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BlazeBlue: New HD2D Fighter From Arc System Works
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AksysNutSack
Neo Member
I wouldn't call it better than HDR but I would say its very similar to HDR and probably better than SF4. As for the voicing, it does support Dual language so if you feel the US voice is not up to snuff, go ahead and go back to the original Japanese voices. I can however say despite ONLY V13 and Litchi being released, I personally feel the other voices for Ragna, Jin, Tager and Bang does justice for their characters.
Also, for clarification, the game does come out 5 days after the Japanese release date. However, the Japanese version is identical to the US version minus the Limited Edition bundle
And for some of you on the fence, despite this game having similar ties to the Guilty Gear series, I assure you the game is far easier to get into than Guilty Gear XX whatever. The game is definitely easier and yet has depth.
I hope this helps...
Also, for clarification, the game does come out 5 days after the Japanese release date. However, the Japanese version is identical to the US version minus the Limited Edition bundle
And for some of you on the fence, despite this game having similar ties to the Guilty Gear series, I assure you the game is far easier to get into than Guilty Gear XX whatever. The game is definitely easier and yet has depth.
I hope this helps...
akachan ningen
Member
Darkpen said:
If that's the case, then it was a waste of money anyway right?
Great new info and videos here folks, thanks alot! THIS is the game I bought and modded an arcade stick for and I can't wait to start playing! Good news about the dual language being in the final release, I appreciate it when gamers are given the choice of which one they want to listen to.
I'm also excited about the LE bundle. Hopefully there will be some good instructional stuff in there for those of us who are just getting into BB. I know I need all the help I can get!
I'm also excited about the LE bundle. Hopefully there will be some good instructional stuff in there for those of us who are just getting into BB. I know I need all the help I can get!
I have pre-ordered the game now and am excited about the blu-ray being included. I do have one question though. Are there going to be any arcade sticks related to this game released here in the states? I saw on play-asia that Japan is getting some, perhaps Hori will be nice enough to release those here too. Also, is Madcatz gonna be doing anything for Blazblue? There is nothing better than some competition to get the quality of both products raised.
momolicious
Member
What i dont get is why does this game have like the smallest character list for a fighter?
Because it's the first iteration of the Blazblue series. There's a few rumors floating around that there'll be an expansion with new characters later this year, and there are some images of new characters on Dustloop if you want to go find them. So far, there's Kokonoe (pink-haired catgirl, boss of Litchi and Tager), Valkenhein (Rachel's butler), Lin Fa (Litchi's helper at a clinic), another cat dude (Taokaka's ancestor?), Tsubaki (Jin's friend and Noel's classmate), and a guy with golden eyes that looks like Johnny from GG. He appears in the latest trailer as well. Most of these characters will show up in the story mode, but it's unknown which ones will be playable later on.momolicious said:
Also, I just bought Senko no Ronde recently and was kinda bummed to see it only had 8 characters, but it's still a fun game.
Edit: didn't Guilty Gear only start off with 11 characters?
momolicious
Member
will the characters be DLC? or would they release a new game like guilty gear..
I'm super curious about something now, perhaps people more in the know about this title could fill me in-
This is basically Guilty Gear 2, the way it looks, plays even the music, kind of common knowledge I guess but what I'm wondering is wether arc sys works tried to reobtain their property from segasammy or if it was really just easier to make a new name? I mean I guess the characters on the whole arent' really much worse off for their wacky designs then guilty gear was and arcsys had been creating 2d guilty gear titles for the better part of a decade... but I'm honestly curious if they would have rather had the old liscense back.
Also curious about development time on something like this- shane bettenhausen in a G4 interview had mentioned that in KOF12, each sprite was 18 months of work to redraw in higher resolution mostly likely because of the method they used (rendering every frame on a flat shaded colorless 3d model then drawing overtop of that pixel by pixel). Did it take that long for blazeblue to be finished?
This is definetly something I want to try out, haven't played a guilty gear esque game since XX #reload.
This is basically Guilty Gear 2, the way it looks, plays even the music, kind of common knowledge I guess but what I'm wondering is wether arc sys works tried to reobtain their property from segasammy or if it was really just easier to make a new name? I mean I guess the characters on the whole arent' really much worse off for their wacky designs then guilty gear was and arcsys had been creating 2d guilty gear titles for the better part of a decade... but I'm honestly curious if they would have rather had the old liscense back.
Also curious about development time on something like this- shane bettenhausen in a G4 interview had mentioned that in KOF12, each sprite was 18 months of work to redraw in higher resolution mostly likely because of the method they used (rendering every frame on a flat shaded colorless 3d model then drawing overtop of that pixel by pixel). Did it take that long for blazeblue to be finished?
This is definetly something I want to try out, haven't played a guilty gear esque game since XX #reload.
Pachinko said:
FYI: There already is a Guilty Gear 2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guilty_Gear_2:_Overture) But yeah, you can call it GG 2.5.
And about the animation, my guess is that it's was a little easier, because each frame is hand drawn, and scanned into a computer to be colorized. Like the SF Alpha Series. BUt also, it could be more difficult, since it's a higher resolution that KoF XII. I dunno.
anybody have any details?
I think it was said at one point that BB would have DLC at one point, but nobody knows what it will be yet. But I'm also fairly sure that every iteration of Guilty Gear brought something new to the series besides just characters. My guess: DLC = new characters, next version in the series = new characters and mechanic changes.momolicious said:
Arc Sys did use 3D models to make the sprites, same as SNK. The only difference I can think of is that some people said KoF XII uses "pixel art", or each sprite is drawn pixel by pixel. BB's sprites look like they were simply drawn over the 3D model. I don't even know why anybody would draw a sprite that size pixel-by-pixel, but I guess that's just what they do?DrFunk said:
Yes. It's also rotoscoped, just like KOFXII, though a bit different.
Daisuke Ishiwatari: One difference between BlazBlue and KOF is that after we have the animators design things like the shadows, we go in and make corrections ourselves.
Junya Motomura (graphics designer): Yeah, compared to KOF, the BlazBlue sprites are closer to being hand-drawn, because we only use the 3D graphics as an outline. In KOF, they do all the shadows and shading in 3D, and then convert them into 2D sprites, but in Blaz Blue, we redraw the sprites by hand.
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To be fair though, the SNK artists sometimes were very creative in how they put the shadows from 2D into 3D. But they did use precast shadows as guidelines while BlazBlue did not, I guess that's the biggest difference.
Daisuke Ishiwatari: One difference between BlazBlue and KOF is that after we have the animators design things like the shadows, we go in and make corrections ourselves.
Junya Motomura (graphics designer): Yeah, compared to KOF, the BlazBlue sprites are closer to being hand-drawn, because we only use the 3D graphics as an outline. In KOF, they do all the shadows and shading in 3D, and then convert them into 2D sprites, but in Blaz Blue, we redraw the sprites by hand.
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To be fair though, the SNK artists sometimes were very creative in how they put the shadows from 2D into 3D. But they did use precast shadows as guidelines while BlazBlue did not, I guess that's the biggest difference.
sixteen-bit
Member
keep in mind it as a lower resolution gameDrFunk said:
momolicious
Member
Its probably the same as the achievements
abstract alien
Member
How deep are the voice options in here? Is it just an on/off switch, or can you still have special movies called out, but not a voice for every single thing you do?
abstract alien
Member
.....no... :^(MarkMan said:
momolicious
Member
Theres no Music/Voice volume slider? You can always mute the game lol
sixteen-bit
Member
Yeah it's finejsrv said:
Four button game
momolicious
Member
FoxSpirit said:
there is a slider for those?
btw, can you be good with the game without a stick?
sixteen-bit
Member
I have a friend who is a fucking beast on Accent Core Wii with a standard Gamecube controller, so anything is possible.momolicious said:
+ this is supposed to be less complex than GG
sixteen-bit
Member
Dustloop has a shot of the Premium theme
http://www.dustloop.com/forums/showpost.php?p=376260&postcount=2218
I'm sure someone is interested
http://www.dustloop.com/forums/showpost.php?p=376260&postcount=2218
I'm sure someone is interested
momolicious
Member
I dont see why these "themes" arent free, it just looks like reused art assets weve seen in pictures, no new unique art.
Review in the newest GameInformer = 7.75 (both reviewers scored it this way)
- Challenging and complex fighter
- Learning is a slow/aggravating grind
- Newcomers will take plenty of lumps before mastering any characters
- Throwing special attacks with the right analog helps even the field for beginners though
- Challenging and complex fighter
- Learning is a slow/aggravating grind
- Newcomers will take plenty of lumps before mastering any characters
- Throwing special attacks with the right analog helps even the field for beginners though
sonicspear64
Member
Same range of scores GG gets from them so I'm not really worried.jergrah said:
sixteen-bit
Member
Holy shit, the mother fucking triumphant return of EO!jergrah said:
momolicious
Member
So.. its just as hard as guilty gear?
I really hope the story mode is not like Guilty Gear AC, felt really cheap and boring.
I really hope the story mode is not like Guilty Gear AC, felt really cheap and boring.
OokieSpookie
Banned
I know it has already been discussed but does this have a choice of english/Japanese voices- and if not how import friendly is it?
sixteen-bit
Member
Optional English and Japanese voice and text.OokieSpookie said: