Month: May 2017

Clayton “Final Showdown” Chapman is one of the people keeping old games such as Marvel vs. Capcom 2 alive, thanks to his combo videos. In particular, he’s taken a shining to Hayato, who he’s done a lot of work with (including a new infinite combo concept). Now, he’s come up with a new combo video for the Star Gladiator character.

The video below is interesting in that Final Showdown has an arbitrary limitation of not using any assists, nor any bugs and glitches, to keep the combos going. In other words, all the combos here, including a few kill combos, are done only with what the game’s developers intended, and without help from teammates.

Source: Final Showdown

While not as competitively-respected as its sequel, the original SoulCalibur is a game that can be considered a milestone in the history of fighting games. While most fighting game home conversions in the 1990s simply aimed to be arcade-perfect, Namco aimed for more when bringing SoulCalibur from their PSX-based System 12 to Sega’s Dreamcast console.

It’s this conversion from the original System 12 arcade version to the Sega Dreamcast of SoulCalibur that Digital Foundry’s John Linneman takes a look at in the latest installment of DF Retro. Here, he goes into great technical detail on how the game was visually upgraded when it was rebuilt (in just 7 months) for Sega’s brand-new console. In addition to this, the video also covers the game’s newer ports on both the Xbox 360 and iOS devices.

Source: Digital Foundry