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Skullgirls is underrated

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8. Dream crossover?

Well, since I’ve already answered that one with the spirit in which I imagine it was asked, I’m gonna take a liberty with this one.

I want to cross Far Cry 5 over with a piece of original fiction/roleplaying I was working on awhile back. Mostly because it adds a twist to what was before a profoundly unsatisfying ending.

See, I had this character who had done the late-2000s popular thing, which was get out of the Army and join a PMC, then Shit Happened of the “government black project meets the supernatural” variety, which entailed being the subject of an unethical experiment, escaping, and being on the run for awhile while racking up an impressive body count. When the dust settled, his record was still clean because of course none of it ever happened.

Then, the unthinkable happens: In true country song fashion, his girl leaves, taking his truck and his dog. So what’s he to do besides move out to the country and start over as a deputy in some podunk sheriff’s department? Hope County hires him, not realizing that they’ve hired the ideal FPS protagonist. So he gets to live in the middle of nowhere, which suits him just fine. Because he’s a werewolf.

Then Far Cry 5 happens, and he has to do his damnedest to keep it on the DL. What might initially sound like the perfect opportunity to go full-on Rip And Tear is hindered by the fact that people have somehow set up a network of cameras all over the county, so even his “friends” know what he’s up to (except for plot convenient moments when they don’t). Really, it neatly explains how he’s able to be “revived” by a dog licking him (“OH I’M UP IT’S A MIRACLE”), how he’s that good with guns, and how he’s able to punch people over the horizon with the flimsy excuse of “oh it’s a homeopathic herbal supplement.”

Unfortunately it also means he has to play along. Knocked out by a bliss bullet and captured? Well, just breaking out on his own would blow his cover. And so on. It does explain why he’s able to survive crashes and jumping off that statue while Blissed up to his eyeballs, at least.

Of course, in the end, everything goes to shit. He wakes up handcuffed in a bunker, the guy who’d been watching the cameras is dead next to him, alone with Joseph Seed, who goes on about how the politicians are gone and it’s just the two of them, now, and so Seed is going to start his family over with him.

Just the two of them. Sealed in a bunker. No cameras. No one else is watching. No one else is coming. Restrained only by a flimsy pair of handcuffs.

“I should kill you for what you’ve done. But you’re all I have left now. You’re my Family. And when this world is ready to be born anew, we will step into the light. I am your father, and you are my child. And together we will march to Eden’s Gate.”

sure he is

the “problem” with vegeta is that hes too honest relative to a lot of other characters(16, black, cell, etc), and since everyone just puts him on anchor anyway, youll always have to end up puttin in work to actually win with him. but its not like he doesnt have tools to win with.

i think the logic some people have when they say he sucks is, “why would you put him on your team when you can just pick black or cell who can do almost everything he can do, but better” or “just pick a character with better neutral and a slightly worse assist”. but like i said, its not like vegeta cant win on his own either.

also i dont think any single character in this game unviable since everyone can do some good damage and you can easily account for weaknesses with the right composition

haven’t heard of it | absolutely never watching | might watch | currently watching | dropped | hated it | meh | a positive okay | liked it | liked it a lot! | loved it | a favorite

don’t watch period | drop if not interested within 2-3 episodes | give it a go, could be your thing | 5 star recommendation