Reminder: BlazBlue & Other Release Dates

Xinkai

BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger

Xbox: Friday 2nd April
PS3: Friday 2nd April

BlazBlue: Contimuum Shift

Japan: 1st July
North America: Maybe Sometime Around The 20th July
Europe: 2012

BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger Portable

PSP: April 2010 Europe


King Of Fighters 13

Release Date Will Be Named On Thursday 25th March

Super Street Fighter 4

April 30th 2010


UFC 2010 Undisputed

May 28th 2010

Ramza

Isn't CT coming to PC too?

Also LOL at Europe 2012 for CS, such a joke

I'm gonna give BB a go when I get my hands on a copy, need training mode T_T

K.O.Kiki

What's that Aksys? You want me to IMPORT BlazBlue: Continuum Shift?
Gee, I dunno, then I'd have to deal with import taxes and all that.

Also: VIRTUA FIGHTER 5: FINAL SHOWDOWN WHERE?????

Xinkai

No offical word on CT for PC, but rumored to be exclusive to france in October. Also 2012 was a joke, but i wouldn't be surprised tbh lol

Ramza

Xinkai wrote: »

No offical word on CT for PC, but rumored to be exclusive to france in October. Also 2012 was a joke, but i wouldn't be surprised tbh lol

Hmm I thought it was March 19th for Jap/France, the PC version now

I think I'll just import on PS3

Oh Xinkai, which version should I get if I want to learn the game? Or is CS pretty much just an upgrade on CT?

Xinkai

Pretty much, it's like SSF4, New chars, stages, moves, combos, & it continues the BB storyline.

DecentBee

Is that '2012' for BB: CS a joke? I mean, I honestly wouldn't be surprised. It's like the 90s again.

Dreddybajs

DecentBee wrote: »

Is that '2012' for BB: CS a joke? I mean, I honestly wouldn't be surprised. It's like the 90s again.

Three posts up!

DecentBee

Dreddybajs wrote: »

Three posts up!

Serves me right for being so reactionary! But yeah, joke that we're only getting the original a few months ahead of the sequel coming out elsewhere.

Sairus

DecentBee wrote: »

Serves me right for being so reactionary! But yeah, joke that we're only getting the original a few months ahead of the sequel coming out elsewhere.

Angers me to no end. I'd be happier if they'd just skipped Trigger over here and went straight to Shift, storyline be damned.

Xinkai

From the evil mouth of the official BlazBlue page on facebook, both 360 & PS3 CT will be out in 2nd of april, which means technically it's the 3rd delay in 2 weeks.

As posted by me on their page, Screw You Aksys, & Screw You pQube.

K.O.Kiki

Moar liek "Screw you pQube".

Tin.T

Ramza wrote: »

Hmm I thought it was March 19th for Jap/France, the PC version now

I think I'll just import on PS3

Oh Xinkai, which version should I get if I want to learn the game? Or is CS pretty much just an upgrade on CT?

if i were you i will wait for the CS one coz the CT is too much unbalanced and also start a game 4 months and go to the new one is useless. i hope this gonna be a much balanced game ! it was one of the reason that i have stop playing it only 2 months after i bought it ...

Vyze

Although BBCT does have some balance issues, I do think it's been overstated by the internet's reaction to it.

It may be better to wait for CS if you're trying to save money, though that's another 4 months (assuming you're able to buy it right away on JP launch) behind the other players you'll be. Only a couple of characters have changed so much that any work you put in now won't transfer over too much. You don't see the SF4 players totally dropping the game just because the sequel is around the corner, so it's a shame that a lot of the BB community has done so for CT.

K.O.Kiki

But the BB community is 50% weeaboos

Vyze

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

But the BB community is 50% weeaboos

I know, it sucks.
But that's basically the case for any airdash/anime/chain-combo/GG-style fighter. If you like the genre, all the "waii desu" and "nyan" is just **** you have to put up with to play an awesome game.

That being said, I don't remember playing any weeaboos at SVB at BB - they all seems like pretty down to earth guys. The only real obvious example of a wapanese weirdo at the event was this fat hairy-assed dude I saw at the TvC setup.

Ramza

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

But the BB community is 50% weeaboos

Part of the reason why I'm not bothered playing/learning >.<

K.O.Kiki

Eh, I'm actually not completely innocent either - the only reason I want to play/learn Melty Blood is because I'm a Nasuverse fanboy

Vyze

Ramza wrote: »

Part of the reason why I'm not bothered playing/learning >.<

Are there really that many weeaboos down in Dublin playing BB? If they're not there then they can't annoy you! :P

Seriously, the game is totally worth learning since it's essentially a new-start GG, ArcSys are even saying that they designed BB to get new people playing fighting games so it's worth getting in on the ground floor before the game becomes as complex as GG and is too hard to jump into as a new player.

Plus I think it's more fun anyway, but that's probably cuz I suck.

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K.O.Kiki wrote: »

Eh, I'm actually not completely innocent either - the only reason I want to play/learn Melty Blood is because I'm a Nasuverse fanboy

MB is an awesome game so you don't need to feel guilty!
I really wish I had more chances to play it since it's a game I'd love to get good at. Just a shame it'll never be all that popular.

Ramza

I play(ed) GG and love it so I'm definitely all for learning BB

I'm into some anime/manga, and some japanese stuff, but it seemed like last time at the XGC BB event there was a lot of err well, Otakus yeah, weeaboos. :pac:

Not trying to be an asshole or anything, just saying. Each their own and all but you KNOW what I mean

Like I said I have the CS leak, but no training is such a killer

Vyze

Ramza wrote: »

I play(ed) GG and love it so I'm definitely all for learning BB

I'm into some anime/manga, and some japanese stuff, but it seemed like last time at the XGC BB event there was a lot of err well, Otakus yeah, weeaboos. :pac:

Not trying to be an asshole or anything, just saying

Like I said I have the CS leak, but no training is such a killer

You can train by just putting a coin in for 2P and just beating them up like that. Leak's inputs are still too wonky for me to be able to practise anyway.

I know how you feel though, I'm into a few Japanese things (music, mostly) but some people take it too far and latch onto any anime-ish fighting game. You gotta give them a chance, though, since they do sometimes end up being nice people. :P (And better yet, might even be good at the game!)

Leprekaun

I've been thinking about getting BB for the last 8 or 9 months but never got round to it. There are two things that are making me rethink it, first, would I just be better off spending my cash on the limited edition of FFXIII since it is pretty damn good or go for BB. Since I'm pretty new to the Aksys games, the fighting system is a little strange to me but I like it so I was thinking of getting the limited edition of BB for the tutorial discs that come with it but are they really worth it? Or is it just a basic tutorial (e.g.: X = Punch, A = Kick, etc.) or do they really delve into the advanced techniques?

Scavenger XIII

Gah, this is such a pain.

The only good point is that if I buy CT for full price on release, then CS WILL suddenly be released here in no time flat, so I will have done the community a favour.

Being a middle-of-the-road anime fan is tough, you end up in some kinda rift between the normals and the total wackjobs. :pac:

K.O.Kiki

The tutorials delve into some good things; kinda short though. Also sucks that they're BluRay discs for PS3 LE (so I can't have the disc in my laptop while playing).

MikeZ's one is my favourite.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp8KOM2zw98

Leprekaun

Would the tutorials be so good that its worth the extra cash?

Sairus

would I just be better off spending my cash on the limited edition of FFXIII since it is pretty damn good

The special edition isn't actually that great. Art book, art cards and a soundtrack.
Art Book is a joke, it's just in game screenshots and scenes from the videos, no concept art or anything.
There's 4 art cards with a different image on each side. They look nice, but they feel cheap, and doubl sided doesn't help anything.
Soundtrack is only 10 tracks, which I wouldn't be too interested in.
It is only €15 in a difference, so it's not that huge an investment if you really want em.
I'd personally just get the stanard edition.

Vyze

Yeah the FF13 special edition has mostly useless junk in it.

Also the tutorials are worth the cash since the BB LE is the same price as the regular one in a lot of places!
If you're brand new to the game, they're a good way to get an idea of how the basic game mechanics work and how to pay each character. If you'd been following the game months before release and looking up combos and match vids then you probably know most of what's in them, but they're supposed to be there to help new players.

They show you the different mechanics (different ways of blocking, what all the bars on screen mean, etc.), each move for each character and what they're best used for in some cases, and a handful of combos you can use with each character including the inputs required to do them. Well, except for the last combo it shows where they encourage you to work out how to do it in your own!

The tutorials are all on YouTube by now I'm sure, but it's worth getting the LE for the much nicer box-art.

If it's your first time playing this type of fighting game, then I'd say your best bet is to just ignore a lot of the mechanics to begin with. Don't worry about RCs or instant blocking right away (or even Barrier and Burst for now!), just learn the fundamentals of a game where you've got the extra mobility of double-jumps and airdashes. Then start to think about when you want to barrier or Burst out of a combo, then about which combos (if any, it all depends on the character) could benefit from RCs, and so on.

Scavenger XIII wrote: »

The only good point is that if I buy CT for full price on release, then CS WILL suddenly be released here in no time flat, so I will have done the community a favour.

Do it, do it, buy it now! :P

Scavenger XIII

Vyze wrote: »

Don't worry about RCs or instant blocking right away (or even Barrier and Burst for now!)

Very good advice actually, forget burst even exists!

Vyze

It's advice that I should probably pay attention to myself!
As a Nu player, I feel that I always burst too early since I want to get them off me right away. If I force myself to never burst, I know my blocking and get-away skills will improve drastically, but as it stands I'm always taking the easy option out.

Sairus

Feckin' Bursts. I was playing the Jap version for a few weeks before my US edition arrived so I had no idea what RCing or Instant Blocking or Bursting was. Whenever Jin would freeze me I'd mash the buttons to escape and suddenly my barrier metre would be empty. I thought Jin's ice things were just massively over powered! XD

Vyze

To shake out of ice you have to waggle the stick. You need 6 motions (e.g. left then right 3 times) to shake out, so keep that in mind so that you don't accidentally backdash once you're free!

In CS, though, the freeze is just for a set time so you won't need to worry about that for much longer.

You burst by hitting all 4 buttons at the same time, btw.

Sairus

Oh yar, sorry, I meant to mention that now that I have my english manual I know about all that stuff now.
Can't use most of it to save my life, but I know what's going on at least XD

Leprekaun

Vyze wrote: »

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Cheers for all the info there . Well, the part that I'm mostly interested in the FFXIII LE is the soundtrack. I've rented it recently and lately, I'm finding difficulty in appreciating FFXIII . It has a solid storyline but I don't like the battle system since its just assigning moves and thats it. I feel like I'm leaning towards BB but if the stuff on the tutorial can be picked up from the net, I'm not pushed for the box art

EDIT: On the subject of BB, Amazon won't sell a standard edition?

Scavenger XIII

Leprekaun wrote: »

EDIT: On the subject of BB, Amazon won't sell a standard edition?

It should be on there, I've seen it about.

Though the LE was about the same price last time I looked.

Vyze

In the US you could only get the LE for about a month before they released a regular one.

If the LE costs the same as the standard, just get the LE!

Scavenger XIII

Vyze wrote: »

In the US you could only get the LE for about a month before they released a regular one.

Them buggers got the sweet-ass soundtrack CDs too.

K.O.Kiki

Scavenger XIII wrote: »

Them buggers got the sweet-ass soundtrack CDs too.

Or you could just ask someone who DID get the US LE

Fnutkrumpler

lol Blazblue release date pushed back to April 9th.

Seriously.

Sairus

Fnutkrumpler wrote: »

lol Blazblue release date pushed back to April 9th.
Seriously.

What the Hell? I mean, come on lads, that's a bit much.
It's not like I'd be playing it till after college anyways, but still.

Xluna

Xinkai wrote: »

BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger

Xbox: Friday 2nd April
PS3: Friday 2nd April

BlazBlue: Contimuum Shift

Japan: 1st July
North America: Maybe Sometime Around The 20th July
Europe: 2012

BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger Portable

PSP: April 2010 Europe


King Of Fighters 13

Release Date Will Be Named On Thursday 25th March

Super Street Fighter 4

April 30th 2010


UFC 2010 Undisputed

May 28th 2010

Ah crap! They put Blazblue back a week again. I can see this crap going on for some time.:mad:

chopperbyrne

Hasn't the US version of this been out for about nine months or so.

Why didn't everyone just buy it online it if they wanted to play it?

Dreddybajs

360 version is region locked, PS3 people did just that.

chopperbyrne

360s are so lame.

Yreval

Interesting interview with Zen United's CEO, with some sort of rationale for the release date (although all these delays so close to the release date really don't make it look as if they have all their ducks in a row) and a few more light-hearted comments:

http://wiki.hardedge.org/index.php/Blazblue:_European_launch_interview_with_United_Zen_CEO_Tomo_Ohno

In fact, in one of those meetings, the producer of BlazBlue introduced Noel, which was his own design, and it actually dates back 10 years. He really likes that character, that's why there are almost no panty shots of her (laughs).

Yreval

Apologies for the double post, but a press release has confirmed that the BBCT release date is the 2nd.

http://neoempire.com/forum/showthread.php?p=248915

Xluna

So does that basically mean it's definitely out this Friday?

Yreval

That's about as definite as it can possibly get, I would think.

Vyze

Now you all have to go out and finally buy it, then get good with a range of different characters! :P

Sairus

I thought everyone was just supposed to pick Nu?

Vyze

Sairus wrote: »

I thought everyone was just supposed to pick Nu?

I'm looking forward to the people who pick Nu just to tier-whore dropping her once CS is out on consoles.

Scavenger XIII

Vyze wrote: »

I'm looking forward to the people who pick Nu just to tier-whore dropping her once CS is out on consoles.

I just hope Mu doesn't take her place, I'll probably sub her for that sweet ass alone.