Regarding the tier rankings, these are only relevant at a competitive level of play, and even then Virtua Fighter is a very balanced game with every character being viable. You'll have much more fun (and also probably perform better) if you just pick who you like! A massive thank you to Wireman: twitter.com/WireManFGC and Blessy: twitter.com/BlessyVF for working with us on this series. They'll be keeping the VF torch alive on TBS with ongoing tutorials to help you further explore the wonderful world of Virtua Fighter. In the meantime, we'll continue to work with various fighting game communities to create more character overviews. Watch this space!
Couldn't agree more, my best friend and I have been really enjoying the intuitive nature and upward development of playing VF5 in the long-term (about 9 months in total). Here's to mamy more! 🥋
Gou is my absolute favorite Virtua Fighter character. I freaking love his violent and surprisingly offensive take on Judo. Which is usually a defensive style in most fighting games
Been playing VF since 96 and never been bored with the series. Your breakdown of my main Kage was spot on and your breakdown of Pai made her my secondary. Sega was right to give you a shout out for how amazing this guide is.
Watched all the individual guides and had to watch the full thing come together. The passion and research is clearly observable as I hope these guides help bring some new blood to Virtua Fighter
While im a tekken fan myself,everytime i see virtua fighter i ask why the fuck didnt this series had more damn succes,seriously such a superb gameplay and characters...and that goh hinogami ,so cool and savage!
It’s always been huge in Japan but not so much over here in the west unfortunately. The main reasons being that SEGA, for whatever reason, really didn’t promote or push the series much at all over here. It hardly got any promotion. Secondly was it being stuck on consoles that sold very little compared to the PlayStation, so not a lot of people got exposed to the series. VF 1 and 2 were on the Sega Saturn, a console that sold 9 million units compared to the PS1’s 102 million units and VF3 was on the Dreamcast, which sold only 10 million. No surprise that VF4 is the highest selling game in the series and it was on the PS2, one of the highest selling consoles of all time.
@@orlanzo2621 Actually Sega of America tried pushing Virtua Fighter 1 on 32X hoping it would be the game that will sell 32Xs like hotcakes but we all know how that went.
The fan fuct is that his style is Judo, a style usually associated with good guys, maybe hot headed like Paul Phoenix from Tekken but still good, Goh instead is a sadistic one and use his style in a really ferocious way.
I still love playing this game and if wasn't for this game in the 3D Fighting game genre Tekken,dead or alive,soul calibur etc would never exist if it wasn't for this game period.
@@budgiecat9039you know what else it needs? Cinematics for stories in arcade mode. At least in the final credits. Putting that aside, I feel that a new crop of fighters would be good for VF6. And let's hope that Pai chan can have some techniques from his father since he may not survive in The next game.
Ok, following up on my last comment. There is a bit of a learning curve coming from tekken to virtua fighter but holy cow this game rules!!! I am a lei wulong main mostly in tekken just because I like stances and lei fei from VF has everything I want and more in that regard. Also enjoying brad to since there is no more Bruce Irvin. Highly recommend checking out VF showdown if you have not already
I've for the longest time considered this game to be the last great sequel to a fighting game as unfortunately, I don't think any release after VF5/Final Showdown has made enough steps forward instead of steps back, in terms of ingenuity or fun factor and it's even more apparent after Ultimate Showdown was released because it's the most compelling "new" release I've seen ever since it was released 10 years ago. I really hope that Sega's renewed interest in reviving this innovative series will result in a VF6 in the future, I think it'll be a healthy breath of fresh air that will encourage innovation from its competitors and obviously, I'm hoping to see this channel cover the hypothetical sequel to this masterpiece of a game.
As a guy that mainly plays and prefers 2D fighters. Virtua Fighter is the reason why I got serious into a 3D fighter. I liked DOA but, never got into Tekken. VF4 Evo made it into my top 3 favorite fighting games of all time.
Fighting game devs give their characters the most ridiculous weights. Wolf is waaay more than 225. Same with Mitsurugi being 143 and Evil Ryu being 150 lbs
Exactly Wolf looks like he weigh at least 287 and as far as Ryu I'm glade Capcom changed Ryu weight because nowadays his official Wieght is 187 pounds even though Ryu looks like he weight about 243.
Yeah I thought that, too! I never remembered Goh being particularly good in any aspect on VF4, then I booted him up on VF5, and all of a sudden I'm wrecking shop on EVERYONE! 🥋💪👊
While I usually played characters like Lau or Jeffery, I always appreciated that Akira was the posterboy for the series. It seems like most fighting games tend to feature a character with a more approachable or even 'generic' playstyle, but Akira's guard breaks and high technical skill ceiling was always something I admired. He made for a very good straight-man kind of featured character because of that.
Pretty good watch in understanding each character buildup and teardown. Thank you for the compiled information. Main: Vanessa, Alt: Jacky Dream: Aoi (Just can't ever get the reads and timing right)
With BLASTED Videos like this, You Better hit 100k subs soon! So happy you made these for VF's Comeback. Keep up the great Work that the FGC dosen't deserve but we greatly appreciate.
God this was absolutely perfect! Thank you for this man. Easy to understand and fun to watch. Wish we had a Virtua Fighter Lore guy to match a video this detailed
As long as you're prepared to put in some time in training mode, then there aren't actually any inherently weak characters in the game! 🥋🥊 Jean is my VF5 main man, though, as I'm a Karateka myself. I'm also partial to Goh, as he has improved exponentially since VF4 and is now an all-rounder 🙌
Do not care what anyone says. I love fighting PERIOD! Even if I was to loose I just love the challenge. Anyways I grew up on the very first game and never found a fighter that is even near as good when it comes to being as realistic as it can for a game and strategic as all hell. It is the VF SERIES IS THE BEST FIGHTING GAME PERIOD! OH and I also love the Shaolin vs Wutang game. Theses 2 are the best and not as arcadey as the rest., Thanx for the video. earned my sub and like
Like always, another great video! 👍 and yes definitely agreed with what you said about tier list. I got 5 character in the 27th rank and currently having a lot of fun with Shun-Di. People should play anyone they like and don’t take tier list seriously outside tourneys.
Every Character ranked (Unpopular Opinions) 19. Wolf Hawkfeild (F) 18. Lau Chan (D) 17. Brad Burns (D) 16. Vanessa Lewis (C) 15. Akira Yuki (C) 14. Aoi Umenokoji (C) 13. Jean Kujo (B) 12. Pai Chan (B) 11. Kage Maru (B) 10. Sarah Bryant (A) 9. Lion Rafale (A) 8. Jeffrey Mcwild (A) 7. Goh Hinogami (A) 6. Shun Di (A) 5. Jacky Bryant(A) 4. Eileen (A) 3. Taka Arashi (S) 2. El Blaze (S) 1. Lei-Fi (S) Overall, it really depends on which one you're good at. If you suck at a character, someone out there might be amazing when playing as them, and vise-versa.
I think you're completely wrong and completely right at the same time. haha Wolf is my #2 and you have him 19th?! You make up for it with your #1. Lei-Fei is also my #1! When he moves, the grace in which he does so may be the most beautiful of any fighting game character I've ever seen.
Great video, i just disagree on Kage, i consider him an A tier. I just hope Sega will bring back the saga with a real 6th chapter. It's a shame that the very first 3d fighter didn't get the love he deserved. I like Tekken and Soul Calibur more, but this one is more technical and feel more realistic compared to the others. I replay the 5th chapter every year and i still love it.
So I played through arcade mode with every person I found I got furthest in the game using el blaze so I guess I will have to main him, second was lei fei and third was sumo man
I'd love to see a capoerra user if a new one is made. I'd also appreciate seeing a hapkido practitioner. I'd also prefer them to leave jumping move out like the ascending and descending ariel attacks
To sum up: we got Bajiquan, Aikijutsu, jeet kune do, mma, muay femur, vale tudo, monkey kung fu, northen mantis, North Shaolin Kung Fu, Lucha Libre, Sumo, Pro Wrestling, Judo, French Full Contact Karate, Ninpo Jujutsu, Drunken Fist, Pankration Mizhong Quan and xiao hu yang/yang qi quang
Why are Eileen and Lei Fei like the characters in a journey to the West novel, Eileen's movements resemble those of sun wukong and Lei Fei is dressed like Xuanzhang
I can attest, learning Akira with a view to mastering his move set is indeed immensely satisfying. I consider myself an "intermediate" level player and cannot get a handle on Aoi. Brad is perfect for beginners - IMO. The only thing that bothers me is people's misunderstanding of Jeet Kuen Do - it was not a style/system - it's a fighting philosophy that equates to, "do what works". Anyone selling you a Jeet Kuen Do "system" without the caveat that it is what works for them is being dishonest. Bruce purposely wanted to shift away from the concept of styles, much like Fok Yuen Gaap aka Huo Yuan Chia. I always found it weird that Lau's style was called Tiger/Swallow - it's clearly based on Tiger/Crane of Hung Kuen (Fist) or Hung family boxing. He also switches into Dragon in places which is fundamental to Hung Kuen. Lei Fei's style is based on modernised Wu Shu readily apparent within Shaolin Temple - which despite looking cool - was a minor disappointment for me. If you watch 36th Chamber Of Shaolin's intro, that's a much closer approximation of traditional Shaolin Fu as it was directed by the awesome Lau Kar Leung.
Despite many tekken characters being a rip-off of VF's cast, tekken's characters are so much more interesting in their design than this dollar store action figure shit lol. Better gameplay than tekken tho!
I need VF to be released on Switch and PC. I'm forced to be a Tekken player because that's my only option. Tekken 7 on PC is the only good 3d game I can play.
@@Demon_Aura ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9ym-u3i6Ke8.html They already did that. And it’s pretty up to date (as of the writing of this comment).
@@Demon_Aura those are essentials. Or at the very least, they go into an equal amount of depth there as they do here. If you’re talking individual character breakdowns, those themselves are linked in the description of that video. Sure, some things have changed, but the general game plan and decent buttons of each character should remain unchanged.
@@havocwingplzg vf5 is 15 years old, many capable ppl left sega and AMV how can you be sure they still know how to make a proper fighting game at this point?
@@kain1144 As long as they have a good vision for the game, they can always hire new talent, or even get help from, or re-hire old talent. It might be tough, but for the 3D fighting game market to prosper, we need healthy competition, not monopoly.
