Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown console thread

MadeManG74 · May 20, 2012, 6:22am

I would imagine so, not sure how it works on PS3, but on Xbox you could probably save your Gamertag and save data to a flash drive and then just plug it in and sign in when you’re playing. Even so though, that would take a while, when you really might just want to jump in and play.

Lord_Raptor · May 20, 2012, 7:02am

That would really only take like maybe 15 econds to put it ina dn log onto the account, no big deal really.

Mr.X · May 20, 2012, 7:13am

Shidosha (japanese for “wears shirts wrong”) confirmed that the 1 characters packs are included in the big pack, so yes $45 for everything.

Sarangha · May 20, 2012, 9:40am

Loved the stream, level up did an amazing job. Shidosha and Myke were on point when it came to commentary imo and I hope they will do some more for evo.

-Didn’t expect Chibita to ring out Plague like that, even I was surprised.
-The wall flip was epic and will probably go on Chibita highlight reels in the future
-Secretly hoped Chibita would win because he sticks with VF,not hating on Fuudo at all but the VF God had to show him what’s good.
-Anyone else thrown off by the gangsta rap after the Chibita vs Fuudo ft5 lol?
-Dat flag tech
-Caught someone wearing the swag Metal Gear Online shirt

EDIT: The archive should be posted on the SRK frontpage with an emphasis on the ft5 it is pretty much a showcase of fighting game art. Pure yomi and pride of personal style btw, that dubstep rap music was a troll job TBH.

Aria · May 20, 2012, 10:15am

The stream is still going on now, btw. Shidosha and Myke pulled off some seriously good stuff against Chibita.

Aion · May 20, 2012, 10:55am

Shidosha and Myke did amazing to take a match off Chibita; but I think the star was LA…he really made Fuudo respect him and it made for an excellent well-mannered set. Really like Chibita’s sportsmanship and and the good, happy vibe is was pushing out there.

The whole event was amazing though. Great commentary by Shidosha, Myke, LA and it’s always a pleasure to have Tasty Steve on the mic! So thanks to the commentators; competitors; Sega; Valle and Level-Up for the event…it’s almost 8am over here and I’m still too hype to be tired!

soakrates · May 20, 2012, 11:22am

Yeah, it was a great stream overall, and a lot of the players who challenged Chibita and Fuudo showed real potential. Speaking of Chibita and Fuudo, their set was amazing .They did a great job of selling the game at a high level. The crowd seemed really into it. Sega and LevelUp put on a fantastic event and stream. Not to mention the hate and trolling in the stream chat were surprisingly minimal, to boot.

Gah, can’t believe the release is so soon. And yet, not soon enough!

Mr.X · May 20, 2012, 11:43am

Great tournament, great experience.

beyond_death · May 20, 2012, 12:35pm

Watched some of it but missed alot. Will wait for the archive.

thecapsaicinkid · May 20, 2012, 2:01pm

I just tried to post this comment in the release date announcement blog, but it seems comments have to be approved so it obviously will never be approved. I’ll share it here and at VFDC once that website starts working again:

"Lol. All items will be included when you download the game, (so that you can see other player’s items even if you haven’t bought those DLCs) but you will have to pay an extra $124.79 to UNLOCK it all. This is even worse than the SFxT on-disc DLC fiasco.

Thanks Sega. For years upon years, we VF fans rigorously and aggressively support this series despite it having a small scene outside of Japan and also despite a couple of entries in the series never seeing release outside of Japan. And this is how you thank us: By seeing us as nothing more than cattle to milk for the money that you idiots lost over the past decade with the many terrible decisions you’ve made. I feel sorry for the hard-working employees who had to get laid off, but not for Sega itself. Sega got exactly what it deserved when all its bad decisions finally caught up with it and was forced to downsize. But the fans have to pay for Sega’s poor decision-making too it seems… -_-

Should’ve saw this coming though. When Sega promised that each Episode of Sonic 4 was only going to cost $5, then they got raised to $15 each… that was a pretty big red flag of how this company was going to start to treat its loyal fans.

And we haven’t even seen the scariest part yet: The fact that Sega is STILL quiet about the price of the Final Showdown game itself can only mean it’s a number that we’re not going to like. As in possibly as much as $40. We could be looking at as much as $200 total to have access to the entire VF5FS console experience. Still think Sega is a cool company that does favors for its fans? Lol ok."

And inb4 you “gameplay is all that matters” elitists storm all over me: Yes gameplay is the most important thing in the end, but my point is that you all will be paying for the game once, and then be asked to pay again to unlock things you’ve already paid for once. You already bought the FS game and as such should be entitled to all content it comes with. (aka the customization items in this case) But Sega is asking you to be pay an extra $125 for nothing more than UNLOCK CODES for things you already have on your harddrive ready to go right now. If you could manually unlock customization items through playing like the old days, then sure it would be ok to have the OPTION to obtain items with money. But your ONLY option is to pay AGAIN for stuff you’ve technically already paid for once.

I mean when you buy a DVD from the store and it has bonus features like behind-the-scenes etc, you don’t have to pay extra again to unlock that shit. Because that would be incredibly stupid. But that’s exactly what’s happening with the console FS, and many many many many other games nowadays. And you idiots will keep paying for it and then companies will keep thinking this practice is acceptable and then it will keep getting worse and worse and worse and by next-gen, the standard will be $70 for a game off the shelf with at least half of its content locked unless you pay at least an extra $30. Have fun paying $100+ for each new game cause that’s where this industry between the greediness of companies and stupidness of customers.

Don’t get me wrong, I love VF and am glad to have a new VF to play finally. But holy shit did Sega go well out its way to rain the fuck all over this parade. What should be a glorious moment in fighting game history will now forever be covered in the stench of unrelenting corporate greed and topped off with a rotting cherry in the fact that Sega is slapping the long-time VF fans in the face HARD with this practice. I don’t wanna hear anyone trying to say that Sega cares about the fans, because this was never about doing a favor to the fans by giving them a console FS. This was ONLY about another opportunity to milk money. If Sega cared about the fans, this game would be no more than $20 with NO NEED to pay extra to unlock the rest of the game that you’ve already paid for. The arcade version of FS has more than made the money back it cost to produce as well as covering the cost of a console port, there’s no need for Sega to go this far with draining the wallet of its long-time passionate fans.

EDIT: Where was it confirmed that this game will cost $15? And has it been confirmed that paying just the bare minimum does not limit your experience in any way besides customization items? And where was it confirmed that you can’t see other player’s items if you haven’ bought them? (that seems like a terrible idea cause it severely limits the value of buying DLC items if you can’t show off your custom chars to everyone you play against online)

I honestly cannot put into words how much this post disgusts/annoys/saddens me. Seriously, I will pretty much never insult someone on the internet personally but god damn you make sticking to this rule hard.

soakrates · May 20, 2012, 2:26pm

Stream archive for those who missed it: http://www.twitch.tv/leveluplive/b/318784367

FT5 between Chibita and Fuudo starts at around 2 hrs and 13 min.

Genistar · May 21, 2012, 12:38am

I just tried to post this comment in the release date announcement blog, but it seems comments have to be approved so it obviously will never be approved. I’ll share it here and at VFDC once that website starts working again:

"Lol. All items will be included when you download the game, (so that you can see other player’s items even if you haven’t bought those DLCs) but you will have to pay an extra $124.79 to UNLOCK it all. This is even worse than the SFxT on-disc DLC fiasco.

Thanks Sega. For years upon years, we VF fans rigorously and aggressively support this series despite it having a small scene outside of Japan and also despite a couple of entries in the series never seeing release outside of Japan. And this is how you thank us: By seeing us as nothing more than cattle to milk for the money that you idiots lost over the past decade with the many terrible decisions you’ve made. I feel sorry for the hard-working employees who had to get laid off, but not for Sega itself. Sega got exactly what it deserved when all its bad decisions finally caught up with it and was forced to downsize. But the fans have to pay for Sega’s poor decision-making too it seems… -_-

Should’ve saw this coming though. When Sega promised that each Episode of Sonic 4 was only going to cost $5, then they got raised to $15 each… that was a pretty big red flag of how this company was going to start to treat its loyal fans.

And we haven’t even seen the scariest part yet: The fact that Sega is STILL quiet about the price of the Final Showdown game itself can only mean it’s a number that we’re not going to like. As in possibly as much as $40. We could be looking at as much as $200 total to have access to the entire VF5FS console experience. Still think Sega is a cool company that does favors for its fans? Lol ok."

And inb4 you “gameplay is all that matters” elitists storm all over me: Yes gameplay is the most important thing in the end, but my point is that you all will be paying for the game once, and then be asked to pay again to unlock things you’ve already paid for once. You already bought the FS game and as such should be entitled to all content it comes with. (aka the customization items in this case) But Sega is asking you to be pay an extra $125 for nothing more than UNLOCK CODES for things you already have on your harddrive ready to go right now. If you could manually unlock customization items through playing like the old days, then sure it would be ok to have the OPTION to obtain items with money. But your ONLY option is to pay AGAIN for stuff you’ve technically already paid for once.

I mean when you buy a DVD from the store and it has bonus features like behind-the-scenes etc, you don’t have to pay extra again to unlock that shit. Because that would be incredibly stupid. But that’s exactly what’s happening with the console FS, and many many many many other games nowadays. And you idiots will keep paying for it and then companies will keep thinking this practice is acceptable and then it will keep getting worse and worse and worse and by next-gen, the standard will be $70 for a game off the shelf with at least half of its content locked unless you pay at least an extra $30. Have fun paying $100+ for each new game cause that’s where this industry between the greediness of companies and stupidness of customers.

Don’t get me wrong, I love VF and am glad to have a new VF to play finally. But holy shit did Sega go well out its way to rain the fuck all over this parade. What should be a glorious moment in fighting game history will now forever be covered in the stench of unrelenting corporate greed and topped off with a rotting cherry in the fact that Sega is slapping the long-time VF fans in the face HARD with this practice. I don’t wanna hear anyone trying to say that Sega cares about the fans, because this was never about doing a favor to the fans by giving them a console FS. This was ONLY about another opportunity to milk money. If Sega cared about the fans, this game would be no more than $20 with NO NEED to pay extra to unlock the rest of the game that you’ve already paid for. The arcade version of FS has more than made the money back it cost to produce as well as covering the cost of a console port, there’s no need for Sega to go this far with draining the wallet of its long-time passionate fans.

EDIT: Where was it confirmed that this game will cost $15? And has it been confirmed that paying just the bare minimum does not limit your experience in any way besides customization items? And where was it confirmed that you can’t see other player’s items if you haven’ bought them? (that seems like a terrible idea cause it severely limits the value of buying DLC items if you can’t show off your custom chars to everyone you play against online)

Dude… Its your choice if you want to spend that much money or not. They did say if you buy all the the DLC separately, its about 105 dollars. You could also buy 1 pack or 2 for which characters you love to play. If you want all of them just pay 20 dollars and its 35 dollars. Sega isn’t milking anyone imo people just milk themselves over this stuff. They are giving you a good amount of choices on how YOU would like to obtain the costumes.

The confirmation is on the first 3 pages of the SRK news page and you can visit the VFDC forum to get any extra information about the console if you don’t believe the news.

Shidosha · May 21, 2012, 1:52am

I’m glad to see this post; I Really wanted to see what was going on in the chat but was unable to. I did see that at one time we had over 2100 viewers, that makes me happy. What’s even better is that we have shown that the FGC spectators aren’t COMPLETELY filled with scumbags and “Stream monsters” but people who appreciate honest fights. It’s a blessing that this took place and I hope that out community sticks with this. The next event is EVO. Hopefully I can make it, but who knows!

Overall I’m really glad and proud of what took place last night and I hope that seeing the matches inspire ppl to give it a shot!

1 last thing, I talked over Gerald & Myke alot. I’m VERY sorry about that!

Reno · May 21, 2012, 4:43am

Like I said before, it’s hard to troll a game that’s actually good.

The party was great from what I saw! I was invited and I was really hoping to go but spending $1200 on a plane ticket for 2 days and a night just didn’t make much sense to me.

Sarangha · May 21, 2012, 6:33am

I was also impressed with the amount of people on stream who said they were willing to try it out. This probably has to be the most well thought out PR Sega has ever done for a game. I really hope it sells well and for some reason my intuition tells me that it will sell more than VF5.

tataki · May 21, 2012, 6:42am

The damage seems balanced and fair, at least compared to what I know from Tekken.

ShinyBrentford · May 21, 2012, 8:00am

I’m kind of annoyed with all the players crying about the final showdown evo tourney. What do you want Sega to do? Not have a tournament.

Thoughts?

Shidosha · May 21, 2012, 9:54am

Too bad you can’t have free money - get over it! - my response.

And to all responding to CLA’s message, he already cleared up that he was going off not enough Info when he made that rant. His thoughts changed so can we stop bashing the guy now?

Mr.X · May 21, 2012, 10:03am

What are they crying about?

I’m guessing when Fuudo said he was going to EVO, people started crying?

ShinyBrentford · May 21, 2012, 4:27pm

Just reading all the “fuck sega messages” or the “we only have a month of training” in the evo final showdown tournament info thread.