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What Grooves do you wish you saw more of? (Read 1453 times)

Started by JasonThePhoenix, December 01, 2024, 04:53:31 pm
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What Grooves do you wish you saw more of?
#1  December 01, 2024, 04:53:31 pm
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Capcom VS SNK had such an awesome Groove system. It's a great way for developers to multiply the amount of content and complexity in their game, increase the time it takes to get solved by the players, and experiment. If certain characters or grooves are OP you can just ban them. I wish more games used that. And a Ratio system. But this thread is about Grooves.

What Grooves do you wish you saw more of? Have you ever seen a fighting game and thought "The unique system mechanics of this game would be awesome as a Groove in another game"?
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#2  December 01, 2024, 08:35:58 pm
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The truth is I don't know how to say it, but I would like for example, a hypothetical CvS3 to add a Groove inspired by the Darkstalkers saga, because the latter has interesting mechanics, such as when you defeat your opponent, he revives and They move on to the next round, and more like that.
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#3  December 03, 2024, 06:50:12 pm
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The truth is I don't know how to say it, but I would like for example, a hypothetical CvS3 to add a Groove inspired by the Darkstalkers saga, because the latter has interesting mechanics, such as when you defeat your opponent, he revives and They move on to the next round, and more like that.

You mean Puppet (current character becomes foe's chosen character after winning) and Shadow(mirror matches your foe's current character)? They're cool, every game should have those functions on the character select screen.

I don't see how that could be a groove though. Unless "become foe's character after winning one round" or "swap characters after winning" becomes a groove, or every character is coded to be able to use everyone else's moves with the correct groove copying their foe's moves. Didn't Guilty Gear Isuka let Robo-Ky use anyone's specials? I hear Tekken sometimes lets its characters do that too. Some supernatural/sci-fi excuse could be invented to let a character use a groove/spell/sci-fi device to temporarily shapeshift into another character and use their moves, if the developers don't want to animate everyone doing 60 extra moves.

Imagine the kind of teams that build meter in round one and then swap to the opponent's character and groove using a groove for that. Or the strategy involved in dying to a specific character on the enemy's team so your groove can copy their character and groove.
Re: What Grooves do you wish you saw more of?
#4  December 03, 2024, 08:57:04 pm
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The truth is I don't know how to say it, but I would like for example, a hypothetical CvS3 to add a Groove inspired by the Darkstalkers saga, because the latter has interesting mechanics, such as when you defeat your opponent, he revives and They move on to the next round, and more like that.

You mean Puppet (current character becomes foe's chosen character after winning) and Shadow(mirror matches your foe's current character)? They're cool, every game should have those functions on the character select screen.

I don't see how that could be a groove though. Unless "become foe's character after winning one round" or "swap characters after winning" becomes a groove, or every character is coded to be able to use everyone else's moves with the correct groove copying their foe's moves. Didn't Guilty Gear Isuka let Robo-Ky use anyone's specials? I hear Tekken sometimes lets its characters do that too. Some supernatural/sci-fi excuse could be invented to let a character use a groove/spell/sci-fi device to temporarily shapeshift into another character and use their moves, if the developers don't want to animate everyone doing 60 extra moves.

Imagine the kind of teams that build meter in round one and then swap to the opponent's character and groove using a groove for that. Or the strategy involved in dying to a specific character on the enemy's team so your groove can copy their character and groove.

Yeah, it's a crazy mechanic.