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I read the fewer characters statement not as "We decided to retire these characters permanently" but as "We don't have enough time to put in everyone, so a few characters got low priority and won't be joining the cast until DLC and/or an update".

Kohatsu Arcade announced a while ago that the Arcade version will be released in Spring 2014.

Fake/Simulated 60fps version of the 2nd trailer by nded from NeoGAF, for those interested.

And two letters away from the potential lawsuit. Most likely the typical L/R mistake, though.

The new trailer is also available on Arc's channel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5pkaWp8Xso. Nothing different though. Looks like Bullet Heaven is less of a gunblade and more of a special casing for the Fireseal.

Nope, the only time Guilty Gear is mentioned is in part 3 of that TGS PDF, in 三和電子/Sanwa/Miwa/SCC Electronics' description, but in "working with Arc Systems Works, the creators of Guilty Gear and BlazBlue" sense.

Something from NeoGAF: Kohatsu Acrade announced new games for Sega's ALL.NET service, among them is Guilty Gear Xrd sometime in Spring 2014.

TGS info 1, 2 and 3, all in Japanese. Xrd is absent from Arc's lineup, unfortunately.

Nothing concrete about Overture chars, other than Ishiwatari neither confirming nor denying Sin's possible inclusion when asked in the interview during the loketest.

The problem is, AC+ was released in '08, and those who bough its later re-releases mostly consisted of old guard fans, and the franchise was basically in semi-hibernation while BB stole the spotlight for next 5 years. Xrd is for all intents and purposes a brand relaunch, with the aim to both bring back a lot of old retired-from-GG veterans and to attract a new, broader audience, so like it or not an extensive story recap for the home release is quite likely.

An Idea for EX-mode Ky: Ride the Lighting (the normal one, not the old EX tyrant rave-like one) + Grinder Seal = An Overdrive that travels from one corner to another in 1 frame.

If taking the Drama CD AU into account, That Man was under Justice's thumb for the most of the Crusades.

The Venom videos debunked my guesses that Baiken and other characters with asymmetrical designs will avoid flipping their clothes/missing limbs etc.

Timeslow at the 7min mark.

Obvious Alt costume: Normal Sol with DI Jacket. Also, we should consolidate all the findings into one separate thread for easier navigation, or is that SRK post good enough for now? EDIT: Seems nobody wants to get banned for recording stuff until the whole loktest is over with.

Hide it for those with Epilepsy, just in case.

Wait, how will Dust-then-Dash-Forward will work with Pots?

Before anyone complains about Potemkin looking like a German instead of a Russian, IRL Pre-Soviet Imperial Russia borrowed a lot from Germany (and discarded some of Russian traditional things, like long beards for nobles, which were forcefully cut down by the first Emperor's orders) during the Emperor Peter the I's reforms which transfromed the "insignificant outdated kingdom from Eastern Europe" (As the Europeans saw it) into the "Modern European Empire".

Since going 3D means that they have to build models from scratch, what if they took advantage of it and changed Eddie a little? For example, we control Eddie in his shadowform full time, and the only time we see Zato himself is when Eddie spits him out of his body to help him as a puppet. EDIT: Also, what are the chances that those 4 characters are going be all new/not new but making their fighting game debut (Overture guys, mainly)?

If one particular novel is canon, in 2187 Chipp works as a bodyguard of the President of A-Country (former USA).

In unlikely case that Eddie will not make it to the Loktest: -Dizzy -Potemkin -May -Slayer

I remember an old Pachi interview/twitter/drunk rambling about removing FRCs and other complicated stuff from future GG (and turning it 3D, not that we mind now). Seems he was really serious.

Anybody knows how Japan reacted to the apparently-no-FRC news, and to the system news in general?

Hypothetically, if everybody complains at the loktest about the lack of FRC, will Arc listen and bring them back?

To those who think that the entire XX cast will return in the final product: while creating and using new 3D models is cheaper and faster than the drawing full 2D spritesheets, it is certainly not cheap and fast, and Arc is not as rich as Capcom. So it is unlikely that we will see everyone from the get go.