When BlazBlue was first announced, Guilty Gear fans rejoiced. They rightfully guessed that the new series was the new iteration of Guilty Gear, but with all new characters and a tweaked engine. Still, some of Guilty Gear's hardcore fans have been holding out for another entry in the series. It doesn't look like that's ever going to happen, and the reason why might surprise you.
According to Toshimichi Hori of Arc Systems Works, "The generation of Guilty Gear players has become a certain age – maybe a little bit too old for playing games. So making that reset brings in a new generation of fighting game players. Then they will be with us for the next few years".
Good thing that Nintendo doesn't think that way. If they did, we probably wouldn't have gotten Super Mario Galaxy 2. That said, I admire Arc Systems Works for officially retiring a group of characters, and starting fresh with a new variation on an old theme. Capcom tried that once with Street Fighter III, and was punished for it by fans who weren't willing to move forward. It's probably not a coincidence that Hori-san sites Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike as his favorite fighting game ever.
This is a developer who understands the power of moving on.
The Arc of Fighting [Eurogamer]
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2:00 AM on 03.18.2011 | 
It's like saying your too old to play with your kid.
I agree with you Holmes that developers need to know when to move on. However I think Arc System Works alienated a lot of the Guilty Gear fan base with Overture, which is probably the biggest reason we crave one more game, a final goodbye of sorts to a franchise we hold so dear. It will never happen, but hey a guy can dream right?
Now if I could only get better with Hazama...
Basically, it was a Red game that called itself Blue.
Now third strike is pretty cool. I'd accept that kind of moving on. Unfortunately, too many people missed guile or some shit.
There's a difference between:
"We wanted to bring a new generation of gamers into the scene."
versus
"You withering fucks are old, we need new fans to squeeze money out of."
'Moving on' indeed.
But I just recently got the ps1 version of guilty gear free from psn, dropped it onto my psp and I'm loving that shit!!!
I'm 27 this year....
I would like to see another Guilty Gear for the sake of its roster. But BlazBlue will always be my fighter game choice.
I come home for the weekend, I play the FUCK out of some games. Being a "grown up" just means that my gaming budget is bigger, not that I've outgrown gaming.
Guilty Gear 2 didn't try to fix what wasn't broken. It was just an entirely different game within the same story. If it were a fighting game you might have had a point.
@Cryotek
That doesn't seem to be true.
"At the moment, our "fighting pipline" is fully Blazblue - Continum Shift and the PSP version. However, Guilty Gear is not dead. Blazblue is not replacing the Guilty Gear series. I know there is a rumour that we have an issue with Sega regarding Guilty Gear. We dont! Daisuke Ishiwatari, the creator of GG, has full intention of developing a new Guilty Gear. I have full intention of making that happen. The question is, when, how and actually where?"
I'm a business owner, I go to work every day, participate in outdoor sports every chance I get,and play games afterwords..
Just because you are old doesn't mean you can no longer have fun..
That made me sad...
There was also an interestin article in edge magazine a couple of month back where mori-San and ishiwatari San said that Guilty gear got to the point where they were debating whether or not to make a move a 3 frame move or a 5 frames and the change would have to be mastered for high level play. At that point, they realised that they went too far and a reboot would probably be a good idea!
And a crossover game won't happen. They pretty much said so themselves.
SF3>SFIV & SSFIV #truthnotopinion
and what happens if your just now discovering GG, and your 30? still to old?
fuck this dude. your never to old for video games.
Assuming he wasn't it's a bit of a kick in the balls to some fans. As for moving on though, good for them. It's nice to see game companies taking a few risks.
This actually makes me pretty angry.
Ragna/sol badguy
Jin/Ky kiske
aracune/eddy/zappata
Blazblu goofy ninja is not chip zannuff
well make it happen arc systems
People hate change that's the real issue with that said
VOLCANIC VIPER!!!! 4 LIFE :)
Looks like I get to skip on buying any more Arc Systems Works games then.
Anyways it's cool that they want to focus on their new series. hopefully GuiltyGear vs BlazBlue is on the way.
also, SFIII:TS rocks!
But yeah, to reiterate what's been said, moving on is fine. It's just the logic behind it that stings.
I'd hit that.