So there was this post on /fgg/ about the direction the new Guilty Gear is taking. Of course take it with a grain of salt since it's still a Yas Forums rumor, but it seems very likely to be the case.
> Daisuke Ishitawari hasn't actually directed a Guilty Gear game in years. His role is, to make a comparison, like Kaname Fujioka (Monster Hunter creator) to MH:W. He sets the tone and assures that everything fits the vision of the series, but he's not the actual person behind everything. The director of Xrd is a different person, and the director of Strive is a new person altogether;
>Lots of the people who worked on Xrd aren't working on Strive, and many of them are newcomers to the whole industry. This is why they seem like they're "forgetting" things about the past project. It's not surprising that the only thing that is actually good about Strive, its visuals, is due to the fact the art director is the same from Xrd;
>Pachi, the battle planner behind Xrd, isn't working on Strive and is working on GBVS instead;
>Lots of parallels with Street Fighter V come with a good reason. Both the director of SFV (Takayuki Nakayama) and the actual director of Strive don't really have a big resume and they're both at their first directing a fighting game title, or a videogame title in general;
>Many people within ASW, including Ishitawari himself, deeply down know that things aren't really looking favourable due to this direction they're taking with Strive, and that's why they've said they may consider keep pushing for Xrd along with Strive. Strive wasn't even going to be an actual successor to Xrd, but rather a soft-reboot (justified by the different people behind the game), but ultimately decided to make it a sequel in order to maybe keep the enthusiasm;
The game look bad and empty it will be the final hit that will kill fighting games for ever
Gabriel King
Definitely 100% bullshit.
Aaron Butler
I don't know, some of the details are legit, like the fact about Strive real director and Pachi not coming back as a battle planner.
Henry Ross
Most of the those things are already confirmed
Lucas Reyes
BLAZING
Ethan Phillips
Almost everything in here was already confirmed, and Daisuke is the director as stated in numerous interviews. There is no reason for him to lie.
Jordan Green
Nice headcanon. Strivehater.
Dylan Carter
Xrd is trash too though. They should be taking notes from XX, not Xrd.
Grayson Myers
>and Daisuke is the director He's the executive director, which means he's mostly involved in the generic perspective of things. The actual director is that other guy you can spot in the Strive promo event they had.
Jordan Rivera
>>Lots of the people who worked on Xrd aren't working on Strive, and many of them are newcomers to the whole industry. This is why they seem like they're "forgetting" things about the past project. It's not surprising that the only thing that is actually good about Strive, its visuals, is due to the fact the art director is the same from Xrd; >>Pachi, the battle planner behind Xrd, isn't working on Strive and is working on GBVS instead; so that's why may is bare bones compared to everyone else.
GGfags are mentally ill, news at 11. Even though I think they ruined the few good designs GG had, I kind of like Faust's new design but I hope his old one is an alt costume, even if I'm not getting the game.
Robert Campbell
>have to concoct massive conspiracy theories just to justify why they don't like it But most of these things are already confirmed.
Jordan Clark
>Many people within ASW, including Ishitawari himself, deeply down know that things aren't really looking favourable due to this direction they're taking with Strive, and that's why they've said they may consider keep pushing for Xrd along with Strive. Strive wasn't even going to be an actual successor to Xrd, but rather a soft-reboot (justified by the different people behind the game), but ultimately decided to make it a sequel in order to maybe keep the enthusiasm; Makes absolutely zero sense, you idiot. No matter how much the underlying finer gameplay systems change, Strive is still a 2D fighter with a ton in common with previous Guilty Gear 2D fighters; why would anyone have ever thought it would be a good idea to make a subseries of ever-so-slightly-different 2D fighters as a reboot within the same IP while still supporting the 'original'/preceding one? There are a couple GG spinoffs, but they still exist within the same singular franchise.
Angel Lopez
>only thing that is actually good about Strive, its visuals Yeah when you're not seeing the retarded massive combo number take up half the screen or happen to look at the disgusting UI.
Elijah Price
There are articles explicitly stating that Daisuke wasn't sure if the new GG should've been a sequel or a reboot. That's why they revealed the "Strive" sub-title only later on.
Asher Phillips
i dont believe it based on the first line. daisuke literally does like 10 different roles for guilty gear games usually, so theres no way hes just sitting back and letting someone else do everything.
Jayden Mitchell
seems like pretty reasonable conjecture
Robert Jackson
"Visuals" in the sense of character animations, background visuals, etc.
Elijah Howard
He's not saying that Daisuke doesn't do anything, he just says that he's not the actual director of the game, and he hasn't been so in many years, even for Xrd.
Samuel Davis
Xrd was the best GG so far XX looks great but plays like shit, air combos are finicky because it takes longer for you to be able to attack after jumping, every move either groundbounces or wallbounces, roman cancels can only be used during specific frames of specific moves
Joshua Sanders
Indecision about the subtitle just makes it sound like Ishiwatari knows it would have been bad for marketing to name it something like Xrth. "Reboot" kinda implies a complete reimagining of both gameplay (which isn't the case) and story canon (which isn't the case).
Dominic Davis
>Pachi, the battle planner behind Xrd, isn't working on Strive and is working on GBVS instead WeW That explains why some characters in GBVS was made weak on purpose.
Jonathan Hughes
It did plenty better than XX. They need to take notes from both.
Isaac Scott
It is. They're dumbing it down and homogenizing the characters so it's more like Tekken
Aaron Gray
I get so tried if the doomsayer posting
Carter Thompson
Was it like this for Xrd as well? This is just annoying.
Jose Campbell
Game looks great. The horizontal speed and carry remind me of Vampire Savior.
Aiden Johnson
Nobody's stopping you from paying attention to it, the hell
Nolan Reed
It's pretty obvious that the people behind Strive are new to the series. This has Street Fighter V-esque written all over it. It's really a shame because there's no good-looking 2D fighter out now with deep gameplay and good netcode.
Ayden Richardson
It happens everytime a new title from a longrunning fighting game series is announced. Give it a year and all of a sudden everyone will love Strive.
Parker Powell
>/fgg/ leaks So someone's ass?
Owen Lopez
man what a coincidence. couldn't be because everyone clever enough to realise that the game is bad leaves. knowing there is better games out there and their time is wasted crying about it?
Thomas Bell
Its a comolete retread of 2013, yes. All the AC purists who shat in the game for YRC
Nathaniel Phillips
Yes because a literal nobody in Yas Forums says its bad when Summit, FAB, Roi says its good?
