Guilty Gear X2 #Reload
From the Creators of BlazBlue, comes Guilty Gear. It is their First Series which also was the First Game for Designer/Composer Daisuke Ishiwatari.
Its a 2D Beat em Up like Street Fighter, etc. but it is much different, since it uses a heavy reference on Rock/Metal Music (kinda like Brutal Legend).
The Characters are awesome in their Ways. Here a short Description of them:
-Sol Badguy: Arrogant Badass Bounty Hunter (and Scientist!). Listens to Queen and is a perfect Role Model for all Men. He uses a Rectangular Sword for more Coolness. Good Allaround Char for Beginners
– Real player with 379.8 hrs in game
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Guilty Gear XX #Reload also called “The Midnight Carnival” is a Japanese 2D fighting game developed by Arc System Works in 2003, at the beginning for acrade machines only, later for PC & consoles, and in september 2011 finally moved on Steam platform. This studio also created BlazBlue series. X2 #Reload was the most popular title from all GG series.
Game can offer 21 different fight-style playable characters and 2 special ones (Kliff and Justice) which unlocks after beating the Arcade mode. Pick your favourite and fight on one of 15 unique, beautifully designed maps, referring to events of the past (you can check out full, interesting and great considered story on Wiki fandom site). Also, every single character got individual theme made by awesome composer Daisuke Ishiwatari (music is fabulous, owners of the game receive OST in the MP3 format for free, along with other digital extras like gallery of fanarts). All characters got 6 color variants (excluding the simple color editor existence). There’s a total of 8 game modes (includes Arcade, Story, Challenges, M.O.M., Survival, VS CPU, VS 2P and Training to improve your fighting skills) and it’s great for every occasion f.e. to challange your friend (split screen PvP) or to relax after tough day at work.
– Real player with 65.1 hrs in game
GUILTY GEAR Xrd -REVELATOR-
I played Sign for 6 months, and when I mean by play, I mean grind combos in the training room and doing nothing else as Millia. So, when revelator came out, I was super excited. Unlike Street fighter V’s launch (Sorry Capcom fans please don’t hate me) Revelator’s launch went exteremly smoothly for me.
So, let’s take a look at what the game does well:
+Netcode- HOLY MOTHER OF GOD THE NETCODE IS AMAZING. On average, I get 2-4 frames of delay and it feels like I’m playing on a console offline. Granted, this assuming you have anti-aliasing and post-effects off, but even with everything on, you’ll get 5 frames at the max. The only netcode that can top Guilty Gear’s is Killer Instinct.
– Real player with 1376.6 hrs in game
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This piece of sh*t of a game actually made me go out and buy a fight stick just so I could get better with it lol. I have tried out a bunch of fighting games before, but nothing came close to this. GUILTY GEAR Xrd -REVELATOR- is the best fighting game I’ve played so far, and possibly one of the best game I’ve played in general, and that’s saying a lot, because I’ve never been into fighting games that much in the past.
The Positives:
- Complex but satisfying fighting system: The game is indeed hard to learn at first, as there are lots of mechanics to understand, but even at the beginner level, you can still pull off some cool stuff and look awesome while doing it. Once you start getting better, things like Romance Cancels and Burst will be easier to get into and you will be able to use them correctly at no time. And although combos are pretty tough to perform, I think one of the way to learn them is to watch videos and tutorial on the internet and try to copy the combo in practice mode, then slowly apply them in real matches, and sooner or later you will be able to do it. To me, that feeling of learning new moves and combos, then successfully doing them against real opponents is what makes this game so great and memorable.
– Real player with 813.4 hrs in game
GUILTY GEAR XX ACCENT CORE PLUS R
Absolute bomb of a game. Just go play it its a fighting game drug.
– Real player with 1592.3 hrs in game
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Ahoy,
Guilty Gear XX Accent Core +R is one of the best fighting games ever made. It was just updated with rollback a little under a year ago and it just received a massive update to the player room system today that, if you just want to play a lot of matches with the time you have, makes it better (faster) than the lobbies used in more recent fighting game releases such as Guilty Gear StrIVe. This game is usually $15 and frequently goes on sale for about $3. The quality to price ratio is the best you’ll find.
– Real player with 511.6 hrs in game
GUILTY GEAR Xrd -SIGN-
After a Dozen Years comes now the next new Installment of Guilty Gear.
Developed with the Unreal Engine 3, the Game features now real 3D Chars (No HD Sprites) alongside some few Cinematics during Play which gives the Feel of Immersive 3D. The Game itself is still played in 2D (Arenas are tough 3D Maps with Impression giving 2D).
You can choose over 16 Characters (some New alongside some Old Ones) each with his own Challenge Course for learning BnB Combos. The Story Mode is now a Movie (estimated 4 hours) without some Interaction, so you can sit back and press only the Text Screens away during Talking between Characters.
– Real player with 272.5 hrs in game
+Fantastic art direction/art style
+Rockin OST
+There is an English dub for those who want it. Overall quality is hit or miss; there are issues with delivery, voice clip editing, audio balancing, etc. I find it worthy enough to be a positive
+Very solid gameplay
~The input buffer is slightly finicky; this is my opinion, and it’s listed here as an observation, and not a review point
-This game was played entirely on a keyboard, and using the button configuration menu was a hassle
-The menus use their own fixed button configuration for navigation, and you can’t change it
– Real player with 245.5 hrs in game
Killer Instinct
What this Edition Includes For those Wondering:
*All characters and stages from Seasons 1,2,3 as well as Kilgore, Eagle, and Shin Hisako already unlocked.
*Gold and Terror Colors already unlocked
*Omen gets colors 7,8 and 9 already unlocked
*X mas Accessories? (These weren’t included when I bought the game, but now I have them. Patched I guess?)
*Crossplay between Xbox players (But be sure your internet is stable enough)
*Choosing which character theme to play before fights. (Each theme also has dynamic responses depending on what combos you can dish out)
– Real player with 547.5 hrs in game
Killer Instinct is the best and the most unique fighting game of modern time.
Why? It’s probably the first to shake and transform seemingly eternal rules of fighting games. If you think about, since the iconic Street fighter II they practicaly haven’t changed. Yes, they added more mechanics, more gauges, more crazy characters, more interactions, a lot of things. But none of them ever tried to change the basis of the whole system. Killer Instincs did. And it did so in an absolutely genius way.
Almost all of the other titles are about combos. You learn the best buttons, you learn the most damaging combos, you learn to start them whenever you want. Yes, there’s a whole lot of other things, but in the end it’s all about memorising and performing combos. That’s why watchiing a lot of tournaments is really boring. Especially if it’s something like DBFZ, KOF, pretty much any anime fighter etc.
– Real player with 312.9 hrs in game
BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger
One of the best fighting games out there, as can be expected from Arc System Works. This may be an outdated game, gameplay-wise (multiple new editions have come out since this one, with new characters, balance changes and continued story and such), but I think it’s still worth getting the first game for the sake of the story mode. The story mode of this series is actually quite rich and detailed with a very thought out lore and world (rare for this genre) with very lovable and charming characters and funny situations, and in a gorgeous visual novel style. Other than that, there is arcade mode and versus with a very expansive gallery mode to collect for.
– Real player with 112.1 hrs in game
A little late to be writing about this, but still wanted to as I really enjoyed this game. Surprise as this is coming from someone who didn’t really enjoy or have any interest in the genre outside of Super Smash Brothers (if you even want to count that, I consider it more of a beat-em-up) and a couple oddball games like Soul Caliber and Virtua Fighter 5 as well as even a Street Fighter game, none really caught my attention until I bought this on a whim. Just like with Skyrim, I wanted to give it another chance, maybe I’d find something enjoyable here that I didn’t with the other games and did I ever.
– Real player with 50.3 hrs in game
BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend
I wrote a review previously for this game a month ago but complained about one major thing that was missing from the port: the inability to view opponents' connections. You’d have to experiment with different rooms and players to see who has a playable connection with you and who does not. There was also no way to stop laggy people from joining your room either.
However, the recent online patch has fixed this issue. What really makes me happy though is not that it’s finally fixed, but rather that the publisher, H2, was actually kind enough to release a patch.
– Real player with 290.7 hrs in game
As an introduction, I am a veteran player of Guility Gear and Blazblue series. I’ve won numerous tournaments in all versions of Blazblue and held the rank #1 spot for several characters on Xbox live. As i write this review I will be as neutral as possible.
Blazbue is a very unique fighting game franchise, many call it the sister of Guility Gear. Blazblue is an air dasher, high speed, combo heavy fighting game. The game is very visually satisfying and has one hell of a soundtrack. People who have a history in Street figher, SoulCaibur, DOA, Tekken, etc. Tend to somewhat stray away from Blazblue. The game sets itself apart by its core engine mechanics and unforgivable mistakes.
– Real player with 83.2 hrs in game
Guilty Gear Isuka
The Black Sheep of the GG Series. I played this a lot on the PS2 back in the day and it is fun when you get past the fact that you have to manually turn. Honestly compared to back then though, we have much more experience and resources to improve the overall experience in playing this game.
I recommend playing on the keyboard and setting the controls similar to the “Hitbox controller” layout, with the spacebar configured to jump for Arcade/VS Mode. For Boost Mode, I recommend keeping the directional inputs to the default WASD, and configuring the dedicated jump button to the spacebar. Start on Beginner for Arcade and Boost so you can get used to the controls. The nice thing is that you’ll still be able to unlock EX characters along the way even at the lowest difficulty setting in Arcade Mode.
– Real player with 14.3 hrs in game
This game is pretty much Guilty Gear XX #Reload with worse graphic (because of the scaling), with a turn button (exactly) and up to 4 players coop play.
The game mechanics themselves are not that bad, what is really bad is that they tried to fit Guilty Gear cast, that we can remember for combos and fast pace gameplay (with cross-ups) into a Super Smash Bros fighter killing Guilty Gear itself. Actually they went even further adding a side-scrolling beat them up mode… like I said before, they totally stripped any “Guilty Gear” from this title.
– Real player with 5.0 hrs in game
Lethal League
Game is fun!
I’ve seen many call this game “Smash Brothers meets Pong” and that’s roughly correct. Lethal League is similar to Smash titles in its ease of access (being pretty simple to understand and play) and its competitive depth. Its similar to Pong in being focused around the ball, the one lethal element of the game. You and your opponent(s) are striving to hit this ball, tagging it to yourself and making it lethal to your opponent until they successfully hit it back (or miss, get hit, and die). The ball will steadily speed up after every hit as long as players remain alive, ramping up the intensity. Continue this until all but one player have lost all their lives, and only the champion remains!
– Real player with 955.0 hrs in game
The online is incredibly good, which is to be expected from GGPO. 4 player games tend to lag/desync a bit, but as long as you are not playing across countries, it handles it well. 1v1 online is nearly perfect from my viewpoint.
Controller support is also good, I have tested 4 different controllers, all of which worked. Only a few required minimal key binding.
Gameplay itself is of the “simple to pick up, hard to master” variety. Great for local party/competitive play. Its fast paced, and has a lot of “epic moments” for all your friends to hype about.
– Real player with 104.3 hrs in game
BlazBlue Centralfiction
I was actually planning to do this after I complete arcade mode with all the characters but I probably won’t even be doing that anytime soon so I might as well review this game now. BlazBlue has done a lot for me throughout the 2 years that I have been playing the series and I hope others will be able to experience something similar to what I did.
I’ll point this out now so that it’s clear: BlazBlue isn’t for absolutely everyone. I’ll just lay out the points that I think define the game.
– Real player with 511.2 hrs in game
We lived in the darkeness for WAY TOO LONG… BUT NOT ANYMORE MY BROTHERS, TODAY WE WALK INTO THE LIGHT, AND FINALLY BE FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
– Real player with 394.9 hrs in game