Thanks to the Great El Bungle

Thanks to Monsieur Bungle for coming up to TO this past
weekend. It was a lot of fun, and good to see you again.

I've also got to say, that the forum has been a riot to
read lately! Keep up the good work everyone!

For the record -- I love VF2 as well, it's a fantasic game
with a much faster pace than VF3. I miss my 'Up Knife' rush
and the wonderful RBC-SDE-SJK combo -- and how can I forget
senbons!

I hope VFx still has that definite VF feel that all the
other games in the series have. I'll be sorely disappointed
if it didn't. That being said I don't think it would hurt
to have some easter eggs and cinematics (intros/endings) in
the game either.


cheers!
kbcat

 

Great... I knew that gut-feeling of mine was right that I should have gone to TO this weekend...

Ah well... school, school, school (though this was one of those weekends where it wouldn't have had real consequence at all, my activities this past weekend proves that too/images/icons/tongue.gif).

Speaking of which, I did spend time with VF2 in the arcades over the weekend. It is nice playing that game again, but I never developed a true handle on the controls. However, I would have spent the whole night on it, but it seems that all VF2 machines in Portland and the Corvallis area are cursed with joysticks I can't stand... small and odd diagonals, stick is one of those slender cone shapes that are too long (compared to what I'm used to in US style sticks, I'm sure that those that know their sticks know what I'm talking about)... Ahh well, almost felt like taking a shot at buying the machine, but nowhere to put it (and I have extra Happ sticks laying around my apartment to go around that joystick issue).

I definitely hope that VFX keeps that classic VF feel. I guess as a topic starter, what is it that defines that feel? Is it the precise timing (as a requirement) of the controls (though not in the way of Tekken)? Is it the directly face-to-face line of combat (2d aspect)? Would an 8-way run system throw it off? Well, anything's possible, depends on how they implement it... Still just gonna hold off the expectations until I hear more about it.

-Chanchai

 

The VF feel

This is by no means comprehensive--but, somethings that I
think contribute to the VF feel:

- slighter larger characters than most others fighters.
i.e. a closer camera. Look at TTT and then look at VF3.
- *no* hit sparks, or any crap like that.
- a distinct rythym to the combat with slight pauses
between moves. If you do a big move like a Bodycheck,
or if you complete a combo there is a short but noticable
pause. A window of opportunity. This is something that I
find lacking in other fighters like TTT or DOA2 (esp.
DOA2 -- DOA2 is reverse or die IMO). What I mean is there
is a definite risk involved with doing high damage moves,
be it slow execution or slow recovery.
- A good float system. VF2's was the best, VF1's the worst,
there were plenty of floats even in VF1.

I'm sure there are other points... I'll keep thinking about
it. As for VF2 all NA machines had crappy sticks at odd
angles


cheers,
kbcat

 

Re: The VF feel

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- a distinct rythym to the combat with slight pauses
between moves. If you do a big move like a Bodycheck,
or if you complete a combo there is a short but noticable
pause. A window of opportunity. This is something that I
find lacking in other fighters like TTT or DOA2 (esp.
DOA2 -- DOA2 is reverse or die IMO). What I mean is there
is a definite risk involved with doing high damage moves,
be it slow execution or slow recovery.

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Yep, this is in fact one of the key thing (if not THE KEY THING) that I love about VF. For the most part, to me, it makes defense a key factor in VF without killing the offense. I guess this is the thing Hiro is big on, always talking about "How VF is made." Drilled it into my head, in person and online.

Actually, in a post I did a few days ago (maybe less than a few) I mentioned this so to speak. Or at least VF having a balanced offense and defense. Like you said DoA2 has overwhelming reversals. IMO, that's an extremely overpowering defense option (not to mention the humongous window of time you have), something I personally don't like that much about it, but it's not invincible. However, I think you forgot to mention Soul Calibur. If it's a game that completely goes against the "VF Flow" it's soul calibur... I also mentioned in that earlier post about "so many moves that are not counterable," hence a constant flow of offense whether the opponent is blocking or not. This works in a lot of 2d fighters because they push the offender back over time. However, in SC, the opponent is still drilling attacks into you, going forward and without the counterability factor, it's very hard... Anyways, you can read back on that post if you're concerned about my views on that.

Another thing I love about the VF Flow is that it's sort of an exclamation point littering the match. It makes the fights extremely clear what is being done (with the exception of some visually fancy looking moves). It is probably this that gives VF a very technical feel as well as a visual way to connect the dots without things feeling or looking random.

Oh yeah, there's one thing that does annoy me that I hear non-VF players ALWAYS saying about VF. Whenever they see a pounce, ground hit, or OTB hits/combos, they practically cry out "bloody cheap!" At first it was okay, I tried to explain it to them... Juggle combos are better, etc... you can't keep ground hitting (if anything, Tekken should be looked down upon on its ground game), etc... After awhile, it just got annoying... People see a fallen person get hit while on the ground, they treat it like a bug. People see an infinite combo/aerial rave, an insane juggle combo, a stupid KI "I do 3 sequences and I get a 60 hit combo," life chippers (aka, beams in Marvel games) and they don't say anything negative (and I understand that, but I find those to be worse than the ground system of VF, besides, it's tekken's ground system to be worried about more than anything, if to be worried about the ground game, well, Lion glitch in ver. A is an exception).

Gotta love big characters. I wonder if anyone complained about the speed blurs in VF3. I really wish VFX could be more of the same, but I'm assuming it's going to be radically different. Who knows though, we'll have to wait for it to be in arcades or something.

 

Re: The VF feel

Though I hope to hell sega goes for motion capture animation to get ride of that awfull animation vf has been plagued with...easily done to motion capture and then overlay it with key framing for the frames.

 

Re: The VF feel

I'm 90% sure vf has always used motion capture
since vf1.


<font color=red>PICCOLO</font color=red>

 

Re: The VF feel

shadowdean: what awful vf animation? vf has always had excellent animation, hasn't it? or did you mean some specificly jerky moments (e.g. winning poses)?
i think vf used motion capture for the winning poses, but i don't know about the actual fighting.....

 

animation feel

for the winning poses, its obviously mocap.
but for the actual fighting i think up to vf2 (maybe 3 but i didnt follow 3 that much) it was using some kind of manequine (sp?) system. thats what i picked up somewhere. i could be wrong, but if so, i have no clue how this thought got into my head (no other game uses manaquines). its been so long. hmmm.... or maybe it was FV. but didnt FV use same technology and techniques as VF. anyway....

this system is more acurate since they can control it better. they can get clear starts and stops. and it keeps the feel of VF, which i really like, which is very well described by another poster:

"- a distinct rythym to the combat with slight pauses between moves. If you do a big move like a Bodycheck, or if you complete a combo there is a short but noticable pause. A window of opportunity. This is something that I find lacking in other fighters like TTT or DOA2 (esp. DOA2 -- DOA2 is reverse or die IMO). What I mean is there is a definite risk involved with doing high damage moves, be it slow execution or slow recovery."

the other games that used mocap never had this feel, so i think it (the manaquine) has something to do with this technique.

blah

 

DOA2

"Oh, and if I hear one more person complain that reversals are too damaging in DoA2 then I'm gonna hurt someone!"

Yes! Can I help you hurt whoever says the next stupid thing about DOA2's reversal system.

People just don't realize that getting thrown while reversing leads to high counter damage(+50%). Against a good opponent that means you will lose about half of your bar or more.

-Emil
DOA2!!!

 

thanks for having me. it was my pleasure to visit, i had a lot of fun.

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