Ah another Vf thread. I love these things becuase I know it’s a sure thing people will be talking about Tekken.
It’s like a way to bypass the no VS threads rule.
Let’s not do that. As it won’t bring VF5R to you any sooner nor VF toys to your local McDonald’s like they are in Japanese Happy Meals. The girls get customizable dolls and the boys get Goh’s VF4Evo portrait on a pack of condoms.
Nah man, VF netcode is still bomb. The only time I had laggy matches was when my ISP fucking sucked(lving with roommates), but now that I have something good and better than IV or 6…still. I say BB is tops with HDR and VF tied. I’ve had more roll back in HDR than lag with VF.
Anyways, the fact that R is not making it here sucks, but I enjoy Vanilla 5 (not as much as the 4 series) and have a couple people(lol) to play it with locally. VF will always be in rotation and it’s easier to keep it that way with online play. There are still gathering and tourney’s for it, despite how small the US scene is, but your always gonna have top-notch comp. I don’t think it’s a waste to have the game in your rotation since there will always be someone to play.
This should be in the first post of any VF thread.
2nded for a thread lock. Hit up Live if you don’t have offline comp.
I just felt like commenting because it was the first time i had seen Tekken 6.
good to know you’re able to instantly know how a game is by seeing it one time.
I’m tired of all this VF begging to sega. I refuse to beg for new VF anymore.
But I am going beg for that new Fighting Vipers.
The DoA girls ain’t got nothing on Honey!
I picked up VF5 on PS3 a while ago for like 8
No online play, no offline competition, no idea how to play. It’s kinda pointless owning it and it’s just collecting dust at the moment, I really wish I had competition on it so I could learn how to play.
I’m not really that much into 3D fighters, but I’d say VF seems alot less gimmicky than Tekken, which is another game I bought that’s basically collecting dust lol.
England isn’t that big im sure you can find some competish.
Meh, sega must not like money. We are litteraly telling sega that we will give them our money if they give us vf5r. Dunno why but it seems like they love to make stupid buisness moves…
Virtua Fighter II was the apex. REVOLUTIONARY GRAPHICS at the time. Drunken fist old man & mantis boy in vest was too fun. Game as a whole was the junx. After that version, nobody I knew cared.
It was also kinda broken.
Not like VF1-CE-Bison-and-Guile ie. jacky and lau broken but still. VF3 was good and also revolutionary, but because of high costs (both for players and arcade owners) not to mention other things like distribution it really didn’t do as good as it could have. I don’t see how you could be saying that with the release of VF4/EVO though.
Every VF game has been amazing and has always brought something new, which is why it’s without a doubt my favorite fighter ever. Even though VF5 was kind of lackluster it was still god damn good. It sucks that this series got stuck in a perfect storm of bad luck and bad decisions, but shit happens. 
damn, so they actually made it to be imposible to get it outside japan, well done sega :rolleyes:
Exactly. VF4 basically forced arcade operators in Japan to get internet connections for their arcades. VF.Net, though exclusive to Japan, is still such a phenomenal development by AM2. And VF4 was #1 in Japan for years so the game essentially changed that way that arcades can receive new content and communicate with the companies who design games, because now every arcade in Japan has internet connected arcade machines.
VF4 was also the first FG to have such a huge emphasis on character cards and customization. The card system and ranking features were so amazing that Namco directly licensed them for the Tekken franchise because they were so impressed. SFIV and Tekken would not have card systems if it wasn’t for VF.
I’m not sure how many new ideas VF5 really brought to the table compared to previous entries in the series, some new VF.Net features, better mobile access I guess. But it’s obvious that VF5 (vanilla) is by far the least innovative in the series (most likely because Yu Suzuki had the least to do with it). Sega experiment with VF5’s arcade delivery (rental units only) and that has seemed to doom VF to being much less popular in Japan (or at least far less accessible).
VF5R should have been VF5. When I first saw matches for VF5R that had the old VF music in each stage I was floored. AM2 and Sega of Japan are killing the VF franchise. Fuck Sega.
Who would play an old version of a game? With no hope of an update
The people ho are still playing this are sad in their own unique way.
don’t hate dwin, vf5 is still hella dope.
Well VF1 undoubtedly brought something new, being the first 3D fighter, cementing itself in history but I defy anyone who actually played it to call it “good”. VF1 was just bad, period. Lots of BS in that game that was improved/fixed in the later VFs and Lau and Jacky owned that game. I mean OWNED it. =/
Honestly, I know its for nostalgia and not to be taken seriously (or at least it shouldn’t…) but VF1’s mechanics are partly why I don’t particularly enjoy Anniversary Edition on the EVO disc, although the fact the characters retain their VF4 EVO movelists (although some of the properties are once again VF1-ified) made me come back once or twice.
Sega had some plans a while ago about ‘revitalising’ arcades, and having machines being leased rather than sold was one of their ideas. I don’t run and arcade, so I can’t say anything certain, but it sounds like it would be a good decision to me. It means that rather than having to outlay a lot of cash to buy a new machine, the arcade operators can lease out the newest cabs and games as they come along, then return them when something else comes along they would like to have instead.
Although there are handfuls of people with the money ready to buy the game, Sega wouldn’t be holding back if they thought they would be making money on it. If they WERE actually making huge profits on the VF series, they would be making more games.
I’ve said this a lot of times before, but I think that VF isn’t done and dusted as so many think it is. I personally think that Sega knows there will be a VF5: Final Tuned on the way, and would rather wait and release that on console.
Why divide the sales up between VF5, VF5R and a third game? It would be better for them to wait until they get their ‘final’ version of VF5 done, and then release that to home consoles. I don’t know much about VF4, but I know that VF4: Final Tuned was only released in Japanese Arcades. Why would they release it on Consoles after VF4 Evo after all, only the real VF Die Hards would bother buying it. Maybe they want to wait until VF5R is at that stage and THEN make a home port, so that the home port is the best possible version of the game.
Well, of course this is all based on VF5R being the final version. I don’t think anyone is against skipping a port of 5R if there were to be another revision, but it just kind of seems unlikely. Final Tuned was considered to be a bit overkill when it was released, so most people don’t expect to see another game in the 5 series.
Even if there is no ‘Final Tuned’ per se, they might still be making revisions/updates to it. Even if it’s minor balance changes or even just cosmetic stuff like new items. Don’t forget that the last revision (Revision C?) had a ton of new costumes and stuff thrown into the mix.
I think you’re giving Sega far too much credit and being far too optimistic. I really don’t think they gave a shit about us or even the japanese home console scene (and to a lesser extent the arcade). From what’s transpired so far I honestly can’t imagine anyone still trying to believe Sega is going to do the right thing.