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Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown Enters the Ring on June 5
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hikarutilmitt
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That's not off much from doing Akira's classic one frame knee. Still difficult but definitely doable.
Aw, yeah, that's the stuff. Hitting shit like that during a match just makes you feel so good.
He's live again right now.
SiegfriedFM
Member
Guess this is a good place to ask. I bought a HRAP3 with Virtua Fighter 5 all that time ago. Now I'm thinking of picking up a second stick so I can actually start teaching my friends to play it for real. Is this a good stick: Hori Real Arcade Pro.V3 SA?
I can find it for a decent price locally, and in that case I might make it my main stick.
It's that or the SCV Fighting Stick for the same price, a Hori Fighting Stick V3 for half the price or one of the Madcats sticks for about 30% more.
I can find it for a decent price locally, and in that case I might make it my main stick.
It's that or the SCV Fighting Stick for the same price, a Hori Fighting Stick V3 for half the price or one of the Madcats sticks for about 30% more.
V3-SA is a good stick. Go for it if you can get it for a good price.
Don't know your location but if it is the US then Hori USA has the official Final Showdown stick up for sale:
http://stores.horiusa.com/-strse-156/PRE-dsh-ORDER-cln--Virtua-Fighter-5/Detail.bok
Madcatz also has great deals on their stick through the next few days (check the arcade stick thread for details).
This might finally be my chance to get into VF. I've only gotten a few chances to sit aside time for it over the years and it's always been kind of tough for me to get the techniques down, even for just fighting against the CPU.
When it comes to 3D fighters I'm mostly a Soul Calibur person, so any tips from that angle would be helpful. I already own VF3TB and 4 Evo, are those good for practice? I heard Evo had a really extensive tutorial mode. I just never had the time to really dive into it. In fact, the real reason I bought Evo was because of the VF1 10th anniversary edition inside it. I kinda have a thing for VF1 and it's old school, completely untextured 3D graphics. It'd be badass if we could get an HD remake of that.
When it comes to 3D fighters I'm mostly a Soul Calibur person, so any tips from that angle would be helpful. I already own VF3TB and 4 Evo, are those good for practice? I heard Evo had a really extensive tutorial mode. I just never had the time to really dive into it. In fact, the real reason I bought Evo was because of the VF1 10th anniversary edition inside it. I kinda have a thing for VF1 and it's old school, completely untextured 3D graphics. It'd be badass if we could get an HD remake of that.
Master Thespian
Member
Decent practice, I suppose...but with less than two weeks to go, why not just wait for FS? That way, you come in fresh and don't have to unlearn anything they changed between iterations. And while it's not character specific, FS has a pretty badass tutorial as well.
Teknopathetic
Member
Everyone except like maybe 200 to 300 people are going to be absolute scrubs at the game (myself included!), don't worry about it and just go in raw, 99% of the player base will be in your exact same shoes.
You are much more likely to see tougher comp on 360 initially due to VF5 being online there and 360 being tourney standard for vanilla.
It will catch up, provided the game lasts long enough.
VF5 to FS is a huge change, two weeks of VF5 won't be enough to matter really given the changes anyways.
It will catch up, provided the game lasts long enough.
VF5 to FS is a huge change, two weeks of VF5 won't be enough to matter really given the changes anyways.
Snapshot King
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Hey, where can I go to get enormous amounts of match footage? I remember back in the day Sega had an official upload channel. Or anywhere really, I just wanna watch some matches.
Youtube or NicoNico right now since it's Japan only at the moment. Until the game launches here in the West, you're not going to find a bunch normally.
Snapshot King
Member
Are there specific search terms or arcade names I can punch it to get better results?
Teknopathetic
Member
virtuafighter.com will have a ton of links under the vf.tv section of their forums. Other than that, yeah, Youtube and NicoNico (RIP Zoome.jp).
Asked the exact same thing a few pages back and received: http://virtuadojo.blogspot.ca/
Regularly updated and the vids are conveniently tagged.
the androgyne
Member
Lots of vids are posted here: Virtua Fighter Dojo
I was looking for that as well. It seems VF.tv isn't in FS's console port, though. I hope Sega patches it (or at least Youtube encoding support) in. But if the later, no 240p hard to see shit like Third Strike.
GekigangerV
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Tokyo Bay Area Cup Starting up
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/newton-live
Kansai Area starting in an hour
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/関西ベイ-セガアリーナ浜大津
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/newton-live
Kansai Area starting in an hour
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/関西ベイ-セガアリーナ浜大津
Tokyo bay area cup archives are up now:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/newton-live/videos
The top 6 videos there right now should be most of the tournament.
This is the last hour and a half, including the finals. Some pretty godlike stuff!:
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/22886516
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/newton-live/videos
The top 6 videos there right now should be most of the tournament.
This is the last hour and a half, including the finals. Some pretty godlike stuff!:
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/22886516
WTF @ near naked "Baby" Akira in that first link. :lol
ThirtyPlus
Member
I have question for you VF vets. In browsing Virtuafighter.com and looking at combo lists like this one I see that a lot of them are character specific, indicated by the columns with initials.
What is the significance of the two columns under each character though? Also, what does the lower case n and c stand for? I'm guessing the c stands for counter-hit combos maybe? I just know the answer is gonna make me feel stupid.
What is the significance of the two columns under each character though? Also, what does the lower case n and c stand for? I'm guessing the c stands for counter-hit combos maybe? I just know the answer is gonna make me feel stupid.
GekigangerV
Member
The Legend for those combos is on the top right of the page.
First column is closed stance (both characters have the same leading foot). Second Column is open stance (Southpaw vs orthodox). C is counter, N is normal hit.
Teknopathetic
Member
"I have question for you VF vets. In browsing Virtuafighter.com and looking at combo lists like this one I see that a lot of them are character specific, indicated by the columns with initials.
What is the significance of the two columns under each character though? Also, what does the lower case n and c stand for? I'm guessing the c stands for counter-hit combos maybe? I just know the answer is gonna make me feel stupid."
You're correct that lower case c stands for counter hit, n stands for natural. The two columns indicate the foot stance required for the combo to work. Foot stance is how the two characters' feet are placed relative to each other.
http://virtuafighter.com/wiki/doku.php?id=vf5:system_part_1#stances
What is the significance of the two columns under each character though? Also, what does the lower case n and c stand for? I'm guessing the c stands for counter-hit combos maybe? I just know the answer is gonna make me feel stupid."
You're correct that lower case c stands for counter hit, n stands for natural. The two columns indicate the foot stance required for the combo to work. Foot stance is how the two characters' feet are placed relative to each other.
http://virtuafighter.com/wiki/doku.php?id=vf5:system_part_1#stances