/jp/ - Otaku Culture

[Anonymous No.]

..ya know what? I recently won some money and decided to buy AH3 with it to complete my collection of competent fightans for PS3....and you know...

Arcana Heart 3 is actually pretty damn fun. Much more fun then I originally thought I was gonna have with it.

..also, Fiona is awesome for doing 50%+ damage on counter hits

[Anonymous No.]

Fuck yes Fiona is the best

AH3 is awesome fun, everyone is so obsessed with tournies and balance these days

[Anonymous No.]

>decided to buy

[Anonymous No.]

>>7600688

Something wrong with not pirating for once?

[Anonymous No.]

[b.b.hood !ponpOnMgkc No.]

Can people just spell things properly instead of "fightan" and so on for genres?

[Anonymous No.]

Like in many fighting games, the slower characters like Fiona are great in low-level play but get worse against experienced players. You get zoned out easily, have to work harder to get in a combo and the other characters usually catch up in damage with advanced combos. Fiona's wakeup game on both sides is not the best either.

Doesn't stop random EXCALIBUR from being legit though.

[Anonymous No.]

Yes, the game is wonderful, it is truly one of the very best fighter games of our time.
Lots of people just fail to realize this, it's as if all the pink colors make them blind to see what is going on.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7600663
is this game dead yet

[Anonymous No.]

>>7600762
>slower characters
>Not effective in high-level play

Sentinel would like to have a word with you. Even with the health nerf, he can still wreck some shit up.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7600758
It's because it lacks fanservice.

[Anonymous No.]

Delayed until the 20th of August.
The package is great and all, and now they will apparently add some kind of tidbit extra due to it having been delayed even more.

But I am sort of wondering if I am every going to get to play the game...
This bundled pack still looks great though, but you guys better keep playing until then.

[Anonymous No.]

Also, goddamn the Drexler Institute is fucking evil.

Kidnapping girls to mindfuck them and do experiments on them to make them weapons of mass destruction.

It's like NESTS from KoF on Crack. I think even Lovable Igniz would be appalled at Drexler.

Here is to hoping he personally kick the shit out of the head of Drexler in AH4.

[Anonymous No.]

Story wise, Zenia is my favorite so far. All she wants to do is give a hug

[Anonymous No.]

I haven't played this game in almost a month. I need to jump back on it

[Anonymous No.]

>>7600868

...and then hit you with her SteelDriver...thing.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7600996
No actually she does just want to give a hug In her ending, she learns liese is her long lost sister and gives her a hug

Definitely my favorite ending. It just seemed so cute.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7603493
Yeah, she is kind of adorable. I still main Liselotte though.

[Anonymous No.]

Scharl's midriff gives me the weirdest banana.

[Anonymous No.]

I fucking hate Fiona online. If only because half of them LOOOOVE to purposely lag their end in a cheap attempt to spam Excaliber and win off that.

And then the game magically starts playing as normal the moment they get the upper hand. Pathetic.

>>7600663
>50%+ damage on counter

Flower Arcana counterpick gg.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7600801
Yea about that, did that one anonymous ever figure out another way to get the UK game in the US? I love Arcana Heart and all but paying $110 for a game is not justifiable, plus I'm stuck on Dial-up from now till Christmas so no PSN for me either.

[Anonymous No.]

Pretty much everyone can get 50% off a CH. Most characters can also do it without being a shitty character in general.

[ZUN !barYV1VtIA No.]

>>7600868
Lots of /jp/ seem to like Zenia. I didn't know she was so popular.

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[Anonymous No.]

>>7604593
How good of a connection do you need to play, anyway? I have a shitty connection that's under 1Mb(its)ps on a good day.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7606188
It's not about download speed, it's about latency. You can have shit download speeds but good latency and vice versa.

[Anonymous No.]

Game is too slow and floaty. I like my games rough and fast like a titfuck on a jetski.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7606383
Use the wind arcana

[Anonymous No.]

>fightan

>>>/v/

You're a fag.

[Anonymous No.]

All /v/ talks about in their fighting threads is how much they'd like to suck Mike Ross's dick, whether Daigo or Gootecks would be a better kisser, etc.

Same as #capcom really.

[ZUN !barYV1VtIA No.]

[「ロリあき」 No.]

>>7606690
It'll never cease to amaze me that people can be at all competent with markers. Shit boggles my mind.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7606556
everyone mad gay these days makes a strait guy feel left out

[Anonymous No.]

[Anonymous No.]

Maori is my beloved wife

[Anonymous No.]

I say the pace of high level Arcana play is quite nice.
But I suppose it all comes down to preferences and opinions in the end.
It isn't that much slower than other fighters though, I would argue that it's relatively marginal if anything.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Xe4z0qn-ZI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lv7T-rM1To

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hL7qgCHIrlc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xJN4tQVeYk

[Hotel Moé !PAgIEfHT7Y No.]

>high level Arcana play is quite nice.
If you're a Korean.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7607178
>implying you have to be korean to mash AH3

Japs are better than Koreans at fightans anyway unless it's KOF, then chinks are the best.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7606895

Captain Commando with tits.

[Anonymous No.]

>still no 360 version

[Anonymous No.]

>>7607504
Whoever buys a 360 expecting fighting games needs to really get with the times. PS3 = Japanese karateka, XBOX360 = American Marine

[Anonymous No.]

Will you buy american made Arcana Heart doujins at C80?

[Francis York Morgan !mbHjxjfHlA No.]

>>7607514
The 360 has more fighting games than the PS3.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7607521
Is this becoming a trend in Nippon nowadays?

[Anonymous No.]

>>7607528

What exactly? Western artists there?

[Anonymous No.]

>>7607537
Yes. I was aware of a few like JKP or DaHooch who are quite open with it. Perhaps there are more who remain anonymous under Japanese aliases?

[Anonymous No.]

>>7607496
It's almost a shame they aren't seperate playable characters.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7607526
I'm sorry, but I think that's wrong.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7607514
I figured that since the 360 is where all the shmups are at, the crossover appeal would make it the system for fighters. I don't really keep up with home consoles anymore, though, so what the hell do I know.

[Anonymous No.]

Is there any way to make windowed mode open at twice the resolution aside from "drag sides until it looks right"?

[Anonymous No.]

>>7607496
You say that like it's a bad thing

>>7607667
>>7607526
Technically it's true, but there's a reason for it

TL:DR version - Sony is a dick

Medium version
Sony owns about 60% of all the manufacturers of Blu-Ray discs and charges expensive licensing fees for the other 40%
Sony thinks they should make a profit off of the manufacture of Blu-Ray discs

One would assume that making a profit off of the sale of the discs and licensing pretty much all the content/players would be enough but what do I know.

Hence it's more expensive to make games for the PS3 than the 360 purely from a manufacturing angle
Also there's the fact that Sony charges for a Devkit while Microsoft doesn't (however Microsoft also has an entire shitload of terms and conditions you must comply with otherwise they will yank out their kit and try to sue you for ownership of the game you made, they pulled this crap a lot in the X-box era which is why a lot of the smaller dev teams disappeared[ it's also why I laughed when Japanese devs just used the 360 as a beta platform before rolling it out on another])

It should be noted that DVDs are now cheap as hell to produce it costs about 25 cents to make a DVD and the most expensive part is finding someone with the capabilities to do wide scale manufacturing.


On a side note: Am I the only one still irritated that Aksys didn't even release a strategy guide with this game? It seems obvious that with a download only fighting game with a non-standard fighting system you would try to sell something physical that would explain game mechanics and easy techniques to new players.

But no, they won't then they'll wonder why it doesn't sell well.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7609361
>But no, they won't then they'll wonder why it doesn't sell well.
Their minds have been damaged by the otherwise unfathomable "sucess" that is Steam or whatever.

Steam is killing the industry, by making it stronger, yet corrupted on the inside.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7609452
There's a really good strategy guide for fighters out there that's free, and it's called the fucking Internet. I don't understand why anyone would use anything else for any game, but fighting strategies are developed by the communities in the first place so I can't even imagine how an official guide could provide that. Mizuumi has everything you could need.


>>7609361
Arcana Heart wont' sell because of Steam? Whatever point you think you're making is not self-evident, please explain.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7609503
>Whatever point you think you're making is not self-evident, please explain.
Steam sells, steam sells good, great in fact.
Despite no physical products whatsoever, and prices that haven't been noticably lower despite cutting all the cuts from physical publishing and distrubution.

This have had an influence on companies in where they more and more reveres digital products higher, all the while they deem physical products lower.

That's why you don't get a physical anything for Arcana Heart in the US.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7607645
It's not. Every PS3 fighting game, aside from MK2 and Tekken 5 DR, is on the 360. On the other hand, the 360 has quite a few exclusive fighting games, like Dead or Alive 4, tons of old SNK games with online play, Samurai Shodown Sen, Phantom Breaker, the Umineko fighter, and so on.

Arcana Heart 3 is on the 360 in Japan and Europe, it's only NA that's not getting it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7609700
Actually, Aksys isn't publishing it in NA because the minimum print run for 360 games is too high (around 50,000 I think). They don't think they'll be able to sell enough copies to make a profit. They've said so themselves.

And unlike the PS3, Microsoft has (had?) a rule in place, where if you wanted to release your game digitally through their Games on Demand service, it -has- to have had a physical release prior to that. But they've just recently made an exception for Death Smiles 2X, and the Resident Evil HD games are going to be GoD as well, so maybe things are starting to change.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7609503
First I think it's incredibly cute (in a 3-legged puppy sort of way not an attractive girl wants to spend time with you way) that you think strategies only come from the game communities. You seem to be completely ignoring how, in game development, characters need to be constantly tested and balanced to prevent whatever the hell you'd call MUGEN. That the testers would have some experience with the game designs and character design and would not pass that information on to any guide writers or handle it in house seems simply ludicrous.

Also you seem to be implying that I want that wide variance in quality that comes with internet guides. One guide I read, had an analytical insight that rivaled on obscene and some of the most carefully written explanations that I ever had the pleasure of reading. Another guide had 4 Chuck Norris jokes in the first paragraph and featured the phrase "then you just mash all the buttons down adn he like explodes and shit." Maybe it's just me but I feel that when introducing a new fighting game series (because let's be honest I don't think Arcana Heart sold exceptionally well) I feel you should be bending over backwards to accommodate new players with how-to guides and basic information.

Compare it with Street Fighter IV, Capcom designed this game with new players in mind, it features an intro guide to all the basic special moves plus intro combos. I may not know a lot of people who beat all those tutorials but I do know a lot of people who learned not to use a jump-in combo against a crouching Guile and decent follow-ups for a lucky attack.

Aksys' handling of this game reeks more of "There's it translated you happy yet?"

It just seems all kinds of screwed up to me.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7607554
If I am interpreting your post correctly, you are stating that DaHooch is non-Japanese. This surprises me.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7609868
Huh I though it was because they wanted to stick with download only and AH3 exceeds the maximum allowable file size.

.... I'd have a "the more you know" reaction image to show that you taught me something new today, but I just can't find it. I can't even find my " I know I have that reaction image somewhere" pic.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7610118
Yeah, Da Hootch is from New York City.

[Francis York Morgan !mbHjxjfHlA No.]

>>7610188
XBLA has a hard 2.0GB limit, there's nothing they can do about that. The Games on Demand service on the other hand (where full retail games get released digitally) doesn't have a maximum file size limit, to my knowledge. Although I'm not sure if any multi-disc games (like Lost Odyssey) have been released on there - that might cause problems.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7610090
The problem is that people always find ways to break games that the devs never thought of. Part of it is the difficulty of making unique yet balanced characters, sure (sometimes a balance flaw is obvious but there's no way to fix it without making the character OP), and other times they're just not aware of a problem until players get their hands on it (i.e. Carl's claptrap).

An official strategy guide will know what the game designers intended, but not what players have discovered over time.

[Anonymous No.]

>>7609198
Anyone?