Skullgirls is just Heavy on Ubercharge

@@GamingCreed47 *The Medic salutes you*

I realise just like team fortress 2 Skullgirls refuses to die

@@mikeratomn3475 yeah but overwatch and paladins is on nick or neck on who goes dead first

​@@mikeratomn3475 ive compared sg to tf2 alot in terms of community tbh, we actually get alot of overlap between the two

The game has a harem but the entire harem is just composed of diehard fans

Despite it being a dead discord fighter..

@@ElpheltStan Dead?

@@lucylu3342 yep, can hardly find good connections without discord

@@ElpheltStan Uh...I don't think you running into a bunch of people with shoddy internet connections means that the game is dead.

Does it have to? With its growing resurgence and main eco stage feature alongside legacy titles, it could grow to become a legacy title in its own right. Long road ahead, but it's possible.

Could get a season 2, hopefully

It's season pass is literally called "Season Pass 1".

With the game depending on SGM's success, which is doing very well right now, there's still hope for SG on getting another Season Pass in the future! 🙏

If any thing i feel like with the following its getting and all the new content they can add we might eventually get a Skull girls 2

Exactly more respect of of the top responsibility they put on

Not anymore

Not this time..

It's death is unfortunately not exaggerated this time... Unless the Old Devs get the geame back via lawsuit.

@@_-Lx-_what happened

The book Blood, Sweat and Pixels had some great stories about the development of indie titles like Stardew Valley and Shovel Knight. It takes an inhuman amount of drive to work the way indie devs do

And more so if the game in question is GOOOD

INDIES WILL NEVER DIE

I find AAA multiplayer games so soulless when both the players and publishers pump and dump multiple titles each year

i mean, there's still an active following for FTL, and it's been over 10 years XP Indie games are _very_ sturdy once they get going.

I mean we've been fighting for Evo since the game first came out back in 2011.

@@Ninja-The-Red-Shinobi Man... Almost 11 years already? I feel kind of old now.

It was very much a long time coming and well-earned with how fate just shat on Skullgirls whenever an opportunity to get into EVO presented itself.

Calm down on the cussing 💀

@@Jojothehomo Bro your on the internet

2012 to infinity, afterparty in the next universe baybee

Hell yeah baby!

The party was dying down, only because the party people were leaving to get more drinks to bring in more hype!

Any useful tips for a new player pls ?

@@olakpasa6486 the ingame tutorials are a really good place to start. I would say go through all of them so you have an idea of what each fighter does. The biggest thing to keep in mind though is your defense, people are fucking crazy at going in on this game or at least that's how i see it lol.

“Everyone talks about it” Who?

@@sullivans2004 many people really. Might've been living under a rock mate.

To be fair, the game is incredibly hard to get into and try to play competitively

In other words, it's the Melty Blood of the 2010s lol

It's soooo hard

Why not Mr European champion?

Congratz, GL next :)

DADDY PECK!!!

Smash is not even a fighting game lol

@@popo237 Shut up.

@@Mystic-Aidan Sure, but how would that stop me from typing things? Smashers be like

@@popo237 You can have your opinions, but don’t be annoying about it.

@@Mystic-Aidan Man I don't opinions. I got facts

That's pretty much the genre in general. Even though dozens of games have fairly active scenes and regular tournaments, every year there's only ever around 5 or so fighting games that can consistently pull in a 4-digit daily avg. player number on Steam. Those games are usually big IPs or new releases from a big developer, while many other fighting games are in the triple digits. Skullgirls is really one of the luckier ones that has managed to keep triple digit average for a whole decade, and is really the only indie fighting game to do so. Skullgirls and Blazblue have shared a similar curve over the years too, where a big sale or announcement will occasionally bump them up to 4-digits for a little while, (Skullgirls had a big spike last year from EVO+Season Pass, and then Blazblue got a huge spike in the last couple months from the netcode patch) but eventually things end up leveling-off around the triple digits again. Even the new Melty Blood shares this situation.

I mean, luckily with solid netcode you often don't need crazy player counts to have a solid experience. Really, you only need one person with a solid connection to you! And if you were to cycle through each of the ~50 or so viable connections you'll still be spending a lot of time fighting different players with different characters and playstyles! While it's a bummer sometimes that fighting games aren't more popular, they're also in a bit of a unique situation compared to team games or battle royales in that you don't necessarily NEED a ton of players to still have a great experience (but it's definitely a plus for sure) 🙂

@@KillYounglings 100%

As far as fighting game story modes go (and the arcade type, not guilty gear movie type), I think Skullgirls has one of the best in terms of storytelling and presentation. It's written well enough to introduce the world of skullgirls, but its not overwritten with exposition. This really shows with the DLC stories (Squigly, Eliza, Big Band, Beowulf) they were amazing.

That's the exact same as me. This is easily my favorite fighting game even though I'm not good at it. The art, music, and characters grabbed me immediately and I've loved it since the beginning. To see it finally get a legitimate chance to succeed means the world. Also I'm so hype for Black Dahlia.

I do agree the game is one of the best.

@@warrenbradford2597 nanana fuck that, it is THE best.

Guess what

Fuck that Skullgirls is like having a 3 val varients in one team that just revive each other if one is taken down.

Medic is hard but a rewarding class!... yeah just like skull girls!

I mean it can't be that hard for you to imagine.

People forget to mention that the problem wasn't that he was creepy, but that he was unwilling to change. Everybody knew that he is an autist who has troubles communicating after all The team did the right thing of course, but I hope that Mike learns from this in a healthy way, even though he should have done so a long time ago

@@dunkelwelpling unlikely. The dev know when is the line between harmful fanservice and gross erotism.

This aged poorly

Yeah, this aged badly

I’m high af rn and idk what this means

I missed the deal D: guess im just gonna buy it normaly

@@jgg4719 he is going well 🙂

It's not just as good, but for a mobile fighting game its amazing.

Look out on Xbox.

It was cancled

@@icerres1067 what but I have it?

I did I got WRECKED

Ya'll it's still alive

2 years later

Everybody wants to be my enemy

Smell the sympathy

I'm not too sure though, it's always been kind of niche to begin with, even amongst the fighting game community. I definitely get some of the changes by them but at the same time why change something to such a high degree that it would basically just waste your time?

@@ikedatike2533 it hurts a little, keeping a game alive through sheer support and earning prizes for that support only for it to be taken away when it isn't necessary anymore...

​@@ikedatike2533this time is not because of having no money, or because they have a terrible publisher or even worse, one of them being a horrible person. This time they bite hand they feed them, their fans. I'm not saying some changes aren't justified, in fact some of them I'm ok with them, but some of them are just so backwards against the community that help them grow as much as they are now

Me when they remove nazi imagery they dont want in their game and remove one (1) panty shot. The game is dead.

Censorship law: yes, we are removing your sexiness for uh modern audience

Nah, that’s just a bunch of man children throwing a tantrum because they can’t look at fake asses and boobs anymore.

@@raycom201 Its more than just panties shots, its generally the censorship which were unnecessary since the game for a decade has embraced the fan service and lewdness, they hired porn artist ffs

@@shiawase8694 While I do agree that the censorship was unnecessary and kind of a waste since it was there for a decade, most of the changes are barely noticeable and hardly worth a fuss.

@@raycom201 the biggest problem is the precedent that this sets for the future, and the fact they removed and altered stuff from the paid artbook, including fan arts from guest artists (bc they didn't get the permission to alter those, so it's gone). Who's to say that the censorship won't escalate further in the future? If it really was something 'barely noticeable and hardly worth a fuss' then why would they remove it in the first place? It's even worse that they choose to do it now that the two 'brains' behind the idea and whole concept are gone.

Brand new 10 years old game

This aged both poorly and very accurately. The old game is gone as of a few days ago...

yeah....about that

Just don't go thanking developers for putting lesbian bdsm in their game. Literally not that hard to not to.

@@popo237 Beowulf best girl

Man I wish indivisible could be saved, such a cool game. I think the issue is that the IP is owned by 505 games, who are a bigger publisher than autumn and have very little incentive to either continue supporting the development or to sell the IP to someone who will. The only consolation I can think of is that Future Club has projects in the works, and they contain basically the entire art team from Lab Zero, the best we can probably hope for is a spiritual successor.

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The game IP belong to the publisher Autumn Games, Labzero don’t have any voice at controlling this game source code anymore . So Autumn just gave the game to the old developers to continue the process while leave Mike in the dark

He's just the developer and the head of a small company in charge of developing a game but the game intellectual property (IP) holder, Autumn Games, was the big boi so they have everything even the source code.

Skullgirls IP is owned by Publisher Autumn games. Mike ALSO pissed off Said Publisher so when future club was formed, Autumn made them the game dev team and basically threw Mike Z and Lab Zero out.

@@quangtran-rc9bk Thank goodness

Mike Z actually did nothing wrong, he was merely accused with no substantial proof that he sexually harrassed anyone. Everyone pretty much threw him under the bus without due process, and because he didn't just let himself get railroaded, everyone left Labzero Games. The only thing I've seen from what was presented to the public about the Mike Z accusations, is that he's an awkward guy who isn't good at talking to chicks. That BunnyAyumi (she's a fucking nutcase) situation showed me how crazy cancel culture is, and just how easy it is to accuse and brand someone a sexual harasser. Nothing in those texts between him and her were remotely sexually inappropriate. Awkward, yes, but nothing inappropriate. The community did something similar to INFILTRATION when he was accused of domestic violence (but later found innocent) against his ex wife.

What happened

@@shezyam460 The ESG update dropped

@@goldensaiyan4 rip lmao

@@BlightestBlight bold claim, basically saying that this game contains CSAM for a decade. Do you think, buddy?

@@shiawase8694 filia is literally 16

Steam is where most of the community is, and the base game goes on sale pretty regularly

There is! getting the steam version is the best idea because you will be able to play the future dlc characters for free while they are being developed in the open beta, and your feed back can help the game.

Mike Z's bullshit also put me off the game until Future Club and Hidden Variable took over. Future Club is a worker co-op so they're a lot less likely to have the same issues, and the lead programmer(?) at Hidden Variable is Liam, who's a long-time pro player and community member. The game's in a good spot right now.

@@sleepinbelle9627 This aged poorly....

**intense brain scratching**

Im happy to see people comparasing my both favourite game as similar but kinda sad reading the last part

GENIUS!

sorry, by big three you mean platform? as in Sony, Microsoft, ninty? Somebody should absolutely hop on funding an exclusivity deal, hopefully Sony since playstation seems to be the best platform for fighting games for a while now

Same

Skullgirls' netcode is quite good using a modified version of GGPO which allows for solid connections between players in different regions of the world. However I do want to note that lobbies are at times unstable and can break if placed under too much loads with high ping connections.

@@Ninja-The-Red-Shinobi Good to know that this game's netcode is rollback-based (I guessed that it was but it's good to confirm). As for the lobby instability - fair enough.

GenreNazi here - this game is not a beat-em-up., as beat-em-ups are human player(s) fighting against multiple CPU opponents across scrolling stages that include boss fights and has pickups like weapons and health. The most famous examples of the genre being Final Fight, Double Dragon and Streets of Rage.

@@Copperhell144Ah. Thank you for the correction! Makes perfect sense when one thinks of shoot-em-ups.

What did he do that was terrible?

@@shinbakihanma2749 even if those allegations were false, forcibly taking over and firing a bunch of people is absolutely the wrong move

@@unintentionally_edgy5867 @Unintentionally_ Edgy @Unintentionally_ Edgy Nah, it wasn't the wrong move. His company wanted to fire him or have him resign, and he agreed to do so if certain terms were met that benefited him. Those terms werent accepted, so he pulled rank and did things his way. It's HIS company. You can't fire a guy from his company for unsubstantiated allegations. You can't blame him for protecting his interests. Put yourself in his shoes? Would you quit your company if you were accused of sexual misconduct, yet it was unsubstantiated? Wouldn't you then fire and layoff anyone who was against you? Common sense.

@@shinbakihanma2749 …okay, I’ll bite. So even if there was no harassment, which given a lot of factors would appear unlikely, and even if it was a smart idea to layoff everyone “against you”, it still was such an unpopular decision a lot of people quit, and joined up with those laid off. That’s not even bringing up that saying “terms that benefitted him” sound like he wants to make off with more money instead of being recompense for the damage to his image. I’d love to see how you spin that fact into somehow defending someone who doesn’t even respect coworkers and after not getting his way, taking power and firing people for what, to my little knowledge of laws, sounds like illegal reasonings. Edit: oh yeah, and that’s after conceding I don’t know if those allegations were true, but you immediately said they were false

@@unintentionally_edgy5867 First off, I'm not trying to "defend" Mike Z in anything. I'm not his keeper. I'm just making my point of view known due to what was said in this video, because I feel he was unfairly thrown under the bus with no due process. But as far as this topic is concerned, your response is nonsensical. What I'm saying is why would Mike Z. think about anyone else's wellbeing when those same people aren't thinking about his? These same employees were accusing him of multiple instances of sexual misconduct, and were trying to oust him from HIS company, yet there was nothing to ever substantiate these accusations. It's not unreasonable to understand why he would fire everyone. Why would he keep and be concerned about employees who accuse him of sexual misconduct, and are ready to throw him under the bus? Put yourself in his shoes, you'd do the same thing. Now, what makes me question the validity of these accusations, is the text messages between Mike Z and BunnyAyumi. That's what kind of kicked everything off. I read those texts when the accusations first surfaced, and I was dumbfounded with how many people were saying that his texts were sexually inappropriate, when they were clearly not. Not to mention that BunnyAyumi (who has a history of playing victim) initiated contact with him, and now all of sudden she posts these texts claiming he said sexually inappropriate things to her in them. The reactions from the FGC when they cancelled him, made me realize that everyone is out of their fucking minds. My common sense while reading into it as it was happening told me something was off. Mike Z is an awkward nerd dude who isn't used to talking to chicks. That isn't a crime.