A Gaming Diary
Posts tagged virtua fighter
Virtua Fighter 5 (PS3)
Apr 3rd
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)
Mar 29th
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)
Mar 29th
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)
Mar 24th
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)
Mar 24th
My wife just beat a 10th dan in a tournament. I’m very proud of her.
Virtua Fighter 5 (PS3)
Mar 23rd
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)
Mar 23rd
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.
