Kai Dracon
Writing a dinosaur space opera symphony
Kintaro said:VF5's woes outside of Japan are due to the style/characters imho. Not the balance.
Which is pretty weird, compared to Tekken. I mean.. it's TEKKEN. The game with a range of weird to the point of sometimes creepy asian stereotypes, and Tekken's odd "supermarionation" modeling and animation. But the Americans, they lurves it.
Sometimes, I think VF's biggest single weak spot outside Japanese audiences is its... classic... voice acting. You can hear a Virtua Fighter character a mile away, and to native English ears, the english speakers like Jacky and Lion sound god damn retarded. To fans, it's classic and funny; hell, even I like it and get a laugh out of it.
Must seem extremely lame to the uninitiated however.