As a life long Sega fan I’ve seen them do some seriously absurd stuff as far as supporting the fans. I don’t have my hopes high for 5R in the rest of the world but boy would it be nice.
Mainly because Sarah looks like a BEAST in R.
SEGA is pissing me off even more, all this VF5R sexiness and we are stuck with Sonic for 6 year olds!!!
I’m hoping they announce this for console soon. I was going to rebuy the 360 version, but don’t see a point if this is on the way.
Sad thing is, those Sonic games probably sold better then the last VF.:sad:
When did they start adding all these retarded looking costumes in the game ? ._.
Life needs moar of this.
Friend said he saw console VF5R in some import shop in some part of TN. Of course we blasted him. Then he said it looked like a mock-up, with scan-printed case and shit.
It’d be hilarious of people were really doing this. Because it’d go against everything I ever believed of people here actually caring that this game, or even series, exists.
I actually don’t feel any anger towards Sega. Just pity for the fans.
The problem is that VF isn’t like SF in the US. It never had that kind of popularity, nor nostalgia, or marketable appeal (e.g. SF anime series/cartoons/comics/etc.), so without the game itself - which is pretty much its only presence in the west, the scene doesn’t really have anything to “feed” on.
Everytime this thread gets bumped, a part of me gets a bit excited because maybe, just maybe, a console port has been announced and someone is reporting it.
Then I read the new thread and that same part dies inside. So much sadness :sad:
Aye.
/salute
goes back to playing VF5 on the PS3 by himself, cause he’s got no online and no one good to play against
I admit I was somewhat ignorant of some of the nitty gritty Sega pulled when it came to disrepecting the VF4 fans (the sue issue concerning EVO gives me a very negative thought of how the company considers their fans at times) and even I have been aware Sega has NEVER been good at advertising, particularly VF but the point brought up by Flymike and I cannot be ignored; America fighting game scene really isn’t substantial for VF and it gives them all the more reason to ignore us.
Really it looks like both sides are at fault - the states generally ignore the series and regulate to almost niche status, and the company is also reducing that scene even furthur by not respecting the loyal fans that do want the product.
I’ll be honest; I don’t really care about VF5:R or even VF5 all that much. Whenever I have sessions with the game it fails to keep my interest like VF4 does. Maybe its because I don’t own it, but because my partners bring either a PS3 or Xbox to the game room everyday, religiously, I always had access to it…so I doubt that’s it. I really like the game but it just doesn’t gather the obsession that I have with VF4 or VF3. However, since this is the 3D realm and the community consensus is, “whatever’s new is what’s played” the status of VF5R is really hurting the community. I think that mentality is really, really silly (I was half-serious when I said people should go back to playing VF4) but it is really a travesty. I really don’t want to see the community break up from playing VF.
I think it has more to do with comp tbh. Why play VF4 if all the comp has moved to VF5? That sort of thing.
SF has it a bit differently. ST =/= SF3 for example. The games are practically different. SFA =/= SF4 as well. This is why SF3 fans still play 3S over SF4. However, fans of a certain series (let’s take SF3), pretty much made 3S (the latest one, where all the comp moved to) the de facto tourney SF3 game.
Look at Tekken: some fans are still playing TTT over BR.
The thing is, VF doesn’t have “break away” games, which is why not having the one where all the comp are currently beasting on is killing it stateside.
Well yeah. My thing about VF5 is that the company is not supporting you playing its lastest revision so why bother. But yes, everyone’s moved on and dedicated time to it - I wouldn’t ask them to throw that away.
As for the breakaway games…I’d put VF3 in that category. I’m pretty sure I recall Yu Suzuki saying that when VF4 came out it was a build on VF2, while VF3 was on its own route.
Not like it matters though; not many people will touch VF3 (no matter how good or different it is) because a) its on DC or arcade and b) circa 1996-2000 Model-3 hardware won’t appeal to the graphics whores.
Yea I want VF5R too. Actually I want it for the PS3 but if it comes for 360 well that is ok as well. I actually think VF is funnier to play than tekken but alot more people play tekken so I play tekken more as a result of that.
i guarantee if vf was more gimmicky like tekken then there would still be a scene.
Gimmicks will only get you so far though. That’s why DoA is still not really seen as a serious 3D game. Even if a dressed-up bear owning a boxer is fun to watch, the “joke” wears off after awhile. The thing is, Tekken still has great game play underneath it, and so does VF, which kind of means that’s not really the issue.
I think one thing that VF sorely lacked was personality. There was nothing that made players feel for their characters. That “I want to collect every Cloud and Sephiroth merchandise available” kind of feeling.
yeah that’s sorta what I mean about the gimmicks. VF and tekken both do have great engines but namco knows how to market to the mainstream more and get new players into it with their flashy graphics/animations, music, and their characters. VF, as good as the game is itself, its pretty boring to watch if you don’t know anything about the game and the characters are pretty bland.
I think vf5r would be a bit more fun to watch though with the character intros before every game and whatnot.
I agree. And to think, of all the VF’s Sega could have skipped, it seems to have chosen to skip the one with the funnest customs, most crowd-appealing gameplay, and most number of characters ever.
Sad.
I don’t know about Sega never being good with advertising, they did a damn fine job with the Genesis (Genesis does what Nintendon’t), but after that they never really had much. Well apart from Segata Sanshiro in Japan which is the greatest thing of all time.
That’s not why at all. The Tekken series is more about learning BnBs and combos, while less about knowing the system. Learning and excelling at VF and to a lesser extent DOA is a disgusting beast in comparison.
Dude…I thought you were banned or something for shit like this last time. GTFO with this shit.