already a big enough red flag for that.

>>715078454
uhh bro shes like 15??

>>715085902
she's dead.

>>715085848
the gacha funds were used directly for giving the game more characters though
>of the already small playerbase that actively is exhausted with all the fake posturing and tiptoeing around
this literally does not happen anywhere but the official discord, and those faggots do not play the game, and everyone that does actively tells you to not go in there.

>>715085978
oh alright thats fine then

>>715078726
I can't imagine that he wouldn't. The chat logs are insanely damaging if not outright bordering on demonic. Like Jesus Christ, how can you be friends with someone for years and then openly plot to not only steal his IP and connections from him, but to form a new mirror company in the process and leave him with all of the old company's debt, much of which was created through the settlement you're obligated to pay by FORCING THE OUSTING OF THE OTHER PREVIOUS OWNER THAT YOU PLOTTED AGAINST.

>>715083770
Anon Xrd was always the poser’s choice. It’s not indicative of anything.

>>715071054 (OP)
age goddamnit
it's 13 years old already
games don't live that long unless they are sf2 or melee

>>715075592
Alex was drawing the skullgirls characters as far back as the early 00s. I remember seeing his art at Andy Helms site twenty years ago:
https://web.archive.org/web/20050206193414/http://www.atomictoy.org:80/dump/fila.jpg

>>715085659
>it's unironically one of the best fighting games ever made from a pure gameplay perspective.
This is why no one takes SGfags seriously lmao

>>715086351
i picked xrd because thats a game i actively play, bbcf gets about the same numbers as skullgirls, heck skullgirls gets way more than uni's and uni actually gets new versions. skullgirls does great numbers for how old it is.

>>715075086
Because he agrees with them. In case internet history slipped you by, starmen.net's inclination towards that kind of thing predates even Tumblr's.

>>715086387
nta to think I supported thi things since forever.
I liked alex's drawings of Annie back in 2007 in deviantart.
shit sucks.

>>715075330
You forgot that the teams financial manager was the first to get "dismissed", with a generous golden parachute as well, apparently he saw the writing on the wall years before it happened.

Alex was getting fucked with the Indivisible designs and had his work bastardized by the animator bitches, so he got a generous severance package and quit as well.

I'm really annoyed that Alex's work ended up being taken away from him forever, but I'm at least glad that he got both fame and fortune out of it. Dud makes several k a month from his patreons.

>>715086496
tell me what your favorite fighting game is or what you think is a contender for one of the best, and i will kill you if you say third strike.

>>715086070
>this literally does not happen anywhere but the official discord
No, that happens at in person tournaments too.
I should know, I used to go to them and even had some top 8 placements under my belt.
Going to tournaments used to be a fun time to play with friends on person. But there was way too much tension over inane shit that wouldn't bother a well adjusted adult.
I basically only confided this sentiment to 1 other person in the flesh before I dipped out for good, and he shared a similar sentiment on how the dynamic feels less enjoyable to participate in unless you only interact with people you are on friendly terms with going in.
The last thing anyone wants on what should be treated like a vacation is unnecessary stress, and adult children with fragile sensibilities looking for a reason to start a fight isn't worth it. Im not paying travel/lodging to go babysit

>>715083770
+R has less people than xrd, yet, it doesnt take 3 hours to find someone because of shitty player lobby system

>>715086608
i just know your lying cause people have no problem mentioning mikeZ during any mixmasters and that has been going on weekly for years now. i think youre lying.

>>715086523
What I think this actually means is that anime airdashers don’t appeal to most people and that tag games are way more liked in general but that’s just me. I mean even DBFZ which got completely ruined by its final patch still gets 400-500 a day or so.

>>715085659
It was balanced in team games but not individual characters, it relied on teams to get around huge weaknesses that each characters have. For ex. Valentine has no anti air and the balding rassler faggot has an oppressive jumping punch and a super that covers the entire width of the arena in 0 frames (if you weren't already blocking when the move is done, you get hit).

>>715086839
it's hard for me to agree with this when tag fighters, especially tag fighters like skullgirls are big ego crushers with just how fucked up they can actually be, but maybe youre right.

>>715086605
Arcana Heart

>>715086932
>For ex. Valentine has no anti air
why are you trying to anti air as valentine when you have some of the best air normals in the entire game? solo val works cause she can move around in the air and control that space better than most characters in the game.

I don’t understand why they made it a fighting game. Make it an adventure game or RPG or something if you’re going to loredump that much.

>>715087045

>>715087045
fair enough

I'm a tekkenfag with blinders, was skullgirls ever actually a popular game and played as a game or was it always just WOW SEXY GIRLS AND TIE IN BY MY FAVORITE PORN ANIMATION MAKER ZONE?

>>715087085
>why are you trying to anti air as valentine when you have some of the best air normals in the entire game?
Because every opponent is jumping in against Valentine on account of her having best normals but weak anti air.

>>715087216
like i said why are you staying on the ground as valentine, take to the skies bro.

>>715086812
This isn't about Mike, retard. This predates the drama, even.

>>715081381
Homestuck was very heavily themed around the internet of its time, which does set it apart from any random YA novel, along with its distinct formatting

>>715087208
It was the most popular indie game on account of having insane animation in HD res, Capcom teasing a new Darkstalkers but then not releasing anything ever, getting tons of new DLCs, an extremely detailed training mode, and an autismo constantly working on balancing it right for years and years and years.

>>715086968
They are but I think the skill floor on tag games is a lot lower and easier to have fun with even if you suck (and lots of people do). On the other side of it people will look at 10 second long Blazblue BnBs or UNI turning a jab into half your lifebar and their eyes will just glaze over.
All that being said, you’re right that Skullgirls is remarkably resilient, though I also think that the game’s reputation has been damaged, likely beyond repair, after all the drama.

>>715087362
second I do that I get hit by whatever anti air every other characters has, that assuming I can even get off the ground when this faggot is spamming this move constantly.

>>715087584
ehhh but skullgirls is also a 6 button game, with long combos, and unreactable mixups as a baseline with long combos and explosive damage as well. but i also agree that it's reputation is super damaged, it's a cursed game. but i'm just glad it still exists after all the bad

>>715071054 (OP)
I don't recall it ever being alive outside of one or two Youtube ads. I have legit never seen anyone play this.

>>715074737
>women
they're men in drag

>>715071054 (OP)
>Sonicfox's fursona in the game
Do westoid fighters really?

>>715087879
sadly kikuno is real and hot. but still a demon.

>>715071054 (OP)
>extremely fucked up dev drama where the whole team conspired to take an autistic sperg programmers dream game away from him
>retarded censorship of a fucking smut game that was one tiny notch away from being an eroge regardless
>The gameplay being a fucking dogshit standing reset simulator where you get knowledge checked by a thousand different potential mixups when you opponent decides to arbitrarily reset you because you have fuck all protection from anything at any point

Its a mystery

>>715075086
There's evidence of Toby saying slurs and shit, and even (rather questionable) plagiarism. The only thing that could actually take him down is him raping someone or being transphobic.

>>715088176
the trick to not getting reset is to not be put in that situation in the first place, it's a very neutral heavy game, the potential to reset to get around undizzy is the reward. just get better at not getting hit.

>>715088046
need pics to confirm

>>715075086
Toby put the "SO SORRY" paid backer character in a room without any hints of its existence that it only accesible for like one minute every year.

He knows how to deal with retards, and he's also so beloved that frankly no allegations would stick especially with a community so terminally online and autistic they'd have the full receipts and know the bitch is a liar in a heartbeat. He's a man with nothing to fear.

>>715088441
just look for: mariel kinuko carlright.

>>715088225
the plagiarism stuff is literally just one schizo that spams here who probably doesn't even have ears

>>715085659
>is incredibly balanced
They made an elaborate infinite combo checker system on account of the game being completely fucking broken with everyone having an infinite combo. The game is basically a race of whoever gets the first hit in, then whether they can bait you into fucking up your combo breaker, then repeating it.

Would've been much better if you had combo breaker specials tied to your meter, and the meter rising rapidly when you get hit.

>>715088745
I was about to post just this comment yeah, there is nothing close to plagiarism its actually just one guy who is probably ACTUALLY medically tone deaf

>>715071054 (OP)
For me it's the shitty art direction in the first place.

>>715088835
if they are baiting your burst you can literally just not burst and you take back your turn. burst baits are mostly for people mashing reversals.

>>715088416
The trick to not getting throw looped in SF5/SF6 is not getting hit, you can say this about literally any post-hit situation in any game.

Every game is equally good and bad if no post-neutral situation can be questioned lol

>>715089150
i mean if you throw out all the nuances of said game yeah, but we're also playing a tag game where characters have a variety of defensive tools at their disposal when you are in said situation, there are tags that get out of mixups entirely, armored moves, reversals, and you know, you could fucking mash cause not every mixup is safe and relies on you being scared to press anything. where throw loops put you in a situation where you ACTUALLY die for guessing wrong. the game is built around being reset yes but you are retarded to think there are not ways to get out of said situation, there is literally a fucking player where all he does is tag into cerebella to get out of mixups any chance he gets.

>>715088559
holy mother of mid

>>715089653
also doesn't factor in that pushblocking gives you absolute guard so characters with resets built into their strings get directly countered

>>715087208
No it was literally never popular or played by alot of people barring maybe it's release month. Some dumbasses may SAY it was because it was an indie fighter with more than 50 people playing after release week but it absolutely was not. Skullgirls' situation was that 99% only posted art and talked about shit instead of playing such as with GG.

>>715071054 (OP)
Being too difficult to pick up. It died even before its first EVO showing where the finals were Duckator and a literal combo autist where the autist only even made it to finals because he could tod people, the moment he fought someone with strong fundamentals he just crumbled. The entire rest of the competition were people who weren't even half as good as these two because the game was really fucking hard to play and (partially unintentionally) built around these touch of death combos. You both had to be really good at fighting games AND really good at Skullgirls specifically.

It got better later on but people weren't going to give it another chance, and why should they? It was still really hard to play, that never changed. There's a reason the mvc2 tourney scene was really fucking small, Mike should have taken the hint instead of going "I'll make my own, surely things will turn out differently".

>>715089832
not really, PBAG exists so you don't just get unblockabled for free over and over by a low assist and an overhead, resets force you to guess on the opening hit and you can't pushblock until you block, and are often left/rights anyway

>>715090246
i mean you should still be push blocking against dahlia and parasoul cause they often rely on their normals to open you up

I really liked this game because I was into monster girls back then. My favorite one was Adult Woman.

>>715087045
Based

>>715090221
i don't think he expected anything to turn out differently to be honest, he just wanted to make his perfect fighting game after being autistic about +r and mvc2

>>715071570
>The fact that they were petty enough to go back and censor the art book
got a link to the uncensored art book?

>>715071054 (OP)
Being too based.

You can play some pre censorship versions in Mugen IIRC. Which is very cool

>>715078454
True

>>715090416
whats your favorite monstergirl that pulled you in? double? marie?

>>715090397
yeah but those aren't really resets, just mid string mixups
the strength of PBAG is a big part of why SG is so reset heavy, instead of being about knockdown into oki like most other anime/hyper fighters, just reset them mid combo and they never get to use the defensive options

>>715077464
Deltatroon is literall transexual furry propaganda.
It was never alive.

noone plays this shit here so who cares what you niggers say

>>715091184
The one that really pulled me in was a proper tutorial in a fighting game

>>715071337
this

Still fucked up that Alex got fired from his own dream project. Dude had been working on these designs for decades. I can vaguely remember his posts from early deviantart days.
I'll miss Cerebella

>>715089701
you're just broken.
go outside.

>>715091761
that too. didnt think i'd use light medium and heavys to start combos

>>715091875
reap what you so when it comes down to it, don't gatekeep, get fucked

>>715091875
He probably didn't know about the consequences of postmodern leftism and its insistence on destroying male values

>>715091881
He's got a point. She hit the wall hard.

>>715091724
This. Still get confused when one of these threads popup and people talk about it getting killed when it was always a shitty discord fighter with maggots like dekillsage and sonicfox being the only ones shilling and actually playing it. Biggest accomplishment is being more played than the game mikez fawned over.

>>715088559
>japanese american
american then

>>715091875
At least some other people got a big leg up over the chain of events. Must feel amazing to go from Gamestop retail employee, to receptionist, to CEO of a company.

>>715092558
But then again, being CEO of a shitty company is not the most prestiigious thing...

>>715092303
>reap what you so when it comes down to it, don't gatekeep, get fucked
genuinely how was he suppose to know he was going to get astronomically fucked, he was just drawing pictures

>>715071054 (OP)
being an ultra niche fighting game? It's a genre that can have hardcore fans, but struggles to reach to normies like RTS

>>715077513
What exactly is censored?

I hope SonicFox is dead in a ditch in Africa right now.

>>715071054 (OP)
skullgirls was never good and never a thing

>>715094014
Shut up, you fucking retard.

>>715094014
Yet it highly influenced all the twitter shitter art style we all see today everywhere

>>715093314
>letting woman anywhere near you
that's where he fucked up

>>715081830
nice brat

>>715071054 (OP)
it was never alive. in the history of this games 800 re-releases, no one has ever played a single match of skull girls. its a blatant money laundering scheme and it's """"""fans"""" just jack off to the porn.

>>715073564
so niche thats why marvel is one of the most popular games ever

Cringe marvel worship combo ctuscenes aren't fun

peacock is one of the coolest characters ever made in a fighting game

>>715083770
There are other Guilty Gear games to choose from and newer ones to boot, there is no other Skullgirls. You are being a disingenuous faggot.

>>715095264
if only she wasnt so good with her supers. damn her combo game is on point

>>715095393
rev2 and +R are the only ones worth playing so not that much.

>>715095393
>There are other Guilty Gear games to choose from
>tourist thinks +r players are playing xrd
>and xrd players are playing strive
>and strive players are playing either
you are larping harder than your average guilty gear player on /v/, you are genuinely not old enough to be talking about any of these games

>>715095393
Stop correctly accusing him of working for Cartwright's team and trying to distort their victims' perception of the controversy, nerd-chud.

Short answer? Women

>>715095590
whats a women?

>>715095264
we love the ‘cock here

>>715073820
>>715075086
>chapters 6+7 release and the Susie x Noelle romance falls flat since it's built on an unhealthy attachment to Noelle's dead sister
>Toby mysteriously is hit with rape charges immediately after

>>715095393
>There are other Guilty Gear games to choose
ok? +r has double the playercount of xrd and that is the latest version of an old as fuck game, if we want a series with one definition game we can look at bbcf which does about as well as skullgirls while being near the same age. guilty gear players stick to their favorite version of guilty gear as well. +r players hate xrd, xrd players hate strive, and strive players will hate GG6

>>715095558
Irrelevant. It's still a franchise with players split among different games, comparing one to Skullgirls and saying "SEE SKULLGIRLS IS ALIVE AND WELL" is disingenuous. Hell, I'm an example of the split player base. I put the most time into Accent Core Plus on my fucking PSP.

>>715077682
>he unironically thinks a woman would ever face the consequences of her actions in current year
Keep dreaming

>>715095590
>play game about women
>complain about women

>>715096034
the franchise is not splitting any between any playerbase, these are all completely different games that are played for completely different reasons, the closest between 2 games is xrd and +r and guess what, when xrd came out +r players hated it and xrd got it's own fanbase. again you are too young to even know anything about these games. they unironically do not share a playerbase. fuck mikeZ literally has a blog post talking about how much he hates xrd
http://mikezsez.blogspot.com/2015/01/why-im-not-playing-ggxrd.html

>>715095735
I love the dedication this guy put into cock art.

>>715096225
/v/ users are all bitter incels what did you expect

>>715071054 (OP)
MikeZ himself.

>>715090887
https://nyaa.si/view/1690034
See this

>>715096262
>Some people hate some games in the franchise, which must mean none of these games share players with each other!
Retard.

>>715096524
xrd quite literally bombed anon, it almost destroyed arcsys if it wasn't for blazblue, and i'm saying this as someone who xrd is his favorite game. ALOT of people did not like xrd.

>>715077464
Would be funny as fuck and cement it as modern Homestuck

>>715096652
Doesn't that just prove my point that comparing the playerbase of the most hated Guilty Gear to Skullgirls is still a disingenuous way to pretend SG has a good playerbase for its age? It only has around 100 more players than something that almost killed a franchise.

>>715095558
+r and Xrd do share a decent chunk of their playerbases. Hard to say how much, but of the 7 people on my steam friends list that play Xrd regularly, 2 have +r in their recently played and 1 more has triple digit hours in it but hasn't opened it in the last two weeks
One had Strive in recently played

>>715096876
no? because a fresh new IP that came out 12 years ago doing better than the last (and good) version of guilty gear says something about skullgirls. especially after the fact strive and the subsequent rollback updates failed to bring in more people to the older games. also the game is doing just as well as other liked ips of the same time frame like blazblue. all i'm pointing out is that there is very little overlap between guilty gear games.

>>715097153
i genuinely would not say its a large chunk, there are obviously people that do, like me, but in my experience it's very rare to see people play even 2 out of the 3. everyone usually just sticks to their favorite.

>>715075475
>if she tries to do anything
That's still huge rep damage on a business level, until he can clear it off. And hey, isnt he working with his sweet vtuber darling Marine on covers? An idol oriented vtuber, nonetheless, wether it is true or not, the sex pest allegations will get himself quarantined for life out of his once in a lifetime chance to work with his favorite

>>715097589
>That's still huge rep damage on a business level
no? toby is way more famous than her, he can just not contract her anymore and never talk about it and people would not even know what happened.

>>715071054 (OP)
The incel CEO of Lab Zero and his lack of human interactions.
>>715073920
This piece of shit.

>>715097532
I don't think that many people play both games regularly side by side, but I do think somewhere between 10 and 40% of both game's players will have a main game they play most of the time, and then once in a while spend a week or a month playing mostly the other game instead before going back

>>715071337
fpbp

>>715097749
Having pending charges on you is a big ick for business, legit accusation or not, contractors and corpos dont want nothing but the safest, most risk-free deals themselves, and associating themselves with a possible criminal is no bueno, and even if toby can summon divine retribution on the spot to smite and turn her into a pillar of salt, that's still gonna affect business negatively

>>715071054 (OP)
original creators ousted, co-opted by trannies

>>715078493
I genuinely think Toby could put every slur in the book in Deltarune chapter 5 and get away with it

Why did they have to invent you, you could have been better…

>>715100508
she is better. her story mode was the funniest

>>715102246
More so meant trapt in skullgirls, especially past her peak. Fucking love this design…then again I can say the same shit for Valentine and Eliza.

>>715102392
a veteran mafia seductress who loves battle. with a prosthetic arm cannon? so cool

>>715103406
I want to do so many things to her and I want her to do so many things to me, but they are dreaded ideas most anons dislike as it involves certain acronyms, but yeah…just sad she wasn’t released earlier in the games lifespan or skullgirls just didn’t go down the shithole.

>>715104059
yeah shes a fun character with explosives. atleast she can ride the hag trend

>>715074870
Reminder that Kinuko is now working for Toby Fox.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DbBdlvGPkQ
MikeZ carried Mariel's career so hard it's not even funny

>>715071054 (OP)
leftist retards

>>715104575
If you hate the left so much why haven't you joined the military?

>>715086303
>Like Jesus Christ, how can you be friends with someone for years and then openly plot to not only steal his IP and connections from him, but to form a new mirror company in the process and leave him with all of the old company's debt, much of which was created through the settlement you're obligated to pay by FORCING THE OUSTING OF THE OTHER PREVIOUS OWNER THAT YOU PLOTTED AGAINST.

This is actually how a good portion of companies and "geniuses" get their start. They pull this exact kind of skullduggery and then ride the hype and drying respect until they either make it or collapse.

Never trust your business partner implicitly, and never talk too openly about ideas or projects you're working on. You'd be shocked by how much of the population would pull some "all's fair in love and war" nigger shit and try to ruin you.

It was never alive to begin with. There's more people interested in the drama than concurrent players.

>>715095264
Also one of the cutest
Love mob face girls, tomboys, sharp teeth and old timey toon aesthetics

>>715104901
>Never trust your business partner implicitly, and never talk too openly about ideas or projects you're working on. You'd be shocked by how much of the population would pull some "all's fair in love and war" nigger shit and try to ruin you.

that is true.
Used to work on a tech startup where the CEO once spoke proudly how he stole a deal behind his coworkers back by eavesdropping one of his phonecalls and going trough documents on his desk. They both have been working at the company for decades apparently.

I like jerking off to peacock's cunny, but that's where it ends for me

>>715104316
Forgot she was a hag…diamonds

>>715106009
her agility is deceiving

>>715077412
https://files.catbox.moe/dhismj.mp4

>>715106147
That it was cause of her fat rack…could be both…

>>715106405
not even her tech can support them. only a glass of wine and a lounger

>>715106587
Or m—damnit, said I wouldn’t do that.

>>715071337
^this

>>715106853
do what? grab her boobas?

>>715077483
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVE1Zj1mgzs
Crude but very souldful visuals.

>>715107757
Lewdpost, but yeah. Help her support them. I’m a degen so, would get that way pretty fast.

>>715104854
You sure showed him.

>>715104059
>it involves certain acronyms,
....what?

>>715071054 (OP)
It was tagshit.

Kinucakes's huge thighs.

>>715108098
me too. her storymode made me want her more

>>715095535
Xrd is the worst Guilty Gear game though. Just play BBCF it’s the same thing but better in every conceivable way.

>>715077091
i still got no idea what was the point of censoring the pantyshots. Of course panties will be flying when women wear skirts. Its not only a sex thing, its natural physics.

>>715108256
Tell you when we go out for drinks when your older

>>715108504
Her story mode was so gooddd…

>>715109350
yeah it was. her growing into a battle mobster was fun. the ending was even crazier

>>715109318
Woke went completely off the rails for years which is why the pendulum swung so hard to where we are now.
It’ll swing back eventually but anti-woke has won for at least half a decade.

>>715096146
>He thinks women and troons wouldn't tear each other apart at the first opportunity

>>715104854
what a weird comment

>>715074078
Prudes =/= "libtards"

>>715075592
it was both their dream project, ahad wanted skullgirls to be a fighting game from the start but had no idea how to make one but he knew how to draw really fucking well and had the cast and lore already thought about, mikeZ wanted to make his dream fighter and he's genuinely a genius programmer but he needed the art. skullgirls is the brainchild of 2 autistic people with opposite skill sets.

>>715077483
soulgirls