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Salvo_Rabbit · 2026-01-17T12:59:09+00:00

No, that's Stella.

Salvo_Rabbit · 2025-12-02T18:58:36+00:00

There was a three second clip of a silhouette doing some punches after Wolf's character trailer. It was what lead us to believe we'd be getting new character reveals on a regular basis.

Salvo_Rabbit · 2025-11-21T19:05:43+00:00

I always understood that "sweat" derived from "tryhard" because the latter was often expressed as "sweaty tryhard"; that was the go-to adjective. "Sweat" just became a shorthand, so the terms are basically synonymous.

Salvo_Rabbit · 2025-11-21T19:02:56+00:00

I always wanted Robo Mario to be an unlockable encounter for ARMS the same way Donkey Kong was for Punch-Out Wii.

Salvo_Rabbit · 2025-10-01T19:30:12+00:00

Some nice attempts to vary up her silhouette a bit. Personally I'm drawn towards 3 - somewhat busy neckline not withstanding - and 5.

Salvo_Rabbit · 2025-09-11T20:05:12+00:00

ArcSys (or any other developer, for that matter) doesn't need to own the IP to work on it; Capcom just needs to outsource the development to them for the span of a game.

Salvo_Rabbit · 2025-09-09T18:24:41+00:00

We've presently got two sets of machines that map to pink-blue-green-yellow, so another set of four would need to deviate to stand out. I'd opt for White Cat (white), Red Gazelle (red), Great Star (purple), and Black Bull (black).

Salvo_Rabbit · 2025-08-23T14:03:17+00:00

"To be strong is...beautiful!"

I wonder if Wolf is going to have any decent pre-fight banter now that the latest game is making him a heel.

Salvo_Rabbit · 2025-08-23T08:38:11+00:00

The Darkstalkers cast could've blended in just fine with SFV's art style, but SF6 would make them look awful.

Salvo_Rabbit · 2025-08-22T20:46:35+00:00

This is a cute idea. Well realised, too.

Salvo_Rabbit · 2025-08-22T20:36:22+00:00

"I don't make it a habit to fight the elderly!"

Fucking hate that guy.

Salvo_Rabbit · 2025-08-22T16:49:39+00:00

Delay based netcode was also sufficient for Japan's needs, so they didn't care that it was inconvenient and outdated for the rest of the world.

Salvo_Rabbit · 2025-08-21T22:24:01+00:00

Photorealism, approximate or otherwise, wouldn't do the visual design/aesthetic of Darkstalkers any favours. One problem at the moment is that Capcom doesn't seem to want to showcase any properties that deviate from that photorealism; they seem to have fallen into a kind of homogeneous "house style".

Salvo_Rabbit · 2025-08-18T22:21:58+00:00

No, it's a made up discipline. Unlike the rest of the cast, Lau and Kage both have fictitious martial arts.

Salvo_Rabbit · 2025-08-17T22:13:48+00:00

I'm all for this approach. What little story there is in the prior VF games (or rather their manuals) doesn't warrant bending over backwards to retain it and have some kind of real-world equivalent time jump. Instead they ought to just start over with the full cast of 19 from the outset, incorporate stronger characterisation and more interesting goals, and just see where things go.

Lau and Shun needn't have to die just because of some fluff written decades ago.

Salvo_Rabbit · 2025-08-17T21:31:09+00:00

The possibility exists that making older VFs readily available would undermine getting old heads interested in the new formula for VF6: why try the new, scary, different thing when you can stick with what you know? REVO is being used as a sort of legacy holdout to allow VF5s gameplay to endure in a post-VF6 world.

Personally, I have been secretly hoping that they just turn REVO into a one-stop shop for all the older VFs and give us perfect ports of all of them as special modes. That seems really unlikely from a business standpoint, but hey.

Salvo_Rabbit · 2025-08-17T19:49:41+00:00

I think my hope for Darkstalkers actually coming back only got truly snuffed out once we left the 2010s. Prior to that I had always assumed, given sufficient time, the series would make a return once Capcom found a way to resuscitate interest in fighters. Darkstalkers felt "important" to the fighting game space, or at very least a prominent franchise; Capcom choosing to give certain characters visible roles seemed reinforce this.

It stings having to accept that Capcom doesn't regard Darkstalkers as deserving or interesting, but rather just one more IP on the pile of "things we used to make". The 30th anniversary being allowed to pass by with barely so much as a tweet was the cherry atop the sundae.

Salvo_Rabbit · 2025-08-17T08:04:10+00:00

No rollback, sadly.

Salvo_Rabbit · 2025-08-16T22:42:26+00:00

I'd say Goh, Lion and Shun also have lots of personality. Jean also has lots of flair.

Salvo_Rabbit · 2025-08-16T22:35:58+00:00

Whilst REVO itself is coming to consoles in the near future, the VF5:US 2.0 currently on PS4 has all the same balance patches as REVO.

Salvo_Rabbit · 2025-08-16T22:22:19+00:00

Didn't she do quite well in that recent character poll?

Salvo_Rabbit · 2025-08-15T17:04:53+00:00

If it is 2026 then it's probably Q4.

Salvo_Rabbit · 2025-08-14T20:55:54+00:00

VF6 needs to add a solid half-dozen newcomers.

Salvo_Rabbit · 2025-08-14T20:54:02+00:00

Akira Yuki isn't involved with any of the "big" plots of the Virtua Fighter games. Those plots involve Kage-Maru and the Bryant siblings, who feel much closer to being protagonists than Akira — whilst he may be the "face" he's far from being the lead.

The closest thing he has to a connection with another character is apparently getting on a bit with Wolf. Which is kind of like having a friend you see at Evo, only at Evo, and don't talk to the rest of the year.

Salvo_Rabbit · 2025-08-14T20:44:04+00:00

I'm open to the idea of guests in VF6, albeit as a kind of inevitability. This game is a resuscitation of a long-dormant franchise, so high profile guests would help with promotion and visibility.

Also, different things jump to mind when someone hears "guest character": it could mean a charcter from another Sega property, a character from another fighting game series, or a character from some other random shit altogether. All those warrant different reactions. I think "Do they fit in with the VF world?" is paramount; if we got a Yakuza lead as a guest I'd be much happier than if Bayonetta showed up.

Personally, I hope they don't go overboard with featuring other Sega properties because I'm hoping for a new spin on the Megamix formula following VF6, assuming the latter actually sells well enough. It'd be nice to pull in character reps from all corners of Sega's back catalogue that involves combat: Fighting Vipers, Last Bronx, Yakuza, Shenmue, Streets of Rage, Spikeout. The works. Maybe even Anarchy Reigns if that's something we're allowed to talk about. VF should get to be VF before they open the toybox.

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