A Step Forward! Virtua Fighter 5 Ultimate Showdown Review (Calm Down Tekken Bros)
777A Step Forward! Virtua Fighter 5 Ultimate Showdown Review (Calm Down Tekken Bros). Poor Virtua Fighter, the series makes a healthy step forward and it gets absolutely steam rolled by the bratty Tekken players. I'm not one to be against harsh critique (far from it), but I find it ironic that the Tekken players get all riled up and aggressive with VF5, a series they don't play or care about, but can't seem to bring themselves to take that same critical energy and apply it to Tekken (the series that pays their bills). This is one reason why I take the reviews and opinions of community pundits with a very heavy dose of skepticism. Virtua Fighter 5 Ultimate isn't the magic mythical bullet to make Virtua Fighter a series play for millions of dollars in Saudi Arabia, but it is is actually a very healthy move for the series and is setting the foundation for Virtua Fighter 6, just like Tekken Revolution did. So it is really funny that Tekken players complain that VF should copy Tekken's road map to popularity, and don't even recognize what Tekken did to get there.
In this review, I explain the differences between Virtua Fighter 5 Ultimate compared to Final Showdown (the previous version) and how I think all the changes that have been made are GOOD and SMART. It is a shame that we lost some really cool content along the way like Special Sparring and some of the customization options, but I don't think this was an intentional ommision and instead just a result of such a tight development budget. I also discuss the netcode of the game in depth because even though it is delay based, that doesn't make it automattically garbage like Street Fighter 4's netcode. Not all netcode is the same and this game does take some cool steps to try to make the delay based netcode as good as possible. So it is shame that it isn't rollback and I fully expect we will see rollback in VF6 when it comes out, but in the meantime it seems unfair that Tekken and Guilty Gear got free passes with their prior releases, but VF is automatically dismissed.
There is so much to say about this game that I cover in the video, but if you interested in it, definetly pick it up on the PS5 rather than on PS4 or PS4 Pro because it will have faster load times and netspeeds on the PS5, which makes a big difference. And luckily, despite all the negativity towards the game on launch, VF5 Ultimate has proven itself and I think has been fairly successful (by VF standards). So I think today, more than ever, it is much more realistic to expect to see a proper Virtua Fighter 6.
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00:00 THIS GAME IS AN OUTRAGE!!!!!
02:26 Ultimate Showdown is NOT a Remaster
04:20 Just Releasing VF6 Would Have Been a Disaster
07:10 VF5 Ultimate is BEAUTIFUL
09:04 VF5 Fighting System is Fundimental and Amazing
11:44 30 Bucks and On Sale Frequently
12:45 Netplay is Delay-Based, But Very Solid (Input Buffer)
16:45 The User Interface is Clean and Forward-Thinking (No More Clunky Menus)
19:10 Ultimate is SADLY Slim on Single Player Modes, But Tutorials are Solid
22:00 Sounds tracks and Sound Effects are Great, Screw Dubstep
24:00 FINALLY! VF HAS HITSPARKS!
26:20 Final Conclusion: I Love This Game So MUCH
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