Xrd isnât really that different from the previous Guilty Gear games, as far as I know. If any long time players seriously complain about a game as faithful to the previous game as Xrd after capping off the 10 year wait for a new core Guilty Gear title, they are nit picking.
The changes to Dust alone are very not faithful and flat out limit character options. I almost hope Jam isnât in the game because I donât want to deal with not having Impossible Dust.
Not to say that it makes Xrd a bad game, but itâs also not the same GG. If oldschool GG heads say they donât like the changes, they are making valid opinions.
Location tests do not change mechanics wholesale ASW has already decided what the mechanics are and how they work. Location tests help discover balance and glitches.
There are two types of dusts currently. The regular dust, sans the impossible dust glitch, where you leap in to the air, like in the first trailer. And a new dust, where you just stay on the ground, that looks to mimic the glitch in not a how-do-I-do-this-glitch-? kinda way. I think I read that it gave a kinda Hnk multi-wallslam effect or something.
I know a lot of old GG heads, and we all love the direction Xrd is going. So do our new players too.
Hey now, fine print says I didnât call any game bad, but my unneeded pettiness aside, I agree with you.
Personally, and maybe I may be in a minority here, but I think one way to get people to play Guilty Gear (and some other games) is to not overestimate how hard it is to get into. Iâve seen so many posts around the net of people talking about the hardest aspects of Guilty Gear, but they neglect to bring up that NONE of these features actually come into play until you get to at least mid level intermediate. I personally think a lot of people are scared off by Guilty Gear because of how complex it seems, but I think it actually has a lot of on paper complex features (an example is probably clean hits, which seems like something really hard to know for someone like Sol, until you realize that the timing and spots to hit arenât that much different across the board).
The local Guilty Gear players in my area would switch back and forth between different Guilty Gear players. Some even went back to playing Slash for a while during the pre 2009 days. The changes donât seem as radical as that between the older SF and Marvel games I will say that much. StillâŚgonna have those that wonât like the new direction just like any fighter and weâll have to hear them out.
Thatâs basically what it is, ASW has said thatâs what it is, and thatâs whatt he people who ahve played the game say it is. Stop being Squidward, this aint old irc.