The Fighting Games that MADE ME - VIRTUA FIGHTER 2
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"Virtua Fighter 2" is THEE GAME that made me fall in love with 3-D games. I was so astonished at how fluid, and visually appealing that game was for a 1994 (I was 10 at the time) arcade game, definitely ahead of it's time. It was also the first fighting game to use motion capture, the graphics had to take a dive on the Saturn, but it was still a good 60 FPS game.
for me it was virtua fighter 5. but then I lost my ps3 controller and ps4 can't do diagonals on ps3 so I cant play
I 100% agree! Seeing VF2 in the arcade back in the day blew my mind!!
@@robertdanker6193 brother I when ever I ran outta coins, I would sometimes just watch the attract mode for the heck of it, if no one was playing. That’s how flabbergasted I was at the graphics.
@@BoyBlaze2002 Me too!! I remember getting 20 bucks worth of quarters and trying to beat the game I made it to Akira but couldn't beat him. Played the crap out of it on Sega Saturn!!👍👍
@@robertdanker6193 bruh at least you made it to Akira in the arcades, I could never get passed Jeffrey. On the Saturn I had time to get acclimated to every characters game plan and developed my own strategy to beat them.
Isnt it crazy to think that more than half of the subscribers to maximillian werent even born when this game came out?
I feel so blessed to have witnessed the entire fighting game evolution.
I remember my jaw hitting the floor the first time I saw the attract screen and Shun's river stage. Am2 were masters of the genre.
yep! I'm only 18, so this was about 10 years before my time, but still! this game looks hella good! I kinda want to play it myself!
VF 2 was so ahead of its time
I didn't even existed at that year and i am 2k kid, yet i am really proud of the fact that i grew with vf2 instead of tekken 3
I grew up during VF3 era and played that mostly in the arcades
Did anyone else hear Kenny saying "I'M WIIIILD !" during Jeffrey's fight?
13:25 for sure
Meeeee!
Whos kenny
Yes
Yep
Being able to clear this game on the hardest difficulty on Saturn is still probably my best bit of gaming bragging rights.
The Saturn version isn't even close to being arcade perfect and still looks good, the arcade version looked like alien tech for the time.
The first time I saw Shuns stage at the arcade. I just froze. My brain couldn't handle it. Sucks I can't get that reaction anymore
Sega worked with Lockheed martin, a contractor for the US military to make the model 2. So maybe they did have some alien tech borrowed from area 51
@@temjin44I will never forget the first time I saw the bridge stage, it was the first time I ever saw a big rocksolid piece of 3D geometry moving smoothly at 60 FPS and just like you my brain could not handle it.
@@CorporalDanLives a good way to describe it is solid. The characters and environment actually felt like they had weight and density. Crazy that they had the textures and fluid animation to go along with it. Mind-blowing for its time. Introduction into the modern gaming of 3D polygons
I have this cab at home, love it
I would love SEGA to do some sort of VF anthology collection
They should actually do that especially if Virtua Fighter 6 is coming out in a few years or they could add the previous games as a bonus feature on VF6 (similar to what Tekken 5 did).
3:38 That random scream always killed me. That's not Sarah, that's the _ambient noise_ for the Chicago stage along with the cop siren and gunshot noises! You're fighting in a _baaad_ neighbourhood to have a drive-by around a fighting arena!
How appropriate that the Chicago theme would open with gunshots and screaming... It's certainly more so than the one in the original Tekken.
Huh...i thought the sun never shined in the ghetto.
That's a Sega Saturn exclusive that stage is not featured in the arcade version of Virtua Fighter 2
@@thegreat1007 The Chicago stage is in the arcade version of VF2. It only appears whenever there's a Jacky vs Sarah match
@ c greens...REALLY...why is that...i never knew that
...i only ever picked wolf ...NEVER anybody else
I remember most of the 32-bit era as an ugly mess of grey-brown textures but not here. Beautiful blue skies, silky smooth animation. This is one of those rare games that still looks good when you take the rose-tinted glasses off. I was a Sega kid during the 90's and this was one of the games that was my pride and joy.
Man this was literally the first game i got for my Saturn. Love VF2 man, this game was the cream of the crop for 3-D fighters in 1994-1995. The graphics, the music, the gameplay, it was all great. I started with VF1 in the arcade but VF2 was the game that made me fall in love with the series. This was an excellent port of the arcade version, there were some limitations here and there but overall this was an extremely well done port. Side note: Jeffrey was always THE hardest character for me to beat in this game, he's a nightmare to deal with. 70% damage Splash Mountains are a scary thing.
You were smart and waited until VF2 was out for the Saturn, I had the unfortunate Virtua Fighter 1 (non remixed version) which was a sad day. Especially when all your friends were playing Battle Arena and Tekken on their new Playstations. However VF 2 was an excellent port, the only thing missing was Shun Di's bridge. 😁
FEAR THE SPLASH MOUNTAIN
Yeah Jeffrey was wild.
It was my first saturn game too. The memories are so sweet.
Me too
If you can make the AI run towards you, they'll eat throws. This is really powerful tech for characters who can throw enemies behind them (ring out).
Yeah, I replayed VF2 less than a year ago and managed to first try Dural abusing that stuff. Kage's launch throw > Flip Kick is the king of ringouts.
@@Kawalorn12 Kage launch throw into rolling drop kick (f,f+p+k+g) or spiral drop kick (f,f+k+g) were my go to moves.
Wolf's giant swing is a strong contender for ringouts as well
The music is SUPRISINGLY good! Really wish I'd had a chance to play this game more back in the day...
Virtua Fighter 2 OST is godly.
@@A_chocolate_bar_review_channel Hearing "Ride the Tiger" on Akira's stage is a full-on montage tune. Classic.
Suprising? Every SEGA game back then had amazing music.
I can't believe it me this long before realizing that Jacky's throw is literally just the Snowplow, the finisher that wrestler Al Snow used. Also, got to love Wolf just throwing out Steiner Screwdrivers.
When I had a Sega Saturn and VF2, I would use wolf and bust out stieners screwdrivers all day..
This game has so many wrestling ass wrestling moves. I can't remember his name but that one dude was just throwing out Samoan Drops like nobody's business
Jeffrey dishing it out for days
That Giant Swing into the head dive took me out 😂, I didn't own a Saturn growing up but had the chance to play this a lot with my uncle back in the day, good times indeed...
WOLFS ...THROWS
double underhook suplex
Tigerbomb
Dragon screw
Steiner screwdriver
Dragon suplex
Brainbuster
Body slam
Gutwrench suplex
Frankensteiner
Waist lock bridging suplex
Great video, fellow VF and Saturn OG here! Regarding the release date though, it was 1994 in the arcades but late 95 in the US and Japan on Saturn - we didn’t get it in the UK until January 96! But yeah, this game is for me the single most impressive piece of software in that generation, given the hardware it’s running on. And it holds up insanely well today. What a game.
Virtua Fighter 2 soundtrack is definitely one of my favorite video game soundtracks of all time. Still have a copy of my Saturn disc that I made decades ago in the CD player of my car. Honestly it's the only thing missing from later VF games, they've all had rather forgettable soundtracks since.
Fighting Vipers / Fighters Mega Mix was bomb as well.
I got a Saturn instead of a PS1 for Christmas in 1995 mostly for Virtua Fighter 2 - No regrets
Man, that AI was infuriatingly smart back when I played this. It never felt cheap though, like some of the older SF2s. So actually beating a character felt like a HUGE accomplishment, and I'd go to school the next day bragging with my chest out, like "Yeah, I made it all the way to Kage yesterday!!"
The music, visuals, SEGA-style super-fast gameplay (its also n00b-friendly), this game on the saturn (or even moreso in the arcade) was basically the video game equivalent of an IMAX experience. Its amazing how Yu Suzuki's genius level of creation with this game literally changed the entire video game industry
I am not much familiar to the Virtua Fighter franchise but I do know that this game defined 3D fighting as a whole,and this came way before Tekken. Even looking at this now on the Sega Saturn just shows that it still looks good even to this day.
Imagine being this ahead of the game to be where they are now…
Played this in the arcade whenever I could and played the first one on my 32X so much I blistered my fingers practicing. What a great series, and another reason why Sega will always have a special place in my heart.
21:26 - The stuff that looks like glitches are actually Akira's reversals.
VF2's got nasty option selects and some dirty tech nearing SF2 Turbo territory.
VF2 made me love fighting games. Played this in hole-in the wall arcades when it was new.
Virtua Fighter 2 really took fighting games to a new level of quality. I grew up playing the Saturn port and it blew my mind visually.
I love this game!
I got my 1st job at hungry jacks aka Burger king to buy a Sega Saturn VF2 and imported Ultimate MK3.
I quit my job and just played VF2 when friends came over none stop for like 2 years! So much fun
Then got Daytona and Sega Rally and paid $200au to import SF alpha 2 from Japan.
This console was a fighting game beast! It loaded up way faster then the playstation 1 versions of the same games
Can you imagine Akira as a playable fighter in the next smash game and if they kept the previous fighting game character's Terry vs Akira could actually happen
Would legit love to see that. Honestly though, I'd be down with a VF team in KoF 15.
All of his B Specials would be counters
Copium
Wait, it’s not just me? I’m not the only one who struggled to hell and back with these old games? I’m not alone! 😂
The legendary VF2.😄
19:03 Cpu destroying tactics.
Lion stage, Jacky stage, Jeffrey stage, Akira stage = some of the best music in VF2.😎
Shun Di too
@@vidk1dd96 Yeah, I forgot to put that one too. Shun Di's stage music is sick!👍😎
1:04 It was a 704x480i game on the Saturn.
@7:56 That backflip into the ring was clean.
I played this for the first time back in 1995, on a Sega Saturn kiosk at my local toys r us. A year later I got the Saturn system that has this, Daytona USA, and Virtua Cop as a pack in.
Like you Max, I got into fighting games with my sister! We used to go to arcade machines at Alabama called Goody’s and played them every weekend. We love fighting games! Virtua Fighter, Marvel vs Capcom, and many other games crossover games! You’re the best, bro! SHINE ON! WE’RE TEAM MAX DOOD!😊👊🏾
Considering how much more powerful the Arcade was compared to the Saturn, this game being so close to the Arcade version was nothing short of a miracle.
The model 2 was so bleeding edge it was built on military developed hardware.
@@stevey5151are you serious?
That Wolf counter throw at 17:41 was a thing of beauty!
An underwater level in a fighting game. Damn.
Virtua fighter is a fantastic series that deserves more attention. For vf6 there needs to have story for each character instead of using an article to get the story.
I’ll take massively underrated series for $100?
94/95? This is impressive, Tekken 1 was very blocky in comparison. And the fighting animations here are very smooth and realistic, isn't this where Shenmue got it's fighting from?
Yeah, although I think it might use the VF3 engine, I could be wrong though.
Shenmue began its life as a Virtua Fighter RPG on the Saturn that never saw release
While I’ve gotten into the Virtua Fighter series last year through VF5 Ultimate Showdown (I did once play Virtua Fighter on the Nokia when I was 6 years old). I respect how Virtua Fighter paved the way for 3D fighters and I’m fond of the various stages in the series(especially Sarah’s VF5 stage and Dural’s VF2 stage) as well of the various music choices (Jacky’s VF1/VF2 theme is great). While, I haven’t played any old school Sega consoles (Dreamcast, Saturn) or games (Nights, Sonic Adventure, Virtua Fighter) there’s something that feels quite nostalgic about them that I appreciate.
On a side note. I recommend the Virtua Fighter anime it’s actually pretty good too bad season two is hard to find.
I totally forgot that Dural was fought underwater....had a lot of fun playing this with my friends when it came out on the Saturn
I've never really enjoyed let alone been good at fighting games, but this one will always hold a special nostalgic place for me as it was one of the first games I ever played.
I also have a special place in my heart for VF2. It was the game that convinced me into buying a Saturn instead of the PS1 in 1995. Love it. (actually bought a used japanese Saturn just the other year, to re-live some memories, with VF2, Fighters Megamix, SFZ2 and Guardian Heroes) Kudos Max!
Sarah en dificultad alta era un dolor de trasero.
Bruh SEGA was the master of OST's in the 90's
That game on Saturn was crazy. It felt like you were playing in arcade. I'm hoping and crossing my fingers you do the good old Dreamcast soul Calibur.
This game defined an entire era of my childhood
Wolf,"Kick me at your own peril," Hawkfield
Kids today wouldnt understand how important and mind blowing virtua fighter 2 was back in 94... if it wasn't for virtua fighter it wouldn't be no tekken,dead or alive,and the rest of the 3d fighting games we know today.
I have never played this and I am blown away with how good this still is
So nostalgic. Growing up playing the shit out of this game on pc. I was struggling so hard to use Jacky and his flipping jumping backward kick. I also kept checking Sarah's bio in the extras. Theres this one picture of her wearing a summer dress while shes posing on the beach. 😂 I was legit simping for that one picture of her.
VF2 was literally the first Fighting Game I ever played. I had it on PC and hated having to play it on a Keyboard. It took forever to learn how to play but The glorious soundtrack solely motivated me to get through it. To this day it’s one of my fondest memories.
Damn I thought the title read the fighting game that I made and I was getting excited
I always liked how realistic the fighters move/animations, when I was young I was really in pro wrestling so I always picked Wolf.
What an amazing game, playing as Wolf and Kage was so awesome. My top 3 games.
VF2 was my first tournament win at a recreation center. went undefeated. Then our Saturn was dropped and VF2 broke 😓😢
VF2 is so good man. Thanks for playing this Max!
12:58 you piece of sh*t Jeff, funniest part of the video 😂
VF2 is easily the best fighting game of the 90's. As a kid who had a Saturn while everyone else had a PS1, this was the game that made all my friends think twice about their choice of console.
I actually managed to score a Virtua Stick still in the shrinkwrap a few years ago. Best fight stick I have ever used.
1:03 You mean, 480i. 480p for consoles didn't exist until the Dreamcast came along with its VGA adapter.
Influential is right! VF2 remains in my top 10 fighting games of all time for a reason.
Twenty eight years later it's still satisfying as ever to whoop people with Pai and Lion.
Good to see you play this. Personally, I’m the one of three people who enjoy the sega genesis version.
I've grown to really love the Saturn in recent years. Those arcade ports were just so damn good.
Jacky's downward closed fist punch ... my friend called "the bitch slap"
It looks so good. Hell, Ehrgeiz looked and played smoothly pretty much the exact same as this.
20:45.... That redirect to the jumping double kick.... That a perfect end to that round. It was like clockwork. Lol.
So this game invented the lag mechanic.
Remember getting this on the saturn!!!
yeah my Saturn came with VF2, Virtua Cop and Daytona USA. Great times - my favorite thing to do in this was get Wolf's giant swing lol
I never own a Saturn but i still remember playing VF 2 for the first time on Arcade. The game was mind blowing. Oh man i can’t wait for VF 6 😣
This unlocked a memory i didnt know i had, i was born in 2000 & i honesty didnt know i played this until the menu screen & was hit w a shit ton of memories durin the character select
I super love Virtua Fighter's iconic jingle . Tururuu!
Arcade was 1994, Saturn was December 1996. Still super impressive at the time.
If you master these throws ,the correct scenarios and the reflex time, the computer will not have an answer to any of this and the game will be cake
Man I loved virtua fighter on the sega Saturn
Easy way to cheese the AI is to back away quickly. They will almost always run at you and are open to a free throw with the right timing. Only works in 2.1 mode through.
Still one of my favorite older 3D fighting games. Fighting Akira at the time was probably the most different and difficult, but fun.
Virtua Fighter 2 definetly made me. I grew up poor, we got a saturn on clearance in 1998/1999. Vf2 was one of the 3 free games and several other games because toys r us had their saturn games in clearance when I got it. A long with the 3 free pack I got clockwork knight 1 and 2, nights, and Last Bronx only cost my mom $5 a piece.
Literally this morning I setup Sega Saturn emulator play this just because and then this video pops up in my recommend.
I always loved that Jacky and Sarah got a different stage and song. Also Pai with those dang shwooshing sounds were the bane of my childhood
sega is my favorite game company of all times; always wish they'd won the console wars... or at least not lost
*Wasn’t nothing like waking up early morning fixing a big ass bowl of cereal watching all you favorite cartoons then hoping on the Sega Saturn to play Virtual Fighter.....those were the days I wish Sega would have put more effort into making both the Sega Saturn & Dreamcast both consoles imo is highly underrated...Just imagine if Sega combined the Sega Saturn & Dreamcast together and make a powerhouse console with updated technology that would be dope as hell*
If the Saturn was easier to develop for, and if they didn’t release it early things would be different.
@@ultm8ninja *facts I agree the Saturn was the downfall of Sega....they shoulda learned from the mistakes they made before they released the Dreamcast sega rushed most of their consoles they made*
VF2 is a classic no doubt. SEGA also had great ports of Last Bronx and Fighting Vipers on the Saturn
this was defnitely the game that sold me on a saturn too i got one and never looked back.
Virtua Fighter 2 was my first fighting game I really got into. Before VF2 I only played 4D boxing and One Must fall: 2097. I remember my oldest brother was only playing Jacky, my other brother only played Sarah and I manage to master Kage! Didn't know how to say Kage so I always said Cage! Also, big crush on Sarah Bryant as kiddo, dem pixel arts back in the days! Lastly, Ride of the Tiger - Akiras theme is still my nr 1 favourite soundtrack from any fighting game (MK main theme doesn't count because it's legendary). It gets me way more hyped than any Street fighter song!
That head dive to the nuts was a brutal way to end the game
The amount of hours I put in to this game on Saturn. 100s of hours. Submitted Akira FAQS to GameFAQS for it too. Just seeing this now, all the combos I'd use with him just popped back into my mind like I did them yesterday. What an excellent game.
Sega saturn was one of the consoles that eluded me at those times. Never owned one and i only got a chance to play it once at my friend's place. The only game he had was that college version of nba jam that midway made- i forgot the name of it, but i'm sure there some people who knows what the name was.
The game your thinking of is called college slam
@@marccaselle8108 Ah, that's it. Thanks for telling me. 😊👍
VF2 was my first fighting game on the Sega Saturn back when I was a kid.
Learning Akira Yuki character is the main reason why I am interest in understanding & analyzing animation frame speeds.
Hell yeah, VF2!!
Hey Max, nice video on a all time classic that is VF2. I also had the PC version of VF2 and can confirm it's awesome also 🙂
This music low-key slaps
Probably the most underrated fighter ever extremely good as proven to be the most respected fighter ever using real styles and moves real damage not projectiles and stuff like that a real fighting game also the music kicks ass
coincidence, I was playing Virtua Fighter 2 today and revisiting the Sega Genesis version of that game too, curious that it's called "2" but it doesn't have the 2 new characters (Lion and Shun) in Genesis, maybe for lack of Memory, but still, weird.
13:12 👈😲
*.Jeffrey destroyed Jacky.*
I first played VF2 on arcade back in 97-98 I think. I think I was 10 years old. Afterwards Sega all the way baby!
Dural headbutted your groin area and then... the end hahaha!
And I grew playing the weird genesis (mega driver here in Brasil) version without even knowing the 3D existed before going to an arcade out of town
I love sega and VF is an amazing part of it’s history
20:26
Game: "K.O."
Max: OK!
Grew up with VF2 in the arcades, played almost every game in the series after that, VF2 and VFFS are my favorites.
Is crasy that Virtual Fighter 2 looks beeter than many Plastation 1 games.