EvilGuy

Well, no, i don't expect all the characters making a comeback. A couple would have been nice though... isn't this suppose to be a prequal? I would think there would be more older characters than ones that appeard in Ss 3&4. At least in Ss 4 Charlotte and Tam Tam were brought back... it was just something i was hoping for, seeing more of the older characters with the newer look... well mostly i was referring to a direct sequal on the neo geo, i know of the 3d versions. i heard they weren't the greatest but sadly i never got to play them myself... if you know a way i can play them emulated please let me know. i can't disagree with you there.. ss4 wasn't a major leap, but it was a possitive step forward. And yes most of the stages had the same concept... but they weren't the same exact stages with different colors and less animations... also ss3 came out in 95 and ss4 came out in 96 a whole year a part... ss5 finally comes out in 2003 and they put in ALL new stages?! (most of the newer ones i saw i did like. just wish they kept going with that idea even if they were redesigns of the older stages) i guess i just expected a lot more from a series i think so highly of, especially after 6-7 years. They were just part of the game. It felt grattifying pulling of the right sword swipe at the end of a tense battle (specially with a close rival friend of mine) having the game just pause for a second then have a gusher of blood poor out of the characters neck... no it wasn't super gory, the cut in halves were nothing super special.. but it was nice. most of em were done automatically if the right conditions were met.... and since were dealing with swords it was actually nice to see people get cut in half. to just remove them... seems wrong... there was no reason to remove them... it didn't make the game bad.. but it didn't make it any better either.. senless violence never hurt anyone in my opionion... it just doesn't seem the amount of effort was put into ss5 as other neo geo sequals and new fighters that recently came out, and that's very dissapointing. It's not a bad game, it just should have been better. EVIL

I've been waiting for a sequal to sam4 eversince i got it for my NeoCD back in 96',and i have to say i'm a bit let down... right off the bat i noticed most of the backgrounds were just pallet swaps from sam3&4 with less animations, mind you there a couple of the old one that look a little better but still there still the same old backgrounds... a few of the new backgrounds actually do look good (like the red demon's stage and the last stage after the end boss uses his one special). as for the new characters...is it me or do they seem a bit unbalanced? some of them are cool tho, but i would more have liked to see some of the older characters return... like Genan, Earthquake (it was cool to see him in SVC and i was hoping he'd turn up in sam5),Cham Cham, Wan fu etc... Compared to a lot of newer new geo games like Garou, Rotd, SVC, and the newer KOF's, Sam5 just doesn't seem be of the same quality. Then you have the missing Arterial sprays, cut in halves and fatalities... is this game finished?? hmm seeing as the story mode only plays in japanese i'm hoping not. ..hoping this is just a early version of the game and not the final... as of now i would rather play samsho4,2 and even 3 over 5. although it's still a lot better than some of the older neo titles. i was just expecting a lot more Question.. does anyone actually play as Gaira Caffeine??? He seems like such a boring chracter... just my opinion.. EvilGuy