BlazBlue Continuum Shift Extend - still too good for EVO.

vagrant_winds

Because story~
And so they could have tri-personalities~
And make fun of every magical girl trope~

Houn

So, I skipped CS, and from reading this thread, I should wait for BB3.

Is this an accurate statement?

Cantido

Houn wrote:

So, I skipped CS, and from reading this thread, I should wait for BB3.

Is this an accurate statement?

If you haven't played CS at all, I wouldn't go that far. CS is light years ahead of the original BlazBlue, and CS Extend is CS with all the nice extensions and DLC already on the disc. By skipping straight to CS Extend, you'll get the more out of CS than someone who bought CS at it's release last year.

vagrant_winds

Why would you skip the best version so far of the best 2d fighter this gen?
(Edit: Until Skullgirls comes out.)

Houn

Because everyone in this thread is already saying how they can't wait for BB3. If people are saying that already...

vagrant_winds

Houn wrote: »

Because everyone in this thread is already saying how they can't wait for BB3. If people are saying that already...

Story reasons and characters guaranteed to be in the next one man. We are already hype~.

Cantido

All I want for BB3 is for Daisuke to up the music production and find a drummer.

Riokenn

Cantido wrote: »

Houn wrote:

So, I skipped CS, and from reading this thread, I should wait for BB3.

Is this an accurate statement?

If you haven't played CS at all, I wouldn't go that far. CS is light years ahead of the original BlazBlue, and CS Extend is CS with all the nice extensions and DLC already on the disc. By skipping straight to CS Extend, you'll get the more out of CS than someone who bought CS at it's release last year.

You sure? I really Fucking loved CT.

Regardless think of CS extend as street fighter arcade edition. Because they will make the inevitable STV.

One question. Is CS a continuation story wise of CT. Cause when i was playing arcade mode on CSex with Noel I was asking myself is she chasing Ice guy again? Or is this a mashup of the whole story?

Cantido

Riokenn wrote:

You sure? I really Fucking loved CT.

Regardless think of CS extend as street fighter arcade edition. Because they will make the inevitable STV.

One question. Is CS a continuation story wise of CT. Cause when i was playing arcade mode on CSex with Noel I was asking myself is she chasing Ice guy again? Or is this a mashup of the whole story?

CS is a continuation. It follows the events immediately after Noel saves Ragna and Hazama reveals he's a psycho. In fact, in Extend you can play a brief recap story mode, given it's own chapter, and given a little more sense. The story moves forward a lot. Bad characters become good, good characters become bad, stuff actually happens and we're given a new bad guy at the end. It's nothing like Guilty Gear, in which ten years have passed and nobody knows who the villain is or what the conflict is.

Skipping Extend is definitely a bad move.

Grimthwacker

vagrant_winds wrote: »

Because story~
And so they could have tri-personalities~
And make fun of every magical girl trope~

We already have Rachel for pseudo-loliness, though! And besides, there's no law that states "magical girls" have to be prepubescent! Suitably old, busty Trinity would be just fine!

. . . Whatever. I always have Noel and Makoto to comfort me. . .

Spoiler:

<3

AuburnTiger

I gotta say, I'm finding this incredibly difficult to adjust to after only playing Capcom 2d fighters in the past. It's just a lot to wrap my head around. I'm going to stick with it, though.

Cantido

AuburnTiger wrote:

I gotta say, I'm finding this incredibly difficult to adjust to after only playing Capcom 2d fighters in the past. It's just a lot to wrap my head around. I'm going to stick with it, though.

* Don't mash buttons, teching (ukemi) has special rules that make you way more vulnerable than rolling in MvC and Guilty Gear.
* Go to Challenge Mode to learn fancy combos, and Tutorial Mode to learn character specific footsies (called Spacing in BlazBlue.) Training is just generic Training.

AshtonDragon

AuburnTiger wrote:

I gotta say, I'm finding this incredibly difficult to adjust to after only playing Capcom 2d fighters in the past. It's just a lot to wrap my head around. I'm going to stick with it, though.

Glad to hear you're sticking with it. The game can be hard to get into if you haven't played anything like it before, but it's actually not that hard to play once you know what's going on and get used to the general timing of things. Don't worry about learning every little thing for now and try to focus on figuring out how your character plays, and getting down some basic combos. Just hitting a reliable combo off each situation (a throw, an air throw, a regular hit midscreen, a hit in the corner, etc) is more important than getting the maximum possible damage off anything.

Dragkonias

Also. One thing that I've found people who maybe only played something like Street Fighter have to get used to is.

In SF you don't want to jump much.

In BB, you want to be jumping a lot.

Big Red Tie

learning good block strings is reallly important too, since doing a bnb on someone blocking is going to get you bodied.

then learning how any part of the blockstring goes into your bnb and reacting on hit

AuburnTiger

How do I change the announcer's voice?

cj iwakura

In system options. You'll have to purchase the new one from the gallery first.
(Buy Jin B. Thank me later.)

cj iwakura

blaze_zero wrote: »

Who is the third girl? Not Nine or Trinity.

I saw that she was on a bunch of stuff in the gallery.

Celica, Nine's sister. Terumi murdered her when he kidnapped Saya. She ran the church that her, Jin, and Ragna stayed at.

Dragkonias

Wait...do they ever explain why the heroes have lived such a long time.

I mean I reasoned Hakumen, Terumi and Valk...not so sure about the others.

yalborap

They're...Just that awesome?

SightTDW

Whoa, story mode is NOT what I expected. Its pretty awesome so far, but I'm wishing I played CT first. The summary is....acceptable but a bit confusing so far.

I wish I could tell what characters were going to be used as it goes, since I don't actually know how to play any of them and could use some prep time.

Pandaryu

The story would probably be pretty confusing even if you played through CT. It's all pretty convoluted, with many angles to it. I know I was confused. It's all enjoyable because of the characters though.

I heard CT's story mode was included in Extend. Is this not true?

BBRevo US Qualifiers really got me into the BB mood.

Cantido

Dragkonias wrote:

Wait...do they ever explain why the heroes have lived such a long time.

I mean I reasoned Hakumen, Terumi and Valk...not so sure about the others.

Spoiler:

The one Hero even coming close to being human is Hakumen. Jubei is a cat youkai, Valk is a werewolf, Nine is a witch, Plat and Terumi are some magical...thing.

SightTDW wrote:

Whoa, story mode is NOT what I expected. Its pretty awesome so far, but I'm wishing I played CT first. The summary is....acceptable but a bit confusing so far.

I wish I could tell what characters were going to be used as it goes, since I don't actually know how to play any of them and could use some prep time.

By choosing Calamity Trigger, you are getting the gist of the first story.

Spoiler:

The beginning of Calamity Trigger in Extend depicts the original arcade ending for Rangna, and the cause of the endless time loop. Rachel has watched Nu kick the shit out of Ragna every 200 years over and over, merge with him and turn into the Black Beast, go back 200 years and fuck up the earth with Ragna trapped inside it, creating the world as it is. The rest is how Noel, of all people, breaks the cycle.

It's a shame the majority of Teach Me Miss Litchi is gone, unless I'm missing something. It would teach you about the setting and lore and was goddamn hilarious.

Big Red Tie

it's on YouTube I think

Grimthwacker

Whoo! Got this in the mail today, and I'mma fire it in later. I'll probably start with Noel and Ragna to get warmed back up, then maybe mess around with Makoto to see how she plays.

Big Red Tie

oh yeah apparently you unlock colors and announcers in abyss mode

Cantido

Big Red Tie wrote: »

it's on YouTube I think

Oh yeah, new players neeeeeeed to youtube all the Teach Me Miss Litchi clips for lore and comedy gold.

Grimthwacker

Cantido wrote: »

Oh yeah, new players neeeeeeed to youtube all the Teach Me Miss Litchi clips for lore and comedy gold.

ITDOESN'TMATTERITDOSEN'TMATTERITDOSEN'TMATTER!!!! <3 Christina V. so much.

Having tried Makoto's first Challenge, I have to say I like her style - something of a technical brawler, with enough to throw opponents off guard when you need to. I'll have to practice inputting movements with the control stick, since my D-pad is pretty well worn after playing stuff like Hard Corps: Uprising.

Also, Rachel's tutorial instructions are adorably rage-inducing.

Cantido

Kokonoe, dwelling on rocket arms on Tager wrote:

I was going to put one on your chest, or on your [*GIGANTIC TAGER*]

Grimthwacker

Okay, how the hell do you get the credit for the Tutorial's Fatal Counter lesson? I can't for the life of me get the timing down correctly, either because the button presses don't register, or because the dummy keeps recovering before I can get the hits in. It's driving me nuts.

Gaming-Freak

So... I gotta ask... are Ragna and Rachel like... into each other? I mean, I it kinda hinted a little bit in Ragna's back-story, but I remember one scene where Ragna almost lets it slip that he's into "little girls".

blaze_zero

Grimthwacker wrote: »

Okay, how the hell do you get the credit for the Tutorial's Fatal Counter lesson? I can't for the life of me get the timing down correctly, either because the button presses don't register, or because the dummy keeps recovering before I can get the hits in. It's driving me nuts.

Where is this at? In the Tutorial section or her trial section?

Cantido

That's kinda unkown right now. Both Noel and Rachel have been hinted at for Ragna. Nu/Lambda goes without saying. Ragna is a chick magnet.

blaze_zero

Luna/Ragna is the obvious pairing.

Cantido

I was kinda hoping Nu/Lambda would calm down for Ragna

blaze_zero

Well, when you do Lambda's arcade mode, she shows remnants of Nu's personality when she beats Ragna.

Grimthwacker

blaze_zero wrote: »

Grimthwacker wrote: »

Okay, how the hell do you get the credit for the Tutorial's Fatal Counter lesson? I can't for the life of me get the timing down correctly, either because the button presses don't register, or because the dummy keeps recovering before I can get the hits in. It's driving me nuts.

Where is this at? In the Tutorial section or her trial section?

The Tutorial mode. The one where you have to hit Ragna's neutral C, 6C, Dash Cancel into neutral D three times. Either the input doesn't register half the time, or the dummy recovers too quickly.

Also GODDAMN is Boss Hazama in Arcade mode a pain. Not even Nu in the original was this obnoxious to deal with. I'll be bumping the Arcade down to Easy for convenience's sake.

blaze_zero

You have to dash cancel each of the 5D's on the second hit and do the next 5D as soon as you can.
I was basically just mashing it, honestly.
DASHDASHDASH5D5D5DDASHDASHDASH

Cantido

blaze_zero wrote:

Well, when you do Lambda's arcade mode, she shows remnants of Nu's personality when she beats Ragna.

Oh, yes I remember that. Then there's the conclusion of CS's story

blaze_zero

Yeah, kind of forgot about that. I have to do the True End again to get the achievement for this game, though, so I'll get a refresher on what happens.