Now that GG has completely lost its soul when will they make a new Blazblue?

Now that GG has completely lost its soul when will they make a new Blazblue?

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Bro are you fricking serious when Mai exists

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Mais body and heart changed thanks to the grimoire, all that remains of his male self is his memories, he doesnt even think like a man anymore. not a troony

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        It's actually just magic, ain't gotta explain shit. Biologically female.

        Mai is what trannies wish they could be and fooled themselves into believing they can be

        This sounds like the same sort of coping that Bridget-haters kept coming up with before Daisuke btfo'd them all.
        >m-muh translators changing things!!!!
        >m-muh otokonoko culture when Bridget says she's a girl!!!!
        >muh bad endings!!!!! (there are no bad endings in Strive)
        >m-muh (fake) email saying Bridget isn't trans!!!!
        >Voice actress says Bridget is trans
        >Singer for Bridget's theme likes tweets saying Bridget is a trans icon
        >ASW had to comment on a fake email that was being passed around saying Bridget isn't trans
        Mai is so obviously trans that you have to be massively in denial not to see that. Do you need Mori to step out on stage have to say out loud that she's trans, like what Ishiwatari had to do after all those chuds kept making excuses and fake evidence denying reality? Fricking pathetic. Grow up, read a science book, get laid and touch grass.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >Grow up, read a science book, get laid and touch grass.
          But Mai used magic, not science. Something real life trannies will never be able to do

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Magic in BB is no different to science. Stop fricking coming up with lame excuses already.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              >Magic in BB is no different to science.
              Black person there's an entire faction that's persecuted by the world government because they use science instead of magic.
              >Stop fricking coming up with lame excuses already.
              I'm not making any excuses, Mai is a troony.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >read a science book
          thats exactly what got Mai into this situation in the first place!

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          The second two replies don’t deny Mai is a troony, just that Mai is actually a woman, unlike real life trannies

        • 2 years ago
          Astromeda

          >Going for another non-standard queer character just days after finishing with one
          YOU prostituteS ARE GOING TO GET US ALL KILLED.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      you can introduce as many gay/trans characters as you fricking want as long as theyre original, retconning established characters to fit modern agendas is where i draw the line which is what happened with bridget.
      but hey thats just me.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Trannies typically find genderswap characters or characters that gain the opposite gender through magic to be disrespectful.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        yeah because it gets people seething that there aren't magic cheat codes irl lmao

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      It's actually just magic, ain't gotta explain shit. Biologically female.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Mai is what trannies wish they could be and fooled themselves into believing they can be

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Are you moronic? Do you really want them to go after Blazblue next?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      And why would anyone care? I thought Blazblue was the uncool spinoff people made fun of for having shitty overdesigned characters?

      Mori doesn't work for Arcsys anymore, it's over.
      On the bright side there's no chance of the series getting ruined like GG by failing to gatekeep properly. The twitter crowd doesn't know BB exists.

      He got promoted

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >I thought Blazblue was the uncool spinoff people made fun of for having shitty overdesigned characters?
        stop going into the shit crapcum general

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >he doesnt know
          2009-2016 had fans of every other anime fighter shat in by GG fans because it wasnt GG. Blazblue, Persona and UNI fans had to endure thread after thread of GG larpers saying their game was garbage.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            from my memory it was primary crapcum shits
            , GG diehards used to shit on it but it was more rare , at least from my memory , not that i give a frick all fighting games franchises have been ruined no opinion on tekken directly 0 experiencie with 5 6 and hardly played 7

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              You havent been into anime fg threads during the mid 2010s without some guilty gear poser trying to prop up their game. Its one of the main reasons why /asg/ collapsed too

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Nah there was always a strong animosity specifically from GG players towards BB.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >And why would anyone care? I thought Blazblue was the uncool spinoff people made fun of for having shitty overdesigned characters?
        it didnt used to be this way...

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Well yeah, the Xrd gays got uppity at the time.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Yeah well May (Xrd design) is cuter than Rachel and Makoto combined.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Not even close. Xrd May iss cute but she's not even as cute as Noel or Platinum, let alone Rachel or Makoto.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              I don't see how people think Makoto's cute.
              She's a sexy rodent.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Cute and sexy are not mutually exclusive, anon. That's why Makoto gets talkd about so much. She's strong, hilarious, sexy, AND adorable. She's also a spunky tomboy that also like girly shit and wants a huge family like the one she came from. Enjy excitement and chill moments. Literally the whole package

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                I got into BB for Makoto, Stayed for Rachel.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Back in yonders day when I was a wee little naive lad I remember shipping her with Ragna pretty hard.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Makoto is a top tier waifu for sure

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                bouquetman.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        You just described all arc sys original IPs. All are shitty overdesigned gimmick fighters centered around oki and reversals with neutral as a bad joke.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          GG got a pass back then for being a supposedly hardcore legacy IP, which is why it was so moronic that GG fans got away with the kind of vitriol they were trying to spew back mid 2010 when GG was also overdesigned bullshit under the guise of "muh metal."

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            I don’t have a dog in this fight, I just hate arc sys spammers constantly shilling their games that they don’t even play. No game I play or studio I think is good has gotten this amount of disproportionate shilling

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              People actually did play Blazblue back in the day, which is why the whole "You didnt play XX" retort csme from, because GG players were loud as frick but they didnt play XX

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >He got promoted
        he's literally not listed on their company's page anymore

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >He got promoted
        two years ago. he literally got thrown out this very week

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    You either die a hero (Blazblue) or live long enough to see yourself become the villain (Guilty Gear).

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      /thread, we can stop making this thread now

      Strive is better than +moronic and Xturd.

      Let me guess, you play no other fighting games (inb4 multiversus)

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    BB is never returning.

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Ganker spent 6 years shitting on Blazblue as trash bin weebshit Guilty Gear
    >now suddenly likes it due to sheer contrarianism
    You Black folk had your chance.

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Mori doesn't work for Arcsys anymore, it's over.
    On the bright side there's no chance of the series getting ruined like GG by failing to gatekeep properly. The twitter crowd doesn't know BB exists.

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >now
    you are a few years late

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Strive is better than +moronic and Xturd.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Strive Strives to be half the game those two were. Be glad normies can do combos this time around and that influencers marketed the game for months reinforcing their insecurity by attacking +R/Xrd. I know you suck though.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        GG vets deserve the attack that was karma for mid 2010.

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Ragna balls ha got 'em

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    thoughts on Ragna if he dashes?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >love all his micro dash shit
      >fricking despise whiffing moves in combos
      I hate that fricking axe kick so much it practically ruins the character for me

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    they did. it flopped to death and got EoS'd in months

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      it didn't even do sexy skimpy shit across the board for all its female characters, that's part of how it failed as a gacha
      the other part looks like it was because it made it all about OCs nobody outside the really invested fan would have known, and i don't care how invested they are, they don't make up for the lack of casual knowledge
      it's like thinking aew can put over some literal who nobody to the crowd just because some hardcore "rasslin" fans know who that gimmick indie rassler is

  12. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Difference is in our world we don't have literal fricking magic that completely alters everything about a person down to their timeline

  13. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I can't wait until trannies find out BB has a crossdressing pedo

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Did anyone ever give a shit about Amane though

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I can't wait until trannies find out BB has a crossdressing pedo

        Amane was a dude and he was open about it despite his attire. Even one of the gag endings has him participate in a manly contest.

        The only "troony" is Mai but that's a special case as Mai was transformed via wacky magic reality hax and is totally female.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          I wasn't calling him a troony, but even so, he tries to force a little boy into his performing troupe, which can easily been seen as a reference to the child drag queen shit that's happening in modern times.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Eh that's just the standard of everyone wanting to rape Carl. Good thing his good ol' dad taught him to rape back and he ended up joining the family business

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Amane has now discovered the wonders of being a woman after being jealous of Mai because crossdressers and tomboys aren't things anymore. Bullet is also trans now but wants to frick Makoto so he's straight

          There done give me money

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            bullet's unit was apparently an all-male one. either way they could walk would work:
            >bullet was originally a guy b/c all-unit, became bullet after ikagura war
            >bullet became man in order to (or after joining) unit
            and who wouldn't want to give makoto their nuts?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Ah no wonder people try to keep BB under the carpet these days.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Amane is a weird. I think people just ignore the guy back then because he was such an irrelevant character with a make or break gimmick gameplaywise. Nobody ever batted an eye when he was running an all guy group going around and inviting young boys to "join his troupe."

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >Want to use character because i like the idea of buffed drill specials and potential crazy barrier damage/chip damage
        >Pedo with no aesthetic appeal in any color scheme.

        Well Bang will always be my main.

  14. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    BBCF2 is fricking great but BB lost its soul too since normies for the most part still consider BBCTag as its last installment so far. BBTag is also arguably alot worse then Strive. But you can always go play +R/BBCF2 and wait for Xrd/UN rollback someday.

  15. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Carl becoming a troony
    Please no

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Implying Carl is even remotely as popular as Bridget
      Anon, nobody gives a shit about Carl. This guy never ranked above top 20 in any BB popularity polls. He might as well not return for the next Blazblue game for all we care.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        BB popularity is fricking cracked. People like Celica for frick's sake.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Japs always liked girls with no personnality traits besides being nice and cute, because they're basic b***hes, so at least it makes sense for Celica.
          However, it's very telling how bad Carl is, when a literal shota bait isn't even popular in nipsland.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            They didnt know what to do with Carl. Hes a schizo shota that had on/off plot importance and is only there to introduce Relius. They had their chance with BBCP to alleviate this but they didnt

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >Liking Celica

            whats wrong with celica? shes fun

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Relius and Izanami are fun too but they're incredibly unpopular.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                hey at least Izanami isn't less popular than unplayables

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >Tsubaki and Izayoi split
                >more people like Tsubaki over Izayoi anyway
                bros..

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous
              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Tsubaki got cheated out of a Top 10 rewarded figure, because of that split. And besides why shouldn't people like Tsubaki over Izayoi? I do.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >Top 10 rewarded figure
                a what

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                They got something a year or two ago. Don't worry it wasn't a full-fledged figure. It was something along the quality of those printed pngs in-between two glass panes, that you can stand up or some minor chibi figure. It wasn't anything truly hurtful, just something Ithought Tsubaki could've gotten and then I immediately moved on to the degree that I don't even exactly remember what it was.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >printed pngs in-between two glass panes
                acrylic standee

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >Makoto and Rachel don't even crack the top ten
                This is why BB should stay dead.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >Mai
                >Celica
                >Es
                >Bullet

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Boring shitty Mary Sue who came out of nowhere, hijacked everything in CP, and fricked over better characters out of attention to the point they straight up vanish for the plot of that game.

                At least she got btfo in CF

                celica based

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Character designs can carry characters that are lacking in an entertaining personality pretty hard. See how high Lambda is and I even like playing her as a character.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Those character designs suck aside from Es though.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                You don't have the average human's taste I'm afraid. Also 3/4 in that list are easy enough to pick up and play on a basic level.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Really abysmal taste honestly

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >Hibiki 3rd place above Jubei, Susano, Hakumen and Azrael
                >Fricking Izayoi above Jubei, Tager, Alkenhayn and Relius

                Words can't describes how much i hate this and i'm starting to understand why Guilty Gear survived, while Blazblue died.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                If it gives you any relief, nip polls are usually filled with fujos and yumes because they rally the everloving shit behind their characters

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Blazblue didn't die, it ENDED. That was literally the point of Centralfiction. When will you people accept that and let it go?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >Story ended guys, we're not doing anything with this series
                >Except for a spinoff fighting game
                >And a canon Gacha
                >And an upcoming rogue-like, lol

                Who fricking cares if the story ended. If Arcsys wants to make more Blazblue then they'll make more Blazblue.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >Best Dad in last place
                I never knew the Japanese had such shit taste.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >votes
                let me guess, this poll was from a magazine and had a 4 to 1 female to male response ration?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                It was made on twitter and it allowed to vote over and over again for about 3 months, so if you weren't following and didn't vote for your favorite every day your character lost hunreds of votes, it wasn't something i wouldn't call accurate.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                genuinely surprised Tao is so low, she got me into the series because i thought she was hot

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Boring shitty Mary Sue who came out of nowhere, hijacked everything in CP, and fricked over better characters out of attention to the point they straight up vanish for the plot of that game.

              At least she got btfo in CF

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Carl does next to nothing in the story and has negative rep for being exclusively played by win at all cost tryhards so that's not surprising. Even Arakune mains can be excused that they just like being a hentai antagonist

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >However, it's very telling how bad Carl is, when a literal shota bait isn't even popular in nipsland
            Isn't Carl shipped with Makoto?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >Liking Celica

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >Hibiki is like the most popular male character after Ragna and the Snakes
          Fricking fujos

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            This is what I don't get. I've never seen a SINGLE woman play Blazblue over the past 10 years, or claim to be a fan. Where the frick are they? Are you telling me that the story of blazblue is more popular than the actual game itself?

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              >I've never seen a SINGLE woman play Blazblue
              what about a married one

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              I have this one artist in mind who exclusively draws Hazama and a couple other male characters and I assume she's a fujo.
              Turns out she's one of the most devoted fans of the franchise because she not only uploads some beginner footage of her playing and improving but consistently draws Hazama to this day.
              And was hilariously one of the few people drawing BBTAG collab art.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              The artist for Mai's manga got picked up for drawing Jin getting his inferno divided

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              It'd be impossible to separate the "read story mode only" people from the entire playerbase just on raw statistics but fricking look at Mai's popularity. You just fricking know they probably came from reading the manga and hadn't touched the games beforehand and evidently from Ganker's resident maidrone, still don't outside of mashing with Ragna is the story mode.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                is the manga actually that popular? i only bothered to read it because i was already invested in the BB story, cant imagine why someone unfamiliar with BB would want to read it

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                It's a genderbend manga and I imagine fetishists are desperate for any scraps.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                I thought Ganker's resident maidrone actually played though.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >I thought Ganker's resident maidrone actually played though.
                Who the frick told you that?
                The actual, biggest maigay who talks like a robot and argues for literal hours defending his waifu admitted to never really playing the game outside story mode.
                The brazilian maigay who hosted lobbies for like 5 months is a different homosexual all together.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >The brazilian maigay who hosted lobbies
                That's who I meant, I assumed it was all one guy.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                No, the braziliean one has acceptable english than the drone. I swear the latter puts his text through some translation system for how robotic he sounds.
                Maidrone is quite literally was catered to with Mai's skill floor being accessible to morons but that wasn't enough to convince him to play

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >Theres multiple maigays
                lol

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Clearly entity from the gestalt platform went rogue to dare to play the game.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              >Are you telling me that the story of blazblue is more popular than the actual game itself?
              Literally alway has been, anon. The story is WHY Blazblue was so popular in the first place. You ever notice how a big difference between GG and BB fans is that BB fans actually know their story and characters and can explain them well while GG fans don't know shit or know conflicting shit due to retcons and eithr fight about it or act proud about not knowing the badly written story?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Maybe he is also that high because he is a noob friendly character He was my main

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          It’s pretty amazing how we started off with a bunch of reasonably unique GG pastiches and then ended on the most generic fujoshit imaginable.

          Although we got Susanooh out of the deal

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Porn made me like Celica

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >nobody gives a shit about Carl
        I do

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        If there ever is a new mainline game I expect all the OGs (sans Ragna unless he's some unlockable boss character) to make a return.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I wouldn't play a new BB without Carl. He was the only fun character to play as.

  16. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    But Blazblue lost its soul too.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      No, this is the good timeline where we avoided the "fate" of the franchise being ruined by its equivalent to FGO mobile game by shutting it down.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Funny, the only reason BBDW was a thing was because Mori played FGO and liked it, 3 years after its peak popularity

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Dark War seemed more like a desperate attempt to maintain relevance for the BlazBlue name (after Tag flopped) and generate a cashflow on the side.
      Of course, it tried to emulate Fate gameplay and concept when that shit was already out of fashion.
      Most of the content however was allegedly pretty solid, the what if scenarios and parallel worlds using several supernatural elements of each version of the fightan series fleshed stuff out for how short the mobile game lived.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Wasn't BB not even originally going to be a fightan but turned into one after the GG licensing dilemma? Makes sense even more so given how extensive the story mode is for a fighting game series.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          BB was a Mori's Chuuni VN JRPG IP that got emergency co-ooted as a fighting game because they lost GG rights to Sega. It wasnt mesnt to be a fighting game but they needed something to tske GG's place. One of the reasons why GG hated Blazblue and its fans.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >they lost GG rights to Sega.
            I wish they kept them
            Nothing but trash has come out ever since arcsys got it back.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Ironic considering Daisuke never even wanted GG to be a fighting game series. There's an interview back from during the release of Missing Link where Daisuke is like "We might use this setting again but I never really want to make another fighting game as I don't play them" only for them to make GGX which was an even bigger success.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            ArcSys just has bad luck with making good settings for fighting games. The franchises moving towards beat-em-ups with smaller rosters for versus modes would probably tank their value but I think it would be a neat move given they already have experience with them and would allow for more tightknit stories

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              I think a BlazBlue arpg could turn out pretty good, if they put some thought into the combat system.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        My only hope is that some of the ideas created in Dark War will return and be fleshed out in the next Blazblue game.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >nu's zoning mixed with ragna's rushdown
          we need juusan in a fighting game

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          This just raises more questions.
          >Ragna left the sword behind but not the jacket
          >The sword disappears at the end of CF
          >Everyone assumes Nu did it
          >Turns out, Nu has the jacket but not the sword

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Can't tell if that's supposed to be a young Valkenhyne or Azrael but he was the one who became a werewolf

  17. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    you homosexuals that dont even play spent months posting ebin steamcharts of CF before rollback about how the series is dead and GG is here to stay and how the designs fricking suck and how the story is full of weird japanese bullshit and that the game is full of setplay cancer and now you just wanna shill it because you bought the strive hype a year ago and then got shocked when gaysuke added trannies to his game. FRICK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU DONT PLAY AND YOU NEVER WILL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      There were BBCF lobby threads for the past few years before rollback update though. Usually on Saturdays.

  18. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Damn... "man".. I know your kind want to infect every single franchise but at least pretend a little. An improved BB sequel for modern audiences will be released eventually. Just enjoy your contaminated GG for the time being instead.

  19. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >mai
    >Amane
    >all the gay bait becoming reality
    The day blazblue becomes popular in the main stream is the day it dies

  20. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It won't be the same without Ragna...unless the story will develop in such a way that he will come back because the situation would be THIS serious.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Trust in the plan
      She will get him back, by force if necessary

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        If it's the e-girl vampiress then there will be something big.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Ragna gets pulled from the void of total non-existence back into reality
      Has any anime ever tried something this ambitious?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Can't remember if any manga or anime work pulled this off on a serious note. The only time I saw this was with Mahou Sensei Negima with one of the characters who got erased, only for him to come back into reality by force of will but it didn't last.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Trust in the plan
      She will get him back, by force if necessary

      >Ragna gets pulled from the void of total non-existence back into reality
      Has any anime ever tried something this ambitious?

      Es managed to come back from the same fate as Ragna for lesser reasons back in XBlaze. If they were to take a page out of it's book, I'd say he'd be chilling in the World of Tsukuyomi right now with the guardian Es the Azure made and the Amaterasu Unit

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Isnt he too busy being The Girl of Blue's onii-chan sex toy?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          granted; unless he wiped her memory of him as well (which he probably did otherwise the Nightmare would continue). His fate is up in the air and I just find it better than an aberration (in the context of the C-Series world) like him gets reabsorbed back into the Azure and repurposed as one of its guardians like Es was.

          Still gets me a bit misty

          speaking of hakumen, did him or jin ever think of coming up with a way to remove the azure grimoire from ragna to prevent him from going full beast or were murderboners there up until the very end?

          Reminder: Lambchop is the best murakumo girl.

          emotionless monotone humanoid girls are cheap and easy ways to get fans to fawn over a character but damn if it doesn't work 9/10 for me

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Jin broke off his murderboner by the end of CS, but for the next 2 games whenever they meet Ragna was in deep shit and needs the grimoire to fight. CF even brought up that Ragna contracted magic cancer from it

  21. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Just let it die. There are unanswered questions sure but I rather have the overall plot be done instead of the devs trying to think of something new to do with the characters. GG already screwed the pooch a few times in the writing department since Xrd so I'm bowing out, GG's main plot is done BB's main plot is done, the franchises have nothing new for me and every time they try they shit the bed. On a gameplay standpoint it sucks that there hasn't been anything to fill the gap but the gameplay wasn't what got me into the series so I'm fine with it staying dead.

  22. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I don't think they will, but that suits me fine because Blazblue has no value to me beyond its gameplay, and I imagine that would be the first thing to change if they were making a new one. I don't care about seeing the story continue or seeing the characters in 3D or any of that so if the game didn't build on CF's mechanics, and it almost certainly wouldn't, it wouldn't be worth getting for me.

  23. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >this entire thread of autism
    Hey bros, is CF worth playing? I remember I skipped out on it out of protest for being the only game in the series to skimp out on an English voice cast (frick you, I liked the dub).
    I fell in love with pic related when I was 12 and played all the other games. Do they hold up? I remember the story being pretty complicated...

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >3DS
      >12

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I don't know or care about the story so I can't speak to that, but it's good if you want a fast-paced anime fighter to play online. The online's good and I'd say it's easier to get into than +R.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >I remember I skipped out on it out of protest for being the only game in the series to skimp out on an English voice cast (frick you, I liked the dub).
      Frick you

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Plot is pretty easy to digest if you play all the story modes back but there are a few bumps that don't get covered all that well if you didn't touch the side stuff that didn't get rolled in and abridged with the main games. You'll probably want to start from scratch with the JP audio to make that jump to CF as smooth as possible. Alternatively you can do what I did and just mute the voice track since I was a dubgay as well but that's super jarring (it pisses my friend off to no end that I play the game with the voices muted, it's actually pretty funny).
      >tfw we'll never get Ragna and Rachel's last exchange dubbed or one last hurrah from dub Tao since she wasn't in BBTag.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >(frick you, I liked the dub)
      The dub was unironically great

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Anybody up for some games? EU / EC, preferably. I gotta get ready for Celtic Throwdown next week.

      Yeah, CF is surprisingly still pretty alive in most regions.
      It's good fun if you want a technical, fast-paced anime fighter, and the balancing isn't half bad either. There's nobody who's unplayable, and nobody is so overpowered that they dominate completely (Izanami is inarguably the best in the game, there's plenty of characters that can keep up with her).

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        im not that good but im down

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Host up, my man

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            i dont know how to make a lobby

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              u wot
              You just make a player room in the network section.
              If it's the link to the lobby you're struggling with, just go to your steam profile in a browser and right click "Join game" and get the link address from there.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                ok I just named the room v

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                not sure if that was you I played but gg

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                I'm the Valk player, so maybe
                GGs(?)

  24. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >unironically playing a fighting game for the plot
    >a plot that is just stupid anime bullshit logic that changes whenever needed at that

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      This shit worked for MK and Injustice and there were a lot of people back the early 2010's who picked up Blazblue just for the plot. If a dumb anime plot gets people to play fighting games then I'm fine with it.

  25. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    BBchads... i kneel

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Kentucky Kiske, I am so sorry about your game.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Reminder BlazBlue still has better hentai doujins than Guilty Gear.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        True

  26. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Even though we will never get another Blazblue, that's not an excuse to skimp out on BBTAG.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >BBTAG
      I prefer how characters play in their base games. Plus the VA quality sounds a tad bit rushed.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Aside from a select couple characters, sounds good to me.

        Only thing I liked about BBTAG was Hakumen. He was extra stupid in that game

        Hakumen/Yuzu is the business.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Actually, the sound work in CF is also weaker for me. Like Azrael sounds fricking awful in CF compared to CPEX. CF Azrael sounds like an annoying old man while CPEX Azrael sounds like an old man who wants to rip your throat out.
        I also miss the metallic clang at the end of Hazama's drive moves.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >VA quality sounds a tad bit rushed.
        sounds good to me outside of the ruby characters

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >Plus the VA quality sounds a tad bit rushed.
        I hard disagree, everyone besides ruby, weiss and yukiko sounds great.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Only thing I liked about BBTAG was Hakumen. He was extra stupid in that game

  27. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    So what now? BB is dead, GB has no Rollback, GG Strive is cucked to hell by Daisuke's shitty Cowboy Tanaka syndrome and DBFZ is tier prostitute hell.
    Should I just go play Melty Blood or some shit?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Wait for undernights new installment to come out thats in development, or hope the previous installment gets rollback

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I'm the same as

      Wait for undernights new installment to come out thats in development, or hope the previous installment gets rollback

      guy, I jumped off the CF train right as 2.0 came out to play [st] with the Ganker lobbies.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >[st] with the Ganker lobbies
        whatever happened to those? i havent seen one in a long time, did they just die out or get sent to /vg/?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          clr happened. Also garbage pc port, thanks Shini

          They fired Mori

          He got promoted

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          They're on break because Covid killed the drive for attending tournaments for the regulars.
          It's actually only been about a year since they've stopped.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >They're on break
            Lazy hippie.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              I wasn't going to kill more hours of sleep to continue making lobbies for 2 other people. Some days were complete no shows.
              People lost interest in playing way before I did.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                thanks for hosting when you did, i wouldve joined more often but i switched over to nightshifts

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Sorry, i was just joking there. I have nothing but respect for the dedication you showed hosting lobbies as long as you did. Compared to someone like me who lost his drive to play and just stopped showing up you're anything but lazy.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          last I heard they were taking a break or smth

          So what now? BB is dead, GB has no Rollback, GG Strive is cucked to hell by Daisuke's shitty Cowboy Tanaka syndrome and DBFZ is tier prostitute hell.
          Should I just go play Melty Blood or some shit?

          if there's interest I can do aacc fridays

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Centralfiction was shit. Your pic would be saved if it were Chrono Phantasma instead.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >Centralfiction was shit.
        why

  28. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    As long as Ragna's ass is perfectly animated in 3D at Nine's special Astral Finish against Ragna, I'll buy it at full price with DLCs included.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous
  29. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Lab Zero gets wienery after "owning" Capcom with their shitty Fillia recolor
    >Years later Lab Zero loses their shitty game designer after not keeping his dick in his autist pants
    >Arc Sissies get extremely wienery after Goku FUNCTIONS after MvC is dead for good
    > Years later Arc Sissy Works full on now chases the Westcucksoi FGC and Twatter audience
    Anyone else noticed a pattern going on here?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Years later Lab Zero loses their shitty game designer after not keeping his dick in his autist pants
      h-he... could not breathe

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      speak english you literal schizophrenic

  30. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Guilty gear shows me that Ganker has always been shit so maybe blazblue shouldn't come back.

  31. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    They fired Mori

  32. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    A part of me wants Blazblue to come back but at the same time I'm worried they're gonna make Mori do some stupid shit because of Strive's success for just taking away a whole bunch of shit. I know people are mixed on Cross Tag but at least that was a spinoff and always meant to be a casual game, I can see a new mainline getting fricked up for some stupid reason.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Its always going to be changed. The worst thing that could happen to Blazblue is go the way if DNF Duel. I dont thing anything can top Calamity Trigger gameplaywise as a vanilla release in terms of being a broken game with questionable decisions. The IP was hard csrried by its VN mode.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        would take a broken fun game over a boring polished game any day of the week.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Its easy to talk about it now, but CT was really bad. One of the reasons why anime fighters was seen as a joke from 2009 to 2014. Game wasnt at all fun. P4A was a better broken game

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      they will 100% try to capture strives success if they bring back blazblue.
      hell, you could take out 80% of the character, cut their moveset in half, and remove most of the mechanics and people will still preorder the game and season pass as long as you render the characters the arcsystem 3d anime style that people ate up

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        That never did DNF Duel any favors. Strive happened to have all the best conditions for a release which is why its so succesful now, its just sheer luck

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >Success
          >a lousy million in sales
          >only in the US
          >massive flop in Japan and even more after completely bending the knee
          Kind of pathetic in comparison to DBFZ sales. This would also apply to Crosstag, Granblue, DNF Duel, and that shitty Kill la Kill game in shit sales too.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Well youre comparing it to DBFZ, a collaboration work. Remember Guilty Gear has always flopped. It even got mogged by Blazblue and BB fans rubbed it on GG fans faces for years

            >And why would anyone care? I thought Blazblue was the uncool spinoff people made fun of for having shitty overdesigned characters?
            it didnt used to be this way...

            Strive is still ArcSys best selling in inhiuse title.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Strive could have done everything perfectly and still wouldn't have done as well as DBFZ so it's an unfair comparison. Brand recognition does a lot and Dragon Ball's a huge brand.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Guilty gear sold poorly literally everywhere, both Japan and the West. Didnt matter if it flop in Japan when it flopped there for years.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            A million for a japanese fighter is fricking titanic
            And don't you fricking try to compare the utter legacy fanbase that DBZ controls for over like 2 generations of entry level shounengays around the world, especially in places like Mexico and every black family with toonami in the 2000s

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >A massive flop in Japan
            >Source: "trust me, dude"

            Just go take a look in the Japanese servers and you realise that it's as alive as America's and more than Europe.
            The only reason Ganker thinks that is because there's less Japanese players in internationnal tournaments than during the Xrd days, without realising that japanese were hard carried in Xrd by the fact that they were the only ones that could play Xrd's online and also had easy access to arcade cabinets, making it way easier for them to get good at the game.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            They hated him for telling the truth

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >s as long as you render the characters the arcsystem 3d anime style that people ate up
        I still don't understand how come people even eat up that shitty 3D anime garbage.
        It just reminds me of that abysmal Berserk CG anime that was rightfully shat on.
        Guess the FGC has extremely low standards when it comes to Arc in general.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Because it looks good and Berserk didn't.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >I still don't understand how come people even eat up that shitty 3D anime garbage.
            because it actually looks good

            >defending choppy ass CG anime in general

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              arc makes the only good looking 3d fighting games, cope

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              No reason not to so long as it looks good, which it does. ArcSys is far better at it than they are at sprite work anyway. P4U has nice sprites, but compared to Capcom, SNK and even French Bread, GG and Blazblue have pretty unimpressive sprite work.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >I still don't understand how come people even eat up that shitty 3D anime garbage.
          because it actually looks good

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          I mean if people ate up SFV's artstyle, I'm not surprised they would find Arc's style attractive

  33. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    wheres the lobby

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      im busy with work right now, ill post a lobby in a couple of hours if the thread is still up

  34. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >that interview with Daisuke saying theyre looking to do more collaboration games, specifically ones that would appeal to westerners

    face it, arcsys is dead

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      You only needed to buy Xrd Sign, anon. You couldve prevented this

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >japs only buy and play gacha shit,nintendo and mobile
      >company that makes money has to appeal to a market where games sell
      I dont like that too anon but I dont blame them at all and other Jap publishers go this way too nowadays.

  35. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    revive ragna and make him a troon

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      We'll get Alpha-01 one day right?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Literally Alpha-01. Mori already planned that from 2014

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >2014
        You meant 2008. Alpha makes a cameo as "XXX" in Ragna's bad ending in BBCT after Nu fuses with him. Nu's the main body, though. And Ragna had zero control over it. Wasn't until 2013 in an ArcSys art book that Alpha appeared as "???" that we had a face to attach to the Murakumo Unit in said bad end.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Female Ragna
      I will now buy your game.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        anon, troons =/= females

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Let me cope.

  36. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    How can there be more BlazBlue without Ragna?

  37. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    They said they wanted to keep going with Blazblue I'm pretty sure. Also expanding it outside of fighty games too I think?

  38. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    GG
    >competitive fighting game
    BB
    >party game
    pretty much, yeah?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I have zero clue what makes you think BlazBlue isn't a competitive fighting game, outside of shitposting for attention.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        No, where did you get that impression?

        this game unironically doesn't seem like a fighting game. It looks like some kind of gimmick game.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Are you scaaaaaared?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          ok bro

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          It does?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          imagine being filtered by arakune

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      No, where did you get that impression?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >GG still has nothing on the level of EVO 2014 BBCP

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      It isnt 2012 anymore anon.

  39. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >play BBCF
    >get matched against a million brazilian Susanoos
    >they all do the 5B>6B string
    >I'm too scared of getting opened up to IB
    AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH LET ME GO I DON'T HAVE 25 HEAT YET LET ME GOOOOOOOOOOOOO

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      start barrier blocking; it's there for a reason

  40. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Blazblue's fan content (even in japan) was also fricking superior, I guess it had to do with the story and characters being batshit

  41. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I can't stand most of BB character designs.
    Especially Ragna and his badly looking chu2shit from 00s
    Rachel is the best

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      The design is on purpose. Blazblue is Mori's fever dream chuuni IP based on late 2000s-2010 Light Novels

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Ragna's design looks pretty fine compared to most of BB.
      Then there's Hakumen.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Ragna is in the upper tiers of BB's charater design, honestly.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        what a moronic tierlist
        kys

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I cannot agree that anyone wearing such a tasteless outfit like Mai deserves to be in good tier

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >eyesore
        >sex
        >dicky sex
        >SEX
        >shota sex
        what's the frick wrong with you?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >COOMERS will SEETHING at this based tierlist

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          He has Mai in good though.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          I seem to be ok with Litchi in the Okay tier, so that's fine with me.
          Though I am trying so fricking hard to overcome my hardcore porn addiction. Shame Litchi doesn't get much. She has some nice fat breasts.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            I think Litchi's design sucks because she's supposed to be really sexy and lasvicious but she's more modestly dressed than half the cast. I can't take the attempt to make her look sexy seriously when she's standing next to Noel in her microskirt as if that isn't a million times more sexual than Litchi just having big breasts and cleavage, and that's not even mentioning someone like Makoto. You can't have someone as modest looking as Litchi be framed as the sexy one in agame overflowing with such whorish looking characters.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              >to be really sexy and lasvicious but she's more modestly dressed than half the cast
              Same goes for Nine tbf

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          I only save pics of Izanami

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Aren't you that Kaguragay? You really fell in love with Izanami that quickly?

            Those games are a lot harder to pick up than Strive, and more than that, getting your ass beat in them, which is a lot more likely to happen with their smaller playerbase, is a lot more demoralizing and it's harder to even begin to pushback from it than even the worst beating you'll take in Strive. I'm not playing Strive myself right now because, though I don't hate it, I did get bored with it, but the changes they made to be more accessible to newcomers were obviously effective and it's a game that's really easy to pick up and understand, and even if it something like +R is maybe more satisfying to understand, it's a lot harder to get there. I do think being the first major recent release with rollback did a lot for it, but I think the design of the game also helped a lot to bridge people who just wanted to watch fighting games to actually playing them. I sometimes see people say a Rev 3 with rollback would have been just as successful, and I would have preferred that personally because I love Xrd, but I don't think it would have ever happened.

            Bored of Strive myself, mainly because i don't have a character, but sometimes I do wonder if they went a bit too far to make it more accessible. Too many combos are locked behind RC and air game is barren, but what if cutting back on those two things actually helped the game find more success?
            Or maybe it was because Strive was the only 2D game in the past 5 years that has had good online and great visuals?

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              I've liked Izanami for a while actually, since I saw her get played in CF arcades. I only recently just managed to wrap my head around her basic combo structure after I got back into the game.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Good taste. Shame's a brocon for the design disaster known as Ragna

                >Or maybe it was because Strive was the only 2D game in the past 5 years that has had good online and great visuals?
                That does it a lot of good, but if that was all it had going for it I don't think so many people would play it over other options, like even if they didn't want to play older games they'd play Melty or KoF or something. Strive's just easy to play and it's evidently fun to play for the more casual audience. It can be hard to relate to really casual players sometimes, but when I see some of them talk about how they play beneath Floor 10 in Strive it really puts it into perspective. I see them say it a lot, which for me is a bit crazy because I think I'd be generous to myself to say I'm an intermediate-level fighting game player, but even for me it's a given that I'll get celestial any month I decide to play Strive, and the easiness of getting Celestial is something any decent fighting game player who's played Strive can relate to I'm sure, but there are those who can barely even get to the challenge, and I think it's people like that who Strive is most popular among.

                I always find myself surprised by how much of the playerbase that is when I see it, I think only 5% or so of the PC playerbase is Celestial, but there's a lot of others, many of them probably only starting out with fighting games with Strive, playing the game beneath them and it's probably the first fighting game many of them have ever really tried to learn, and it's a game that's simple enough and not so demoralizing to lose in that it did more to make them stick around than a lot of its competitors. Its visuals and online help obviously, but I think the simplicity of the mechanics really is something that works for new players to fighting games, even if it's easy to look at as simplistic and boring if you have more experience with the genre.

                If simplicity really is what made Strive so much more popular, then I wonder if Arcsys has any plans to actually expand the game's system mechanics or add any new mechanics at all. Do they plan on keeping it as close to launch as possible in terms of simplicity/mechanics or will they add more depth in the future? Really curious to see what Strive will play like in a year or two

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                I won't get my hopes too high for it seeing as the updates since launch have been pretty lackluster.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                To be fair I am genuinely suprised that even strivers vote for more moves and more mechanics as actual number 1 feature they want in future updates so I wouldn't be so sure they wont do shit but its 50/50 they might or they wont.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                I think judging from that Backyard entry, they 100% know the playerbase is getting bored (thry even used the word bored) due to a lack of special moves and IKs. I dont wanna get my hopes up though

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              >Or maybe it was because Strive was the only 2D game in the past 5 years that has had good online and great visuals?
              That does it a lot of good, but if that was all it had going for it I don't think so many people would play it over other options, like even if they didn't want to play older games they'd play Melty or KoF or something. Strive's just easy to play and it's evidently fun to play for the more casual audience. It can be hard to relate to really casual players sometimes, but when I see some of them talk about how they play beneath Floor 10 in Strive it really puts it into perspective. I see them say it a lot, which for me is a bit crazy because I think I'd be generous to myself to say I'm an intermediate-level fighting game player, but even for me it's a given that I'll get Celestial any month I decide to play Strive, and the easiness of getting Celestial is something any decent fighting game player who's played Strive can relate to I'm sure, but there are those who can barely even get to the challenge, and I think it's people like that who Strive is most popular among.

              I always find myself surprised by how much of the playerbase that is when I see it, I think only 5% or so of the PC playerbase is Celestial, but there's a lot of others, many of them probably only starting out with fighting games with Strive, playing the game beneath them and it's probably the first fighting game many of them have ever really tried to learn, and it's a game that's simple enough and not so demoralizing to lose in that it did more to make them stick around than a lot of its competitors. Its visuals and online help obviously, but I think the simplicity of the mechanics really is something that works for new players to fighting games, even if it's easy to look at as simplistic and boring if you have more experience with the genre.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >they'd play Melty or KoF or something
                In this case I imagine the scenarios for their train of thought goes
                >melty blood
                >based on a visual novel
                >character designs/concepts aren't cool enough
                >sprite-based instead of so-pretty arcsys 3d graphics

                >kof
                >team-based 3 vs. 3
                >requires you to learn 3 characters
                >also has stricter combo requirements and or people are still traumatized by that KoF13 Ash trial combo

                Really, I don't think too many fighting games aside from DBFZ and Strive have gotten that much advertising power. Like Melty's entire presence in the marketing department was probably Neco Arc and twitter.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                melty also has the tsukihime brand backing it, which is HUGE in nipland.
                also we shouldn't forget that lumina was actually successful. in fact they made so much cash that all new chars were free

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Huge in Nipland, yes. But it's still a visual novel and those operate in completely different sales metrics to videogames.
                But now that I think about it, your average fighter that isn't SF, Tekken, MK, and now Strive probably sell around the same or more than "big" visual novel releases.
                >also we shouldn't forget that lumina was actually successful. in fact they made so much cash that all new chars were free
                Oh clearly, but it probably moved like a quarter of what Strive did, maybe less. Still huge for FB but still what shitposters would go around calling a discord fighter

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                the issue is that tsukire is jp only because nasu is a fricking moron. but if you look at jp only, you'll see that it's insane compared to even most AAA. I'd really like to see how tsukire would fare with an official localization
                also lumina was honestly kinda dead before neco update. the shit netcode combined with meme system mechanics drove off most people

                Lumina being successful has nothing to do with characters being free. Those games have post release development pipelines ready months before core game releases some even have certain post release content already finished before game even drops just to drop it within Season pass to keep stable content flow after release. They planned to release that content for free regardless anon, good shit though never played Melty but good for Melty fans and players.

                No shit the extended content is planned ahead of time but claiming that they intended to release it for free from the start is a load of bollocks. Let's be honest, did you think lumina would be a huge seller? I doubt FB did.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >I'd really like to see how tsukire would fare with an official localization
                Given how the VN reading population in the west is even smaller, I'm not sure.
                Like a 1000 is considered an enormous success as far as western VN translations go.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                the west does indeed have a relatively small market for vns but I'd say it could still be a fairly decent success. steam alone would be pretty huge

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                We'll see if Aoko's VN does later this year.
                Meanwhile, I'm going to hope Narita announces something for UNI on the 20th

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Lumina being successful has nothing to do with characters being free. Those games have post release development pipelines ready months before core game releases some even have certain post release content already finished before game even drops just to drop it within Season pass to keep stable content flow after release. They planned to release that content for free regardless anon, good shit though never played Melty but good for Melty fans and players.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >I think only 5% or so of the PC playerbase is Celestial
                I have to wonder if that only counts active players, or if it's the percentage of people who have played at all. 'Cause I'm not Celestial since I dropped the game, and whenever I do boot it back up for any reason, I'm not exactly in a rush to get it back.
                Regardless, you're completely right that it's only a tiny fraction of the playerbase of any given fighter that tries to "get good" in any meaningful way. I had some matches offline with a mate of mine who never touched fighters, and he genuinely could not perform quarter circles at all. It really puts into perspective just how far up the proverbial ladder your average fighting game player is.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                You can look at the trophy data for most any fighting game and the amount of players who have the trophy for heavy online play will always be laughably small.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >I have to wonder if that only counts active players
                It probably is, but it's less than I would expect all the same.

                >they'd play Melty or KoF or something
                In this case I imagine the scenarios for their train of thought goes
                >melty blood
                >based on a visual novel
                >character designs/concepts aren't cool enough
                >sprite-based instead of so-pretty arcsys 3d graphics

                >kof
                >team-based 3 vs. 3
                >requires you to learn 3 characters
                >also has stricter combo requirements and or people are still traumatized by that KoF13 Ash trial combo

                Really, I don't think too many fighting games aside from DBFZ and Strive have gotten that much advertising power. Like Melty's entire presence in the marketing department was probably Neco Arc and twitter.

                I don't think Strive got much in marketing either, for trailers it mostly just had those little trailers at a bunch of different fighting game events, and people didn't like them much, though they were at least consistent. The biggest thing for Strive and when I remember opinion turning more positive towards it was the first beta with rollback. People seemed really skeptical about it up to then, but I remember people, and I mean people at large rather than just people who already cared about Guilty Gear, began to seem to care about it and more importantly, they actually wanted to play it, which I think is the biggest hurdle for so many fighting games. A lot of fighting games can manage to generate discussion or spectators, but ones that manage to generate consistent playerbases are a lot rarer.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                That meme-worthy commercial with the japanese ladies is something I would never imagine for the likes of Blazblue or Melty Blood. And as far as teh beta was concerned, I played in both and decided that the game wasn't something I wanted to put my time into.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        kokonoe is the best designed character in the series

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Move Terumi down to Eyesore, Mai to Bad, and Hibiki and Kokonoe to OK and your tierlist would be fine

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >Terumi in eyesore
          He just looks like a can of Monster Energy.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            it's the specific shade of yellow they used for him that makes me hate it, especially when paired with green

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >murakumos
        >bad design
        are you unironically gay?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Lambda and Nu sure, but Mu minus the cloak I cant take that seriously.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            To me Mu is just Naked noel
            Good when you want to look at noel's navel, but bad on everything else

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              I dont even get why she still has that tie

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Because Mr.Mori is into that
                Honestly to me is the shitty hair that ruins it

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I didn't play BB for years ust because of how ugly I think it is. The look of the game has grown on me in some ways since I started actually playing it, but it's still a sereis that gets by largely on its mechancis for me even though I don't care for a lot of what it has going on otherwise.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >be GG gay
      >think ragna is a cheap dante x sol knockoff
      >read up on his story
      >suddenly hes pretty alright
      ragna>>>sol all day everyday, not only did he suffer more but he also got a better conclusion than Mr "i get my wife and my gay catboy BFF back no strings attached because we introduced the actual totally honest to god real no backsies true villain at the 11th hour :*~~"

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Ragna is literally a subversion of the black red edgy character stereotype. The guy just wants to live in peace but the universe wont let him

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Ragna is literally a subversion of the black red edgy character stereotype. The guy just wants to live in peace but the universe wont let him

        Ragna is a slightly more interesting character than Sol because all the latter ever fricking does is
        >heh
        >psshh
        >so boring
        and has the most bland personality set imaginable and all of his cool characterization come from big story highlight moments.
        That being said, Sol's movelist is way more satisfying

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          bender gay here, while i totally agree that ragna is more interesting character and ultimately has more interesting struggles because all his adversaries dont get white washed at the end, i still have to say that HOS is the coolest homie ever, especially with joji nakata's voice, the viciousness there is just unmatched IMO.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Sol's cool as frick in gameplay. I'm sad that Ky's Dragon Install doesn't take like half of someone's health and sends people FLYING above the top of the screen
            Just not so much in mostly everything else.

            Is the Mai autist sleeping or what?

            Why the frick do you want to summon him? He's just going to flood the thread from slights against his waifu

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Order Sol gives off such a strong sense of anger and aggressiveness that when I'm angry about something in real life playing him helps me to vent that anger and I'm usually relaxed by the time I'm done playing.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            the fact that Mori was in charge of the visual and technical aspects of Order Sol and A.B.A both makes sense and makes me kind of sad he didn't stick around to make more characters for GG.
            In fact, a game like Strive would've been a perfect place to do something like Order Sol's Charge gimmick (just reduce the damage outputs), and if you want to keep the workload down, do what ML did and just have it buff one move's stats.
            And now I'm disappointed Strive didn't borrow more from Missing Link; would've been a good base to go off of if you were making a game for newcomers. Flashy shit like Charges and Defensive Instant Kills anytime in the match for the newcomers and some good tight nostalgia for the vets.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Yeah but ABA's an annoying little c**t so frick her and frick Mori.

  42. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Any other Hispanic in this thread?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      El culo de Kula

  43. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Is strive just overpriced and releasing characters as dlc or is it a huge change from xrd?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      The current seasonal model is better by a margin. ArcSys used to sell new a new version after a year for full price. Rev 2 was a 30 dollar patch that firced you to get it if you wanna play online.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Well alright then I joined late to the gg train so I didn't know how crappy it was.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          It used to be incredibly israeli. Blazblue had "Extend" titles that were basically 40 dollar patched versions for 1 character that released 6 months after the last full version, only to release the latest full version after a 6-12 months. Glad they stopped doing it, it was eye-rolling.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Wish I had one of those fricking Mori the israelite images I had before I lost all my pics

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            They just copied how SF2 had like 20 versions with changes nobody fricking keeps track of

  44. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Blazblue Strive with half my character's moveset gone and less gatlings
    No thanks, CF has rollback so I'll stick with that.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >blazblue strive
      Its called Calamity Trigger.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        And it's the best game in the series

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Storywise maybe, but damn that game had ridiculous problems that carried to CS. Not even salty about how bursts leaves you defenseless or the existence of guard libra, but why do hitstops last a century and a half? Doesnt make sense at all

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous
            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              The most curious brazilian Blazblue meme

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous
          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            arakune shit always makes me think of this

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              This is basically a good summary if whats happening yeah. Arakune is rare online at least, even at the peak of rollback revival, but boy I hate the guy. Truly one of the posterboy for gameplay design mistake.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              >Carl
              Completely deserved.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >Carl

  45. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Lobby died / was closed, so I remade it. Here's a link

    steam://joinlobby/586140/109775245153050197/76561198025329631

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Lobby closed, thanks for the games

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >susanoo does his shield pressure
      >try to counterassault
      >susan stops shield pressure to god press
      >get fireball instead
      >get god pressed

      you're a mad man. thanks for the games

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >counterassaulting the exact moment there's a gap
        The classic.
        You had some really snazzy combos. I hadn't seen that RC combo into Kadmus before.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >3pm est
      jfc do you guys not work

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        9PM GMT+2, though
        But no, I don't, I had a temporary contract that ran until 31/8, so I'm job-hunting again now.

  46. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Doesn't look very likely, Mori is no longer on the board of directors list he might have left the company.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      That's because they're gonna credit him as ABA's key when she comes back

  47. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I still can't believe that GG turned out the way it did. The wienery cesspool of fighting game autists, a reputation so high up above in difficulty, all succumbed by Twitter and mentally ill trannies, a game so simple a literal who can win the EVO for it.
    Take me 5 years back

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Its karma. Never shouldve shat on Blazblue.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >The wienery cesspool of fighting game autists, a reputation so high up above in difficulty
      Exactly and this is pure karma for GG gays being own fart sniffing Black folk for decades. They are on par with capbucks when it comes to being obnoxious homosexuals and just like capbucks got reality check with SFV gg gays got one with Strive.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I don't understand the issue. You can always play "complex" GG. +R. Why do you need a new game but same?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Nta, but that kind if bitterness happens because the people who enjoyed the previous games never got their mainstream fanfare. They want a new game but same because new games have the spotlight on them. Strive is a new game, but not the game they enjoyed, but Strive got all the attention.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        people want more of what they like, yeah the old games are still there but fans want what they want as is human nature.
        at this point there is nothing left anymore, no fricking way in hell a game like marvel 3 or Xrd or CF could drop today because everything has to be """inclusive""" now meaning any old moron could beat you because basic fricking BnBs do 50% atleast.
        and if you think im exaggerating or making shit up consider the fact that the dude who won strive EVO this year (game with most entrants) is an OW player who picked up strive as his first fighting game.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Yeah but if the argument is the current game is highly erratic that anyone could win, wouldnt that happy chaos player lose more often to other players? He seems consistent to me, just that the character is bullshit and has no real inherent weakness in the right hands. Afterall Fenrich started out as a nobody kid too, and he managed to frick everyone by BBCP

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Its okay when it happened in old games anon you know it was le epic newcomer destoying veterans anime arc but when someone does that nowadays its very bad. Soive sucks balls but homosexuals acting like randoms picking up first fg and then after couple of months dominating oldgays is something weird or even bad is hilarious.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Meteoric rises are fine and cool when they happen. Sometimes people are just fricking good and put in 14 hours a day and they end up a top player in only a couple years.

              That's a different thing from the top players getting memed on by random no-names regularly because the game is extremely gambling-heavy and has a relatively limited skill ceiling. The best players are still going to win more often, because they will make the right decisions more of the time, but it's like the difference between chess and backgammon, the better player will win more of the time in both, but in chess if there's a decent the better player will almost always win, whereas in backgammon because randomness plays a large role maybe the worse player just gets lucky a few times in a row, and he was at a statistical disadvantage and would have lost if they played 10 games, but because they only played 3 and he happened to win the first two he wins the whole match.
              And this is actually fully intentional, Daisuke straight up said it in an interview. He's not trying to make Chess/shogi, he's making backgammon/mahjong.
              >"Up until now I’ve aimed to create Fighting Games that play like Shougi. Shougi is a game where if there is a gap in you and your opponent’s skill level, then you will almost never lose. However, in order to match the current trends, it was necessary to change that part."

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            im drunk RN so take this with a grain of salt but i remember that umisho lost to some 16 year old player in a mirror set and the reason they even played that was because the kid said that HC was was easy and any old moron could win with him, and that triggered the troony.

            Its okay when it happened in old games anon you know it was le epic newcomer destoying veterans anime arc but when someone does that nowadays its very bad. Soive sucks balls but homosexuals acting like randoms picking up first fg and then after couple of months dominating oldgays is something weird or even bad is hilarious.

            omito won every tournament he attended for 2 years straight, no other johnny player has a record as clean as his, no one even comes close.
            the last EVO jp finals for Xrd were between a chipp (top 10 at best) and a haehyun player (bottom 10) you would never in a thousand years see that kind of GF in a strive major because the game is all about damage, who can cash out the best? thats your top 8.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      My thoughts exactly, Nero bro. So disappointing to see such a fierce community of autists infected by ack crap

  48. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    mystery homie

  49. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    You do realize that BB has a character who's basically trans right?
    As well as Jin being gay and Makoto being implied to be a lesbian. Frick Jubei and Nine's relationship is based around interspecies romance

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Also a character who is LITERALLY a boy sharing a girl's body with two females.
      If anything BB has always been progressive but nobody gave a shit.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I think the argument was that all of those were fetish fuel, not an agenda that may or may not concide with <current year> politics, so no one bats an eye. Also recency bias

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Bridget's backstory since his first appearance involves child grooming, Justice had a codpiece despite being the remains of Sol's girlfriend, one of Dizzy's wings is a male skeleton-thing, and Venom is a gay black guy.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I remember the face on my friend's normie gf when she came over to see what we play every night and she asked me to explain the story of the game
      "Wait, what do you mean she fricked a cat"
      good times

  50. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Blazblue never had any soul to begin with

  51. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >when can I consoom more from this company that raped this other series of theirs for internet brownie points and totally think they won't do that for this other one?
    I want the day when all consoomers die a horrific death to get here ASAP

  52. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I like Strive

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      ok

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I will probably pick it up later. I don't understand how people can pay $120 for fighting games. They do it with smash too.

  53. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    BB is mid

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Its ok, and thats fine. Its not claiming to be anything but.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      no, you should block low and react to highs

  54. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    is he sleeping with his female intact b***h dog

  55. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Back when XX came out people would celebrate that the consensus became that it wasn't gay to frick Bridget. Truly, those you perceive as the other now reside in your hearts and mind without any sort of fee.

  56. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >INFERINU DIVAIDA!
    Ragna shouting that has healing properties.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I miss watching BlueRaji and Sugita shouting random ragna lines whenever things got a bit sexual

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I miss watching BlueRaji and Sugita shouting random ragna lines whenever things got a bit sexual

      >"Why, I can hardly even imagine what his CARNAGE SCISSORS will DEAD SPIKE!"

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >the episode with Azrael VA thinking people thought he might be gay
        >the episode with bang's VA
        >every single episode where Sugita and Nakamura (hazama's VA) would buddy out so hard that Imagine (Tsubaki) and Kondon( Noel) had no fricking idea on what they were talking about anymore

        I fricking miss it

  57. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Hydra
    >Dehaka
    >Rahab
    >Sirrushi
    >Naga
    >VVRITRA
    >WYVERN
    >FAFNIR
    >KADAMOS

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Wyvern is something else. I know its coming but I always get tagged regardless

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Wyvern
      Please, have mercy.

  58. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Didn't Mori leave ASW or was that fake?

  59. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I love BlazBlue and always have.
    That said I hope ArcSys never lays their hands on it ever again. As a casual GG fan, after getting my hands on Strive I believe it's taken one of the lamest turn I've seen a fighting game IP go.
    I don't want any of that to happen to Blazblue.
    I do want a Centralfiction rebalance, though.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I agree with this, I don't want a BB Strive

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        we had bb strive it was called bbtag and it was utter garbage

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Wrong, its called Blazblue Calamity Trigger. Tag is just....a tag game much like TTT is to Tekken.

  60. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I can't believe i lived long enough to see GG go to shit

  61. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Every fighting game thread people on Ganker whine about how shit Strive is, yet it is only behind SFV and T7, 2 of the 3 biggest IPs in the genre, in player count. Meanwhile +R and BBCF can't even break 500 players combined on a good day, why? You gays can't even use the "muh shit online" excuse anymore for either game.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      By that metric, you're telling me MK11 is the best fricking fighting game ever made.

      I think Litchi's design sucks because she's supposed to be really sexy and lasvicious but she's more modestly dressed than half the cast. I can't take the attempt to make her look sexy seriously when she's standing next to Noel in her microskirt as if that isn't a million times more sexual than Litchi just having big breasts and cleavage, and that's not even mentioning someone like Makoto. You can't have someone as modest looking as Litchi be framed as the sexy one in agame overflowing with such whorish looking characters.

      What makes less sense to me is Nine. She's a married women, she hates getting stares, hates men even harder.
      But she dresses with her breasts flopping around and wearing thighhighs that have an inward cut showing off under-thighs.
      What a dumb b***h

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Considering I never brought up the quality of Strive or any other FG, no. How did your dumbass even come to that conclusion?

        Nobody's doing it for BB because it isnt a larpers IP. It isnt cool to put BB on a pedestal. Now +R was the hilarious one, and eventually Xrd when it gets rollback eventually, because vocal minorities love to pretend to play those, but it'll tank after the first few months.

        I guess, I remember BB hitting like 4k players after the rollback update, but was back to pre-rollback numbers in like a month and a half. Thought more people would stick around to be honest.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          You're playerbase metrics to define a game's apparent quality

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Nobody's doing it for BB because it isnt a larpers IP. It isnt cool to put BB on a pedestal. Now +R was the hilarious one, and eventually Xrd when it gets rollback eventually, because vocal minorities love to pretend to play those, but it'll tank after the first few months.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Ganker are posers and shitposters
      what a surprise

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Those games are a lot harder to pick up than Strive, and more than that, getting your ass beat in them, which is a lot more likely to happen with their smaller playerbase, is a lot more demoralizing and it's harder to even begin to pushback from it than even the worst beating you'll take in Strive. I'm not playing Strive myself right now because, though I don't hate it, I did get bored with it, but the changes they made to be more accessible to newcomers were obviously effective and it's a game that's really easy to pick up and understand, and even if it something like +R is maybe more satisfying to understand, it's a lot harder to get there. I do think being the first major recent release with rollback did a lot for it, but I think the design of the game also helped a lot to bridge people who just wanted to watch fighting games to actually playing them. I sometimes see people say a Rev 3 with rollback would have been just as successful, and I would have preferred that personally because I love Xrd, but I don't think it would have ever happened.

  62. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I lost track of the plot around the third game.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Youre not alone. A LOT of people fell by BBCP storywise, its fricking moronic, it introduced a lot of useless one-of characters and nebulous concepts. Funny because BBCP was when the gameplay started picking up

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I don't mind a few filler characters honestly. I don't think every fighting game character needs to be SUPER important so long as they look cool and are fun. Honestly I feel like most modern fighting games have only suffered for trying to make every character "matter."

        But on the whole the plot just kind of got....screwey. It was one thing when it was just that pretty clean time loop shenanigan's. But then they started getting into parallel shit, and this character is the real Saya but not really because Saya is skynet or we're all in a dream bubble or some shit. And observers and terumi being a frick and I dunno. I still don't know why Celica is important.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Something about how Nine and Celica's dad designing his anti-magic nuke to be activated by killing Celica, but turns out Bang's nail can do it instead

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          So let me try and illuminate the plot of CP. Bear in mind yes it's very stupid. Once BB had to stick to a big singular narrative instead of a lot of smaller narratives you start to realize how unstable this setting always was. But here we go:

          To understand what the frick Saya even is, we need to understand what the Azure is and what the Sankishin are. The Azure is basically the source. All information, all souls, all power, everything originates and returns to here. The Sankishin are a trio of robots that are responsible for maintaining reality. The Master Unit is Amaterasu. Amaterasu's job is take energy from the Azure and convert it into reality. The world of Blazblue is a simulation invented by Amaterasu. Who made Amaterasu? No one knows. Tsukuyomi is the defender of Amaterasu. Nothing can penetrate its shield. Nothing. Susano'o is the sword of Amaterasu and this part is important. Because Susano'o intent is to destroy any timelines or causal events Amaterasu wants removed. Anything Susano'o kills isn't just dead. It's deleted from history. And reality will warp itself to account for it without paradox. Which is FRICKED UP. But Susano'o is supposed to be an empty suit of armor. And yet somehow Susano'o grew a soul of its own. Independent of Amaterasu. And Susano'o began to understand that it was a slave. Even if it destroyed everything, Amaterasu would just put it back and Susano'o would've just been carrying out its purpose as a destroyer. So that soul forced itself to the edge of Amaterasu's simulation and broke away from its own body and infiltrated reality as a vengeful spirit.

          So if you ever wondered why Terumi is so fanatical about killing its sister unit. This is why. It's a dark reflection of Ragna's and Saya's relationship.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            I liked the game better when it was about a giant scary monster that farted a poison cloud that made everyone build ewoke houses and also there's time travel.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            So now we have to talk about the Murakumo War because all the shit about the Black Beast stems from this one event.

            Mankind found the Boundary. Somehow. And then they found Susano'o's empty body. And using Susano'o they were able to notice Amaterasu. They tried sending rovers down there but anything that spent any time in the Boundary would instantly be destroyed or scrambled. They noticed Amaterasu would only react to human shaped things so Relius made the Murakumos, human shaped rovers meant to explore the Boundary. Most were just destroyed but one made it all the way to the bottom and touched Amaterasu. And when it came back it was alive. It had its own soul. More than that it became an extension of Amaterasu. It could rewrite reality as it willed. Humans gonna human, they made more as weapons of war. Until they realized

            >Wait...we just made guns with the power of god and anime that could kill us at any time

            So yeah humans turned on the Murakumos. They bound Saya on a big stick and threw her to the bottom of the Boundary and tried to kill off her offshoots. Except the offshoots don't wanna die. So there was a war and humans got washed. Humans invented the Izayoi to kill the immortal Murakumos but it wasn't close to enough. So humanity said "frick it." They took the Izayoi concept and created a self observing monster that would eat everything indisciminately. They also made Takamagahara as a man made replacement for Amaterasu. The idea being that it didn't matter if the Black Beast destroyed everything since TKGA would usurp the Master Unit and remake reality in a way where humans were gods. So the Black Beast destroyed everything. EVERYTHING. But as TKGA sank to the bottom of the Boundary there was a problem. The world was already being remade. Something had already usurped the Master Unit. It was the first Murakumo that humanity threw into the Boundary. She'd found the Master Unit again and had taken control. And she remade the world alread.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Okay I'm getting there. So like what even is Ragna and the time loops?

              Well Saya, whom I'm going to call The Origin from here on out since there are multiple Saya's...you'll see why in a minute, and TKGA are gridlocked at this point. Both were made to control reality and can even reset time if need be. But there's a catch. TKGA can't make new possibilities, it can only influence things across already existing ones. Saya can do whatever the frick she wants. So why redo the war the killed her? Because despite being fricking god the only thing she wants in life is dick. And I'm only half exaggerating. See Saya has this vision in her head about a brave hero coming to save her from her plight. And any time something happens to frick that up she'll reset time and do it over again. TKGA is still trying to complete its purpose of usurping the Master Unit and elevating humanity to godhood. And any time something happens to frick that up it'll reset time and do everything over again. So you have 2 super computers resetting time again and again and again and at the center of all of this is Ragna, The Origin's made up OC that she wants to come save her. This is why every ending in these games, ALL OF THEM, are canon. It's the result of 2 supercomputers fighting over who gets to control reality. Because The Origin can't influence TKGA since its in the Boundary with her and TKGA can't make The Origin frick off and stop turning the world into her fanfic.

              So both of them began to get frustrated. The Origin released a subroutine based on her frustration called Hades Izanami. Which is the expression of her desire to just say "frick it" and make everything die. TKGA decided to say "frick it" and released Terumi. Yeah remember him? TKGA influenced things to give him a body he can actually operate in, in the hopes of shaking things up and offering them an opening to get rid of The Origin.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                So Ragna was never real?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Ragna was the manic pixie dream boy that the sentient doll girl dreamed of to save her.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                So how is he her brother then? Where did that come from?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Saya(God) made Ragna. Saya(God) then made another Saya who was Ragna's sister.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                She made the world and fabricated a scenario where he's her brother. God simply has a big brother complex.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                So she created a brother for herself and decided she wanted to frick her brother?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Yes. Its called pandering to yumejoshis

  63. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Still gets me a bit misty

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      im glad she will end up dead, alone and forgotten. having to acknowledge that the person you hate the most, be the greatest hero you will ever know most have made her seeth so much.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I thought she liked Jin. If anything, she'd be seething about Noel-the ONE person Jin hated the most-became his secretary

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          by the end of the series, she became hakuman 2.0 and throw away her identity to become a tool of justice. she never ends up with Jin and she is the only one who remember Ragna.

  64. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    There's a part of me that still has a hard time accepting this series came out 14 years ago.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Here's a fun fact for ya', anon!
      I started playing CSII when I was in middle school, and I've had a Master's degree for more than two years now!

  65. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Reminder: Lambchop is the best murakumo girl.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I like her most because I like playing her, but I feel like I would like Nu more in the story but I've never done the story so I can't say for sure. I just know I find Lambda's win quotes boring which is where I'm getting 90% of her character from.

  66. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Blazblue: Strive is coming in 2024.
    It will share many mechanics with Strive, for example wall break(tm) and simplified gameplay.
    Are you exited? I unironically, am. They could go mad with the artstyle.

  67. 2 years ago
    Anonymous
    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Best reversal super. Connecting with this is orgasmic. Killing with this is the best. 100% anime shit

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        its the best especially if they hit it with their astral

  68. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The difference between bb and gg is that bb has always been fricking soulless as frick.

    We at least have gg +r

  69. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Shame I can't find any reups of those subbed blazblue radio shows, they were top fun but now there's barely any out there that I could find..

  70. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    BB bros, the dream is dead.
    >BBCF has no dub
    That's okay. I'll still usually play BB in Japanese anyway
    >BB crosses over with RWBY
    Okay, that sucks but I can deal
    >BBTAG is baby game
    What the hell?
    >BB introduces lore shit in a gacha game
    What is this FGO ripoff?
    >Gacha fails within a year
    Well that's gotta be a hard blow for Mori
    >BBCF and BBTAG got rollback
    I guess there's still hope for BlazBlue
    >Mori seems to have left the company
    Well shit, I guess is dead
    It's been a sad ride.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Mori seems to have left the company
      what the frick? qrd?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        2 days ago, his name isnt on the directors board. Most likely did a silent departure. Makes sense since BBDW was such a massive failure, probably burned up all his good will.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          I thought that was a different Mori?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        He apparently moved to Netease, a chinese game company.
        No, he's not going to a chinese company to make a Journey to the West fighter, he went to probably learn more israeli gacha tricks because Netease is related to Diablo Immortal

  71. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Is the Mai autist sleeping or what?

  72. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    BB never had soul, it's animetrash and it will stay that way with probably a bit of lgbtq+ propaganda on top of it

  73. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    nothing good ever comes from a franchise getting more popular

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      if you don't want your franchise to prosper you aren't a real fan

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I'm almost glad that UNI went back to being quiet again after EVO

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Blame clr for being rev2 tier. Also lol shini port

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          I played clr fine so I don't really care what the rest think.
          >shini port
          Your fault for not learning your lesson after [st]'s port kek

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Wrong.

  74. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Why? CF has rollback and was a perfect end for the series, and has the best gameplay. We literally don't need a new BB Fightan, spin-offs however would be pretty cool.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      get ready for bbrpg aka og blazblue

  75. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Holy frick when will you stop spamming this shit just because of bridget. Not even 100k people worldwide actively play arcsys games. fighting gays are even worse than gachagays

  76. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    blazblue was casual before gg was
    you cannot dispute this
    also frick that we have to pretend to hate strive to fit in here now

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I don't hate Strive personally, but I don't think anybody's pretending. It's not hard to see why it would be disliked.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I mean, it basically was not-GG as a desperate attempt to salvage the company, so it makes sense to make it casual. Only when it started to gravitate away from being not-GG that it became good

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Blazblue started out pretty casual but got hugely more complicated as the series progressed. GG did the same but with a headstart, culminating in +r, and then dialed it back a little in Xrd because +r was admittedly fricking insanity but without really changing the core of the gameplay much, and then kneecapped itself in Strive and rewrote most of its entire DNA from the ground up.
      Which you're allowed to like if you want, it's just nothing like what GG used to be and it's inaccurate to paint all of the disappointment with it as illegitimate, even if a lot of it is just morons mad about troony shit that didn't play any of the games anyway. Of course on the other hand there's a lot of people that will type a thousand words about how Strive is actually no different form the older GGs without having played any of them too.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >pretend
      Strive is fricking awful, casualizing Guilty Gear of all fricking things was never going to end well, and here we are

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        And yet it's the most successful GG game in existence making xturd an +r look like a joke.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          To be fair we +r chads also correctly view xturd as the stinker it is

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >casualize a fighting game
          >it sells more copies because more normies try to play it
          Wow holy shit anon I’m a fricking idiot I didn’t think of that at all
          No fricking shit dumbass, but sales doesn’t automatically = good, you have to be underage or a massive moron to not understand that moron

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Blazblue was so shitty that Mori is now a beggar on the streets. Go woke get rich b***h.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              No, its because the gacha was a dekusional move by Mori. Nobody i their right mind would make a traditional FGO gachs in a post Genshin Impact environment. Its suicide, and thats regadless of IP.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          The only reason why is that is because it was the first fightan with good rollback netcode. It was released during a perfect time when everyone was locked.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            mvci and power rangers both had better netcode and came first

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              You are right. I completely forgot about them.
              Because they are forgettable trash.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            mvci and power rangers both had better netcode and came first

            Fricking KI came out in 2013
            Netcode helps but it's only a small part of what makes a game popular
            Everything related to Gameplay in general only makes up at absolute most maybe half of the reason for a game succeeding. The rest is timing, advertising, recognizability, momentum/luck with post launch events, aesthetic and porn and memes etc. You can make the best game in the world with all the best modern features and excellent gameplay that directly answers everyone's complaints about the genre and because it isn't a mainstream IP that happens to be well positioned in the market at the time no one takes a second look at it.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        It did pretty well for the IP at least. That series couldnt catch a break from losing money that even Blazblue one upped it in terms of success, and that was a new fighting game IP at the time, an incredibly risky venture. Shame about the gameplay, but thats just how it goes.

        Blazblue flopped. It's long forgotten and will never sell until it starts catering to the progressive crowd, you know, the people that actually matter.

        >flopped
        Its the reason why Xrd even existed in the first place. Its done its job, singlehandedly saved ArcSys from bankruptcy and paved the way for their future projects.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I genuinely am not interested in strive

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I do feel bad for the actual GGgays that have to have this pozzed shit attached to their series literally forever now and even worse for the legitimate Bridgetgays considering this was always a possibility when he eventually got confirmed for a game down the line but them's the breaks, if the series had stopped at Xrd it would've saved itself at least some dignity

  77. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    but who was hakumen?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Bang

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Me

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous
  78. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Got Mogged by Blazblue in sales numbers
    >Couldn't even get past 300,000 with Xrd
    >Had to resort to the twitter troons to hit one Milly
    Nah, let Blazblue rest, unless some developer like French Bread gets the I.P. Blazblue rose to the top of Anime fighting games and will always have the reigns to the throne. Guilty Gear? Had it's own soul sold for Twitter troons.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Blazblue rose to the top of Anime fighting games and will always have the reigns to the throne.
      Fricking this.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Blazblue flopped. It's long forgotten and will never sell until it starts catering to the progressive crowd, you know, the people that actually matter.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Blazblue was so shitty that Mori is now a beggar on the streets. Go woke get rich b***h.

        >BB hits 1.8 Million by the time Continuum shift comes out
        >GG never hits a Million until Strive
        The funniest part to this is that Fricking Cross tag hit 450,000 before the end of the fiscal year. A fricking Mishmash of a fighting game beat Guilty Gears sales numbers

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          1.8 millon across 13 years is pathetic, pre Strive GG is also pathetic and the fact that their community was as loud as it was is hilarious now that their community is being swept to the side as if their "support" ever meant anything.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            1.8 million across 1 year. Continuum shift was a year after calamity trigger anon.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >1.8 millon across 13 years is pathetic
            He said by Continuum Shift, anon. That's Blazblue's second game

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Continuum Shift released in 2010. Almost 13 years.

              It did pretty well for the IP at least. That series couldnt catch a break from losing money that even Blazblue one upped it in terms of success, and that was a new fighting game IP at the time, an incredibly risky venture. Shame about the gameplay, but thats just how it goes.
              [...]
              >flopped
              Its the reason why Xrd even existed in the first place. Its done its job, singlehandedly saved ArcSys from bankruptcy and paved the way for their future projects.

              >Its the reason why Xrd even existed in the first place.
              Wrong gay. Arc lost the rights to GG to sega and re-acquired them and started work on Xrd.

              [...]
              >BB hits 1.8 Million by the time Continuum shift comes out
              >GG never hits a Million until Strive
              The funniest part to this is that Fricking Cross tag hit 450,000 before the end of the fiscal year. A fricking Mishmash of a fighting game beat Guilty Gears sales numbers

              Cross Tag was because of Persona.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Okay, reading this entire post, I see you're actually just fricking stupid and don't know wha you're talking about. Nevermind.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >Arc lost the rights to GG to sega and re-acquired them and started work on Xrd.
                Alright let me know where the money came from for them to be able to do that
                >Continuum Shift released in 2010. Almost 13 years
                They made 1.8 million in a year. Thats unheard of for a brand new fighting game IP that isnt Tekken or Street Fighter. They proceeded to earn more on the IP throughout the years.
                >Because of Persona
                You are an idiot.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >The best selling Blazblue game that account for 50% sales of the whole franchise is the game with arguably less mechanical depth than STRIVE

          Not sure if it's actually a good thing...

  79. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >never would've thought that I would respect Mori more than Daisuke at any point in time
    What a fricked up timeline this is

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      This reminds me of how FF7 fanboys raged at Nomura for Remake's ending and now ongoing plot only to find out it wasn't him that did it but Nojima, they guy they used to celebrate as the anti-Nomura, and Nomura actually wanted to just make a faithful 1-to-1 remake.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >and Nomura actually wanted to just make a faithful 1-to-1 remake.
        I don’t believe that for a single second

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Cloud is literally Nomura's original self-insert and Tifa his perfect waifu and he's proudly admitted that. I absolutely believe that he'd want to keep things the same. Especially considering Nojima was going to kill everyone in OG FF7 before the ending and Nomura was the one who stepped in a stopped him.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Nomura only designed the characters, he didn’t write them, Nomura is the reason people think edgy emo Cloud is how he’s supposed to be

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      APOLOGIZE

  80. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Never. Mori is gone and the gacha game bombed which is a sign a franchise is simply unprofitable to the max. BB is effectively dead.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Blazblue could still be profitable, BBTAG was them making money on scraps and recycled assets. Mori was just an incredibly moronic individual to stake it on a traditional gacha post 2015 on a media franchise well past its prime.

  81. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    So where does Jin fit into everything? His existence wasn't something designed by the Master Unit, right? How does the Power of Order relate to the Boundary and the Master Unit? Is it an external failsafe created by whoever created the Sankishin Units?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      The Power of Order exists as a way to prevent keep Order and prevent one single person from becoming too strong. in Dark War, it's expanded to keeping Phantom Fields (the various possibilities and timeloops branching off from the main timeline) stable; messing with said stability points a target on your back. Celica, Hakumen and Jin were all made by the Power of Order as counters to Nine, The Black Beast and Ragna respectively.
      >Celica nullifies sethir while Nine has the ability to infinitely gather sethir
      >Jin was made to kill Ragna before he got too powerful and become the Black Beast, hence why there's huge emphasis on Jin's destiny in CS and why people feel cheated by their fights in CP and CF
      >Hakumen is for when Ragna goes Black Beast

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        So Amaterasu can't suppress the Power of Order?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Doesn't Makoto have a bit of order juice in her? Who's she meant to counter?

          Tsubaki's was given to her when Jin's weakness became apparent (which is weird because Order scales Jin against Ragna so I assume it was because Jin was overexerting himself at that point) and Makoto gained a weaker version because of her dedication to protecting her friends.
          There isn't much to Order beyond that, which makes it all the more frustrating given how important it is to the Ragna-Jin-Hakumen conflict

          >Magic in BB is no different to science.
          Black person there's an entire faction that's persecuted by the world government because they use science instead of magic.
          >Stop fricking coming up with lame excuses already.
          I'm not making any excuses, Mai is a troony.

          Ars Magus is a fusion of magic arts and science and Sector Seven isn't above using it when needed. And their persecution doesn't come from their usage of science; it's because they broke away from them after the Dark War, participated in the Ikarugan War on Tenjo's side and plan on setting things back to pre Dark-War status by destroying all the grimoires

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            If Tsubaki's meant to be Jin's substitute, why was she so shit? Has Ragna ever had trouble fighting her?

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              having the Izayoi gives her some power boost especially in forcing opponents to 'recognize' their death (could basically brute force even an immortal's death), but compared to the hardest hitters in the series, she struggles to keep up, especially since she lacks a Nox Nyctores of her own. And if she struggles to keep up with Jin and Noel, I doubt that she'd be able to keep up with Ragna

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Shouldn't Order scale her up to his level the way it scaled Jin up?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                the less you ask or think about Order, the better; it's there to give Jin and Hakumen a reason to fight Ragna and keep up with him regardless.

                get ready for bbrpg aka og blazblue

                Action RPG Riot:Blue finally hitting the shelves after 15 years of development hell (the devs accidentally made 4 fighting games in its place)

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >BB bawds in 3D models
                I really wish

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                To be fair the story always downplay Ragna as a chump when he's not using the grimoire, everyone has a shot against him without it

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                wasn't it in CT and CS because he was constantly holding back in his fights and that was something Jubei and Rachel would constantly chide him for?

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                No. There are only a handful of opponents he needs to ape out against. He can easily beat opponents like Litchi and Tsubaki without using Blood Kain. Also, he's steadily getting stronger so he can even beat Nu without relying on the Grimoire.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                True. By the end of CF, he steamrolls almost everyone without even needing to use it. They do mention that everyone's powers are weakened because of the Embry or something and both Ragna and Nine are unaffected as both don't have Drives and have to fight using their own strength and external powers, but he still beat a Nu powered up by absorbing Nox Nyctores at the time, so that ws likely just copium to try and not make Hakumen look like the b***h that he is, only for him to die right after to based Terumi.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Well you have to remember that Ragna steadily caught up to Hakumen across the games, so by that point the gap between them wasn't that high anymore. The Embryo weakening Hakumon was enough to put Ragna over and let him win without much trouble.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                BBCP had Ragna learning to not always rely on the BlazBlue. He beat Nu-13 without it near the end of BBCP.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Doesn't Makoto have a bit of order juice in her? Who's she meant to counter?

  82. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I would like BB more if pressure wasn't so strong and/or it had less knowledge checks. I also hate instant blocking in any fighting game.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Ive never once used IB outside of Izanami and Susan matchups because they are Black person characters. Its not as bad as Xrd where just blocking is almost mandatory against a lot of characters

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I don't know man when I'm stuck in the corner blocking for 10 years against Litch/Carl and then get counterhit the moment I try to get out it feels like IB would've helped. Even if it didn't it brings me to my second point, the amount of knowledge checks in this game kills my drive to play.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          When I get pressured by Carl, I just block and pray. IBing isnt going to do you any good, Carls have too many setups to account for. Admittedly, Ive not fought Litchi that much to comment

  83. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I think people blame Nomura too much. Nomura's issue is that he prioritizes spectacle over everything else, so everything that happens in the games he's in charge of are designed to justify that spectacle. But Nojima's the one who's actually responsible for most of the in-depth moronation. Nomura's not a writer, and the one time he tried it was just 358/2 Days. Which wasn't great and had some dumb elements but it's not on the level of what Nojima's done.

  84. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Mai is a trans icon.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Mai is biologically female

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Biological females can still be trans.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Yeah but nobody cares because Mai is for all intents and purposes a full woman and not actively pretending, the dick is literally the difference

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Her having breasts the size of hot air balloons also helps

  85. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    how does the whole naoto being ragna's uncle but from another timeline(?) works?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Ragna, Jin and Saya (whom Noel and others are cloned from) are test tube babies made by Relius from the 5th prime field device (Origin is the 1st, or 0th)
      The 5th (and probably other PFDs) is cloned from Saya Terumi, Naoto's sister. She was also the original user of Soul Eater, the drive Ragna got from the grimoire
      Relius implied Naoto and Saya became enemies and Naoto devours her or something, which might be why Ragna got all the siblings conflict bullshit

  86. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >despise arcsys games
    >french bread games are a joke
    >tekken is terrible and israelite central
    >no one plays snk and its imbalanced
    >capcom is terrible
    Literally no fighting games if you have any modicum of principle

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      What the FRICK do you play then?

  87. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    How come CF has such a garbage art style, UI, terrible mechanics compared to the older ones? CS was kusoge but at least its UI was soul

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      CF has decent UI. Dont tell me you prefer the battery bar meter of CS? Guard Primer meter looks off.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      BlazBlue had three main artists. One was the story artist who did all the story art. Mori did the promotional art for Calamity Trigger and Chronophantasma, while Katou did it for Continuum Shift and Centralfiction. They were also collectively the main character designers for all four games.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        The story art guy's work is pretty whack.
        Some of the faces look awkward as frick

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          I mean the amount of art he has to churn out for each game is pretty fricking huge, there's a reason why VNs often have multiple artists working on them these days.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            I understand the work is demanding but man, some of Makoto and Azrael's faces were just unnerving to look at.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              I'd argue the inconsistency's probably worse. Ragna's face doesn't really look the same between CT and CF. It's especially obvious if you look at Ragna's character portrait and then the CF story art. These are two different people.

  88. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Reminder CS was the best game

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >get away scot free

  89. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    sometimes dead is better.

  90. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Blazblue lost it's soul when BBTAG got made

  91. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I seriously am unable to believe anything but like 1% of you homosexuals learned this series. I tried BBCF and BnBs alone can require some precise shit like microdash links. There's no fricking way I can believe a bunch of people learned this shit even at a beginner level when we have unironic threads about motions being too hard and gatekeeping new players. People here have the autism but not the resilience for this kind of anime game bullshit.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      There are easy characters in BB too you know
      Ragna doesn't even have his hard stuff anymore since they removed Belial Edge in CF

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I guess it was mostly just the characters I looked into when I tried playing it. I was looking into it when rollback dropped and honestly even with prior fighting game experience I felt like this game filtered the frick out of me. Even once you do grind your shit out actually applying it in a match online is a whole different story.

        I just play a character without microdashes
        Or at the very least, not too many.

        Does this game have charge pationing? Always thought it was bizarre they made one charge character and then called it a day.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >Does this game have charge pationing?
          No, Kagura isn't that complex. He only has two charge moves while the rest are stance moves.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            On top of the ol' sonic booms and flash kicks, the air overhead and flame super are also charge aren't they?

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Oh right, yeah, Kadamos.
              The super too, but it's not used all too much because it has some seriously low damage.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I just play a character without microdashes
      Or at the very least, not too many.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I played since CT and mained Hakumen. It was a rocky start for sure, but it got easier down the line

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Valk was already a werewolf in Naoto's period pre-Origin

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I’ve playing this series for over a decade, my man, and been to plenty of tourneys. Going to be heading to another one next week, actually.
      Regardless, you’re drastically overestimating how hard this game is. You don’t need to do the super optimal stuff to play well, and plenty of characters are super simple (especially Mai, literally designed for new players that just read the manga).

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I looked into a few characters but tried learning Arakune who I understand is both difficult and unconventional but in general the barrier of entry seemed pretty high for a large portion of the cast here. Honestly I've never been that active in the anime scene but I don't get how BB was seen as the "baby game", +R felt way more natural to pick up for me. Obviously getting good would take time but just running my character's basic gameplan felt pretty straightforward to me.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Oh man, starting with Arakune is a rough one.
          I think the reason it was called that was because it was simplified, not necessarily easier. Stuff like Guts and Stun was removed, for instance. It’s certainly still a hard game to learn.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Calamity Trigger and Continuum Shift are actually rather easy to get into. Broken as hell, yes but still easy. Hell Calamity Trigger might actually be easier than STRIVE rn.
      It's only with Chrono Phantasma and especially Central Fiction that the series went full austim and became a legacy fighter. It's also when the franchise sales drastically dropped.

  92. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    My pretty inbred wife

  93. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Extremely important question here. Are there any chainsaw characters in blazblue?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      there are characters that use chainsaws but mostly for specific moves

  94. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    One thing I always found annoying is how in the game, Ragna has this sort of rough, wonky fighting style and no adaptation ever actually gets it right. Ragna's primarily a brawler. Over half his moves are just him smacking things with his arms and legs. He only brings out the sword for his C moves, D moves and a select few specials as well as Carnage Scissors. Which makes sense because Jubei only gave him the sword when he started out on his journey. He never actually taught Ragna to be a swordsman, so Ragna doesn't fight like a swordsman at all. He just treats his sword like a tool that he brings out from time to time but never goes all out with it. And it bothers me how adaptations never seem to reflect that. He's extremely reliant on his sword in Alter Memory.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I mean Ragna's sword is its own stable timeloop so it's not like anyone know to use it properly

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Ragna's primarily a brawler. Over half his moves are just him smacking things with his arms and legs.
      ragna for tekken 8 let's go

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Like if you think about it, Ragna's pretty lazy about how he fights. None of his moves are particularly physically exerting or require great dexterity. He doesn't do flashy flips or techniques, none of that junk. So then you get to his sword. He primarily fights with a reverse grip, and the reason he does that isn't so much because he prefers the reverse grip, it's because his fighting style is just quickly bringing it out, smacking the enemy with it and then putting it back. The way he carries it means that it's just plain easier to grab it with a reverse grip.

  95. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    This thread reminded me of some art I got out of one of the waifuweek threads on Ganker a decade ago. I still love this autistic redhead especially since IRL ones just lead to hurt

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Tsubaki is love. Even if she's an inbred dummy.

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