NEW Guilty Gear Xrd

[pierrot]

Finally looks like Arc System is realizing that Guilty Gear was their magnum opus. BlazBlue is a shiny looking chore.

[ZenErik]

Eh? I prefer BlazBlue, but I think they just want a change of pace. And who knows? Maybe Chrono Phantasma finishes out the BlazBlue story. (at least until they decide to resurrect the series for the PS5, of course)

I am also interested in seeing if they do anything else like Persona 4 Arena. That's a fun and very accessible fighter that all of my friends enjoy.

[brunoafh]

I once read an interview with Ishiwatari and Mori where they were talking about how BlazBlue was a fighter for the new generation and a new audience, and that Guilty Gear had run its stride and that crowd was moving on or something. I tried looking for it but I can't find it, there are like a million interviews with those guys. In a way it makes sense though. GG was getting pretty stale really, with some of the later releases coming off as unbalanced cash-ins. I was really excited for BlazBlue. A brand new fighter to learn from the ground up with a brand new community. It was a rocky road with CT but BlazBlue is now a beautifully tuned fighter with the most substantial console releases in the history of the genre.

But they have also been very firm in repeatedly stating that Guilty Gear is not retired, which obviously now we can see to finally be true after so long. As much as I enjoy BlazBlue, it does have that very heavy handed feel of the "shift" in feel to a new generation. As a random forum member on GameFAQs or somewhere put it, "Whereas BlazBlue is anime, Guilty Gear is ROCK AND ROLL!" It's just not the same.

I've got a really deep appreciation for both. If forced I would pick Guilty Gear, but I do feel that they did a massively impressive job with the BlazBlue franchise.

[MrPopo]

I thought it was simply that Guilty Gear's IP wasn't owned by Arc System Works, it was owned by the original publisher. And so they did BlazBlue instead, but then they recently purchased the rights back.

[brunoafh]

That never seemed like a good enough reason to me. Why not just stick with that publisher then? Surely that would be easier than coming up with an entirely new IP from the ground up. I thought the only split going on was with Sammy/Sega, which I don't think matters much considering there have been Guilty Gear games coming out with Aksys and Arc's name on them right alongside BB.

I'm not saying NO business related stuff was in the mix, but I really think they just wanted to do something different. Which should have been making more Hokuto no Ken games.

[Betamax001]

those "sprites" though look fantastic! I can't wait to play it.

[Scissors Shrimper]

There's been quite a bit of talk about removing characters to make less work of remaking them in the new engine. While I don't believe that's really bound to happen, I have a somewhat amusing thought in my head about people boycotting this game when they hear that Bridget is gone despite the fact that nobody plays the damn kid in the first place.

[CD AGES]

There's been quite a bit of talk about removing characters to make less work of remaking them in the new engine. While I don't believe that's really bound to happen, I have a somewhat amusing thought in my head about people boycotting this game when they hear that Bridget is gone despite the fact that nobody plays the damn kid in the first place.

To me its bullshit! Unacceptable reason to downsize the roster considering the games visuals are running on a 3D engine. It WOULD be perfectly acceptable if the game would have 2D sprite based visuals. My guess is they want to leave plenty of room in the roster to re-introduce the rest of the cast with inevitable updates...

[ZenErik]

Smaller more balanced cast sounds great to me. Not sure what the obsession with having as many characters as possible is. 10-18 would be more than enough for me.

[CD AGES]

Smaller more balanced cast sounds great to me. Not sure what the obsession with having as many characters as possible is. 10-18 would be more than enough for me.

Oh I agree! Isn't the immediate roster in the series already at around 18?