The Gamer's Quarter

ee_emm_ecks · . Joined: 08 Jul 2005 Posts: 98 Location: St. Louis

http://eeemmecks.livejournal.com/3561.html

These are my intial impressions of VF5 for 360. I just got it. It's my first time owning VF5 since it came out, although I'm probably one of the better players in the US still. I don't care if you find my claim dubious, you're welcome to challenge me on live at gamertag:

eeemmecks

Discuss.

ee_emm_ecks · . Joined: 08 Jul 2005 Posts: 98 Location: St. Louis

So I bought a six pack of turkish diet dr pepper and gunned through them all in about a 2 hour session. I played chf_flash, probably the best wolf in the US with my jeff and got destroyed. My throw breaking was off and that meant tons of ringouts and losing 35-40% life just do to simple timing problems(not sure if lag or me not being used to the slower speed of VF5 throws ?). This was fun. Who else has this game? RedEye, right? Who do you use? Wolf? I use wolf too. Too many wolf players, shit.

Anyways,

ee_emm_ecks · . Joined: 08 Jul 2005 Posts: 98 Location: St. Louis

If you're new to the game and can take it to the Final Motherfucker(tm) against me in a single match I will shed tears of manly joy

hi joe

ee_emm_ecks · . Joined: 08 Jul 2005 Posts: 98 Location: St. Louis

so

I invented new catchphrases

wolf's P+K, P, P is PHE PHE PHOENIX like chief thunder from KI

Wolf's F5 throw is the "finger of god" because that's what they call the F5 tornado in the movie, twister

will hop on live today, should be vegging this shit hardcore for the next two weeks since all I do is work and play VF5, with random bursts of going out to eat with friends and/or blowing them off entirely

ee_emm_ecks · . Joined: 08 Jul 2005 Posts: 98 Location: St. Louis

So, I've been grinding the first arcade in quest mode, since I'm trying to get a 100% file. One 100% file means you get 999,999G with all new profiles you create in quest, but this is a pretty daunting proposition. You have to defeat all opponents in all arcades, of which there are...maybe 150-200 per arcade, and in quest you fight random opponents. I've spent 7+ hrs just playing the first arcade for completion (75% ish percent right now), with a few detours to other arcades for tournies to get more gold. It's terrible...I really don't understand why there isn't some kind of button cheat to just unlock everything, because no one is going to spend 60+ hours playing quest with one goddamn character to unlock everything. Cripes.

JasonMoses · . Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 407

Do you get a reward for 100%ing the quest mode in VF4 evo? It was easy enough to 100% the first arcade in that game, but the later ones seemed completely absurd, yes.

ee_emm_ecks · . Joined: 08 Jul 2005 Posts: 98 Location: St. Louis

I don't think so. It doesn't matter though, you could download a hacked mem card file wtih 100% on everything for evo and not risk getting fucked over like with the 360

purplechair · . Joined: 28 Mar 2005 Posts: 378 Location: in my pants

I was at my parents' house over Christmas, where I can get on Live. I played a fair bit of Virtua Fighter online and found myself alternating between "This is the greatest thing ever" (when playing) and "This is the worst thing ever" (when looking for a match).

It really needs some kind of session play option, like DoA4. Something where you can connect up with a friend/friends and play a series of games using different characters.

purplechair · . Joined: 28 Mar 2005 Posts: 378 Location: in my pants

Also:

Worm · . Joined: 08 Jan 2008 Posts: 142

Virtua Fighter at one point became so much for Virtua Fighter fans that I can't get into it. Even logging in to play online felt like going up against the AI in VF4:EVO, it ended up just feeling very impersonal.

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Worm · . Joined: 08 Jan 2008 Posts: 142

That's one way to look at it. Though Online is in the title here. You think they could have thought of something more than Virtua Fighter fans would have enjoyed.

It's a good fighting game/system, sure. Though, I think there's a serious lack of creativity in the series, especially since the story mode consists of you going to arcades to play Virtua Fighter in. It just became such a tourney game somewhere, if I was already good I'd go snipe some losers, but I'm not really compelled to get good at it.

sarsamis · . Joined: 03 Jan 2008 Posts: 49

It would have been nice if they released online play as a downloadable add on for the PS3 version, for people like me who already bought it on that platform and don't want to buy the same game twice. Oh well, playing with buds on the couch is more fun anyways.