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SEGA Announces Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown for Xbox LIVE and PlayStation Network

LowParry

Member
Suairyu said:
Why? VF5 is a great system. I don't want a VF6 just because x number of years has passed. Fighting games don't work that way. You make a new entry once you have a new system idea that wouldn't work as a simple iteration.

Uh... 5 - 6 years between a fighting game number sure is one hell of a long time.
 

BadWolf

Member
Too bad its going to come out so late, won't make it very viable for Evo2012 (even if it comes out in time ppl won't have enough time to learn it and Fuudo will win, well... he would win regardless but still).
 

dock

Member
Holy crap! This is amazing news! My High Grade Virtua Stick is already quivering in anticipation.

This generation has come from nowhere to be the best generation for fighting games! I never thought the Saturn would be bested.

Let's hope there is some sort of Kumite mode. I loved playing VF4 so much because of this.
 

Suairyu

Banned
CcrooK said:
Uh... 5 - 6 years between a fighting game number sure is one hell of a long time.
Someone better tell Capcom.

Seriously, releasing a new number just because it have been a while is a silly philosophy. Not only that, but at this point its tradition to have one VF number per console generation.

On anither note, VF5-360 had great netcode. SEGA fucks that up and they're dead to me. Until PSO2.
 

Dachande

Member
BKK said:
They skipped all the other revisions though, and never even bothered to update the PS3 version with online, so yeah, waiting for over 5 years to play VF5 PS3 online does take the piss. I'm ok with paying more for a physical release, but if they're only going to offer it as a downloadable title then they need to be reasonable with the price.

You act as though it's trivial ("never even bothered") for them to just 'update' the PS3 version with an online mode. It isn't. The game wasn't built for it and didn't have the hooks to support adding it, and in the early days of PSN it wouldn't have been feasible to plan for it either. It would have required a whole new release, which we knew not too long after it came out.

As for price, they haven't announced it, but it's hardly going to be $50. $20? $15? Either of those are completely reasonable. I don't know why this is an issue.
 

Takao

Banned
Dachande said:
Uh... so? What's that got to do with anything I posted?

Oh, I just read your post as "PSN wasn't as advanced back then to offer this as an alternative". If that wasn't what was implied, that's totally my mistake and tiredness.
 

ElFly

Member
This is sweet, but, summer 2012? Really?

Oh well.

It will be funny if Sega releases another arcade version in the year that remains.
 
Wait, isn't Virtua Fighter 5 a game from like 2007? Why is everyone excited about a 4-year old re-release? Shouldn't they just be working on Virtua Fighter 6 instead?
 

GrayFoxPL

Member
ElFly said:
This is sweet, but, summer 2012? Really?

Oh well.

Emmmmm....lesseee:

SFIII

KoFXIII

SxT

Tekken Tag 2

Soul Calibur 5

VF5 FS

Yeah, I think they're making smart choice with summer 2012.
 
AbsoluteZero said:
Wait, isn't Virtua Fighter 5 a game from like 2007? Why is everyone excited about a 4-year old re-release? Shouldn't they just be working on Virtua Fighter 6 instead?
With the content and new fighters, this is almost a new game, and FS is not from 2007 anyway.
 

Dachande

Member
Takao said:
Oh, I just read your post as "PSN wasn't as advanced back then to offer this as an alternative". If that wasn't what was implied, that's totally my mistake and tiredness.

I mean that the update hooks to get something like FS as a DLC offering wouldn't have been possible to forsee - you need to know at a rough level what you want to do for DLC before you ship the game so it can be ready and waiting for the changes, especially with changes that extensive, and AM2 couldn't have known that information back then. I'm also saying that certain aspects of PSN either wouldn't have existed or wouldn't have been good enough when the PS3 launched to allow for an online patch or a quality online mode on the disc at the time.
 
Wake up on a day off from work to this news.
Today will be a good day.

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mattfabb

Banned
FS ver A changes from VF5FS (the changes from VF5 vanilla to VF5R to VF5FS are just too numerous to mention):

VF5FS VERSION A System Notes
== About command inputs ==

:: f, b and b, f commands have been revised.
:: Half circle back and half circle forward commands have been reverted back to VF5R style.
:: Low side throws have had their throw escape commands normalized to d/f and d/b.

The command inputs have fundamentally been the same as before, but there were large spots of dissatisfaction that we fixed.

In regards to the f, b and b, f commands, if you happened to do an up-forward or down-forward input, you wouldn’t get anything. Also, with some characters if you tried to do a mid kick from backdash, you would sometimes get a random b, f+K move, which was a problem we took care of. In regards to the Half circle back and forward motions, we simply shortened the allowable input time for those moves which took care of the problem.

With the low side throws, it was slightly different. In the previous version, side and low side throws for characters with them were just a back or forward motion to escape them. But that became really difficult to understand, so to make it easier to understand, we changed the escape motion of low side throws to d/b and d/f and made it common across the board.

== About combos ==

:: A Bound cannot be performed in the same combo with the same move twice.
:: The damage for attacks that are used as down attacks has been modified. (i.e. Jeffry’s Raiden Drop, u+K+G when the opponent is down)
:: Down attacks have been removed from the Bound combo number limit.
:: For combo attacks, moves that hit the enemy into the wall more than twice were fixed.
:: A problem with throws that hit on the last frame of a move that interrupted the combo count was fixed.

There were several important changes that were made, with the first being about Bound.

If you try to hit a floating character with a bound-equipped move, it will only happen the first time. If you try to do it again with the same move, they won’t bounce up. However if you hit them with a different attack with the same bound property, the bound effect will still occur.

This was to handle damaging combos using the same move while retaining the combo damage through the promotion of different kinds of attacks. This will change many wall combos in the game.

One other thing that will affect game balance is how wall hits are handled. In Final Showdown, during a combo hit, if a wall hit occurs, it will only happen once. However, due to circumstances relating to the previous version, that didn’t happen as planned. But it’s been fixed and now wall hits are strictly monitored. Now no matter how many hits you perform, you won’t get a wall splat before the second hit.

Finally, this fix does not affect the balance of the game, but it’s related to the combo counter. If you were to grab someone on the last frame on block, the grab wouldn’t count as part of the combo counter, but now they’re included just like any striking attack.

== About stuns ==

:: For a number of attacks, the float status of follow up attacks has been changed.
:: Many stun motions had their hitboxes revised
:: For many of the hit stun after attacks hit, the amount of time given to tech roll has been revised. (i.e. Lau’s d+K+G)
:: Backdash counter priority rate has been changed
:: The stun from achieving a backdash counter from the opponent’s side has been correctly fixed.
:: The hit stun caused from a striking attack on the opponent’s side has been fixed for some attacks. (i.e. everyone’s low punch)
:: During a spinning stun, if it overlaps with a striking attack, the duration that you’re in a side turn state is reduced.
:: The hitbox during a failed evade has been changed.
:: During a footstomp stun, the opponent will not go into a normal front facing stance. (i.e. Jeffry’s Drop Anchor d+K+G, etc.)

The primary thing we wanted to address with these changes was to make difficult to hit situations easier, and as a link to the balances made to the game system, work on tweaking the various distances that were related to the attacks.

The big thing that will affect things is how backdash counters are handled in terms of priority. In the previous version, if you happened to get a backdash counter, regular counter and evade counter to hit all at once, this is what the priority looked like:

Regular Counter > Evade Counter > Backdash Counter

So, if you were to do a backdash into an attack and but you were countered by a middle kick, the game would choose the Regular Counter situation and you wouldn’t be put on your ass as a result.

In practice, backdashes are often coupled with something else, like a “backdash > attack” or “backdash > evade”, so there were various combinations that could spring up. This made it difficult for us to fully establish that backdashing was a risk, which was what we wanted to do in the first place.

So now the priority has changed to this:

Backdash Counter > Regular Counter > Evade Counter

So now if you were planning on utilizing the “backdash > attack” or “backdash > evade” tactic, it’ll be easier to get hit with a backdash counter.

== About movement ==

:: Certain situations where you have to turn around have been changed. (i.e. after Shun’s P+G throw is escaped, etc.)
:: During a back turned situation, if you turn around by tapping down or up, you will not get hit with an evade counter stun.
:: The angle at which an offensive move travels during a side turned situation has been changed.
:: Specific commands inputted during jumps that resulted in unexpected motions have been fixed.
:: After a successful defensive move, the 1 frame where you are unable to guard has been fixed.

The biggest change that was made here has to do with offensive move. The so-called Super Offensive Move was performed when you performed an offensive move to your character’s stomach side while in a side turned situation, and resulted in you moving away from your opponent. This resulted in you moving really far away from the opponent.

This was not the original intent of offensive move, nor was it something we wanted to have in that situation, so we took steps to change it. This time, if you are in the same situation and try to do an offensive move, you will not get anything.

== About attacks ==

:: Rising attacks have been completely modified.
:: When shifting from a block to an attack, after the attack you have blocked, you can press Guard to cancel.
:: For some counterattacks, bugs where you would not get the desired result from a counter has been fixed (i.e. El Blaze’s Rocket Discharge u/f+K+G+P, etc.)
:: When a down attack hits, situations where you would not get the correct motion have been fixed.
:: The target hitbox and evade hitbox of attacks that hit twice have been modified.
:: Moves that would take away from Shun’s drink counter, despite Shun blocking the move have been fixed (i.e Akira’s fully charged b,f+P+K, etc)

With regards to attacks, there are a lot of revisions that have been made, but we’ll focus on the ones that affect the entire cast and some other special cases.

We’ve revised the wake up attacks in general. So how fast they come out, their execution time and the frames on block have been looked at and changed. For example, if you were to block a rising kick that occurred after a roll back, you would essentially be at +15, but if you were to guard only during the attacking phase of the move, you would be at +13. This time we’ve gone back and made sure to fix all of these situations.

== Other ==

:: Various motions have been changed.
:: During special movements, a bug that allowed you to clear the time a character was invulnerable to throws has been fixed. (i.e. Offensive Move, etc.)

The change in the animation is a general thing across the board, but this doesn’t mean the game system has changed. As for the second point, there were times where we planned for a player not to be throwable, but they were actually able to be thrown. For example, after your opponent’s tech roll, we planned for a fixed period of time where they couldn’t be thrown, but if your opponent was to do an offensive move during this state, they actually could be thrown. So in Version A if you were to do an offensive move in the same situation, you would not be able to connect with a throw.


http://www.versuscity.net/2011/04/23/vf5-final-showdown-version-a-system-changes/
 

LiK

Member
GrayFoxPL said:
Emmmmm....lesseee:

SFIII

KoFXIII

SxT

Tekken Tag 2

Soul Calibur 5

VF5 FS

Yeah, I think they're making smart choice with summer 2012.
At least VF5 will be the cheapest, haha
 

Matt_C

Member
BKK said:
No, because PS3 had no games.
Is that a banned meme? This isn't 2007 anymore.

Woot on VF5:FS being a downloadable game! Did Sega take this long to start working on this port let alone being a Q3 2012 release?
 

Ashkeloth

Member
Congratulations Virtua Fighter fans
(all 3 of you)
. I know how long you guys have been waiting for this. Even though I'm not a Virtua Fighter guy myself, I might pick this up when it's released just to show my support.
 

rvy

Banned
I hate downloading games for the 360, lol :(. They won't let me play unless I'm Online. Still, this is great news, been waiting for months now.
 
BKK said:
They skipped all the other revisions though, and never even bothered to update the PS3 version with online, so yeah, waiting for over 5 years to play VF5 PS3 online does take the piss. I'm ok with paying more for a physical release, but if they're only going to offer it as a downloadable title then they need to be reasonable with the price.


Patches are not magic. They are planned. That is why Street Fighter 4 could not have been upgraded and people had to purchase Super SF4 which was designed with the digital upgrades in mind.

Sega made the situation clear when they explained why VF4 for the PS3 (version B) couldn't be upgraded to play online (version C), so it would have made no sense to expect the PS3 get upgraded to later revisions (beyond C) when they already claimed they couldn't move to the next one.

Anyways, I really want this game.
 

.la1n

Member
Thank you based god. This is my favorite 3D fighting game franchise. Bring it Sega all over my face.
 

JKTrix

Member
My favourite 2D fighter is out today, and my favourite 3D fighter gets announced today. Darnit Internet, you missed my birthday by a couple of weeks, but I'll take it!
 
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