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Skullgirls – Official Peacock Introduction Trailer

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  • Posted June 23, 2011 at 12:05 am

While you’ve probably seen plenty of Peacock gameplay footage from various Skullgirls showings already, it can’t hurt to see a little more. This crazy cartoon zoning character pays homage to tons of other gaming icons, and you’ll see plenty of examples in the official character trailer below. Flipping the bird and dropping pianos on people’s heads isn’t likely to get old fast.

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  • Master Chibi

    OHGODSHE’SSOANIME IFEELSICKIMGONNATHROWUP

    LETMEGOBACKTOCHUCKINPLASMAANDTOSSINBIONICARMS

    • Jamheald

      That’s American cartoons.

    • ghandis spatula

      lolwut this game has no x-factor/ultra bar? I cant get rewarded for losing? I don’t have a “let’s go justiiin” button?

      This game is clearly for scrubs because its kawaii-animu-desu.

  • Majinhurricane

    that is hardly anime. That’s more american style popeye’s shit right there.

    its awesome! i love it.

  • Honor Basquiat

    I remember when people were talking shit about this game, but now I’m falling in love with it and I’m pretty sure I’m going to get it, am I the only one?

    Will any of the big players play this?

  • ElvenShadow

    looks like a character id enjoy playing

  • Good Game Player

    her voice sounds really weak, they need to turn up the volume or something

    • evilben

      the audio for the game isnt final yet. mike z said so himself

  • obscura

    WTF? FEMALE CHARACTERS?? THIS GAME IS FOR CREEPY PERVERTED LOSERS, GO JERK OFF TO CHILD PORN LOSERS OMFG.

    ^^seriously, i hope these people see how stupid they sounded now :P

    • leakingpear

      Are you sure those dudes were talking about this game and not Arcana Heart because like, just because this isn’t awkward pedo bait doesn’t suddenly make AH not so.

      • Doc Strange

        This game’s been getting plenty of the same hate. This is SRK, if people don’t have something superficial to bitch about they’ll make one up.

  • truendymion

    I’ll definitely support this game! GO USA!

  • abacus

    I fucking cannot wait for this game!

  • xSquatx

    The characters look weird..
    Like the girl that walks with her muscular hair.

    But the graphics look killer!
    I wouldn’t mind a Street Fighter or Tekken looking like this :)

    • Zebster

      The one with huge arms? That isn’t hair, that’s a hat.

  • DaBakerMann

    GGPO SON!

  • NJ9999

    At the very end, it looks like Peacock blows smoke from the eye. Even though it’s suppose to be the nose.

    • truendymion

      LOL I thought that was intentional :P

  • berserkotaku45

    game looks amazing

  • Smokin Jo

    Games gonna be dope!!! I just wish there was gonna be a disc version. I’m a game collecter and it nice to hold the case and read the book n stuff. I already had trouble with DLC . Maybe SG 2 will be on disc for the PS4?

    • craigUK

      This game is going to be spectacular!! Perhaps there will be a disc release at some point, i remember reading over a year ago that the plan was to release one DLC character a month for a year. I don’t know about 12 extra characters but you would *need* the DLC anyway ontop of the disc release to complete the game… I hope there is a physical “real” copy at the end of the DLC run or as a collectors special edition.

      • mr. tibbs

        I agree with you both. I’m actually buying a disc copy of AE when it comes out for this very reason, and would love a disc copy of Skullgirls.

  • Mikeomak

    For the animations being drawn by hand it looks so smooth!

  • NyuBomber

    I asked for more Peacock in the Parasol post and I gets it.

  • GreenJester627

    Peacock looks sick. Great zoning and she seems to do pretty well up close too. And I’m loving the voice, but I’m kinda hoping they’re still planning on tweaking it. I don’t know what it is, but she sounds like she’s really unnecessarilly quiet. Like she’s speaking her lines from a different room.

    • Ravidrath

      The music is just mixed too high in the trailer – we’ll work on that for the next one.

  • white shadow

    I’m so glad to see a new fighting game made by a diehard fighting game fan for real fighting game fans.

  • Windsagio

    So we call it ‘homages’ now?

    Will the next homage be called dhasette, have stretchy hair that breathes fire and be from India?

    Or maybe she’ll have weird hair that she uses as a weapon, I’d suggest they call her Millian.

    …

    Wait…

    • Jamheald

      You think Dhalsim was Capcom’s original idea?

    • Doc Strange

      Ever seen Master of Flying Guillotine? Capcom and GG have been the worst offenders in this regard since, like, day 1.

    • GreenJester627

      And Dhalsim was an homage to the Indian guy from Master of the Flying Guillotine, ya damn fool.

    • Man Town Mayor

      Remember Fei Long/Marshall Law?

      Hell, Zangief even has a Mr. T costume in Marvel 2 (Complete with gold underwear, bracelets, and teeth)

    • metaphist

      Yes, let’s pretend like Capcom ins’t the biggest pile of cliche in gaming history, and rag on this game instead.

    • mr. tibbs

      I miss the glory days of WINBACK.

    • Windsagio

      I should have expected the ‘well they stole theirs too!!’ defense, but didn’t somehow.

      You kind of make a good point tho’, Law and Fei Long are good homages because they evoke the style of, say, Bruce Lee.

      Having a ‘homage’ that steals movesets is a whole different beast.

      Capcom didn’t invent vampires either, but making a character that was a vampire shoto that shot bat-fireballs, whose dash was like a teleport, whose dragon punch went straight up, unless he was dashing, in which case it angled forward, and who had a super move where he turned people into girlier versions of themselves before sucking their blood, you’d think less ‘homage’ and more ‘lazy copying’.

      • Windsagio

        A quote that might give you guys an idea, but from a slightly different field.

        “A critic for the Comics Journal once wrote that to call Bloom County funny is like complimenting a shoplifter on being a snappy dresser. Breathed borrowed from a variety of his colleagues — even as he scorned their work. He once wrote a series of strips about two characters looking at clouds that was so clearly lifted from a legendary Peanuts strip that the Washington Post called him on it. His reply: It was an “homage” — never mind that the Peanuts strip had appeared 20 years earlier and was not referenced. The line between emulation and theft is a fairly subjective one, but Breathed developed a poor reputation among his peers because of the specificity of his lifts — and his arrogance when confronted with them.”

        I’m gonna use that first line next time people start to carry on about ‘homages’ >>

  • zombiejebus

    dem animations! Lovin’ it =)
    Really looking forward to this beautiful game!

  • juggernaut1981

    Everything about this game seems sick except the sound.

  • Diernes

    I am not interested in this at all, at this time but it’s using GGPO so instant buy…

  • mikemethadone

    I think it looks wicked

  • FairlySadPanda

    The game’s clearly not finished yet. Certainly the apartment stage (with the chequered floor) doesn’t look finished. So hopefully they fix the voice so it’s easier to hear.

  • Blacksonic21

    I’m really hyped on this game, it just needs the sound to be more dynamic. I really want to hear those hits and gun shots and explosions. And Peacocks voice definitely needs to be turned up a notch.

  • Crono_SteelShade

    I don’t agree with the positioning of the combo meter but everything else looks good.

  • roq

    Removed.

  • Clear Sky

    Yeah the link doesn’t work anymore.

    Here you go: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYe1bS0PNT4

  • alvare

    Did I just see a wallbounce? Shit’s gonna be EPIC.

  • jchensor

    I get a strong Baiken vibe from Peacock, with the ground board popping the enemy into the air and the gun shot in the air changing her jump arc and pushing her back.

  • 6ixx

    Can’t wait for this to be at EVO next year ~

  • ISLEDGEI

    If I don’t see anyone worth playing i might main this character.

  • Firekid2468

    Windsagio, are you seriously complaining that Filia and Milia Rage are macroscopically similar? Do you realize how many characters have Prehensile Hair?

    http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PrehensileHair

    • Windsagio

      Funny thing about that article is that it actually doesn’t mention Millia at all.

      I’d argue that whats-her-name’s style is substantially more reminiscent of Millia than just ‘wow hair fighting’. All 3 Skullgirls characters we’ve seen anything meaningful from fight with something on their head. It’s one of the more insane themes the artist seems obsessed with.

      ~~~

      To step back some, you can make a fun game by copying successful ideas from other games, even really really specific ones. Those things are popular for a reason, and most people actually like references. It can certainly be taken too far, however.

      If you want to spike my cannon, say ‘yeah so what, they copied things.’ If you like it anyways, great, good for you. Just skip the denial :P

      • Windsagio

        oops millia was there, missed her somehow.

      • Firekid2468

        Peacock’s weapons don’t really come from her hat. Nobody else except M.Fortune uses their head.

        And their similarities do stop at lolhairfighting and their names. Milia is an assassin. Filia is some random school girl. Milia’s hair is magic. Filia has a parasite. (Eh, you probably don’t care about the folklore anyway. >_>)

        I’m not denying that they copied things. I’m saying its a weird thing to complain about because everything is inspired by something. You might as well complain that the characters follow common fighting game archtypes at all

        • Windsagio

          I think the word ‘homage’ just annoys me (see the quote re:”Saying its good is like calling a shoplifter a snappy dresser”)

          I watched the video tho’! Peacock has a number of hat-based attacks, most notably her peacock laser super :D Head attacks: Parasite hair, muscle hat, and laser tophat.

          This subject is honestly low on the list, and I’m probably just being a hater, so don’t worry too much ;)

  • Tom Goes to the Ma

    I never cared for this game at all. After seeing the gameplay, my opinion hasn’t changed at all.

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