Fighting Games Discussion

[Deleted member 110072]

Although, Chun, Ken, and Yun are the best you see a lot more variety now than was shown in the past. Cooperation Cup is always hype and Pierrot's run with Remy was ridiculous.

It does seem now that its only Sean and 12 who are really not viable, some very good Alexs and Hugos as well which was much rarer back in the day.

People do seem to have gotten more and more of a hang of zoning as the years have gone on, accepting that its not going to be sitting behind a tide of standard fireballs and then puniishing jump ins as much but rather working a more creative game at mid range. Remy in that video for example is played nothing like Guile even if he has several moves which are very close to him.

I have to say as well part of me thinks that having that 15-20 range of characters actually makes a game more interesting in some ways as well, its enough for variety but not too much that you cannot be prepared for specific matchups.

 

[OnionKnight86]

 

[Crimson Fury]

 

[Crimson Fury]

He has a point. 4 hours of MK11 sounds like hell, heh.

 

[OnionKnight86]

 

[Deleted member 110072]

Honestly my feelings about true great competitive games are that they grow beyond the intension of their creators, games like Quake/Team Fortress Classic, Starcraft, etc really the way the games evolved was clearly way beyond the intension of the designers.

Its why I'v always had mixed feelings about constantly patching games, it can deal with really significant flaws(although honestly decent play testing should do that) but to me it often feel like devolpers trying to shift the game in the direction they want it to go rather than the way it is naturally developing.

I think you can see 3rd strike as a very good example of that , maybe not the most amazingly balanced game and it does have a lot of moves which end up being used quite rarely but the lack of meddling after the fact allowed the game to evolved in a more natural fashion..

 

[OnionKnight86]

 

[OnionKnight86]

I watch snake eyez and I’m like “yeah I can play *insert grappler*” then I jump on and suck

 

[OnionKnight86]

Will this be banned in tournaments?

 

[rikwebb]

That new Tekken Cartoon series is out on Netflix, 6 episodes by the looks of it

 

[what-wut]

I watch snake eyes and I’m like “yeah I can play *insert grappler*” then I jump on and suck

He's my favorite player to watch the way he pulls off crucial reads is just amazing. Shame he didn't play in evo.

 

[Nova44]

That new Tekken Cartoon series is out on Netflix, 6 episodes by the looks of it

As an anime watcher i'll give it a go, but i'm not expecting it to be the best thing ever.

A good anime for fighting game stuff is actually High Score Girl because it shows off so many fighting games from their inception until a few years back.

 

[Crimson Fury]

As an anime watcher i'll give it a go, but i'm not expecting it to be the best thing ever.

A good anime for fighting game stuff is actually High Score Girl because it shows off so many fighting games from their inception until a few years back.

The Zangief vs Guile match in the arcade was great. Those tick throws were really considered cheap back then. Also this:

 

[Nova44]

The Zangief vs Guile match in the arcade was great. Also this:

I see you're a man of culture.

 

[OnionKnight86]

 

[rikwebb]

As an anime watcher i'll give it a go, but i'm not expecting it to be the best thing ever.

A good anime for fighting game stuff is actually High Score Girl because it shows off so many fighting games from their inception until a few years back.

Watched the first 3 episodes last night, better than i was expecting. Its basically Tekken 3 but with Leeroy in also.

 

[Nova44]

Watched the first 3 episodes last night, better than i was expecting. Its basically Tekken 3 but with Leeroy in also.

I'll put it in my list today for sure.

 

[Crimson Fury]

I see you're a man of culture.

Let's be honest. Most anime based off fighting games are trash and Tekken looks like crap too. It's probably better than the old 90's one, but still.

 

[OnionKnight86]

 

[Deleted member 110072]

Finally gave in and decided to give 3rd Strike another go 15 years+ years latter, honestly was never very good at it even back then just playing with friends so it will be starting from a pretty basic level.

One advantage of the break I hope that I maybe able to take to an arcade stick, back in the day I always found it tough to break away from controllers as thats what I used for SF2 on the SNES and Tekken on the PSX but I always felt it was a bit limiting, could never do 360's or even 180's entirely dependably and the sore thumb issue limited how much I could practice.

Maybe giving SF6 a try to get in on the ground floor as well, one advantage of photo editing giant 100+ megapixel files files is I have a beast of a block PC that hopefully will take to gaming well.