Justin Wong updates community on his Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown challenge from Sega

...really ehubs?

Let's see how far his natural talent can take him.

He's gonna use Jacky in the Sega Cup? I rarely see good Jacky players in VF tournaments in the US. I know there are plenty in Japan.

Floe : The Amazing Fighting Game Player

sounds like a good title for a book or movie. whatever it is it has to be purely fiction though. animated too, just in case people start to think its real.

I'm not sure Floe's the best sparring partner for this. Or any game, really. To be fair, I always hear he's much better in casuals. And yes, there are legions of scrubby Jacky players here in the US; perhaps Justin can break the trend.

Of course, Justin could have gotten a nice head start if he'd played me in VF5 Vanilla back in Summer 2011... ALBUQUERQUE FGC SAYS LET'S GO... WHY YOU DUCKIN' ME, SON???

#420 do it jwong

Of course he's using Jacky, bleh. 'Strong enough to compete', that describes everybody in the game...except for maybe Lei-Fei. I don't think I've seen a single person playing Lei-Fei at the arcades in Tokyo.

Oh well, whatever, any exposure for the game is good.

Man, Justin Wong, Justin Beiber, Justin Timberlake... There's just too many Justins to follow.

So damn excited for this event! I imagine they are gonna stream it on twitch. I'd really like to see some Eileen action in the tourney! GET HYPE!

Remember when Jwong won the PDP MK9 tournament after only two weeks of training with Floe? Let's hope the VF5 community is made up of sterner stuff than the MK9 community.

#8 The hell are you following Justin Beiber and Justin Timberlake for?

justin cares about VF? since when?

@11 lmao that made my day

VF5! :D

#11

...Because I got tired of following Lance Bass and One Direction.

TLDR version; "Sega offered to pay me for playing this, so I'm going to. The end."

This is why I love Floe, he's like the elder of all fighting games

@4 MonkeyCha0s

LOL! So true! Thanks for the good laughs bro! that made my day! cheers.

@#1

This is a great way for beginners to see how a top player learns a new game from scratch. People who haven't played Virtua Fighter may want to try it and go through the learning process along with JWong while watching his stream. I haven't watched much but I did notice LAAkira giving both general and character specific tips that are great for people to listen to while they're grinding online or in the dojo.

Articles like these are a million times better than creeper bikini mods and copypaste ingame videos for youtube money.

I just started playing vf and i need a training regime to take me to the next level. I play jacky and sarah i've been neglecting eileen for some reason (maybe because i can't handle more than two chars). I like justin as a player and i'm loving vf it's a win win in my book. I can't wait to watch this sega cup thang.

P.S i think justin will get bodied but that's half the fun isn't it? He's a high profile player putting himself out there I hope he gets a warm reception from the vf scene regardless of his performance.

@5 I think Floe is an overrated player as much as the next guy. But tbh I think he is an excellent theory fighter and can help Justin learn the little details and concepts behind VF as he does understand game systems pretty well.

I love vf5! I use Sarah(= my friend says this game is trash though -.- he says it's a dead game and I just wanna hit him >=( lol

Is this Sega Cup held in Japan?

this is secretly one of the best fighting games around. mind games are very strong.

@22

I hear that. I have a friend who is all 'lol, VF looks alright, but nobody plays it, I'm not gonna play a game that's not popular'. What kind of logic is that. 'I'm not going to play it because nobody plays it.'

don't knock Floe, he's gdlk in casuals. XD

@25: the reasoning is that if a game is not popular, the competition is much more scarce. this leads to "not that much money in it", "gameplay stagnates", etc. not saying i agree with him, as I often play old games that do not have large followings anymore because they're fun.

He didn't even give it a chance though. It went from 'it looks cool, I'll buy it when it comes out.' to 'Not enough people bought it, so I don't care.'. Also, we're currently in Japan, where people DO play it. (and they're really really good...)