DARKSTALKERS RESURRECTION coming to XBLA and PSN

Negative-Zer0 · December 2012

sas, wolf, and lordraptor are all bullshit.

Blood Feast · December 2012

Bullshit characters that shit all over weak players and give veterans a hard time are good for games.

Chad · December 2012

One thing I already love about this game is that all my favorite characters are top tier. That said, every character in the game is pretty cool.

Saikyou · December 2012

How were the matches from savior 2?

Keepin'em Honest · December 2012

Fuck Sasquatch! He better cross the street when he see me. Canada, you have Wolverine...and Sasquatch.

jedpossum · December 2012

I hear more complaints about Gallon than Sasquatch. Then again this is your first time seeing Sas in the earlier games.

Lord_Raptor · December 2012

Gallon is just hella easy but Sas is just so much better, but he's more likable. Who can't help but like a guy who farts snowcones and just wants to give high fives.

d3v · December 2012

Keepin'em Honest, post: 7812533, member: 60234 wrote:

Fuck Sasquatch! He better cross the street when he see me. Canada, you have Wolverine...and Sasquatch.

And great health care.

NoUDont · December 2012

Now we get an Official Create a Darkstalker Contest! With better prices too.

Grand Prize - A custom made drawing of your character by Stanley "Artgerm" Lau, the artist for Darkstalkers Resurrection, along with one copy of the UDON Darkstalkers Tribute art book and one copy of Pop Culture Shock's Lord Raptor statue.

2nd-3rd Place - One copy of Pop Culture Shock's Lord Raptor statue

4th-8th Place - One copy of the Darkstalkers Tribute art book by UDON.

Also "Winners will be chosen based on the uniqueness of their design" probably means any version of "[...] but female!" has no chance of winning.

edit: oh it's open for europeans too! I'm in there!

Rotanibor · December 2012

http://www.twitch.tv/rotanibor GGPO Vampire Savior Weekly Tourney stream is LIVE. Tournament starts in 30 minutes! Get on GGPO to sign up!

d3v · January 3

For any Hunter/NW players in Boston, a few guys have set up a small scene at one of the local gaming centers. They're trying to get the game on stream this Friday.
http://www.freestepdodge.com/threads/the-darkstalkers-thread.1942/page-2#post-71279

Noble Cactus · January 5

This week's GGPO Vampire Savior tournament isn't on Sunday... but on a Saturday! Come watch or join. It's starting in 10 minutes

http://www.twitch.tv/rotanibor

Nephinel · January 8

June 15-16, Cincy Ohio

USA's Largest VSAV event

REGISTRATION
Darkstalkers: Death & Rebirth registration will be in-person only. An online tally will be kept on facebook

-Weekend Pass-
$30, which includes automatic entry into tournaments as listed below. You also receive unlimited access to games at Arcade Legacy for the entire weekend.

SATURDAY (DEATH)
Dante’s Inferno Single Elimination Qualifiers – Automatic Entry
Rookies’ Tournament – Selected Entry
Veterans’ Team Tournament (3-Man) – Selected Entry

SUNDAY (REBIRTH)
Vampire Hunter – Automatic Entry
Vampire Savior – Automatic Entry

EXHIBITIONS
Character Specialist 8v8
High Stakes Exhibition
Grudge Matches

http://www.powerupfighters.com/2013/01/event-announcement-darkstalkers-death-rebirth/
https://www.facebook.com/events/386848238073620/

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(guess I'd better start saving up some monies if I want to go)

d3v · January 12

So I made a post tryign to get people on Unity to try to get people to support it for the EVO donation drive thing, and somehow, some idiot uses it as a chance to start ranting against those who're happy with simply getting an arcade perfect port of the games.

Keits · January 12

Hunter and Savior are on the UFGT9 roster. Come play. I want to see fish infinite in hunter!

Keepin'em Honest · January 12

Keits, post: 7889812, member: 992 wrote:

Hunter and Savior are on the UFGT9 roster. Come play. I want to see fish infinite in hunter!

When is UFGT9, anyway? Savior was hype at UFGT7.

Keits · January 12

[url]Http://ufgt.us/[/url] for more UFGT9 information

SpaceOutNightmare · January 12

I need to get my GGPO working for these.

Noble Cactus · January 12

This week's Vampire Savior tournament is starting shortly. Come join!

http://www.twitch.tv/rotanibor

d3v · January 17

Ordered my copy over Play-Asia. Japanese version so it's gonna be a disc. Looks like I'll be on this shizz in a couple of weeks.

Raging Ghost · January 20

Just asking, but how good Demitri is?

felineki · January 20

He's lower-mid tier in Savior, and low tier in Night Warriors. He might seem like a standard shoto at first glance, but he's pretty tricky to use effectively

Raging Ghost · January 20

felineki, post: 7919144, member: 3754 wrote:

He's lower-mid tier in Savior, and low tier in Night Warriors. He might seem like a standard shoto at first glance, but he's pretty tricky to use effectively

Do I take for granted that it's because of his Akuma-like flash step/dash among other things?

Anyway, if I am to use Demitri (assuming I ever want to get this game), what I need to know?

Also, he's ranked in accordance to which tier list?

NoUDont · January 21

NoUDont, post: 7823067, member: 70928 wrote:

Now we get an Official Create a Darkstalker Contest!

So this thing is over now(or in an hour or something) and I totally forgot about it until yesterday. I submitted a boringcharacter with some moves, that I made a week after the contest was announced. I might post it here(though it's pretty bad). People are posting their stuff at Capcom-Unity and I don't think I have any chance against their walls of text or actually good artists, who probably took part in the contest and posted nowhere about it. Oh well.

Anybody else who submitted something?

assid · January 21

Looking to get into Darkstalkers since I'm ass at Tekken and want a secondary game. How is Pyron, and for that matter, what is Pyron?

d3v · January 21

Raging Ghost, post: 7919666, member: 30904 wrote:

Do I take for granted that it's because of his Akuma-like flash step/dash among other things?

Anyway, if I am to use Demitri (assuming I ever want to get this game), what I need to know?

Also, he's ranked in accordance to which tier list?

Based on matchup charts from Japan off course.

FLESHPOUNDER · January 21

Raging Ghost, post: 7919666, member: 30904 wrote:

Do I take for granted that it's because of his Akuma-like flash step/dash among other things?

Anyway, if I am to use Demitri (assuming I ever want to get this game), what I need to know?

Also, he's ranked in accordance to which tier list?

http://www.dustloop.com/forums/showthread.php?12018-VS-Demitri-Dracula

skip post 2 til later

and http://wiki.mizuumi.net/w/Vampire_Savior/Demitri

Subjective · January 21

Pumped to watch North America play Darkstalkers but not really interested to play it myself. Already too many games on the go

Noble Cactus · January 26

This week's GGPO VSav tournament starts in about 40 minutes. In the meantime, hang out and chill to fighting game soundtracks

http://www.twitch.tv/rotanibor

assid, post: 7921639, member: 83381 wrote:

Looking to get into Darkstalkers since I'm ass at Tekken and want a secondary game. How is Pyron, and for that matter, what is Pyron?

Pyron's an alien who's transcended to the level of a cosmic being and now consumes planets and fights other supernatural beings in his spare time.

He's ranked high in Night Warriors/Hunter, but in VSav2 he's ranked low because his tools are designed weirdly (i.e., his throw does absurdly low damage while not creating any setups) and a lot of characters have easy ways around what he can do. I'll let a specialist explain in more detail.

Keepin'em Honest · January 27

Weird question, while were on the subject of VSav2, what was the point of those games (including VH2)? What was Cap trying to do, were they just experimenting?

jedpossum · January 27

Savior 2 and Hunter 2 was quick cash grabs also a different team developed them.

felineki · January 27

I don't think anyone really knows the whole story, but one rumor I've heard repeated is that part of the motivation was the management wanting to use up a lot of excess CPS2 boards the company had lying around. The reason it's 2 separate games is that they wanted to bring back the characters who were cut during the jump from Hunter to Savior, but the CPS2 board doesn't have enough ROM capacity to hold the graphics for all 18 characters on one board (which is why they were cut in the first place). There was only like 3 months between the releases of Savior and VS2/VH2, so it was done in a hurry. Supposedly the initial reaction to Savior was also pretty mixed, so maybe they felt they had to do some sort of update to try and regain players' favor. Although of course it backfired and VS2/VH2 died instantly while Savior still gets played regularly today.

petran79 · January 27

they also removed the original endings in VS2, probably to save space. all characters have the same ending

since the console releases later added all characters and you could play all three games at once, no one bothered with the arcades anymore.

jedpossum · January 27

You consider EX edition and Chronicle a port, lmao.

d3v · January 28

Uhh... I'd fathom that the arcade versions still get more play to this day than any of the console ports.

felineki · January 28

Yeah, particularly since the series is most popular in Japan, where arcade tends to be the standard. And Chronicle was disliked because of it's strange inaccurate mashup nature.

petran79 · January 28

jedpossum, post: 7943045, member: 17765 wrote:

You consider EX edition and Chronicle a port, lmao.

I meant outside Japan where the sequels were not released. they preferred to cash from the console ports, based on the success of the original

petran79 · January 28

jedpossum, post: 7943045, member: 17765 wrote:

You consider EX edition and Chronicle a port, lmao.

I meant outside Japan where the sequels were not released. they preferred to cash from the console ports, based on the success of the original

jedpossum · January 28

petran79, post: 7945791, member: 51716 wrote:

I meant outside Japan where the sequels were not released. they preferred to cash from the console ports, based on the success of the original

I wasn't talking about Japan like Felineki and d3v were.
Chronicle sucks none of the characters really play like the older versions. The older characters in HSF2 at least the differences were minor with the them enough to not notice a difference for awhile, but in Chronicle it was outright different.

Vsav EX Edition the PS1 version has different hitboxes, choppy animation which causes different frame data, different turbo speeds(frameskip), and the choice to play as the vsav2 versions how is it considered a port when even the title says it isn't?

Vampire: Darkstalkers Collection(PS2) wasn't released outside of Japan so only a few fans got it stateside.

Keepin'em Honest · January 28

jedpossum, post: 7941845, member: 17765 wrote:

Savior 2 and Hunter 2 was quick cash grabs also a different team developed them.

I wouldn't put it past'em, to be honest.

felineki, post: 7941862, member: 3754 wrote:

I don't think anyone really knows the whole story, but one rumor I've heard repeated is that part of the motivation was the management wanting to use up a lot of excess CPS2 boards the company had lying around. The reason it's 2 separate games is that they wanted to bring back the characters who were cut during the jump from Hunter to Savior, but the CPS2 board doesn't have enough ROM capacity to hold the graphics for all 18 characters on one board (which is why they were cut in the first place). There was only like 3 months between the releases of Savior and VS2/VH2, so it was done in a hurry. Supposedly the initial reaction to Savior was also pretty mixed, so maybe they felt they had to do some sort of update to try and regain players' favor. Although of course it backfired and VS2/VH2 died instantly while Savior still gets played regularly today.

Damn shame they didn't try this on the CPSIII.

The Martian · January 29

SO excited for this shit. Looks like I'll need to get some skills on GGPO before this comes out.

I know little about this game in terms of its mechanics...so could someone throw a tier list my way? From what I've seen, Talbain seems like he'd be pretty far up there.

d3v · January 30

Talbain is the Ken of this game. You're gonna see every furry and their mother picking him up on day one.

DiscoShark · January 30

d3v, post: 7952578, member: 9887 wrote:

Talbain is the Ken of this game. You're gonna see every furry and their mother picking him up on day one.

I'd have thought we'd see more Demitri frankly. He's got the projectile and "seemingly" difficult to punish DP right there waiting for him, on top of being a pretty badass character.

The Martian, post: 7951528, member: 80076 wrote:

SO excited for this shit. Looks like I'll need to get some skills on GGPO before this comes out.

I know little about this game in terms of its mechanics...so could someone throw a tier list my way? From what I've seen, Talbain seems like he'd be pretty far up there.

Quoting from Mizuumi's phenomenal Vampire Savior section :
http://wiki.mizuumi.net/w/Vampire_Savior/FAQ
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Tiers plz.

[SIZE=13px]The tiers are rather subjective and tend to shift around a bit. Fortunately the game is really quite balanced (for a Capcom game) and there isn't much of a difference in strength between the top/mid/bottom tiers. There are very few 8-2 matchups and there are no 9-1 matchups. Most matchups are close to even.

Top- Sasquatch, Zabel, Q-Bee, Gallon, Bulleta.
Mid- Felicia, Bishamon, Demitri, Aulbath, Lei-Lei.
Low- Jedah, Lillith, Morrigan, Victor, Anakaris.

[/SIZE]

SpaceOutNightmare · January 30

Still don't agree that Bulleta is top, same with Gallon.

jedpossum · January 30

Then you haven't played the game enough or you play Gallon.

Most recent match up chart pay attention to the values not where the character is located (Lilith and Demitri are tied).
That tier list(on mizuumi) is grouping them together being listed first doesn't mean they're stronger.

SpaceOutNightmare · January 30

I really feel like the top are Sas,Zab, and B.

But I DO need to play more.

SuperFreak · January 31

Tiers are not too big of a deal in this game unless you use victor and of course anak

DiscoShark, post: 7954417, member: 16247 wrote:

I'd have thought we'd see more Demitri frankly. He's got the projectile and "seemingly" difficult to punish DP right there waiting for him, on top of being a pretty badass character.

people will always flock to 'ryu' of the game. morrigan will be very popular also, partly due to her success in mvc3.

over time tho, i feel that bbhood, qbee and felicia will become the most used characters.

bbhood because of sako, and she is a nightmare to fight if ur not good at push blocking. qbee for high/low mixups plus being hard as fuck to meaty. felicia cause of overall very solid normals, fast jump and high/low mixup.

Negative-Zer0 · January 31

who is omgwtflol? only person on the client i haven't beaten once ever.

DiscoShark · January 31

Negative-Zer0, post: 7956573, member: 19609 wrote:

who is omgwtflol? only person on the client i haven't beaten once ever.

She owns my soul. I've gone 0-55 against her twice now.

petran79 · January 31

SuperFreak, post: 7956556, member: 1216 wrote:

Tiers are not too big of a deal in this game unless you use victor and of course anak

people will always flock to 'ryu' of the game. morrigan will be very popular also, partly due to her success in mvc3.

over time tho, i feel that bbhood, qbee and felicia will become the most used characters.

bbhood because of sako, and she is a nightmare to fight if ur not good at push blocking. qbee for high/low mixups plus being hard as fuck to meaty. felicia cause of overall very solid normals, fast jump and high/low mixup.

Morrigan is one of the hardest characters to play efficiently. I doubt many will choose her, unless they are fast and precise enough to pull DI combos. But then, they'd use that skill to fare better with stronger characters.

DARKSTALKERS RESURRECTION coming to XBLA and PSN

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