Virtua Fighter being "Boring" as a competivie game.

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Speaking of how "unrelatable" the Virtua Fighter cast is to players outside of Japan, wasn't this the very reason Fighting Vipers came to exist in the first place? Despite being Sega's way of trying to appeal to more global players, I found most of the characters in that particular series too overly stereotypical, and how was Sanman any more relatable to western gamers than your average member of the VF roster? Besides, rather than being generic Asian representations of American style wrestlers, weren't the designs for Wolf Hawkfield and Jeffry McWild based on real figures? In addition to its more stylised line-up and '80s-influenced soundtrack, I seem to recall someone from AM2 once mentioning that FV included weapons and walls around the ring because these elements tested well in a prototype of VF2, yet were deemed too much of a change from its predecessor for these to feature in an immediate sequel. I don't remember ever finding any international sales numbers for the VF games, but it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if the Japanese version of Saturn VF2 managed to perform better than every other installment overseas - it's one of the few titles on that system to have broken the million barrier, while over here fans of the franchise in general were always considered very much part of a rapidly shrinking minority.

 

Fighting Vipers does have a far more interesting cast.

 

VF is one of my favorite fighting series'... Never really found it boring at all.

 

I done handcuffed Lightening.