Favorite Virtua Fighter?

[Wellman]

VF4 Evo, although I have never played VF4 Final Tuned or VF5 R.

[INCIDENT]

I’d also go with VF4EVO because this is the first VF that made me put into it so many hours of training. I didn’t have an arcade version somewhere near me, so I played the PS2 port all the time.
I really think that Evo’s training/tutorial will never be topped. What these guys did was just something that we may never see again.

So yeah, that’s what really got me into VF and I spent endless hours in dojo mode, just trying to improve my input skills and the use of advanced techniques. I never managed to do stuff like evading 4 throws while doing ETEG, but still I became much better in understanding how to play all the games of the genre thanks to this console port.

Agreed. It be nice if most games featured a tutorial that great. While at the same time, the fact that most games don’t should be incentive for players to help each other out in learning fighters.

I never played FT so I jumped straight to VF5. It was fun while it lasted and I still prefer it over any other 3d fighting game, but to be honest I believe that they didn’t improve the gameplay at all. Offensive moves weren’t enough and I think that the whole bounce-combo stuff is a terrible mistake. Of course the lack of a proper tutorial didn’t help the newcomers to the series and my friends never got into the game, although they played Evo.

Yeah, alot of people were like “HUH!?” on the bouncing. Then again, it’s not the first time. I thought I read people went “HUH!?” on VF4’s introduction to stuns and crumples, but then people got used them. And VF3? That was just something else. Also interesting that I have a friend getting into VF5 and he used 4 Evo’s tutorial to practice and just had to incorporate all the 5 stuff afterward.

[Yuna]

I like VF4Evo and VF5 mostly equally. Granted, VF4Evo was the first VF I played hardbody, but VF5 is definitely a tiny, tiny bit faster.

[INCIDENT]

I even played VF5R because when they were doing the first location tests in Shinjuku etc, I was lucky to be there. It looked ok, but the damage from some combos (wall combos especially), still seems ridiculous.

Yeah. You’re not the only one shocked. While VF has always had retarded damage and sure a good bit is situational, 5R just makes big damage happen more often now.

Actually VF isn’t fun at all. As Dandy J said it is stressful / mind crushing. That’s the “fun” part of it if you consider this to be fun.
I always feel exactly like this and there are times that I like it, but yeah sometimes I might just not be in the mood for such an experience.

Funny, I can agree with this statement, while at the same time, coming from a guy who doesn’t count frames for everything and go abare with gut instinct sometimes, I can have just as much fun playing it like any other fighter and that’s kinda the cool thing I notice with VF sometimes, in that there’s is no set way to how you approach the game, although it’s not an excuse to go mash happy either.

[comoesa]

Gotta compete with tekken in the big damage dial em up combos.

This is the one this im starting to hat about 3-d fighters get, but i guess thats what people like juggling.

[Saotome_Kaneda]

Gotta compete with tekken in the big damage dial em up combos.

This is the one this im starting to hat about 3-d fighters get, but i guess thats what people like juggling.

It’s more like they want more chars to have actual juggle damage. I remember the best dmg Jeffry could get off a CH knee or windup hammer was just another jab more than his normal juggles.

[Ephidel]

It’s outta 2 or 5 for me.

[CUTWEST]

Got the chance to see VF2 in the arcades but never really played it.
I always ran into and end up playing VF1…so, VF1 is the best for me.

[Festival6667]

VF4FT for me, though I admit I enjoyed VF1 &VF2 quite a lot

[4649]

most likely VF4 Evo because it introduced me to Chibita, thus giving me a style to bite

although, now that a VF is out where Lion is finally top tier, it must be some weird cosmic joke that it seems stuck overseas and out of my reach ;_;

[krazykone123]

Virtua Fighter 2 and 4 evo, Jackie and Sarah FTW

[WasFemto]

VF4/EVO: It taught the basics of the VF system in lamens terms ON THE DISC. Not to mention it went back to VF2 speed. It didn’t look arcade perfect, but it played better than anygame out there at the time and even the current games

VF5 ver.C - At fist I wasn’t too big on 5 after playing it, but once I got a little better and the fact that I had(still do thanks to Live) comp that knows what the fuck is up, I really started to enjoy it. Whoever thinks El Blaze sucks can shoot themselves.

VF2 - It’s what got me into VF 'nuff said.

I don’t see R coming to the states which is cool, because I have a feeling VF5:FT is gonna drop in the 6 months and I would rather have THAT then R and being left out of the FT version. I just hope they keep R’s soundtrack for the FT console release.

lol @ thread and dumbass posts except falling edge who brings teh lulz for a different reason

This coming from someone who just found out how to SRK in a SF game at the Evo before last…yeah…

[dizzynecro]

Virtua Fighter 2 vs Tekken 2
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The best thing about it is that you can jump backwards forever to stall because the stage goes on infinately

[Endless]

I’ve only played VF4 once.

How is VF4 better than VF5?
I’m curious because that is my least played VF.

I have 5, I like 3, and I like 2.
I was never an expert in any of the VF games, I thought they were great fun.

[Jorant]

Honest to god, the biggest turn off for me with VF5 is the look. Everything looks plastic and sweaty and leathery. Just hate it. I also think Goh in Evo/FT looks badass… but in 5, he just looks stupid. Same with Shun Di. Looks just plain stupid in 5. Plus, not a hell of a lot was changed from FT to 5 except input commands that totally threw me off. I just don’t care for the hole thing. The two new characters are also a big turn off (could they have found a shittier voice actor for El Blaze?).

[Stuart_Hayden]

VF4EVO for the training mode.
VF5 for the fact it’s been the only one that’s playable.

[Dasiatic]

VF4 Vanilla and VF4:Evo are the deepest fighting games ever made. They will never be topped, deepest fighting games period, 2D and 3D.

VF4 could be played by all skill levels, anyone could play a character and perform the easy combos and perform a single throw escape etc. but the more advanced players could perform extremely difficult combos (Akira’s knee, knowing open vs closed stance) and perform triple-throw-escape-guards out etc. but everyone could have fun playing the game.

VF5 was a step back for the franchise, the new characters are terrible (Eileen and El Blaze…), and the game is way more flashier as opposed to the emphasis being on deep, difficult, and intellectual game play they just took VF4:FT and added shiny new graphics.

Dumbing down the VF5’s fight mechanics was a smart move for the franchise.
Turned out good.

When VF4 came out, I felt it was the best 3d fighting game ever made. I still feel that way really. I’ve gone back to playing 4Evo lately. It just seems so much more exciting than 5, even after all this time and all the play I’ve given 4. Hard to believe there were so much time between 4 and 5 - they came up with almost nothing to enhance the experience.

Kinda hard to break new ground with the current state of 3D fighting games out now. Maybe in the next decade?

Which VF showed Sarah’s perky nipples? Was it VF4? That one was my favorite.

[Dandy_J]

Dumbing down the VF5’s fight mechanics was a smart move for the franchise.
Turned out good.

Not really. VF4 and doubly over VF4Evo were fucking huge. VF5 lost a lot of popularity. The only reason VF5 is more popular than VF4 here is because you can play it online.

[Dasiatic]

Not really. VF4 and doubly over VF4Evo were fucking huge. VF5 lost a lot of popularity.

I can understand them losing popularity in the states thanks to the recent wave of popular western games dominating the market around the same time, but I’ll be surprised if they lost any popularity in Japan. Wasn’t the online experience another reason that VF5 lost so much popularity in the first place?
I doubt the reasons for the game’s decline was the dumbing down of the mechanics.

I just figured that if some random beginner could finally pull off an Akira juggle with easier commands, that would spell something good for the game’s new accessibility to the average player.

[Dandy_J]

Dude everyone in Japan hated the shit out of VF5 when it first came out. A lot of people quit and went to Tekken. Compare this to the VF4Evo era when it was always #2 behind whatever Gundam game was new at the time. Now it’s not even close to that spot. VF4Evo was HUGE. Even for a fighting game it was big.