Blade

Nova is basically the Captain Commando/Captain Falcon of this game, guys...show some respect.

Holy crap Phoenix sounds hard to use. But I bet lots of people will use him simply because of that....

I-No's hat doesn't have a name...but her guitar's name is Marlene. Calronia Kingdom is from Night of Knives Drama CD (which you should be reading). According to Zato, the kingdom was built on top of a crater formed by a large Gear, they used it to perform research on Gears and Forbidden Beasts. Viltania is from Guilty Gear Judgment. In particular the Island of Isene. Raymond was a designated mage formerly from the Sacred Order who was supposed to look after the residents of the island. After a time they started worshipping him like a god, and he began to perform inhuman experiments on them, turning them into quasi-youkai life forms, based on the data he got from the gate to the Underworld. Eventually he gets the bounty hunters to kill Inus for him so that he takes over his body.

Damn. Now I got TWO fighting games to think about... But Batman takes priority.

So there's a delay, huh. What's the date pushed back to? November?

This. Also WWF/WCW/RAW or whatever don't even come close to counting. Also Wresting games in particular take the arena into account. Most 2D fighters barely do that, even on walls and corners (Chun-Li/Vega/El Fuerte being rare exceptions).

Go castrate yourself. Female Wrestlers are saucesome.

R. Mika was (to me) more of a easy-command wrestler compared to Zangief, so she's not unlike El Fuerte in that regard, except for her Peach Shooter, hehe. I looked at the image in question. The ruffles are at the very top of her arm and thighs, so the teaser is most likely her arm pointing upwards.

If I knew someone with a 3D rendering engine, I could transfer all the "skins" from the FX into shapes, generate some transparent overlaps, then turn it into 2D frame sequence loop.

Fuck Sol x Ky... Sol VERSUS Ky is more epic:

*still wishes someone would make a BlazBlue Dynamic PS3 theme based on the 3D Distortion Drive FX*

Currently, Zepp post-2180 (New Zeppian Republic) has taken a stance as less of a nation of science and military advancement (supporting bio weapon development like it did in the past), and more of a society dedicated to world-security and preservation/control of Black-Tech (things like guns are controlled, but other lost technologies are preserved). This includes dealing with older war relics (such as Flament Nagel), and the scientists behind them, neutralizing them as a threat to the people. Zepp's status as a ligitimate nation comes into question because of their policy to preserve Blacktech, which is banned everywhere else in the world. What's more, the Assassin's Guild has staged several attempts on various individual key figures, making it seem like Zepp attacked them, in order to sully Zepp's reputation. Zepp has also clashed several times with the International Police when attempting to secure potentially dangerous Black-Tech artifacts...so their situation is somewhat precarious in the public eye. Up until 2182 or so, A Country has been controlled primarily by the Assassin's Syndicate (how far back this has been going on is unknown, I'm not sure Slayer is directly involved with this), their intentions to make Erica Bartholomew a puppet-president, while simultaneously taking the fall in the name of "Zepp", the assassination attempt is halted by Chipp Zanuff on a whim (he just happened to be there). To counter this, she asks a Congressional Representative to pass a bill in Congress that will sever ties with the Syndicate. Representative Wu is threatened to not introduce the bill, as the Assassins have his daughter, Rep. Wu is then told Chipp Zanuff will personally kill him if the bill is not introduced. It's assumed shortly thereafter Zepp/IPF intervened on the hostage situation. What's more, the Assassins also threaten to kill the Director of Erica's Orphanage where she grew up in exchange that she stop meeting with Zepp. This threat is neutralized when the Guild is rused into thinking that Zepp has staged an attack on Congress and is waging war just as they planned. Thinking Erica is dead, they release the Director, only to learn moments later that Zepp has rescued the Director and Erica will be holding a secret meeting with members of Congress along with Zepp! In lieu of the Assassin's Guild Organization's attempt to assassinate Erica herself (through Volf, though Chipp stopped him), Erica holds the emergency Congressional meeting that passes the bill that not only severs ties to the Guild, seemingly crippling them, but forms an alliance with the Zepp Republic.

The best thing I can tell you is that Slayer has clashed with Zepp (that is to say Zepp prior to it's revolution in 2180, heretofore called "Old World Zepp") many times for many different reasons. Whether that has much to do with Gears or regional interest conflicts (example: Captialism VS Communism and the Cold War), or some other investigative work, remains to be seen. As far as I know Gabriel was a ranking officer in the Zeppian Army. He is unbelievably strong despite his size and the fact that he's human. I don't know how much Zepp was involved with the Crusades along with the Sacred Order...but if it was, it's almost guaranteed that Gabriel was involved at that time. Old World Zepp has had its interests in the Assassin's Guild, the Mafia, Calronia Kingdom, Viltania, England (prior to its destruction), the U.N. (United Nations), Interpol, and also A Country so far. They most likely had a hand in the 2nd Gear Project as well...to what extent is unknown. They even had a Space Program at one point, along with several other countries, who tried to send Gear samples into Space (see GGXtra Manga). You could say Gabriel has done a lot of dirty work for Zepp in the past, hence becoming Slayer's rival. Beyond that, Potemkin is Gabriel's student, and despite his massive size, has gotten his arse beat plenty of times, as can be illustrated here: Slayer has recently made the comment that Potemkin's fighting style is similar to his Master's. So there you have it. TLDR version: Gabriel is a Badass President.

I just want character design options that look awesome like Ashlotte.

I assume this is the right place? (Since no one linked me): http://www.amiami.jp/shop?set=english

It's worth pointing out that 2073 is not only the year Zepp was founded...but also the year Justice was created. The political climate of that year might shed some light on which countries were actually involved in the 2nd Gear Project. Only time (and Daisuke) will tell.

I know I'm showing off, but I don't care...

Well, gimmie some time to work on it. I'm picking out a selection of fonts.

Haha, unfortunately no. However, I have thoroughly gone over its contents with an OCR program and translator to see if I could pick up anything that may pertain to GG Lore that perhaps Ed Change missed, but, as it is, nearly everything is covered in Ed Chang's Plot Faq (which, by the way, can be found at GameFAQs), what's more, everything that's in the GG Bible has been left UNCHANGED in the 10th Memorial Book and GG2 Material Guide reference materials. The only pieces of history that may have been left out (even remotely), is the year Old World Zepp was founded (2073), the fall of Calronia (sometime between 2175 and 2180), Zepp's revolution (2180), Erica Bartholomew's Presidential Election (2182), and Ky's coronation to Illuriya (2183). I will be progressively covering the GG timeline through my GGR articles: http://darkside-ky.deviantart.com/gallery/25793023

Oh you mean "what"... Well, it's a pre-supposed conception that they had a "hive" mentality (that is to say, one leader). Most likely they hunted in numbers...not just humans, but anything they could claim as a resource within their territories. Their primary objective was sheer destruction, not so much to conquer or consume resources. Unlike humans though, Gears don't necessarily need to rely on food or nourishment in a traditional sense (not by human standards at least). Some are powered off magical energy contracts, soul energy, while others are more osmosive in nature (just absorbing things around them), while others have to create their own comfortable environment (i.e. Paradigm lives in a water bubble).

I got a question...I recently got Chaos Tower for PSP, and I want to learn how these games play as far as System differences go, so far I play Jedah, Hsien-Ko, and a little Morrigan, but I don't know much about movelists or other stuff. I appreciate any help.

I believe Dr. Paradigm explained it best (regarding Humanoid type Gears): In other words, aside from the humanoid type Gears who were emotionally unstable and often ignored orders (Testament, Justice herself), most Gears worked directly under Command Types, so things like eating and sleeping were done "on command", this is why the Gears nearly died out after Justice was sealed. They were virtually catatonic with no orders given. Only those who were capable of evolving past that state and developing a consciousness and will were able to become self sufficient. The instinct for self-preservation was overridden by the Command Type's orders, even on a cellular level...this also effects Youkai to an extent. I could go so far as to say that the Gears of Ganymede Island have taken a first step towards their own culture.

A little late to the party, aren't you? IMO it's more fun when fighting enemies with higher stats than your own, almost like fighting an actual boss. Still no news about DLC or Gilgamesh....or anything else for that matter. Squeenix is taking too damn long.

It was originally stated in the Guilty Gear Bible timeline. Year 2073, this year marked the "restart" of the Gear Project, 58 years after the original Gear Project ended. It begins with the first Gear Archetype (Gear Prime Fields) that would eventually become Justice (September 2nd, 2073), the first Command Type Gear, in preparation for the mass produced subservient Gear armies to come. Whether or not A Country, Zepp, or the other major superpowers are made aware of Justice's creation is unknown. However, after she is created, That Man begins to mass produce the Gears for various militaries around the world, giving him the name "Gearmaker". Frederick, still struggling to maintain a human appearance after creating a Gear-cell Inhibitor device, catches wind of That Man's actvity. He begins to create magic amplification devices through various means and elemental seals which would be called "Jinki" (Divine Instruments). He created 8 of them. When all 8 combine, they take on the form OutRage. It's not known what he did with them, except that they were eventually discovered by the United Nations and given to various elite members of the Sacred Order and various other organizations (The Assassin's Guild notwithstanding). They would later come to be known as "The 8 Sacred Treasures", along with several other "Relics" (Dragonslayer, Flament Nagel, Fenrir) created from the war with the Gears. What's more, the name OutRage is synonymous with various Gear Plants and Gear Manufacturing sites...to what extent this portends to is unknown, except that Dizzy is associated with this somehow.

Does it ship to USA, that's all I care about. Actually I'd prefer some place that just sells and ships without costing an arm and a leg.