The Most Influential Game Everyone Forgot About
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Virtua Fighter is the Avatar of Video Games. It was a phenomenon that not only brought on an onslaught of 3D fighting games such as Tekken, SoulCalibur, and Dead or Alive but it literally changed the entire games industry by shifting every developer's gaze, no matter what genre, towards 3D graphics.The characters' accessories move with a revolutionary real time physics engine and fall off when they get knocked down. The attack animations are still absolutely stunning to this day even compared to modern fighting games like Mortal Kombat 1, showing that Netherrealms really should've hired animators by now. For Virtua Fighter 2, released just 1 year later, they literally spent $2 million dollars on a Lockheed Martin graphics processor used in military simulations just so they could invent fully texture mapped 3D characters, and pushed the bar even further when it came to its highly detailed environments and its pioneering use of motion captured animations. Now, it was clear, Virtua Fighter would consistently set the benchmark for graphics with each new game, debuting cutting edge technology years before they would become industry standard and many of gaming’s biggest titles and characters such as Tomb Raider's Lara Croft, Fumito Ueda's ICO, Jon Romero's Quake and more, hardware such as the PlayStation 1, and every single modern 3D game from Mario 64 to Dark Souls owes their very existence to Virtua Fighter. It’s that important to video games, and its last entry came out in 2006.
This Video will explore the history of the Virtua Fighter series, how it started, where it failed and how SEGA could bring it back through Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio, the creators of the Yakuza series.
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VF revolutionize so many things for fighting games, like graphics ,fighting mechanics, character customization to a character arcade card for VF4 in 2001.
The “Yakuza with VF fighting mecanics” part is interesting because they did reuse its fighting mecanics in a totally different game before, Shenmue and Shenmue II had a much more simplified variant of the VF combat system for the combat parts, and it works very well (it's way less clunky than GTA at least lol), especially for game released in 1999.
Virtua Fighter had nothing ... except a much deeper fighting system than literally any other 3d fighter.
Virtua Fighter Is A Thinking Man's Fighting Game.
Nether realms lol
I'll never understand why Netherrealm animates like that.
Virtua Fighter did lack the depth of characters found like in Tekken, and probably could have always done with a more involved story mode similar to games like it too, but you're selling short the strength of Virtua Fighter's combat. For a glorified "tech demo", Virtua Fighter 2's fighting in particular still plays incredibly smooth and values good timing and knowledge of the game's mechanics to do well in competitive and arcade scenes. Contrast it to Tekken 2, which not only feels very clunky now (the delay between getting knocked down and back up alone is excruciating) but relies very heavily on the infamous 10-hit string combos to decide any number of fights on that game.
Killer Instinct and Virtua Fighter are the best two fighting franchises, EVER.
I love that recently youtubers are mentioning this game but my friend and I have been dutifully playing VF2 and fighting vipers since 1996 even to today. Sarah is my favorite.
Virtua Fighter 4 is one of the most satisfying fighting games I've ever played.
I loved playing Virtua Fighter 5 and the main menu song of the original release still loves rent free in my head. While Tekken remains my fave fighting game, VF5 will always have a special place in my heart.
Imagine if they took a queue from SF6's World Tour and had an entire Yakuza-style game, but the combat took you into traditional Virtua Fighter matches.
I loved playing Virtua Fighter, especially VF5 on the Xbox 360. Without Virtua Fighter, there wouldn't have been Tekken and Dead or Alive too. Sheesh, Dead or Alive 1 was made on the same hardware Virtua Fighter 2 was on and saved Tecmo from bankruptcy...
Imagine if Sega reveals VF6 and their main selling point is that you can see some of the dried skin on Jacky's forehead
Virtua Fighter is by far the best 3D fighting game series out there. I don't care for story or flashy lightning effects etc.
Are you kidding me? The lore with Jeffrey with his constant battles with the Satan shark, he's arguably the most fascinating character in all of videogames.
Virtua Fighter laid the grounds that all other 3d fighters has followed but got left behind when Tekken and Soul Calibur blew up they never really had anything that made them stand out nor did they have the bewbs that DOA had to keep themselves relevant
I feel like the shift from arcade to consoles is what really killed VF more than anything. If arcades remained profitable outside of Japan VF's reliance on graphical fidelity and solid gameplay might not have been a death sentence. VF always enjoyed a degree of popularity domestically so maybe they didn't feel the need to change their strategy.
I think while this video is interesting you ARE drastically underselling Virtua Fighter still, especially gameplay wise.