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BlazBlue: Central Fiction coming to North America (PS4/PS3)

J

Jimmyfenix

Member
Aksys Games will bring BlazBlue: Central Fiction to PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3 in North America.

The news comes via a pair of Amazon product pages , which lists the following features:

A 40+ hour story mode with fully animated cut scenes pushes the boundaries of fighting game narratives
Epic Aesthetic
Insanely detailed 2D hand drawn sprites coupled with astonishing 3D rendered backgrounds create a world unlike anything you’ve seen before
A packed roster of over 30+ characters new and old battle across 60+ different stages

Aksys Games is holding a panel at 1:00 p.m. ET at MomoCon, where it says it will be “making MAJOR announcements.” This will likely be one of them.
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http://gematsu.com/2016/05/blazblue-central-fiction-coming-north-america

Here is the Amazon Listing

http://www.amazon.com/BlazBlue-Central-Fiction-PlayStation-4/dp/B01G7TX04K/ref=sr_1_1?s=videogames&ie=UTF8&qid=1464358588&sr=1-1&keywords=BlazBlue%3A+Central+Fiction

Update

salromano said:
Well, there ya have it, this winter:

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https://twitter.com/RPGSite/status/736248176269774848
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T

The Yo Tornado

Member
Glad to see they're bringing over the PS3 version. Hopefully they don't release it around the same time as KOFXIV. I don't want to have to ignore one of the two for the other.
 
B

brinstar

Member
Missed out on the last few Blazblue releases, so I'll jump in this one. Hopefully I can parse what the hell is going on in the story by now.
 
Unknown?

Unknown?

Member
The XO version must have done horribly for them to skip it with the next iteration? Then again they've had some only on PlayStation before, maybe this is one of those?
 
P

Phoenix Fang

Banned
NeoMetallix said:
The XO version must have done horribly for them to skip it with the next iteration? Then again they've had some only on PlayStation before, maybe this is one of those?
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BlazBlue is not a big seller for neither of the consoles. Xbox Owners should give up on Japanese games coming to the console since it seems Japanese developers don't seem to care about the system anyway.
 
R

Rymuth

Member
A 40+ hour story mode with fully animated cut scenes pushes the boundaries of fighting game narratives
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Sounds impressive at first until you factor in the Recaps, Teach Me Ms Litchi and the Comedy Routes.

Well, whatever, I can't wait to see how they end this.
 
A

Asd202

Member
No Xbox? Also hoping for confirmation about English dub from the panel for this game and new Guilty Gear.

Rymuth said:
Sounds impressive at first until you factor in the Recaps, Teach Me Ms Litchi and the Comedy Routes.

Well, whatever, I can't wait to see how they end this.
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Wait there doing Guilty Gear style story presentation for BB?
 
K

Korigama

Member
NeoMetallix said:
The XO version must have done horribly for them to skip it with the next iteration? Then again they've had some only on PlayStation before, maybe this is one of those?
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Wouldn't know about US sales, but the Xbox One sales for Chrono Phantasma Extend in Japan were indeed extremely poor.
dragonflys545 said:
After Guilty Gears, I can't go back to BlazBlue.
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Before CPE, I would've agreed (originally burned out on the series with CSII), but I've got room for both Xrd and BB now, even if I'm looking forward to -REVELATOR- more at this point.
 
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salromano

Member
The Aksys panel is happening now, so the official announcement should happen within the hour, but the Amazon pages were updated with placeholder box art. Looks like no Xbox One version this time:

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If anyone wants to follow the panel, RPGSite is live-tweeting: https://twitter.com/RPGSite
 
J

Jotamide

Unconfirmed Member
Really happy that they're still publishing the PS3 version here.
 
N

Neoxon

Junior Member
No Xbox One version in the West is a bit of a surprise, but oh well. Hopefully we'll get a release date, soon.
 
N

Nyoro SF

Member
Going to wait for Shini to save our butts with the PC version like he's done up til now. It's a shame ASW can't concurrently dev for it and that Aksys can't publish it to Steam themselves, but I guess I gotta wait.
 
W

Weebos

Banned
Wait, is this the visual novel, or like a combined story mode of all the games?

EDIT: Or just a totally new Blazblue game?
 
P

Phoenix Fang

Banned
Lostconfused said:
Guilty Gear had some Sony cross promotion going on.

Blazblue was on both Sony's and MS next gen consoles. Still is.

Unless you mean Aksys.
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No I mean Arc System works the developers of BlazBlue and Guilty Gear. Other than BB Chrono Phantasma Extend, they haven't released any of their other game son the Xbox One. They seem to be skipping on developing Blue Fiction for the One as well.
 
M

MQX

Member
Ib4 PQube announces a European release of Central Fiction and also announcing that they will also release a XBO version ;P.
 
G

Guymelef

Member
Phoenix Fang said:
No I mean Arc System works the developers of BlazBlue and Guilty Gear. Other than BB Chrono Phantasma Extend, they haven't released any of their other game son the Xbox One. They seem to be skipping on developing Blue Fiction for the One as well.
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Would be nice to see NPD numbers but I remember how even Vita version was above XBO on Amazon rankings.
 
SoldnerKei

SoldnerKei

Member
I wonder if this time around there will be a noticeable improvement on the ps4 version other than loading times, iirc people say CP's sprites on ps4 looked a bit jagged, also I wonder if they'll have ps3 arcade sticks support like SFV, that would be neat

and so, winter it is, I doubt I will stick with anyone else but Jin & Izayoi, but still wanna try out Nine.
 
K

Korigama

Member
Archon473 said:
Looking forward to Central Fiction EXTEND.
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LambdaTeos said:
Maybe I should wait for CF Extend....
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SliceSabre said:
I would get excited but then they'll just announce EXTEND on the same day the NA game releases and tick me off.
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Sadly, this is what I'm also expecting, and what I'll be holding off for (it's certainly what I waited for with Chrono Phantasma, even after vaguely recalling claims from Arc that they wouldn't pull that again ahead of BBCP's release).
 
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skLaFarebear

Member
SoldnerKei said:
I wonder if this time around there will be a noticeable improvement on the ps4 version other than loading times, iirc people say CP's sprites on ps4 looked a bit jagged, also I wonder if they'll have ps3 arcade sticks support like SFV, that would be neat

and so, winter it is, I doubt I will stick with anyone else but Jin & Izayoi, but still wanna try out Nine.
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Revelator apparently nailed it with the Lab Zero Legacy support drivers, so I would be surprised if Blazblue didn't have it either.
 
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