FYI but I’ve started to add my match videos to SRK’s Media library, so please check them out. 
Thanks Reno. I will. I’m a huge VF fan. I hope it get more popular here in the US.
Damn straight. About time more VF news comes out.
IDK about here. Alot of people in the US just don’t like the game. They call it dull and boring.
We need more players here to take VF seriously for sure.
I would like to see a home release of this but I only just got Virtua Fighter 5. Literally, it arrived about 4 hours ago. Well as long as there’s some kind of bonus for having VF5 save data or something, I won’t feel too bad. Then again, it did only cost £5, so…
I’ve been meaning to ask if there’s a VF equivalent of Shoryuken.com? I do seem to remember there being one when I used to play VF4E on the PS2.
New Final Showdown pics!
http://www.versuscity.net/2010/05/18/new-virtua-fighter-5-final-showdown-pics/
There’s a blog entry associated with it, but you know what? It’s exactly what I translated the other day.
Well… it IS dull and boring…
:rolleyes:
Anyway, thanks for the updates Reno. Ready for some gameplay footage now.
Definitely. How are we supposed to hate on the game play and make 12 page threads squalling about the new changes “dumbing it down” for casuals without footage? I’m just joking by the way. I hunger for VF5FS.
Give a console release date already or announce it at E3
VF2 is the high water mark of the series. All they’ve done since then is add more stuff to an already perfect formula and more stuff doesn’t necessarily add depth to the gameplay. It’s the same reason many people prefer Street Fighter 2 and Samurai Shodown 2 to later games in the series.
Maybe sales wise (although I think EVO beat it out, gotta check). You do understand how broken some things were in VF2 right? And how many of its faucets were perfected in later installments?
And you’d be 100% wrong. As in Ukemi game in the later installments don’t add anything. Nor does ARE in VF4, advanced movement in VF3 and to a lesser extent VF4/5. The addition of various move properties. Wall games. Recovery. Even characters themselves added later such as the stance changing Vanessa, Lei Fei. Yeah, they totally don’t add depth.
No, it isn’t. At least not from a gameplay perspective. Go down to VFDC and ask how many people go back and play a VF2 for those reasons you stated. I guarantee they’ll laugh at your post. SFII/HDR still have a small but dedicated following. TTT has a few people over at TZ. There are still small scenes and video topics for VF3, VF4. Besides the occasional netplay for PC there is none for VF2.
holy fuck. VF2 was 2d first of all wasn’t it? 2d playing field with 3d graphics. Throws weren’t techable and the whole game was dick punch, dick punch or dick punch, throw. Go watch some high level Vf2, dick punch allll dayyyyy.
bun bun maru was notorious for the dick punch, throw strat. Who wants to play a game where a throw that can’t be teched does like 90% life free?
that game was assssssssss.
crosses fingers for US release with online play.
Broken is in the eye of the beholder, though. Plenty of people complain about perceived ‘broken’ aspects of SF2 in comparison to later games in the series and it doesn’t stop people from enjoying the series. The same goes for 3S or MK2/3 or Killer Instinct. All good fighting games have ridiculous stuff if you look hard enough, but their better qualities shine through.
I should add that I was stationed in Japan during the height of VF2’s popularity. I watched the best players play each other on almost a daily basis. I personally got my ass handed to me by the guys from this event: [media=youtube]CDDPAxyErL0[/media]
I’ll admit that I could never compete with the best players in the limited time I had there, but I have a good understanding of the engine just from watching them play. For all of its faults, I still feel that it is VF in its purest form.
But I’m talking specifically about walls and the boring characters they’ve shoehorned into the engine over the years. That’s the ‘more stuff’ I’m talking about.
The series has also suffered aesthetically ever since VF3 to the point where the characters now look like they’re slathered in KY Jelly.
It goes without saying that there is no scene surrounding a game that never saw a proper release on a popular console and isn’t playable on Xbox Live, PSN or any of the popular fighting game portals. How many people in the fighting game community circa 2010 have even been exposed to the game? Most people gravitate to the latest game in a given series, quality be damned.
Hyper Fighting players and me.
Thanks for the reply but check out that link and see what you see.
Ugh, went by site name instead of giving the link. My bad.
http://virtuafighter.com/forums/ubbthreads.php/forum_summary
@ Data Beast: That’s a pretty weak argument overall and once again your comparison for VF2 to SFII is flawed for numerous reasons. Admittedly 3D series are played on basis of “latest revision” but if you really can’t see why people don’t play nor even speak of VF2 and VF1 anymore than then I guess there’s nothing to discuss; you just don’t understand (or maybe you’re just blatantly ignoring it).
Gee, Tekken 2 is “pure Tekken” to me. Putting aside the fact its old, I wonder why no-one considers playing that one anymore. KOF 94’ vanilla is “Pure KOF” to me. Why not play that?
So my cousin has a dusted copy of VF5 for PS3. Is it a good game for feeling out VF? Last time i tried it was with a pad (now have and use a stick!), and I’m only comfortable playing pad with Soul Calibur.
To today’s standard, VF2 isn’t good but back then VF2 was king.
If I heard/remember right, the arcades were full back then with VF2.
VF5 just improved on those concepts and it is what it is today.
VF2 in comparison to fighters of its time was really good.
The Japanese really dug the game. It was crack to them back then.
VF2 was one of the earlier VF that made the VF series popular.
I actually own VF2 for saturn still. Actually got it free with the Saturn.
Here is a decent vid of VF2.
[media=youtube]YvDhktl387c[/media]
If you haven’t figured it out by now what he meant was:
I suppose he unthinkingly posted vfdc.com since that what everyone there refers to it as. It’s the equivalent of calling shoryuken.com SRK.
what i would give to make VF major in the states. I would drop tekken like a bad habit.