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I'm sure plenty of people would like it. Hell I would.

I just zoomed so it wasn't so small...

So uh...Noel getting drunk or something? Also nice to see Makoto actually wearing her new jacket in the official art.

From Google's Treasure Map version of Google Maps today. I know the scroll is part of the joke/puzzle, but this giant red 'M' does not bode well...

As much as I would love a release date, I would love to have...well, anything. New trailer or story trailer, the console opening video, teasers to console DLC characters (potentially in trailer, otherwise nigh-impossible), leaked/purposely-leaked rumors to the story, ANY statement at all from the developers, even a "progress is moving along well. Please wait to hear more details soon." It has just been totally stagnant since the arcade release.

Yep. Howling Moon is definitely much worse. The power and force behind the guitar is just gone now and bring a generic drumline to the forefront of the main melody was an idiot thing to do that drones out what's left of the guitar.

Yeah, Plastic Night is totally ruined. One of the best songs, now garbage. The intro in the original set such a great feel for both the song and the character and the initial guitar riffs set a great pace for the song while just being simple and badass. The new intro is just worse and the guitar riffs I mentioned...they just totally removed them. The way to remix a song is not to literally remove the parts that defined it. It seems like they absolutely ruined all my favorite songs: Plastic Night, Howling Moon, Cross Line...all terrible now.

You know what I would love? Some one to actually go and record some footage of Makoto's intro(s) with her new jacket so I can see what they all look like. I've only seen ~half the palette's used in fights and rarely do we ever see the intros. I've been debating between 2 palettes for my favorite, but I've only seen her jacket from one of those palettes. Seeing the others would definitely be awesome.

I find it hard to believe that Makoto is still the worst character. Is she up there with the new broken characters? No. But she more tools for pressure/frametraps, seems overall safer with better hitboxes after the royal fuck-up that was Extend, massively improved midscreen combos and corner push-ability, better overall damage (still a bit low), and one of the best Overdrives for combos.

Any update as to what was going on in this?

Here is a good video with 2 fights of a Makoto player actually using Lander Blow a number of times during blockstrings for safety/frametraps: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=uXVtfXbVll8#t=263s It really does seem like a good mixup that might trick people a good number of times leading straight into a counter or at worst a straight-up safe move.

Would someone be able to tell me why I have basically seen none of the 2-6 palettes for any character? I mean I know people want to know what the ones they can unlock/buy are beforehand, but as far as I can tell, there is no easy way to look up what the 6 default ones are aside from going to the arcade which basically no one here can do.

So we're just going to pull stuff out of our asses, throw it at the wall and see what sticks now are we? Sorry, but if you have no basis off of which to base your random speculations, there is no reason to throw them into a discussion like this.

Oh god........that picture! What the hell have they done to her boobs? Why does she always have to look like a blowup doll in the art but relatively normal in her sprites?

Sticking Makoto in a hamsterball is suggestive? Or Platinum in a barrel?

The good side...

Ignis: "I've brought you a new subject, Master. I hope she will be...ahem...to your liking."

PLEASE tell me someone has been recording this Makoto or the live streams will be uploaded later for normal stream!

Holy shit...dat overdrive combo!

Yeah, it would be nice if someone actually went through each character's arcade. I just keep seeing the same characters over and over and we've missed half of the cast. Then again, I'd just wanna see someone who knows what they're doing with Makoto, but I'd still want to see more of the cast rather than the copious amounts of Bullet and Ragna.

Am I the only one finding it really hard to like the new sound effects? Most of them sound horrible and horribly unnatural, not to mention they seem so much louder that it's almost distracting and makes hearing the music impossible.

Someone posted this one on the Makoto board: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/naka-joy-stream

Despite my feelings for her so far, I'm pretty damn certain that the player in the video you linked it just terrible and has no idea what he is doing. Can't charge for his life, doesn't seemingly know any combos, random AV's for no reason, trying to do 5D > 2A...he had not a clue.

Ok, Carl is cool and all, but is there any other stream that isn't just Carl training mode? I was already getting sick of there being so much Bullet earlier but at least there was fighting.

Dammit...I'm just sitting here, starting at palette's 7 and 15 going "Those bastards are just taunting me...the clothes of 15 and the hair of 7, but not together. How dare they!"