[quote name='fatboyjam']There are so many fighting games coming out this year, I'd like to pick up just a couple and try to get good at them. Despite the solid reviews, I'd to hear more on how this game plays before dropping cash on BlazBlue.
I've seen screenshots and it looks beautiful, but heard it plays fast and frantic and is difficult to master. If I had trouble pulling off some of the more complex combos in SFIV, am I in for a world of hurt with this game, or is it a different yet satisfying experience. How's the online community? (XBL) Easy to find somebody at/around your skill level?[/QUOTE]easy to learn, hard to master.
Street Fighter is all about links, inputting a move, then having a very small frame window once the first move ends to input the second move so both moves register as a combo.
fundamentally, BlazBlue is more about chains, i.e. cancelling the recovery animation of a prior move to initiate the next. Combos are as easy as hitting A-B-C-special a la marvel vs. capcom
however once u get to the more advanced combos u venture into the small frame window input territory, trying to pull off air dashes mid combo or having to enter a move as soon as the previous move finishes before the opponent has enough time to recover from hitstun.
and fyi, this is jus a small explanation of offense... there's still a whole defense game (barrier, burst, insta block) that needs to be taken into consideration.