Does VF needs it's own Yoshinori Ono/Katsuhiro Harada?

With Yu Suzuki being out of the picture since VF3 and Noriyuki Shimada taking over as producer since VF4. Do you think VF needs a charismatic spokesperson to address the media and most important. The fans? Be it in public events or social media tease. This kind of marketing has been working for SF and Tekken for years and generating hype among the FGC.

VF fans have been suffering like a dog who has been abandoned by it's owner with the uncertainty of it's comeback. VF announcements have been shrouded with silent and mystery for years.

Do you think this kind of approach helps or hurts the franchise?

The announcement of Street Fighter X Tekken was pretty entertaining in my opinion:

 

I don't think it hurts or helps Virtua Fighter. I think the producer, devs, and community did all they could to attract people to this game series.

However, with all the over hype I've seen from this game are the same ones who ironically don't play this game themselves, which don't make any sense.

To me, you either like it or you don't. Those who stay playing this game to this day, are legitimate fans.

 

I agree with you that true fans are the ones that stayed but what about attracting new ones? I think in this day and age social media is a great tool to reach new players.

I dream of a SEGA/VF Pro Tour or VF World Cup or whatever you wanna call it. The intensity and passion that happens in Japan but in the entire world.

 

I nominate that dumb guy at Evo in the Akira costume. If anybody deserves to be clotheslined, its him.

 

Haruki Satomi the young new head of SEGA would be perfect with an Akira cosplay...

I don't know why Nagoshi doesn't work on a new VF yet, all these Yakuza games must be so boring now !

Maybe Yu Suzuki can do something with VF as soon as he is done with Shenmue.

 

Virtua Fighter is simply the BEST 3D fighting game I have ever played.

Years after the release of VF5 and FS, I'm yet to come across anything that comes anywhere close.

Even the cloth physics was ahead of its time.
Saving your replays = ahead of its time.
Voice commentator = ahead of its time.
Balancing = ahead of its time.
Animation = ahead of its time.
Replay value = ahead of its time.
Side stepping = Waaaay ahead of its time.
Graphics = ahead of its time
Staggers and Stagger escapes = ahead of its time.
Customizations = ahead of its time.

And much much more!

VF5 FS needs more marketing as well as an ambassador seeing as a lot of people don't actually understand why this game is untouchable.

Sega and AM2 did a bad job with exposure.

I play Tekken 7 regularly (currently a Juggernaut with Master Raven), but I always end up getting bored due to the fact that the balancing is non existent (especially with the rangey Noctis), and it seems Tekken offers me a short span of 'fun', but quickly fades away as the depth is just not there.

The last Tekken to 'keep it real' was Tekken 5DR. By far the best Tekken to date (sadly not on XB).

DOA tries to cram in too many mechanics that I feel inhibit the flow of the game.

VF is just perfect. And it does it with no projectiles and flashy special effects.

 

Imagine if VF had someone like Sakurai announcing VF characters and generate the hype it deserves like he does here:



The most popular and successful SEGA franchises like Yakuza and the mainstream cultural icons like Segata Sanshiro will definitely attract people who never payed attention to VF. Hell I constantly read about Tekken/Smash/DoA fans wanting Yakuza characters in their freaking games. SEGA better keep them for VF!!!

 

There needs to be a reality check about the game being perfect - it's glaring problems are there despite the areas the game is hands and above superior on.

 

A part of me really hopes, that Yu Suzuki somehow returns to
the VF series. And if he somehow does, hopefully, he still has the skills to make a new one.

 

It would be nice to have Yu Suzuki directing VF but i don't know if he would like to come back since he left series during 4 because he didn't want to be stuck making the same games over and over again, but who knows he's directing a new Shenmue game but that makes more sense since Shenmue is a project he didn't get to finish back in the day, unlike the VF series in which he literally accomplished everything he wanted for the series with Virtua Fighter 3 back in 1996.

 

Maybe one of these guys can be our Ono/Harada?

 

I remember those guys. And that interview was really interesting.

 

What kind of content or announcements would make fans and outsiders hype anyways?
Isn't VF about Quality over Quantity? It's not like they're gonna be announcing new characters in a new game between "seasons" like other games.

 

What happened to these two guys ?

Are they still at SEGA's AM2 studio ?

 

I was wondering the same thing.

 

Hmmm. Interesting yet good question.

 

Well they have/had Yu Suzuki. And he was like the poster boy for VF throughout the 90's. But he kinda retired from sega years ago, despite hints that he might be again, working on future projects with sega soon.

 

I hope it's the RGG studio that will take the lead of Virtua Fighter now (after they made VF5US) ...

It would be great if they work on Yakuza their main franchise, Judgment as spin off, and Virtua Fighter the fighting game.

Give us Kiryu ! And bring the gangster kung fu in VF, and also all the hype !

 

You have one now and his name is Seiji Aoki.

 

Yep, maybe that's gonna be this guy.