TailsSena Posted December 16, 2012 Report Share Posted December 16, 2012 i.e. don't expect anything out of Capcom that you wouldn't already expect.That means no more Resident Evil 4's or decent fighting games. And it certanly means i can hang up the notion of a new Breath of Fire. They'd just attempt to be more "STORY DRIVEN" and "CINEMATIC" to try and "ADD MORE DEPTH TO (whomever)" and severely fuck it up anyway. I can't wait for Namco to finish whatever they're gonna do with Tekken x Street Fighter and embarass the fuck out of capcom And is it just me or is their fourth game in a given series usually the last good one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AldenT Posted December 17, 2012 Report Share Posted December 17, 2012 I'd say Namco already embarrassed Capcom with Project X Zone. While Capcom neglects Megaman X and Legends, Namco makes them work I wish Capcom would chill about the cinematics too. I know I liked Street Fighter better before supers with overly long animations took over, or Resident Evil 5 when it wasn't trying too hard to impress. Then again, plenty of games could sell on their graphics alone years ago and Capcom's all about money these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TailsSena Posted December 17, 2012 Report Share Posted December 17, 2012 Dude, just watched the whole trailer for that game. (Finally. I deemed it too long when it first came out.) Oh my god... SHINING FORCE?! In my fighter?! HOLY. SHIT. EDIT: Though I gotta' say... The fact that they went out of their way to sprite fucking jiggle physics is a more than a little disturbing. I really hope there's an option to turn that off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AldenT Posted December 17, 2012 Report Share Posted December 17, 2012 Project X Zone is the latest in a series and yes, the jiggling is part of their tradition. Since Namco x Capcom they snuck the effect here and there, but by the time they made Endless Frontier they embraced sex jokes and such. In fact, Project X Zone is toned down from Endless Frontier. I suppose it makes sense for characters like Morrigan, but every other girl in the cast rolls with that. I admit, it disturbs me too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TailsSena Posted December 17, 2012 Report Share Posted December 17, 2012 Yeah, I can excuse it with Morrigan, she's a succubus after all... But the rest, what the hell? At least they left Tron alone. (Though I'm betting that's just because she's not particularly well endowed, being 14 years old and all.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rawr Posted December 17, 2012 Report Share Posted December 17, 2012 Boobs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Winslow Posted December 17, 2012 Report Share Posted December 17, 2012 the team behind Namco X Capcom, Endless Frontier, X Zone, and I'd go so far as to say Banpresto in general, are alarmingly bad at subtlety and handling female characters. even in the OG SRW games they tend heavily towards massive clusterfucks that are incomprehensible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AldenT Posted December 17, 2012 Report Share Posted December 17, 2012 The artists certainly drew themselves into that corner for pushing the behavior in Endless Frontier. It's like they had to keep going with Project X Zone, or assumed fans would be disappointed if they tried to be subtle in a crazy crossover. It's not just their battle animations either. Some of the portraits have different angles (that's what they did with Tron) and the openings tend to favor the girls. The whole deal looks perverted and yet, nobody minds because it's so common these days. Kinda like other attention-grabbing schemes, really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TailsSena Posted December 17, 2012 Report Share Posted December 17, 2012 Not gonna' lie, I wouldn't mind quite so much if they spread the love a bit and pulled some of that crap with the guys... Eeeespecially characters like X and Batsu. To be fair though, that's harder to pull of, and there would be zero subtlety... Since the only way to do that would be to remove clothing. At least the ladies kept it all on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AldenT Posted December 17, 2012 Report Share Posted December 17, 2012 Well, Bahn (the guy from Fighting Vipers) and Arthur lose their armors as part of their attacks and Jin still doesn't know what a shirt is. But then some of the ladies in Endless Frontier had that too and that tradition carried on as well. Simply put, it's a biased series. Most people seem to like it that way, or gave up arguing it because every other game did that sort of thing already. Some of the sources were already biased so they're simply rolling with it and chances are the staff assumed people would just enjoy the game based on its coolness and ignore the flaws. I don't like that kind of mindset. But getting back on topic, Street Fighter x Megaman is out now! Some impressions: - No passwords, bolts or shop system. You just jump right into the action and so must take it on in one sitting. Just like the original Street Fighter 2. - Even if it's got 8-bit graphics, the game has some slowdown in some areas. Blanka's stage can get pretty annoying for that matter. - The charge shot is more useful now, thanks to a few enemies that will soak up many regular shots but die to one charge. It's not raw damage at work, so perhaps this is a hidden property or something. - Sadly, the ultra gauge for bosses might be a bit too crazy. Blanka used his ultra about 4 times in one fight! I hope you like zoom-ins because they'll get old fast. - Viper's stage is themed around lasers, even though that was only a throwaway move she got in Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3. Wish the elevators weren't random, either. - Blanka's weapon, Tropical Hazard, is stupidly good. It helps you to jump higher, does decent damage for a slow weapon and you can even aim it a bit. It's definitely worth getting this one early. More to come, of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hyper Emerson Posted December 17, 2012 Report Share Posted December 17, 2012 "-Even if it's got 8-bit graphics, the game has some slowdown in some areas. Blanka's stage can get pretty annoying for that matter." I find it hard to grasp that a 8-bit game is asking me to have pixel shader 3.0 support and a good video board to even be playable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serephim Posted December 18, 2012 Report Share Posted December 18, 2012 I've never heard of this game but i have never seen sprites get beatdown that hard before Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TailsSena Posted December 18, 2012 Report Share Posted December 18, 2012 On the topic of Street Fighter X Megaman... I hate the controls, and the fact that I can't change them. As for Project X Zone... I'm looking forward to killing things with the all-powerful bromance of X and Zero. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AldenT Posted December 18, 2012 Report Share Posted December 18, 2012 Press F2 in the weapon screen. It tells you other options if you wait there. Also, more impressions of the game as a whole: - E-Tanks DON'T respawn, ever. What you see is all you get. - You CAN'T revisit cleared stages. Not like you need to, due to the lack of bolts. - Rose's stage starts off with a Rush Jet section like the ones from Megaman 8. - There's a missing space in the weapons screen. Could this be a hidden weapon, or did they simply run out of ideas? - No actual Rush support (aside from Rose's stage). That means no Coil or anything like that. The closest thing is the Tropical Hazard so it's best to get that soon. - Urien's stage features fences, so you can actually climb diagonally in this game. Foreshadowing? - Rose's weapon, Soul Satellite, shows an advantage of the engine: you can swap weapons without losing the barrier. - The game lets you know when you score a Perfect against a boss, like in Street Fighter. But it doesn't count if you don't have full health before the fight starts. - Bottomless pits and spikes are surprisingly uncommon for a fan game! Just wait until you get to the fortress stages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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