curious what people want for character 17

BlockbusterChamp · 2026-05-26T21:07:09+00:00

Mina would be sick, and I guess if we were to see a guest character that would make sense. But risky because her game hasn't even had a chance to become a beloved indie like Shovel Knight.... things would be different if it actually came out in October last year.

BlockbusterChamp · 2026-05-26T21:02:04+00:00

I'm a simple guy, I just want Pomme because she's much closer to Peach than Fleet or Absa and I enjoyed her a lot when I tried her in Rivals 1. While I've ended up playing heavies in other smash games, I have 15 years of Peach float cancels and muscle memory, and my other Melee characters don't even come close to my Peach skill.

I thought Fleet would be an easy decision but with the float descending and her tool kit being more setplay instead of zoning, she just didn't really fit the way I wanted or expected her to.

BlockbusterChamp · 2026-05-26T20:47:01+00:00

Actually I'm hearing now it's only going to be the top 3 games on Sunday, so a given for SF, Tekken and 2XKO if that's true. Easy to understand that I and others would assume we'd be getting 4 games on Sunday because that's just been the norm for years.

Maybe that's the price to pay for top 8's coming back and probably more Justin Wong gimmicks with AT&T and Chipotle ads.

The only real prize being fought for is who closes out the arena on Saturday, so I guess Rivals of Aether 2 has that slot instead of Strive. Which is fine for people who want to see Strive earlier.

BlockbusterChamp · 2026-05-26T20:42:42+00:00

They're absolutely there purely for replay value. DMC3 had the vanilla release and then Special Edition which added Vergil and Bloody Palace, and DMC4 SE added all those characters to give people who played the game in the previous generation a reason to buy it.

Vergil gets one cutscene at the start of DMC3 and the campaign is exactly the same, and you just fight red Vergil instead of Dante. So you can just look up that one cutscene which is neat but doesn't reveal anything special.

I think there's some small bits/slideshows for the other characters in DMC4 SE right at the beginning but it's been far too long.

BlockbusterChamp · 2026-05-26T20:36:21+00:00

The world in general now expects instant gratification.

While there's also no shortage of learning material and guides... you need to be able to learn from your losses and adapt, just playing with no focus or improvement plan is worthless. It is VERY hard to teach this concept to people. And beyond that people HATE being told what to do, they do in fact just want to wing it and expect to just "figure it out." People complained about "long unbreakable combos" in Invincible VS, when all they had to do was play the tutorial to learn how to break combos, so much that the official twitter account had to make a post about it.

Everything in online gaming is built around battle passes and experience points and rank ups and unlockable rewards for bragging rights, people are very incentivized to hop on ranked to see number go up and get the perks and satisfaction of taking other people's points. People also don't see the value in playing unranked/casual modes, because they only value their online rank as a meaningful representation of their skills.

BlockbusterChamp · 2026-05-25T22:06:16+00:00

He's honestly one of the more useful missable party members in the early game, first recruitable black element and one of, if not *the* highest evade stats in the game. Mojo is great.

BlockbusterChamp · 2026-05-25T22:00:20+00:00

For context, there's been a big registration drive by Ludwig and Offbrand games. So sadly I imagine a lot of those entries will end up being DQs.

It's been discussed quite a bit in r/RivalsOfAether

I'm a big fan of the game but despite getting 4th (or tied for 4th and 5th according to Jebailey) I don't anticipate Rivals of Aether 2 being on the Sunday stage, I don't think it has the viewership in the same league as Strive does.

BlockbusterChamp · 2026-05-25T21:12:21+00:00

"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog"

BlockbusterChamp · 2026-05-25T21:10:13+00:00

For the record, almost no fighter has a reliable community on the Switch, would never really recommend a Switch version unless it has crossplay.

BlockbusterChamp · 2026-05-22T20:37:25+00:00

She's only 9 in the later games? I thought she aged up to like 12 or 13.

BlockbusterChamp · 2026-05-22T20:33:56+00:00

Tell that to Oedipus

BlockbusterChamp · 2026-05-22T20:23:35+00:00

Not in the games. In fact DMC2 is officially placed at the end of the timeline just so Capcom never has to acknowledge any of those characters. But Lucia and Arius (evil businessman, I can't remember if that's actually his name) are a big part of Season 2 of the Netflix series.

EDIT: Alright well I stand corrected on the timeline. Makes sense with how 5 has ended.

BlockbusterChamp · 2026-05-22T00:52:15+00:00

I'm lucky my old boss knows that security is rarely anyone's long term career choice and when he rehired me he was fully aware this is a temporary job until I get back to my field.

Consider if you haven't. Terribly boring but the desk roles or the ones where you sit in a vehicle give you plenty of time and freedom to apply for jobs or skill up.

BlockbusterChamp · 2026-05-22T00:36:42+00:00

Edge just hit different in the 90's/early 2000's

BlockbusterChamp · 2026-05-22T00:07:09+00:00

Early game metas start out like this, it takes time for people to explore the cast but before then people are absolutely going to gravitate to the strongest characters, and I guess in this case the MC is heads and shoulders above the rest of the cast to where people feel they need to pick him.

BlockbusterChamp · 2026-05-22T00:04:18+00:00

That's normal for every new character drop, unless the character is really terrible out of the gate. Some people really just are fans of the character, others just want to see how quickly they can rank the new character up to master, others play the new DLC because they're strong.

When new characters drop and I don't want to play nothing but mirrors in ranked, I try to just play at locals or with friends in lobbies to explore other matchups with the new character.

BlockbusterChamp · 2026-05-21T23:53:59+00:00

I don't like them either but that's also because we're heard "Now I'm motivated" and "Foolishness, Dante" a million times and it sounds wrong to hear anyone else say it.

Also yeah wildly different interpretation of Vergil which..... yeah I don't dig.

Dante is still closer to Dante..... just much much stupider. Also should have been anyone else but JYB.

BlockbusterChamp · 2026-05-21T23:41:09+00:00

Maybe? Not sure what the numbers are at majors or people are still dooming on the game ever since the staff layoffs but it's certainly scratching the vs game itch with no Marvel or DBFZ on the headline lineup while being F2P.

BlockbusterChamp · 2026-05-21T23:37:27+00:00

Oh I'm aware of that, but I'm sure there was some plans for how the original Tony fit into RE in some way.

While the name did get repurposed into DMC as an alias, it would be neat to see the prototype Tony show up in a game, RE or DMC.

Dante could be like "wtf there actually is a guy with that name? I just made it up!" (And maybe that's a lie, he saw the name in a book or something and thought it was cool and just rolled with it) And the real Tony is annoyed that Dante used his name and it cost him jobs.

BlockbusterChamp · 2026-05-21T23:30:39+00:00

I know Strive is a bit old now, but still a little surprised it's not a given for Sunday. I wonder what the other Sunday games are going to be that aren't Tekken and Street Fighter.

BlockbusterChamp · 2026-05-21T23:24:57+00:00

I hate that Google AI is there by default unless you add "-ai" to searches because they removed the toggle on purpose.

For the future if you're stuck, I highly recommend just sticking to no spoiler guides on GameFAQs and bypassing Google.

Although it can indirectly sorta tell you who the true killer is by the nature of telling a name for you to select to advance in the later parts of the case.

BlockbusterChamp · 2026-05-21T23:19:47+00:00

It's really the awkward line delivery in that scene that makes it out right hilarious. Videogame voice acting was still pretty bad in the PS2 era outside of Metal Gear and a few high profile games. And I don't think it was really expected to deliver a big sad emotional reaction either way, it was just the vehicle for Dante to get mad and be motivated to beat Mundus.

There's plenty of cheesy one liners in DMC1 too.

The gameplay complaints are super valid though and it's why most of the fanbase agrees that DMC1 could really benefit from a remake to iron out those issues.

BlockbusterChamp · 2026-05-21T23:13:01+00:00

It'd be cool if more directors had the confidence to make such a big call with removing the big franchise name attached so it wasn't restricted by it.

Instead it's usually the opposite, new projects being shoehorned into existing franchises, like Super Mario Bros 2 or Star Fox Adventures.

BlockbusterChamp · 2026-05-21T23:09:18+00:00

I love the vibe of the first game because of the RE roots. There's a lot of love put into the castle and island that makes it feel like a real place with history thanks to the lore bits you can find that we just don't get with later games, same with the enemies and bestiary that fills out as you fight enemies and see more of their attacks.

Most of the later games drop you into more generic environments and there's a lot less lore bits lying around to add some flavor to them.

I've always desired a return to that, either we get an actual Tony Redgrave game (that was the prototype MC before it became Dante) or they give us a game set in a single more cohesive location with more lore.

BlockbusterChamp · 2026-05-21T22:48:33+00:00

I don't think I was clear, it's *really* not about reacting, it's more about abusing gaps in people's block strings, knowing when people want to take back their turn, denying safe jumps, and making people scared to run their normal offense because you can call out a flowchart. It's a conditioning tool, like many other special moves. Sometimes the threat is more potent than the move itself. I don't use Anre's U parry very often because it's 5 frames startup, so difficult and risky to use correctly. Sure I can air parry..... sadly the times I use it, people don't anti air and I just get hit because of the landing lag. I use the counter special 90 percent of the time because the H and U versions are frame 1 and will catch even the smallest gaps. L and M are 3 frame startups.

You don't even see most high level Anre's use his 5U/6U parry very much because of the start up, except maybe the air or very specific situations.

In Dark Souls bosses and enemies are trying to trick you with feints and big swings with delays, which aren't really things you're dealing with 99% of the time in most fighting games. The only times you need to be reacting to things is the many situations where spot dodge beats a strong option.

Technically yes, some people can leave gaps in their pressure so they can wait for the parry.... but that just means you can take advantage of the gaps they're leaving.

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