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11/10/09
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(Before anyone talks about license, heres Arc's's interview about it
[ps3.ign.com]
""We don't have any issue with [licence holder] SEGA." Kidooka assures us, "This year and next year we want to focus on BlazBlue – this is our mission, and we'll maintain Guilty Gear while we're doing that, so we're not abandoning it. Being a small company – less than 100 – and with the arcade market being quite small, it's not feasible to do two games at once.") #blazblue
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Even with 100% signal remote play isn't practical at all. If they're a semi install option to levitate heavy data transfers then my guess is that it wouldn't be so bad. #blazblue
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The worse RP game I played with was Bionic Commando, that was a joke then PJM where the screen is overscanned and if you make it where you can see everything then you can't make up half the things on that game. #blazblue
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Well compared to GGAC certainly. Not too out of the ordinary for a fighting game otherwise. #blazblue
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it appears that if you void the warranty on your psp, by opening it...
you can rip out the "CELL" chip out the ps3 and duct tape it to the chipset inside the psp.
how you think i been playing MGS4 and Uncharted on my way to work?
c'mon man keep up with the times.. #blazblue
11/10/09
Native Screen Resolution of PSP: 480x272
Thank you Captain Obvious. #blazblue
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Then again, I can't say I've played a vs fighting game on the PSP that controlled well.
I'm curious about the PSPGo, is the Dpad better than the phats / slims? #blazblue
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The only 3rd party games that do well on the Wii are those of 1st party franchises (like the Mario and Sonic titles), and big, pre-established brands like Guitar Hero and the usual Capcom/Konami offerings.
One would have to be nuts to think BlazBlue isn't a niche title.
Of course, PSP isn't exactly known for runaway software sales, either, but I'm guessing it will do better than 9k units ;) We'll see. #blazblue
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All I'm offering is a reason for it not being on the Wii. I'm not claiming to have an answer for how smart it was to do the PSP port in the first place, because I really don't know. PSP software sales are still a mystery to me. #blazblue
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excel_excel: Yes it does, you're just jealous! But don't be, I told ya you should get a PSP but nooooo, you wouldn't listen! :P #blazblue
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I said only 1st party brands and big, pre-established 3rd party brands sell. Mario and Sonic has both a major 1st party character (Mario) and a major 3rd party character (Sonic). Do we really need to argue about whether it's technically 1st party or pre-established 3rd party? It technically fits both of the criteria I listed.
Put simply, how the heck does Mario and Sonic's success translate in any way to BlazBlue?
Sure, NMH and Muramasa did "well", relatively speaking. In the larger picture, though, they are a hell of a lot closer to Madworld and Dead Space than they are to any of the top 20 Wii titles. It shouldn't be a surprise that publishers aren't exactly smacking their lips at the thought of emulating NMH's "success".
I realize the Wii gets a lot of hate, and I really don't intend to sound that way. But you gotta be objective, Man. Try to imagine yourself standing in front of a panel of shareholders (who could fire you with the blink of an eye) and giving a pitch spend X dollars to port BlazBlue to the Wii, using NMH and Muramasa sales figures to estimate the ROI. You wouldn't be nervous? #blazblue
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Now the Neo-Geo Pocket Color. . .THATS the epitome of a portable console for arcade games. #blazblue
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and NGPC FTW. #blazblue
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I never said the games are bad. . .just that the system is not conducive to accurate controls.
The only reason I even have those games is because I travel a lot and Im a huge fighting game addict. . .
but trust me. . .when it comes to fighters. . .the PSP controls suck. #blazblue
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Balancing or no balancing?
If it is the latter, then consider me not buying this. By the time this comes out I will be rocking a copy of Continuum Shift. #blazblue
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Jin and Carl can own in the right hands and Jin has few flaws(Carl has an Infinite). Jin also has the most annoying gimmick ever. (This can be overcome with some practice but it will make your first few days very frustrating.).
Tager, Bang and Hakumen do OK against most of the cast, but have extreme difficulty against the top 3.
That pretty much sums it up. It's still a great game, but I wouldn't buy it twice! Once is enough.
It is still very fun, and you can still play it very seriously with few problems. It does have it's flaws ;though chances are you probably won't play at a level where you will notice them too much.
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*starts memorizing Blazblue guides*
Thanks for the info, hopefully bringing it to the PSP will bring with it a few balances though, since they have that opportunity, it'd be a shame not to.
The little time I did spend with the game, I gelled with V-13 pretty well. Of course, I never spent enough time with the game to get familiar enough with it to play competitively though so how does she stack up in that regard? #blazblue
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Don't worry about it then. Have fun beating up old Tager/Rachel player's like me. :P
Nu is probably the easiest of the Beastly 3 to learn. Which is why she has proven to be so popular with a lot of people. #blazblue
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If you're going to let people play as the final boss, you need to do something to them to make them a little bit more beatable. Nu is just a beast. Jin is as bad as Ken except that he has the ability to freeze you. Son of a bitch. That's still nothing on Carl's f'en loop, and sweet baby Jesus, Rachel and Arakune are absolute pains.
Now, if you can fix the balance issues and have some new characters, then I'm all for it. I'd really love to play as Kokonoe, personally.
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You just need to play more
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In fact, it kinda makes it all the more evident when you play the game a lot that about half the cast dominates the other half.
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Besides, you've named almost half the roster. Are you saying that half of the game is overpowered?
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I never said there wouldn't be rebalancing. I'm just saying that it NEEDS it.
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You can't judge the overpoweredness of anything at your level, which, no offense, is pretty obvious considering the radical things you're saying.
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Also, Guilty Gear is the most balanced fighter previous to BlazBlue? Who the hell was Sol Badguy? Did I imagine Slayer? I always thought Guilty Gear was one of the most unbalanced fighters out there, save Marvel vs Capcom 2.
09/24/09
When fighters have tier lists set up and their balance gauged, it's done via the efforts of the top players - the people that can best use all of their character's abilities. Balance is thus gauged based on the potential the character has, not the amount the average player can elicit.
At lower levels of play, balance is going to be different than those playing at a higher level. But when people talk about the balance of the game, they aren't talking about lower levels, because that's an entirely different kind of balance that doesn't take the entire game into account, and hence has to be defined using different terms.
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When I play, it's pretty much at local tournaments, friendly get-togethers or just with the hoi polloi online. From where I'm playing, it's pretty easy to see how characters like Jin and Sol are overpowered.
Yeah, I might not know much of the whole EVO culture, but God knows I will never play any game long enough to stand a chance at such a thing.
Scrubs are players too, ya know. It'd be nice if I could have a good time with a fighter and not have to dedicate 72 hours every week for the rest of my life to practicing at it.
Edit: By the way - which Guilty Gear are we talking about? I kinda lost interest after Guilty Gear X2, because I was starting to see 'Super Street Fighter II X: Grand Master Challenge - For Matching Service' happening all over again.
09/24/09
Certain characters do have some attacks and combinations that are tricky to avoid when you're first starting, but if you focus on beating it, you can find the moves and tactics necessary to get around it, effectively ending the usefulness of that move.
And I guess that's the ultimate balancing factor of lower levels of play: that as long as you want to, you can improve yourself. You don't need to play a ton, but every time you do play, if you focus on a single character and pit yourself against the situations you have trouble with, you'll continuously improve.
Who do you play with? Do you play locally with friends or online? The environment can totally affect how enjoyable it is to play an PvP game.
09/24/09
Pretty much every other character I can think of lacks something that means that they can only be an OTG character, or a long-range character, or something like that.
When I was playing Guilty Gear (Mostly X for Dreamcast and XX for PS2, because those are the only ones I have), I always played as Baiken, Eddie/Zato-1, and Venom. As Eddie/Zato-1, I never looked up his move lists or combos, and yet I still won most matches I played with him as. Just press buttons and magic happens. As Venom, I was pretty good with him, but that was the result of a lot of research on combos and such. As Baiken, even though about 75% of the time I did play or research Guilty Gear it was focusing on her, I had to be insanely better than my opponent to win with her.
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