We’ve known this for about a year, but there was still skepticism around the project really having legs with Sega. Recently, that has changed and VF6 in all it’s glory is happening. This will make our current decade of tons of amazing fighting games go from very good to the best decade ever.
Why is Virtua Fighter the best if you’ve never played:
- 3 buttons – the game is easy for new players to pick up (for most characters– not Akira)
- Insane character depth: even though the game has a smaller roster than other fighting games, players can play characters in such radically different ways that it just doesn’t matter, you will face a different Akira almost every time you play vs human players
- There are no tiers. I’ve seen tier lists based on tournament wins, but then the next one it’s completely different based on which characters players want to play, so if you decide on a character to main, you can have confidence that you will be able to be successful if you put the work in.
- EVERYONE HAS COMMAND THROWS (and they are awesome)
I’ll likely be writing a lot on this as more information comes to light, but C-Money has some thoughts on critical system design/characters.