I'm a bit disappointed that it's as much like XX as it is (character attacks look mostly the exact same), but it still looks awesome, looking forward to it. Hoping they make a good amount of new characters and add a sufficient amount of attacks to each character to notably change how they play. Even if they don't, though, I've never really "gotten into" Guilty Gear before, never put any notable amount of time into training mode or anything, so I'm sure I'll enjoy it regardless. I'm also hoping that the game is just easier to play in general, easier combos and basic execution requirements. I did read those impressions and someone said that they increased hitstop somewhat... that seems to be a step in the right direction, I hope they make the input buffer a bit more lenient as well.
I still have XX Accent Core + (I think it's updated to +R now actually) on PSN, if anyone is at all interested in playing/learning that game with me I'm interested! Post here and let me know. If I haven't played with you before, I'm a pretty average player in general (definitely not tourney level), nothing spectacular, defense isn't great, so you don't have to worry about me being some monster like Base with Zappa. I'm pretty casual about it and prefer to laugh at my horrible losses rather than get upset about it. I do consider myself to have a very good understanding of all of the mechanics of fighting games, though. Always hunting for frame data.
Oh, and Friday night was very fun even though I was just playing with MasterWholigans 80% of the time haha. We had some great games! I felt like we were improving a lot as we played too. I really like Yatagarasu, I wish I would have remembered to upgrade my perk to Open Access for the beta, oh well. Down for playing that whenever you guys want to, check for me on Steam. Hope we can get more people on board for next time. Zeno, are you interested at all in playing any fighters online with us? PC or PSN for me and MasterWholigans. We have a steam group for j2 fighting game players that we're trying to revive.
So what do you guys think? Wanna go for another Yatagarasu night soon? Or something on GGPO? AE2012? Or maybe just a "meet up and play whatever the heck people want to" night?