im glad to see that he is excited to see what we will say about the demo

This guy gets on my nerves when starts talking about "fighting entertainment". Dunno why, tho..

He looks really smug in that photo.

I always find it strange that people will point straight to DoA when talking about sex in FGs...when SCIV is right there. I'm unsure of whether I want to get NG3 for the demo, never been an NG fan...but I want to play DoA >_<

gamestop has a 7 day return police full money back. You can always get the game download the demo and take it back, now that is if you dont need the disk to play the game. I laugh about this cuz a gamestop employ told me do so that with the borderlands disk

SF4 revived fighting games?? WTF is he talking about? SF4 only revived the SF re-re-release mania from the 90s.

Granted, even though there is a sex selling aspect in the SC series (Taki, then Ivy), the game can still be looked at for its gameplay primarily... Not every female character was a "sex advertisement" per sé, so it didn't make take away from the main core of the game which was the gameplay itself and the style of play that it presented (8wr, GI, ringouts, air control, short combos, etc)... The same can be said about other games as well, such as VF5, KOF XIII, even Senko no Ronde. There's a bit of sex, but it doesn't overshadow the whole game, because you don't play a fighter primarily for TnA (although that could be a bonus for some people). You play for it's fighting engine, and/or story for the most part (this might be debatable for some though)...

DOA on the other hand, every female could be considered "sex advertisements", even though the gameplay was generally good... This aspect took away the focus of the game itself, so much that it kinda dumbs the game down to a mashfest, and no one really knows what the game is about underneath it all, because people only see what's "up front", or "on top" rather...

DOA5 has a chance to get rid of all of that, and put itself out there as a solid fighter... I think it did that with DOA3, but because it was on the xbox, and not ps2, not too many people got the chance to see that, especially considering the fact that many were skeptical of the xbox at that time. The 360 got alot of recognition, but by that time DOA4 wasn't what DOA3 was in terms of gameplay and the overall feel of the game, so I think it went back into that slump that it was in when it was first released on the Saturn...

Don't mean to double post, but this is so true... I've never been under the impression that SF4 revived fighting games. Why??? Here's several reasons:

VF5
DOA4
GGXXAC
Battle Fantasia
Senko no Ronde
KOF XI
NGBC
Bleach DS
T5DR
KOFNW
Samsho Tenkaichi Kenkukaden
Melty Blood: Act Cadenza
Dungeon Fighter
etc... The list goes on

There were so many games that came out during the said "drought of fighting games" that I don't agree with the whole SF resurrection... The only thing they resurrected was sales in SF only... Sure, it made other companies hop on the FG hype train, but I'm sure they would've done the same thing with or without SF4...

the only people who call it a drought are the cashcom dick riders. There community is so large that they are the majority so they tend to have the say so when it comes to these type of things

It's because of Battle Fantasia that SF4 came out looking that way... This is something that alot of people don't realize... If it weren't for this game, who knows what SF4 would've looked like...

I still feel like alot of these games would have came out though... I mean SNK had pretty good success with XI... Besides, KOF is like soccer (fútbol)... It's popular everywhere else but America (pre-XIII)...

Battle Fantasia could've gotten some recognition, but it ended up being "underground" for a few reasons:

1. (casual) game reviewers - I'm pretty sure not one single reviewer of this game knew anything about it enough to say good things about the game... These are probably the same people who gave SF4 a 10/10 despite the flaws in the game, from the balancing to netcode...

2. lackluster netcode - ...because nowadays only "great" games have "great" netcode... But wait, SF4 didn't have great netcode from jump, nor did MvC3... "Ah it's ok, they're Capcom games"... smh

3. it's an Arcsys game - Sadly, I don't expect to see tons of people bombarding xbla and psn for the online version of GGXXAC+... Sales might be ok, but it's not gonna be on a "omg its sf" level... Even Persona Arena, which is banking on catching not just the FGC, but RPG heads alike, probably won't reach "Vanilla SF4 greatness" in terms of sales...

One thing that Capcom does have over many of these companies: Marketing and Hype!!! They know how to sell an empty cardboard box, and make people think it's a friggin tank with the most up-to-date technology. Then when people realize it's just a box, Capcom just goes and says "DLC coming soon" and the hype is regurgitated, and wallets get pillaged once more... These other companies barely advertise, and when they do, it's very little... This is partly the reason why games like KOF and VF got(get) no love here in the states...

Capcom marketed nostalgia and a name, and they're milking it dry... Give it another 10-15 years from now, and the cycle will happen again... 09ers will remember SF4 and go out and buy the next iteration of SF, whether it's ridiculously dumbed down, or actually technical and challenging (I wish)...

If there was such a thing as a drought, we the FGC created it... That's another discussion altogether though...

There's no shame in admitting that SF4 made fighting games relevant to the Western casual masses again. Before it came along, the only fighting game that really got much in the way of Western attention and grossed millions was Soulcalibur 4 in 2008. Everything else did more to cater to the longstanding niche that was always there. And since none of them had a Capcom logo or Ryu in it, you can only expect so much from the Western audience.

So, I'll give SF4 credit, where credit is due. But that's about all I think is necessary.

Thanks for the tip. Posting this on SRK.

The only way he can make the female characters more compelling is writing VERY good in-game stories for them and giving them endings that showcase their personality.

It basically sounds like he's focusing on stage mechanics, rather than character mechanics. Different properties for close range wall splat, and long range wall splat? Or maybe I'm reading too much into it.

If he's going to include VF characters he might as well take a few notes from VF and include some kind of in-depth tutorial. Most of the time, DOA games have a decent training mode, but improvements on that don't take much.

I agree on the tutorial part, they should provide some depth to it. They did this somewhat with DOA:D in Chronicle Mode where they gave you an in-game tutorial about the game's basic mechanics, but they can definitely take it a step further.

Personally, I'd rather they focus on adding layers of genuine depth to the game first, before worrying about putting a deep tutorial in the game. A tutorial can wait for DOA5: Ultimate (or whatever the followup will be).

Well for the Sparring Mode, coming from Dimensions, we have the returning frame data. That alone is a great addition to the mode.

As long as I get frame data like I did from DoAD I don't really care what else they do with sparring mode.