Legendary Fighting Dev Is Hosting Its Own 'Direct' Later This Week

Ooh. Very interesting. A bit of a fan of their works. Surely we get some Switch 2 news.

Definitely going to tune in. I am ashamed to say I've never really played any of their games, but am eager to do so.

Also wondering when Nintendo is going to do a traditional Direct... the trickle tactic is not really my thing.

Fighting games are cool and all (I mean, I used to have zero interest in the genre before experiencing Guilty Gear XX in the first place), but I'm also in the market for more Damascus Gear and Code Shifter. Or even more detective games, perchance.

Not a big fighting game guy, and I still expect a proper Nintendo Direct before the Pokemon one next month, which will be more interesting to me (as well as the Capcom Spotlight actually, since they're really cooking lately), but even I have been pretty darn flashed by Marvel Tokon during the last Sony state of play. That game looked like an absolute blast.

I just hope to learn about whether it is going to be something worthwhile for a filthy fighting game casual like myself or even have meaningful single player content. Other than that, I am personally not interested in their offerings, just not my thing even if visually, all their efforts are very much appealing.

Perhaps (hopefully) we'll get a S2 update for Under Night In-Birth II, but to be honest that awesome fighter is already running perfectly on the original Switch. But hey, an update would be nice.

Probably need to promote their upcoming Hunter x Hunter: Nen Impact fighting game as well. Maybe a Limited Run Games release for that recent River City & Technos Arcade Classics collection?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFM5tUKEyJM

Really interested in the showcase (it's gonna be 9pm for me)

I wonder what games will be announced (definitely one of them is gonna be Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls).

I know Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls is a collab between Sony and Arc System Works but I had to say Sony is throwing money away if they refuse to release that game on Switch 1 & 2. Unlike Sony's other first party games that's also coming to Switch, there's a ton of Marvel fans that own Switch as well from all the other Marvel games already on Switch like Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3, the Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection, and the many Marvel LEGO games. Not releasing the game on Switch 1 & 2 will just be them ignoring a larger Marvel fanbase. I know of many people who's first Marvel game were either Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 or Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection on Switch.

I would like to see switch 2 upgrade packs that allow crossplay with other consoles for both Guilty Gear Strive and Undernight Inbirth II. Marvel Tōken looked pretty flashy in the state of play though - I certainly wouldn’t complain if that was also coming to Switch 2

ArcSys was hacked not too long ago and a bunch of documents leaked and one of them had info about a Switch 1 and 2 exclusive game they wanted to release at the launch of Switch 2 but couldn't for whatever reason so maybe we will see it here potentially but I'm still keeping my expectations low

Is it offensive to say I hate Bridget not only because Bridget players are annoying and aggravating to play against, but because (honestly Ive lost track of which pronoun is correct anymore) become the face of the franchise somehow despite being as important to the plot as Meat is to Mortal Kombat.

Also, new Jake Hunter and Bogey Manor please.

Would love to see strives switch edition be brought up to date with its PC/ps counter parts. Plus there was supposed to be an update to the ranked system, fingers crossed it includes the switch version, but I'm not getting my hopes up.

We really need a collection of all Guilty Gear to get on all of the Story.
And also because it's cool to have all the version of the games, even if half of them are mostly the same game but with less characters.

Used to always play GGX at the Arcade. And played a bit of GG Isuka, GG DS (this one is always forgot by everyone) and Accent Core Plus.

I'd really like to see these guys' interpretation of "Super Smash Bros.". Since Sakurai declined to make the next iteration, it'd be very interesting to see the next chapter in the series made by someone of Arc System's caliber.

@Djreisat Same. Feels…off…with Switch version not having current DLC characters like Venom and Unika.

I suspect Switch 2 news will be a part of this.

Source: gut feeling.

I'm sure they'll be wrapping up news on extra characters available for Hunter x Hunter Nen Impact too - less than a month away now from release!

I clearly need more caffeine. For a hot second I thought that was Rosette from Chrono Crusade.

Which would still make for a kickass fighting game.