For being June 09, Rivalx is dead on.
Good netcode = caring about non-Japanese market/gamers. I agree with almost everything he said.
Fun Fact: You cannot leave a game you are watching until the match is over unless you go back to the 360 dashboard.
With the state of Japan’s game market I don’t get how they couldn’t care about Western audiences…I mean I doubt the 30-60k that it will sell in Japan is going to make back all the money they spent developing the game.
I know, I don’t get it. What are they thinking? Probably just in denial about it. If they think Japanese arcade and Japanese game sales are going to carry them when competing with SF4 and BB, they are in trouble.
KOF just removed its self from the 09’ fighting game popularity battle. Personally, I think BB is the game to go with at this point.
From what I heard, they’re probably begging for those 30-60k copies. Since it’s all about the arcade scene in japan, success in the arcades usually correlates with success in sales. Well, I keep hearing about how hard this game flopped in Japanese arcades. You can walk into an arcade and not see a single soul on the KOF12 machine while you got a crowd at the KOF98 cab. If that’s any indicator of sales, SNK is gonna get it rough. I wanted this game to be a success just as much as the next guy, I mean the better the games out there, the more variety and competition you can have on the scene but I think SNK dropped the ball big time here. All we can hope for is a patch and I’m kinda skeptical about that even happening. Getting a patch with a good netcode for BB was a given, Aksys had a rep who used to post on these boards as well as dustloop almost everyday asking for feedback and suggestions from the player base. They even had a rep that used to be in #capcom all the damn time doing the same thing. I haven’t ever seen SNK make a move like that, hell, they rarely post on their own boards.
Japanese companies are not big on patches. They will come few and far between.
Personally, I believe that the fighting scene needed KOF to make a positive impact and carry the baton after SFIV did a good job this year. With KOF and the complexity of BB, the fighting game scene is going to fizzle out (at least in America). There are too many other great games out or on the horizon that have their shit together…
I’m with you all the way bro, I think BB is the way to go now. My only gripe with the game is some balance issues but GG had that problem in the beginning too so the way I see it, it’s only a matter of time before that’s squared away and the game is flawless. But who knows, maybe SNK will pull through with a patch? I’ll keep my fingers crossed but until then its all about BB.
Remember to install your game on the HDD. This always helps, I have some laggy matches and some good matches so far. Good thing the game is online, any bugs fixes or netcode updates are easily done. Hopefully a patch BB style can make it better. Its still playable vs the right person.
I wasn’t sure about whether I should get Blazblue or KOFXII but after hearing this, SCREW SNK and KOFXII!!! I’m gonna get me Blazblue!!!
SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
glad I didn’t buy this.
GGPO SNK. This will make you file bankruptcy again.
Man this is really really sad to hear. Hey, it could just be day one jittters though, things might clear up, could be servers…right? OK, probably not. Man, this is just really disappointing after experience BB’s near flawless online play and SFIV in 4/5 bar matches is pretty damn good.
Is ANYONE having fun yet? I’m supposed to pick up my copy this afternoon.
SNK and Examu must be sharing business practices.
Well after trying to get some matches, I can say the netcode is shit and needs to be patched. The sync does nothing and just the game performance itself is messy. Maybe after the patch things will be better but as it stands, I get more fun out of practice mode.
Blazblue’s online needed to get patched for ps3, that came out in 3 days. if they announce a patch and release it, then maybe this game still has a shot
NET CODE IS SHIT!!! im so mad!!!
can we get anybody to confirm that they’ve played an online match that was at least equal to a SF4 4-bar match?
Played my first online match. It was like I we were fighting underwater. That’s how laggy. I’m more than pissed right now that I dished out the cash for this. I’ll give it a few days then it’s going up on eBay, where hopefully I can salvage some of my money. The game itself I like, but with some of the worse lag I’ve ever seen, and what little faith I have in SNK to get out a decent patch, I’m not holding my breath. Yeah BB had issues at first too that got patched, but I would DIE for the netcode to be anywhere close to what BB was prepatch. It’s that shitty.
If anyone wants to have some underwater speed battles, hit me up on PSN under “Rezae”.
With no story mode, I can’t even enjoy the single player experience!!! Are the controls any good though? I mean are they responsive? Past SNK titles that were released on PS2 had pretty crappy controls…
at this point, it seems like the only fighting games I’ll be playing online are BlazBlue and HDR
just curious, did anyone have to update right when they tried to play the game for the first time?