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Virtua Fighter 5 (PS3)

That Rev Chap — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 22:19:00 +0000

Second SIXAXIS controller arrived today, so I played 2-player Virtua Fighter for the first time in my life. I was playing Aoi against my wife’s Pai. Final score? Er, well, um, I lost 6-1. Good fun, though. And it’s not the winning that counts.

Maddeningly, there seems no way for player two to log in to their profile, so when we played Tekken very briefly when I was logged in, it thought I was both players and was registering a win and a loss for me every time we played a match. Weird. And in VF5 my wife was the logged-in user, so I had to create a new character in one of her spare save slots instead of being able to use one of my own.

That can’t be right, surely?

Virtua Fighter 4: Evolution (PS3)

That Rev Chap — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 22:07:00 +0000

Just out of curiousity. It really does look dated compared to VF5, with a distinct lack of polygons, lighting and texture quality. It’s fair bit harder, too. No kyus put up much of a fight in VF5, but I was having trouble with the 10th and 9th kyus in this version.

Tried out the Tutorial, which is incredibly comprehensive. I got as far as having to learn how to juggle opponents and left. I wish there was a similar mode in VF5. Learning in VF4 is all very well, but some things will have changed.

Virtua Fighter 5 (PS3)

That Rev Chap — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 22:05:00 +0000

Started over in Quest mode with a new charfacter, Lei Fei, just for the hell of it, really. And I want the cool blindfold he can get.

Went up a few ranks and won the annoyingly prize-free Beginners Tournament.

Virtua Fighter 5 (PS3)

That Rev Chap — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 16:27:00 +0000

Had a bit of a change today. I’ve gone from using El Blaze to Goh and my wife has switched from Pai to Vanessa. She seems to have taken to Vanessa, but I’m not convinced by Goh. I really don’t understand some of the things he does. I like the whole zombie look he’s got going on, though.

Virtua Fighter 5 (PS3)

That Rev Chap — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 01:40:00 +0000

My wife just beat a 10th dan in a tournament. I’m very proud of her.

Virtua Fighter 5 (PS3)

That Rev Chap — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 23:35:00 +0000

This has eaten our evening. The wife and I are alternating, playing half an hour or an hour at a time each. There doesn’t seem to be a way to switch users within a game on the PS3, which is really bloody annoying, as it takes ages to get into the game each time.

Virtua Fighter 5 (PS3)

That Rev Chap — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 20:09:00 +0000

Leapt straight into Quest mode. Chose El Blaze as my fighter and won a few matches and rose through the ranks a little. Got a notice that a tournament was starting for beginners, so I joined in and won. Hooray!

Now my wife’s playing. She’s never played fighting games before, but she like Tekken and she seems to be loving this. All that “VF is for the hardcore only” talk can go hang.

Up there with Motorstorm in the prettiness stakes, too.