- Joined
- Nov 26, 2019
- Favourite title
- Shenmue
That's how I figured it too regarding supporting the title. They could literally serve us up a pile of trash VF remaster and I would have supported it if there is hope to get something new and fresh from the franchise. They put in an effort with this game to some degree and its a decent refresh, but there are a lot of people claiming its the best thing ever or the best fighting title, which its neither from a technical standpoint and the poor sales after its off PS Plus will reflect that undoubtedly. Whether or not anyone likes the other fighting franchises better or VF better theres a reason they've stayed relevant and have made tons of money for their studios over the years. Sega is stuck in the past with the way they present these titles and US shows that as well. Ultimate Showdown is by no means a bad title, its just nothing to write home about and I'm not confident in its staying power from a sales standpoint after the 2 months of PS Plus is done. I really hope to be proved wrong because the better it sells over the long term the better chance of us seeing a new VF game, where they can get serious about giving us a next gen more fleshed out experience and hopefully for the first time a VF title that dives deep into the games real potential as the franchise has so much potential to share itself and it only seems to focus on the fighting mechanics part. Keep that and add more to fill in the holes and it could potentially outsell the other 3D fighting titles. Personally, my expectations weren't very high given that it's a port of a 15 year old game from a console gen and era that isn't really well developed yet, but I was hoping it would at least feel more enjoyable than FS does. I've played FS every night this week but haven't touched US since the second day I bought it. Think about the potential of a new VF title though on these new 2020 era consoles. Look at games like Tekken 6's story mode, in the bigger picture its trash, but in 2007 it was about as good as we could get during that console era for a story mode, even though the gameplay was solid for a Tekken title. Tekken 7 story improved a bit more but by the time the 2013 consoles were out the way story mode was presented falls way short on the potential of what the last gen consoles can do. So with these new powerhouse consoles they can give any game of any genre a real opportunity to shine, and VF being a product connected to the man that made Shenmue has SOOOOO much untapped potential to be one of the best overall fighting games ever made, if not the best but there's no way that can happen if they just keep focusing on the fighting mechanics only that have remained mostly unchanged since VF4, people get bored with no character connections, plot or story to tell and that explains why most younger people haven't heard of VF or when it gets compared to Tekken it usually gets less credit.
