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Questions about Samurai Showdown 5 Special and 6

Started by Cibernetico, December 12, 2010, 06:03:38 AM

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Cibernetico

I never got the chance to play Samurai Showdown 5 Special and was thinking of picking it up. But I recently found out that a Samurai Showdown 6 was released as well.

Which one should I pick up? And if anyone knows, which is the preferred game? Also, how do these two stack up to the popularity of the first four games?

Zabel

5SP is considered the best in the series. SamSho 6 is like Alpha 3 in a sense, it includes pretty much everyone from the series and throws in a few different grooves. 5SP is pretty balanced if you care about that and the cast is diverse and pretty fun, also usually has a decent amount of people in the room on GGPO.

sibarraz

I always thought that universally SS2 was considered the best in the series while ss5sp was a game that nobody gave a crap


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solidshark

Quote from: sibarraz on December 12, 2010, 02:48:57 PM
I always thought that universally SS2 was considered the best in the series while ss5sp was a game that nobody gave a crap

SS2 for a lot of people was like SFII with weapons. Personally SS4 was maybe the best in the series; the gameplay and especially presentation (stages, music), stuck out more than most fighting games to me in that one.


Quote from: Cibernetico on December 12, 2010, 06:03:38 AM
I never got the chance to play Samurai Showdown 5 Special and was thinking of picking it up. But I recently found out that a Samurai Showdown 6 was released as well.

Which one should I pick up? And if anyone knows, which is the preferred game? Also, how do these two stack up to the popularity of the first four games?


Pick up the Samurai Shodown collection on PS2 preferably. Has all 6 games (maybe SS5sp too)
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fiol

Quote from: solidshark on December 12, 2010, 07:21:50 PM
Quote from: sibarraz on December 12, 2010, 02:48:57 PM
I always thought that universally SS2 was considered the best in the series while ss5sp was a game that nobody gave a crap

SS2 for a lot of people was like SFII with weapons. Personally SS4 was maybe the best in the series; the gameplay and especially presentation (stages, music), stuck out more than most fighting games to me in that one.


Quote from: Cibernetico on December 12, 2010, 06:03:38 AM
I never got the chance to play Samurai Showdown 5 Special and was thinking of picking it up. But I recently found out that a Samurai Showdown 6 was released as well.

Which one should I pick up? And if anyone knows, which is the preferred game? Also, how do these two stack up to the popularity of the first four games?


Pick up the Samurai Shodown collection on PS2 preferably. Has all 6 games (maybe SS5sp too)

Nope, it doesnt have SS5S :P


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best backgrounds and such are in ss3. best presentation though is ss4. ss2 is old school goodness, it was basically a great old school fighter that the newer games never really came close to. ofcourse the newer games (most of them) are better than ss2, but as fighters they aint that good imo. especially compared to other better fighters (lb series). all the while when ss2 was best fighter of the year that it was released in. in other words, the follow up games didnt improve the formula as they should have done.
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jinxhand

I liked SSTK (Samsho Tenkaichi Kenkakuden) simply because of Andrew, and some of the other characters' playstyle. The music was good for a few stages also. But if I had to pick a top fave, 5sp would be it (Mina was the best new character imo)...
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Lygophilia

I like both, but I prefer Samurai Shodown 6, which I have just started playing very recently, because they've added Yumeji again.

Louiscipher2501

SSV SP is on GGPO. Great game, nice balance but... no tech throws. And Throws beat normals and some specials. So expect to be grabbed a lot.

GenesisDC

Yeah, SS5SP is a great game that I'd recommend to just about anybody. SS2 and SS4 aren't quite my type but they're good too. I never played SS6, but according to some people it doesn't play much like many other games in the series but its still good. I wanna get my hands on it.

Louiscipher2501

It's been said before but SS6 plays like the Alpha 3 of that franchise. It looks like an okay fighter, but there's design choices that are questionable; no blood or fatalities, J-pop like music, and out of place backgrounds and new characters.

jinxhand

Quote from: Louiscipher2501 on January 28, 2011, 07:56:13 PM
SSV SP is on GGPO. Great game, nice balance but... no tech throws. And Throws beat normals and some specials. So expect to be grabbed a lot.

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Dark Geese

Quote from: Louiscipher2501 on February 02, 2011, 11:52:25 PM
It's been said before but SS6 plays like the Alpha 3 of that franchise. It looks like an okay fighter, but there's design choices that are questionable; no blood or fatalities, J-pop like music, and out of place backgrounds and new characters.

But at the same time, for those that can't get access to SSVP, they could certainly play SS6. Now they aren't the same game by far, but I'd recommend it!

Mr Bakaboy

Been playing Samurai Shodown V SP on the MVS of recent and have played Samurai Shodown V on the mvs for quite a while I've been meaning to ask why is SP considered so much better then the original? It seems like the difficulty is amped up and some of the cheapness is taken away (see Yumeji), but I find it hard to see the hard core difference besides the fatalities. I've been debating whether to keep playing VSP or go back to V which is more familiar to me, but I wanted to know the key differences.
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