its been in development since 2021 i think late 2025 or 2026 tbh

@@vj7248 I would prefer KBD to stay while creating a fluid/realistic animation for it, but I get your point.

@ComboDamageTV Tekken 4 is an example of that, they went full Virtua Fighter and went with fluid animation and it does look visually amazing ... but it got a MASSIVE backlash for being a 'slow boring game'. they since have stuck to the gamey animations, as thats what the player base wants. and i dont see this necessarily as a bad thing.... the issue is more that Virtua Fighter went missing for a decade. 💀

@@vj7248 I dont think looking cool is why T4 failed. Plenty of cool looking games fail. A game has to be fun first, and the gameplay changes are ultimately what led to that. Like I stated in the video, this wont single-handedly save VF, but as someone who always felt like the series was way too vanilla, I'm glad its happening.

I think it depends. If you use realistic animations its probably way easier to read and predict movement. It wouldn't work for a game like Tekken or SF I think because its too over the top with its animations which are obviously very unrealistic in nature (most of the time). You realy have to omit things like particle/hit effects when going for this approach. I think it could work realy well but ofcourse no way to be sure about it until we play it :) There needs to be an evolution at some point.. and being locked in Ragearts or super animations got boring super fast.

Virtua Fighter (Sega) has always been the one major flagship 3D Fighter of the genre that really innovates and revolutionises the genre more than the others, this is why Sega doesn't usually just churn out a brand new Virtua Fighter every couple of years like Namco does with Tekken or Tecmo with Dead Or Alive, but instead likes to keep it as their big main generational IP, they will usually do a brand new Virtua Fighter only when the technology is right, but there used to be less of a gap between installments of the VF series in the 90s because technology was moving at a much faster pace then and Sega was lightyears ahead of the console scene in the arcade scene when arcade technology was far more advanced, and it made sense then because Sega always used a new VF as a key part of the marketing of its latest home console, Virtua Fighter 2 on the Sega Saturn was a massive achievement and huge success in the East and that alone kept the Saturn ahead for years.

@@majortom331 so much this.

The video suggests they might be doing this. Only maybe is akira's dodge of the leading much which could feasibly be a crouch. Later you can see Stella lift her foot in response to a low from Akira which would require crouch block in other games.

A leaked screenshot that's been going around indicates that it will.

lol I commented that before finishing the video. Brilliant minds think alike.

Don't worry, the stage transitions will happen now, especially seeing the current consoles have basically been geared towards super fast loading times with the SSDs and configuration they have inside. The fighting renaissance begins when VF6 is released, it is going to redefine the genre once again. SEGA haven't done this since Virtua Fighter 3 in my opinion, which still remains my favourite Virtua Fighter game of all time to this day.