Best thing about David and Tubo leaving the show is James got to go deep on all the extraordinarily nerdy fg shit he always wanted to do This channel has a lot of potential
i miss David and Tuboware, but i really like the long form deep cuts stuff. It's also really surprising to me now that Darkstalkers was such a "phase" that the FGC sorta' went through rather than the long storied series that some were hoping for. A wider U.S. release (Arcade profit confidence, really.) would have helped. Now it's just going to drive me nuts figuring out which 2 i bought! :3
Haven't payed much attention to the FGC lately, but how can pass up a casual vampire saviour appreciation stream with James chen right before Halloween. Thanks for the stream.
Thanks. ^_^ Hope you enjoyed it! It was rather unorganized but that’s because I kept remembering things so haphazardly that it was so hard to keep structure. Hahaha.
@@UltraChenTV I adore this game and somehow for all the years i've studied this game I didn't know you could get Anakaris to dance with that taunt. That alone made this stream worth the watch. Again thanks for the stream. Edit: Almost 10 years ago your first attack videos for resurrection got me to love the mechanics of this game. :)
Rikuo is a reference to Rico Browning who played the Creature in said movie. John Talbain, seems like a loose reference to John Talbot, who was the father of Lawerence Talbot, the Wolf Man. Fun facts.
this is the capcom i recognize as Genuine capcom. all the extra details and effort are clearly shown. yet i honestly dont think this capcom exists anymore
I would have agreed before literally like a few weeks ago but SF6 is looking like old Capcom might be coming back. Some of the things people found and saw in the SF6 beta really gives me hope.
I mean, technically, the “Not-Tuesday” show is a podcast. You can find it on Spotify and all that, or just play the videos here on TH-cam and just listen (which is nice because TH-cam has *some* monetization. Lol!) and I am trying my best to make the episodes less visually oriented. This was an exception of course. ^_^
As a huge fan of this game, I can't thank you enough for this. I saw some of the details, but many of them like BB-hood having good and evil moves is so awesome, and it flew completely over my head.
I love this series so much and still remember playing the original at 12 years old with my best friend and we’re still playing at 40. Thanks for highlighting this gem and your genuine enthusiasm. Just great content.
9:11 absolutely! Great article and the sprite work is perfection. Joke about the reuse of Morrigan’s sprite all you want (and believe me, it IS hilarious), they wouldn’t have reused it for so long if it wasn’t great. Whenever they make a new Darkstalkers game, the bar for animation & graphics will be astronomically high, they HAVE to get it right.
That's the thing though... it isn't just the graphics and animation that are unique and would be difficult to replicate, but almost every other aspect of the game (music, character design, stages, etc.) is something really special and they all combine to form something iconic that is more than the sum of its parts. Hell, even the fact that they mix and match baseline mechanics with unique ones per character and came out with something loosely resembling balance is a miracle. Is there a team that exists who could currently even handle such a project? That doesn't mean I don't think it is worth the effort.... quite the opposite. On that note, it is fair to say that the animation is the defining feature that perfectly married all of the juxtaposing ideas; so without nailing that every other element could exist and it wouldn't be Darkstalkers.
probably indeed why Capcom doesn't do another one, is not because the sadness wouldn't work, It's that Capcom knows they have no idea how to do a proper DarkStalkers with this much work that goes into it anymore. They just don't have the talent anymore.
“I don’t understand how Sako does this” is like the most normal thing to say. I literally don’t know how he is that good at hitting so difficult combos in matches.
Even in America, it was called Vampire Savior in the arcades (with the “Jedah’s Damnation” subtitle). It was only called DarkStalkers 3 when released on PlayStation 1. It’s never been called that anywhere else iirc.
@@UltraChenTV - Never saw it at the arcades. Must have been rare. Nevertheless, the title of the video should be, *Darkstalkers 3/Vampire Savior: James Gushes ABOUT VS For FOUR HOURS!*
Apparently James knows his asses... I HAD NO IDEA there were some many things in VS. Absolutely amazing and great video ! P.S. Best quote from this video: " God i know somebody's ass blows up ! ~ James Chen
Ah, thank you. Not sure I ever knew, just called him Robin Hood and his Merry Man since I first saw it. LOL! Might have accidentally turned it into my own head canon subconsciously.
@@UltraChenTV that's understandable, depending on the version of the tale the Wood Cutter takes no priority in the story. My fave BB Hood is MVC2 version, particularly because she has the Super "Happy Apple For You" (Two Uzis)
I remember that in 1994 when capcom announced this fighting game with vampires and mummies, I found a game concept so, but so silly, and the specialized magazines here in south america saying that this game would be the substitute of the consecrated street fighter, I was so angry at the time, but luckily the SF franchise is still on the market today, and in 1996, after I got my psx, I started to like the fighting game of vampires and mummies from capcom, luckily I believe.
Honestly, now that you mentioned it, I do remember that he had a different one, but at the time I made this video I completely forgot! LOL! There's just SO MUCH to know about DarkStalkers! Haha!
Something else I love about this game is them matching the overall theme of the games with the mechanics. People will cry about overheads being too fast and comboable but I mean, all these characters are monster. Do you think they will play by your rules?
Not gonna lie I think the "VS" in this video's title will definitely hurt its viewership. "VS? He gushes about versus?" Excited to watch though! Big fan! 👍
@ 1:05:13 Best B.B. Hood! xD James did you find it interesting given what you said about her being the only Human representation, that TEPPEN made her 4 almost broken in a *Human* deck! i love that you're willing to do this for us James! By the way? "Lucia Van Pelt" is the funniest damn thing i have ever seen! (apologies to Kevin Smith but that beats "I'm the one that's soaked and *she's* the one that's surly, that's rich!" by just a bit.) :D
@@UltraChenTV So were we *all* when i was growing up! i remember walking around the mall trying to figure out why Woodstock (my favorite besides Snoopy and our Hero Charles of course!) flew like that and my ma accused me of being "part Pinball" xD I also loved Garfield and Bloom County was my absolute favorie since both of my parents were "Fire Breathing Liberals." Basically, i was taught the Enlightenment when i was *four!* i *was* gong to make my screen name Opus even (which is Latin for work! As in: "Come get some of this ....') However that doesn't really work when you're not a Pro. After all the line "Oh yeah? Well come see me in Quantum Physics pal!" isn't that Hype. :3
Vampire Saviour isn't really set in any particular era, if we go by Lei Lei's story where she's reborn into modern times then one could say it's set in contemporary era, but since every monster is sucked into Jedah's demon realm where time and space has no bearing then each stage could be at any time in any place. Real shame that some characters have to share stages and don't have their own individual stages in Saviour that Bulleta 'butler' win pose you mentioned, it's either her agent or whoever hired her to get rid of the monster coming out of hiding, checking the coast is clear and handing her the cash which she counts while smoking a cigar. I always heard "I've got mustard" when Demitri did his dark force, and "Smoke sour grape" when he did the multiple bats super.
Capcon doesn't need to do another sequel in 3D, that would spoil all the essence. The only thing that needs to do, is make a game with all the characters and backgrounds, maybe fix some broken moves and unblockables and make some cool shade options and you got it.
you can charge partition in other games you can dash sonic boom with bulleta in vampire savior i just tested it but skullgirls and other games include this feature
That’s not Charge Partitioning. That’s just taking advantage of Charge lenience. Charge Partitioning is *literally* breaking a single charge up into multiple chunks, which doesn’t really work in almost all other games with Charge Moves. I know there’s like one or two exceptions, but for the most part the things people call Charge Partitioning isn’t actually Charge Partitioning.
Was the Darkstalkers game ever big outside Japan? I remember not knowing this game series existed until the late 90s. And then not finding it anywhere. I’ve only ever played these games emulated.
Oh man the intros in old games are so fucking cool what is wrong with devs nowdays and I think they tried to do something similar of Lilith super with PErsona 4 arena ultimax Rise super.
They can definitely be a lot more fancy these days, with the 3D graphics and all that. The problem is that there really is no reason for them to make them anymore since they were designed to be “attract modes” in the arcades. Most games on consoles with intros was more a relic of arcade days than anything. But they should bring them back anyways because they’re **cool**. Lol!
PS1 Darkstalkers 3 is still the best as bar Anita and D it has all three systems, endings, artworks and the VSAV2 version bar D. Chaos Tower is just a PSP re-release with Original Character Mode replaced by the titular Tower mode instead
My biggest problem with it was just that it wasn’t arcade accurate. A lot of things didn’t work on it that worked in arcade and vice-versa. Otherwise, it was a great version of the game with a lot of cool features and stuff.
I did! Check the Marvel Vs Capcom Collection announcement video, should be towards the end with timestamps. I didn’t show it in detail, but I brought them out. And I intend to do a longer episode on them in the future if I find it worthy enough.
I wish I could watch these live to meme around with chat, sadly it would require a lot of things to align in my schedule for it to happen. So thanks for keeping an archive on YT, where I can watch at my own pace.
No problem. I like it when people hang out in the chat, but obviously it’s not an easy thing to do because schedules. I appreciate the support here on TH-cam!
I agree, if they make another Vampire Savior game, I think they would ruin it. 3D graphics, modern easier mechanics, less inspired music, generic artwork... Just like they have done with every other franchise.
Wha--?? Vampire Savior literally IS Darkstalkers. How is that a ripoff? Vampire Savior is Darkstalkers 3. In Japan, the three games known in the US as Darkstalkers, Night Warriors, and Vampire Savior are called Vampire, Vampire Hunter, and Vampire Savior. I'm so confused.
@ 3:29:24 Have you ever seen the UMvC3 guide? 596 pages! Zero mention of any infinites, the HTC glitch OR (and this is the worst) any warning about Dark Pheonix. Then again if you knew the story you feared the worst anyway. i mean, chick feeds on *stars.* o.o @ 3:44:19 This was great thank you, and pleae always load your streams, i love this stuff! The audience for deep and long form is larger than you think. Then again i believe the same thing about the audience for Fighting Games, you guys are just not looking in some markets because, well, you might not think they're into that. That's the thing about emerging markets, before they're found, many of them don't realize that this IS something they would get all the way into. :D
Best thing about David and Tubo leaving the show is James got to go deep on all the extraordinarily nerdy fg shit he always wanted to do
This channel has a lot of potential
i miss David and Tuboware, but i really like the long form deep cuts stuff. It's also really surprising to me now that Darkstalkers was such a "phase" that the FGC sorta' went through rather than the long storied series that some were hoping for. A wider U.S. release (Arcade profit confidence, really.) would have helped. Now it's just going to drive me nuts figuring out which 2 i bought! :3
@@cubeuhhgaming5034 A lot of characters have their OWN approach to the Neutral game though.
@@cubeuhhgaming5034 The "V" System is what makes Street Fighter V, Street Fighter V!
I’m glad you put it on TH-cam I literally sat and listened to you talk about VS for 3 hours straight
Thank you. I figured with no Not-Tuesday Show this week, it was a good time to drop the video finally. ^_^
Haven't payed much attention to the FGC lately, but how can pass up a casual vampire saviour appreciation stream with James chen right before Halloween. Thanks for the stream.
Thanks. ^_^ Hope you enjoyed it! It was rather unorganized but that’s because I kept remembering things so haphazardly that it was so hard to keep structure. Hahaha.
@@UltraChenTV I adore this game and somehow for all the years i've studied this game I didn't know you could get Anakaris to dance with that taunt. That alone made this stream worth the watch. Again thanks for the stream.
Edit: Almost 10 years ago your first attack videos for resurrection got me to love the mechanics of this game. :)
Rikuo is a reference to Rico Browning who played the Creature in said movie. John Talbain, seems like a loose reference to John Talbot, who was the father of Lawerence Talbot, the Wolf Man. Fun facts.
this is the capcom i recognize as Genuine capcom. all the extra details and effort are clearly shown. yet i honestly dont think this capcom exists anymore
I would have agreed before literally like a few weeks ago but SF6 is looking like old Capcom might be coming back. Some of the things people found and saw in the SF6 beta really gives me hope.
@@UltraChenTV u need a podcast
I mean, technically, the “Not-Tuesday” show is a podcast. You can find it on Spotify and all that, or just play the videos here on TH-cam and just listen (which is nice because TH-cam has *some* monetization. Lol!) and I am trying my best to make the episodes less visually oriented. This was an exception of course. ^_^
As a huge fan of this game, I can't thank you enough for this. I saw some of the details, but many of them like BB-hood having good and evil moves is so awesome, and it flew completely over my head.
The love and care put into this game and its characters is second to none. I probably could have gushed for another four hours more. Haha!
I love this series so much and still remember playing the original at 12 years old with my best friend and we’re still playing at 40. Thanks for highlighting this gem and your genuine enthusiasm. Just great content.
Dude the “Tip toe step” of Hsien-ko finally makes sense. Used to have friends who experience the same thing but never understood why lol😅
What did they experience? Moms telling them to stop walking with a hop? O_O
@@UltraChenTV yeah my friend would always tiptoe at his house to mess with his parents (mostly the mom), she would always be like “STOP THAT” lol
Sasquatch, the character that has an answer for everything and super armor.
Yeah. He kinda good. LOL!
I feel like James Chen can write a book titled "Fighting Game: Throughout the years" 🤔
He should
Please keep putting these on TH-cam as well. I love rewatching these during my day and listening to them.
9:11 absolutely! Great article and the sprite work is perfection. Joke about the reuse of Morrigan’s sprite all you want (and believe me, it IS hilarious), they wouldn’t have reused it for so long if it wasn’t great.
Whenever they make a new Darkstalkers game, the bar for animation & graphics will be astronomically high, they HAVE to get it right.
That's the thing though... it isn't just the graphics and animation that are unique and would be difficult to replicate, but almost every other aspect of the game (music, character design, stages, etc.) is something really special and they all combine to form something iconic that is more than the sum of its parts. Hell, even the fact that they mix and match baseline mechanics with unique ones per character and came out with something loosely resembling balance is a miracle. Is there a team that exists who could currently even handle such a project?
That doesn't mean I don't think it is worth the effort.... quite the opposite. On that note, it is fair to say that the animation is the defining feature that perfectly married all of the juxtaposing ideas; so without nailing that every other element could exist and it wouldn't be Darkstalkers.
I just bought the Capcom fighting collection a month ago, so this video is quite interesting and helpful
The passion is very real, this was a great watch
Thanks. I love this game so much. I probably could have gone on longer if I wanted to. Haha.
probably indeed why Capcom doesn't do another one, is not because the sadness wouldn't work, It's that Capcom knows they have no idea how to do a proper DarkStalkers with this much work that goes into it anymore. They just don't have the talent anymore.
just starting to listen to this, but ty james for advocating for the game
I don't know How I missed this gem, but I'm glad I found It..
It's pure Gold.
Great content.
Love your enthusiasm for this. Such a great game.
I love this game so much. ^_^
Love your work, man.
And thank you for this. I'm learning VS and it's 1 of the fighters I've always wanted to get pretty nice at.
“I don’t understand how Sako does this” is like the most normal thing to say. I literally don’t know how he is that good at hitting so difficult combos in matches.
Bro this is amazing. All this stuff i didn't know existed.
wait, imagine timing someone out with felicia's taunt? that would be epic.
I love this game the most
Appreciate you putting this on TH-cam! No offense to Tubo and David, but I am loving the "Not Tuesday" show more than I used to.
Actually Lamalta might be eyeing the dog... Just saying.. It goes dark places like that...
Watched this live such a good informative video on this masterpiece game!!
Darkstalkers 3. This is America. Never forget that!
Even in America, it was called Vampire Savior in the arcades (with the “Jedah’s Damnation” subtitle). It was only called DarkStalkers 3 when released on PlayStation 1. It’s never been called that anywhere else iirc.
@@UltraChenTV - Never saw it at the arcades. Must have been rare. Nevertheless, the title of the video should be, *Darkstalkers 3/Vampire Savior: James Gushes ABOUT VS For FOUR HOURS!*
Nah. Even the US community that plays the game calls it Vampire Savior. ^_^
Even with all the love SF6 is getting, you don't think they can make a Darkstalkers sequel justice?
Honestly? I’m gaining more and more trust. But it still is a scary prospect to me.
Apparently James knows his asses...
I HAD NO IDEA there were some many things in VS.
Absolutely amazing and great video !
P.S. Best quote from this video: " God i know somebody's ass blows up ! ~ James Chen
LOLOL! 😂
I wish I was watching live so I can tell James to look behind him for a refresher on Rikuo's namesake
VAMPIRE SAVIOR LETS GOOOO I LOVE U JAMESSS
We all just love Vampire Savior!!
41:59 it's not Robin Hood, it's The Wood Cutter from Red Riding Hood's story
Ah, thank you. Not sure I ever knew, just called him Robin Hood and his Merry Man since I first saw it. LOL! Might have accidentally turned it into my own head canon subconsciously.
@@UltraChenTV that's understandable, depending on the version of the tale the Wood Cutter takes no priority in the story. My fave BB Hood is MVC2 version, particularly because she has the Super "Happy Apple For You" (Two Uzis)
@@UltraChenTV you said you did a deep dive like this for Street Fighter, may i have a link to that video please?
the way lord rapter moves freaks me out.
It’s so gooooood!!! ^_^
@@UltraChenTV Yeah, I meant it in a good sense!
As you should! Fantastic video!!
I remember that in 1994 when capcom announced this fighting game with vampires and mummies, I found a game concept so, but so silly, and the specialized magazines here in south america saying that this game would be the substitute of the consecrated street fighter, I was so angry at the time, but luckily the SF franchise is still on the market today, and in 1996, after I got my psx, I started to like the fighting game of vampires and mummies from capcom, luckily I believe.
Cobra Blow was hitting thrice on block too. It was only hitting once when you were crouch blocking
3:03:56 you forgot to mention Talbain different Moment Slice in Vampire Hunter 2, he literally does a combo before he slice his opponent.
Honestly, now that you mentioned it, I do remember that he had a different one, but at the time I made this video I completely forgot! LOL! There's just SO MUCH to know about DarkStalkers! Haha!
Something else I love about this game is them matching the overall theme of the games with the mechanics. People will cry about overheads being too fast and comboable but I mean, all these characters are monster. Do you think they will play by your rules?
Hello James gushes how are you doing today
You want to learn footsies, this is the game!
Not gonna lie I think the "VS" in this video's title will definitely hurt its viewership. "VS? He gushes about versus?" Excited to watch though! Big fan! 👍
Yes.. so much yes!
Darkstalkers will never die
I thought Lamalta was in love with BB Hood’s dog. ❤
Are you feeling okay dude
@ 1:05:13 Best B.B. Hood! xD James did you find it interesting given what you said about her being the only Human representation, that TEPPEN made her 4 almost broken in a *Human* deck! i love that you're willing to do this for us James! By the way? "Lucia Van Pelt" is the funniest damn thing i have ever seen! (apologies to Kevin Smith but that beats "I'm the one that's soaked and *she's* the one that's surly, that's rich!" by just a bit.) :D
I’m glad you know what the Lucia Van Pelt reference is. I was a HUGE Peanuts fan growing up.
@@UltraChenTV So were we *all* when i was growing up! i remember walking around the mall trying to figure out why Woodstock (my favorite besides Snoopy and our Hero Charles of course!) flew like that and my ma accused me of being "part Pinball" xD I also loved Garfield and Bloom County was my absolute favorie since both of my parents were "Fire Breathing Liberals." Basically, i was taught the Enlightenment when i was *four!* i *was* gong to make my screen name Opus even (which is Latin for work! As in: "Come get some of this ....') However that doesn't really work when you're not a Pro. After all the line "Oh yeah? Well come see me in Quantum Physics pal!" isn't that Hype. :3
Vampire Saviour isn't really set in any particular era, if we go by Lei Lei's story where she's reborn into modern times then one could say it's set in contemporary era, but since every monster is sucked into Jedah's demon realm where time and space has no bearing then each stage could be at any time in any place. Real shame that some characters have to share stages and don't have their own individual stages in Saviour
that Bulleta 'butler' win pose you mentioned, it's either her agent or whoever hired her to get rid of the monster coming out of hiding, checking the coast is clear and handing her the cash which she counts while smoking a cigar.
I always heard "I've got mustard" when Demitri did his dark force, and "Smoke sour grape" when he did the multiple bats super.
This game is SO BEAUTIFUL.
This guy knows everything! 💥😮💥
I'm not a big fan of Chen, but can respect a man who loves and respects VSav.
Capcon doesn't need to do another sequel in 3D, that would spoil all the essence. The only thing that needs to do, is make a game with all the characters and backgrounds, maybe fix some broken moves and unblockables and make some cool shade options and you got it.
1:51:16 That probably birthed certain...kinds of art for him.
-__- Why did you have to remind me of that side of the Internet? Now all I'm thinking about is what other things this game awakened in people.
When Lamalta is simping over BBHood, Lord Rapter looks at him like, "Bruh"
It’s all such good touches! I miss when Capcom took the time for these things! Happily, SF6 seems to be bringing back a lot of these things.
I'm more of a Night Warriors guy.
Savior is kind of overwhelming.
Wait never mind just saw that you said vampire saviour first lol my brain tuned it out or something
Also why aren’t there smart people making CRT emulators with real physics calculations. Old games would look fantastic with a good CRT emulator.
Fightcade has those im pretty sure
you can charge partition in other games you can dash sonic boom with bulleta in vampire savior i just tested it but skullgirls and other games include this feature
That’s not Charge Partitioning. That’s just taking advantage of Charge lenience. Charge Partitioning is *literally* breaking a single charge up into multiple chunks, which doesn’t really work in almost all other games with Charge Moves. I know there’s like one or two exceptions, but for the most part the things people call Charge Partitioning isn’t actually Charge Partitioning.
Was the Darkstalkers game ever big outside Japan? I remember not knowing this game series existed until the late 90s. And then not finding it anywhere. I’ve only ever played these games emulated.
Not really. A lot of Americans first exposure to Darkstalkers was the cartoon
The first game to really become available in stores was Darkstalkers 3
Oh man the intros in old games are so fucking cool what is wrong with devs nowdays and I think they tried to do something similar of Lilith super with PErsona 4 arena ultimax Rise super.
They can definitely be a lot more fancy these days, with the 3D graphics and all that. The problem is that there really is no reason for them to make them anymore since they were designed to be “attract modes” in the arcades. Most games on consoles with intros was more a relic of arcade days than anything. But they should bring them back anyways because they’re **cool**. Lol!
PS1 Darkstalkers 3 is still the best as bar Anita and D it has all three systems, endings, artworks and the VSAV2 version bar D. Chaos Tower is just a PSP re-release with Original Character Mode replaced by the titular Tower mode instead
My biggest problem with it was just that it wasn’t arcade accurate. A lot of things didn’t work on it that worked in arcade and vice-versa. Otherwise, it was a great version of the game with a lot of cool features and stuff.
3:28:56 did you ever show it in stream?
I did! Check the Marvel Vs Capcom Collection announcement video, should be towards the end with timestamps. I didn’t show it in detail, but I brought them out. And I intend to do a longer episode on them in the future if I find it worthy enough.
I wish I could watch these live to meme around with chat, sadly it would require a lot of things to align in my schedule for it to happen. So thanks for keeping an archive on YT, where I can watch at my own pace.
No problem. I like it when people hang out in the chat, but obviously it’s not an easy thing to do because schedules. I appreciate the support here on TH-cam!
I agree, if they make another Vampire Savior game, I think they would ruin it. 3D graphics, modern easier mechanics, less inspired music, generic artwork... Just like they have done with every other franchise.
Thumbs up.
Do you guys know it's just a rip off of dark stalkers or is everyone totally oblivious to it 🤣🤣🤣
Wha--?? Vampire Savior literally IS Darkstalkers. How is that a ripoff? Vampire Savior is Darkstalkers 3. In Japan, the three games known in the US as Darkstalkers, Night Warriors, and Vampire Savior are called Vampire, Vampire Hunter, and Vampire Savior. I'm so confused.
One of the greatest not the
Why is this the biggest rip off of dark stalkers I've ever seen 🐺🐺🐺
@ 3:29:24 Have you ever seen the UMvC3 guide? 596 pages! Zero mention of any infinites, the HTC glitch OR (and this is the worst) any warning about Dark Pheonix. Then again if you knew the story you feared the worst anyway. i mean, chick feeds on *stars.* o.o @ 3:44:19 This was great thank you, and pleae always load your streams, i love this stuff! The audience for deep and long form is larger than you think. Then again i believe the same thing about the audience for Fighting Games, you guys are just not looking in some markets because, well, you might not think they're into that. That's the thing about emerging markets, before they're found, many of them don't realize that this IS something they would get all the way into. :D