Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown console thread

Did you install the costume packs after downloading? There should be more than one costume…

Newish to 3D fighters, only ever played Soul Calibur. Thought I’d try this out. In the end I thought “why not?” because it was £9.99. I’m a bit on sure on it, it just looks bland to me. I’m also a little bit annoyed that I didn’t get any customisation stuff for that. Now to get the customisation stuff I need to buy two £9.99 packs, instead of me buying it originally for £19.99 and getting both of them with the game. But I didn’t have £20 to splash out at the time. Also sort of my own fault for not searching into it properly beforehand so I’ll suffer in money if I come to enjoy it.

Anyway I’m just nittpicking on how I got a pretty decent fighter for £9.99 and I can’t dress my characters up and make them pretty. I’m growing to it but nothing stands out to me at the moment. I’m secretly a 5 year old girl it seems.
So yeah about the game the game itself not the costumes (that I now desperately want). I like Brad. That’s the only character I’ve sort of meshed with. I’m sure it’ll grow on me, things normally do. I just tend to hate everything. Basically played with my girlfriend for all of it and she also equally sucks, by the end of hour or so we kinda liked it. I’ll just spend some time with it and I’m sure I like it.

Honestly for £9.99? Great deal for it. And I’m sure I’ll benefit later from it.

afaik I did. How can I be sure tho? this is really frustrating. It already took 48494 min to d/l and install the game and I had to delete a few movies to have enough space.

Once you get into the customization menu, where you can see the grid of items and placement, if you press start, if you select maybe the second or third option, you can customize other costumes.

Can you only have one custom costume per character data?

god damn thank you. Shit. I couldn’t find it to save my life.

is it me or are the costumes packs “glitched” on XBLA?

they all seem to redownload the game, that or every costume pack is 2 gigs.

you can have multiple, but make sure you save them. And name them. You have to leave the terminal to altogether to change to a new slot.

They’re not all 2 gigs but I guess you need to download that 2 gig file first, all subsequent costume pack purchases are instantaneous downloads after that.

No. Just do “new” each time, not sure how many slots max. I have 4 slots (each costume not A/B) and accidentally made 5th.

I meant can I edit say all 5 of the costumes under one name or not. When I went to select another costume it tells me it resets to default so I assumed I could only have one edited costume for each name.
edit: okay thanks

Ah, my bad. AFAIK, DMs are completely invincible during a successful evade and that a successful evade will guarantee you a side-turned position against your opponent.
OMs are not invincible and can be interrupted by linear attacks. I would love to know its other uses if any, but for now, I just use it to quickly reposition myself around my opponent. (Read EDIT below).

P, 2P, 66P are all pretty safe if evaded. But evade will blow up launchers. My rule of thumb is that if it’s safe on block, it’s kinda safe if it’s evaded. It really depends on how late or how early your opponent evaded your attack. In a side-turned position, anything you do will be slower and you’re prone to getting side crumpled. One of your best options is to guard and hold 4/6P+G. You can also crouch/2P in anticipation of P/throw pressure or high guard break, but it’s riskier. You can also still evade if the move you threw out recovered fast enough. Hell, I think you can even ETE with 4/6P+G o___0 <<< (I’m gonna try this in training mode)

As for your options when you successfully evade… elbow, P, mid kick are all viable. Akira’s guard breaks (the high GB and the 3P+K+G canned string) are also extremely useful after DM. Just remember that your attacks are much safer against a side-turned opponent so you can use attack patterns that are slightly less safe; give them a reason to attack from a side-turned position (for example, conditioning them to attack with a 2P…) and you can blow 'em up with launchers for free. That, or just mid kick for a side crumple.

I hope that wasn’t confusing (or completely wrong) ^_^;;

EDIT: I just remembered, if you catch your opponent going WTF at your amazing offense and just sits there guarding, you can OM to their side and put them in a side-turned situation for more fun.

this thing took forever to download for some reason. i got the bare bones $15 of the game and damn, not even any colors to customize your character. at least you get a beast of a training mode. best training mode i’ve seen so far in a fighting game.

My 20 hour download turned into a 10 minute download the moment I plugged the ethernet into my PS3…

Shit was mad dumb and I find it funny that the PS Vita has far better wireless than the home console.

That string is too hard lol

(hurts if you land the whole thing though: 70 damage off what seems to essentially be an untechable throw)

Why is VFDC down? I keep getting the default “Hello World!” Apache script. No Google results from VFDC work either.

Any other El Blaze players feel like starting a thread. I’d do it, but I’d hardly call myself an authority for all things Blaze.

I wanted to do it, but I’m terrible at this game and didn’t want to sully his reputation.

Forever no Lion information.

so whats everyones scores so far :wonder:

Ranked, 83 Games 27 wins ;(