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Leo confirmed as Algol. Holy shit I am in love with this character. So hilariously cool. Well done Daisuke.

So, I've been a bit out of the loop lately (finalscomingholyshitsendhelp) My questions (referral to other threads welcome, cuz I've looked): The Limited Edition has been delayed and possibly the regular edition as well? Does the LE come with the complete soundtrack, or just the vocal songs? Are some of the songs in the soundtrack are extremely low quality bit-rate (Sin's theme) or are the versions floating around just dummy files? Are people panicking over nothing? Is the game as ridiculously fun as it looks? Will I get another warning for this post?

I am happy that you were able to figure it out. But I am also fucking JEALOUS because not ONLY do I have to wait 2 weeks until I'm home, I ALSO have to buy a goddamn new bluray drive for my fat fuck backwards compatible PS3 that I've got on life support with new thermal paste applications ever few months. Truly I was never meant to enjoy the finer things in life.

I was talking about those comments pal. First one espoused that it CONFIRMED 30fps for PS3. So legit.

Jesus Christ the retardation is real. Holy fuck it's like these people don't even play the game... oh wait. Caught a stream of the full story mode. Took forever. All I'll say is that it was pretty hype at parts and MADE SENSE

I don't know if I can post this here, but fuck it, I'll do it anyway: (story mode spoilers)

Question is, and I KNOW we don't speculate in this thread, but who is going to be the 18th character to make the roster even? Because unless they have an extra special spot for Leo, the character select screen's gonna be lopsided as fuck. Xrd added 2 newcomers, so if the above quotation is to be believed, who is the third newcomer? (We've got Amane and Bulltet, who is our Azrael?) Also, does that recent post about Elphelt's free download mean I can buy a physical copy and download her for free before Jan. 5th? Or would it be some digital only BS? I'm assuming the former. Voices sound good too. Venom made me fucking laugh. PROFESSIONALS ONLY PLEASE. It's bordering on so bad it's good territory. Definitely unexpected, I'll say that.

What the heck are you guys talking about? If you want to play, or more specifically, get GOOD at zoning, the only logical choice is to play Potemkin. Never before have I appreciated the art of character spacing than when I desperately try to close the distance between myself and someone who wants nothing to do with Ol' Pote. Before you can zone and control the screen, you must grow to hate the screen. Every single pixel that separates a grappler from his opponent becomes your enemy. You must study and become familiar with this enemy, for only then will you have the power to control it. It is the blind man that is often the one who can truly see! Or, you know, you could be an all around cool dude and play Axl because there aren't enough good Axl players.

The hype is fuckin palpable god damn. December can't come fast enough. And yeah, I'd like to know about the localization too, though I realize not much info probably available on the topic. Arc System Works has only ever done 2 things wrong, and that is replace Tony Oliver's Bang Shishigami and Doug Erholtz' Hazama, for no reason at all I might add. I really hope they just let Aksys do it for fuck's sake. Aksys-supervised dubs are always decent at worst, stellar at best. Virtue's Last Reward has one of the best VG dubs ever. More importantly, Aksys has a great talent pool to draw from and know how to cast a fucking character. Certainly better than making a shonen-ninja-warrior sound like a tired old man. I love Steve Kramer, but a match for Bang he is not (yes I'm still fucking mad).

But XRD is coming out for consoles soon. You will be playing Xrd at home by the end of the year (God willing). Do you know what that means? It means it's time for MASSIVE HYPERBOLE, GROSS, UNFOUNDED SPECULATION, AND HYPE OVERLOAD! *MEET AGAIN INTENSIFIES* Hype raging aside, I just hope this last bit of news amounts to something. While I'm looking forward to more GG vets getting in, I'd be lying if I said that nothing gets me more hype than when characters who were previously thought dead and gone forever come back. I don't even play him, but I flipped my shit when is was revealed that Zato was fucking alive again (even though it makes zero difference fighting wise). Now we hear murmurings about JUSTICE? Sign me the hell up. I just like the direction Xrd seems to be heading with the story. It's going to be over the top ridiculousness that will hopefully allow for all manner of glorious ass-pulls to get characters like Kliff, Justice, and even Order Sol into the same game as Ramlethal, Bedman and Sin. I mean, who doesn't want to see a massive Armored Commander Gear fight against a sadistic, calculating kid strapped to a mechanical torture bed-robot that runs on children's nightmares?

COME ON DAISUKE! BRING OUR BRAVE GIRL HOME! Justice will look like ABSOLUTE SEX in Xrd's style holy shit it's gonna be pretty. Edit: I know better than to look, but God almighty some of the comments on that SRK article gave me an aneurysm. Is this the audience Xrd is releasing to in the west? I fucking hope not.

Such excellent taste in characters. That's so fucking awesome that classic music got confirmed. Though if I can be greedy for a minute, I would LOSE MY FREAKING MIND if they offered the HEavy Rock versions of the GGX tracks. They're just so damn amazing. And Leo's on the cover. 10/10 will mane. Also, looking at that screenshot of him and the other lady, that is one bitchin looking room they're in. I thought those columns in the back were a fucking pipe organ for a minute. I'll reiterate that Xrd looks so unbelievably gorgeous that even the surroundings are fun to look at. Oh, and why does that unknown chick look like one of the senators sans mask? IS it just me?

This is true. However I feel the need to point out that this is the exact same thing that happened with Elphelt, except she didn't even show up so prominently in a trailer. Instead she just appeared in a few images from story mode, and before anyone could say "Who's this bitch supposed to be-" *BAM* Elphelt confirmed. Also, Zepp Flight Director... pffffft. Gabriel when?

Speaking of not getting their main, It's quite amusing to see the trends featured in any Xrd related comments section. From IGN to Shoryuken to Youtube to 4chan, I've noticed a definite trend in character demand. Now, disregarding the inevitable Bridget faggolas, I'd definitely say that Baiken and Johnny are the most "WHENS X?!" characters, followed closely by Jam. Interestingly enough and clashing directly with the reported Japanese popularity polls, I've seen quite a few Testaments too, as well as the occasional A.B.A. I don't want to derail the discussion, but I would definitely agree that, after Leo, I'd love to see Baiken and Johnny be the next returning veterans. Does anyone know what the majority opinion is in Japan? I know Daisuke/Pachi said they were adding characters based on playstyle variety so it's sort of up in the air now that the Xrd roster is feeling a lot more filled out.

It doesn't matter who you play because everyone who plays GG should bear witness to the deity-level skill exhibited by Ogawa, and lucky for you Goldenrody just uploaded like 4 videos of just that. The only thing more God-affirming than Ogawa Zato is FAB working miracles with XRD Chumpkin, who, despite repeated and supported conclusions that correctly deny his outright shittiness, is still the worst character by far in a game that features the likes of Chipp "FIND MEH" Zanuff, Sol "Totally Fafnired" Badguy, and Ramlethal "Damage for days" Valentine. What's more, FAB was the only one able to beat Ogawa in those aforementioned videos. Admittedly, I shed a tear, for I had never before seen such an awesome display of such unbridled Zeppian Patriotism in the face of such overwhelming odds. Oh yeah, and Samitto's Chipp is great for long elevator rides if you've got a internet capable mobile device, because one way or another, the match is over in around a minute or so.

FAB’s GGXrd tier list S Zato, Faust, Sol A Millia, Ramlethal, Chipp B Ky, May, Axl, I-No C Venom, Slayer, Bedman D Potemkin THE GREAT FINAL ATOMIC BUSTER HAS SPOKEN! POTEMKIN F[#RELOAD]UCKING SUCKs! But seriously, I think the most interesting thing here is the C-tier characters. Venom's under discussion (does he just lack Damage?), Slayer lost 2H and Pilebunker range (and damage), and Bedman just seems like a mixed bag, honestly. Also, I would reason that Axl could be here too given his downgraded game-plan. Either way, I'm very interested to see how these characters change in the coming months/releases. Making meh characters good is always more exciting than making good characters great or whipping out the nerf guns.

Man, this is like the second or third time I've been able to catch Xrd on Twitch (first time was like the opening weekend tourney when everyone and their mom was Axl), but christ almighty this game looks so great at 60fps. The difference compared to youtube is out of this world. It also makes the game looks so much faster. If there still existed some inane complaint or doubt in Xrd's potential in the back of my mind, well, it is there no longer.

Obviously I haven't played the game, but I'm going to be pretty f#cking disappointed if and when I get Xrd and my brother consistently beats me because Potemkin is shit now. But then again, he mains Slayer, so I might be ok. THEN AGAIN, our best friend mains FAUST OHFUK. Regardless, looking at how the reported tier lists have been generally structured, I feel game balance in general would benefit greatly from giving Venom some help with whatever he needs (damage?), and giving Potemkin his AC tools back (heat knuckle oki, 5P hits crouch, 2S VACUUM GOD DAMN WITH XRD PUSHBACK COME ON) and maybe letting air ICPM be combo'd into from jH or something. That flame pillar will never ever be even remotely useful though. What in the actual fudge were they thinking? In terms of Axl, seeing as how his damage seems ok but his gameplan is boring, is it even possible to easily "fix" him? Oh, and while they're at it, give Mr. Zepp his old defense rating back FFS. I know Pachi allegedly hates grapples, but when the only character in the game without a standard forward dash DOESN'T have a SIGNIFICANTLY higher defense, then there's something wrong.

Seeing as how the Valentines are so similar to Aria, I always figured the Backyard just started making them with space-magic-voodoo after Justice/Aria was sealed there for so long (she left an imprint or something idunno). Kind of like an old mattress that has a human figure worn into it. Although that completely falls apart if Justice was never in the backyard. Where did the Holy Order even seal her? That aside, does anyone have any ideas how Sin will make use of YRCs? Elphelt is pretty obvious what with grenade spacing and gun shenanigans, but Sin just strikes me as a fusion of Ky and Staff-Equipped-Litchi I hope they both have some cool options, because if I've learned anything from the previous Axl discussions, it's that good YRC options correlate to a fun character.

Would you guys rather see Xrd go the way of SSF4, with periodic "expansions" that come with 1 or 2 new characters and new stages/music (in a more timely manner), or instead go the traditional Xrd > Xrd#Reload > Xrd/Slash. Something tells me the former would help "cement" Xrd in the FGC, as people would know it as GG: Xrd or just Xrd and not some "subtitle of the month" that divides up the player base (if this was even a problem). Personally, I'm on the fence, but in the end I just want ArcSys to do whatever allows them to pump out new characters as fast a possible. Large (and DIVERSE) fighting game rosters make me a particularly special kind of happy Also, with regards to Elphelt, I had myself a good chuckle when I realized her "intro" reminds me of a T-800 getting pushed/released off the assembly line. The Guns N' Roses hits just keep on rollin'. And while I initially put of by her saccharine appearance, her mannerisms and emotes are fucking precious.

Trailer was hype, Leo looks SICK (Daisuke for the love of god give him a gothic-power metal theme PUH-LEASE), Sin's theme (?) sounds badass and Elphelt looks like a blast (hah...) to play. But I have to say, that new stage is absolutely GORGEOUS Like seriously, the other stages are awesome (Zepp Center Arsenal and Edinburgh magical polis are personal favorites), but GAHD DAYUM Now that I think about it, XRD's stunning visuals actually make me care about the stages, which is something I've never really experienced before for a fighting game.

Why exactly does Axl get such shit representation? I don't understand. EVERY character in XRD, and even in AC+R, had at least 1 or 2 players that made them look like AC+ Eddie tier, except Axl. Even now in XRD, we still see Chumpkin clean house with FAB and Konsome, Samitto utterly destroys with Chipp and Fino and Heven do great work with Venom (why is Venom considered low tier anyway?). The only thing that comes close was Mitsurugi trolling Roi in some random Goldenrody vid.

Watching Samitto destroy when I noticed what looks like an infinity symbol on Burger Sheriff's Burger-Bag. dude literally has an infinite supply.

Well, looks like we know where Axl got his short shorts from. I never knew how closely that song and T2 were related. MAYBE EL IS SECRETLY A T-9000 SENT THROUGH TIME TO KILL AXL!!! Also, it just hit me that Elphelt looks like a Guilty-Geared up Nurse Joy. Brock/10 would main.

Elphelt stage: Dragonica Falls (shares the forest with Millia) Stage Theme: Welcome to the Jungle I really, REALLY hope Daisuke go nuts and makes Elphelt's theme a head bobbin', guitar chuggin' riff-tastic groove, think Paradigm's theme but Fancier. It would be the perfect foil for her saccharine appearance. I'll be disappointed if it's "girly/bubbly" like May's theme. And is it true that El will have to reload her weapons? Because that makes her 100X cooler. DEM ACTION RELOADS SON.