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Paul Soth
Posts: 142 Location: Columbus, Oh |
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Hey, what other game lets you have not Steven Segal fight not Robert Smith? |
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davecabrera
ANN Columnist
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2o7APSuLjH8
Oh, I think VF5 can get pretty memorable... With VF5FS and Skullgirls and KOF I think I'm pretty much good for the genre forever. Thoughts: Phantom Breaker was mentioned and I have to warn anybody considering it, it's a terrible game. I've got it on order because I can't resist stuff that bad. |
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DKL
Posts: 1958 Location: California, USA |
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Customization in the game is crazy (to the extent where I have to actually pay attention to the character's fight style to tell who is who sometimes). If I understood that post SRK correctly, you can apparently get the game and all the costume items (which is like in the thousands) for like $45-$60? But, first of all, I need to finally get a stick (again)... |
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DJcream
Posts: 60 Location: NorCal |
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo_oTzd0k58
Yeah, VF5 has its moments. Sometimes I wish that fighting games go into another decade-long dark age so people can actually have time to take a good hard look at what games are available and play them, rather than bandwagon onto the next game. Right now, I'm cool with KOF and Skullgirls, but I still want to play Melty Blood and Marvel whenever the game comes up in gatherings. |
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DJcream
Posts: 60 Location: NorCal |
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As for an arcade stick, VF only has like 3 buttons so I think this is one of the few fighting games that is actually pad friendly. |
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DKL
Posts: 1958 Location: California, USA |
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I've played both VF and KOF and I honestly feel like KOF is harder (but it could be because I'm not a fan of meter-management); I'm surprised at how people perceive the game to be at this unreachable height of difficulty (like, when all else fails: 2P or throw)... rather than being "super hard", I think the game is most interesting because of the apparent lack of BS and reliance on just playing solid footsies. But then, I dunno; haven't properly grinded out the game yet, so we shall see...
I don't wanna be a fraud and play with the macros; lawlz. (also, on pad without macros would be miserable, I think... but I'm not sure) |
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Haterater
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My one pet peeve with Tokitowa and other games who try to do this is having 3D backgrounds. 2D artwork celshading just contrast too much with the 3D there. The celshading is wonderful and wish the backgrounds can look more 2D.
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Son-kun
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To be fair, Kingdom Hearts 3DS actually progresses the story forward more so than the other spin-offs (358/2 Days and Re-Coded come to mind). Heck, even Birth by Sleep gives some hints as to what direction the story is going to take and that was prequel to all the other games. 3DS is the only game so far that actually continues from where KH2 left off with Sora, Riku, and the others. It's like how Chain of Memories was to KH1 and KH2. The only difference being that 3DS actually has new content to discover where as CoM was just more or less a rehash of the Disney Worlds explored in the first game. I hated 358/2 Days for those same reasons.
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AiddonValentine
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VF might in fact be one of the most mind-boggingly deep fighters I've ever seen. There are no gimmicks, no bs uber-moves, just fighting at its purest. It's probably one of the most technical fighters I've ever seen.
DD is looking to be interesting, if only because it's like Elder Scrolls with combat that's actually INTERESTING. There's nothing quite like grappling onto a griffin and then shanking it repeatedly. |
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Emerje
Posts: 7391 Location: Maine |
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He means everything from the West of Japan to the East.
It's not cel shading, it's hand drawn sprites like what 2D fighters have been doing lately. Overall the game looks great, but I do admit the contrast in that scene is a bit jarring compared to some of the others we've seen. I'd be disappointed in Atelier Meruru being delayed if I didn't come to expect it. I don't remember the last game I got from them that wasn't delayed for some reason or another be it bad weather, errors, forgetting to pack something in the game box, or in this case a delay in the "manufacturing process". Usually the delay only effects the ones sold through their store, must have been something big to delay all copies for a week. Oh well, gives me a little more time to finish up Neptunia MK2. Every time I see talk of a new Virtua Fighter I wish Sega would go ahead and make a new Fighters Megamix. Probably take a lot of work considering they'd have to build most of the characters from scratch, but it sure would be fun. Emerje |
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luisedgarf
Posts: 667 Location: Guadalajara, Mexico |
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Ah, you mean the U.S.? Too bad the Japanese stills consider the U.S as the whole Western side of the world... |
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Haterater
Posts: 1727 |
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Keep wanting to say cel shading instead of hand drawn. I guess its confusing me because of the environments and contrast.
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N.R.
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Todd, I don't want to sound rude but you should change the name of your colum to "The Fighting X Button". For the past weeks you have been writing exclusively about fighting games. I know you love them, but I'm sure there are other things to check out there.
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Dessa
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*looks at the last 4 weeks, looks at games that are talked about* * indicates it was this week's column Games are listed twice if they are discussed in two separate articles Fighting Games Mortal Kombat (releases) Phantom Breaker (releases) *Virtua Fighter (opening) *Aquapazza (feature) *Chaos Code (feature) *Persona 4: Arena (feature) *Shin Koihime Muso (feature) *Goketsuji Ichizoku Matsuri Senzo Kuyou (feature) *Vanguard Princess (feature) Non-Fighting Games Pandora's Tower (opening, import roundup) New Super Mario Bros. 2 (news) Animal Crossing (3DS) (news) unnamed Wii compilation of Kirby games (news) Guild01 (news) Class of Heroes: Chrono Academy (news) Dragon's Crown (news) Record of Agarest War 2 (news) Puella Magi Madoka Magica TPS Featuring Homura Akemi (news) Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers (news) Code of Princess (import roundup) Fire Emblem: Awakening (import roundup) Urban Champion (opening) Sonic and All-Stars Racing Transformed (news) Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers (news) Grand Knights History (news) Class of Heroes 2 (news) Conception: Please Bear my Child (news) La Mulana (news) Wonder Boy in Monster Land (opening) Monster World IV (opening) Ragnarok Odyssey (news) Orgarhythm (news) Sol Trigger (news) Pokemon Conquest (news) Akai Katana (releases) Game of Thrones (releases) Diablo III (releases) Max Mayne 3 (releases) Battleship (releases) Toki to Towa (news) Kingdom Hearts 3D (news) Tales of the World: Tactics Union (news) *Dragon's Dogma (releases) *Mario Tennis Open releases) Okay, so discounting titles that were discussed more than once, there have been 9 fighting games discussed in the past month (7 this week, 6 of which were in a fighting games feature), out of 43 total games discussed (9 this week). Yes, this week, due to the Feature, has 7 of 9 games discussed as fighting games, but I hardly think that a mere 20% of the past month's games constitutes "exclusively". |
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RyanSaotome
Posts: 4210 Location: Towson, Maryland |
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Not totally on the topic of fighting games, but I figure this is a good place to put it since its the Game topic...
http://www.siliconera.com/2012/05/16/nobuo-uematsu-summoned-for-neptunia-v/ Now Neptunia V has Nobuo Uematsu doing the music! This series is getting more and more legit. |
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