/vr/ - Retro Games

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People complain about what happened to Vanessa between 4 and 5 but imo 5 fucked a lot of the character designs.

I'm not going to say that older VF games had great character design, but it was better than people gave it credit for and there were a lot of neat little touches that were lost in 5.

Lau looked like a sick guy in 4 and he looks like a zombie in 5.

VF4 Jeffrey looked cooler because he was strongfat and his animations made him look like someone that actually knew how to fight and use his size effectively. Wolf had a more realistic build and in 5 the poor guy looks like a mutant with his tiny abdomen and huge biceps. In the older games Wolf's moves weren't as flashy, but they looked like they HURT.

Aoi and Pai looked more mature before 5 changed them into annoying teenagers. VF4 Sarah looked like she could actually take a punch.

VF4 Jacky fought like a street brawler that picked up Jeet Kune Do (flip kicks aside), VF5FS Jacky is Bruce Lee clone #27-B. He lost the only thing that made his design stand out.

VF4 Goh had this really cool contrast between his design and his animations. You wouldn't expect someone who looked like that to have a very technical and restrained playstyle. That's what made him interesting...it was almost like looking at a corrupted version of a good guy's fighting style.

VF4 Goh looked like he just wanted to snap his opponent's neck and go home, but this is a tournament and there are rules to follow and that fact drives him up the fucking wall. That's way cooler than VF5 Goh and his generic bad guy moves.

To their credit a couple of characters did get cooler looking (I really like Lion, Shun Di and Lei Fei's new animations).

I just feel like some character was lost in the transition to HD.