The artbook and soundtrack are okay - neither of them is particularly ‘meaty’ (ie. the artbook is on the ‘pamphlet’ scale), but I guess they’re nice if you don’t want to pay to import the ‘real’ thing.
I kinda like the art books usually but some are Definatley lacking here lately. Soundtracks are ok but I’ll check it out and decide. Thanks for the input
So glad about the Nu news. I was resigned to maining Tsubaki, which no one should be forced to do.
No one.
Y’know, some crazy people from Montreal do that willingly. WILLINGLY.
So.
GG until CP it out yeah?
/shrug. I’m still playing Extend. S’kinda stupid to wait on CP since we don’t have the faintest idea when the console release will be.
Seeing as the anime community is one of the flakiest, and this is SRK the worse place to discuss anime games, we might as well all play GG until CP comes out, as a majority of P4 players will go to GG as well as BB players, so expect to see those P4A numbers decline if they haven’t already.
The AirDashers community is partly flaky because they/we/whatever seem to be constantly getting all of our games shit on, having awful stereotypes, getting told how our games will never be popular, etc regardless of how good they actually are, and some people within the community will listen to what they hear without getting and forming their own opinion. Yes, it sounds fickle but to new people trying to come in, it’s seen as a hard thing to get into with everybody saying how ‘bad’ they are. And amusingly enough, with it comes to Persona 4, I’ve been drifting moreso back to Extend and AE2012 while trying (mostly in vain) to be better than “absolute ass” in it, but still, I play the game when people I know are looking for some and all that.
http://jbbs.livedoor.jp/bbs/read.cgi/game/45148/1346203391/278
Apparently a new local test started today
Yup. No Nu/Mu, but should be ‘near final’ for everyone else.
Haven’t seen much real info though. Loctests are kindof stupid, honestly, because instead of TELLING people “Here’s what we’ve changed for this test, can you play with them and tell us what it does to the game?” Arc Systems instead says “Here’s a new build of the game, have fun!” and people waste the entire loktest trying to do stupid crap like figure out whether move X is now plus on block or not, and don’t do a damn bit of REAL playing and figuring out what any of these changes actually mean.
That is because the mentality of the developers and fg enthusiasts on japan is different from the mentality on usa for example, this is mostly because the main target market still are the arcades, their goal is to make the players expend money on the game not only for the competition, but also to learn how the game works, it is one of the joys of the players to learn and discover everything that the game can offer.
This is also why many players don’t really like to get on video when they are playing, because they want to keep their tactics for themselves the longer time possible so they can have an edge against other players for tournaments and stuff like that.
Maybe, but that mentality is keeping them from avoiding the sorts of balance screwups they’ve been making for 4 games now. “Location Tests” should be for…testing. Not for sucking money out of people by making them figure out the game. It’s not as if they’d make any less money by having people play the game rather than having people trade rounds to get the most “discovery” done for their hundred yen.
I’d also really submit that “Is X plus on block?” or “can I dash cancel Y?” isn’t “what the game has to offer” any more than being able to do all of a character’s special moves means you’ve mastered that character. The meat of the game isn’t figuring out the frame data. The meat of the game is figuring how to USE that data.
Wait. People are actually saying these games are bad?
Yet a steaming pile of shit like UMvC3 is the most popular game in the US right now. Mind=Blown
BTW something I’ve always wondered.
How big is the Japanese BB/P4A/GG scene compared to the Japanese Street fighter scene?
It’s unclear, but I think for a while the BB scene was comparable to the SF4 scene. That maybe have changed with P4A, which was also quite popular for a while.
GG scene was smaller due to lack of new versions, but has probably shot up a bit, though this is all speculation.
Anyway, Japan overally really likes BB. 
ASW games usually are bigger on japan than capcom games
BB was the most popular for years just behind of Tekken and Gundam until P4A “replaced” it
P4A accomplished the unthinkable by beating Gundam as the most popular game at arcades
GG was always one of the top 3, until BB replaced it as well
You play for free on the local tests
And that is why the mooks are sold some time after the game is on the market
Secret boss reveal. It’s super awesome bonus Tsubaki:
Two-bakis? Hmm…interesting. And there being a new character revealed that’s NOT Amane/Azrael/Bullet gives me hope.
Why did i read about this on the Siliconera and not the SRK front page?
Mu-12 vs. Izayoi?
HELL YEAH!!!
I actually really like that design
But are those swords floating around her?
Do we really need more swords?