BornWinner

With the public beta out, I played Invincible VS for the first time. It's pretty fun. It's pretty much Killer Instinct 2013 (which makes sense given the dev team) as a tag fighter. And like KI, you are active all the time even when you're getting comboed. You're encouraged to use active tagging because it reduces your combo meter which allows for stupid long combos. However each time someone is using an active tag in a combo, the player getting comboed can react with a tag breaker that stops that combo altogether and a return to neutral. But the player who initiated that combo can react to the breaker with a feint and if they time it right, they will still be able to combo. It's a lot to think about at higher levels and I've been having a lot of fun with it. I just wish the roster was a bit more interesting. They do a good job of making them play different, but I feel like they could've gone with more interesting characters than filling the base roster with Viltumites.

Happy Chaos was entirely reworked.

40 year old man plays beloved classic for the first time in his life. Context: Max had gotten the SNES pretty much exclusively for Killer Instinct, missing out on many of the classics the system had to offer. Having watched these streams, this playthrough is both frustrating and hilarious.

Jonathan Majors fell off. Literally. Probably the most bizarre headline I’ve read all year.

They are moving fast from Alex, huh? Wonder why. All joking aside, Ingrid looks interesting. Can’t say anything really good or bad at the moment, but it does work in getting me curious. Her new design definitely helps. Much better than the old look for me. And it looks like we’re going all in on the extraterrestrial angle. Kinda gives me The Great Gazoo vibes. Wonder if she’s actually meant to be one or is so powerful that she just sees herself as one. I’m hoping due to that we’ll get some info on G and what he’s doing. Yeah, that all I have to say. Just curious about where they will go with her.

Yeah, that was my mistake in trying to remember what he's said. Looking into it, he did have Nintendo systems, but he pretty much only had fighting games for them. He missed/didn't play many of the landmark titles. He's been having streams and videos where he plays some of the games he's missed growing up. These so far have been the original Legend of Zelda, Punch Out, Super Metroid, and as of Super Mario World as of yesterday.

He made it clear on his streams that he never had a SNES when growing up. This year he played through Chrono Trigger to the end for he first time.

I love these two.

Good call on Atlus for deleting this. You do not play with old Persona fans.

Daisuke has said that Testament doesn’t adhere to being cisgender since at least 2002. This isn’t the only mention of Testament’s gender identity. In a trading card game featuring Guilty Gear characters, each one was labeled with a gender symbol. The Mars symbol (♂) for males and the Venus symbol (♀) for females. Testament was unique in that they were labeled with a question mark (?) instead of either symbol. In a popularity poll ArcSys had back in 2016 which was separated by gender. Testament was the only character listed in both polls. For much of their history, it’s been constant that Testament is never portrayed as a defined gender. You can’t say they made them nonbinary because of Twitter because all of this occurred before it even existed. The only thing that was insistent on labeling Testament as a male was the English localization for the earlier games.

Interesting that they state that Sokka’s is one of the few in this roster to not have bending in this roster when he’s currently the only one who can’t bend. Possible Ty Lee/Asami confirmation for DLC?

Bridget’s bio states that she does end up returning to the village and dispelling the myth. Not sure where you pulled that from.

GGX2: Bridget was born into a village where it was believed bad luck would come to it’s people if you were to have twins of the same gender. With the option of either abandoning or killing one of their children, Bridget’s parents took a third option and raised Bridget as a girl in secret. Once they were 12-14, Bridget thought the superstition was bogus and wanted to disprove it so other children wouldn’t have to deal with it. To do this, Bridget sets off to become a bounty hunter. Eventually being successful enough and bringing enough money to get the citizens of the village to throw out the superstition. Strive: Taking place six years after X2, Bridget still a bounty hunter who has been living publicly as a male since. While still successful, Bridget was unhappy. Feeling uncomfortable with who they are at this moment in time. By the end of Bridget’s arcade mode, they reunite with Ky who has since abdicated his throne once he revealed his wife is a Gear and that he himself also turned into one. Despite the fear Ky once had regarding that, he tells Bridget that he was glad to make that decision which makes Bridget come to make a decision as well. As of Strive, Bridget identifies as a woman. What Bridget had went through in X2 has not been retconned, Strive just made her a trans woman. People don’t have to like the decision, but calling it a retcon is objectively wrong.

@-PVL93- Trying to wrack my brain for any other examples, but I’m sure you’re right. What’s happening with Alex is unheard of. It usually takes a whole game or two before a company changes something and have it acknowledged like this. Given how much hype was surrounding Alex’s release and the situation being reported by everyone, it’s understandable why they felt the need to do this ASAP.

I did get Soul Calibur 6 recently. I’ll have to see what happens, but if I’m clear then I’m game for tomorrow.