Incline ArcSys saving fighting games with Dragon Ball FighterZ

[oddech_wymarlych_swiatow]

It's primitve as hell, onle ONE statistics (battle power) so it's all about mindless grinding.

 

[Assisted Living Godzilla]

Wonder if we'll be getting Kid Goku that rides around on the cloud and has the Power Pole? I'm almost surprised we're seeing characters like Hit (who I didn't even know was a character until this game) before characters like Kid Goku and Master Roshi.

I really hope this leads to Arc System Works doing a Jump crossover game like this.


Oh, and another video:

 

[Assisted Living Godzilla]

 

[RoBoBOBR]

Somehow frenchies got themselves full game ahead of time and made this CMV

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

another game in which the one who knows the most overpowered juggles wins =_=
holy crap, when will i get another tekken 3 or samurai shodown 4? even mortal kombat makes more sense than this to me.

 

[HeatEXTEND]

another game in which the one who knows the most overpowered juggles wins =_=
holy crap, when will i get another tekken 3 or samurai shodown 4? even mortal kombat makes more sense than this to me.

get a load of bushido blade over here

 

[e-mailio estevez]

another game in which the one who knows the most overpowered juggles wins =_=
holy crap, when will i get another tekken 3 or samurai shodown 4? even mortal kombat makes more sense than this to me.

Juggles and huge air combos seem appropriate for a DBZ fighting game. I think a MVC-style system suits it pretty well.

That being said, I've never been particularly great at MVC or ArcSys games. The execution barrier for a lot of bnb combos are too high for me to call myself 'good' and something like Soul Calibur is more my speed. I still love them, though, and I've found these fighting games in particular to be great on a casual level or with people of the same skill level. I've never had fun in a training mode until I played MVC3, because coming up with crazy aircombos and figuring out combo extensions using assists or coming up with dirty setups was simply a lot of fun.

It doesn't hurt that the game seems like a real labor of love. Even the little story bits I've seen so far have been great:

Yamcha spoilers

I'm really looking forward to this thing.

 

[Gepeu]

The game looks insane.

 

[Great Deceiver]

The game uses Denuvo and Directinput isn't supported, so that's a big fuck you to a large amount of arcade sticks out there.

It took Capcom a year to patch in Directinput support for SFV, and people had to resort to ghetto shit like X360CE. It's amazing that this sort of thing even happens.

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

denuvo + 60 euros.
die in a hole.

 

[LESS T_T]

Despite all that, looks like this game is going to be the best selling fighting game on PC.

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

because people are lemmings.

 

[Nathir]

another game in which the one who knows the most overpowered juggles wins =_=
holy crap, when will i get another tekken 3 or samurai shodown 4? even mortal kombat makes more sense than this to me.

because people are lemmings.

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

Well, clocked some time to this today, and it's pretty fun. It's definately more casual than BlazBlue or Guilty Gear, but that's not an all bad thing since that at least makes it better for getting random people to play.

The story mode is kind of interesting in terms of gameplay (story itself is pretty much usual Dragon Ball game fare rather than the kind of ambitious story content what Mori and Ishiwatari did; some of the character bits are pretty fun at least), since in terms of how it's played it takes after Abyss and M.O.M. That's kind of a different way to do things, and it's certainly fun to play in that sense. Or more accurately put, it's at least for now a kind of fun enhancer, since it gets you to try different things and learn different ways you can play with the characters, with that extra little reward element. We'll see how it goes further on, it's entirely possible it will get very tiring if things go on too long and if the challenge curve isn't done right.


Also Android 21 has them biggest titties in the franchise's history. I can't help but picture this as something that happened during production with Namco Bandai and Toriyama: "Alarm! Alarm! We have a serious issue with FighterZ production! The Arc System Works staff is COMPLETELY DEMORALIZED from working on a game that is this much of a sausagefest! They need to work on boobs, fast!"

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

tits sell. it's that easy.

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

I don't think you quite appreciate just how much of a sausagefest FighterZ is, especially compared to ArcSys' own two series.

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

maybe i'm shallow, but i hardly notice and surely don't care about sexes quotas, all i see is people and characters. and fanservice, i notice that. android 21 is fanservice.

 

[Damned Registrations]

It is kinda weird they added in 21 instead of Videl. Maybe they have her planned as a DLC character down the line.

Can't really think of any other female fighters in the franchise that aren't total throwaways, unless maybe you count Chi-Chi, who wouldn't really fit the mood.

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

Well I saw rumours that some new Super Saiyan chick from Super is planned early DLC.

maybe i'm shallow, but i hardly notice and surely don't care about sexes quotas, all i see is people and characters. and fanservice, i notice that. android 21 is fanservice.

You aren't thinking of the fanservice properly. This is Arc WAIFU Works standards we're looking at the sausagefest factor from, after all.

ArcSys themselves already made the joke about their games starting to look like eroge back with Continuum Shift Extend.

 

[HeatEXTEND]

 

[DakaSha V]

The more i play it, the more i see a deep and fun game here. still too early to tell though, obviously. im having a lot of fun at least.


and christ, the production values are insane.

 

[HeatEXTEND]

The more i play it, the more i see a deep and fun game here. still too early to tell though, obviously. im having a lot of fun at least.


and christ, the production values are insane.

ASW are king in the value department. Xrd has a mode that allows you to customize chars with crazy moves and mechanics, it's quite insane the work that must've went into it. Older games had different versions of chars with completely new movesets just for fun.
ASW is pure

 

[DakaSha V]

Yeah I own rev as well.

But this goes even a step beyond that which is nuts

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

I hadn't kept close enough tabs in that regard, but I'm pleased to learn that character BGMs are actually in too besides the very good stage BGMs. Not quite as good overall as the soundtracks for BlazBlue and Guilty Gear, but way above norm.

ASW is pure

Fighting games in general have been the genre for a good long while now. The sidestepper scourge that left Street Fighter 3 an undeserved commercial failure and caused a slimming down of proper fighting games ultimately faded out from prominence. Starting with roughly at the start PS3 gen (some might say the sidestepper scourge was vanquished by Street Fighter 4 and Mortal Kombat returning to proper 2D; I'd say the start of good things to come was King of Fighters XI) it's been sweet living with all the re-releases and even if SNK never got the money they deserved at least ArcSys has done great pushing the envelope.

 

[InD_ImaginE]

I want my Bloody Roar by ArcSys pretty please

But yea fighting genre is pretty decent all over the time. The genre really target the core audiences which are mostly hardcore players. Newer fans might be casual, but they still enjoy the e-sport side due to the insane level of execution needed by the pro.

The very few attempts on making the genre more accessible been a total flops, altho some games been adding "easy combo" control where you can spam button to looks cool.