Although VF2 still has the best OST to me, goddamn does VF4 have the best stages and backgrounds, it’s like they took everyone loving Shun Di’s VF2 stage to heart and aimed to make nearly every other stage a spectacle in some way- I used to have fun sweeping away all the snow to reveal the floor underneath it :3
Love to see some Virtua Fighter love and Virtua Fighter 4 is also my favourite 3D fighting game with Sarah being my favourite character. It was VF2 which made me a fan and ive never looked back, I'd love to see a full modern collection including Fighters Megamix and the recent announcement of a new entry was the most exciting announcement at the VGA
VF4 is one of my favorite fighters aswell and definently the best in the series. I got VF4 and EVO 5 years ago together for only 10 euro's on PS2 and absolutely loved it, got myself a VF4 Hori arcade stick aswell down the line. One thing I do prefer in the original compared to EVO is the soundtrack but the music in both is still pure SEGA!
I played a ton of Virtua Fighter 4 on the PS2 back in the day. I got the vanilla version for $50 close to launch, yeah it sucked that an improved version came along not long after for less, but oh well . Loved the Kumite mode where you can rank up! All fighting games need a good single player mode that encourages people to play the game offline, it's the best way to learn the game and get better. Only focusing on multiplayer is a dead-end because new comers will get beaten easily, stop playing and only like 4 people who dominate everyone will ever play the game.
I think vf4 was so good because besides sega am2; it was yu suzuki’s last vf game as creator hands on! Love vf4 Love your videos! When is game night next? I want to come play sega with you! ; )
Love this game so much. VF in general, but especially 4 is one of those games where the gulf between a skilled player and a "good" player is massive. A skilled VF player can't be touched by button mashing, in my experience.
Even though I'm not good at fighting games I 100% agree. VF4 FT is the best 3d fighting game ever made. It's fun at any level and it's really well made. PS: I think 4 and 5 are quite different. In 4 you can buffer throw escapes, so you escape multiple variations of a throw. In 5 you just hold pg to escape one throw. Not sure if either of the two methods work in both versions.
VF4 still my best in the series, and 100% agree on the best fighter! Also nice choice the Thumbnail, Sarah in VF4 is best looking Sarah yet, same for Akira!! The presentation is just awesome! Hopefully I get the same shock from playing the next VF like when I first laid my eyes on VF4, at the time it just looked unbelievable beautiful! It screamed AM2 in everyway!
A shame my arcade didn't have this. It would have been nice to play at launch. Thank you to all those people who made it possible on emulation. The unsung heros.
It would've been nice if Sega released this game. Good thing that Sega isn't mad about ROMs & emulators. My wishlist for Virtua Fighter 6 is to have a fully fledged training mode in the spirit of Evolution. Would be nice if they did the same for Revo too but hey, the new installment matters more ...
I sunk hundreds of hours into VF4 and VF4 evolution on the PS2. Yes, it wasn't a perfect port, but the training mode was so excellent and it helped make me competitive at the arcades. I'm going to have to try this Naomi 2 version soon but I've been hooked on the VF5 revo beta.
I love this game and I love this series. I remember playing this game for the first time so vividly. Shame it was never ported. Emulation really saved us. And yes, Naomi 2 is a pain to set up.
Visually it is very appealing. I happened to catch a video of an interesting game that didn't have ports from SEGA, called Motor Raid. It looked rather fun.
Hot from making shenmue and shenmue 2 vf4 on sega is going to have god tier Devs and hardware for the time as you say way ahead in its final form for the time period.
VF4 is personally my favorite VF game, and definitely an incredible title even to this day! I'll definitely rank it top tier, higher than some DOA games alongside the Street Fighter EX games.
Another cool Sega gem I'd wanna try out! I agree that the Arcade games in Yakuza/LaD should get standalone releases with few extra options. I would buy sooo many games! 🤣
In my college days we had VF4 EVO on free play by the food court I put countless hours and matches on my breaks destroying everyone I think I had about 60 wins in a row until I had to leave for class lol Unfortunately everyone who played it was a newb including myself But man those were some fun times There is definitely a graphical difference from the NAOMI 2 and the PS2 port All the VF from 2 till now feel great and more fluid than previous releases If I had to choose which VF to play It would be Ultimate Shodown as it feels very fluid and smooth Feels a bit easier to jump into and just play too
What are some of the best beginner tips for VF4? I have the PS2 version since release but never got into it, but I restarted playing the game recently and I have a lot more fun now. I am a casual (and will always be) so some tips and tricks are always welcome. :)
There’s a ton of good beginner tutorials on YT. My best advice is to pick a character and learn them. Use training mode. Get a few combos that just work for you then mix them in while learning the basic move set
Naomi 2 runs so well even at 4x res.on my 10 year old computer. I wish PS2 games ran that well on pcsx2. Some crazy stuff that Flycast emulator it's sooo fast!
@@VideoGameEsoterica Yeah even stuff like menus and effects are all emulated at high res pretty much flawless just the odd upscaling line here and there. The Vulcan renderer is what really gets everything to locked 60fps for me.
Um dia Virtua Fighter 4, vai voltar para o seu Verdadeiro Dono, o Sega Dreamcast, através do port Original ou feita pela comunidade, vocês verão ou jogarão.
vf4 even on ps2 was beutifull. 4 is perfection. that dreamcast era music, graphics alike dreamcast and sega peak. i wished this game came to th DC but it never did. the ps2 version is the best we got. and to be honest, it wasn't bad at all. still looked very good.
@ That was even a feat xbox probably couldn't handle. Sega hardware including dreamcast always was sharp and bright. The resolution of ps2/ngc and xbox. Wasn't "as" sharp and bright. I think it is pushing to many polys for a dreamcast. But a ngc and a xbox could have done a better job then ps2 perhaps. yet i understand why many chose the weaker ps2. If sega chose the natural route and just letting the saturn be what it is. They might have had a way better stance in the market and perhaps even be the best technically. But sega was always rushing if something didn't stick. That's why dreamcast was often called ahead of it's time instead of to early.
Characters got more moves and more items is the quick answer, it is the most complete version of VF4 and is rightly considered one of the best in the series and best 3D fighters in general, funny enough the same could be said for VF5R even though it is not the final version of VF5, many consider it the best version of VF5, Although 2.0 or Revo could change that.
Yes daytona usa 2 power edition as SRC2; ashame they did not include the original daytona usa 2 battle on the edge ver also!! I love the indoor dome oval track!
I enjoyed the original Virtua Fighter 4 more. They removed Kages dragon punch in VF4 Evolution + Final Tuned. Also the stage progression was different. I quite liked fighting against Lei Fei i think it was the 3 or 4th battle. Vanessa also had two variations of her moveset "she no longer has a Muay Thai style" So the later games may share the VF4 name but they played very different. The PS2 game had some quite bad jaggies that they fixed in evolution but I still found myself playing VF4 original much more than evolution. Getting back to the point we obviously never got to play much final tuned 😂
@@VideoGameEsoterica Our city had some VF old heads who were so dedicated that they bought and imported a VF4:FT arcade board from Japan, then talked a local arcade owner into letting them put it in one of their cabs and the owner could keep the revenue. We even had card readers, though only to track W/L because we couldn't connect the VFNet. I feel like I'm one of like, 50 people in NA who actually got to play FT when it was originally in arcades lol.
I hated the PS2 port of VF4. I bought it, played it for an hour or two, and took it back for a refund the next day. The sound hurt my ears, the graphics offended my eyes, and it was just a huge letdown of an arcade port compared to DOA2, Soul Calibur, and Tekken Tag Tournament. I wish someday they'd port it to a modern platform that can retain the arcade's artistic quality.
@@kosmosyche The GC could probably handle the textures and lighting much better. I’m not sure why the PS2 port had polycounts reduced, but I don’t imagine it would be necessary for the GC. The GC’s controller would be more suitable for Virtual Fighter games than Tekken or Street Fighter.
No jaggies so weird to see VF4 with no Jaggies. They should have put it on Xbox. It would have sold Xboxes in Japan that's for sure. Besides that's where most Sega refugees went
I was more impressed by DoA 3 on Xbox than VF4 on PS2 at the time. I didn't have an og Xbox, but I played DoA 3 at a demo kiosk and it just looked jaw-dropping. Later I got to play it on my 360 and it's my favorite 3D fighting game from that gen, along with Soul Calibur on DC. I like VF4 on PS4, but it didn't wow me as much as DoA 3. I haven't encountered the Naomi 2 coin-op IRL.
It has aged like a fine wine! Something Sega is just so good at doing. While many felt Naomi 2 would have been the Dreamcast 2, it felt like a relatively minor jump for the time period. Dreamcast 2 would have been a Naomi 3 if it had ever happened.
Definitely not a reach at all. VF4 has literally always been considered one of the very best 3-D fighters of all time. For someone to consider it the best is nowhere near a “reach”.
Nah Virtua Fighter 4 isn't close to being the best one in the series, not even close. I think people tend to think that because it was the first one launched on a Sony machine and was given a mainstream exposure, so is more known than the others, but is in no way the best one. The pinnacle of the series was Virtua Fighter 2, that was the game changer. If you were there when it dropped, you will understand. If you weren't, you are extremely unlucky. Just when you thought it couldn't be beaten, SEGA releases Virtua Fighter 3 only a couple of years later and somehow improved on Virtua Fighter 2's visuals and moved graphics into the year 2000 full stop. Until then, we had not seen the polygon counts, eye movement tracking and moving hair physics in graphics up to that point. That's before we get into the stages - fighting on top of roofs, the Great Wall of China, an underground subway, I could go on and on. It definitely had the best soundtrack of all the Virtua fighters, followed closely only by its predecessor. As far as a modern times eSports friendly versions of Virtua Fighter (as in the linear floor stages), the 5th entry in the series was better than the 4th one. My personal favourite is Virtua Fighter 3 for the overall experience/innovation and the sheer power of it at the time of release compared to anything else on the market, but down on paper from a gameplay purest point of view it is Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown. If you are looking at this from a console release point of view and not overall Arcade series release, I get why you are holding Virtua Fighter 4 in higher regard to say VF3, because the Dreamcast port of VF3 caught the graphics well enough, but missed the mark on the gameplay translation, it wasn't quite the arcade.
to me the best 3d fighting game is dead or alive 5 i, followed by tekken 5, soucalibur 2, then Virtua fighter 4, and lastly Bloody roar Primal Fury in that order..
Virtua Fighter was never my favorite series, even though VF3 and VF4 has really awesome graphics my prefered fighting games always were DOA2 and Tekken4 (also the more exotic finghting like Soul Calibur 3). Mostly because of their Bruce Lee type character, sadly missing in the VF series. Then I find the animations, as well as anatomy, better in those games. VF characters looked kind of doll-like, moving like marionette puppets, I just couldn't handle mentally.
I remember the beach stage in VF3, how the sand changed as you stepped in it. SEGA really did push the visuals back then.
Yes the deformation was a wild touch
This game is so beautiful, it just oozes that futuristic 2000s vibe
It’s aged so well
Although VF2 still has the best OST to me, goddamn does VF4 have the best stages and backgrounds, it’s like they took everyone loving Shun Di’s VF2 stage to heart and aimed to make nearly every other stage a spectacle in some way- I used to have fun sweeping away all the snow to reveal the floor underneath it :3
It’s def not an ugly game haha
Love to see some Virtua Fighter love and Virtua Fighter 4 is also my favourite 3D fighting game with Sarah being my favourite character. It was VF2 which made me a fan and ive never looked back, I'd love to see a full modern collection including Fighters Megamix and the recent announcement of a new entry was the most exciting announcement at the VGA
I’m just happy we are finally getting VF 6
Still can't believe that VF is back! Huzzah! 🎉
Sega would never leave us hanging
Unless you're a Skies of Arcadia fan! ....😭
Haha maybe one day
@@VideoGameEsoterica I mean it's certainly better than Capcom nowadays, and a potential good recovery for the SNK fans out there.
VF4 is one of my favorite fighters aswell and definently the best in the series. I got VF4 and EVO 5 years ago together for only 10 euro's on PS2 and absolutely loved it, got myself a VF4 Hori arcade stick aswell down the line. One thing I do prefer in the original compared to EVO is the soundtrack but the music in both is still pure SEGA!
Sega always had great music that’s for sure
I played a ton of Virtua Fighter 4 on the PS2 back in the day. I got the vanilla version for $50 close to launch, yeah it sucked that an improved version came along not long after for less, but oh well . Loved the Kumite mode where you can rank up! All fighting games need a good single player mode that encourages people to play the game offline, it's the best way to learn the game and get better. Only focusing on multiplayer is a dead-end because new comers will get beaten easily, stop playing and only like 4 people who dominate everyone will ever play the game.
It was def a good port for PS2
Yeah, the Kumite mode was a really great idea!
VF4:FT is amazing, and is solely responsible for my need for a naomi2 and candy cab in my house :3
Every house should have one!
I think vf4 was so good because besides sega am2; it was yu suzuki’s last vf game as creator hands on! Love vf4
Love your videos! When is game night next? I want to come play sega with you! ; )
Haha I rarely have game nights. I have all of one friend who plays video games
I still live in hope that Final Tuned finds its way to consoles or PC, it could be part of this VF celebration, who knows, I'm all for it.
I’d take a modern version with good netcode
This needs to be in a future VF Collection. I never played this one.
Hopefully Sega brings it back out one day
Lau Chan is my favorite since VF1. I just love this dude's style.
Def has a fun flow to the move set
Virtua Fighter 4 Final Tuned Best SUPER ! NAOMI 2 I!!!!!!
Love this game so much. VF in general, but especially 4 is one of those games where the gulf between a skilled player and a "good" player is massive. A skilled VF player can't be touched by button mashing, in my experience.
It’s so timing and attack level dependent a good player can just absolutely block near to anything off an average player
It's awesome but i prefer the still arcade exclusive VF5R by a lil' bit.
Curious as to why?
I’ve played a lot of hours of this. Definitely my favorite VF title and imo the best fighting game ever made
It’s an absolute classic
Even though I'm not good at fighting games I 100% agree. VF4 FT is the best 3d fighting game ever made. It's fun at any level and it's really well made.
PS: I think 4 and 5 are quite different. In 4 you can buffer throw escapes, so you escape multiple variations of a throw. In 5 you just hold pg to escape one throw. Not sure if either of the two methods work in both versions.
You don’t have to be great to have fun :)
Love this game aesthetic, my favorite fighting game as well, but my experience was Vf4 evolution
A common comment. It just wasn’t a super common cabinet in the US
VF4 still my best in the series, and 100% agree on the best fighter! Also nice choice the Thumbnail, Sarah in VF4 is best looking Sarah yet, same for Akira!! The presentation is just awesome!
Hopefully I get the same shock from playing the next VF like when I first laid my eyes on VF4, at the time it just looked unbelievable beautiful! It screamed AM2 in everyway!
Hopefully we can say the same about 6 when it comes out!
A shame my arcade didn't have this. It would have been nice to play at launch. Thank you to all those people who made it possible on emulation. The unsung heros.
Emulation saves all!
works great in fightcade
Always a bonus
Wild that we got this before Tekken 3
Deserved it
It would've been nice if Sega released this game. Good thing that Sega isn't mad about ROMs & emulators. My wishlist for Virtua Fighter 6 is to have a fully fledged training mode in the spirit of Evolution. Would be nice if they did the same for Revo too but hey, the new installment matters more ...
Sega got all the chill leaving Nintendo with zero
I sunk hundreds of hours into VF4 and VF4 evolution on the PS2. Yes, it wasn't a perfect port, but the training mode was so excellent and it helped make me competitive at the arcades. I'm going to have to try this Naomi 2 version soon but I've been hooked on the VF5 revo beta.
It was still awesome even if it wasn’t a perfect port
I love this game and I love this series. I remember playing this game for the first time so vividly. Shame it was never ported. Emulation really saved us. And yes, Naomi 2 is a pain to set up.
Setting up a NAOMI is always a chore
I LOVE virtua fighter 3 of sega model 3
Another classic obviously :)
Visually it is very appealing. I happened to catch a video of an interesting game that didn't have ports from SEGA, called Motor Raid. It looked rather fun.
I did a vid on that maybe last year. Fun one
Hot from making shenmue and shenmue 2 vf4 on sega is going to have god tier Devs and hardware for the time as you say way ahead in its final form for the time period.
NAOMI 2 was just so powerful I wish we’d seen it become a Dreamcast 2
@VideoGameEsoterica would have been sold at a loss and still likely 3 to 4 times the price of a Dreamcast, we can only dream.
I like to dream haha
Agreed! Shen1&2 then vf4 was epic! Naomi2 system as a Sega Dreamcast 2 would have been amazing!!
I was just playing VF5 Revo to celebrate VF6! But 4 was the most kino. Evo's still the best singleplayer fighter experience
VFchads we're so back
It’s a good time to be a VF fan
VF4 is personally my favorite VF game, and definitely an incredible title even to this day!
I'll definitely rank it top tier, higher than some DOA games alongside the Street Fighter EX games.
For me it’s at the top but that was pretty clear from the vid haha
Now this, I agree with you 100%! VF4FT is the GOAT
Just one of the classics
I didn't follow the last games in the VF series, but I do hope they'll give us Ryo Hazuki as a secret character in the next release...
I want at least one Yakuza character as a bonus
@@AKUMA-KILLER I suspect they will eventually do it since they are likely to draw a lot of inspiration from Shenmue in vf6 and Yakuza already does.
Having fun I see VGE. 8^)
Always
Another cool Sega gem I'd wanna try out! I agree that the Arcade games in Yakuza/LaD should get standalone releases with few extra options. I would buy sooo many games! 🤣
We’d all buy them! If only Sega would sell them to us
In my college days we had VF4 EVO on free play by the food court
I put countless hours and matches on my breaks destroying everyone
I think I had about 60 wins in a row until I had to leave for class lol
Unfortunately everyone who played it was a newb including myself
But man those were some fun times
There is definitely a graphical difference from the NAOMI 2 and the PS2 port
All the VF from 2 till now feel great and more fluid than previous releases
If I had to choose which VF to play
It would be Ultimate Shodown as it feels very fluid and smooth
Feels a bit easier to jump into and just play too
Free play? That’s a hell of a benefit
What are some of the best beginner tips for VF4? I have the PS2 version since release but never got into it, but I restarted playing the game recently and I have a lot more fun now. I am a casual (and will always be) so some tips and tricks are always welcome. :)
There’s a ton of good beginner tutorials on YT. My best advice is to pick a character and learn them. Use training mode. Get a few combos that just work for you then mix them in while learning the basic move set
Naomi 2 runs so well even at 4x res.on my 10 year old computer. I wish PS2 games ran that well on pcsx2. Some crazy stuff that Flycast emulator it's sooo fast!
Dreamcast and by extension NAOMI emulation is just so good these days
@@VideoGameEsoterica Yeah even stuff like menus and effects are all emulated at high res pretty much flawless just the odd upscaling line here and there. The Vulcan renderer is what really gets everything to locked 60fps for me.
Vulkan is just more efficient in the last year or so
I can't be the only one that hated the move to fenced arenas.
Haha so far it’s just you
@@VideoGameEsoterica It just ruins the VF vibe for me. The arenas in VF3 were awesome.
Um dia Virtua Fighter 4, vai voltar para o seu Verdadeiro Dono, o Sega Dreamcast, através do port Original ou feita pela comunidade, vocês verão ou jogarão.
In my top 10 fighting games ever made. I do prefer it over 5 as well overall.
It just hits in every department
Me too in many ways
vf4 even on ps2 was beutifull. 4 is perfection. that dreamcast era music, graphics alike dreamcast and sega peak. i wished this game came to th DC but it never did. the ps2 version is the best we got. and to be honest, it wasn't bad at all. still looked very good.
PS2 def wasn’t ugly. Just not as good as NAOMI 2
@@ArjanSnijder you really think this would look better on Dreamcast?
@ That was even a feat xbox probably couldn't handle. Sega hardware including dreamcast always was sharp and bright. The resolution of ps2/ngc and xbox. Wasn't "as" sharp and bright. I think it is pushing to many polys for a dreamcast. But a ngc and a xbox could have done a better job then ps2 perhaps. yet i understand why many chose the weaker ps2. If sega chose the natural route and just letting the saturn be what it is. They might have had a way better stance in the market and perhaps even be the best technically. But sega was always rushing if something didn't stick. That's why dreamcast was often called ahead of it's time instead of to early.
what is the difference betwen vf4 evolution and final tuned ? i only really played the ps2 versions of the game
Without writing a book go on the VF Wiki. There’s a comprehensive list of changes / upgrades
Characters got more moves and more items is the quick answer, it is the most complete version of VF4 and is rightly considered one of the best in the series and best 3D fighters in general, funny enough the same could be said for VF5R even though it is not the final version of VF5, many consider it the best version of VF5, Although 2.0 or Revo could change that.
Also a lot of balance changes.
@@VideoGameEsoterica Yes that too.
Finally! 4 > 5
👍
This one makes the first game look slow as hell, great looking game. Never played it
Def give it some playtime
An everyday dose
Haha
How you running the game mate
Flycast
@VideoGameEsoterica great showcase keep it up
Plenty more coming
The ps2 version of vf4 looked terrible but this is what you expected vf 4 to look like
PS2 just couldn’t touch NAOMI 2
Not the best, but it's certainly up there.
Well you can’t say that and not nominate a best haha
Scud race was never released on yakuza arcades but that would be amazing if it happens 🤞🏾you really had me on google just now 😭
I was freaking out for a moment!
I’m sure he was thinking of Daytona 2 😅
Haha meant Daytona 2
Haha I got my lines crossed
Yes daytona usa 2 power edition as SRC2; ashame they did not include the original daytona usa 2 battle on the edge ver also!! I love the indoor dome oval track!
I enjoyed the original Virtua Fighter 4 more.
They removed Kages dragon punch in VF4 Evolution + Final Tuned.
Also the stage progression was different.
I quite liked fighting against Lei Fei i think it was the 3 or 4th battle.
Vanessa also had two variations of her moveset
"she no longer has a Muay Thai style"
So the later games may share the VF4 name but they played very different.
The PS2 game had some quite bad jaggies that they fixed in evolution but I still found myself playing VF4 original much more than evolution.
Getting back to the point we obviously never got to play much final tuned 😂
Haha no unless you went to the arcade barely anyone got to play this version
@@VideoGameEsoterica Our city had some VF old heads who were so dedicated that they bought and imported a VF4:FT arcade board from Japan, then talked a local arcade owner into letting them put it in one of their cabs and the owner could keep the revenue. We even had card readers, though only to track W/L because we couldn't connect the VFNet. I feel like I'm one of like, 50 people in NA who actually got to play FT when it was originally in arcades lol.
Haha that’s some dedication! Love it
Let's dance to Al Gore's rhythm!
lol strangest comment today so far
I could never master this game. It looks simple, but it has some complex rigidity to it.
Easy to learn, insanely hard to master
I hated the PS2 port of VF4. I bought it, played it for an hour or two, and took it back for a refund the next day. The sound hurt my ears, the graphics offended my eyes, and it was just a huge letdown of an arcade port compared to DOA2, Soul Calibur, and Tekken Tag Tournament. I wish someday they'd port it to a modern platform that can retain the arcade's artistic quality.
Def wasn’t a great port. It was fine but didn’t live up to NAOMI 2
Yeah I had the same reaction but I don't think I could return it after opening it
It's a great port to me.
They def should have ported it to GameCube and OG Xbox. I actually don't know why PS2 was the only one SEGA ported it to.
@@kosmosyche The GC could probably handle the textures and lighting much better. I’m not sure why the PS2 port had polycounts reduced, but I don’t imagine it would be necessary for the GC. The GC’s controller would be more suitable for Virtual Fighter games than Tekken or Street Fighter.
The DOA5 games easily stomp it or Soulcalibur
Everyone gets their opinion
DOA nor Soul Calibur have anywhere near the depth and refinement of VF.
No jaggies so weird to see VF4 with no Jaggies.
They should have put it on Xbox. It would have sold Xboxes in Japan that's for sure. Besides that's where most Sega refugees went
I am surprised it didn’t get ported many places
Back then it wouldn't have sold well
And in the case of this one didn't get ported at all. We had to wait to play Jean
A bummer
Sega doesn't seem as against rereleasing old 3d games as Namco so there's hope for a full VF collection before 6
I was more impressed by DoA 3 on Xbox than VF4 on PS2 at the time. I didn't have an og Xbox, but I played DoA 3 at a demo kiosk and it just looked jaw-dropping. Later I got to play it on my 360 and it's my favorite 3D fighting game from that gen, along with Soul Calibur on DC. I like VF4 on PS4, but it didn't wow me as much as DoA 3. I haven't encountered the Naomi 2 coin-op IRL.
DOA on Xbox was more visually impressive than VF4 on PS2 but nothing holds a candle to NAOMI 2
It has aged like a fine wine! Something Sega is just so good at doing. While many felt Naomi 2 would have been the Dreamcast 2, it felt like a relatively minor jump for the time period. Dreamcast 2 would have been a Naomi 3 if it had ever happened.
I wished Sega had never left the console market
best virtua figter game ? yes.. Best 3d fighting game ? that a reach
We all get our opinions
Definitely not a reach at all. VF4 has literally always been considered one of the very best 3-D fighters of all time. For someone to consider it the best is nowhere near a “reach”.
Nah Virtua Fighter 4 isn't close to being the best one in the series, not even close. I think people tend to think that because it was the first one launched on a Sony machine and was given a mainstream exposure, so is more known than the others, but is in no way the best one.
The pinnacle of the series was Virtua Fighter 2, that was the game changer. If you were there when it dropped, you will understand. If you weren't, you are extremely unlucky.
Just when you thought it couldn't be beaten, SEGA releases Virtua Fighter 3 only a couple of years later and somehow improved on Virtua Fighter 2's visuals and moved graphics into the year 2000 full stop. Until then, we had not seen the polygon counts, eye movement tracking and moving hair physics in graphics up to that point. That's before we get into the stages - fighting on top of roofs, the Great Wall of China, an underground subway, I could go on and on. It definitely had the best soundtrack of all the Virtua fighters, followed closely only by its predecessor.
As far as a modern times eSports friendly versions of Virtua Fighter (as in the linear floor stages), the 5th entry in the series was better than the 4th one.
My personal favourite is Virtua Fighter 3 for the overall experience/innovation and the sheer power of it at the time of release compared to anything else on the market, but down on paper from a gameplay purest point of view it is Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown.
If you are looking at this from a console release point of view and not overall Arcade series release, I get why you are holding Virtua Fighter 4 in higher regard to say VF3, because the Dreamcast port of VF3 caught the graphics well enough, but missed the mark on the gameplay translation, it wasn't quite the arcade.
Nah. Soul Calibur 2 was a Better game
Not in my book
to me the best 3d fighting game is dead or alive 5 i, followed by tekken 5, soucalibur 2, then Virtua fighter 4, and lastly Bloody roar Primal Fury in that order..
DOA is always a great time
Virtua Fighter was never my favorite series, even though VF3 and VF4 has really awesome graphics my prefered fighting games always were DOA2 and Tekken4 (also the more exotic finghting like Soul Calibur 3). Mostly because of their Bruce Lee type character, sadly missing in the VF series. Then I find the animations, as well as anatomy, better in those games. VF characters looked kind of doll-like, moving like marionette puppets, I just couldn't handle mentally.
That’s fair. It’s totally not for everyone. Good thing we have options.
VF4 is the least played VF game I have ever played. I didnt like it.
I guess that’s fair lol. What didn’t you like?