[Wii] It's not an RPG, faggots - Capcom vs. Tatsunoko

Wow...I'm still soaking in Guitar Hero IV information, but this is probably the most excited I've been for a videogame in years. 360 release, PLEASE!

Rockman vs Speed Racer. MAKE IT HAPPEN!

Jam it back in, in the dark.

*BUMP*

Got to play this for a few hours last night. Seems really cool so far, once I got used to playing with 3 attack buttons and on a GC controller. Seems like everyone has at least something halfway decent going for them...I was kicking ass with Roll (her life gain super is a bitch to deal with) and I was able to pick up on Saki pretty quick. Can't really differentiate the Tatsunoko cast, but Karas was easily the most popular/abusable (although people kept doing this counter super and ate a projectile super every time...heh heh). There was another guy whose lance super did like 10-15 percent chip damage and was pretty unavoidable. Morrigan is really good this time around, while Megaman has some potential (his buster is weaker compared to the Marvel games...he loses charge if he gets hit and regular shots don't negate other projectiles. His new drill super is beastly though...Basically a really good Shinryuken) Alex seems cool...You fight pretty close in this game, so he gets a lot of grab opportunities and his down+strong (the dive move) stuns the opponent for a free hit. Only bad character to me seems to be the Onimusha guy so far...Very slow and ineffective, kinda like Hoahmaru from CvS 2, except much worse.

Other things to note:

-Supers are slow to come out. They were getting stuffed a lot. There's also some (Morrigan's missile attack) that seem to be solely used for chip damage, as no one would ever be dumb enough to be hit by them.

-Jumps are very low. It's REALLY hard to jump over fireballs.

-One screwy thing...The giant Capcom robot can infinitely throw an opponent into the corner and there's really nothing you can do to get out of it. It's really stupid...We tried for five matches to get out of it, but you just can't.

-One assist per character, but there's a large gap of time between when you can call them again. They seem pretty good so far, so there's probably room for abuse, but no Strider/Doom full life chip nonsense.

-The boss is pretty tough. It's no Abyss, that's for sure. This one can actually kill you if you're not careful.

-Tags are reasonably safe. Even if you block the tag, you only have time to open a combo with a weak attack (unlike Marvel, where you died if you did a predictable tag). If you connect with the tag, you pop the opponent into the air, but there seems to be little chance to follow-up. I only did it once and that was in the corner (forgot who I was using).

-The music is totally kickass oldschool Capcom fare. Wasn't expecting remixes of the Capcom character's themes, but they're definitely there. Couldn't hear, but the music changes when you tag or when someone dies. Really fits the flow of the fight (unlike, say, MvC 2 where the shit just drones as characters die left and right).

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by Rotorblade

Most of Goldfish's overview wasn't worth taking seriously, Toku. Haohmaru isn't "very slow and ineffective" in CVS2, so Goldfish pretty much outed himself there, provided you know what to look for. Anyway, the only significant thing I've seen with the game thus far is that Viewtiful Joe has a glitch similar to Gambit from Marvel vs Capcom 2 which sends him slowly floating off screen after an air combo (variable combination or some such). Kinda sucks to hear for Joe fans.

Well, excuse me, you angsty piece of shit. Like I said, I played (and watched people play) the game for about 4 hours. It was on GC controllers, mostly using random select because we didn't know half the cast or movelists and while trying to learn the semi-new battle system on the fly. Sorry to say, I didn't see anyone else posting any kind of impressions or commentary as to how this game plays and I'm glad that it's better than I thought it would be (with the simplified control scheme) Maybe posts like yours are the reason people look at a lot of fighting game jocks as elitist assholes and stop playing the games altogether. Personally, I had fun with the game and I wanted to share my experience (and it'll probably be awhile before I get to play it again), but no one was playing remotely serious.

What I saw from anyone using Soki was nothing good and no one picked him outside of the random select, but maybe once we...you know...figure out how he works properly after it's been out for awhile, things might change. But of all the characters I saw, I thought he was the worst (although no one knew how to use the Tatsunoko chick in the black suit either). His thread over at SRK sounds interesting at least.

And I have NEVER seen a good Hoahmaru at any tournament for CvS 2 I've been to, or in casual play for that matter. Do you know any top players (non-Japanese preferred) that uses him effectively?

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.