well as someone who knows members of staff who made the game, I would never, ever accuse them of being lazy, they worked their asses off.

why do you think almost all characters have either next to no hair or have it tied / short? if it's one character out of a roster of many, do you think they would redo the the collision system, or spend exorbitant amounts of time rejigging the the engine for one character?

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its Lyoto "The Dragon" Machido to you sir. lol

and he just won the belt kiddo, he isn't the best yet. i think Fedor Emelianenko would like a word with you.

@TomyDingo: your comment was pure win. you can tell he was ina rush to get his comment in :P

back on topic,

im pissed that Clay did not make the game. how could they have UFC classic fights without having the

Clay Guida v. Roger Huerta war.

Roger Huerta went on to be the first MMA fighter featured on the cover of SI.

and plus Clay is the king of cardio.

a shame really. Toasticus is right... long hair is a mortal enemy videogame developers.

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How realistic do the characters in those Japanese fighting games look?

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I think this was a smart choice by the dev's but don't get me wrong - they are lazy mofo's in general.

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Secondly - "Read a few threads above, where the guys who actually know about game development were discussing why the devs are NOT lazy."

I have 2 degree's, 1 in Software Engineering and another in Computer Games Production. I am more than qualified to comment on how lazy some developers are and believe me THQ/Yukes as a combination in general are pretty bad developers. If you read what I said though - you will see I was defending their design choice to leave him and his hair out of the game. I think that was a smart move and had nothing to do with them being lazy or not.

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well played sir.

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If they can't get the collision mesh to work with big hair then either the engine is flawed or the devs are. I will guarantee you that there is a fix for this and that it wasn't implemented because it risked ship date.

I find it funny that you don't think I have a right to an opinion on video game design just because, in your opinion, I am not as talented or skilled as the THQ devs, have you worked alongside me or a THQ dev? If not I find it amusing that you think you know about both myself and THQ devs just from reading a one line post on a blog site. Before you go throwing around insults maybe you should try to rein in your hipocrisy.

As for moviegoers, almost all movie critics of note are moviegoers with little to no box office success to their name yet are still able to make statements about the level of skill and effort that went into making a film.

If in my opinion a "design choice" was made because it was easier than actually fixing what was broken, I reserve the right to express that opinion.

You're welcome to disagree and I'm happy to take some of woons assertions into consideration when assessing my opinion, but whining at me about how I don't understand dev's does nothing to further the discussion.

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I've seen plenty of 3D fighters with insane hair - Bloody Roar and Battle Arena Toshinden being two I can think of off the top of my head. The only thing that can limited a dev team the size of THQ is their lack of ambition, which they have clearly shown.

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