Luminos564

Thanks, I'm gonna need it. I still have a few months but time really is running out so I'm hoping I land something soon. 1. Yeah, except my match count was always low. Going by both Ranked and Player match count: -CT was ~900. -CS was ~3000. -CSE is at 355. Extend is so low because, when it came out, I was swamped with other titles and could only afford so much time and I ended up moving to a new place as well. Added to that, I now have the servers kick me off at random when playing online and am trying to learn u-12 offline (handling and some combos) whenever I am not busy looking for work. So you can understand why I don't go out of my way to fight someone who has 6,000 matches with a character. Especially now that CSE is oh-so-old and most of the people I can keep up with have moved on. I know there's some real bad players with thousands of matches but I have yet to find a single one. I don't though. Most of the time when a new BB is out I do the following: -Play through story since I actually like it. -Play through some Challenges or take a few days in training to practice controls and get accustomed to changes. But regardless of that, my first days online since CS came out have always been a mess. I am not naive either. I am fully aware that I can and will lose at some point. The problem begins when I run into the aforementioned "graceless" winners and racking up loss after loss due to the time it took for my localized copy to get to me.

It's "cannot" for me with the primary reason being money issues. Especially now that I've had trouble finding work in recent months so I am literally dependent on being able to trade other games towards my purchases. Oh I know. I don't usually even bother fighting someone who I see has over 10,000 matches under their belt. Just tell them "Sorry" and bow away in shame. I'm just going off personal experience. Whenever there was a long gap in-between the game's localization, I usually feel the difference as everyone starts handing me my ass on a platter. Even those who in the previous iteration were no better than I was but have had time to "mess around" longer than I did. And it isn't like they were any good either (especially not when compared to some people I see online), it was just my first day as opposed to their 153rd. Basically if possible, I'd like to avoid that "Bad First Day" with CP though not being able to import ain't going to do me any favors.

So basically we can't get CP earlier because some big names are dropping their "blockbuster" titles and systems? *Sigh* Sometimes I hate this whole process. I mean, if this were a JRPG (the only other kind of game I play) then this wouldn't matter. But fighting games are a different matter, especially those with active online communities. You pretty much have to get them ASAP in order for your skill gap to remain consistent with other players. I dunno about the rest of you, but I don't particularly enjoy being tossed around by someone, have them gloat over their victory and then tell me to go hang myself simply because I lack the means of importing a title 5 months earlier. But, I suppose there is no helping it. Not everyone has an equal lot in life, though it still sucks whenever stuff like this goes down.

I think you missed what I was getting at. CT was a brand new 2D fighter, with a lot of work put into it and the localization still arrived in 5 days to NA. Similarly P4A was also a brand new 2D fighter and it still came to NA within a week (save for the 9 month wait EU had to endure because EU gets shafted all the damn time ). CS reused a good portion from CT yet somehow arrived a month later in NA than in Japan. Extend though was damn near a copy-paste of CS yet somehow arrived 3 months to NA than Japan. CP is going to be a minimum 5 month wait but it has the excuses you mentioned going for it. So what happened in the CS era that caused it to be released much longer than CT?

March 25th? So that makes it, 5 months or so after the JPN version. Yeah, this is going to be very, very painful for those of us who can't import. What's more is that the date is very likely just the placeholder date as NeoStrayCat stated and we could end up waiting even longer than that. I don't understand, how could Calamity Trigger and Persona 4 Arena be localized in a relatively timely manner (5 days to a week apart from the JPN release date), yet from CS onward we've had to wait months?

Well Haku-men still has momentum going from his TK Tsubaki>Hotaru>Air Dash>OD, without actually going into an ODC and he can still perform his j.C and the like. Though, that's the most prominent example I can think of as his OD combos are sturdy like a brick shithouse and hurt like being rammed face-first into one. Most other players I see very rarely use OD or ODC during aerial maneuvers. If they ever do use the OD, it'll likely be done on the ground.

Perhaps I should elaborate; I understand the financial decision behind it (sales). I suppose a more correct thing to say is that I don't like how the solo-360 players are basically SOL unless they can get their hands on the PS3 if they want to continue playing just this one game. Call it more hating on the situation than anything else.

Man, I don't even know who to pin this on anymore. When asked beforehand on the matter, Aksys said it was an ASW question, and when probed ASW said this was an Aksys question. Then there was that interview with Mori back a few months where his explanation can be summed thus: ":psyduck:". I figure that they're supposed to be working together so they might as well share the blame together. That being said, I can understand how having a singular platform community is a good thing. But it still makes little sense to me to go from multi-plat to just a PS3 exclusive. It's not so much a complaint as it is a head-scratcher moment for me and possibly an indicator of things that might happen. Like the next Final Fantasy game being an Xbox One exclusive or Blazblue all of a sudden being only on PC...OK, that likely won't happen due to hacking but you get what I'm saying yeah?

The more I see it, the more I think it was a dick move on ASW and/or Aksys' part not to make CP for the 360 as well. I mean, you could argue that the reason the game is getting localized at an unspecified date is because someone is secretly porting it and thus the delay, but I wouldn't hold my breath. Granted, I do not own the 360 but I see no harm in having games that are multi-plat. More fun for everyone and more potential money for companies. It is almost a win-win for everyone if the companies play their cards right.

Of course, I am going to assume that this is more of a case by case basis, right? Not every player is fit to be a "mentor" to someone. Similarly, not every "student" is capable to the same thing. A person can be better than you at the game, but at the same time, they may not be able to teach you what you'd want to know. Likewise, even if they are willing to teach you and are breaking it down as much as they can, you may not be able to keep up with them. Though ultimately, I suppose it is a good thing ASW added it. Especially if they are trying to get newer people into the series or are new to fighters period.

OK, I'd like to ask anyone here: who has actually has had experience with Online Training mode? I mean, granted I don't know of any fighter that has this sort of thing, but I'm sure some people have. Does it actually help if you're as helpless like me at fighters? Or rather, can it actually produce the results you'd be looking for?

Possibly not in this thread since it has more to do with the gameplay side of the game as opposed to character sex appeal. Unless of course you draw some kind of weird sexual desire upon witnessing Ragna's 5B and Makoto's Particle Flare connect or something.

Meh, it's something to talk about at the very least. We can only go so far on the same repeated news over and over again. Besides, rumor mills can be fun sometimes.

Oh thank Paracelsus, that's one annoying rumor dead and buried.

Dammit all, so much for knowing things in advance. Curse you internet ! Next you'll be telling me is that Pirates of the Caribbean is not a historical documentary, that Mars isn't represented by some teenage miko in fetishistic clothing and that Ragna has some random visual novel jerk's soul stuck in his body. Man, October can't arrive any quicker. At this point I feel like whatever bits of news we catch, it is swiftly digested and buried. It's why I am likely going to spoil myself with the CP story since I am probably going to end up waiting another 5~6 months before Aksys localizes it.

Though, that assumes ASW brings BB to the PS4 for the finale. I want to say that I can't see them doing that but GG Xrd is rumored to be going on the PS4 so who knows. Still, a 2000 buddy limit sounds good and last I heard, the PS4 comes with its own built in mic for all those possible Online Training sessions.

So come August 9th and we'll finally be able to see how the game looks in players' hand. I'm glad I took all those Hype Control classes or else I might be rolling on the floor and foaming at the mouth from excitement.

Busy days for ASW in the future then. At least it's something to look forward to whenever all this new info dries up and I'm left starving for more.

Right, TGS slipped my mind completely (I must be tired beyond belief if I didn't remember it). A new trailer would be most welcome. Wait, wasn't the anime supposed to start airing in September too?

I see. Well, I suppose that ASW does do another event like this, it would be when it is close to the release date (somewhere in September I wager). I'm kinda hoping they have Kagura then.

Elizabeth for Persona 5 protagonist . So, how long does this XBLAZE Terumi Event last? It would be nice to see some actual footage of him, though I'm pretty happy with what we've got so far.

Mori's concept of time =/= yours or my concept of time. Oh if only that were the case :bad:. Joking joking, it would be weird to just suddenly kill Carl off even if I don't personally care much at all about him. Someone has to be a mild nuisance in his father's side after all.

Or maybe Celica is just Mori's current girl of the week and he decided to mislead tease her as a potential candidate with that LE box cover.

Hey, if Platinum can fight with jack-in-the-box presents and stuffed animals, I don't see anything wrong with Celica "over-healing" her opponent into oblivion. It has been done before in fiction. Giorno Giovana's Gold Experience stand for instance imbues life into people and object. If object, it becomes a living animal ready at his beck and call. If a healthy person they...develop cancer that eats them alive. Or if you like, that is also Shuma Goraths modus operandi ("kill" death and force life to spiral out of control).

Only offensive thing I've seen her do is showcasing her immodest, sexy, bare thighs have it be suggested she could manipulate Nirvana at some point in the past. Whether or not that translates into gameplay is up for debate.