Because thus far Dark Ressurection is only on the PSP.

God I wish I had a PS3 right now...


...and as far as I know, no online is pretty much the standard position most 3-d fighting games take now-a-days, lag and the need for precise timing being the main reasons.

This isn't Sony bad news. This is "same as usual" news.

A lot of people don't mind the lack of online play.
Dare I say, thank god for Robert Summa?
No, I probably shouldn't.

also cocks

@Milofo

hmmm so virtua fighter 5 is original? Virtua fighter is guilty of the same thing. The only difference is that people actually play tekken.

Milofo, you could conversely say that Virtua Fighter 5 is Virtua Fighter 4 with more characters. And the price is higher than Dark Ressurection. (it's what, 30 bucks?)

ZING!

@deiga-the-semivaliant
Again, read what I wrote what I wrote in my link then say what you want. I only speak from experience of playing both series and not just look at screen shots and spamm my opinion on forums. Tekken 5 Dark Resurrection is also in my arcade here so I have played it, and I could use Law's moves from 3 to now for the most part.

@precise2282
Its fine if you like Tekken more then Virtua Fighter, everyone has their own preference, but you are feeding me some huge bullshit about which is the more compettative scene. I kind of live in Japan right now and have been for 1/2 a year and the whole time everyone is playing Virtua Fighter while the Tekken machines are not played at all. I don't know where you get your information from, but from someone that lives in Japan Virtua Fighter is king.

No online play?

SONY IS FUCKING US AGAIN THOSE ASSHOLES

Sony isn't fucking anybody by not putting online play in this. Being a huge 3d fighting fan, the smallest amount of online latency can kill a game that bases itself around frame specific attacks, very specific timing and so forth. A great example is Guilty Gear X2 Reload when it was on XBL. It was a great technical game with a huge fan base but the online play was horrible because you had to resort to lag tactics. This was all you heard about. People hated the game and it was shunned for having such horrible online play. You would have the same bitching if Tekken was ever online.

@Milofo
There are huge differences from each game. I honestly don't feel like typing everything out but the frame data/hit properties for characters alone from the games give you an idea of how drastic you would alter your play style. Take into account that over the span of two games, they added closed stages, uneven levels, position changes, wall techs, just frames moves, escapeable stuns, offensive wall attacks, always retooling the okizemi system and taking it out almost completely in 5.1, and countless other things they have added, changed, and removed. You might still have some of the same moves for characters, but they implementation of moves have changed a lot from game to game. You might not "see" the difference depending on your skill and how much/who you play, but I assure you, it's there. As you know, it's the same way with Virtua Fighter as you have noted before.