also want to add, new Iron Tager is some crazy bullshit, I love it.

yeah I don't know what the fuck the nu DLC is supposed to be. I assume her pallete/voice?

>>1481
I didn't understand it either, maybe this will help.

Q: What is the deal with Unlimited Lambda/Nu?
A: Unlimited Lambda is basically Lambda with Nu's moves, or Nu with Lambda's moves, depending on how you look at it, and is just called "Nu" on the select screen. She's also more powerful in general (has all the Unlimited properties.

Still no idea. I knew about unlimited characters in CT, but can you play them outside of single player, like tournaments?

Ever notice how every blazblue character was specifically designed to maximize appeal with a particular fandom or fetish? I guess they figured taokaka fell too much into the catgirl and cute groups to appease furries.

Anyway I cant wait too see more official artwork of her, like this one. They sure do take fanservice seriously in japan!

where is my guilty gear reboot

also no matter what they do to this game it doesn't change me from believing hazama is one of my favorite fighting game characters to play ever.

I'll be getting this when it comes out, looks pretty fun

>>1484

>>1482

You cannot play them in tournaments but you can find online player game lobbies where people just dick around with only unlimited

Regardless,
Blazblue is still my favorite fighting game as they do not require me to know one frame links and I cannot wait for CS, hopefully it busts my ass back into Blazblue.

>>1491

I liked guilty gear because it wasn't links but combos actually took relatively more skill to perform.

As someone who hasn't touched Blazblue, how bad would it be to start getting into it when CS comes out? I wouldn't mind another fighter.

>>1492

>>1495

If you know how to play any other fighter you can play BB

>>1495

The thing i like about Blazblue is that it's not hard at all to get up into and play.

who are the rushdown characters so I can know who to try out

>>1499

I'd say Ragna, Noel, Bang, and Taokaka are a good start. The thing is with Games like GG/BB every character plays a shit ton different, unlike in say Street fighter, so you'd be better off trying everyone to try and get a feel for who you like the most.

>>1499

Well I don't think you should limit yourself to "rushdown" because heck lambda and arakune probably end up throwing out more attacks than anyone.

>>1499
Its difficult to choose a main just based on playing by yourself since you only have combos to go on. I thought tao was pretty cool at first but then I watched some videos of high level play with her and it kind of made me lose all interest.

That being said I play cs at the chinatown arcade in New York a lot and I mostly use bang and tager with a little bit of ragna and hakumen from time to time.

Tager is definitely my favorite character because he's so outrageously over the top, I'm pretty bad with him and try to buster a lot more than I should but every time I use him is just such a laugh. Bang and Ragna are pretty cool because they have easy and satisfying air combos that make me feel SO FUCKING PRO whenever I pull off. Bang's super mode is really awesome too, even though its autolose for me when I go into it.

>>1502
well I'm going to check out everyone, it's just that I either pick an all rushdown character or all zoning one. thanks for the prospects guys, I'll check them out first

>>1503

Hey, you're a CTF bro? we should play sometime, i bought an arcade stick to practice with at home so I shouldn't be horrible on stick :|

How many of you niggiz go to CTF?
I myself am I CTF scrub. Yet to play any BlazBlue though ><

>>1507

I go to CTF on occasion. Shit is fun, though last time I played CS there I had absolutely no stick experience and an arukune got me in a 70+ hit combo, if any of you know that guy ;-;

I dont work in the city anymore so I'm not at ctf as much as I used to be, but its a really fun place. A few weeks ago some middle aged asian businessman taught me how to use yun.

>>1495

BlazBlue is fighting game beginner mode.

It requires much less techincal know-how, has basically no okizeme/wake-up game outside of specific situations, etc.

Just pick Ragna and do bread-n'-butter for easy victory with no effort at all.

>>1519
lol kid sucks at BB

>>1520

Pretty much

Can japanese copies play with american copies?

Thinking of importing.

>>1520
>>1521

oh u

>>1530

They could with CT, so I imagine it'd be the same with CS.

>>1519
A fighting game is only as hard as your opponent.

>>1533
Also the wake up game is tech-chasing.

>>1533

And how skilled your opponent is depends greatly on how much the game holds his hand.

>>1534

actually there are quite a few moves that force neutral techs.

>>1536
In my experience this hasn't really been the case. I mean its not like the game thinks for you. It just makes comboing alot easier so punishment is enhanced and there's less room to slip up in the lower skill levels.

>>1551

It's a slower fighter regardless, the only thing is that it's just this generation, all games are slow. SF4, Blazblue, TvC(not slow, just really really easy) just feel like steps back.

>>1552

Blazblue is not slow, and if you think it is you are having incredibly low level matches.

>>1553

Well, I take that back because it's not hard to become a decent player in blazblue, but the game is not slow, and i cannot see how you would think it is in any regard

>>1553

Blazblue's definitely slower than Guilty Gear, maybe that's what he meant

however, in the grand scheme of things its not a slow fighter by any stretch of the definition

>>1551

Combos and mechanics are a lot less strict in BB than they are in many other modern fighters. I don't have to worry about frame windows nearly as much unless I'm playing Tager or something.

That, and BB relies a lot more on linking shit, gives you an extra burst just for losing, etc.

It obviously doesn't play the game for you, but acting like it's not a lot easier and more forgivable than other fighters is just being silly.

i tried playing blazblue once.

it seemed fun but really unreliable strategically. so since then i never really saw reason to be extra good at it.

>>1555

Yes, Slow"er" fighter.

>>1556

I don't think many people here would say that blazblue is GOD TIER EXECUTION GAME, but you're really selling it short saying the game plays for you. It's fine.

>Combos and mechanics are a lot less strict in BB than they are in many other modern fighters

Modern fighters are all going easymode now. SF4 is the only one that keeps some semblance of high skill ceiling with links.

>gives you an extra burst just for losing

And if you win because of double burst, your opponent gets an extra burst. Pretty sure the double burst was to help with some bad matchups caused by BB:CT's zoning gods. Id take bursts for losing over ultras for losing as a "comeback" mechanic always and forever.

>It obviously doesn't play the game for you, but acting like it's not a lot easier and more forgivable than other fighters is just being silly.

We're just asserting the point that it still holds water as a fighter. I still don't know what you mean by modern fighters because all modern(this gen fighers, this excludes GG/SF3/MBAA/KoF etc generation) fighters excluding SF4/SSF4 are pushing the border towards casual shit. Even then SF4 and SSF4 try to sneak in as much casual shit as possible to make learning the game an absolutely horrible experience.

As a side note, doesn't psy. play SSF4 better than most people here? He enjoys BB why cant you?

>>1560

>Modern fighters are all going easymode now. SF4 is the only one that keeps some semblance of high skill ceiling with links.

You need to play other shit, like GG and Arcana Heart. I'd still consider GG to be a modern fighting game. Accent Core is only about 3 years old and would'a had a new installment by now if not for all the legal shit that happened [and BB being in the derplight].

>>1561
I would totally be down for learning GG if I knew anyone that played that game. To me GG is all around just better than blazblue. Better characters, better music, faster, harder combos. Hell the only reason I play Blazblue is because GG is dead in Georgia and BB is the next best thing. Hopefully GG will get another game soon.

>>1562
Arcana heart on the other hand is just a bit too weaboo for me. I mean BB pushes it close enough as it is.

>>1562

The GG scene in America isn't as strong as it used to be. It's also spread out as fuck, even compared to most scenes. Be prepared to drive long ways to get matches, depending on where you are. One of the benefits of living in Nipponville is that I just take a quick hop to Tokyo to get in matches of anything.

I wouldn't worry too much about THIS GAME IS TOO WEEABOO -- a good game is a good game. People who say that shit still play MvC2 or main Ken, so it's not like they're doing anything worthwhile with their lives.

I would much rather play Magical Fighting Girls Spirit Battaru, as opposed to Tiers: The Game.

>>1564
but Tiers: the game is plenty of fun. I love smash brothers.

>As a side note, doesn't psy. play SSF4 better than most people here? He enjoys BB why cant you?

To be fair, I picked it up because I was brand new into fighting games and wanted to try them all out. Had I watched videos or something beforehand, I wouldn't have picked it up for the 2 reasons I stopped playing it now. 1) Nu, the fucking whore bitch that made me stop playing Tager, and 2) I don't like fanservice and panty shots. I get it, Taokaka is a girl and likes boobies, but c'mon now... Only good thing was the 100+ matches I had while playing without the slightest frame of lag.

On the other hand, I still play BB:CS from time to time on my PC and I can't WAIT for the release since not only is it very well balanced, it's still a good and fun game. Not to mention, people here are gonna actually play this version of it. But I ONLY play Tager, so I don't know where my opinion stands. I like how easy it is to do combos, but actually getting in to start it is where the skill comes in. Comboing after a throw is nasty as hell, too. I like it.

real talk though, the games today look (are) sooooo much easier compared to what these old schoolers played.

ok the end.

>>1567

>2) I don't like fanservice and panty shots. I get it, Taokaka is a girl and likes boobies, but c'mon now...

You should play her story mode.

>very well balanced

I wouldn't go that far.

>>1568
I meant a million times more balanced than CT, which I guess to some people is still not balanced. I don't know who has what kind of 3-7 fights, but I know Tager has less hassle and that's all I care about.

Also, I haven't played a single player game in over 12 years.

>>1568

>only 2 characters considered C tier(Tager, Rachel)
>not well balanced

<_>

  Fan OST's to satisfy my hunger.

Now that we've had enough talk about Blazblue, who wants to fucking play some matches? Chopz KoDaiEiji on 360, come on man i wanna play sum gaems

  so from watching these videos it looks like litchi's playstyle is to do footsies until you touch them with any button then do a 6k combo that pushes them into the corner, then do that staff super which causes an unblockable (?) and then do another 6k off of that to win.

Am I wrong here? Look at how much harder that jin player worked and he still lost :(

>>1574

Jin has to land more combos because his specials are great. Litchi doesn't have a stellar reversal, it's good but anyone used to litchi is going to punish it very, very, very hard, so shes a glutton for punishment without fast close pokes, so shes pretty uncomfortable up close. I've seen 3v3 steamrolls like this for about every character now(well, every S and A tier character) so it really doesn't discourage me. That litchi was just better than them because she faught two essentially equal characters before. That super isn't unblockable btw it's just nasty for oki and I really don't know what that ragna was trying to do during it.

A problem with litchi now is that her combos are really, really, easy compared to CT. Longer but more lenient. I had my friend who is a lvl 50-73~(fuck I dunno all I know is he only seems to get matched up against 70s and 80s) lichi call me and complain about it once he finally got his hands on the CS arcade crack.

Someone finally has his copy and there are character data folders for Platinum Trinity and
Valkenhyne

Who is platinum trinity am I missing something.

>>1570

>pretending that half the cast is actually used

>>1577
well hmm lets look at characters of SBO qualifiers

litchi
carl
hazama
jin
bang
lambda
taokaka
hakumen
arakune

9 out of 14, ragna is a more than capable character so thats 10 out of 14. I'll put this game down for you if you quit spewing shit out your ass.

>>1578
I would like to take this opportunity to point out that last year 12 out of 12 characters were represented for CT.

The balance got worse, everyone go home.

>>1579

Qualifiers aren't even done yet so wait n see!

>>1578

>half of the cast has -30 match-up totals or more
>bang and litchi [ragna can come along too] way ahead of everybody else
>balanced
>trying to use qualifier representation to curtain the truth

it's okay, i know you're frustrated, we can help you

>>1576
-V

>>1582

Ya mang these matchups are horrible. Not to mention this is still fairly early.

>>1584

Don't get me wrong this doesn't have the stellar balance that SSF4 has atm but come on if you don't consider these numbers workable how the hell did you play older fighters.

>>1584
>>1585

Because the characters that are low tier have a pretty unfavorable match-up against the characters who aren't. That's pretty much what unbalanced means.

There are much worse games, but I still don't feel that BB is to the point where it can be considered a balanced series yet. And yeah, it's only like that because it's young and all, but yeah.

At least CS isn't the fucking horrible shitfest that CT was.

>>1586

Only series I really feel comfortable calling balanced is SSF4. Hardly anything drips below 6:4 even for its gigantic cast.

>>1595

Like I said in the other thread, though, SSIV is only two months old. Most fighters are "balanced" when they come out because none of the skewed shit is obvious yet.

Until we start seeing more major tournaments, we shouldn't be labeling it as anything yet. It's shaping up to be a lot better than SFIV was, but that's not exactly difficult.

>>1608
How is that "not exactly difficult" when SFIV was already the best balanced Street Fighter ever

  Mu-12 Theme

  Ragna vs Mu?

>>1612

Because the balance was shit.

SF has never ever been a balanced series.

>>1617
Aw man I got scooped.

>>1621
>Because the balance was shit.

As long as you realize you're the only person on the planet that believes that.

>>1624

Taken from "Top 50 SFIV players from Japan":

01. Mago (Sagat) 555.033
02. Daigo Umehara (Ryu) 375.365
03. Ojisan Boy (Sagat) 357.451
04. RF (Sagat) 299.149
05. Tokido (Akuma) 214.968
06. Uryo (C. Viper) 199.367
07. Momochi (Akuma) 192.492
08. Shiro (Abel) 192.209
09. Radiowave (Sagat) 192.065
10. Rikuson (Sagat) 173.081

11. Eita (Akuma) 168.420
12. Kindevu (Rufus) 164.788
13. Oaru (Sagat) 147.768
14. Hamaa (Sagat) 147.269
15. Akua (Sagat) 143.007
16. Hishou (Sagat) 141.644
17. Pie (Sagat) 140.652
18. MDR (Rufus) 137.408
19. Bean (Sagat) 136.295
20. Akame Ryu (Ryu) 135.690


cool balance, bro

>>1625
>>1624

>>1626

>>1627

it's okay to be upset, guys

anger is a passing thing

but who's really the one upset here...

>>1630

Probably nobody

I would hope so, anyway

I get happy over petty internet argument victories

>>1629
lol I think that topknot's cutting off bloodflow to his head

Okay so if you faggots are done, would anyone actually like to play Blazblue?

>>1644

no I refuse to play fighting games with even 1 frame delay

after playing ct for a while I really like ragna, but something tells me I am playing the ken of blazblue. oh well he's everything I could ask for in a rush down character

>>1646

This game's ken is Jin, and everyone is just mad because Ragna isn't that hard to play.`

>>1647
he's not really hard to do stuff with, but I feel that the hard part of him is getting in. He's not as hard to keep out as say tager but with the low health he has to make few mistakes. I only really played against a friend who played jin so I may just be talking out my ass though.

>>1648

No, not at all as a fellow Ragna player I can understand what you're talking about. Getting in with Ragna sometimes is difficult and yeah with his low health a couple of fuckups and you are blown away. There are strategies for getting in though and it's just a matter of playing and understanding what to do against every character. You get used to it.

So seriously, does anyone want to play? I want to bust some ass(?)

>>1649
I would, but I don't have xbox live. Mind giving me some ragna tips though? Like when should I be using his drive moves, and is 214 b of any use?

  >>1650

His drive moves are normally for the ends of combos, for the most part. I haven't played Blazblue in a while so I cannot even remember what 214 B is, give me a reminder. All the tips you generally need for combos are in the beginner video, if you haven't watched that, do so. If you need tips beyond that, I can only say get a bit creative. This game is easy on that side in the fact that if I tell most beginners that they can generally link something that they think they can, it will work ( in most occasions) up until a certain point. Things to keep in mind is that his range is one of his best tools and that pretty much every super has invincibility frames at startup

oh boy now I can pretend I'm playing arcana heart!

>>1652
I really like the look of that butler, does he have a backstory yet?

Augh I am really not happy with Platinum's design.
On the bright side, he/she/it had some awesome lines in story mode ("dirt-eating mongoloid", "mouth-breathing pedophile") so maybe they'll keep that crude style in battle.
I guess we won't see playable Relius until the next game~

>>1654

He's Rachel's butler, one of the six heroes, has a very sour relationship with hazama. Arguably one of the strongest beings in existance.

>>1654
It's Valkenheim.

>>1654

Can't wait to play Platinum and troll the fuck out of people

hnnnnng

  Owns.

  also owns

>>1742

No, not really.

  looks like fun

  why don't people just play this instead??

>>1857

Japanese PS2 only
Broken as fuck
High execution requirement for a broken fighter
More fun to watch japanese videos of people breaking the game.

>>1858
You forgot 'Instant Kills are easy as fuck to pull off.'

Yeah, it's more fun to watch than play.

Also no online.

  So you should just play JoJo's instead.

>>1864
Jojo's is the absolute best anime fighting game of all time, no contest

  man I cant fucking wait

  NOT THE BEES!

>>1997
that stuff is uncalled for! be nice and start your own thread if you like GG.

CS next week Tuesday, fuck YEAH!

>>1997
:(

>>2006
don't mind him.

he's too busy not playing a real fighter like 3rd strike to realize his own folly.

hrm yes this makes sense

>>2144

That image doesn't have ragna's purple effects on it. There's a lot more to that image.

w/w/w/w/w/

blaz blue uses hitbockses?

>>2144
I enjoy BB quite a bit but I really do get pissed off at the half-screen size hitboxes.

Its the 2nd hit of a series attack, its not to hard to understand why it would have a huge hitbox.

Not to mention there's the PURPLE EVERYWHERE ingame, which isn't shown on the sprites..

Fuck that might even be his blood kain hitbox.

GODDAMN THESE HALFSCREEN ATTACKS BECAUSE I'M TOO TERRIBLE TO PUNISH.

>>2198
yeah that looks more like blood kain

so how 'bout buyin this game tomorrow

I'll have it tommorow, :L

lucky bastards my gamespot doesn't get it in until wednesday

>>2308
gamestop even

>>2308
I'm hoping this isn't the case, I'm going away on a trip next week so it would mean less playtime for me.

Time to sit there and watch youtube videos to come up with combos so I can do well off the bat, if anyone wants to play tommorow i should have it,

Time to sit there and watch youtube videos to come up with combos.

  Watch out Smash community a new comp. party game is coming soon

>>2337
All stages banned for circular play.

Also mini-Tao~

>>2337
This game's soundtrack is too loud and distracting ban it from tourney play

CS is here, taking challenges on 360 for some time, Chopz KoDaiEiji

cant play CS on a stick i'm horrible

>Go to gamestop.com
>Enter ZIP code on BBCS page
>There are no products for 100 miles
Goddamn are you serious

>>2353
yeah mine wasn't in today i hope it'll be in tomorrow

bought it today. For PS3 because that's what my stick is for. I should just buy a 360 stick but whatever

>>2360

a lot of really good players use PSN, hell the only people I know that don't use PSN are the people I actually play IRL with.

Awesome, got it today.
Challenge mode is kicking my ass 'cus I suck.

>>2364

So far the only thing thats hung me up in challenge mode is Hazamas bnb(challenge 6 is essentially his BnB, minus multi hit drives) because you have to wait till 214D -> C has completely recovered to input your dash forward or the animation will eat the input, then after you dash you have to make sure theres a few solid frames between the dash and when you do your C input or it will be read as 6c.

man fuck this.

Yeah, I tried some of the Hazama challenges today. Took ten minutes to do one of the combos, got to the second one and well fuck that

>plot
>good
>fighting game

I shouldn't feel this waayyyy.

CT tried to force a dramatic ending but CS was thuroughly enjoyable. The writer even covered his ass for the whole Mu/Noel business in a rather well done way, It at least takes some of the edge off Hazama going LOOK GUYS MU, OH YOU RUINED MU, OH WELL IT WAS GARBAGE ANYWAY. Since he eventually achieved what he was working for anyway, getting an opportunity to kill TA, TB, TC etc. Which allowed them to destroy Amaterasu like they intended in the first place. For the sake of keeping them both playable for the next game.

Also, Hazama's writing is perfect.

I really enjoy playing Hazama, even though I'm terrible at doing combos.

>>2381

I think my top reasons for buying this game would have gone

1) story
2) new characters
3) balance fixes(?LOL?)

It's weird, but i like the story alot.

i loved the gag reels

Like, almost NONE of v-13's old combos work for lambda. I keep trying to them and it doesn't work and then I lose.

I need to find a new main :(

>>2390

the ONLY combo I have trouble with as hazama is his BnB because of that fucking dash input. His fucking mission 9 and 10 are easier.

Also Lambda feels bad because rushdown characters are S tier and litchi is a slut.

Cant wheelspam but its now a good pressure/keepaway tool, she just plays a lot better and less DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD.

>>2392
promotions
promotions for every writer

i'm going to main so hard, shes so fun to play.

lambda's gag reel ;_;

lambda's story in general :<

dat dog

Anyone up for some matches on 360?

Ranked matches are pathetic

Chopz KoDaiEiji

vsfighting is supposed to be running BBCS in september, but it doesn't come out til october wtf

gonna pick this up tommorrow. I hope it stays alive longer than a couple weeks, it's a pretty fun game.

do any of you guys play this shitty game on ps3

>>2393
WEAK!
TOO WEAK!

oh wait makoto is out today, bangs double palm thrust prorates harder, neat.

>>2465
psn needs to update already

>>2465

wait there's an updateo today? omgggg where can I see the update news

  neat

Welp my friends have fallen into, "THIS CHARACTER MAKES ME PLAY DIFFERENTLY FUCK YOURE MAIN"

I had a litchi main complain about hazama's drives :V

  >makoto's astral
wat

  Impact: D (Delayable)

Comet Cannon: 236A
---*From Comet Cannon*
----Break Shot: D

Corona Upper: 623C (Can be used mid-air)
---*After Corona Upper*
----Meteor Dive: D (Delayable)

Space Counter (Parry): 46 (Under attack)
---*After Space Counter
----Space Counter: D (Delayable)

Asteroid Vision: 214A/214B/214C
---*After Asteroid Vision*
----Break: A
----Eclipse turn: B (From 214A)
----Shooting Star: D (Delayable)
----Lunatic Upper: C (From 214A)
-----*After Lunatic Upper*
-----Mars Chopper: A
-----Star Gazer: B
-----Infinite Rush: C (Repeatable)
----Lightning Arrow: D after 214B or 214C (Delayable)

Big Bang Smash: 63216D (Delayable)
Particle Flare: 236236D (Delayable)
*After Particle Flare)
----Launch: D (Delayable)
*After Particle Flare Launch*
----Finish: D (Delayable)

Planet Crusher: 2366321D

Hey guys when do I become DLC

Got my copy recently. Having lots of fun. My friends are starting to do this though: >>2482

holy fuck I feel like a BALLER doing jump cancels. I really like how combos work in this game, and I'm enjoying more of the characters than just EZMODE TAGER, even though he's still the best.

>>2542

tager isnt easymode what the fuck stop playing people who are bad.

>>2543
In terms of combos and execution? Fuck yeah he is. I haven't played CS online yet, but he's easy as fuck.

ffs, do you all have PS3s or can i get some gaems on the 360?

>>2543

his combos are pretty damn easy but not a whole lot more so than anyone else (almost all combos are easy in blazblue with a few exceptions) learning how to buffer 720s is harder than learning his combos but still not that hard. Some are harder than others like buffering during a backdash vs buffering during 5A.

doing his challenges and such are easy but actually playing people is the hard part.

also who has it for PS3 I'd like to play some online games if our connection isn't too bad.

Augh, Litchi.
Augh.

>>2545
>>2548

Tager's combos are not particularly difficult. Using AC whiffs is a bit awkward at first and whiffed j.C->j.2C right before he hits the ground is just annoying more than particularly difficult. He's much more concerned about spacing and the relative frame speed of his moves than a lot of the other characters, though, since he has shit-all of ways to get out of pressure unless your opponent is using unsafe blockstrings.

If they are, though, any character with a DP is going to be able to abuse them repeatedly and be able to do decent rushdown to boot. Well, Tsubaki aside since she's just kind of low damage for some reason.

But really, complaining about Tager combos being simpler is a bit silly when he's punished for trying to combo for too long. Have you seen his proration rate? 40%. On most of his combos he's capping out at 3.5k for a good one, 3k on average. Several of the better rushdown characters shit 4k combos off of a poke. Even his FC combos tend to cap low compared to what a lot of people can put out.

Yeah fuck tager play a character with REAL combos that all COMBO INTO THE SAME COMBO at the end.

At least hazama has a fuckton of improv starters, makes me feel a little bit more like GG.

SO DOES ANYONE WANT TO PLAY THIS SHITTY GAME WITH ME OR WHAT

I don't know why I even care I can't combo online with the input delay

>>2561
i'll fight ya

So no one has the game for 360? Really guys? :(

I guess you can add RecklessAbbadon on 360. I tend to be a stickler for delay and I'm always set as offline.

i just picked this up for the 360 but cant play it till i get back from vacation add me to your friends lists Elf Lords
GT: BulletPrufPope

http://www.joystiq.com/2010/08/10/blazblue-continuum-shifts-second-dlc-character-revealed/

This is a good and bad thing Blazblue tries to take a lesson from guilty gear and allow a lot more improv combo starters. More learning your big numbers strings and working them into combos and less HERE IS YOUR STANDING BNB, HERE IS YOUR METERED BNB, ENJOY.

Problem is every random jackass can do these combos because the combo system is so buttfukin easy. Aside from dashes being unbufferable, which is just stupid.

its a shame that the third dlc character is a stupid piece of shit

>>2624
the design is pretty awful yeah, but I like platinum's character(s)

>>2624

Well Arksys pioneered one of the most recognizable traps in video gaming, then they joked with noel being a reverse trap.

Clearly the only other option was to make a character that is both genders.

>dashes being unbufferable

ALL OF MY HATE

Seriously, that shit is stupid. especially when I'm switching between Accent Core and CS erry day.

you know what why didn't arcsys make blazblue actually good like guilty gear

I just don't get it

>>2628

Nobody new to fighting games will buy/play guilty gear

So they release blazblue and plan a reboot of guilty gear.

>>2640

you're not late, CS just came out and it's a great time to get into the game. The netcode is good, either as good as SF or just a bit under it on a scale of 1-10, if you liked GG you should like BB

>>2640

well blazblue's a good game, I really enjoy it. They just really fucked up bad on the mechanics side.

There's pretty much zero oki because of the recovery system and everyone has a billion outs for every oki, Tager is the only one with any decent kind of oki game. The game is slowed down by how tight you can make blockstrings (which is a result of most attacks having little recovery but fuckhuge hitstun, made worse in CS). So the game kind of goes "ok its your turn doo doo doo ok you didn't mix me up its my turn now" Obviously that's what fighting games like Guilty Gear do to some extent but it just slows down BB. I think mostly the game is just slower in general and less complex. Just go on dustloop and compare frame data for characters from both games and you can see right there what I'm talking about but really its deeper than that.

I mean its not that far off guilty gear I still think its fun its just a step backwards from AC and sadly the only way to fix it is to change some really core mechanics. So I hope they just make a new GG and call it a day. It'll be a shame though because if they do absolutely no one would bother with BB anymore. Really the only reason people play it is because Guilty Gear XX is almost fuckin 10 years old now and BB is a decent, fresh game. Of course they could fix BB's recovery system, mess with the frames and shit. It'd be a big project and CS was kind of a step in the wrong direction though so I'm not too hopeful.

  you can also just compare these vids to see the difference.

  both matches are from gamechariot videos, meaning they're similarly skilled jap pros

>>2649

Now that you've actually said it in a logical way, I can see as to why some people wouldn't like blazblue. I played GG with some of my best friends and we spent the whole summer before CT talking about how BB was, because they were sick of how old GG was.

Well, i can't wait for a new GG, i'm sure i'll be impressed with what they come out with

I've picked up hazama and apparently I'm the rarity here in not having any real difficulty with his BnB's and holy shit does landing the HOU TEN JIN feel like pay day. every time.

As for CS tiers the game does certainly feel more balanced than CT (who qualified with what doesn't determine balance) which I think everyone now realizes was absolutely broken by Nu. No one feels terribly useless (sans rachel) and the usual names are still at the top of the game (Dio, Dora, Kaqn, Buppa, Zakiyama, Shadow, Dennou. Mike Z, Goryus, etc.)

>>2393
I left for the smooth criminal for the same reason, albeit I later found out that lambda has some crazy bullshit combos.

Also, so much hype for valkenhayn. so much.

his BnBs arent too hard but to really learn hazama you have to know how many drives you can land based on the height of your target and you have to improv a lot of shit.

Not to mention you're going to be doing different combos if you're low on meter. Like 3c, 214d~c, 5c, j.ccccc, 2c, 4d~d, j.ccccc, j.ccccc, 214B. Sacrifice 400~ damage for the ability to houtenjin after a few blocks/pokes.

>>2652

I dunno blazblue at this point almost has the GG feel(although slower and the hitboxes like to perfectly fit into your combos) since there's so much improv but it just doesn't have the skilllll.

>>2657

Well yeah, I can completely agree, but when Blazblue came out I had to tell myself that it wasn't going to be another Guilty gear, and i think that's why so many people are disappointed.

I'm just happy that they're releasing DLC characters if any at all, because my only real problem with bb is the lack of characters.

Also I don't think Hazama's BnB's are too hard, it just takes a bit of practice, once you get used to the chains it gets 100x easier.

  Also, BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES

>>2662
dat curse

I once was losing as arakune but then I cursed the opponent and won.

PSN - RickBelmont

on da beast coast

ps im terble

>>2662

Holy shit I finally understand the story.
Fuck is this convoluted.

But so good ;_;

(nu is love)

Got it today, playing through story.

This Relius guy looks bad ass.
>Completes Carl's route
RRRREELIUUUUUUUUUUUUSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!

So it leaked.

score attack

FUCK
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK

>>2687
>pc

maybe I will try it?!?!

>>2679
you know, as much of a clusterfuck as it was I really liked story mode in ct. Because at first you think wtf this shit makes no sense at all. But then you play through it with a few characters and start to find alternate endings, then there are parallels in different stories and you start to figure things out. Like for instance how tao's story loops back into itself and when you find out that hakumen is future jin and what not.

Thanks blazblue i'm now a massive Elf Lord.

Blazblue is one of the best written stories I can think of that uses every cliche possible, and keeps those cliches from feeling forced. It's fucking hard to explain, it's like a really well written shounen I guess(in the sense it aims for cliche and easily identifiable characters). The plot twists are all handled really well too, with enough foreshadowing so when the twist happens you connect the dots but they don't lay the foreshadowing on too thick so you catch on beforehand. Only downfall was CT's lackluster ending. NOEL DECIDED TO STICK OUT HER FUCKING HAND, YEEEEAAAAAAAHHHHHHH. Although, Now that CS and the material collection are out it makes more of an impact since the point they were trying to make is Noel shouldn't exist. Which means ragna was doomed. Pretty much happened again with CS, terumi was like YEAH IM GONNA MAKE MU AND DESTROY THINGS. OH WAIT I FOUND ANOTHER WAY TO GET SHIT DONE, MU CAN FUCK OFF AND GO BACK TO BEING NOEL. They just don't know how to end each game since it's trying to force an abrupt impactful moment at the end of each game when the story just needs to keep moving.

I just with people would translate the material collection faster. Now there's a novel coming out too and gfdgyaoihfodihoidhfiahg none of shit will make it to america.

>>2687
Looks pretty fake to me.
Pretty sure that's fanart there.

>>2702
Well I've been uh

playing it

so...

>>2703
You threw me with your suspicious looking box art, the GFW part is missing the LIVE part, as far as I'm aware there isn't a US release of the PC version planned or the US rating on the boxart is probably wrong, though I was mistaken, that's OST album art I think, not fanart.
But yeah the PC version is going to bomb because not only is CS out but everyone who want's to play it on PC can just grab the leaked arcade version of CS.

>>2704
I want to play it on PC with netplay so I just grabbed CT.

>>2705

why would you want to play CT

why why why why

>>2709
"play" in the "fuck around with for two hours and forget it exists" sense.

>>2709
Some people just love Nu.

I wish they had kept her around instead of lambda because her personality is 1000x more enjoyable than lambda. I mean they didn't have to keep her the same way as CT with BlazNu: Calamity Zoning but her parts in the alternate stories are so enjoyable :(

>>2711

well now that I think about it CT is arguably better than CS if you just ban the top 3

>>2712
yeah but that's 25% of the roster :|

I heard rumors of buffs to rachel coming soon which would be welcome since she is so crippled right now.

>>2712

No, CT is repeating 2 BnBs and versatility sucks. Might as well play MB.

>>2714
I'd take MB over BB in a heartbeat if AA was on PC.

>>2716
>>2716
this.
i would BUY that shit.

AMMATARASOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

GONNZZZOOOO

RAAAADIES AUN GENTERMEN

  This lambda is fucking crazy.

If you watch the previous parts the arakune was playing Jin before and doing really well. Don't know why he switched to a disadvantage'd match-up against lambda. Especially when that lambda had just won two matches on double straights.

  What happened with howling moon, it seemed daisuke kept getting better and better at music, then just had a mental block and made Howling moon.

Really though, just listen to early GG shit compared to X2, newer the character, more depth/personality the song has. Blazblue takes a turn in a different direction but the themes definitely have a lot of personality to them.

  >>2729
I like this one a lot

Holy shit yeah corner loop down time to main lambda

Played a spamming Jin today, just backdashed and used Icedoukens.

His ass got GIGANTIC TAGER'D

  so good

>>2687
So apparently the BB:CT PC release has cross platform play with 360.

cool

>>2775
who still playes 360

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl9hGAbvhaE

oh look it's Valkenhayn

>>2860

eeeuuuggghhhh....

curls into a ball, pops out as werewolf for 2 seconds...

Really ASW?

>>2861

my gut reaction was "fuck this game is turning into twilight" but actually I love the old horror shit. We already had vampires and frankenstein, a werewolf isn't that much of a stretch. Also now that I think about it Arakune is a lot like The Blob and Carl does have an animated killer doll... that must make Haku-men The Mummy!

>>2860
looks awesome, cant wait to play as him

>>2860
ajajajajajajajAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJA

I was on my last character before unlocking Mu when this happened.
WHAT IS... I DON'T EVEN... AAAAAAAAAA!!!!

maining platinum when she comes out

hurr

>>2898
The Fair and Beautiful ♥Princess♥ Ragna

>Rachel Gagreel

I enjoy this

I just got CT for pc today, I've been trying to main tager and so far I've been doing pretty well.

I've been having a bit of trouble with some combos though, like 2b->2c->collider->6c. I cant seem to get the collider to come out on time and they just airtech away. Any tips?

Also if anyone has any tips or gimmicks for footsies that would help too, since 2D->tick into grab can only go so far.

also if anybody wants to play my gamertag is ex messiah

the pc version of ct has cross platform with the 360 version too

>>2982
You want to cancel the 2c into Collider, right when his arms go into the air to launch. I don't know too many CT Tager tricks, I don't know how I survived without lucky SPDs, but CS gives him a million more tricks I could help you with.

I like to throw out a 2B on wake up to go into 2C > collider. Or if you poke with 5a, you can go into 5B into 3C sweep.

GET CS BRAH. Gadget finger makes Tager at least a million times more fun to play.

>>2988
maybe it just doesnt matter at the level I'm playing but tager has been an absolute blast so far. I've been eating noel jin and ragnas for breakfast all day.

Tager online is easymode.

I saw mike Z king of tager a litchi player after a 2 round comeback.

Other than that Norcal install stream was filled with noname scrubs that cant even BnB. BBCS? scrubs? who knew!

>>2994
can we all just agree not to use scrub as a term for someone who isnt good, its so fucking stupid

Alright from now on I will refer to "not good" players as "little people"

>>2996

well a scrub is specifically a person whose played the game for a while but is still shitty at it, as in he hasn't evolved his play at all. its different from just a noob who is new and his shittiness is excusable because of his inexperience.

I did it, I beat the game.

dont go yet I didnt even get my points D:

  Got Makoto today.
These combos are fun on a bun!

>>3057
She is really fun, although I'm not all that great at playing rush-down characters. I also seem to be having some difficulty in putting in the input for her Big Bang Smash. The motion for it was never really a problem for me until lately.

valkenhayn confirmed for sept. 21st release

my wallet is ready

I was thinkng of getting an import copy of CS once I got a PS3 (as the EU release will be inevitably delayed), but I just want to make sure that if I use a US copy, will I still be able to buy and use DLC from the EU PSN store?

  Valkenhayn gameplay.

FUCKING POCKET WATCH ACTION

CLASSINESS: GOD TIER

God his combos look even more scripted and less freeform than most of the cast.

What happened to guilty gear combos that was the PERFECT combo system aaaaaaa

>>3108

Of course GG did have some static combos like combos off of dust or specific clean hits but who cares.

>>3104
ffffffffffffffffff yeah!

  enjoy ur great unique characters bbfans

In my pc copy of ct when I try to play story mode there's no background music during the visual novel stuff. Anyone know how to fix that?

ok if I can just 720 here I'll beat this guy

start spinning that stick like my life depended on it

opponent does his biggest slowest move, tager does a 5c COUNTER dead

why the fuck does this keep happening, over and over and over

>>3147

just practice your 720 dude, you're probably missing a corner. its absolutely necessary to hit all the inputs in the middle of the execution but you can cut off the movement early at the end (if you didn't already know that)

by cutting off the movement early I mean you don't actually need to do a full 720 to get the 720, just like you don't need to do a full 360 to get a 360. Going 632147 is enough. So a 720 you just need a full 360 and then the 632147

>>3149
but the thing is I never have any trouble doing a 720 in training mode, but online it just seems impossible, if I'm not getting a 5c then its a collider

>>3150

well its probably just the input lag messing you up. I don't even play this game anymore because I hate playing it online because I can't do combos, can't IB on reaction, can't do anything except bait and simple combos really. My only advice is try to find a scene around where you live or just deal with it. sucks but its the truth really.

also it could be you choking under the pressure, or simply trying to do a 720 in a situation which would require you to do one faster than you're used to in training.

 az.png!CCupsNrkoE 09/19/10(Sun)01:21

  Hi, I'm a new trailer.

>>3245
wtf were they thinking?

>>3247
"lets make a character for every type of weeaboo fetish"

 METAGROSS!dRC2KgfHYM 09/20/10(Mon)18:36

Hey guys.
Valkenhayn tomorrow.

 Ghiaccio 09/20/10(Mon)18:48

>>3271
Jontelbayn.

>>3245

Hey it's a new character okay I didn't expec- BANSHEE VOICE

Valkenhayn releases.

PSN down for maintenance.

 METAGROSS!dRC2KgfHYM 09/21/10(Tue)17:38

>>3284
360 is apparently having some problems with the patch, so no update.
-((((

>>3288
Patch apparently delayed 'til the 28th

ARCCCC

so how is the wolfie?

 Sparkly Noises 09/30/10(Thu)14:41

>>3322
>Padded bra instead of underboob
I am disappoint

>>3334
well considering how she has the flattest ass in existence I'll let her

I really wonder why she didnt make the iron crosses for her fists because otherwise the costume is spot on.

 Dynamus 11/14/10(Sun)17:46

Got to borrow a freind's copy of CT since the EU release of CS has been delayed AGAIN.
If anyone with the PS3 version wants to play against a terrible Tager, Arakune or nu-13 online my PSN ID is Dynamus01.

So after not playing for months I decided to boot up CT and see if I could still win by mashing out B sledge and 5D/2D

apparently yes, so long as I don't do it from frame disadvantage

 [怒っている？] Vidyassassin 12/04/10(Sat)01:39

anyone wanna blayzbloo it up in europe after i've learned to play the game?

 Dynamus Laptop Edition 12/04/10(Sat)02:03

>>3867
I will once my copy has arrived, damn thing got delayed by snow.

 [怒っている？] Vidyassassin 12/04/10(Sat)06:28

i dont understand blazblue, i cant even do basic character challenges

it feels like even when i press buttons at the right time shit doesn't work

 MadRhetoric 12/04/10(Sat)13:42

>>3869

have you played a fighter before? Not trying to be rude honest question because personally I felt like blazblue's combo system was extremely easy compared to something like Street Fighter's combos. Blazblue has pretty forgiving inputs.

It might be because I've played way more MvsC and Guilty Gear games than street fighter games though.

 [怒っている？] Vidyassassin 12/04/10(Sat)13:53

>>3874
i play ssf4 regularly, im more used to links that require timing

i feel like i do better combos if i mash buttons rather than try to do them at the right time... but I guess what you're trying to say is treat everything as instantaneous cancels? (See an attack connect, immediately buffer the next moves of the combo) It still feels really weird.

>>3874

Blazblue has EXTREMELY annoying dash inputs. GOTTA INPUT A DASH IN ONE FRAME AND ITS UNBUFFERABLE ENJOY.

but yeah its easy as fuck

>>3875
Blaz uses chain cancels for normals, just like Marvel and VS.

 [怒っている？] Vidyassassin 12/04/10(Sat)14:16

>>3877
i never played mvc or guilty gear :(

also how the FUCK am i messing up such easy challenge combos (taokakas b > c > 2c > 234 a a a a a d for example) that look like they shouldnt be possible to mess up

 MadRhetoric 12/05/10(Sun)13:12

>>3878

most moves in combos you just want to cancel as fast as you can so try double-tapping it.

 Dynamus Laptop Edition 12/06/10(Mon)16:42

My copy of CS arrived today, having fun with Hazama, Tager, Lambda and Arakune, my PSN ID is earlier in the thread and on my steam profile, also...
>Lambda's Gag Reel

 VGKoopa!uNDZ7s/PqU 05/10/11(Tue)09:17

So 1.03 went live on XBOX earlier. Platinum players are everywhere and I'm pretty sure they've all but updated to CSII which means the game is virtually unplayable by me since alot of the characters are switched up now. I couldn't play this game to save my life in 1.02 so...yeah. Just thought you should know also rebump since this is slightly relevant now even though I don't think anyone plays CS anymore.

sage

>>7088

I still do. CS2 is a drastic clusterfuck of fairly large changes that had little location testing(in fact the location tests had far fewer changes than the final patch.) It probably will end up unbalancing the game more.

I saw a video on acho of some tager gameplay, all I really noticed that his backdash was much shorter and faster so more like potemkin's. Dunno if it really made backdash->buster more viable though since apparently he's still garbage.

I really want to like this game but its just garbage

>>7111
every character but Tager is viable, so there's that at least

 Dynamus 06/05/11(Sun)18:23

Got round to downloading the 1.03 patch today and oh god they changed so much I'm going to be accidentally doing 3C>214D>Cs as Hazama for forever. There's so many changes it's really jarring.

  question: How big of a faggot am I, that this video makes me want to try out Blazblue?

Just how good is Bang anyway?

 VGKoopa!uNDZ7s/PqU 07/04/11(Mon)05:54

>>10366
he WAS okay to use and not bad but after 1.03 I don't even know anymore I never saw anyone play him and it was only Jins and Platinums with the occasional Tager online.

I'm still surprised people take interest in BB now anymore.

Calamity Trigger bang, good, under appreciated.

Continuum Shift bang, best character in the game aside from Litchi, but bang is significantly easier to play.

Continuum Shift 2 bang, eugh, not that bad but he has the worst FRKZ out of any version.