What's with the hate?

[Crainex Aranoxia]

I don't get it, why are there so many BlazBlue fans that are beyond butthurt?
You guys do realize that if this didn't exist the next fighting game wouldn't come any sooner.
This isn't taking any budget or resources from the mainline fighting game, if anything this gives them more budget because they selling the IP rights to make other games.
Which they can put into making the next mainline BlazBlue.

As for the game, from the previews(I don't have access to the demo if there is one) it looks fun, I'll give it a shot

[LilSoonerFanInMO]

It's the same reason why BBTAG had its case in question

It's not a sequel to CF, so why should they bother?

[Mrpotatohead8696]

People want what they want, they are used to this being a fighting game, and i don't blame them, but it's nice when a company can have the freedom to try something different, no matter the consequences. I'm for one, am ready for this game, I just hope people can give this a fair chance just to support the company at least.

[LilSoonerFanInMO]

Originally posted by Mrpotatohead8696:

People want what they want, they are used to this being a fighting game, and i don't blame them, but it's nice when a company can have the freedom to try something different, no matter the consequences. I'm for one, am ready for this game, I just hope people can give this a fair chance just to support the company at least.

The game just looks like fun, and honestly looks like how you'd expect a lot of those fan made sprite animated fights from One Minute Melee and the like

[Mikey]

Originally posted by Qrainex Aranoxia:

You guys do realize that the next fighting game wouldn't come any sooner if this didn't exist.

This isn't true, to be honest. BlazBlue has had spin-offs before that existed alongside the main entries, but it still brings up the point that people would rather have another BlazBlue fighting game as opposed to another BlazBlue Spin-off (of which the last 3 were mobile games - Dark War, RR, and now Entropy Effect), despite the optimism for this title (looking forward to giving Entropy Effect a try). Before that was Cross Tag Battle, a spin-off fighting game with an unconventional battle system as opposed to the main series BlazBlue battle system.

The current reasoning we have available as to why BlazBlue is in its current state of spin-offs and not seeing another fighter yet is because the CEO of the company admitted they do not want the franchise to keep clashing with the Guilty Gear franchise on the same Fighting Game genre market, and they did not want to make a new BlazBlue fighter simultaneously that would compete against Guilty Gear Strive. (They did mention a possibility for a new BlazBlue fighter after support for Strive has ended, but they just launched a Season 3 up until 2024/2025).

https://www.ign.com/articles/arc-system-works-ceo-doesnt-want-guilty-gear-and-blazblue-to-compete-with-each-other
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Arc System Works let Mori create BlazBlue to take Guilty Gear's place temporarily as a spiritual successor because, at one point: They actually lost the rights of the Guilty Gear franchise to Sammy Corporation until after SEGA merged with Sammy in 2011, where they were able to acquire it back. At that time, from the only information we had available to the public, the BlazBlue games are recorded to have sold more than Guilty Gear (even after XRD, which is hard to believe). Guilty Gear's success really didn't come until Strive (which again is hard to believe considering how well R+ and XRD REV (2) turned out), so they had to either temporarily halt the BlazBlue series or find a new genre for BlazBlue to fit in (hence all the spin-offs) while focusing the majority of their efforts to ensure Guilty Gear Strive succeeds (which in the end, it did. The series has sold over a million units and has over 2.5 million players). If they made a BlazBlue game now with the 3D Strive treatment, it would clash with Guilty Gear again in the market affecting the sales of Season 3 (and 4) and sales for new customers who haven't picked up Strive yet.

So the possibility of a new BlazBlue fighting game down the road is not completely gone. It's just not this year or the next. They're focusing on Strive now while letting 91Act experiment with the franchise via RR and Entropy Effect. Granblue Fantasy Versus and FighterZ are different cases that can co-exist because they are from companies that commissioned them (whereas BlazBlue and Guilty Gear are Arc System Work's IPs they have to put their own resources into).

[PlusUltra]

thats true i bought this game blindly for pure aesthetics and it looks cool then i dug up the community tab and the real fans are deep in the lore and damn love the passion of the fans tho. but will still try it out

[Outsider]

Sits at very positive, what hate?
I'm thinking if I should bite the bullet here or not.

[Rambley The Raccoon]

Personally it's not related to Blazblue at all aside from the character's. The game's fun, but people should be expected what they're going into.

[RadioMars]

Honestly I'd be looking forward for it if there was no robot ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. I want to play as actual characters even if the story is bonkers. The robot garbage I just don't dig. It feels like it's a diferent game with BB characters modded into it.

[Crainex Aranoxia]

Originally posted by Outsider:

Sits at very positive, what hate?
I'm thinking if I should bite the bullet here or not.

I posted this before the reviews/release date, I've just seen 3 posts in a row talking about how "why does this company even get the licence to do this", "why bother with this", "why isn't this a fighting game"
Glad to see most people enjoy it, I was worried that it will get review bombed for it instead of if the game is good as it is.

[GoodGodISuck]

Originally posted by Mikey:

Originally posted by Qrainex Aranoxia:

You guys do realize that the next fighting game wouldn't come any sooner if this didn't exist.

This isn't true, to be honest. BlazBlue has had spin-offs before that existed alongside the main entries, but it still brings up the point that people would rather have another BlazBlue fighting game as opposed to another BlazBlue Spin-off (of which the last 3 were mobile games - Dark War, RR, and now Entropy Effect), despite the optimism for this title (looking forward to giving Entropy Effect a try). Before that was Cross Tag Battle, a spin-off fighting game with an unconventional battle system as opposed to the main series BlazBlue battle system.

The current reasoning we have available as to why BlazBlue is in its current state of spin-offs and not seeing another fighter yet is because the CEO of the company admitted they do not want the franchise to keep clashing with the Guilty Gear franchise on the same Fighting Game genre market, and they did not want to make a new BlazBlue fighter simultaneously that would compete against Guilty Gear Strive. (They did mention a possibility for a new BlazBlue fighter after support for Strive has ended, but they just launched a Season 3 up until 2024/2025).

https://www.ign.com/articles/arc-system-works-ceo-doesnt-want-guilty-gear-and-blazblue-to-compete-with-each-other
___________________________________

Arc System Works let Mori create BlazBlue to take Guilty Gear's place temporarily as a spiritual successor because, at one point: They actually lost the rights of the Guilty Gear franchise to Sammy Corporation until after SEGA merged with Sammy in 2011, where they were able to acquire it back. At that time, from the only information we had available to the public, the BlazBlue games are recorded to have sold more than Guilty Gear (even after XRD, which is hard to believe). Guilty Gear's success really didn't come until Strive (which again is hard to believe considering how well R+ and XRD REV (2) turned out), so they had to either temporarily halt the BlazBlue series or find a new genre for BlazBlue to fit in (hence all the spin-offs) while focusing the majority of their efforts to ensure Guilty Gear Strive succeeds (which in the end, it did. The series has sold over a million units and has over 2.5 million players). If they made a BlazBlue game now with the 3D Strive treatment, it would clash with Guilty Gear again in the market affecting the sales of Season 3 (and 4) and sales for new customers who haven't picked up Strive yet.

So the possibility of a new BlazBlue fighting game down the road is not completely gone. It's just not this year or the next. They're focusing on Strive now while letting 91Act experiment with the franchise via RR and Entropy Effect. Granblue Fantasy Versus and FighterZ are different cases that can co-exist because they are from companies that commissioned them (whereas BlazBlue and Guilty Gear are Arc System Work's IPs they have to put their own resources into).

this is on mobile?

[Red]

Blazblue is DONE, time to move on. This and BBTAG are far more than what BB fans were supposed to get to begin with Let it go and let people enjoy this badass roguelike game