Small Guilty Gear XX Impressions

During my Sammy meeting we went from to the show floor to one of the meeting rooms because it was way too loud, and I couldn’t hear anyone at all (but I could sure as hell check out the BEAUTIFUL Mai and Millia booth babes!). So imagine my surprise when I was lead into the room and saw an arcade cabinet featuring Guilty Gear XX: Midnight Carnival. I couldn’t even keep my mind on the game I was supposed to check out (Lethal Skies, which was pretty decent too) because of the ominous cabinet before me. After the Lethal Skies demo, I just had to ask to play some Guilty Gear XX goodness, and luckily for me, they let me. The graphics on the Naomi-powered system was absolutely insane, with the expected high resolution characters and backgrounds that we’ve come to expect. While I regret not choosing one of the four new characters in the game, picking my old favourite Chipp allowed me to check out some of the new backgrounds and moves. For one thing, there’s a new button to the game, which is the Dust Attack (performed by pressing Slash and Hard Slash at the same time in GGX), as well as a new meter called the Burst meter. While the Dust Button wasn’t exactly the best thing in the world to add, the Burst Meter was definitely cool. The Burst meter allows you to “break” combos, much like in Rare’s Killer Instinct games. What’s really cool about the Burst is that you can actually use it when you’re not stuck in a combo. What this allows you to do is basically blow through your opponent’s attack so that you can knock them across the screen. While the backgrounds have only changed marginally, the entire front end of the game has been completely revamped with a high-tech look to it, and had my jaw dropping to the floor. Unfortunately for console gamers there are no plans right now to release Guilty Gear XX to any of the next-generation systems, but I wouldn’t doubt that it will sometime make it to the PS2 or another console.

Stay tuned for that bad-ass attract mode from this.

(Kaneda, Mode7, be on your guard!!!)

Happy GGXX day!! (Since about every arcade is installing this as we speak!!):)

P.S. Everyone so far is afraid to use Zappa:( Maybe that will change in the next day or few...

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but I could sure as hell check out the BEAUTIFUL Mai and Millia booth babes!

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...You forgot to add, "And got pictures of them." At least, I hope you simply forgot to add that. Pictures! C'mon! Millia booth babe! Must-have!

Anyway, game sounds damned tasty! Wantwantwantwant!

I should really play a game in this series one day.

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Originally posted by StriderKyo
I should really play a game in this series one day.

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o_O You're... kidding?

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Originally posted by MechDeus
o_O You're... kidding?

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Sadly, no. I missed out on the PS version, and GGX, Rez (yeah, I know), Grandia II and Gundam Side Story 0079 are the only major things missing from my DC collection. I can live without Grandia and Gundam, but I gotta track down the other two when the rest of my taxes come through...

Well, diggity, you need to get on that. I you play them, either play GG first, or just don't play it, as it's tough to go back to after GGX. Of course, if you manage to play the Japanese PS2 version, you get the missing characters from GG that were normally left out of GGX (not that great of characters, but still cool), but with DC you get true VGA (if you hook it up that way). Either way, it's a damned fun fighter, and has some hysterical moves in it. Fun stuff.

There will be a bunch cosplayers at the TGS, so don't even sweat that. I'll have plenty of pictures! I might have to buy another 10-hour battery for my camcorder...

You'd be surprised to see a lot of girls dress as Ky and even Axl:p

Any as Bridget? :lol:

Bridget??

Definitely...

There's already some pictures in the June issue of Arcadia:)

Somehow, I'm not that excited about GGXX. I liked the first game, but damn did the animation suck. And the announcer and those sound effects were so low-qual, I couldn't stomach listening to the game. Also, not enough backgrounds.

I didn't have a problem with the fighting system, though I normally hate juggle-fests. I did feel, however, some of the moves weren't flashy (for lack of a better word) enough.

A few improvements in the audio sample quality, animation, variety of backgrounds and more interesting looking moves will sell this game for me. Otherwise, I'll pass.

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Originally posted by StriderKyo
I should really play a game in this series one day.

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You're not the only one.

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Originally posted by bloodyarts
Somehow, I'm not that excited about GGXX. I liked the first game, but damn did the animation suck. And the announcer and those sound effects were so low-qual, I couldn't stomach listening to the game. Also, not enough backgrounds.

I didn't have a problem with the fighting system, though I normally hate juggle-fests. I did feel, however, some of the moves weren't flashy (for lack of a better word) enough.

A few improvements in the audio sample quality, animation, variety of backgrounds and more interesting looking moves will sell this game for me. Otherwise, I'll pass.

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Did you play GG or GGX? GG on PSX is only so-so, but the arcade version of GGX has amazing animation and the DC version is a very faithful translation. As far as gameplay, the game is cool because you have mini-pop-ups and super pop-ups... and the ability for every character to air dash...you can do some crazy combos...

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Originally posted by MechDeus
...You forgot to add, "And got pictures of them." At least, I hope you simply forgot to add that. Pictures! C'mon! Millia booth babe! Must-have!

Anyway, game sounds damned tasty! Wantwantwantwant!

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http://www.zdnet.co.jp/gamespot/gsne...es/sammy01.jpg

yeah its small. but beggars can't be choosy i guess

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Originally posted by ssbomberman
Did you play GG or GGX? GG on PSX is only so-so, but the arcade version of GGX has amazing animation and the DC version is a very faithful translation. As far as gameplay, the game is cool because you have mini-pop-ups and super pop-ups... and the ability for every character to air dash...you can do some crazy combos...

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Yeah, I played the original Guilty Gear on PSX and I have (and played, beat and unlocked secrets) Guilty Gear X on DC.

You're right, the PSX version is so-so, but considering when it came out, it was one of the better fighters out at the time.

As for GGX, all the things you said are true, but I felt the animation was garbage. I mean, when you have artwork that nice, and hi-resolution graphics, I want to see high-frame animation to go along with it. It animated slightly better than the PSX original.

I didn't really have a problem with the play mechanics, but I generally don't like huge combo-intensive games, which GGX definitely is.

Guilty Gear X wasn't a terrible game. It just didn't realize it's full potential. Unless Guilty Gear XX fixes the problems of GGX, I'm just not interested.

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Originally posted by Mikhal
yeah its small. but beggars can't be choosy i guess

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I'll take what I can get. Thank you.

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I didn't really have a problem with the play mechanics, but I generally don't like huge combo-intensive games, which GGX definitely is.

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Then from what I gather, you won't like GGXX, which pretty much seems to expand upon this gameplay. My only problem with the animation was that it was so low count after watching SFIII for so long, but I got over that and enjoyed the game regardless. It only bothers me in some KoF games, where combos jump so many frames of animation some of them look worse then amateur Flash movies, and makes it hard to tell what I should have been doing to block them.

*cries*

NOOOO!! It... it just dawned on me... (I feel so slow)

After being forced to play all my games (which now consists of solely DC games) through the VGA adapter, GGXX won't look as good as GGX on console, because none of the next-gen systems have true VGA! All that beauty... wasted! And it's so crisp... *sobs*

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Originally posted by MechDeus
...You forgot to add, "And got pictures of them." At least, I hope you simply forgot to add that. Pictures! C'mon! Millia booth babe! Must-have!

Anyway, game sounds damned tasty! Wantwantwantwant!

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Yah...I am sure he did. (damn, I have to wait until mine are scanned) :(

Heh...Reno, I think that was intentionally done because you'll note that the person who Sammy initially double booked with us never came back when he was led away by Mr. Foster. :D

That game was so sweet...too bad it's only in the arcade and no details of what platform it will be made available on. But, my guess is PS2.

Now - where are those Soul Calibur 2 impressions...oh, shit, that's right...you weren't with us? Yay, no Reno to beat me ! :D

Has Chipp changed much at all? He's pretty much the only character I play as so i'm hoping for an increase in stamina and strength, his combos and speed were the only things going for him but I like that. Kind of pointless adding a dust button, I mean how fucking hard is it to press two buttons together??? Very daft addition, next they'll be adding a RC button. Has the animation been improved cos that was the only thing lacking in GGX. Cheers :)

Here's hoping for a Xbox or PS2 port to come out soon.

I'm actually really excited to play this sequel. 2P GGX on DC is a lot of fun. I'm amazed and thankful the backgrounds are still 2D. Wherever the console port lands I'll be happy to have it.

I was also very happy and surprised to see this at E3. I didn't know what I was doing (haven't gotten around to playing GGX yet), but it sure was fun. Hoping for a PS2 release...