I would play Xrd, but I know I wouldn’t like it more than older GG and just wouldn’t spend enough time with it generally. I only really like American anime (Marvel).
60 dollars is much for SFV now (you can find it cheap on PC), but basically as long as you play the game that’s all you’ll need to pay. The season pass/PSN/Steam content is all cosmetic and not necessary for gameplay. If you really need your character with the freshest threads (which admittedly a lot of casuals do) then fine.
Otherwise if you can settle with a cute color for basic non premium outfit, you never have to spend another drop over 60 for the next 6 or 7 years the game will be relevant. Which is much easier for everyone to follow, especially casuals. One game, one price, more content gets added that doesn’t force a new disc on you to play with the cool kids.
yeah that’s one thing thats definitely appealing to me about guilty gear over many other anime fighters such as blazblue and melty blood (despite me liking visual novels weird i know) is that GG feels more pre 2000 anime in designs which i prefer over modern anime.
Guess that’s why it does so well here in the west compared to other anime fighters though while blazblue does better in japan (though thing comp GG is more popular there based on KIT entrants)
What’s wrong with either the roster or the storymode? It had like the biggest first revision roster size in GG history but that’s a negative somehow? The story was also like one of the best story modes in a fighting game. It was like 5 hours long, tons of content in it, great cinematics and music, it had the pull up encyclopedia on highlighted words just in case you didn’t know what people were talking about, it was the best. The only complaint I’ve ever heard about the story is people being whiny about not being able to fight matches, but A.) that’s what arcade mode is for and B.) why do you want to be forced to play as characters you know you damn sure do not want to play? NRS games always get high praise over their story modes but that is easily the thing that makes me hate going through them. MK9’s actual story was cool, but I only ever wanted to play 2 characters in that game, Smoke and Cyber Sub-Zero. I did not enjoy playing other characters, but to get through story mode I had to play every single one, and that was incredibly not fun to me.
The story was on par with average anime imo. Could’ve been somewhat darker, some things toned way down or at least less frequent etc but that’s not why I play that game.
I have no issue with no fights in story mode. I’m glad it didn’t or else it would’ve been a fucking grindy mess like blazblue’s.
An 8 is great. I’m not hyperbole-ing a game’s rating/opinion just because I think it’s the shit.
(Especially since the xbox one pad is probably arcade stick tier with that dpad jesus) but stillllllll.
Anyways some random suggestion for those company dudes for no reason lol…a gamepad with the regular analogue layout…but have a small trackball smack dab center of the dpad[dpad being separate buttons like the right side is not siamese]
At least try it. Pretty much everything you liked about Guilty Gear is back, and it’s BETTER (and this is from a guy who preferred Blazblue to GGXX ^ Core Plus R, which I’m told by anyone who ever liked Guilty Gear is a big no-no). Pretty sure you won’t be disappointed. -SIGN- is pretty cheap now, give it a whirl. If you like it, you have a few days to acquaint yourself with the new stuff while more copies of Revelator ship to stores. Pretty rare right now.
It’s very similar to older GG games, but it is easier in comparison fella.
They managed to tone the hardcoreness down alittle but kept it very fun imo.
Xrd is pretty but I found it to be absolutely uninteresting to play. Hate the new mechanics, don’t care for the new characters, and the characters I used to play are not in there. Doesn’t make me vomit like SFV, but I have no reason to play it over vanilla AC which remains my favorite in the series.
there’s legit reasons to prefer Revelator over plus R and vice versa. I love them both equally for different reasons. Just give revelator a shot, it’s really good.
I was aware rev was coming out sometime june/july, but I’m waiting for a PC release because master race.
Comparing it to MK9, MK9 had entirely custom animations for every single scene. Nothing was stiff, right up into the fights. Guilty gear, while longer, was not. Most of the scenes are just the camera panning over landscapes, or those weird scenes where they split up the camera so that you could see a few of the characters faces and an illustration of the background. Xrd storymode felt like a kinetic novel, MK9 felt like an interactive movie. I also liked in MK9 that I didn’t need to use an encyclopedia to see what people were talking about, because it was more interesting to watch them explain it. Show me, don’t tell me.
The story mode in Xrd isn’t bad, but the production value of MK9’s story felt way higher than Xrds.
Zappa and Robo-Ky show up in the story mode, that’s a good sign. They are planning new DLC and I bet you them and Baiken are being added after Dizzy.
That being said the way these characters are made are a long, hard, and costly process. The fact that they managed to make 6 characters within 2 years and they actually animate and look better than the vanilla cast is incredible given at the start it took them something like 4 months to make one character. It’s 3 now but the point is they will come, ASW just needs time and money to do it. If people don’t support Revelator then there’s no way we’ll be seeing them add those characters people want.
ASW needs to make profit after all, and sadly games like this hardly ever do. It still baffles me that people won’t buy a game because some character isn’t in it and expect the company to be able to add that character in later. Revelator is indeed one of the best if not the best 2D fighter right now in terms of what it has to offer but it will not get the support it needs because most FG players only care about SF.
I also don’t get these people saying “I’ll wait for the PC release” It’s just going to be the same game on PS4, they won’t do anything to enhance it at all. Unless you don’t have a PS3 or PS4 then there’s no reason you should want the PC release.
Yeah I’m just not enough of a fan of anime games to really put the effort in any ways and whenever I watch GG AC+R I just get reminded of how much faster that game looks and feels compared to Xrd. I miss being able to cheese people out with those FRCs that had no freeze frame on them too LOL.
My brother already bought Revelator so I could just play it whenever I want, but I dunno if I’ll be bothered to. If Marvel 4 doesn’t get announced I’ll mess with Zato for a bit since I always wanted to play him in a game where he’s inevitably easier to play.
Well I bought Xrd but never really stuck with it for a number of reasons, but one of them was not being able to find a character I really liked playing enough to stick with. I don’t think it’s too odd, we have character specialists like Latif who has said the only reason he even played SF4 was because of how unique C. Viper plays.
I don’t see the point of dropping another $60 when chances are good I won’t find a character I really enjoy playing until my old main is back.
Edit: I guess that’s a long about way of saying I’m not interested in the fighting system of a post-Xrd GG enough to warrant me buying every new instalment, and need more of an incentive.