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[oneida]

Yo fam
post it
Post dat Kagemaru-ryu Jitsu OUGI: HISSATSU WAZA: JIGOKU GURUMA

Spoiler

aka Ninja Roll

any time

 

[80s Bad Guy]

Fantastic video, thanks OP. Now I need some VF.

 

[Lucumo]

Thanks for the link, interesting watch.

 

[Y2Kev]

This reminds me of when I went to the UK Nationals for Tekken 5 and over the course of the tournament everyone started dropping their mains in favor of Feng, so the tail end of the tournament was basically just Feng mirror matches throughout... was fascinating (and hilarious) to see in progress.



Fighting Vipers. There isn't anyone from Last Bronx in Megamix.

Right, sorry. I forgot. I never had either game though I thought the art in fighting vipers was fugly.

 

[MightyHedgehog]

Right, sorry. I forgot. I never had either game though I thought the art in fighting vipers was fugly.

By that point, I think Sega was tired of Namco riding their ass with Tekken, so Sega wanted in on the extreme fighting game style of Tekken with Fighting Vipers. It's not understated and classy like VF, but FV's extreme '90s style is a pretty good match for the goofy, sorta ugly hodgepodge of fashion misfits that was the general look of Tekken 1 and 2, which is like a blind person after they just spent their paycheck on a new wardrobe at the thrift store.

 

[oneida]

By that point, I think Sega was tired of Namco riding their ass with Tekken, so Sega wanted in on the extreme fighting game style of Tekken with Fighting Vipers. It's not understated and classy like VF, but FV's extreme '90s style is a pretty good match for the goofy, sorta ugly hodgepodge of fashion misfits that was the general look of Tekken 1 and 2, which is like a blind person after they just spent their paycheck on a new wardrobe at the thrift store.

 

[Business]

No wonder this game blew my mind in 1994, still looking good.

 

[petran79]

As a more casual fighting fan though, VF really hasn't grabbed me at all. Tekken's one button per limb gamplay is personally grandfathered into my subconscious (the proliferation of the playstation vs the diminishing of Sega consoles helped); DOA is more explosive, "loose tolerance" and has a much lower barrier of entry despite having VF esque controls; and Soul Calibur is overall much slower and much more comprehensible (but has its own problems these days).

VF and Sega in general set the precedent for all those new realistic 3D games you see the last few years on consoles and PCs. They did all this from scratch, without having such huge animation and movie assets like today's games. Which makes it even more impressive! While with the initial Tekkens you felt it was just a cartoony fighting game.

It was the first time I felt a video game character looked life-like. The Lost World did it for dinosaurs, House of the Dead did it for zombies, Ocean Hunter did it for marine species but VF did it for human characters. Shenmue extended that legacy to make it the most impressive game of the generation. Of course there were FMV games with real actors on PC back then, but for 3D games Sega was the leader.

Watching all that animation in a large arcade monitor made me feel the same awe and emotion like watching the animation of Naughty Dog PS3 titles. Perhaps even more.

 

[MightyHedgehog]

Picky might just be the ultimate in '90s fighting character design, so there's that, anyway.

 

[Celine]

Wait Kagemaru's mother was what !?

 

[oneida]

Wait Kagemaru's mother was what !?

its all in the instruction manual!

 

[Y2Kev]

Has anyone patched in online play into fighters megamix like hacked on a saturn emulator or something? God I want to play it now.