Its nice to take a break from fighting games, that being said, I can't wait to get back to grinding them during my second half of my vacation, among other single player games.
An old PS2 game that could've benefitted a lot from patches and dlc's if there would've been updates to games back then would've been Jak 3. Game is good, don't get me wrong but I feel that it misses a couple of things that would've made it superior to Jak 2, hell, even to Precursor Legacy, like a spot that acts like a maze + tough platforming where you have to use all of your acquired skills many times, old and new.
....and some people were hoping that Sol would have a Dragon Install by the time Arc released Strive. Good thing that he doesn't have it, otherwise he'd be sending health bars to the shadow realm. If he would've activated DI in round 1 and he would've gotten a hit on his opponent, then the game should've just gave the Sol player the w for round 2 as well.
Thought about the way SE set up the events for a potential FFX-3. Instead of the novel it would've been better if they just somehow set us up to venture outside of Spira in order to save Tidus permanently instead of us potentially having to go through Sin again, repeating the same thing that we did in FFX.
There is a chance that VF5US will sooner or later come to Xbox, Switch and more importantly, PC. I do hope that in the near future Persona 4 Arena Ultimax will come to these consoles and PC/Steam as well, that would be another good fighting game that would benefit a lot from it not being only on 7th gen consoles.
If Aria/Jack-O ends up being a dlc character in Strive and she's going to receive major gameplay changes that'll make her interesting and fun, then GGST might be the 2nd game that'll make me switch from a main I've been playing ever since I've gotten into a FG series, in a way it'd be ironic too, the first game that made me change mains was Blazblue, another ArcSys game.
No rollback unfortunately but what the hell, its free with PS Plus and its a great game, everyone who hasn't played VF5 or any VF game for that matter should pick it up and at the very least try it out for a couple of days.
I wish that lobbies in fighting games had an option to go into practice mode instead of spectating a match. Once the players are done I'd get a pop-up notification that it's my turn to play, this way I wouldn't have to leave or close a lobby just to remind myself of the main tools and moves that x character that I haven't played in a long time has at disposal and reminding myself the scenarios in which to use them.
Interesting, there is a chance that Square and TN are not done working on projects together if the rumors about FF Origins are proven to be true in a couple of weeks/months. From the look of things it'd be an action focused FF game, probably something like Nioh or Ninja Gaiden, either way an Alpha demo is rumored to be coming this summer so we'll find out sooner or later whether this'll be a thing or not.
Well, I've been thinking of trying out Honkai in order to play the character that resembles the Unknown God the most but with Keqing and Fischl coming to HI3 soon, I may have to start playing it this weekend.
Striving to make the online experience better for players all around the world now with more online tournaments and events than before would help fighting games out in the long run since majority of the players who play these games very rarely go to offline tournaments, still, most delay-based netcodes these days are better than what way older games like SCIV or MKvDC had, now those games had terrible netcodes.
It would be nice to create some Genshin content in the future but I just don't know what type of videos I'd like to make for it that'd feel somewhat original, since there are all sorts of videos regarding the game on YT, guides, stream compilations, meme videos, challenge videos, you name it. Guess I'll have to figure out later down the line.
I still find it amazing how Sony didn't bother to make the PS5 controllers work on PS4, especially now that it is getting harder and harder to find official DS4 controllers in shops. I can get somewhat cheap controllers to use for single player games but I highly doubt they'll be any good for fighting games, its like they think that everyone has a PS5 at home by now even if they didn't make many of them or something.
Wonder when will ASW have more than 1 costume to choose from for almost all of the characters in a game than weren't already used before like Elphelt's SIGN costume or Noel's old lieutenant costume. Weapon skins were the furthest they've gotten with Granblue Fantasy Versus but that game doesn't really count.
Virtua Fighter 5 might be coming to last gen consoles, which is getting me excited a bit. I tried to find someone online on the PS3 version of the game but it was more dead than 5LR on PC, hopefully it coming to PS4/5, Xbox X/Series X and Steam (with rollback ofc) will revitalize the game and series, especially since a lot of people would like to play and try out a VF game it seems.
It is confirmed that you'll be able to redownload your games to your PS3, even the ones obtained for free with PS+, that is reassuring. If there's something that you'd like to get from the PS3 store then you'd better do it soon, you won't be able to after July 2nd.