Please return stagger on vs Crouching to the old way!

There was a lot of negativity coming out about FS from the VF players over there. Shou and another VF player from Japan said it wasn't liked (he said it was called the boring game on his forum) and the popularity ratings in the arcade mags were lower than before. Everyone I've asked that played all 3 versions of VF5 liked VF5R the best. I don't think I like any of the changes they made in FS myself.

Don't know if anythings changed over there now or if newer players are getting into it or not.

Is this good news?

Guess it depends. I'm leaning towards yes. It's no secret that they went out of their way and took a different path with FS to dumb VF down and did things to make VF more accessible (the way throw escapes work, etc.) and flashy (long combos) to try and bring in players. So, maybe with this update, they'll try to bring VF back a lil closer to its roots and undo what they did, as far as an update will allow them.

That's my take on it anyways.

I'm pretty sure this will just be a balance update, so good-bye Taka, Akira and Jacky

I think that shit was pretty silly since it just meant you need to be ready to mash on your stick at any sitatuation, the FS way of just giving good advantage drives the same point but with no added redudant execution.

Wrong!

If your opponent decided to attack in disadvantage with the only universal move that allows you to instant duck at -4 to -9 which is 2p, then the elbow would stagger and not only mc you. Yes, you need to stagger recover and chance getting hit again. What a perfect way in the game to shutdown your stupidity for not hit checking.

I think it's absurd that fs took this away just to sell more copies. Oh wait, that didn't work.

I want vf back not Sesame Street Fighter.

Sega please..

Good to know. Now, fix the freaking game, so I can have my target audience back. This new generation has no chops.

Your target audience? I don't think you're on the dev team for the game. Otherwise, you could "fix the game" yourself.

There's no need to be elitist regarding video games at all quite frankly. Sure, we can argue things have gotten dumbed down to some regard, but to be dismissive of the "new generation" when everyone was, at one point, a "beginner" to the game is just a bad attitude to have, especially on a game like Virtua Fighter. While I do think some things could be changed from FS Version A (I like MarlyJay's suggestion regarding 2P), it's not as if the game is fundamentally broken. It's still "Virtua Fighter". It just happens to be a little different in some ways, and depending on how it's viewed, some are better and some are worse.

You only had to do one input to get out of elbow staggers, no mashing was necessary.