VF4 Goh was flawed but fun. I still miss this style and method over others. While Goh's striking game improved with later additions, I rather miss his grapples and the parry was easier for me to time against strikes. Personally, I was fine with him the way he was. I mostly used his strikes for disruptions, with a focus on the grabs or throws. But, to each their own.
It's interesting to look back at this game, seeing how this is revered as the best version of Virtua Fighter, even though the two new characters seemed to have been a bit half-baked in terms of gameplay (and this is coming from someone who really likes both Goh and Brad, in fact they're two of my 4 favorites), both Brad and especially Goh were really weak and lacked some tools to compete with the rest of the cast in Evolution, thankfully they grew with the next entries to be some of the best characters this series has ever produced.
I'd say the best version of VF for competitive play is VF4 Final Tuned aka the last revision of 4 which only came out in Japanese arcades, Goh and Brad received a good number of improvements and new tools which make them feel complete. Either way as far VF games on consoles go VF4Evo is the best console VF game for all the content it has, which in a way is little sad to think about since you would expect its sequels to keep improving on what it established but sadly that's not the case.
I disagree when it comes to Goh. He may have more strikes, and combos but his grappling has been heavy nerfed especially his Tsukami. I like being able to maneuver around the arena and combining it with his throws. VF5 added some cool throws but his grapple game is not as good as in VF4.
@@ThrashMetalWolf666 I'm not talking about the depth of the moves, but rather the balancing of them, Goh's Tsukami was definitely more complex in Evolution (a lot of characters's movesets were dumbed down between 4 and Final Showdown), but Goh was the weakest character in Evolution by far, he was slow, his combo potential was awful and the damage on his moves was not great, even Brad, who was the second worst character in the game, was at least a league above Goh. @Thesch 28 Sure, Final Tuned did improve Brad and Goh, they were still low tier, but not the worst characters in the game and could actually compete with the rest, again, I'm just saying that people might overrate VF4 Evo and Final Tuned's balancing a little bit, if you prefer the more complex movesets I can't argue with that, but I still believe VF5, especially its later iteration did a better job balancing out the cast, as the bottom tier characters like Eileen can still do really well competitively in FS.
@@LordRaptor Regardless Goh in VF5 is still fun to use even if his grappling isn't as complex as it was in EVO. The new moves he got where still pretty cool and like you said he is more balanced. Hopefully the next VF game will combine both the complexity of Goh's grappling in EVO, with the balancing, and brutality if his 5 moveset.
@@ThrashMetalWolf666 He sure is, VF5 made him my 4th favorite character, I already really liked him in Evolution, but by VF5 vanilla Goh's moveset was improved tremendously, so much so that I began to even slightly prefer him over Jacky, who has been one of my favorite characters since I've started playing Virtua Fighter.
So many missing moves in Ultimate Shodown. Taking moves away from a character like Goh Hinogami who has so few in comparison to someone like Lei Fei or Kagemaru (Who also lost quite a few) is just mind boggling.
@@ProjectH1980 Couldn't agree more. Not to mention it breaks my personal rule of "add moves in subsquent iterations, but don't remove what people have grown to love".
