It's nothing new for a fighting game franchise to package new characters, balance changes, and a few new modes as a totally new release. Ever since the days of Street Fighter II: Hyper Fighting on the SNES, fighting game developers have been releasing what were essentially updates as stand-alone titles.
VGChartz's Adam Cartwright: "While fully-fledged fighting games on handhelds have achieved varying levels of success in the past, they weren’t really a thing until the PSP. Prior to this there would always be certain concessions to get them running on weaker hardware. Sony’s powerful portable console, however, allowed developers to experiment with new ways of delivering their titles that would sometimes be hugely successful (e.g. Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection), which in turn meant new games were forthcoming throughout the console’s life. This mantra continued onto the Vita, which received ports of a number of high-profile fighting games, from launch through to the present day.
The ever-expanding industry of eSports has somewhat put a damper on handheld fighting games, as the fanbase moves increasingly towards arcade sticks, perfect latency, and other measures that always ensure a fair fight. That doesn’t mean the Vita doesn’t have access to its fair share of fighting games, though – whether you like 3D arena brawlers, party-friendly multiplayer titles, or pixel-perfect technical 2D fighters, you’re well served by the selection that’s available here, especially when including backwards-compatible PSP & PS1 games."
Arc System Works' time-bending 2D fighter coming to Steam next month.
DualShockers writes: "In 2013 video games are platforms. A new title releases and within months or even mere weeks a wealth of additional content is available for purchase for said title. From characters and costumes to games modes and story campaigns, all kinds of DLC is available for all kinds of games. Except for fighting games, that is. The typical bulk of DLC released for fighting games includes additional colors or costumes. Just ask Tecmo about Dead or Alive 5’s $100+ in add-on costumes.
Let me make it abundantly clear that there are far more interesting DLC possibilities for fighting games than costumes and characters."
How do you justify 100 dollars in Costumes......really? Who would buy that? Thats a new game and a controller. Add 20 and you just bought 2 new games.
Come on man! Think about it. Think about all the bikini DLC and skimpy outfits you can dress all your fighters in. Those DOA girls are a sight, so don't tell me you don't think about it!
Isn't that sight worth a 100 dollars?
DOA just hasn't been the same ever since Tomonobu Itagaki left Tecmo. There wasn't any DLC bullshit when he was in charge of Team Ninja. Remember when Tecmo's slogan was 100% Games?
yeah i really hate these pointless half naked costumes for characters aswell, i dont play a fighting game for the half naked women i play it to kill the other mother fucker.
Nobody buys a fighting game for the half naked women. They're just the cherry on top.
no they're not, the graphics on fighting games arnt even that great, how csn you perve on them :S :S :S
Next will be DLC boob jobs. I would also like to see full nudity as a DLC option.
Oh god!!! Just thinking about full nudity dlc......
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Meh it's their opinion.
By far it's my favorite game in the Vita's launch. And that's saying a lot. I play it everyday since I got it. There is so much packaged with the game including the clamity trigger story. I honestly went into the game very cautious and it eclipsed every game I have on the Vita. I don't know about the PS3 or 360 versions but if you own the Vita you must get this game. I can't say enough good things.
I guess it's a case of how much you value the story changes , the extras and complete rebalance .
Either way i disagree with the rating .
The game needed not only another rebalance , but a version containing every downloadable . As a full package and not full price , it is extremely worth it .
As extras , for those caring about the story modes not only get new story modes for chars that had none as dlc , (basically 4 new story modes) , but also a retelling of the whole original story .
I also disgagree with one of the premise . I always disliked the idea of dlc characters very detrimental with the concept of playing a fighting game locally in various places .
Hardly every owners of blazblue bothered with the dlc characters . The last one even took many months to be released due to issues with xbl and psn , and by then everyone knew a new version was coming .
Pretty much everyone getting the dlc chars knew they'd be in a newer version .
Folks around here keep whining about the least important things such as story modes in fighting games , and when a game actually cater to that , they'll latch upon something else to complain about .
Many complained about the dlcs chars , and now a disc version is there , complaints
People complain about dlc addon and rebalance ? A disc appears ... "why isnt this a dlc ?"
Meh. Shitty review. No context for those that, say, haven't played CS.
Ah. CSE gets a 2 while MW3 got a 4.4? Yeah, not taking this site seriously ever.
I can't find this game anywhere!