pichy-and-pals

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A Sega rep acknowledged the need for rollback-based netplay in a future VF game and there's speculation about maybe they are actually making a new game at last. It's something the world needs because the Sega fighting game idiom (three buttons, rock/paper/scissors that's actually enjoyable, blue Sega Skies, every sound effect is a jet engine) is sorely missing in a world where the only 3D game allowed to exist is in korean backdash particle overload hell.

The question always pops up: how do you actually make a sequel to VF5: Final Showdown? The game is the culmination of 20 years of careful thought and iteration to make a game with near infinite complexity yet also allows two doofuses to mash 2P and fall off a tiny log raft.

Is it time for metered mechanics? DOA6 imlemented those fairly well, but no. That's adding a layer of strategic thought that gets in the way of VF's simple, clean "just two fighters and where they are in the ring" appeal.

Is it time for an increased Y axis again? Maybe. VF2 and even 3 use jumping in more elaborate ways than 4 and 5 but that leads to the potential of the game either becoming way too focused on vertical keepaway or KOF11 hop normal hell.

I have a proposal: don't do anything.

To the returning roster, that is.

I think it's time to get really fucking stupid, Sega Style. Let's embrace the weird place in the games industry Sega now has as both a legacy company with rich history and a kinda evil and sloppy publisher.

Put in Ryo Hazuki. Give him a Balan top hat on a prison uniform or something.

Put in Kazuma Kiryu. Let him throw a motorbike or whatever like it's Fighting Vipers.

Put in Honey and/or Bahn. Then sell us Rollback Fighting Vipers 2 or something. Hell, put in a Last Bronx character for shits and giggles.

And of course: bring out the biggest guns.

Hatsune Miku.

Sega Hardware Girls.

Carmine from Under Night In-Birth as per French Bread's old April Fool's Day joke.

Hell put in Football Manager or something. Some Persona dweeb to trick The Teens.

I'm saying that in a world of obnoxious Unreal Engine particle hell the path to standing out is to get cleaner and sillier.

Oh and put the Crimson Slasher Shinguji Sakura (wife of Segata Sanshiro who should also be in) in the game while there.


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