Slightly worried that it’s not going to be as simple or brilliant as “here is a disc with Virtua Fighter 6 you can play on a console”, but new VF is amazing news. I really got into the series too late, but Final Showdown is a stunning game.
Announcing the esports series before the new game (or lack of) makes me think it isn't VF6. It's been so long since VF was relevant I don't want another VF5 release tbh
That tweet has now been deleted... Is this for real?
Sega is no longer really able to make games and relies on 3rd parties, I doubt a new VF is in development. I would really love a PC / Nex Generation Console collection of old Virtua Fighters.
On that note, VF3 is one of my favourite ever fighters and remember watching this video opening with Aoi and being blown away.
VF5 (not FS) had possibly the greatest fighting game single player mode of all time, where you had to play in a variety of Japanese arcades against AI versions of real players from those locations (that was based on their actual saved arcade data!), qualify and enter in tournaments and so on. It was huge and brilliant and I bet we’ll never get anything that good in a fighter again.
VF5 (not FS) had possibly the greatest fighting game single player mode of all time, where you had to play in a variety of Japanese arcades against AI versions of real players from those locations (that was based on their actual saved arcade data!), qualify and enter in tournaments and so on. It was huge and brilliant and I bet we’ll never get anything that good in a fighter again.
I’d forgotten all about that ... it was utterly brilliant.
VF5 (not FS) had possibly the greatest fighting game single player mode of all time, where you had to play in a variety of Japanese arcades against AI versions of real players from those locations (that was based on their actual saved arcade data!), qualify and enter in tournaments and so on. It was huge and brilliant and I bet we’ll never get anything that good in a fighter again.
I don't know why everyone thinks the eSports angle is bad.
To me that reads as constant balancing and upkeep, funded by mictotransactional cosmetics. It's also the best way of rebuilding a community for the series.
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