"BlazBlue's online system puts titles like Street Fighter IV to shame, and the overall beauty of high-def 2D sprites put it at the top of the graphics department as well.""Their work deserves attention -- and praise -- because it exceeds expectations and delivers a thoroughly well-thought out, pragmatic, and enjoyable online experience. I can say without hesitation that BlazBlue raises the barometer on which all fighters should be judged.""It will take at least another year for the game's full depth to be discovered. "Eat it, SFags.
It will never kill SF, because SF can never die. However, even as the start of an IP it has surpassed most in the SF series. Or at least the bad ones.
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inb4 flood of Taokaka
I'm pretty ambivalent about this. Looks like weeaboo shit.
Level 24 Master Chief.
Awesome game is awesome.
SF4 is better
For people who don't like the character designs:It's the first game of a new series! If you saw the original Guilty Gear X when it came out you'd probably say they were all shit because you're not familiar with them. WHAT THIS IS NOT RYU OR KEN?! But look at the GG cast now, they've grown on all of us and now we compare the Blazblue cast to a series that already has a place in out hearts.
>>33850669GG's designs were awesome and pretty unique.BB's is just squishy weeaboo.Sucks.
I expected Guilty Gear.I got PS1 Jojo's Bizarre Adventure.
Kof XII called. BlazBlue's sprites are shit in comparison.
dat ice.
Street Fighter was smart to do a non-weeboo style for 4. This is just tried and true weeaboo shit that's going to alienate newcomers just for the art style alone.
/v/, I was fighting Bang in Score Attack mode, and when we were both down in health Bang moves to the center of the screen, starts laughing like a fucking maniac with fire blazing all over the goddamn screen and a Japanese song starts to play. Now, confused, not knowing what the hell was going on, I hit him with my Distortion to finish the match. What the hell was Bang doing?
>>33850861
>>33850964I hope you're trolling. Have you even seen a screenshot of both games?BTW I bought Blazblue and anyone who says the characters are anything but Japanese stock characters are fucking lying to themselves. It is blatantly obvious to anyone with half a brain. As such, I have to believe they did it on purpose, just so it would appeal to the masses. Also, the gameplay is fucking incredible (save v-13) so...who cares?
>>33851212You just got Bang Install'd, motherfucker.
>>33850983Jin Scrubs.
>>33851212That's Bang's drive. When he opens all the gates he can go into his super mode where he moves 3x as fast.
>>33851212Trolling.
>>33851218>>33850861Aw shit, so it's not like Guilty Gear? Now I'm back on the fence of getting it or not.
>>33851340It's more of a mix of Guilty Gear and JoJo.
If only it was released for PC...
>>33851292>That's Bang's drive. When he opens all the gates he can go into his super mode where he moves 3x as fast.That sounds like Kamen Rider Kabuto..Bang confirmed for Rider.
>>33850350Moél
My PSN is Projectfaded, add me if you wanna play. I'm not on right now, but i will be in a few hours. I main Noel (In b4 X MASH MASH MASH MASH, I actually rarely use her drive).
>>33851448funfact: BANG's voiceactor actually played kamen rider odin.
>>33851470WELL FUCK MAINING TAOKAKA FOR ME!
>>33851470funfact: Bang is fucking awesome!
>>33851267Absolutely. Have you seen both games in motion? KOF XII sprites already have more frames of animation. Combine that with the complex shading in those sprites and the difference is noticeable.
It's unfortunate that the game will bomb in sales and will never have a sequel because it has animu shit on the cover
>>33851510360 or triple? i'd like to try taking on another Bang! haha.
>>33851577You mean just like the entire Guilty Gear series?
How do people not have the game yet? I didn't even preorder it and I got the Limited Edition on Tuesday. (But the bonus disc won't play...)
>>33851599DID YOU GET THE ARTBOOK?
And it will only take another 3 weeks for 95% of players abandon the game.
>>33851577GG wasn't exactly rocking the charts when it first came out. BB will most likely get the same revisions as GG. Probably through DLC though.
>>33851589I don't have it yet but god damn do I want it now.I'm waiting for it to ship from GameFly, add me in the meantime.
dis
>>33851597It would have never survived if it started this gen. Any game with animu bombs
>>33851680That Japanese video game market must be fucking cratering right now.
>>33851645you got it, broseph. expect an add from drifblim!>>33851633fuckin pissed, dude, my store didn't get any. :( i've been eyeing our shipments like a hawk.
>>33851555Thing is, KoFXII isn't high-res enough to get away with having sub-Garou animation. And it's -very- sub-Garou, let alone 3rd Strike.Instead the sprites are just blobs of dark, bland, real time shadowed mediocrity.BB on the other hand has decent animation, and the absolute brightest, shiniest sprites you've ever fucking seen. The entire game just pops so much.
>>33851719>That Japanese video game market must be fucking cratering right now.It is.
>>33851737Only watched low quality youtube vids, huh?
>>33851793>it is>30000 new PS3 RPGs announced shortly after the release of two major licensable engines
Anyone in Canada still wondering.http://gamenorth.ca/2009/07/03/blazblue-calamity-trigger-makes-a-run-for-the-border-fails/
I'm so fly haaaa~ I fuck around and wear a cape.
>>33851456>>33851456Kay, I'll add you later.
>>33851737I'm not seeing it brah.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rln-j8I0mZM&fmt=22
>>33851843The game has almost no use of light highlight aside from like 3 pixels in the very middle of someone's pants or bicep. I'm not even kidding.
>>33852036And having seen good quality videos I have to say you are either blind, or can't take anything that isn't super bright anime. KOF has always been despised by hardcore GG fans.
>>33851993That looks like...complete shit. Apparently in the SNK universe fire doesn't cast any light
How come nobody talks about the soundtrack in these threads? This shit is god tier.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgNLUNF5Xeg
HEY IS THAT THE SAME CHARACTERS FROM BEFORE AND THE SAME SPECIAL MOVES WITH NEW 3D GRAPHICS?!!?HEY IS THAT THE SAME EXPERIENCE FROM THE PAST YEARS AND YEARS!?!HEY IT IS!!!
>>33852194ProtipIt is sunset, not 3 AM
>>33852172Actually, I've generally tended to feel it looks like a bootleg Street Fighter in terms of quality. More generic martial arts cliche dudes (compare Adon to SNK's Muay Thai dude), terrible looking menus and HUDs, over the top flash effects in the newer games, etc.
Atleast Blazblue offers a new experience (Driver abilities) etc and not to mention a new cast of unique chars (I don't need a roster of 30 when they're all generic pieces of shit.)KoF will always offer the same old experience.and believe it or not I play KoF 98' and 2002 on a regular basis and I'm not excited for XII as much as I was blazblue.
>>33852286Protip: fire still casts light at sunset, and it's also impossible to tell it's sunset since everything is a barely distinguishable mess of brown and magenta.
>>33851218This is a bad thing?
>>33852382http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-vMFERNqtw&feature=related
>>33851993Whats with these newer games, and hiring people who cant speak proper english to do voice-overs?Laund WanLedy?GO!
>>33852538REBER WON!
>>33852538I was going to say something contradicting this, but you know, you're right, SNK vs. Capcom, SF Alpha 3, 3rd Strike, etc. all had proper English announcers. So does SFIV, for whatever that's worth.
>>33852237Some of the remixes at the end of the OST were actually kind of good. This one especially would have made for a good final boss theme. Too bad they're not in the full game.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AR0Y-4l2FA&fmt=18
>>33852538Agreed. Even better, Celebrity voice overs.Imagine Gilbert Gottfried sayingTHE WHEEL OF FATE IS TURNINGREBEL 1ACTION
Once I get some type of income, I'll be getting my hands on this. I kinda want to use my CC for this and pay it off later, but I can only pay minimum right now.Hopefully CE will still be available.
>>33852679I'd rather have him voice Arakune
>>33852679Morgan Freeman would be better.
>>33852679Sean Connery as Tagen
KOF's animations look like garbagethey literally just made 3d models, animated them, and traced over them, they don't look all that different from animated 3d models, especially in motion
>>33852767HOOOLY SHIT I NEED TO GET MY HANDS ON THAT AZURE!
>>33852843You have got to be kidding.Back in the day, trolling, etc.
also the Remix is in the 2 disc OST you get
>>33852843Yeah, they're really shameless about how blatantly rotoscoped it is. And there's very little blending on animation frames except on certain specials, which makes it look really stiff when things are supposed to be moving fast. It's really jarring.
>>33852939I'm not trolling, some sprites its more obvious than others, mainly THUNDER
>>33852994not to mention how special effects look like they were cut out from Red Alert2 or something.
>>33852994pretty much, i mean the tracing over 3d animations wasn't a bad idea, but they should have at least used cushion frames, or blended some shit more
>>33853050Yeah. Blazblue's artists actually did use 3D animations for keyframes to make things look right, but then they took them, added proper animation effects, and did the coloring themselves.
I swear, the same woman who voiced Sylvia Christel in No More Heroes, also did the "wheel of fate is turning" in BB
BlazBlue actually traced 3d shit as well, the difference is they just did it for like...the lineart, and still did the details and shading manually, like real god damn sprite art.It doesn't quite result in the super smooth fluidness of hand-drawing to this stage like SF3, but it works.
>>33851218so, you played BlazBlue, expected absolute awesome and got a different kind of awesome? sounds great to me
>>33853198HEAD FOR THE GARDEN OF MADNESS is way better than GORILLA PLATE IS TURNING anyway...
ITT poorfags that can't afford to own two video games.Get KoFXII AND BB
:3
>>33853416Why would I get KOF12 if I don't like it?
>>33851218I lol'd.
<3 BB.
The sprites in KoF and BB are each phenomenal, and for different reasons. But you can tell Project BB Team is glad to get away from Guilty Gear, even if they are rehashing one or two character designs. Being the start of an IP it's fresh, and has been given a lot of love by the staff, something that the TWELFTH entry in an usually mediocre serious can't keep up with.
>>33853737Err, mediocre series.
Opting for the smaller roster was a great move, imo. This game actually has a story and you care about the characters, even if the plot is incomprehensible and batshit crazy.
>>33853737fuk yo say
The beauty of this game makes me do this at least once a battle.And then I lose to some Japanese kid because I was distracted.
Poor Gii.
>>33853737Accent Core Plus is better than BlazeBlue.Yea, I said it.
I have never liked Street Fighter character designs.They've always been bland and/or incredibly gay looking macho men.
>>33853974Tao makes me do that Especially her astral finish
>>33854129so you like the moe type
>>33852172I'm a hardcore GG fan, but I have to admit that KOF 12 is the 2d fighting game with the best graphics ever seen. In animation, smoothness, detail in sprites and backgrounds, FUCKING SHADOWING ON 2D SPRITES GODDAMN THAT SHIT IS AWESOME, in terms of 2d graphics THIS is the game to look up to. Even Super Robot Wars should take some cues from KOF 12.
>>33854204That, or the type that doesn't shove their muscular thigh fetish down our throats every game.
>>33851456Despite the spammy nature of it, if you aren't using Noel's Drive you're playing her very wrong. Just look at her move list, half of the commands can only be executed after using it. The idiots are the ones that just mash Drive over and over, and they're easy enough to deal with.
>>33854277personally i prefer the blazblue backgrounds to the kof12 ones.
>>33854300qft
>>33854277...But shadowing to that level on 2D sprites is a terrible idea unless all your lighting environments are going to be homogenous, and their animations vary from good to slideshow-badly-lacking-inbetweens.And good god, no SRW should not.If I have to see that shitty explosion sprite every time I kill an enemy unit I'd rage with the fury of a thousand suns.
Blazblu looks pretty retarded.http://www.giantbomb.com/quick-look-blazblue-calamity-trigger/17-966/
>>33854277Good visuals alone rarely make a good game
>>33854392U LOOK PRETTY RETARDED
>>33854324I main Noel, and still cannot do her Astral Drive without an Easy Special. How in the hell are you supposed to pull that thing off!?
blazblue, more like radioactive parkisons disease
>>33854395Agreed. BB will always be the most balanced because of its roster with characters that will be used diversely, as opposed to only relying on four of the tons in KoF.
>>33854324If you aren't using Noel's drive, you're not doing something wrong, but you're likely to lose if you don't find or make an opening. It takes a while to get used to when you can use it safely to hit people. It's horrendously bad on block, so throwing it out is very risky without a plan.>>33854452I'm not sure. People tell me 2CCCC>8CCCCC but that's so weird.
>>33854487BB balanced? spam d win match
>>33854487Most balanced? No.Decently balanced? Yeah.It will be a while before BB catches up with GGAC. Some of the matchups need to be leveled out before we can start declaring OMG SUPAR BALANCE like we had in GGAC, with it's at-worst 6-4 matchups.
>>33854598Block. Seriously.
>>33854392Man they suck. "I don't know what those are"That's what the fucking manual is for, dumbass.They'll be playing Call of Duty/Halo/Gears again by next week.
>>33854598You're not playing the game correctly.
Street Fighter III will always have the best sprites.No 3D models.All handdrawn.Over 9000 Frames just for Makoto's walking animation
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>>33854633Lol@ reviews of fighting games by people who don't know how to play fighting games.
1000000000 internets says in about 2-3 months theyll release BlazBlue: BIGGER, BETTER, AND UNCUT, and 2-3 months after that BlazBlue: Revamped, Reloaded, Revolutionized
>>33854598Are you for real? This is why there are like 4 types of blocking in the game, dipshit.
>>33854509I usually hold down for a second or two, C three times, then Up and C simultaneously. Works.. most of the time.
>>33850174WTB Crack ALready
>>33854648IM NOT PLAYING THIS PIECE OF SHIT GAME AT ALL OKAY FAGGIT
