Virtua Fighter 20th Anniversary Interviews

[ROJM]

Thanks! I'd love to one day go to Japan and just plonk $50 down to play VF all day at an arcade and just see what it's like. I'm sure I'd lose 90% of the matches but it would be an experience to soak up that arcade culture and the competition.

Well if you aren't a smoker then its not a good idea...that's where the real ball to the wall players usually hang out....Fing epic battles i've seen played...with those guys...

[inthesky]

I don't really play VF, but I was just wondering for anybody here:

Which characters do you play?

[MadeManG74]

Well if you aren't a smoker then its not a good idea...that's where the real ball to the wall players usually hang out....Fing epic battles i've seen played...with those guys...

Haha, yes I heard that to find the best players you need to look for clouds of cigarette smoke! I would definitely bring a mask with me or something to cover the fumes.

I don't really play VF, but I was just wondering for anybody here:

Which characters do you play?

Wolf is my main, and by far the best character I can use. Still have a lot to learn with him though.

My second best would be Goh followed by Jeffry probably, but I don't focus on them much, just use them for casual play.

[ROJM]

I don't really play VF, but I was just wondering for anybody here:

Which characters do you play?

For me at this point it depends on which game of VF. On VF2 and 3 i was Jacky. VF 1 mainly Akira.Remix Sarah VF3tb Sarah VF4 Vanessa VF4 evo Goh all the way baby. VF5-Eileen all the way to R and showdown.

[ROJM]

Haha, yes I heard that to find the best players you need to look for clouds of cigarette smoke! I would definitely bring a mask with me or something to cover the fumes.

Wolf is my main, and by far the best character I can use. Still have a lot to learn with him though.

My second best would be Goh followed by Jeffry probably, but I don't focus on them much, just use them for casual play.

Yeah i remember on of my first trips down to japan and i played one of those guys...i realized quickly that the guy was deliberately smoking in my direction in order to distract me. Not that he needed to. Took me another day to beat his ass..and that was lucky because i didn't think i'd see the same guy again.

[jonboy101]

Jacky in VF. Shun Di in VF2, VF3. Lion in 4, then back to Shun Di. I'm really the only person I know that's a dedicated Shun Di player.

[Centrale]

Lau Chan. I'll cook you some Chinese food! *koff koff*

[Deefy]

My favorites, but I'm not a master of the game, are Wolf Goh and Brad.

[Team Andromeda]

Which characters do you play?

I always like to play as Lau Chan as he reminds me of Hawng Jang Lee character in Snake In Eagles shadow . Also like to play Kage too . Have to say still to this day VF 1 is my fav in the series too

[ROJM]

I always like to play as Lau Chan as he reminds me of Hawng Jang Lee character in Snake In Eagles shadow . Also like to play Kage too . Have to say still to this day VF 1 is my fav in the series too

Reminds you? Isn't he just a straight ripoff of that hong kong caricature villain that showed up in many martial art films of the 70s? Shun Di obviously was the old guy in Drunken Master who also played the same type of character in eagles shadow and other films. Surprised he didn't try to include you know who in a game...

[Team Andromeda]

Reminds you? Isn't he just a straight ripoff of that hong kong caricature villain

Of course its a rip off  Lau even looks more or less the same as Lee's character in Snake   . Not that I cared playing and seeing Virtua Fighter for the 1st time was just amazing . For the 1st time a game had characters move with the grace and fluidity of that seen in a Jackie Chan movie.

[ROJM]

Too bad no one in those movies actually did actual kung fu moves...

[Team Andromeda]

Too bad no one in those movies actually did actual kung fu moves...

Kung Fu is just a made up term when it comes to movies  . Snake is an actual style of martial arts if one wants to be clever about it and there's quite a lot of Northen  style 'Kung Fu' which is what is always best for movies and what Jackie Chan and his fellow Peking mates were good at anyway

[ROJM]

Kung Fu is just a made up term when it comes to movies  . Snake is an actual style of martial arts if one wants to be clever about it and there's quite a lot of Northen  style 'Kung Fu' which is what is always best for movies and what Jackie Chan and his fellow Peking mates were good at anyway

Not the point. The point was that the actors didn't actually do any actual kung fu moves. They were all acrobats that mimicked or made up moves that never even existed. Martial arts is just a term to describe all hand to hand combat techniques. Its never a chinese term. They've always called their martial arts in a general term as Kung fu to describe all their fighting styles.

[Team Andromeda]

They did plenty but like with Gameplay Kung-fu is a sort of made up term with not real set meaning (it can be used to mean many things) .Snake is a real style and one that's been used for decades but Like with games , films will always take liberties as real life doesn't make great games or great viewing .