What was wrong with it was it was a buggy, incomplete beta version. Konami thought they were being slick. It released a few months later in japan, no doubt in finished form. That wasn’t the first time we were used as beta testers. They did the same shit with the US gamecube Primal Fury (“Bloody Roar Extreme”, which was the same as the xbox version, but with the hand-animated cinemas instead of that shitty cgi xbox had for their cinematic scenes). Japanese Gamecube version got a revised physics engine and the extra character Fang (complete with his Wolfgang Jiruver beast drive from the “Bloody Roar: The Fang” manga), which the later-released xbox version had as well.
i loved Long and Stun!!! i would love 2 c them with next gen graphics nd with online.
I really enjoyed the BR series and its beast-mode gimmick.
Well all except BR4, partly because the Beast transformations tottally sucked! In previous games turning into Beast form was badass, like turning super saiyan or something.
An explosion of energy with electricity surrounding your character during the change, etc.
In BR4 they just had this PATHETIC, stale morphing crap. Drained all the coolness out of the game’s staple gimmick!!! :annoy:
Edit: its like having Transformers ‘morph’ instead of transforming. Lame!
Yeah America kinda got jipped. I’m just glad I was able to play BR3 and Primal Fury. Those games were so good.
hell ya Primal Fury was my favorite 3D fighter for the longest time!!! Scratch that, it is still my fav 3D fighter!!!
BR3 was the last one I played. It was a great game.
I mained Gado, Jin, and Xion.
Yeah, that did tick me off w/ the US version of PF. Which is why I will get the JPN version soon.
Another thing in the game engine for BR4 that was broken was the transfer ability. You could transfer all your Health to your Beast bar and be in permanent Hyper Beast mode (from what I understand, this is the only way to do it in this game). Hyper Beast mode worked great in BR3 and PF/Extreme, but in BR4, it is just a bad idea.
Well I was just saying that since Toshinden of all fighting game series is getting a revival, then BR has the right too.
I know what ya mean man. It kind of was not there when it came transformation effects. In all the other games, you had a sense that the character really did turn into said animal.
Same here dude! I do like some 3D fighters, but not many. The Bloody Roar series (especially PF/Extreme) are my favorite 3D fighters ever.
ahhahahah AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA, im willing to bet you dont play many figters seriously… anyway for your answer…
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4 was basicaly a scrambled fucked up PF, like they just let a 6 year old kid loose on the code. on top of recycled models horrid VA bland rushed stages lame new character designs and all the games other aesthetic shortcomings the game played like a pile of shit. Bloody Roar 4 was clearly a rushed low budget game in an attempt to milk what they could from the franchise, like i sad before BR4 started life as primal fury (one of br4 many glitches will cause you to fall out the stage and get a ring out something not normaly possible in br4 when this happens you get the text and ring out announcment from PF) its like they got a outside team and just gave them the code from primal fury and said get on with it. the fighting mechanics are horrible in br4, take the beast/morph system for example they totaly destroyed the games main gimik and removed any sort of strategic element in the game play, no longer do you need to save up beast meter you can just morph instantly over and over. Also they removed the air/jump cancel, something that opend up a whole new level of play in BR3… to be fair you can still get air cancels in BR4 you just have to make a career char and equip it, but by the time you throw career mode into the mix the games so broken and unballanced its just retarded and boils down to whoever gets the first hit wins with 1 button infinits and godlike speed. i could go on forever about how unbalanced BR4 is like how some chars get a auto evade whare you just hold in one button to become immune to damage while other chars get the evade from the earlyer BR games that works more like SF3s parry, or Reji the crow and his massive air combos that only require you to mash the beast button like a crack addict with parkinson disease, or nagi’s un-avoidable beast drive you can spam thanks to the shitty beast system and how Ryoho and Mana are worthless with no beast from what so ever giving them no way to protect there human health, but i wont instead im going to tell you boys and girls about the fucking bugs that are rampant in br4, as i said before sometimes you randomly fall out the map resulting in a ringout followed most of the time by a system lock up, but thats just the top of the iceberg, Reji in crow form will cause massive slowdown in the sewer and freezer stages that will last untill he returns to human form pritty much making the game unplayable, if both players select dragon ryoho and do his beast drive at the exacly same time (the beam one) the screen will turn black and the system will lock up, thats two fatal bugs already, sometimes when falling down to lower parts of a level the second player wont jump down after the first player resulting in random effects most of the time the ringout bug followed by the crash, this happens most in the street stage but also sometimes in the chinese temple. equiping abilitys and moves in career mode can also result in alot of bugy shit from frozen animations to particle effects and trails that never dissipate filling the screen with bright pink and blue crap. also theres a bug that removes the HUD altogether till the game is reset… i could go on but im tired and cba to type anymore, i STRONGLY sugest you get yourself a copy of Bloody Roar 3and never touch 4 ever… ever again
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I use to play the shit outta bloody roar back in the day, totally forgot about this game. I think 3 was my favorite.
Listen to this man. 
BR4 is total waste of time, and unlike games like MvC2 which are broken but yet fun, BR4 is broken, glitched and boring to play.
Also note that BR4 system makes several characters from the series useless, like Gado, Shina and Buzuzima.
BR1 is okay, but no real reason to play it outside of Fox and Mitsuko and BR3 improves upon and perfects its system. Saying you like BR4 out of the series is like saying you like the first SF and SF4 out of the entire SF series.
BR 4…everytime you touch someone…BEASTMODE!!!
Hmmm, what infinites are there in BR4? Technically none since once you die u hit beast mode and that blast your opponent away. So you have semi infinites and one bar life combos of which there are plenty.
But BR3 was fuckin loaded with infinites which I hated and alot of them weren’t hard. Nagi and Reiji did make BR4 stupid though I won’t lie. Easy ass mix-ups, huge combos, could combo from fuckin command throws and then just beat you into the ground and thanks to BR’s cancel system tick throws were fuckin deadly as hell with them.
Also the meter management system was fucked.
Also about BR1. I know Fox is tops for sure. But what makes Mitsuko good? She has some great beast combos and mix-ups, but what else?
IMO BR2 was the best IMO. You could do cool combos and there are SOME infinites, yes but they are a little harder to set-up, best music by far and the cool ass announcer when you selected your character.
LONG…THE TIGER!! SHENLONG…THE TIGER!!!
Hot shit right there son.
I used to own every Bloody Roar. Right now I only have Bloody Roar 4 for the PS2 because I bought it before Street Fighter IV came out just to play a new fighting game and I had never played Blood Roar 4 yet. I’d been planning on getting it when I was younger and when it first came out but never had a chance to and I had eventually fogotten about it. The first thing I noticed was that they toned Uranus (the boss character from Bloody Roar 3) down a lot which was good but the game was still unbalanced and ridiculous. I realized how unbalanced the game was when I used to play Blood Roar 3 all the time back when it was new. Uranus was broken as hell.
My favorite character was Xion (the unknown) in both games. He was just so cool-looking and reminded me of the villain Pegasus in the anime Yu-Gi-Oh! I don’t remember who I used to pick in the first two games. It was too long ago. I probably used Long.
If a fifth installment were ever to be released, I’d still get it because I’ve always loved the Bloody Roar series. I probably wouldn’t bother playing it online though (besides for trophies/achievements) because it’d still be an unbalanced game and everyone would just choose the cheap characters. If they were to make a Bloody Roar 5, they should work hard to make it as balanced as Guilty Gear at least. Bloody Roar 3 and 4 were ridickerous because you could spam cheap attacks and die in like one combo.
Uranus was banned in BR3 vanilla, first off, so why you’re complaining about her (unless you let people play with her, which is your fault) is just stupid.
I don’t even want to bother with your post honesty as soon as I read the “spam cheap attacks” and “die in one combo” since you obviously don’t know what you’re talking about (there were infinites in BR3, but most were pretty impractical - who’s gonna wait for you to step on their toe with Buzisima?? 
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And Emblemlord, you obviously haven’t spent much time with Bloody Roar Primal Fury/Extreme or you wouldn’t be spouting that noise (yes I admit there was some BS in BR3 vanilla).
haha i guess your right 2 hits and your dead then 
seriously though career was so fucked up, increase hit stun + increase attack speed = infinit with nearly any attack.
Bloody Roar 3 as far as i know had only 2 infinits and one needed a programable controler and the other was not practical and did something like a pixel of damage each hit. some of the combos in that game were insane though taking of nearly all of the health bar but they could all be escaped, the window of escape was small but still there
This was one of my favorite games when I was younger. We would go to my friends house after school and play endlessly. The first two were great, I had the third one on the Gamecube but I didnt like it that much.
Are these games re-released at all on either PS3 or XBOX?
Ha, maybe I don’t know what I’m talking about. I’ve never played Bloody Roar competitively. This was back when I used to play fighting games just casually when I was younger. My friends and I weren’t at arcades playing 3rd Strike, we were at home playing Bloody Roar, lol. And that’s a good thing that Uranus was banned in tournaments. I never played with her casually anyways. The first time I unlocked her in Bloody Roar 3 and went into training mode with her, that’s when I realized that people shouldn’t be playing with her.
get out of this thread
I spoke nothing of primal fury. It was probably superior to BR3 in every way.
BR3 had some serious issues and alot of full life bar combos.
I mean come on. Gados infinite was just repeated headslams with 66+B.
The fuck?
Anyway, other then some silly combos…what “noise” did I speak of?
Did I say anything that was false?
Primal Fury is better than Vanilla BR3
im thinking of using that as a tournament…believe it or not BR3 tournaments do exist imo…
im holding one next month at our monthlies and I should have some recorded footage