NEW Virtua Fighter

All of these new games have been some of the worst kept secrets going. I'm amazed people are still surprised by them.

 

I'm not actually surprised that this is happening. They did do a souped-up re-release of 5 a while back.

 

My thoughts exactly, in fact I could have sworn we already had confirmation of them doing new VF like twice before now.

It's welcome though! Bring it on.

 

It's nice to have it confirmed officially (well sort of)

 

So I know people stopped paying attention to this because of the VF5 announcement, but it looks like VF6 is still coming. There's been some commotion about how Sega has very quietly gone around DMCA striking leaked scans from the first time this came around, which basically confirms they were right. Nobody really payed attention, but Sega scrubbing those scans from the internet has made people take a second look... and the stuff they're talking about sounds wild. Like a full on Mortal Kombat-style cinematic story mode, and a 4-player Arena battle mode. Sounds extremely cool.

 

I think someone at SEGA gave a vague hint on Twitter years back. But it looks for all the world that SEGA is now working on a VF6.
It's so nice to see SEGA go back to its classic IP and give them a big-budget sequel. Hope we also get an Arcade version in Japan too

It amazes me how good VF5 characters still look, but the backgrounds look really weak now. So really hoping SEGA Japan go to town for VF6 backdrops

 

Launching.... tomorrow? Just announced at The Game Awards.

 

In terms of the new-old Sega franchise games I've basically only been focused on the new JSR so I had no idea this was a thing or that RGG was behind it

 

Even though I don't play VF that much, I'm glad to see it return in full force. Pure 3D fighting is what this genre needs.

 

Nice to see SEGA making a new VF. Looks really good too form the short clip

 

I hope that means RGG will be involved with more future SEGA IPs revival.

 

Decided to finally check out what people have been saying about the new VF and apparently people are worried they're going to add meters to VF6? And this is based off of seeing a meter in a short blurry video? Just wanted to say that VF5 Revo displays ranking exp as a meter during the fights, which perhaps people were confused about. Those meters aren't for gameplay features, it's about how close you are to upgrading your rank in the kumite.

I don't think VF would really start to fuck with a global meter system for ex moves or comeback mechanics or any of that stuff because VF really doesn't need it. But all that said, I just wanted to point out that VF has had "Metered" moves since VF2: Shun is a character built around meters. More and more of his moveset opens up the more drunk he gets, and you use moves to make him drink. He's the very definition of metered gameplay, because you don't have all the options he has in his set open at the beginning of the round.

Not to mention VF has never been shy about having odd characters that change drastically how stuff works. Rent-a-hero, for example, working completely differently when he's in suit vs out of suit and having a *reverse* meter mechanic, where he gets weaker and loses moves as the fight goes on and his battery drains.

I sincerely don't think anybody has anything to worry about VF6 radically changing the core gameplay with meters or anything that would feel out of place. If meters do show up, I very much would expect them to be a single character gimmick.

 

We don't know how leveling works in VF6, how the kumite system works, or what rank will do, so there is every bit of a reason to believe those meters could be a constant and important thing with regards to the structure of the single player/tournament mode but not have anything to do with the actual match. Coming in thinking that VF6 will have comeback mechanics is describing a wholly different kind of game from VF.

Further, the original leak talked about a 4-player battle mode but never went into detail about how it worked. I'd much be quicker to believe those are tag life bars than a meter to build up, precisely because of how VF works.

 

They describe it as being "Completely cinematic" and the behind the back transition into the fight is very much like how Mortal Kombat does things, which lines up with the leak saying this would have a cinematic style story mode. OMFG this is one of the few "modern" things I would completely welcome to Virtua Fighter, VF's story can get batshit crazy.

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The full video is insane, if they can pull this off it'll be incredible