Previous claims about this have been unsubstantiated for the most part, but a new Gamasutra interview with Arc System Works reps (including Ishiwatari) basically confirms it.
Terrible news imo. The rest of the interview talks about BlazBlue, Battle Fantasia and a bit about their design philosophy which makes for a good read: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3902/dodging_striking_winning_the_.php
Oh and a little dig at SF4.
Tis a shame that after all those years Daisuke cataloguing the world of Guilty Gear, he now owns less rights to the series than he did before.
Thanks for that link, that was a great read!
It’s official. All fighting game developers love chess.
That is a bit discouraging. I’m not quite sure if this means that Guilty Gear X3 has no chance of ever happening, if Sega wants / would want Ishiwatari/Arcsys’ help to work on such a game, etc. But it’s sounding pretty grim. Especially with the way they talk about Blazblue. We can only hope that GGX3 does happen, and in a shorter timeframe than the Starcraft -> Starcraft 2 gap. ;p
Wait, what?? So ArcSys had little to do with Slash and Accent Core? Those were great versions imo.
Very interesting read. I’ll comment more later.
that’s what I was thinkin’.
Someone ought to tell them about GGPO.
They still don’t get how shitty Sonic games are. Good luck with that.
AksysGames tell them about GGPO please.
Well this contradicts stuff I read earlier saying they had not dropped the GG franchise and had more things planned for it
but this is more recent so whatever I guess
Sucks
Blazblue is pretty cool so I hope to see good things from that series
That’s fucked up though. Arc Sys created a fighting game that flipped the world on it’s head. So for them not to have that complete access to something that they were a major part of creating isn’t good. But BlazBlue is on it’s way to surpassing GG even now. And I would love for them to make a BattleFantasia sequel of some sort because the game is begging for refinement. But that was a great article to read to delve in the minds of some great developers.
So what are Sega’s plans for GG is my question.
Word.
fallot:
> Oh and a little dig at SF4.
Actually, it was more a dig at Ono/Capcom for claiming SFIV was accessible to new players. The key phrase is this:
This is 100% right. Capcom/Ono were blowing smoke about the game being accessible to new players, cause it’s even less accessible than the original WW, and contrary to what some may think, the SF games were never especially accessible. We played it because it was awesome, not because it easy really easy to get into.
Now sure, SFIV is easy to get into compared to, say, BlazBlue (;), but it’s really meant for people who have some level of fighting game experience, and not completely new players. And there’s nothing wrong with this, or the way SFIV goes about things; but Capcom shouldn’t be blowing smoke about its accessibility: Not with 720s, Doublesomersault and Tiger Knee motions in there. I don’t care how forgiving the inputs are.
Anyway, that was a good interview. I like the way these guys think. They’re spot on with that whole “wall” concept.
Madden is not immediately accessible to new players and everyone LOVES DAT MADDEN!
If you can’t tiger knee ur a scub and need to blow all your money on a tournament edition stick.
I thought GG was dead? What’s this about X3? Blazblue supposed to replace dat junk.
Hopefully they don’t turn it into the current state of the Sonic franchise.
Please do not mention “current” and “Sonic” ever again for the sake of my peace of mind. Thank you.
Well I mostly said that so people would scour the entirety of the interview, since its very interesting. I agree with what they said in any case. Ono has been less than honest (can’t think of lighter words) in a lot of his interviews. The funny thing is a lot of websites seem to just parrot what he said and take it at straight face value. The general internet consensus is that SF4 is “easier” than SF3 and even that is probably untrue.