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Varion · Jul 15, 2010

luka said:
Immediate impressions: Cutscene animation quality is bleh.

Did they at least do a decent job of encoding the video this time? CT's was awfully done, random interlacing and the like everywhere.

As for Kotoko, she's always been really hit and miss for me, and more often miss than hit. Still does songs I like occasionally, but more often than not it's miss after miss. I'd rather have instrumental Ishiwatari openings too to be honest.

Beth Cyra · Jul 15, 2010

luka said:
Dunno, her songs are all starting to sound the same these days, and her BBCS theme really isn't particularly great by any measure. I still like some of her older stuff a lot, but it feels like she's never trying anything outside of her 'comfort zone.'

Ah, thanks for the response. I don't know, I will have to wait till it comes out over here before I can give my opinion.

Sometimes I think she nails it with stuff like Re-Sublimity, Agony, Face of Fact and then others I just hear it and hope to god I never have to sit through it again.

SolarPowered · Jul 15, 2010

luka said:
A GREAT SUCCESS

Today is a good day!

I never had in an in depth look at the character art and I wasn't interested in the new characters as much so I didn't notice Tsubaki's cap/hat.

Is Tsubaki wearing a wing cap from Mario 64?

*rubs eyes*

Beth Cyra · Jul 15, 2010

SolarPowered said:
I never had in an in depth look at the character art and I wasn't interested in the new characters as much so I didn't notice Tsubaki's cap/hat.

Is Tsubaki wearing a wing cap from Mario 64?

*rubs eyes*

Don't forget the eye in th middle as well haha.

SolarPowered · Jul 15, 2010

TruePrime said:
Don't forget the eye in th middle as well haha.

Yeah, it actually makes her character design even more interesting. I can't wait to see how she and all the new characters match up to my main and who will dominate in the tournaments and online match ups.

I don't really care much about anyone else though. I'm just really excited about playing with a tweaked Bang. I've been playing BB:CT regularly again in anticipation and I haven't lost my touch at all which makes the wait even more unbearable.

I just pre-ordered my copy on Amazon for a cheap $36.

Beth Cyra · Jul 15, 2010

SolarPowered said:
Yeah, it actually makes her character design even more interesting.

I don't really care much about anyone else though. I'm just really excited about playing with a tweaked Bang. I've been playing BB:CT regularly again in anticipation and I haven't lost my touch at all which makes the wait even more unbearable.

I just pre-ordered my copy on Amazon for a cheap $36.

Damn you if you still have any skills at all, I was extremely terrible, still am. I can't move with the damn stick and it pisses me off.

That said I played a little BB and couldn't do crap, so I put it back down so I could wait till CS comes out and play the story mode while people beat the shit out of me online.

It is going to be awesome, I can't wait.

-DarKaoZ- · Jul 15, 2010

For the love of god... DO NOT watch the "TODAY ON THE SPOT" episode with BBCS been demo...

Well at least now I know Arakune is a bunch of Bacteria who decided to enter the tournament and put a mask on. :lol

Beth Cyra · Jul 15, 2010

-DarKaoZ- said:
For the love of god... DO NOT watch the "TODAY ON THE SPOT" episode with BBCS been demo...

Well at least now I know Arakune is a bunch of Bacteria who decided to enter the tournament and put a mask on. :lol

Major spoilers?

QisTopTier · Jul 15, 2010

SolarPowered said:
I don't really care much about anyone else though. I'm just really excited about playing with a tweaked Bang. I've been playing BB:CT regularly again in anticipation and I haven't lost my touch at all which makes the wait even more unbearable.

I dropped CS bang for a reason, mashing 5a looks lame as hell. They took away his guard impact abilty to jump on block too. So the only trick he has really is MASH JABS, toss random high low... MASH MORE JABS oh shit something hit 5K COMBOOOOOOO :lol

-DarKaoZ- said:
For the love of god... DO NOT watch the "TODAY ON THE SPOT" episode with BBCS been demo...

Well at least now I know Arakune is a bunch of Bacteria who decided to enter the tournament and put a mask on. :lol

That shit made me laugh so damn hard, I was like wtf are they talking about... wait there is a tournament? :lol :lol :lol

-DarKaoZ- · Jul 15, 2010

TruePrime said:
Major spoilers?

Major waste of time is more like it.

QisTopTier said:
That shit made me laugh so damn hard, I was like wtf are they talking about... wait there is a tournament? :lol :lol :lol

In my case I just did a facepalm, I can't believe they are putting this guy on screen to sell the game. :lol

Seriously... wtf where they thinking?

Beth Cyra · Jul 15, 2010

-DarKaoZ- said:
Major waste of time is more like it.

In my case I just did a facepalm, I can't believe they are putting this guy on screen to sell the game. :lol

Seriously... wtf where they thinking?

Well then I will just stick to watching some kick ass Tsubaki vids till it comes out.

luka · Jul 15, 2010

Unlimited Hazama is an ASSHOLE.

QisTopTier · Jul 15, 2010

-DarKaoZ- said:
In my case I just did a facepalm, I can't believe they are putting this guy on screen to sell the game. :lol

Seriously... wtf where they thinking?

For the most part he didn't even understand the game mechanics. LOL I liked when he asked how does it compare to street fighter. I would of been like. IT DOESN'T PLAY ANYTHING LIKE IT AT ALL. At least he mentioned that all the characters play hella different from each other.

luka said:
Unlimited Hazama is an ASSHOLE.

How's those kicks to the face feeling?

SolarPowered · Jul 15, 2010

QisTopTier said:
I dropped CS bang for a reason, mashing 5a looks lame as hell. They took away his guard impact abilty to jump on block too. So the only trick he has really is MASH JABS, toss random high low... MASH MORE JABS oh shit something hit 5K COMBOOOOOOO :lol

I'm not worried about that. I'm the most unconventional Bang you'll ever see. I don't even know what the hell I'm doing sometimes and I don't even know what 5a means, but I pull out some pretty trippy combos. Conventional cookie cutter combos are not a part of my repertoire and they're certainly not what makes the best Bangs shine.

I don't need to worry that much as long as I can mix things up and I've still got my nails. Anything new is just going to be fun for me regardless and I can't complain much about the changes if they've made him top dog.:lol

-DarKaoZ- said:
For the love of god... DO NOT watch the "TODAY ON THE SPOT" episode with BBCS been demo...

Well at least now I know Arakune is a bunch of Bacteria who decided to enter the tournament and put a mask on. :lol

I'm loading this so that I can see it for myself.

TruePrime said:
Damn you if you still have any skills at all, I was extremely terrible, still am. I can't move with the damn stick and it pisses me off.

That said I played a little BB and couldn't do crap, so I put it back down so I could wait till CS comes out and play the story mode while people beat the shit out of me online.

It is going to be awesome, I can't wait.

I've never seen someone so hyped to get their ass kicked

Joking haha

. Hit me up on it if you get the 360 version and we'll have some good games.

cnet128 · Jul 15, 2010

My copy of the game finally arrived today. Only Story Mode chapter I've done so far is Ragna's, but I can already see that the comment about effort going into the comedy paths was justified XD

The ghost-dream in general was rather entertaining, but especially Nu XD It was a nice little surprise to see her again, incidentally, even in such an, er, interesting role =p

The actual storyline seems interesting enough, as well. Getting the same satisfying feeling of piecing together information as in the first game, which is always a good thing.

...Meanwhile, I needed to change Arcade Mode settings to single-round to complete it with Ragna >.< Playing on Hard, as I did in the first game. Dear lord, Hazama can be every bit as much of a bitch as Nu ever was. Or maybe I just suck.

SolarPowered · Jul 15, 2010

The guy on the "Today on the spot" show couldn't be more off when talking about this game. His Arakune is also not very good.

:lol

-DarKaoZ- · Jul 15, 2010

SolarPowered said:
The guy on the "Today on the spot" show couldn't be more off when talking about this game. His Arakune is also not very good.

:lol

We told ya. :lol

luka · Jul 15, 2010

Varion said:
Did they at least do a decent job of encoding the video this time? CT's was awfully done, random interlacing and the like everywhere.

Well, I didn't immediately notice rampant interlacing and proceed to vomit all over my screen like I did the first time I saw BBCT, so I'm going to say it was improved in that regard. I'll have to watch it again more closely.

Update: Yeah, there is definitely interlacing. It's a bit harder to notice this time because the encode seems blurrier and there isn't as much vertical motion.

QisTopTier said:
How's those kicks to the face feeling?

Wonderful. Thanks for asking.

Beat him after about 14 tries. God.

cnet128 said:
My copy of the game finally arrived today. Only Story Mode chapter I've done so far is Ragna's, but I can already see that the comment about effort going into the comedy paths was justified XD

The ghost-dream in general was rather entertaining, but especially Nu XD It was a nice little surprise to see her again, incidentally, even in such an, er, interesting role =p

The actual storyline seems interesting enough, as well. Getting the same satisfying feeling of piecing together information as in the first game, which is always a good thing.

...Meanwhile, I needed to change Arcade Mode settings to single-round to complete it with Ragna >.< Playing on Hard, as I did in the first game. Dear lord, Hazama can be every bit as much of a bitch as Nu ever was. Or maybe I just suck.

We both suck.

I'm going to delve into story mode later tonight. Looking forward to it.

EDIT: I gotta add that installing the game makes an ENORMOUS difference. It's essentially arcade-fast now.

cnet128 · Jul 15, 2010

Yeah, the loading times (or rather, lack of) are rather nice with the install.

One little thing that bugs me is that unlike the first game, it seems to default to the region of the PS3 with regard to accept/cancel button mappings, and I can't find any way to change it, so I'm stuck with silly Western X = accept controls this time around, which is a little disorienting. If there is a way to change that and I'm just missing it somehow, please let me know >.< Otherwise, I guess I'll get used to it...

Beth Cyra · Jul 15, 2010

cnet128 said:
Yeah, the loading times (or rather, lack of) are rather nice with the install.

One little thing that bugs me is that unlike the first game, it seems to default to the region of the PS3 with regard to accept/cancel button mappings, and I can't find any way to change it, so I'm stuck with silly Western X = accept controls this time around, which is a little disorienting. If there is a way to change that and I'm just missing it somehow, please let me know >.< Otherwise, I guess I'll get used to it...

I have imported so many things over the last year that X sometimes gives me trouble as enter and I am an westerner which is crazy.

Really killed me in XIII, I played through the JPN copy and it took me like 3 hours of messing up the damn imputs before I finally started to get back in the groove of X being enter. Problem is I turned around and started playing Super Robot Wars Alpha 2, so X is already cancel again to me.

cnet128 · Jul 15, 2010

Well, I've got used to adjusting between X=accept and Circle=accept depending on what I'm playing at the time. Since my first Sony consoles were the PS2 and PSP I bought while out in Japan, though, Circle as accept will always be more natural as far as I'm concerned. Add to that the fact that BlazBlue is a very Japanese game that I'm playing in the Japanese language and I used the Japanese button layout for the whole of the first game, it just feels kind of wrong to be forced into X=accept for this one.

But eh, I can deal.

Fugu · Jul 15, 2010

QisTopTier said:
I dropped CS bang for a reason, mashing 5a looks lame as hell. They took away his guard impact abilty to jump on block too. So the only trick he has really is MASH JABS, toss random high low... MASH MORE JABS oh shit something hit 5K COMBOOOOOOO :lol

Bang is my least favourite matchup in CS. It's not because it's a 50-50 matchup (Lol Litchi), it's because CS Bang gives new meaning to the term "safe on block". That and two of his supers combo together (full bar = instant 3-4k added to the end of your combo). He's not that difficult I guess (his mixups really aren't that extensive and it's a pretty easy matchup to learn) but facing The Jab King is about as much fun as it sounds.

SolarPowered · Jul 15, 2010

Fugu said:
Bang is my least favourite matchup in CS. It's not because it's a 50-50 matchup (Lol Litchi), it's because CS Bang gives new meaning to the term "safe on block". That and two of his supers combo together (full bar = instant 3-4k added to the end of your combo). He's not that difficult I guess (his mixups really aren't that extensive and it's a pretty easy matchup to learn) but facing The Jab King is about as much fun as it sounds.

Do you have any example vids?

I'm going to search for a few myself, but I'm getting ready for work and I'd like to keep my job.

I want to see what exactly they've changed about him on video since I'll never understand it a technical(written) way.

The Take Out Bandit · Jul 15, 2010

TruePrime said:
Major spoilers?

How do you spoil a fighting game?

Seriously guys, "RYU DID A HADOOKEN AND SAGAT GOT HIT! AND THEN SAGAT HAD A SCAR! AND THEN HE FOUGHT RYU AGAIN AND AGAIN!" </Fighting Game Story>

The world would be a better place if they just release all fighters at $20 with online play and no bullshit. PLAY GAMES! >:|

LegatoB · Jul 15, 2010

SolarPowered said:
Do you have any example vids?

I'm going to search for a few myself, but I'm getting ready for work and I'd like to keep my job.

I want to see what exactly they've changed about him on video since I'll never understand it a technical(written) way.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BX9PDzOkn4

Start taking notes now, and enjoy discovering that you've been playing Sagat (comparatively speaking) all along and not noticing.

cnet128 · Jul 15, 2010

The Take Out Bandit said:
How do you spoil a fighting game?

Seriously guys, "RYU DID A HADOOKEN AND SAGAT GOT HIT! AND THEN SAGAT HAD A SCAR! AND THEN HE FOUGHT RYU AGAIN AND AGAIN!" </Fighting Game Story>

The world would be a better place if they just release all fighters at $20 with online play and no bullshit. PLAY GAMES! >:|

Er, well, BlazBlue is hardly your average fighting game when it comes to story. The story is a major selling point of the games. I know it's a huge part of the reason I was so hyped for this sequel. And I recall reading that the game's director takes the approach of introducing playable characters as the story requires, not vice versa.

Infinite Justice · Jul 15, 2010

The Take Out Bandit said:
How do you spoil a fighting game?

I have no idea since they are mostly garbage.

But hey people are sensitive to these things.

While on the topic of story i checked out some for this game and HOLY CRAP arc system works is awesome. :lol :lol :lol

akachan ningen · Jul 15, 2010

Infinite Justice said:
I have no idea since they are mostly garbage.

But hey people are sensitive to these things.

While on the topic of story i checked out some for this game and HOLY CRAP arc system works is awesome. :lol :lol :lol

I know right? Some people even consider it a spoiler if you reveal which characters are in a fighting game. :lol

hxa155 · Jul 15, 2010

Part of the reason I like BlazBlue is because of its story.

luka · Jul 15, 2010

パンダさんを離しなさい！
パンダさんを離しなさい！
パンダさんを離しなさい！
パンダさんを離しなさい！
パンダさんを離しなさい！
パンダさんを離しなさい！
パンダさんを離しなさい！
パンダさんを離しなさい！
パンダさんを離しなさい！
パンダさんを離しなさい！

Kimosabae · Jul 15, 2010

Can someone update me on what's happening with the Guilty Gear Series? Please don't tell me we'll never see another GG game developed by ArcSys. My heart couldn't take it.

akachan ningen · Jul 15, 2010

Kimosabae said:
Can someone update me on what's happening with the Guilty Gear Series? Please don't tell me we'll never see another GG game developed by ArcSys. My heart couldn't take it.

prepare yourself...

Kimosabae · Jul 15, 2010

akachan ningen said:
prepare yourself...

http://www.nooooooooooooooo.com/

*edit*

Seriously, what happened? It's not that I don't like BlazBlue's gameplay, but I HATE the game's aesthetics. I just kind of... tolerate it when I decide to play it. I love GGs characters, and I never really got a chance to get into the series ;_;

Coeliacus · Jul 15, 2010

The Take Out Bandit said:
How do you spoil a fighting game?

Seriously guys, "RYU DID A HADOOKEN AND SAGAT GOT HIT! AND THEN SAGAT HAD A SCAR! AND THEN HE FOUGHT RYU AGAIN AND AGAIN!" </Fighting Game Story>

The world would be a better place if they just release all fighters at $20 with online play and no bullshit. PLAY GAMES! >:|

I imagine a large portion of people who bought CT played through the story mode, and abuse ice car in versus before getting tired of their own shenanigans and playing something else.

akachan ningen said:
prepare yourself...

Whats the bet they announce Accent Core for PSN.
I'm sure they've said there will be more Guilty Gear by the way, it's just unlikely that they'll make it in the style of their traditional fighter.

voodoopanda · Jul 15, 2010

BB games have crazy story modes with multiple paths that can take a while to complete for all the characters. Some people like playing through it, cause they're enjoyable stories that expand on the characters/universe. Hearing spoilers about what happens in said story modes can take a bit of the fun out of it.

akachan ningen · Jul 15, 2010

Kimosabae said:
http://www.nooooooooooooooo.com/

*edit*

Seriously, what happened? It's not that I don't like BlazBlue's gameplay, but I HATE the game's aesthetics. I just kind of... tolerate it when I decide to play it. I love GGs characters, and I never really got a chance to get into the series ;_;

Sega owns it now.

SolarPowered · Jul 15, 2010

LegatoB said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BX9PDzOkn4

Start taking notes now, and enjoy discovering that you've been playing Sagat (comparatively speaking) all along and not noticing.

Everything after the corner airthrow(2:20 and onwards) is fracking ridiculous. The damage he deals out on a 8 hit combo is just incredible. He also seems way more repetitive than before. I just can't get over some of the crazy and unavoidable combos he has involving the throws goddamn!

Now I feel bad about using Bang as my main. :/

He still ain't no Sagat though

luka said:
パンダさんを離しなさい！
パンダさんを離しなさい！
パンダさんを離しなさい！
パンダさんを離しなさい！
パンダさんを離しなさい！
パンダさんを離しなさい！
パンダさんを離しなさい！
パンダさんを離しなさい！
パンダさんを離しなさい！
パンダさんを離しなさい！

Hands off the panda!

Edit:
After thinking it over a little. I think Bang's grab combos are now even more fearsome than Tager's stuff.:lol

ultim8p00 · Jul 15, 2010

akachan ningen said:
The new level looks amazing, like tsubaki's level.

Riiiigght. You were totally posting that for the new level.

Beth Cyra · Jul 15, 2010

The Take Out Bandit said:
How do you spoil a fighting game?

Seriously guys, "RYU DID A HADOOKEN AND SAGAT GOT HIT! AND THEN SAGAT HAD A SCAR! AND THEN HE FOUGHT RYU AGAIN AND AGAIN!" </Fighting Game Story>

The world would be a better place if they just release all fighters at $20 with online play and no bullshit. PLAY GAMES! >:|

I could careless about move sets, I don't think those are spoilers, but what happens between Noel, Tsubaki and Jin during the Visual Novel type scene is a story and wether you deem it worthy or not, having a story does mean that story can be spoiled.

That and I like Tsubaki and I want to know her story so shove off.

Papercuts · Jul 15, 2010

ultim8p00 said:
Riiiigght. You were totally posting that for the new level.

Haha, really. No need to hide the true reason!

LowParry · Jul 15, 2010

TruePrime said:
That and I like Tsubaki and I want to know her story so shove off.

Oh oh I know! She's sent to go stop neo robot Noel from doing bad bad things!

akachan ningen · Jul 15, 2010

Papercuts said:
Haha, really. No need to hide the true reason!

I love that dog! :3

Infinite Justice · Jul 15, 2010

Papercuts said:
Haha, really. No need to hide the true reason!

That dog seems awesome already.

Beth Cyra · Jul 15, 2010

CcrooK said:
Oh oh I know! She's sent to go stop neo robot Noel from doing bad bad things!

Dude/lady I am a fan of the Metal Gear Solid 2 and Final Fantasy VIII storylines, don't think for an instance they couldn't somehow make what you said awesome to me.

LowParry · Jul 15, 2010

TruePrime said:
Dude/lady I am a fan of the Metal Gear Solid 2 and Final Fantasy VIII storylines, don't think for an instance they couldn't somehow make what you said awesome to me.

Don't forget she absorbs light and....dying! -shock-

Beth Cyra · Jul 15, 2010

CcrooK said:
Don't forget she absorbs light and....dying! -shock-

On a more serious not, is this shocking to anyone? I mean there are groups of people that call spoiler when it comes to a snow level in Mario, or characters in a Mario Kart.

Sure the story is dumb but at least I haven't seen anyone in BB say anything on the level as that shit.

The Take Out Bandit · Jul 15, 2010

cnet128 said:
Er, well, BlazBlue is hardly your average fighting game when it comes to story. The story is a major selling point of the games. I know it's a huge part of the reason I was so hyped for this sequel. And I recall reading that the game's director takes the approach of introducing playable characters as the story requires, not vice versa.

Zanken said:
I imagine a large portion of people who bought CT played through the story mode, and abuse ice car in versus before getting tired of their own shenanigans and playing something else.

Whats the bet they announce Accent Core for PSN.
I'm sure they've said there will be more Guilty Gear by the way, it's just unlikely that they'll make it in the style of their traditional fighter.

TruePrime said:
I could careless about move sets, I don't think those are spoilers, but what happens between Noel, Tsubaki and Jin during the Visual Novel type scene is a story and wether you deem it worthy or not, having a story does mean that story can be spoiled.

That and I like Tsubaki and I want to know her story so shove off.

So awesome that GAF can do this shit so wrong. :lol :lol :lol

I'll do my part to keep never playing Story Modes and skipping all intros and cut scenes.

Fighting games are for fighting and the reason I bought CT is because it wasn't hideous 3D, having the best god damned online play in a console fighter was the best bonus ever. Solid online play is why I'm buying the sequel, that and I want to support the remaining 2D game developers.

I'll probably even buy the retarded DLC characters just because I never want 2D sprites to be replaced by garishly shaded polygon models.

Oh and training mode now.

Infinite Justice said:
I have no idea since they are mostly garbage.

But hey people are sensitive to these things.

Fuck those guys!

Versus mode or GTFO! Go back to RPG's weaboos! Fighting games are not safe for you.

Although I do get big lolz from Ishiwatari mouthing off about his story, yadda yadda - world building is not punching shit in the face.

LowParry · Jul 15, 2010

TruePrime said:
On a more serious not, is this shocking to anyone? I mean there are groups of people that call spoiler when it comes to a snow level in Mario, or characters in a Mario Kart.

Sure the story is dumb but at least I haven't seen anyone in BB say anything on the level as that shit.

No really, I'm just making shit up. I have no idea of the plot. :lol

Beth Cyra · Jul 15, 2010

The Take Out Bandit said:
So awesome that GAF can do this shit so wrong. :lol :lol :lol

I'll do my part to keep never playing Story Modes and skipping all intros and cut scenes.

Fighting games are for fighting and the reason I bought CT is because it wasn't hideous 3D, having the best god damned online play in a console fighter was the best bonus ever. Solid online play is why I'm buying the sequel, that and I want to support the remaining 2D game developers.

I'll probably even buy the retarded DLC characters just because I never want 2D sprites to be replaced by garishly shaded polygon models.

Oh and training mode now.

Fuck those guys!

Versus mode or GTFO! Go back to RPG's weaboos! Fighting games are not safe for you.

Although I do get big lolz from Ishiwatari mouthing off about his story, yadda yadda - world building is not punching shit in the face.

I am fairly sure that The BlazBlue team want us to buy the game and they could give a fuck why we do it, they just want there game to sell and not flop.

So I am guessing they do all that work for a reason and it isn't for the wrong one.

Also I may like me some stupid Rpgs and even dumber stories but I don't have to be a weaboo to be an idiot damn it.

akachan ningen · Jul 15, 2010

CcrooK said:
No really, I'm just making shit up. I have no idea of the plot. :lol

Whatever it is, it'll be ridiculous.

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