Ironically, playing Virtua Fighter 5 is a million times less painful than playing Virtua Fighter 1. Also, how are those bot’s comments not weeded out yet? Jeezus.
I'm playing Dark Souls 1 for the first time, and this describes my experience exactly. I realized at some point is that the fun doesn't come from overcoming a good, well-designed challenge, but hitting the enemies with more BS than they hit you with!
@@tsarXadam I agree with the simplicity, but it feels way too janky for me to think of it as proper game of timing. Of course I'm only a third of the way through it, maybe it'll click later?
all i remember is saying fuck this game and buying tekken. lol. actually i skipped tekken 1 and bought #2 now i think about it. tekken 1 felt like a ripoff of virtua fighter, imo
@@idekidek_ after renting on PS1 id only play it at the arcades myself, i loved the way it played on those machines! i was never good at fighting games with joystick though. fun to watch those that are good at them though.
Dang, as a game animator, some of those moves would still be tricky to animate in 2020, back then they must have been a torture to do and they still look and feel pretty darn good.
You should check out the modern VF5 Ultimate Showdown on ps4 (free with PSN). The animations are by far the best in any fighting game I've ever seen. Extremely visceral and brutal but realistic.
Jokes aside, this game legit played well for its time; was one of the first fighting games you actually felt like the characters had some weight to them when doing takedowns and throws.
@@hi_its_jerry Tekken 1 and 2 were directed by one of the creators of the original Virtua Fighter. It's funny that once he left both series, they stepped up and became much better (VF2, Tekken 3).
@@marianoclerici3986 That's pretty hilarious when you put it like that. lol~ "Oh yeah this guy directed two prolific fighting game franchises, which improved dramatically as soon as he fucked off." lol
I'm convinced anyone who ever played this game growing up would find various funny ways to ring out the opponent instead of playing it 'correctly'. I know that's what I did as a kid anyway.
@@tamamo8220 You have to play enough to master it to get the clips of you having mastered it. Also you might have seen the entire first half where he failed idk
he didn't showcased jacky, so he didn't mastered it. Jacky has the most bullshit two hit combo in the game. You can literally win with a single button. His high kick is so stupid fast and strong that it will allways knock up, and the follow up keeps it in the air. If you time it correctly, you can ring out most characters in the first 4 seconds of the round. Only jeffry was a problem because he was too heavy to do it reliably, but even if he didn't fell off, he woulded been at 50% hp because the kicks are strong af.
I remember playing this on an arcade machine in the bowling alley when I was a kid. Now I realize why it was there. That establishment's owner probably retired with every single quarter in the world.
I had a friend in elementary school who was the only person I've ever known who owned a Sega Saturn, and cheesing ring outs was basically all we did when we played Virtua Fighter against each other, much more fun than playing the normal way.
1:47 he's so utterly crushed he doesn't even try to blame his little brother, or his controller, or hide his shame in any way. that right there is a truly broken man.
"You want the game to push you to your absolute limit and force you to experiment and find out what works. What sucks is when you find out what actually works just isn't that fun. Variety and options are sucked out of the game, you have these severe difficulty spikes that feel overlooked by the developers, and what happens is the player starts pushing back. You notice the cracks in the game's design. You start abusing the AI. You learn how to stop enemies from spawning. And when you push the game to its limit, sometimes it cracks." - Dunkeldink
these mf checkmarks literally don’t even have to watch the video before commenting and because they’re verified youtube automatically gives them top comment
I'm always amazed at the ability some people have to find joy and purpose in something that I would have stopped putting up with almost immediately. I mean, the man basically cheesed so hard that he actually became godlike at the game for real.
iirc, this is the game where you could program your own moves, combos and throws. me and a friend sat in his room and did that for hours and days as kids. the capabilities were pretty extensive, however intimidating to implement well. btw, this game was impressive as fck visually when it released, and it opened up a whole new world of gameplay for fighting games.
This is Virtua Fighter, there's no custom anything. But holy shit, you reminded me of Fighter Maker (which I think is what you mean) which I haven't thought about in probably 20 years.
@@SpaghettyLuvsU youre probably right, it was so long ago. but i know he also had virtua fighter. he mustve had both games. anyways fighter maker was amazing then. we could animate polygon, custom characters exactly how we wanted. spent insane amount of time creating characters. now i need to look it up and see if its what i remember. thanks for clarifying and for the name drop of that game. i thought it was a creation mode in VF.
@@araknieretro It was OK in the arcades but they cheaped out on the hardware in the Saturn so it was not really all that capable. The DreamCast was I have no idea how that isn't the 3rd most popular console of all time. Frickin LOOOVED my DC. VF3TB / VF4 reminscing... Awesome.
Lmao what is up with Yakuza games and including random shit to do like play Virtua Fighter and optionally gawk over softcore pr0n?? My friend told me that second part and it cracked me up. I’m definitely playing Yakuza when I buy a PS4 or PS5
@@caseys2698 Because it's a Sega game and inspired by Shenmue which always had a classic Sega arcade game in the world itself. It helps root you to the time period of the story.
@@caseys2698 if you google the girls in the softcore vids, you can find their hardcore vids too, this breathed a new life into yakuza 0 for me recently
Fun fact this was one of the first games on a console to support 16:9 widescreen. Just select squeezed mode in the options menu then stretch the image via your tv settings and voila, you can witness true uncanny horror but wider now.
This game was my childhood, and I learned the pure cheese move on 2 characters, somehow dunky has compiled all of them. I am in Awe... Google didn't really exist in the age of Virtua Fighter, so I had completely forgotten this game, then when I saw those cheese moves... it all came rushing back, I spent thousands of hours playing that game or thinking about playing that game... trying to beat unbeatable AI...
"To put it simply, we want the player to feel the character's pain." - SEGA guy *wheezing uncontrollably from laughing constantly at the player's pain* - me
VF does have a very charming look to it. Like, the characters look basic and cartoony enough that the fact they're literally made out of blocks doesn't look out of place. At least compared to Kuma in Tekken 1.
This is why I never really got into fighting games. You play them on singleplayer a few times to get a feel for it and find out the best way to beat the AI is to use cheesy strategies. Then you go online and realize none of that is actually going to work against a real person.
@@DragoonCenten A demonstration of insanity to showcase some tenacity. Personally, I found better thing to do with my time. Like playing anime like Corey in The Big House for the Nintendo DS
@@DragoonCenten Yeah, but with the same amount of effort you could learn to: speak another language, Get the basics of painting down, bake homemade pastries, start a vegetable garden, start playing an instrument, or get out there and find a significant other. Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. You do you though.
Just because strategies that work on AI don’t work on real people doesn’t mean it’s impossible to win online. You just have to figure out things that work in real matches
Hey Dunkey, you probably won’t see this but I just wanted to give a big thank you to you for covering these old fighting games recently. I’ve been a fan of your content and fighting games for years now, and it’s really cool to see some more vintage titles in the community get some spotlight from you. I hope to see some more content like this in the future!
MY GOD this video bring to me lots of good memory, I was playing this game and totally forgot it. idk how you can play this old games but it's so enjoyable to watch
You really can't blame the AI here, the developers needed to make it somewhat challenging against players who managed to beat the "Bowser's Big Bean Burrito" stage.
This is the first video I ever seen of donkey. And I must say it’s the funniest video I’ve seen of somebody fighting a cheating AI ever! I had to subscribe this man’s legend
Holy hell. After just starting Yakuza Kiwami 2 and having to tear my hair out trying to win 6 consecutive fights against the AI in Virtua Fighter, I feel vindicated. The CPU opponents are fucking bumper cars.
And yet a certain website call hard games "Nintendo Hard" despite Nintendo made games are usually fair to beat with dedications. Others like SNK, Namco, and Atlus, expect AI that doesn't play by the rules.
I've only ever played Virtua Fighter a few times, in Yakuza Kiwami 2. I just spammed the high kick as Akira the exact frame the CPU would get up so they'd be in an endless loop they could never escape from.
It's a shame that no other fighter has come close to the elaborate combat system developed in this game. Other fighters just don't make me FEEL the character's pain like this one.
I remember all the pain that this game caused me. I also remember figuring out the "ring out" exploit and using it. Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.
I experienced the same thing. Dunkey’s connection to humanity knows no bounds. It’s as if Dunkey made a Virtua Fighter review equivalent to the film ‘Life is Beautiful’
The main character of a Sega game was going to be named Seba? How stupid. That would be like if there was a Nintendo game with a main character called “Ninten”.
The A.i. is cheap in almost every old school arcade fighting game. These games were designed to suck as many quarters out of childrens pockets as possible.
