Hokuto

Tales, FF and MH... Japan won't have enough Vitas.

If every "optional" char costs $5, you'll be buying a second game.

I think the best part is that they're not even coming up with excuses. There ARE 12 complete, ready characters on the disk that are locked so they can be sold later.

That'd be fine if the game was $20, I'd get a cheap game and buy only the characters I plan on using. But it's a $60 game literally, liberally stripped out content that's being held for ransom right in front of you.

It's beyond absurd.

The only surprising part is how people are actually defending and supporting this practice, even on cases like this. They don't mind the content being "held hostage" and they'll gladly pay the bucks for it. If it's "free" they'll praise Capcom for being so generous.

But I suppose that's not even that surprising anymore... Right Bioware?

"The game will reportedly run on a modified version of the Street Fighter X Tekken engine."

Dear Capcom: surprisingly, people still like 2D games. You know, like the kind you and SNK excelled at for years but you suddenly and completely gave up.

Also, obligatory "day-1 DLC character", because it will happen. $10 on Lilith.

Well, that's just what we need: MORE platforms and standards.

Relevant XKCD: http://xkcd.com/927/

Fly you delicious piece of hardware, fly!

On the bright side it's not barebone like SF4 for those (like me) that don't really play online. Each BB version comes packed with more content than the previous while keeping a $40 tag.

But yeah, as someone that have both console versions I'm not terribly happy to see CS Extended coming less than a year after CS, even being a huge fan of the series.

It's not (only) about the western audience but killing the other side on a fictional war, portraying them as villains on a black & white context. I don't think the other side would be so happy about it.

"Pre-order DLC" and "only $10" got me lol'ing.

Good show, Bioware.