A Guide to Understanding Virtua Fighter (From an Outsider's Perspective)
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- Oh boy, here we go again! This guide focuses on covering broad concepts that are simple to understand if you have a decent amount of experience in any fighting game. As a disclaimer; everything discussed here is a personal opinion that also stems from observing and learning from various notable figures in the VF community, still, you should take everything said in the video with a grain of salt and use it as referential material to form your own strategy to learning this beast of a game. Regardless, I'm really happy this franchise finally has another chance to shine and gather new players that can hopefully appreciate the depth and beauty of this series. Thank you so much for watching and be sure to share your opinon and thoughts in the comments. Cheers!
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VF is like that one uncle that no one wants to talk about, but once you get to know him, it's that one cool and chill unc
I ♥ the thumbnail! 😅
Akira has to teach these youngsters what a real fighting game is! Haha.
I had to watch the full video just for the thumbnail it self. 😂 it was really well made
I’m happy you liked it brother. Thanks for watching!
Virtua Fighter is GREAT! Best 3D fighting IP out there!
VF6 announced and suddenly, everyone is appreciating VF when it had been re-released throughout the century. Even with the PS4 remaster.
Sometimes all you need is a small reminder haha. And to be fair, prior to Ultimate Showdown, the only to play VF in modern consoles was through the Yakuza games.
Excellent video Darkslay! As a Jacky enjoyer, I can concur that VF is indeed not an honest game LOL! Looking forward to future of DOA7 also along with VF6!
Foooorce! Been a long time brother! Glad to see you’re still around! Yeah and even compared to Jacky there’s some truly dirty stuff in VF. But the core mechanics is what’s so engaging about the game. Super excited for the future as well and DOA7 will be next! Mark my words! Haha.
Thx for the vid man,yeah stuff like stagger can be real cheap, but that aside this game is so fun, but hard to master, trying to implement everything is hard, but we'll get there eventually
Absolutely man, it is incredibly satisfying when you become knowledgeable in your character and can apply what you learn regardless of the matchup. Best of luck!
They already confirmed stagger is going away in VF6
@@Jandro1083Any source on this?
@ recent interviews they’ve had these part few weeks, I believed they mentioned it, because of the focus on console. After the interview, Rooflemonger made a video about the change and explained that the whole stagger was actually a SEGA trick to make people break the arcades and make money off of repairs. So, now that the game is focused on consoles, there’s no need for that nonsense, but that’s the part SEGA won’t come out and say themselves obviously. Just that it’s going away.
Love the thoughts expressed about stagger. That's the one thing I want gone. Weight classes I could give or take, but at an absolute minimum, please at least give us a more elegant way to recover from stagger. Flailing around like a spaz is not how you quickly recover your balance, especially if you're a world class martial artist. If I want to play like a monkey, I'll pick Eileen.
Yes please, I already play DOA. I don’t want to keep changing controllers 😂.
Weight classes are definitely an interesting topic, maybe I’ll cover that in another video.
Amazing video!
After trying VF in Yakuza Kiwami 2, I was really confused. But this video makes me wanna try the newer games!
@@orangefish0297 Based fellow Yakuza enjoyer. You definitely should! Who knows, maybe the Dragon of Dojima will make an appearance in the next game ;)
Bro that thumbnail xD Awesome video man. Can't wait for VF6!!
Thanks Impossibroooo! Same here!
Just wanna say as a long time DOA player as well, stagger escape is a necessary mechanic especially in something like DOA where you can still input holds while in critical stun
We learned the horrors of stagger escape removal when characters like Nico had a move where she could teleport behind you, and as soon as she puts you in stun, you're completely trapped and can't escape
It was cheesy as hell when DOA6 first dropped and was not fun
Stagger escape in VF can also be a display of skill because some players can get out of stun faster than others and it's also a bit of a knowledge check because you'd have to know what moves/setups/conditioning situations would put you into stagger in the first place
I mostly agree with the video but I literally had to pause the video when you said stagger escape sucks lmao
Also it's cool to see someone else who actually plays Leon
@@cptwigglefuffle Yeah no, I gotta heavily disagree. Stagger escaping was a nightmare in DOA5. It’s like I mention in the video, the biggest issue is online play. Even if they introduced rollback, stagger escaping online is still too inconsistent and annoying, I’m sure you got hit with “fake stuff” like Jann Lee H+K into CB as well and it was really frustrating.
There’s always been guaranteed setups and situations in DOA, so the Nico thing isn’t anything new, DOA6 normalized all setups and made frame data consistent and that value cannot be understated.
I could maybe, MAYBE compromise if VF staggers would change to work like they do in DOA, but in their current state, they’re terrible and they’re way too obtuse to understand, specially for a new player.
I really appreciate you making one of these that is both from an outsider-but-FGC perspective, and that is around 10 minutes. Rooflemonger and other guide makers do good work, but I ain't sitting through a dry, class-length lecture if I can get away with it.
I appreciate that! I did focus on compressing the information as much as possible.
for like a whole minute i thought "stagger" was talking about delayed button presses like in anime fighter before i finally realized stagger like stagger stun
Dang, we just call those delays in 3D games. DBFZ did have stagger pressure but that’s when you would purposely reset block strings. There’s always some overlap bound to happen with FGC terminology haha.
Nice vid! Trying to get back to VF after so much time and this really help!
That’s awesome to hear! Remember this is an introductory guide to concepts and overall mentality of the game. Be sure to check the channels mentioned in the description for more VF goodness!
4:55secs - THANK YOU!!!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏 The SFC at large can never get this out of their heads! Match up and tiers are NOT good. They are frigging bad to fighting game. I shouldn't have to be like Menard by having several characters and selecting them based on match up, that's ridiculous. Balance is KEY and balance doesn't mean boring at all. That's why VF is not one of them.. it's the BEST most balanced fighting game there is. This is where SF always failed with its S, A, B, C and D tier categories, which lead to over a dozen Ken and tons of Cammy at this year's Capcom Cup. Forget tiers. It's all about the skill of the player and their understanding of the game, the style they are using, the style they are up against, and the opponent they are fighting against.
10:08secs - Lol. Naw. That's called being greedy. That's the Akira player's fault. The game is honest. The key is you got to be more honest with yourself.
Matchup knowledge and some categorization is good for any competitive game. That’s why I expressed I was over exaggerating the point a little haha. But yes, in comparison to today’s fighting games, VF is an incredibly polished and well thought out game for sure.
That was just a silly example for entertainment’s sake 😅. There are a lot of oppressive setups and tech characters have, as well as situational combos that happen because you got “hit at a weird angle” against a wall or something, that are things that maybe could be ironed more for the next game. But again, like I said in the video, far more uncommon than fighting games today.
New players: seriously only worry about sidestepping when you are supposed to, what is safe, and the RPS system.
And get in there and attack. It’s a FIGHT.
And/or buy vf4 evo.
Stagger only belongs in guilty gear +r
Good stuff Slay!
I've been having a ton of fun as a relative VF newbie (mostly DOA, Tekken and Soulcal).
Tearing it up with Lau chan and Lei-fei and maybe Wolf in the future =D
I tried Jacky as a Jeet kun do enjoyer but just didn't gel with me so far, 100% agree with stagger being removed in VF6 (mashing to get out of stuns always felt bad, whether it was DOA5/Guilty Gear of a bunch of older arcade fighters).
@@AMDGBananaBen That’s great to hear brother! Those are some solid character choices, everyone is super fun and badass. Good luck learning Lei-fei tho haha.
I’m tired of dealing with zoners. I need this game
There really is nothing even remotely close to zoning in this game huh. That’s a really good observation haha.
Great video!
Reactions vs fencing.
The thumbnail 🤌
Do you happen to know any Japanese streamers for vf outside of kazanoko?
Homestay Akira and Shiwapon are the channels to follow. I play Brad so I also watch Itoshunbrad but he doesn’t stream as often nowadays.
youtube.com/@homestay_akira?si=ekegSH1pmY6deAwS
youtube.com/@shiwapo_akn?si=LqzX7qzNcD17j8jh
ruclips.net/channel/UCW9bwebo38_lc4ujDx2vIFQ?si=CO0kPYzDZx8J3_8V
i want lion to return in vf6 tho 😭
Watch them redesign him to be super cool now haha. Changing the voice will be more than enough lol
Cool ❤
Thanks! ❤
10:12 😭😭😭😭😭
Legendary clip 😂
Is this the same darkslay that was at Frosty?
Nope, sorry brother. Must have been someone else.
Played VF2 and VF3 in arcade, got my ass retired on 3rd match, I suck
Stick with it brother! Anyone can learn and it is a very rewarding game when you do.
whats the song at 5 minutes in
@@godofthegodofthegod3431 It’s “Track 5” from the Sheep Raider soundtrack. 👍
My friend, no need to destroy a mechanic 😥Just improve it!
The stagger recrovery is great mechanic..!❤❤
It's just notvery well explained. Like it'swhe the stickisred that you have to enter more input you can.
Eileen rice planting was a bug. And When I understood howto properly do it , even Eileen stagger was easier than I thought..!
Don't ask to destroy everything , just ask for improvement.. And learn 🙏
Don't dumb down the game
Need less pixels
what about using some on point footage instead of random gameplay clips. the visual part of this video is meaningless.
Those aren’t just “random gameplay clips” that’s some of the highest level match footage in recent memory. More so, they are specifically picked to supplement what is being said in the video, at multiple times in the video I also use images and contextual clips as well. 🤔