Longform looks at fighting games of yore, history lessons for the FGC, goofy time fun videos, and more. I'm looking forward to impressing you with some pretty dang good content, and I hope you enjoy it just as much as I enjoy making it.
Other games make the tutorial a part of their campaign, giving you only the very basic tools and your opponent would have the same limitations, then on the next level a new thing appears that makes you think "I wish I had this in the previous level" because it becomes useful, but your opponent also has it, so every time you actually learn (if, very basically) how to use everything, what do you like to use and a (very basic) sense on why and when to use it.
Honestly I feel this genre would hugely benefit from adopting Devil May Cry 3 through 5's combat, a gameplay style that is far more easy to pick up for newcomers than at first glance. Hell if you ignore the guns and the Swordmaster Style from 3 onwards, DMC in general is practically a one attack button game. Much of what Dante can do is heavily tied to one primary attack button. A lot of the branching combo attacks needing little more than for you to stop pressing the button for a split second at a given point. Specials dictated by whether or not your holding the stick towards or away from the opponent. And if you do take the Swordmaster Style button into account, DMC basically plays like a 3D Smash Bros. It is a surprisingly easy 3D combat system that you could hide deeper complexities into but still be easy to pick up. Another benefit to adding depth is to either do away with gameplay halting "cinematic supers"......or save them for a round ending Finisher system sort of like Fatalities in MK minus the gore _(or with the gore given some of these anime titles)._ Making it less about charging up to do the big cutscene super for high damage and more about earning that big finish after a long well fought battle.
I think the biggest problem was the design of the game. It visually wasn’t appealing. The characters were fine. The roster was different. The character designs were very bland and the graphics used seemed lifeless. Mvc1 and mvc2 artwork stood out, I mean the attack moves were visually unique
The few anime fighters I can think of that can actually be played sorta competitively like a traditional fighter are Clash of Ninja and Budokai. These games aren't very complex no but there is a good amount of depth. You've got easy combos and get out of jail cards, however, the worthwhile combos actually take effort and the get out of jail cards aren't free as they cost meter and in Budokai you need timing as well.
arena fighters are one of my favorite types of games cause it dosent feel complex as a traditional fighting game like street fighter it lets me kinda shut my braincells off a bit i like the simplicity i do wish they were a bit more complex though
Vita fightersnis a free fighting game for IOS and Android. All ads are optional and spending money and watching adds are ONLY for other character, but you still get a beefy cast of characters without any of that. The game has a digital d-pad but you adjust the size and there are no motion or charge inputs. You get 4 buttons, light attack, heavy attack, special move, EX move (super). And if you want to you can connect a controller. This game has insane combos and has local vs (online is in beta). Look at a video of vitafighters at least because it's sick
9:58 Fox NEVER owned the rights to X-Men or FF, they ONLY had movie rights. Marvel always could do literally everything else with these characters: comics, cartoons, games, action figures, stickers, cereal, underwear and Fox wouldn't be able to stop them. It was all about the MCU. Can't put them in a movie? Devalue the living hell out of our own IP, so we can get the movie rights back drit cheap.
Not entirely true, the tactic from Disney about the X-Men and Fantastic Four applied also to the comics. The X-Men were sidelined from the Marvel crossover events, the Fantastic Four book was canceled, and let's not forget the period where they were pushing the Inhumans at the X-Men's expense.
I wouldn't be playing Street Fighter 6 today if the Naruto Ninja Storm games didn't pull me into fighting games and push me towards finding something deeper years ago
3D anime fighters are nothing short of garbage imo. terrible balance, terrible animations, horrible movement, garbage graphics with gameplay that serves NOTHING more than fanservice. just garbage. play an actual fighting game. they arent even good party games. trash.
Jump force shouldn't of delisted the dlc jump force ultimate vold or whatever stars 3 is going to be called I'll buy it if pcephicicaly magia baiser leopard nerou Alice magenta azula and sulfur along with manga transformation that are spoilers still right now as I expxy awaking to be lavertia looking/gushing over magical girls version of bankai basically because I'd respect putting a newer anime sadist character in the game especially with pscphicaly a weakness against people taller than her till awanking when she pretty much goes la vertai and even shrinks the opent spanking them because she is a evil otaku pervert with sadist like love a total pervert and that sounds hilarious for her to do that and be like that and a elation mechanic based on how much damage you save your health bar is pretty empty you can one hit kill anyone since that's her gimmick of she exited she can't lose or they will add characters like imimito as well and I'll straight up buy the ultimate edition for 280 dollars or whatever if they add a character not even animted yet I will or they add ryuko panty and stocking and isia and rias Gregory cause if you start adding echi characters I'll buy cause thier my favorite charaters
MVCI just looks like shit lol. That "function" statement just showed how out of touch they were and how little they fucking know about their own fighting game they were developing, pretty crazy
They didn't have much money to produce it. And remember, Sony helped finance Street Fighter 5, that's why it was Playstation exclusive on console to this day.
Oh awesome. Didn't know you were launching a big return! Best of luck with any projects, but be sure to keep your mental health first of all. No videos are worth grinding yourself into dust.
A major problem I have with fighting game tutorials is that none of them tell you about precise timing. Sure, part of that is due to input delay caused by HD televisions, but if rhythm games are able to get around it, so can fighting games. Besides, if someone is unable to complete a tutorial due to factors outside of their control, then maybe it's the game's fault and not the player's. And before anyone asks "What are you, a game journalist?", let's use that Cuphead example. The game makes it very clear that to reach the top of the platform, you need to use your Dash at the height of your jump. Meanwhile, fighting game tutorials involve a lot of guess work. How long am I supposed to stand still to perform an Electric God Fist? Am I supposed to press the button before or after an animation plays to continue a combo?
Stuff like Kamen Rider Climax Heroes or Castlevania Judgement might be simple, but they at least *_pretend_* to be fighting games. Hell, I was able to enjoy that Saint Seiya fighter on PS3 despite knowing very little about Saint Seiya!
There is a logic to the Ultimate select screen it's the order in which they appeared in the series, it's a celebration of the long history it has so if your a long time fan of the series you'll know where each charachter is and why. This is also something Nintendo did'nt hide so you should not have been suprised that they did it that way.
Bro, don't accumulate ARMS (and also jojo battle r, witch isn't even an arena, but a 3D fighter) with this shitty sub genere. I know that including them in the editing of the video doesn't necessarily means that you see those game as equals as the others that you show and it (arms) they can look similiar at others arena fighting game. But it's enough well conceived that works as a stand alone sub genere 😭
I never really was a fan of the guest choices that made it into Soulcalibur II: Spawn -> He belongs in M-rated games, not T-rated ones. Link -> Soulcalibur III (a Wii port) would be a better game for him, because players have the option to choose between the Twilight Princess costume and the Ocarina of Time costume. Heihachi-> Would be better for an arcade port of Soulcalibur II, a PlayStation 2 guest that would be more fitting is Cloud Strife from Final Fantasy VII.
are.... are you guys gaslighting about the Raid ad? i have youtube premium, is that skipping ads automatically now? cuz for me it doesn't exist. i can't even rewind to it, it's as if the add was spliced out in the edit
No Vergil, no Phoenix Wright, no X-Men, just MCU characters and some Capcom favorites. A small as hell roster, no 3v3, no X-Factor, and Captain Marvel is in it. It was destined for failure.
no, ai has nothing to do with it. its bullshit like superarmor preventing staggering, immunity to some attacks, like throws, sometimes insanely more movement options than you and then, of course, the fact that they only need like 3 attacks to get you below half health and a ranged one hit ko move for good measure. it just sucks. they usually make the ai imperfect and thats all thats required for semi fair gameplay outside of it being done so badly you can somehow cheese it with the same two inputs or something. but when its imperfect but on average, only needs to hit 5 times compared to the 15 times you or a normal cpu needs to hit to win, it becomes luck, or cheese
Soulcalibur to this day does not get the credit it deserves. It belongs with the big boys of Fighting games; Big Brother Tekken, Street Fighter and (The Obnoxiously overrated & comparatively inferior) Mortal Kombat
Me personally I like dragon ball fighterz because it’s a thousand times different than the other anime games and it literally holds pro competitive tournaments on evo
