The old game aged well. The new game looks great, but imagine if they designed it for next gen. VF6 please. Either way really enjoying the game. I hope people stick around for a while.
If they make a VF6 I would like it to not be on the Like a Dragon Engine. I dont think its flexible enough for the leap that VF6 would need to really impress people.
Good News-Bad News. Good news is that the company that makes these games said they will make Virtua Fighter 6 if FV 5 US does well. Bad news is, they have no plans for it yet and it's ONLY if US does well.
@@m2cscream I hate when companies use that hostage like terminology for continuing series. Makes it look like their putting the future guilt on it not happening onto the fans. Just make the game damn it.
Lets start from the top:: - All of the clothing got a vast improvement obviously -The stages were improved though there might be some changes done which might make you scratch your head as to why -Jeffry visually got an upgrade regarding his face. Looks much better. He also seemed to have waxed his body now and is no longer hairy and apparently he hasn't been out in the Sun in a while because he's gotten a lot paler lol -Sarah kind of got a downgrade. Her eyes are now....black? Why? She looks like an Asian woman with a hair dye job now. -:Lion looks less 'anime' now. He has more of an angry expression and his hair isnt doing that goofy anime part in the middle -Wolf got some Asian features thrown in there. They're subtle but they're there. Especially the portrait. -Who bleached El Blaze's skin? What's with the Japanese and lightning people's skin colors? He also looks less Hispanic in the face now even with that mask hiding it. -Shun's skin color also changed. He also got thicker eyebrows, more hair on the side of his head, and a V shape beard now -Lei-Fei lost his good looks lol. Now he looks more evil and physically drained in the face like he hasn't eaten in a while. His head is also now completely shaven no 5 o'clock head stubble lol. He nose also was completely changed thus giving him an uglier appearance. I noticed that about Yakuza dev team before in the Yakuza games: often they'd make the Chinese characters look kind of ugly. Especially if they played unsavory types. -:Lau def looks more like a proper old Asian man; though they whitened his eyes for some reason. His hair is also brighter white. -T-Arashi got rid of his pinkish shiny skin. This one def looks like the best upgrade so far -Akira def looks more Japanese now. Before he looked Eurasian with it def leaning more on the Caucasian side of it. Actually his original VF5 face kind of reminded me of the actor who played Reed Richards in those two live action Fantastic Four movies. Also he has a pudgier nose now and more muscle definition. -Vanessa now has more racially correct facial features matching her ethnicity. Hairs still a bit weird but I guess that's gonna happen when its white hair. Wish they'd change her skin tone back to the way it was in VF4. -Jackie's hair looks even more out of control now lol. Other than the color of it looks more lemon color which makes his eyebrows look like they're not there at times. His skin also has that same glistening shininess to it like Akira sometimes does in some stages. I think the Yakuza engine is doing odd things to the lighting and reflections in this game -Pai definitely got a huge upgrade. The shading in the original game was doing weird things to her. Now it isn't and her face is improved. -Not really much to say about Kage. He has a less angry expression in his eyes now? That's all I got. --Eileen lost her chibi monkey eyes. That can be debated as good or bad depending on who you ask. Again, with the lighting in this games new Like a Dragon engine, it can had some odd effects on the characters. Like its harder to see their pupils now giving them sometimes am uncanny valley dead stare as seen here with Eileen's new look. But it also depends on the stage as well as the position of her face I think hence the lighting. -Aoi definitely got an upgrade to her face has much more detail to it along with her hair. -Goh has more depth to his face; more detail. Also in his hair. He looks better --Jean has less of that generic anime bishounen face going on and now his face has more realistic design --Brad more or less looks the same here. Just more detail in the face and they brightened up his hair a bit. =Dural is Dural lol
I prefer how vivid some of the original stages look, and the use of bloom lighting. Some of the Ultimate showdown stages look so flat, and I think it's because they all utilise the same light source. You notice it in Goh and Brad's stage in particular, where it looks like there's a light above them in the arena; where as in the original VF5 the only light sources are the fires and the floor respectively. They nerfed the SHIT out of El Blaze, Jacky and Akira's stages.
A lot of the stages lost a lot of their "character" in this update. Brad's stage also has LESS color at a glance and a lot of the other stages do as well. It's a real shame cause the lighting on the character models looks great now and the detail on them and the stages alike is also a nice improvement. The stages are clearly suffering as a result, though.
I think Lion and Vanessa's stages might be the biggest let down for me. All that blue glowing was so cool before. Now it just looks like a plain cathedral (which ironically sounds like an oxymoron but still). That sunset jungle look was also one of my favorites. Not sure what they were thinking with that.
Fantastic comparison! You did a great job, it really shows how detailed the new models are. This could have been VF6 if they added a couple new fighters and stages.
...and rebalance the game, and add some new game-modes, and given all the characters new stages, and lots more customization options. There's so much more they'd need than just two characters. What they did here was more than enough to give VF5 some extra legs, but it's no-where near the level of what is needed for Virtua Fighter 6. Tekken 7, Mortal Kombat 11, and every other fighter offers so much more than what VF5:US is giving us. Hopefully sega gets it together.
@@kennykij1 and final showdown was bare bones compared to the original. No quest mode and less customization. They had to make the file size super small because it was just a xbla/psn game
@@sO_RoNerY Or spectating matches? The stages definitely took and hit in visuals and its because of the engine. I hope they give VF it's own look once the reboot comes out. I personally prefer the way final showdown looks over the remake. So you do have a point.
Imo most of the character models are improved. Going for a realistic look works for VF since it's always been on of the most grounded Fighting Games. Overall most of the models are a nice improvement. The only bad character model I'd say is Jacky, he looks almost unrecognizable, then again that could just be bad camera angles. Tbh, DOA5 perfected how Jacky should look in HD. Sarah on the other hand is honestly the most improved glow up. In the original VF5 and DOA5 they had her look almost, doll-like, where as here she looks alot more natural.
A lot of the characters look much better in the Ps5 version, but there are a few that look worse (Wolf being one of them), and the stages are a mixed bag, some are as good or slightly better but some are much worse because of less interesting lighting.
The new faces are so expressive! I'm very impressed at the lengths they went through to modernize this game's graphics. Still, I'd gladly pay for a port of the PS3 version on the Switch.
Jacky looks way better in the old version in the face and hair. Vanessa's face in the new game looks less realistic than the other characters as if she's a doll. They put in no detail on her skin tone. Also does anybody else think she looks like Halle Berry? Judgement still looks so good that the only thing they really needed to do was update the lighting and texture maps to fix their skin to make them look more realistic.
and have all character's eyes actually animated for all cutscenes at least. Like eyes looking at each other, & looking at camera more, anything other than than leaving them starring at nothing, which adds up to them looking doll-ish, regardless of poly/tex quality.
Very big cosmetic change. I was happy the moment they added Ryu ga Gotoku studio behind the redesign since I absolutely respect the yakuza series. Great welcome back to VF for sure. 5:45 Until they let you remove Kages mask, it's hard to call whether they improved his redesign much, but I will say I like the texturing on his Shinobi Shozoku and Zukin.
Of course the new one is better but they need to fix some lighting issues like Shun Di’s level (I’m talking about the columns inside the water). Btw final showdown has aged pretty well
old engine does reflections better (check El Blaze's outfit) and has some bloom effects going on, though it does suffer from some shading issues (like Pai). New one uses Like a Dragon Engine which has brighter lighting but that can sometimes have negative effects since there seems to be barely any shading going on and it effects some characters eyes. Theres also odd sweat effect going on for Akira and Jacky in some stages.
Yeah SEGA AM2 were beasts. At the time there were the best studio in the world. So ahead of their times Since the 80's. VF5 was in arcde in 2005. When we were playing PS2... It's jusr amazing.
even though eileen in the new one is much MUCH prettier but in some scene her mouth looks so horrible when she smiled, im talking with one of the winning scene, but other than that she looks great, just a bit too karaoke girl just like in yakuza game
Thanks for making this vid! IMO the chars that look better in US are the ones that look more old or tough like Lau, Shun, Taka, Goh and Brad. And also the exception is Pai and Aoi got lucky with pretty soft faces. Lei, Sarah and Lion don't look their best lol. Those eye bags on Lei, sheesh! But lets support VF guys so they make a VF6!!!!!!
The art direction was far superior in the original. Better color balance, interesting model aestehtics, etc. Traded for technical graphic improvements, a half-assed attempt a pseudorealism, and not much else.
The updated character models are clearly better in some cases. Akira 's look is debatable. Based off what I saw the update models look similar to some of the VF5 CGI portraits. Vanessa looks like an actual black woman in the new one. She looks mixed in the old one.
@@user-zu8tw9nk7x Are you seriously claiming DOA6 looks better? If you're refering to artstyle, than feel free to think that way since DOA6 is way more anime compared to this, but graphic wise the character models are superior.
Yeah!!! It was time for an upgrade. The lighting, texturing, tones are amazing. Getting rid of those gross empty, lifeless areas with the mouth, around the eyes, and heavy eyeshadow is a huge plus.
I like almost all of the new faces. Indeed, Lei-Fei is pretty angry now, Wolf is missing his jaw and Jacky looks a bit different. Jean has been drinking a little bit too much before US :) But all the rest did benefit from the update. Not sure what people complain about.
The cristicism with some of the faces remembers me of Injustice 2 original Aquaman's face, which unlike Wonder Woman's one, had 0 concrete & clear complaints about what exactly was wrong with it, but NRS got the memo an used a younger and more holywood model (same with Super-Girls's original face, she was not exactly ugly but she had a too common face, definitively not the comic book heroine-style face). Except here it's more like people wanting the old "anime" style back.
One thing I have to say about this game is that this game is very bare boned... no quest mode, no single player vs computer, time trial, and due to the game being on a completely new engine, all of the cool customizable items have all been removed... also some of the other modes that were removed as well...
@@CANADAKRUSH1 The only dlc there is, is the retro polygonal models. They made everything from the ground up. Meaning that all of the customizable parts are all gone. Including the ex item win animations as well from final showdown. All gone...
@@ShinMegamiTensei1 is not only retro costumes, it comes with all the customizable things for the base roster aswell, but the customization is a bit toned down due to the new engine
Over all I have to say the original ones still look better. I wish they would have made the characters look like their high poly CGI models at the character select screen
It's just a nice Remix waiting VF6. But it's the proof that SEGA AM2 is (was) the number one studio. That even RGG studio can not match. RGG studio is good. But AM2 was godlike. 💖
@@michaelromeo9567 Oh okay. I thought the Yakuza Team was full of former AM2 members. Does AM2 still exist? I hope they do VF 6. I love the Dragon Engine but like Virtua Fighter aesthetics more.
There are def some hair improvements in Ultimate Showdown. Aoi's, Jeffry's, Lion's. Akira's. Brad's. Goh's, Shun's come to mind. Like a Dragon engine is suited for photo realism, so you're not going to get any anime-esque designs imported into it.
They kinda miss the mark with characters with european features like Lion and Jacky. Feels like they tweaked some generic faces from Yakuza to make them fit the models.
Yeah Jacky is hard to look at in US which is sad because he’s one of my mains. I guess updating American characters is tough for Sega. Although Sarah and Vanessa( gtfo of here with that “unknown country” bullshit Sega) do look pretty good.
Ultimate showdown is a great facelift ! However Final showdown aged very well for a 9 year old game . I wonder how base 2007 virtua figther 5 would look like in comparaison
VF5 is actually since 2006 so its a 15 year old game. Final Showdown is from 2012 and actually, if you go and look up a side by side comparison to it and vanilla VF5, you will see that Final Showdown was actually a graphical downgrade.
In the old game, some faces looked much more simplistic and cartoonish than the rest: Sarah, Eileen, Aoi, Vanessa and Jeffry, mainly. Those are a thousand times better in the remake. The other characters also look much better now, although there are a few ones where I prefer the old version: Akira, Lion, Lei Fei and El Blaze.
For some reason I like the more simplified models better in a lot of ways. Some of the stages too. And is it just me or does ultimate show down have less customization?
Indeed. One of my favorite things to do in Final Showdown was to unlock costumes pieces and customize the characters so they resembled what they looked like in the previous games. (and unlocking Dural, which were really the only nuggets of content the games even remotely had.)
OK there’s two mistakes with lion he has a skull necklace in the old previous game but in the new game he doesn’t And wolf freeze breath was in the previous game but his freeze breath wasn’t in a new game
The new VF is PERFECT! I just hope the next game will have more characters than 2-3. We need a story mode too! What kind of new fighters & martial arts you want VF to implement next?
Agreed, a story mode is long overdue for VF. It doesn't need to be much, a simple bit of text and some 2D artwork for the cutscenes would suffice. The cast of 1991's Street Fighter II has more personality than the VF roster, and the endings are a big reason why. I would like to see Capoeira, Boxing, and MMA added to the list of fighting styles.
* Some fighters look like they 're posseded or something . Before or after lol * Old levels had def. too much bloom * Some skin tones look better but they removed the silvershiny mask on "Hot dooog"-guy. Im still waiting for my DLC costumes :I
There are pros and cons to both honestly. Making games 'realistic' has really hit a wall. Modern graphics kinda are meh to me. i just dont care. They havent improved in the last 10 years really, I mean after PS4/Xbox One they reached such a level, that there really isnt much improvement with the new consoles, compared to the difference between former generations. Look at the difference between SNES and NES. Or between PS1 and PS2, between Saturn and Dreamcast, between SNES and N64, between Game Boy and Game Boy Advance, and GBA/DS,,, the improvements were always so big back then. Once we got to the PS3/Xbox360 era, it really hasn't improved a insane amount. Shit even some original Xbox games still look fucking amazing. And that's why I feel like consoles are obsolete. They only limit what you can do and what you can play. I cant possibly fathom someone wanting a PS5 or new Xbox, when a great PC can play literally any console anyways, Emulation has come so far that it's not even emulation anymore, you can literally load a game's files on your PC and play that game. Plus you get modding, editing, fangames, romhacks, 10000s of custom levels and gametypes, basically free DLC. Why pay for DLC when you can get user made content free with PC gaming?
It's probably just me, but I love some of the color palettes and lighting more of the stages in the PS3 version over the PS5 version
Yea they were pretty, but they were hell on the eyes after a while
It’s clearly better
Definitely not here though 1:07 remake brings a lot more color and makes it less cooler in color as well
The new one looks like an iPhone game
Yeah, I totally agree
Some of the characters in the new version looks like they lost a ton of sleep lol
Lei Fei especially. Looks like he's fasting too lol
Which is ironic as hell considering the space between the 2 releases.
Wow, this just made me appreciate this game even more. I’m buying.
Best of all it's free if you have PS Plus.
@@bigballzmcdrawz2921 I found out when I went to download it , that’s dope.
@@Jon_Zeku mmm but you cant add this to the library...mmm
The old game aged well. The new game looks great, but imagine if they designed it for next gen. VF6 please. Either way really enjoying the game. I hope people stick around for a while.
If they make a VF6 I would like it to not be on the Like a Dragon Engine. I dont think its flexible enough for the leap that VF6 would need to really impress people.
I don’t like the new designs of the characters....... some characters look good and some look like they tried to hard and it looks terrible 💀
Ahem “FINAL SHOWDOWN”
Good News-Bad News. Good news is that the company that makes these games said they will make Virtua Fighter 6 if FV 5 US does well. Bad news is, they have no plans for it yet and it's ONLY if US does well.
@@m2cscream I hate when companies use that hostage like terminology for continuing series. Makes it look like their putting the future guilt on it not happening onto the fans. Just make the game damn it.
Lets start from the top::
- All of the clothing got a vast improvement obviously
-The stages were improved though there might be some changes done which might make you scratch your head as to why
-Jeffry visually got an upgrade regarding his face. Looks much better. He also seemed to have waxed his body now and is no longer hairy and apparently he hasn't been out in the Sun in a while because he's gotten a lot paler lol
-Sarah kind of got a downgrade. Her eyes are now....black? Why? She looks like an Asian woman with a hair dye job now.
-:Lion looks less 'anime' now. He has more of an angry expression and his hair isnt doing that goofy anime part in the middle
-Wolf got some Asian features thrown in there. They're subtle but they're there. Especially the portrait.
-Who bleached El Blaze's skin? What's with the Japanese and lightning people's skin colors? He also looks less Hispanic in the face now even with that mask hiding it.
-Shun's skin color also changed. He also got thicker eyebrows, more hair on the side of his head, and a V shape beard now
-Lei-Fei lost his good looks lol. Now he looks more evil and physically drained in the face like he hasn't eaten in a while. His head is also now completely shaven no 5 o'clock head stubble lol. He nose also was completely changed thus giving him an uglier appearance. I noticed that about Yakuza dev team before in the Yakuza games: often they'd make the Chinese characters look kind of ugly. Especially if they played unsavory types.
-:Lau def looks more like a proper old Asian man; though they whitened his eyes for some reason. His hair is also brighter white.
-T-Arashi got rid of his pinkish shiny skin. This one def looks like the best upgrade so far
-Akira def looks more Japanese now. Before he looked Eurasian with it def leaning more on the Caucasian side of it. Actually his original VF5 face kind of reminded me of the actor who played Reed Richards in those two live action Fantastic Four movies. Also he has a pudgier nose now and more muscle definition.
-Vanessa now has more racially correct facial features matching her ethnicity. Hairs still a bit weird but I guess that's gonna happen when its white hair. Wish they'd change her skin tone back to the way it was in VF4.
-Jackie's hair looks even more out of control now lol. Other than the color of it looks more lemon color which makes his eyebrows look like they're not there at times. His skin also has that same glistening shininess to it like Akira sometimes does in some stages. I think the Yakuza engine is doing odd things to the lighting and reflections in this game
-Pai definitely got a huge upgrade. The shading in the original game was doing weird things to her. Now it isn't and her face is improved.
-Not really much to say about Kage. He has a less angry expression in his eyes now? That's all I got.
--Eileen lost her chibi monkey eyes. That can be debated as good or bad depending on who you ask. Again, with the lighting in this games new Like a Dragon engine, it can had some odd effects on the characters. Like its harder to see their pupils now giving them sometimes am uncanny valley dead stare as seen here with Eileen's new look. But it also depends on the stage as well as the position of her face I think hence the lighting.
-Aoi definitely got an upgrade to her face has much more detail to it along with her hair.
-Goh has more depth to his face; more detail. Also in his hair. He looks better
--Jean has less of that generic anime bishounen face going on and now his face has more realistic design
--Brad more or less looks the same here. Just more detail in the face and they brightened up his hair a bit.
=Dural is Dural lol
6:52 Woooo they did MA BOI CLEANNN
Vanessa looks pretty good on the Ultimate Showdown.
She looks much closer to her original model from VF4.
@@ZeniusFox exactly. I prefer her original version too.
Agreed. wow!
Akira redesign is ace. All character have been facelifted but I have always had a gripe that Akira used to look too 'western'
Oh wow, I didn't even realize it was that much of an overhaul. That's really kool & it looks great 🤘🔥
THIS is how you demonstrate a comparison video!
I prefer how vivid some of the original stages look, and the use of bloom lighting. Some of the Ultimate showdown stages look so flat, and I think it's because they all utilise the same light source. You notice it in Goh and Brad's stage in particular, where it looks like there's a light above them in the arena; where as in the original VF5 the only light sources are the fires and the floor respectively. They nerfed the SHIT out of El Blaze, Jacky and Akira's stages.
I was going to comment this, a lot of remaster/remakes have this problem sadly :/
A lot of the stages lost a lot of their "character" in this update. Brad's stage also has LESS color at a glance and a lot of the other stages do as well. It's a real shame cause the lighting on the character models looks great now and the detail on them and the stages alike is also a nice improvement. The stages are clearly suffering as a result, though.
I think Lion and Vanessa's stages might be the biggest let down for me. All that blue glowing was so cool before. Now it just looks like a plain cathedral (which ironically sounds like an oxymoron but still). That sunset jungle look was also one of my favorites. Not sure what they were thinking with that.
Jacky is slowly morphing into Billy Idol.
I miss how reflective El Blaze's mask and Kage's headband were in FS
The mask I understand, but the hea s band makes it look like it's made of cheap chrome paint like you'd find at Hot Topic
The best remaster of this year.
P.d Sarah in the minute 0:46 is so beautiful.
Its remake
Fantastic comparison! You did a great job, it really shows how detailed the new models are.
This could have been VF6 if they added a couple new fighters and stages.
...and rebalance the game, and add some new game-modes, and given all the characters new stages, and lots more customization options. There's so much more they'd need than just two characters. What they did here was more than enough to give VF5 some extra legs, but it's no-where near the level of what is needed for Virtua Fighter 6. Tekken 7, Mortal Kombat 11, and every other fighter offers so much more than what VF5:US is giving us. Hopefully sega gets it together.
Um no.
VF5 ultimate showdown is bare bones. Final showdown had more features. Especially the customization
@@kennykij1 and final showdown was bare bones compared to the original. No quest mode and less customization. They had to make the file size super small because it was just a xbla/psn game
Pai looks like an alien in final showdown
Very nice comparison. 👍👍👍
After so many releases, Pai Chan finally doesn't look like a monster. 🤣🤣🤣👍
The yakuza series was designed to look photo realistic instead of like anime
Their hairmodels often looked like "very slimy hair".
Faces I do I aggre.
Characters looks great but stages look less vibrant.
I don’t think it matters unless you’re in practice mode looking at every detail.
@@sO_RoNerY Or spectating matches? The stages definitely took and hit in visuals and its because of the engine. I hope they give VF it's own look once the reboot comes out. I personally prefer the way final showdown looks over the remake. So you do have a point.
Imo most of the character models are improved. Going for a realistic look works for VF since it's always been on of the most grounded Fighting Games. Overall most of the models are a nice improvement. The only bad character model I'd say is Jacky, he looks almost unrecognizable, then again that could just be bad camera angles. Tbh, DOA5 perfected how Jacky should look in HD. Sarah on the other hand is honestly the most improved glow up. In the original VF5 and DOA5 they had her look almost, doll-like, where as here she looks alot more natural.
If Ultimate Shodown had all the effects it would be too sick
A lot of the characters look much better in the Ps5 version, but there are a few that look worse (Wolf being one of them), and the stages are a mixed bag, some are as good or slightly better but some are much worse because of less interesting lighting.
Damn Sarah got that mega glow up treatment
The new faces are so expressive! I'm very impressed at the lengths they went through to modernize this game's graphics. Still, I'd gladly pay for a port of the PS3 version on the Switch.
Omg shut up about the switch. It's garbage.
The models are great by themselves, the game just suffers from poor lighting on characters
Underrated comment... I agree that the new models are great but poor lighting makes some models look awkward sometimes.
Jacky looks way better in the old version in the face and hair.
Vanessa's face in the new game looks less realistic than the other characters as if she's a doll. They put in no detail on her skin tone. Also does anybody else think she looks like Halle Berry?
Judgement still looks so good that the only thing they really needed to do was update the lighting and texture maps to fix their skin to make them look more realistic.
and have all character's eyes actually animated for all cutscenes at least. Like eyes looking at each other, & looking at camera more, anything other than than leaving them starring at nothing, which adds up to them looking doll-ish, regardless of poly/tex quality.
Lei-fei looks angry and stressed! Lol
She looks terrible now and the hair color gotta go
@@Simxba Lei-fei is a boy. Your probably thinking of DOA
Maybe he always thought he was a girl and he prefers to keep it that way for his fantasy purposes... let’s not be quick to judge
Very big cosmetic change. I was happy the moment they added Ryu ga Gotoku studio behind the redesign since I absolutely respect the yakuza series. Great welcome back to VF for sure. 5:45 Until they let you remove Kages mask, it's hard to call whether they improved his redesign much, but I will say I like the texturing on his Shinobi Shozoku and Zukin.
Of course the new one is better but they need to fix some lighting issues like Shun Di’s level (I’m talking about the columns inside the water). Btw final showdown has aged pretty well
Am i tripping? Old one either looks better in some aspects or simple aged well.
old engine does reflections better (check El Blaze's outfit) and has some bloom effects going on, though it does suffer from some shading issues (like Pai). New one uses Like a Dragon Engine which has brighter lighting but that can sometimes have negative effects since there seems to be barely any shading going on and it effects some characters eyes. Theres also odd sweat effect going on for Akira and Jacky in some stages.
Both imo.
Yeah SEGA AM2 were beasts. At the time there were the best studio in the world. So ahead of their times Since the 80's.
VF5 was in arcde in 2005. When we were playing PS2... It's jusr amazing.
Okay, now I want Netherrealm to do the same treatment for an MK9 remaster
They'll DEI that game to shit.
VF's collab with DOA5... did some things to Aoi.
even though eileen in the new one is much MUCH prettier but in some scene her mouth looks so horrible when she smiled, im talking with one of the winning scene, but other than that she looks great, just a bit too karaoke girl just like in yakuza game
Jacky on the left should’ve been the design they went with. Jacky on the right looks like if I tried to make him from scratch on blender ☠️
Nice comparison !!!
Thanks for making this vid! IMO the chars that look better in US are the ones that look more old or tough like Lau, Shun, Taka, Goh and Brad. And also the exception is Pai and Aoi got lucky with pretty soft faces. Lei, Sarah and Lion don't look their best lol. Those eye bags on Lei, sheesh! But lets support VF guys so they make a VF6!!!!!!
the new textures look awesome but i like the more cartoony faces of the original.
There’s always one
I do not. Some of them look like demon children in the old one.
Maybe, but other than that everything is a big improvement
@@SOSOLRAK lol💯💯💯
The art direction was far superior in the original. Better color balance, interesting model aestehtics, etc. Traded for technical graphic improvements, a half-assed attempt a pseudorealism, and not much else.
これは公式が出すべき動画。分かりやすくて素晴らしい。
Those standing dead horses on the Pai stage scares me out
The updated character models are clearly better in some cases. Akira 's look is debatable. Based off what I saw the update models look similar to some of the VF5 CGI portraits. Vanessa looks like an actual black woman in the new one. She looks mixed in the old one.
I didn't even know Vanessa was supposed to be black when I first played final showdown lol
@@ojamison8460 Hilarious but if I wasn't keeping up with the series and saw her there I probably would have thought the same.
Vanessa made her debut in VF4 & she had a much darker complexion. Why Sega decided to lighting her skin is something that I'll never understand.
What did they do to Sarah? And why? Jesus wept!
She looks more like her portrait
Sarah looks 10X better now and way more realistic
Turned her into Zero Suit Samus.
CX, but she look worse that sarah from doa5, and the whole remaster look worse than doa6. Despite doa6 engine not super good itself. We need VF6.
@@user-zu8tw9nk7x Are you seriously claiming DOA6 looks better? If you're refering to artstyle, than feel free to think that way since DOA6 is way more anime compared to this, but graphic wise the character models are superior.
Yeah!!! It was time for an upgrade. The lighting, texturing, tones are amazing. Getting rid of those gross empty, lifeless areas with the mouth, around the eyes, and heavy eyeshadow is a huge plus.
As a Goh player, I miss his old face. It was stylised, but it really made him special.
Good job 🤗
thats a significant improvement
Huge huge improvement to the graphics and the stages update are outstanding now add more new character and dlc.
I like almost all of the new faces.
Indeed, Lei-Fei is pretty angry now, Wolf is missing his jaw and Jacky looks a bit different. Jean has been drinking a little bit too much before US :)
But all the rest did benefit from the update. Not sure what people complain about.
Lol now they really look like the character photos from Final💪
The cristicism with some of the faces remembers me of Injustice 2 original Aquaman's face, which unlike Wonder Woman's one, had 0 concrete & clear complaints about what exactly was wrong with it, but NRS got the memo an used a younger and more holywood model (same with Super-Girls's original face, she was not exactly ugly but she had a too common face, definitively not the comic book heroine-style face). Except here it's more like people wanting the old "anime" style back.
I actually like the cage more in FS than US.
Dragon Engine doing some _good_ work here.
One thing I have to say about this game is that this game is very bare boned... no quest mode, no single player vs computer, time trial, and due to the game being on a completely new engine, all of the cool customizable items have all been removed... also some of the other modes that were removed as well...
The customization is dlc I think
@@CANADAKRUSH1 The only dlc there is, is the retro polygonal models. They made everything from the ground up. Meaning that all of the customizable parts are all gone. Including the ex item win animations as well from final showdown. All gone...
@@ShinMegamiTensei1 is not only retro costumes, it comes with all the customizable things for the base roster aswell, but the customization is a bit toned down due to the new engine
@@echo_magnetic9526 Really? There isn’t any type S nor type D or any other type models
Apparently there will be more customization items to be added.
Huh. Didn't notice the slight change in Lion's hairstyle
Sarah's bangs too 🤔
Aoi 😍😍😍
Over all I have to say the original ones still look better. I wish they would have made the characters look like their high poly CGI models at the character select screen
You're so right.
true especially Akira
It's just a nice Remix waiting VF6. But it's the proof that SEGA AM2 is (was) the number one studio. That even RGG studio can not match. RGG studio is good. But AM2 was godlike. 💖
@@michaelromeo9567 Oh okay. I thought the Yakuza Team was full of former AM2 members. Does AM2 still exist? I hope they do VF 6. I love the Dragon Engine but like Virtua Fighter aesthetics more.
@@realamericannegro977 AM2 does still exist. RGG did all the graphical upgrades. AM2 handled the rest.
Yeah, but I can still customize waaaay more on the PS3 version, so I have been favoring that lately.
I don’t play the game, but I always love a graphics comparison
US definitely has outstanding graphics, but misses some nice effects from FS.
Also faces (and hairs) in US less pretty than in FS.
There are def some hair improvements in Ultimate Showdown. Aoi's, Jeffry's, Lion's. Akira's. Brad's. Goh's, Shun's come to mind. Like a Dragon engine is suited for photo realism, so you're not going to get any anime-esque designs imported into it.
They look less like Shenmue characters and more like real people now. Not crazy about Lion's new look, but everyone else is fine.
I would've loved to be in this game as a new character.
They kinda miss the mark with characters with european features like Lion and Jacky. Feels like they tweaked some generic faces from Yakuza to make them fit the models.
Yeah Jacky is hard to look at in US which is sad because he’s one of my mains. I guess updating American characters is tough for Sega. Although Sarah and Vanessa( gtfo of here with that “unknown country” bullshit Sega) do look pretty good.
I’m still mad VFUS only came out on PlayStation
Damm what an visual update. Hope this game comes to PC.
1:27 Lipstick Wolf XD
This made me miss that cornball dialogue even more
Ultimate showdown is a great facelift ! However Final showdown aged very well for a 9 year old game . I wonder how base 2007 virtua figther 5 would look like in comparaison
VF5 is actually since 2006 so its a 15 year old game. Final Showdown is from 2012 and actually, if you go and look up a side by side comparison to it and vanilla VF5, you will see that Final Showdown was actually a graphical downgrade.
In the old game, some faces looked much more simplistic and cartoonish than the rest: Sarah, Eileen, Aoi, Vanessa and Jeffry, mainly. Those are a thousand times better in the remake.
The other characters also look much better now, although there are a few ones where I prefer the old version: Akira, Lion, Lei Fei and El Blaze.
Agreed. And Jean also looks worse.
Characters looked like they were from Smackdown vs Raw
A lot of the females look better in US whereas the males are debatable
For some reason I like the more simplified models better in a lot of ways. Some of the stages too.
And is it just me or does ultimate show down have less customization?
Indeed. One of my favorite things to do in Final Showdown was to unlock costumes pieces and customize the characters so they resembled what they looked like in the previous games. (and unlocking Dural, which were really the only nuggets of content the games even remotely had.)
Those who improved the look the most were Jeffry, Pai Chan, Eileen and Goh.
Wolf didn't improve almost at all, I was disappointed with him.
Textures and stages look better but some character faces look noticeably bad compared to the old ones.
OK there’s two mistakes with lion he has a skull necklace in the old previous game but in the new game he doesn’t And wolf freeze breath was in the previous game but his freeze breath wasn’t in a new game
Anyone else kept thinking their video was lagging?
Is it me or did some of the originals look better than the ultimate version
Eileen and Vanessa look weird...most of the guys look weird in Ultimate, to me. Much prefer their older faces.
Rather than to remake part 5, Sega Japan should've the courage to allow AM-2 to make part 6 a year or two after Final Showdown was released.
I feel like it the facial expression being the problem more than the character models.
desaturating the colors is sacrilege. Still though i'm loving that the game made any return at all.
Definitely more complex character models and lighting, but it's missing the atmosphere of FS and some of the faces are... questionable.
The new VF is PERFECT! I just hope the next game will have more characters than 2-3. We need a story mode too!
What kind of new fighters & martial arts you want VF to implement next?
Agreed, a story mode is long overdue for VF. It doesn't need to be much, a simple bit of text and some 2D artwork for the cutscenes would suffice. The cast of 1991's Street Fighter II has more personality than the VF roster, and the endings are a big reason why.
I would like to see Capoeira, Boxing, and MMA added to the list of fighting styles.
Sarah and goh look insanely good
Kage's stage not taking place during Winter was a missed opportunity.
Sarah looks way better. I hated those thick bangs she had in VF5, her new look in Ultimate Showdown matches up more with her look from older games.
twitter.com/Superfamycom/status/1397346642123272196 😥😥😥
No lie but Brad be looking like Travis Touch down from No More Heroes.
* Some fighters look like they 're posseded or something . Before or after lol
* Old levels had def. too much bloom
* Some skin tones look better but they removed the silvershiny mask on "Hot dooog"-guy.
Im still waiting for my DLC costumes :I
I wish Vanessa's updated face sculpt was more animated. Her mouth barely moves when she speaks.
I'll stick with the original VF Final Showdown, thanks! A more natural, familiar and better character modeling.
RIP Jean's chin
Some of the face expression is kinda weird in the newer version tbh
Vanessa look fine
this game is great
There are pros and cons to both honestly. Making games 'realistic' has really hit a wall. Modern graphics kinda are meh to me. i just dont care. They havent improved in the last 10 years really, I mean after PS4/Xbox One they reached such a level, that there really isnt much improvement with the new consoles, compared to the difference between former generations. Look at the difference between SNES and NES. Or between PS1 and PS2, between Saturn and Dreamcast, between SNES and N64, between Game Boy and Game Boy Advance, and GBA/DS,,, the improvements were always so big back then. Once we got to the PS3/Xbox360 era, it really hasn't improved a insane amount. Shit even some original Xbox games still look fucking amazing. And that's why I feel like consoles are obsolete. They only limit what you can do and what you can play. I cant possibly fathom someone wanting a PS5 or new Xbox, when a great PC can play literally any console anyways, Emulation has come so far that it's not even emulation anymore, you can literally load a game's files on your PC and play that game. Plus you get modding, editing, fangames, romhacks, 10000s of custom levels and gametypes, basically free DLC. Why pay for DLC when you can get user made content free with PC gaming?
If only they can allow us to choose what song to use on each stage. New or Classic VF5.
Thats dlc, it also includes every song from the previous games.
From VF5?
Thank God they changed Sarah. She was killing me
If only they updated the animations too, could've been perfect
One undeniable problem here, but the only one imo, is the anti-aliasing choice. The characters' hair are very aliased.
I think that's a problem of the engine, because the Yakuza games have the same issue
Aoi feels like she has a disgruntled expression and a convex profile in the US version
Uh, did El Blaze just change into jeans?
So the US side is the remake? Most of the models look way better on the US side