#VF5US Community

[thetruejerrycan]

I'm pretty confident that this Game Awards announcement that Sega is hyping up is Virtua Fighter related. Everything surrounding Virtua Fighter 5 Ultimate Showdown is my only hint with some real basis. Straight from the horse's mouth, the game was meant to gauge interest in the VF property and the game met sales expectations plus got both Yakuza and Tekken-themed DLC to sweeten the pot. Usually when a game in a dormant franchise is being released to "gauge consumer interest", that's not a good sign. What typically ends up happening is that they hold the game for ransom, telling us that if we give them enough money we'll get to see more of it, with varying degrees of truth. This time, I think Sega meant it

"New era, new energy" is what really gets my imagination firing on all cylinders. That could mean anything, but not only have they been sending these letters to fighting game players in specific, let's just think about Virtua Fighter for a second. Love VF or hate it, it's hardly moved forward as a video game since its inception. While the gameplay has struck a balance between simplicity with only three buttons and complexity with just about everything else going on, VF fails to compare to its contemporaries otherwise. The modern issue is that VF5US came out in 2021 but not only does it not have a PC port, it doesn't have rollback either. The chronic problem with all of the Virtua Fighter games is that even though it was the first time we'd seen human game characters in full 3D, the characters to this day remain extremely one-dimensional, two if we're being generous. It really doesn't help that none of these characters' backstories are communicated in the games themselves. VF's arcade mode never even featured character endings. It's extremely difficult to find anything interesting beyond surface level about a majority of the characters outside of their one-liners and their fighting style. Virtua Fighter as a series has a lot of catching up to do and I think this could be Sega's chance to push it in a direction of modernity, which can exciting and scary for everyone involved, I'm sure

Now watch everything I've said here turn out to be wrong and we get Sonic the Fighters 2. I'd absolutely still be down, STF2 could end up going hard as fuck. Really, any of Sega's repertoire of fighters could make for a great comeback with the right minds behind it

[deeallthewayg]

VF5US- YIN YANG YOMI TEST! (Virtua Fighter 5: Ultimate Showdown)- Lau Ch...

Using my main character Lau Chan VS Valakrie’s Aoi in a grinding Yomi battle!

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VF5US- BATTLING THE BRAD STORM! (Virtua Fighter 5: Ultimate Showdown)- L...

Using my main character Lau Chan VS Brad Player and good buddy of mine “Hurricane Strain.”