When Blazblue -Calamity Trigger- (the game you are reviewing) came out, the only other 720p fighters out there were KOF12 and SF4. That is what I mean. There was also Battle Fantasia (whose location test I covered
here, by the way), which was the first 720p fighter out of the gate, but though I have heard a few good things about its system -- i.e. that it is an old school, SF-style of fighter, but in a
good way -- it's not the kind of title to get anyone too excited. Though seeing how underwhelming the other two turned out, I am actually considering spending some serious time with it at some point. Then again I find its art direction rather bleh, so I don't know.
But anyway, this is what I mean. On top of the fact that...
Lord Knight wrote:Tekken, Virtua Fighter, Soul Calibur, Melty Blood, Guilty Gear, Persona 4 Arena, Under Night In-Birth, Marvel vs Capcom 3, Mortal Kombat 9
... I will do my best to ignore the fact that half the games on your list BELONG TO AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT GENRE THAN THE ONE WE ARE TALKING ABOUT YOU GODDAMN FUCKIN' DUMBASS, while Guilty Gear and Melty Blood do not have 720p versions (if you don't know what 720p is Google it), and I'd be surprised if P4 were not a quick license cash-in either. So you basically only have KOF13, MVC3 and Under Night, and the latter is not even properly out yet.
Anyway, you seem to have serious issues when it comes to evaluating games: the rating scale issue we already discussed, the genre issue evident in your latest post, and the temporal issue I sort of just explained to you: that you cannot expect a game released nearly half a decade ago to measure up to current standards -- though of course
some of them might do so, or even
exceed current standatds, this is not the normal situation, nor is it the expected one. In every review you have to take into account the historical angle, to at least some extent, and not go around slamming, say, 1960s sports cars because they are slower THAN THE CARS WHOSE CREATION THEY INSPIRED -- and if you yourself are incapable of doing this, then I will do my best to modify your texts to take this into account.
Again, all this doesn't mean that in a review of an older game you shouldn't take into account newer ones -- on the contrary, that's something you
should do (IF you can do it, that is, which in the case of Under Night, for example, would be a little hard since you haven't even played it). But always keeping in mind the circumstances in which the game was created, and never having unreasonable demands on it and its developers.
In short: is there, to your knowledge, a better 720p fighter currently out there than the Blazblue series?
(P.S. Don't answer this before you look up what 720p means. And
yes, for fuck's sakes, I mean TWO-DIMENSIONAL fighter FOR CRYING OUT LOUD.)