Virtua Fighter Thread

[OrionP]

I've played them all, but the first 3 were only really playing through arcade mode.

When 4 came out I played with a group of friends and REALLY got into it. Now it's one of my favourite game series. Best fighting game series out there IMO.

 

[SuperSampleStar]

My first VF game was actually the Sega Genesis VF2 game. I had a Sega Channel at the time, so that's how I was able to experience it. I missed out on the 32X port of VF1, but eventually I did get a Saturn with VF2. Shortly after I got VF1 and I honestly enjoy that more than VF2, mostly for the music and how amazingly good it is.

 

[TamagotchiTamaHero24's icon TamagotchiTamaHero24 TamagotchiTamaHero24]

HOW DID I MISS MY PEOPLE!?

I’m a more recent VF head, but I’ve fallen totally in love with VF 2 and now VF 3tb. The best battles in Virtua Fighter feel like an equal bout between two martial artists with different skill sets.

Also, I saw one of those older SEGAPrize plushes at a used game store near Phoenix, Arizona. It was Lion from VF Kids. That thing was $3 lmao. Get dunked on, Lion. Nobody loves you.

 

[solnK!]

My first contact with VF was with the VF2 port on my sister´s genesis, then I played VF4 vanilla on PS2 but didn´t like it that much, although I really like the UI and the menu´s music.

I can appreciate this franchise better now, I love how realistic the character´s movements are, it shows how much love the devs put into these games. Maybe I´ll try VF4 EVO soon, I think I´ll like it this time.

 

[ThunderBoy]

 

[TamagotchiTamaHero24's icon TamagotchiTamaHero24 TamagotchiTamaHero24]

This cover is incredibly hard. I will say, I don’t know why it’s Akira and Dural. In the lore, one of the only facts I know, is that Dural is the cybernetically enhanced mother of Kage. I need to freshen up on VF lore (from the OVA and the mangas), because I want to know what Akira’s place in all of this is.

 

[UnDubious]

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This cover is incredibly hard. I will say, I don’t know why it’s Akira and Dural. In the lore, one of the only facts I know, is that Dural is the cybernetically enhanced mother of Kage. I need to freshen up on VF lore (from the OVA and the mangas), because I want to know what Akira’s place in all of this is.

Akira's the mascot/lead so he just naturally has to be on the cover. There's barely any story in VF but he's the main character in the anime too.

 

[sun0wl]

Akira's the mascot/lead so he just naturally has to be on the cover. There's barely any story in VF but he's the main character in the anime too.

This. If I didn't like VF so much, I'd probably say what they were going for with Akira is the "we have Streetfighter at home" frontman of the series

 

[solnK!]

I think the anime was really good.
I once heard a very well done spanish fandub of the opening.

 

[UnDubious]

This. If I didn't like VF so much, I'd probably say what they were going for with Akira is the "we have Streetfighter at home" frontman of the series

That's kind of what happened. At first Virtua Fighter didn't have any traditional Japanese martial artist - if you've played Fighters Megamix, you know there was a canned character named Shiba/Siba instead. But they felt that they had to include one, so Akira is based on the same archetype design-wise as Ryu (which goes back at least to the anime Karate Master from the '70s). The main difference is that they gave Akira a unusual fighting style, Baji Quan (aka Hakkyokuken), which is based on tackles and individual power moves, so he's actually the most technical character in the game (contrary to Ryu and Ken style shotos who are usually the easiest to play as).

 

[sun0wl]

That's kind of what happened. At first Virtua Fighter didn't have any traditional Japanese martial artist - if you've played Fighters Megamix, you know there was a canned character named Shiba/Siba instead. But they felt that they had to include one, so Akira is based on the same archetype design-wise as Ryu (which goes back at least to the anime Karate Master from the '70s). The main difference is that they gave Akira a unusual fighting style, Baji Quan (aka Hakkyokuken), which is based on tackles and individual power moves, so he's actually the most technical character in the game (contrary to Ryu and Ken style shotos who are usually the easiest to play as).

These are some legitimately fun facts! Thanks