Month: October 2015

After a little over a week of voting in Japanese arcades, we’ve been provided an early picture of how the Guilty Gear Xrd -REVELATOR- character vote is shaping up by a recent Arc System Works broadcast.

For those out of the loop, the developers have asked players to vote which character they would want to see join the title’s playable roster, out of a potential group of sixteen. These fighters range from familiar faces to obscure figures even hardcore Guilty Gear fans may not be aware of.

At the midway point, there are four clear contenders for the coveted position. Holy Order Sol tops out the voting with a slight lead over second-place finisher Dizzy, both of which are closely followed by Bridget and Baiken. The latter proved to be popular enough to handily take the top spot in our own unofficial poll, but it appears as if taste in Japan is a bit different than that of our readers.

But after that, vote totals begin to spiral downward at a harsh pace. While Anji Mito was able to secure over 6000 votes, Testament, Robo-Ky, and surprise placer Izuna barely make it into the top eight. Things get downright tragic for Kliff Undersn fans, as their character brings up the rear with a measly 290 votes, the only entry unable to crack 1000.

We’ve gone ahead and transcribed the information in the image above into a handy list, complete with some rough percentages.

Let us know what you think of these early results, and stay tuned for the final tally on October 16.

Source: Arc System Works via Furious blog

65,379 total votes

While the latest installment of the Super Smash Bros. series continues to be updated with balance patches by Nintendo, the only content that’s been released since then focuses on stages and cosmetic items. But that may be changing soon if what some intrepid data miners have found is correct.

Buried within the game’s code following the recent ver.1.1.1 patch are placeholders for what seem to be three new characters and three new stages. Shiny Quagsire has shared the following images of the code.

Interestingly enough, all the the placeholders are named Mario. This may likely be a reaction to how Ryu and Roy were leaked in an update last April. This way, even if people discover that there are new characters coming to the game, their identities are kept secret until Nintendo decides to announce them.

Meanwhile, the stages are the slots labelled “Tikibuzz&#8221$$ take note that while there seem to be six slots, these are divided between the normal and omega versions of the stages. These three stages likely represent stages for each of the three new characters.

Take note that this is all speculation on part of the fans. Nintendo still has the final say on whether or not these do materialize into actual characters and stages in the game. With the fan ballot ending tomorrow, it’s likely we’ll have more information sooner rather than later, so stay tuned.

Source: Shiny Quagsire via NeoGAF