Favourite characters

I'm not sure if there's already a thread like this but I was wondering which fighters in Virtua Fighter do you like?

I like Jacky Bryant but Akira Yuki is my most favourite fighter.

 

I main Akira too because he's both difficult and virtua fighter's Ryu

 

And Jean Kujo is my second favourite being sort of virtua fighter's Ken but of course, he's not a shoto-clone nor cheap ripoff, nor virtually anything resembling Ken beside his red gi

 

this topic is better suited for general than VF5

 

My favs:

Sarah
Vanessa
Akira
Eileen
Jean Kujo

 

Ken definitely.
But to me, he's more like V.Ken, from Ultra Street Fighter 2.

 

lol especially the brainwashing points let alone the fact that both are more violent

 

Lau Chan, Shun Di, and Jeffry McWild.

 

I'm actually with you on this. There's an elegance in their simplicity. Its archetypal. And there's a heavy lack of that try-hard "this is COOL" in their designs. At least in the early characters. Some, like Jean and Gou, do have that Tekken-ish "all the kids are gonna think this guys so badass" edge to them, but they pull it off well, while on the other hand Eileen (though I like her gameplay), El Blaze and Brad Burns are kind of just unremarkable design wise.

 

Overdesigning is a big problem with way too many new games. Its like, with higher definition and fidelity, creators are driven to try to make use of it by jam pacing as many insignificant details on a characters design as possible, but it just adds clutter and often detracts from them having strong silhouettes, shape language and colors.

 

To keep a stable interest, I'll have to like all of them, so I leave up to fate with choosing random select. It brings out the best in my performance and have my opponents guessing on what to expect. However, it actually benefits the opponents by having them to adjust to random character matchups. This makes me want to rebuy a PS3, but the online was terrible.

 

I didn't have much options at the time, so I played people on the other side of the world, because domestic players that I normally played when the game was new either quit on my list or were scarce. So, I'm going to partly take it back and say that it was too inactive for me.

I always used a wired connection, but it didn't make much of a difference. There were still alot of very laggy matches locally going on compared to XBL when I played both versions, to the point I felt I needed to quit.

If there's an arcade stick that is compatible with the PS3, PC, and with the Nintendo Switch, then I'll still consider it, but if Sega releases more of their Sega Ages games that happens to have a VF game(s) in there, then I'll stick with that.