[BotageL]

I'm quite vocally inclined to dislike CS2 since my low-execution, high-damage, high-threat rushdown character is now a high-execution, low-damage, medium-threat rushdown character, but that probably just means I'm a scrub. This whole thing's been a great exercise in learning just how little ArcSys actually thinks through their game-wide system changes when they attempt to adjust the balance of each version of a game. We killed mid-screen wallbounce combos to kill Bang and dramatically slow down our already slow combofest videogame, and the characters least affected by this (aka the new top tier) are also easily the most boring characters in the entire game. Good job?

Throw in the sheer obnoxiousness of more-or-less relearning the game from scratch if I decide to change characters and I'm probably just gonna play Arcana Heart.

I think BB is trying harder and harder to appeal to a certain class of player, who are more interested in showing off how big their execution penis is than in playing a game with more interesting or flexible dynamics. Doing big showy combos is cool and all, but it feels like games like Marvel and Arcana have a better balance between the level of showiness needed to be competitive and the difficulty of actually setting up and using these tricks.
_________________

http://www.mdgeist.com/

[klj5j6li]

[BotageL]

I'm pretty much convinced Guilty Gear ever working out was a happy accident.


_________________

http://www.mdgeist.com/

[klj5j6li]

Well Guilty Gear wasn't just a paycheck like the licensed games, and it also wasn't run by a huge moron, i.e. BlazBlue.

[BotageL]

[Deets]

I was always under the impression that Accent Core wasn't even handled internally by ArcSys, but I can't remember where the hell I heard that.

[Isfet]

i seem to recall that it was mainly handled by other people because Sega owned it? but, once again, no idea what the details are.

i had fun with BB when it came out and then stopped playing it, but i've gathered that, since then, it's become a very different game and i'm not sure i'd enjoy where it's at now.


as for 3D: HD, well...i assume the filters can be switched off since they even let you do that in SF2: HDR.

[Deets]

Alex Valle talks to an awesomely unprofessional PR/community guy from Aksys about Arcana Heart 3

[klj5j6li]

[nothingxs]

I'd say Ishiwatari accomplished the surprisingly excellent goal of keeping 2D fighters relevant long after Capcom stopped making anything interesting for a good while, and keeping people somewhat interested in the genre altogether. GG is some super hype shit.
_________________
select button
i've gotta let go. i've gotta get straight. why'd you have to make it so hard? let me get away.
3DSFC 1736-1476-0518

[Brock]

Oh hell. I only liked Guilty Gear just enough, so if this thing's a mess I'll probably return it.

EDIT: Not gonna derail the thread with a bump, just gonna say that watching tourney vids for BB:CS has pretty much turned me off from the game. Guess I was just eager to grab a new 2D fightmans to go with my new arcade stick :(

[Loki Laufeyson]

i remember reading somewhere that for the original guilty gear, daisuke ishiwatari did practically everything except the voice acting
_________________

http://lunaticobscurity.blogspot.com/ - newest post: Snezhaja Koroleva (Arcade)
http://lunargarbagehell.blogspot.com/ - newest post: Batman: Digital Justice

[nothingxs]

Actually he voiced one of the characters too. Sol?
_________________
select button
i've gotta let go. i've gotta get straight. why'd you have to make it so hard? let me get away.
3DSFC 1736-1476-0518

[Drem]

Yeah, he voiced both versions of Sol. Sol's voice actor changed in the later games, but in the Options Menu there was one option specifically made to change Sol's voice from the new guy back to Ishiwatari.

[nothingxs]

And if you didn't do it, you were crazy, because fuck yeah DI B)
_________________
select button
i've gotta let go. i've gotta get straight. why'd you have to make it so hard? let me get away.
3DSFC 1736-1476-0518

[Sniper Honeyviper]

All the music, at least for GG1, X and XX, is Ishiwatari's doing as well.

I wish they'd put Dr. Baldhead as an alternate sprite for Faust somewhere.

[Lasakon]

Something I've recently noticed about MK, why only have a backwards recovery roll?
_________________

[BotageL]

[BotageL]

What all those words mean is that if Arc System Works did the smart thing and put Accent Core with the BBCS2/AH3 netcode on XBLA and PSN, I'd really have no excuse not to play that instead.
_________________

http://www.mdgeist.com/

[ArOne]

The one thing on Accent Core I didn't agree with was techable throws but the window is so tiny, you almost have to predict it and there are also some follow ups off teched throws since some of them have specific tech ranges and angles so it kinda works out. Some said there were issues with the floor skidding and wall sticking adding a level of non-interactiveness. I haven't had to much trouble but then again I haven't played to many AC tourney peeps.

I wait for the days of a Guilty Gear 3 or an Overture sequel with more of the characters making an appearance with bated breath
_________________

[ionustron]

The more I read this the more it sounds like WoW. BB anyway. Goes right back to why I loved pre-Cat hunter, etc. etc.

OMG YES!

[analogos]

Masterful.

[Ben Reed]

Somebody poke Daisuke and tell him (preferably in a dream, as a burning bush) and Emiko whatshername to make Battle Fantasia 2: Freed Harder. That's MY ArcSys game right there.

IN MK news:
- Sindel = MILF Sagat (minus the eyepatch...and the high tier ranking...but as long as I have Tiger Shots and Tiger Uppercut it's all worthwhile)

- Unskippable Story Mode cutscenes suck ass

- Shao Khan needs to learn not to taunt during a fireball war

- Related: I never want to play as Liu Kang again

- Can't decide whether to go with Tiny Inadequate Vest Sonya or Slutty Sarah Connor Sonya

- I really should be playing Smoke (but half of Orlando is already playing him)
_________________

[Sniper Honeyviper]

yeah, it definitely seemed like they had made both battle fantasia and guilty gear 2 with sequels in mind. too bad blazblue was far more successful than both of them together!

[spinach]

haha what who plays liu kang, it was always all about sub zero
_________________

[Mr. Apol]

[analogos]

I think vanilla XX was the last time his actual artwork was used in-game for the Vs./character select/win portrait screens etc.

edit: but if you just mean in general, then yes. he designed all the characters and drafted up keyframes for their attacks and that sort of thing.

[P1d40n3]

[P1d40n3]

And guys, don't torment me with talk of Battle Fantasia 2.

Watson...
_________________

[analogos]

[ArOne]

My only problem with Battle Fantasia is I haven't played enough of it. And I tend to have some mental logic disconnections between a few moves but that is probably just because of the first.

While we're talking wishes, a PC version of Overture should be made so it can have a near endless life span that many games of that sort tend to enjoy. There's just a lot to that game I want to explore but the scene for that game is so dead now.
_________________

[Lynchburg]

[RobotRocker]

[Moogs]

[Renfrew]

[Red_venom]

lol @ the idea of playing mortal kombat competitively

[Lasakon]

UMK3 is actually pretty interesting to watch competitively, I don't have much hope for the future of this game though yeah.
_________________

[Pijaibros]

[Renfrew]

I was on the fence about the previous two episodes of Mortal Kombat Legacy, but episode three is actually really great.
_________________

[Red_venom]

[Red_venom]

actually disgusts me that people talk about mortal kombat in threads with actual fighting games