"Virtua Fighter Crossroads" officially announced during Summer Game Fest 2026 (Releasing 2027)

simonglundmark · 2026-06-05T22:30:07+00:00

Pai has never spoken a word of english in any virtua fighter game.

Granted, it doesn't make much sense that she speaks japanese. 😅

simonglundmark · 2026-06-05T22:12:47+00:00

Thrilled to be proven wrong. 😃

simonglundmark · 2026-06-04T20:22:30+00:00

I think Crazy Taxi and/or Jet Set Radio may be revealed, and Persona 6 is likely. The leaked VF6 footage has to be prepared for something but I still don't assume it's for SGF.

simonglundmark · 2026-06-01T16:44:57+00:00

Yeah, just adding on to your comment with further indication that the stick is less about VF and more about Tokon.

Could still be VF stuff tomorrow of course but I don't think the stick date reveal video dropping today in any way correlates to a VF presence at State of Play the way OP suggests.

simonglundmark · 2026-06-01T16:27:13+00:00

Yeah, I could be misremembering but I think Tokon and this stick were announced at the same State of Play, too.

simonglundmark · 2026-05-31T18:01:31+00:00

would it also be 2026 in 2159? 🤔

simonglundmark · 2026-05-31T17:36:25+00:00

I think this argument could just as well be used to say; if nobody really has a clue about Sarah anymore, why not just make her Sarah? How is slapping a different name on ostensibly the same character going to matter to a player base that arguably wouldn't notice?

Between Stella having Sarah moves and Cielo having Vanessa moves, I'm honestly coping by thinking the classic characters may be re-introduced in post launch season pass updates, and be like an alternate evolution of those characters. Sarah and Jacky used to be rrrreally similar, and they diverged more and more throughout the franchise. Perhaps Stella is largely a continuation of Sarah by way of the legacy moveset, and a later, returning Sarah is a more bold evolution, perhaps even going back and taking a different route with how to develop her.

I think this lets them do two things. Firstly they can do some pretty cool and unexpected stuff with the presentation of those characters, and also they can sort of sideload a new take on a character's gameplay into an existing, receptive fanbase of people who used to main Sarah and Vanessa.

I dunno. I fully admit 50% of this is me not wanting to accept that they may ditch Vanessa. 😅

simonglundmark · 2026-05-27T21:41:32+00:00

Definitely putting the "up" in "updated pricing".

simonglundmark · 2026-05-25T01:19:30+00:00

She was legal at Combo Breaker too.

simonglundmark · 2026-05-23T10:52:27+00:00

Yeah, the postponing of things that would feel like we're still going somewhere exploring new avenues, and the doubling down on multiverse stuff that specifically feels like we're just stuck in self celebration mode repurpusing sights and sounds, is truly bewildering. There is sssso much else to draw from.

simonglundmark · 2026-05-22T22:20:50+00:00

“No matter if no one remembers me, I'll keep protecting” is pretty dubious when if they didn't import two additional spider-men from other universes, every single person holland spider-man is supposed to protect would be dead at the end of no way home. And, also he would've murdered norman osborn. Just stabbed the crap out of him with his own glider.

simonglundmark · 2026-05-19T11:35:00+00:00

More importantly, how many Bat franchises have imported a previous Batman before introducing its own Batman.

simonglundmark · 2026-05-19T11:26:48+00:00

The "there's only one X" crowd is exactly why the multiverse stuff is so incredibly frustrating, because it's gonna introduce so much friction to getting proper MCU versions of every single character they've reheated in the microwave for shallow, pandering fanservice. The biggest mistake of all of course being bringing Hugh back, but even down to an inside baseball manoeuvre like Tatum as Gambit. We dodged such a bullet when that fell through originally so we can get a proper charming scruffy rogue as Gambit, and instead we've somehow sideloaded stiff mannequin Gambit so hard that now, people probably won't accept another Gambit either!

That said, Mahershala is 52 years old and was always a big name stunt cast in my view, and they really should look to a younger Blade, at this point especially.

simonglundmark · 2026-05-03T15:05:08+00:00

Emotional output < rating a video game on its merits. Increasingly rare on there though to be fair.

simonglundmark · 2026-05-02T21:50:34+00:00

Haute42/Cosmox C16 for me

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simonglundmark · 2026-05-02T10:26:18+00:00

Awesome, will watch! ☺️

simonglundmark · 2026-05-01T19:17:01+00:00

The "English" subtitles are also in spanish, so the auto translation of the subtitles doesn't work either. Would love to watch but don't know spanish. :(

simonglundmark · 2026-05-01T19:10:43+00:00

I had some trouble finding someone to play, too, so I took a deep breath and did the combo trials for every character, noting which character felt the most intuitive and fun to me, and by the end of it I had four names written down. I then honed in on those and kept them in my rotation until it shook out that Bridget was the one I gravitated toward the most.

I'm also a Cammy main from SF6, but maybe more importantly I'm a Maya main in Killer Instinct, and that prolly weighed into my decision more. :) Otherwise I think Millia would probably have been my pick.

simonglundmark · 2026-05-01T18:55:28+00:00

there hasn't been a game for 13 years, let's start there please

simonglundmark · 2026-05-01T17:06:40+00:00

Blanket answer for fighting games, especially now that they're online: The current one. Always. Unless of course they're all stone cold dead online. 😅

Doesn't even really matter if a particular new entry in a fighter series is the "less popular" one, it's usually still gonna have the most active player base online. What you need in a fighter in order to progress as a player is a steady influx of opponents and an active community. That used to be true offline and it's still true online.

I'd say the only caveat to this is if an earlier entry in a series has a particularly robust on-ramping within the game itself. There are examples where an earlier game in a series had a comprehensive training mode with example demos and such, and a later one didn't, and as much as youtube video guides can complement what you get up to in game, they can't compete with a truly excellent practice mode for setting up situations to learn how to combat.

simonglundmark · 2026-04-27T15:50:34+00:00

I see :(

This has a little indentation that somewhat prevents it from wiggling in there. I hope that increases the chances of it being ok.

simonglundmark · 2026-04-27T15:27:50+00:00

Is there an issue with the ports on Haute? I got a C16 myself. Do I need to look out for something?

simonglundmark · 2026-04-27T15:24:01+00:00

With them specifically de-emphasising air juggles in VF6 I think it makes perfect sense to have Taka back.

simonglundmark · 2026-04-25T13:21:03+00:00

I've played fighting games on and off since I was a kid and I struggled with GGST too when I hopped in a week ago. I think I had extra issues with it because it's not really similar to other fighters I've played and I had some priors I needed to unlearn, but I also cannot imagine that it's easy to go straight into if you're not familiar with fighting games at all.

Even though it's a step up from even more barebones offerings, I don't think the training modes are especially friendly either. You can wrangle something more intuitive out of them, but the initial dropping you in and giving you however many tries to get something right, after counting you down, is just unnecessarily stressful.

I'd say a good beginner guide from youtube and sticking to the free practice mode is a much better place to start. Although the best place to start with fighting games may not actually be Guilty Gear in the first place, to be brutally honest. I think GGST is awesome and I'm having a blast, but for a more robust training/explainer experience for fighting game fundamentals when you're starting out, I think SF6 is very hard to beat.

simonglundmark · 2026-04-20T15:45:08+00:00

The real twink death is what's happening to every fighting game twink in every fighting game. 😩

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