Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown announced for consoles!

[Kruza]

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Here is the entertaining Grand Finals matchup of the VF5FS tourney at the NorCal Regionals.

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And videos of matches from the VF5FS tourney at SouthTown Arcade this past Friday night will be posted in a few days.

Kruza

[Cyros]

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Love TastySteve's enthusiam.

[Kruza]

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Heh, the guy knows his wrestling moves... that's for sure.

Here are video streams covering the second VF5FS NA Tournament from South Town Arcade from last weekend.

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Kruza

[Kruza]

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Shidosha of Beyond Gaming was at the PAX East convention this past weekend and checked out the booths with VF5FS on display. He has uploaded videos of the archived TwitchTV streams covering his experience with the game plus the Q&A interview with Frank from Sega of America at the bottom clip.

Note: The VF5FS footage starts around the 12:40 mark in the Day 1 video.

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Kruza

[Control-X]

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Wonderful. Wish they'd do a cross versus the King of Fighters characters...

[goh]

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The 3D KoF wasn't very good.

[Control-X]

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Yeah honestly, the 3D KoF is crap but Sega-AM2 could help SNK-Playmore on that (3D Fighting) if they team up and do a crossover game, just like what Namco and Capcom is doing (SF X Tekken; Tekken X SF).

[Kruza]

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If the Virtua Fighter series is slated to be part of any crossover games with another fighting game franchise in the future it'll likely be the Dead or Alive series. In fact, a few characters from the VF series have been confirmed to be on the roster of the upcoming DOA5 that's dropping later this year. Now back the main point of this post...

Weeks after the Chibita interview was given comes one featuring Fuudo, another world renown top ranked VF player. As mentioned before, both of these guys will be squaring off in an exhibition match next month at the console VF5FS pre-release party in Los Angeles.

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Kruza

[Kruza]

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Here are two video streams covering the third VF5FS NA Tournament at South Town Arcade in San Francisco last weekend.

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Kruza

[Kruza]

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The release date for the console versions of VF5 Final Showdown has finally been announced!

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Release dates
PlayStation Network - June 5
Xbox Live Arcade - June 6

Core VF5FS game: $15 or 1200 MS points
Single character item DLC pack: $4 or 400 MS points
Item DLC bundle for 9-10 characters: $15 or 1200 MS points

It all adds up to 45 bucks to get the entire package. That's a very good deal!

In other news, the staff at Gamespot was able to interview a few participants of the VF5FS tournament that recently took place at the Shadowloo Showdown 2K12 event in Australia. It's a good read.

Pro gamers on Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown

And let's not forget the pre-release party in Los Angeles this upcoming Saturday night. Along with exhibition matches that are scheduled among those who are invited to this party, various seasoned, longtime players of the VF series will also be interviewed throughout the event.

Kruza

[Kruza]

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Maxwell McGee of Gamespot interviews Sega of America's Patrick Riley while they cover various features in Training and Customization modes for VF5FS.

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Kruza

[Sausage]

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I just realized this will be released on XBLA and PSN. Brilliant move in my opinion and the many gameplay videos have me more than interested. I have never took the time to really learn a fighting game, but really enjoyed this game on the PS2 or Xbox years ago.

Kruza, will this game have any single player elements?

Thanks,

Sausage

[goh]

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I thought the DLC was extra. There's no in-game items.

Q: What's the difference between porting a packaged title and a downloadable title?
M: Definitely the amount of space we have. XBLA has a memory limit, so we couldn't include everything into the game. Because of our discoveries, we decided to sell the items as separate DLC.
K: Considering the price, we decided to go with allowing people to really just enjoy fighting against one another.

Q: I'm sure that you guys are already accustomed to porting arcade titles, so how was porting this game for you?
K: It was a relatively smooth process to check all of the designs and whatnot because we had the arcade division right beside us.
M: When we eventually started porting the game, the most important thing is whether it's the same as the arcade version. Checking Daytona USA with the arcade version was a real pain because we had to use the arcade cabinet, but this was a fairly recent title, so we we able to use the game's debug mode, so in that sense it went fairly smoothly. However, the volume was the real work for us.
K: Yeah, there are A LOT of items.

Q: So did you plan to include items?
M: At first that was the plan. That would've been a way to get players motivated to play.

Q: However, the items are extra DLC?
M: The minimum amount of items 1 character has is 600 pieces, and the largest being around 900. We're still trying to figure out how to sell the items, but I think we'll be able to offer a reasonable price to our users. At first we were thinking that maybe people would buy the game and then unlock items as they play, but for this game title there are items that are specialized for battle, and there's also a problem that even though users want to quickly fight, having to unlock items through offline play is totally different from the aim of this game.

For those who are interested the items, we figured that allowing people to buy the DLC and customize quickly was a good idea, but even if you don't you can still enjoy playing the game. Also, I think I should mention this first, but if you don't have the items purchased, then you won't be able to see those items even if your opponent has them equipped. (Reno's note: This means that DLC is NOT included in the final game, so it is a size issue due to XBLA.)

http://virtuafighter.com/forums/ubbthreads.php/topics/318498/Famitsu%20Inteviews%20Murayama%20and

So that entirely cripples the single player if not shelling out for the DLC items.

[Kruza]

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Kruza, will this game have any single player elements?

Thanks,

Sausage

Outside of the standard Arcade mode, there is a License Challenge Mode and a Special Sparring mode included. Not much info has been revealed on what is done on these single player modes yet though.

Kruza

[Kruza]

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As mentioned before, the pre-release VF5FS party took place last night in Los Angeles. And the highly anticipated series of matches between Chibita and Fuudo has been uploaded.

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Plus an archived video clip covering the entire four-hour event can be seen on TwitchTV. Various matches showing players going up against the established star players can been seen at the link below.

Pre-Release Console VF5FS Party

Kruza