Real Bout Fighting Games 2011: The 100+ Page Mega Shock

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nothingxs · Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 3:52 am

Mauve's offshoot of the Caster application for IaMP had a sort of... "learning AI" I think, that picked up tendencies, combos and ability; that AI learned from players on the fly I think and could then play against you.
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analogos · bravely default crying fairy Joined: 10 Jun 2007

The original Virtua Fighter 4 had this. You could teach a sort of disciple AI 1 on 1 in a special training mode as well as show it replays and have it pick up new strategies from that. You could also watch its own replays and then encourage or discourage various actions on the fly, if I recall correctly. Both VF4 and VF4 Evo's Quest Mode had you traveling to various real world arcade locations and fighting AIs based on actual high level players. It was really neat, but I'm not as interested in it in a context divorced from the arcade-hopping world tour mode type premise VF4 used.

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Lasakon · Joined: 05 Dec 2006 Location: Oregon Trail

Recent competitive Last Blade 2 play.

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Persona-sama · Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 8:55 pm

Jesus, it was the Amano show until that beastly Zantetsu showed up.

Man, I want to play some Last Blade 2. I've only played it once before on the Dreamcast.
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nothingxs · Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 9:00 pm

zantetsu is pretty busted. did he do the multi-stab bullshit?
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Persona-sama · Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 9:07 pm

That's pretty much all he did. There was a Zantetsu earlier that was getting whomped by Amano but then at the end a true Zantetsu player showed up and was comboing and doing aerial spikes and all sorts of shit.

Disappointed a Hibiki player only showed up at the very end.

Maybe I'll bust out Last Blade and play a bit right now.
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Victor · Joined: 07 Dec 2006

That is a neat youtube channel.

extrabastardformula · Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 11:16 pm

Love the NGPC Last Blade. It's a damn shame handheld fighters get no respect.
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P1d40n3 · Joined: 28 Jan 2008 Location: Rain

Do we like live AE?

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/leveluplive

We like live AE.
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Persona-sama · Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 11:30 pm

Oh shi, is this Round1 in California? I could totally drive out there and play.

But I won't.
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Lasakon · Joined: 05 Dec 2006 Location: Oregon Trail

Oni & Evil Ryu RIP 2011-2011
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spinach · Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2011 12:43 am

Sniper Honeyviper · Joined: 30 Aug 2009

Soul Calibur II still has the most entertainingly stupid story mode in a fighter (though I haven't played any other SC.) They seriously wrote like five paragraphs of awkward fanfiction for every mission, with a continuing plot. Since you can switch characters at any time, all text referring to the protagonist is completely ambiguous.

The special conditions in some missions could be genuinely interesting at times: having to jump at intervals to avoid an earthquake, passing a timed bomb back and forth with every hit, being constantly pulled together by an invisible chain. Some stages had an extremely fast-acting quicksand floor that was hilarious to watch.

I seem to remember reading that SC III had some kind of strategy side game; how disastrous did it turn out?

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Sniper Honeyviper · Joined: 30 Aug 2009

my memories are undoubtedly clouded by nostalgia goggles, but i honestly remember it being a good deal of fun to screw around in. at least, it earned the value of what i paid for the game, since I never was able to play against human opponents. while i've always had gamer friends, none of them know shit about fighters or care to learn. xbox live has thankfully negated this issue but face-to-face is always preferable.

you gotta admit that it's a step up from the "story modes" in guilty gear and most anime-ish fighters, where it's just arcade mode with tons of retarded dialogue before every match.

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Crosspostin this:

Drem · Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Location: The Planet Bookshelves

Crosspostin this:

http://db.tigsource.com/games/arm-joe

Drink and be merry.

cassievania · Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2011 9:02 am

RobotRocker · Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2011 1:41 pm

THANK GOD FOR THE MACHINE

Also, got a lead of somewhere that might be breaking street but life is sketchy in the next few days so I can't exactly run out to grab it. But then 12 more days anyway...
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Sniper Honeyviper · Joined: 30 Aug 2009

looks like win 7 64-bit doesn't like arm joe :(

i can get as far as the title screen, then it crashes

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Drem · Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Location: The Planet Bookshelves

Not sure if you noticed this in the review on that page:

nothingxs · Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2011 5:39 pm

Practically every character in the game can do shit like that (kill a character) in one combo and X-Factor
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Ben Reed · Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Location: charge b, f + P

hey andres are we still doing mvc2 mash nite 2nite at 8:00 y/n
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RobotRocker · Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2011 7:31 pm

nothingxs · Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2011 7:39 pm

It's Super Bowl Sunday and I forgot it was Super Bowl Sunday. I think next week would be a much better idea.

Robot: uh, so essentially it's just like Marvel VS Capcom 2 in the regard that you can do a lot of damage with a lot of super bar? I fail to really see what's wrong with that.
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Ben Reed · Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Location: charge b, f + P

Yeah, honestly the opening 100% combos via popping X-Factor on first characters in Marvel 3 really isn't that much different from MvC2 Magneto killing one (or even two, if he catches your assist on the KO snapback!) character in an opening reset to snapback combo. Only difference is now it should be more or less universal due to X-Factor, rather than the domain of an elite few with devastating setups. (And of course because of the way they changed assist vulnerability, you'll no longer get the DOUBLE touch of death by way of infinite launch.)

And if you lose your first character to such a really good look, well...it definitely sucks, but you still have two more characters and an X-Factor of your own, so if you play carefully and patiently you could be looking at an instagib comeback of your own. It will suck to be a newbie in Marvel 3 just like it sucked to be a newbie in Marvel 2, but at least this time the execution barrier should be much lower, and it should be a lot harder to "lose at the select screen", so to speak, because almost everybody will have access to this kind of touch-of-death stuff.

Select Best Buys are supposed to be getting Marvel 3 demo stations within the week. GAF thread suggests might be Tuesday for most locations, still waiting on reports from Tampa as to whether or not the Brandon location has it already. Thank God I don't yet have a job. :D
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dementia · Joined: 05 Dec 2006

you can check here for participating locations:
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BotageL · Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 3:11 pm

French-Bread's new game was announced. It's an original HD 2D title, "Under Night IN-VERSE." They might have matched their own work on Melty Blood for "dumbest fucking videogame title."

I'm so proud of them. *sniff*

(also i love how they're keeping up the Type-Moon tradition of putting complete fucking nonsense under the logo. "Thousand night, Recurrence night, Reverie end Invite. and... [7days Immortal] Unreal BLACK THINGS")

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Jigsaw · Joined: 11 Sep 2008 Location: Eskilstuna, Sweden

Looks alright. The character designs are infinitely more appealing than Melty Blood's but I guess it remains to be seen if it feels any better as well.

Ben Reed · Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Location: charge b, f + P

$10 says Botage plays the fruitcake with the feathers on his vest.

I have no opinion on this until I see gameplay footage. Would accept "Melty Blood with slightly less vaginas", though.
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Persona-sama · Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 10:11 pm

I want to play as Powered Ciel in Melty Blood.
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Drem · Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Location: The Planet Bookshelves

Yeah, I was looking around for info on French Bread's expected game announcement and I read somewhere (I think the SRK Melty Blood thread) what seemed like news on upcoming characters for MBAACC, including Power Ciel? But I thought CC was already out? And it said something about there being an expected release date of Spring, with a Summer playtest. It made no sense.

And who is Power Ciel? Is that just her without her coat on?

BotageL · Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 10:53 pm

Shockingly enough, they're doing another revision to the now-inaccurately-named Current Code, adding Holy Order Ciel as a playable character with promises of one more character ($5 says it's another crossover character like Ryogi) to be announced later on. This is coming out in the Summer or something, while Under Night is targeted for Fall 2011.

I mean I guess they could add SHIKI Tohno to complete the Tsukihime villain set after ten years but I don't think anyone really cared about him ever
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Persona-sama · Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 11:22 pm

Yeah, and what powers would he have anyway? Some watered down Roa skills and the ability to cut life? Laaaame.

Powered Ciel is basically Ciel going 100%, taking her nun outfit off and using her holy scripture conceptual weapon she only pulls out for supers. I bet it'd be a heavier, harder-hitting version of the normal Ciel with more attacks using her weapon and the sprite redrawn to match how she looks like when she's doing the super - bare arms with holy markings on her back.
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