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[.la1n]

dahbomb just tell me as someone who owns strider 2, is this a yes or a no?

As someone who LOVES Strider 2 and completed a play through of it recently I can tell you I did not enjoy what I have played of the demo for the new one. I am hoping impressions from someone who has completed the game might make the decision easier.

 

[Jazz-ism]

I've been talking up the game for like, a year+. I care. I'm just not putting up with the hassle to get the japanese version when I'm a casual player and can wait on NA.

i guess man...but i dont see how you can say "i care" then follow it up with the rest of your post. (considering the "hassle" is no hassle at all and you are just a petty casual)

thats not me shitting on you either its just me keeping it real. just say you dont care

 

[Seyavesh]

in the new strider how satisfying is it to mash on attack and just plow through enemies while going real fast but slowing down for cool acrobatic sections

the metroidvania thing really worries me because like, a big part of strider 2 i feel was the really tight level design pace-wise and the sheer satisfaction of the extremely tight feel of the movement

 

[Zissou]

You'll want Faust or Eddie



Yeah, Ky looks really interesting now, though he lost a bit of his jack of all trades power.

I'm mostly just sad at the loss of FRC's and annoyed at the inclusion of YRC. It's more of a balance concern. The game will most likely be speed up in later versions

I know Faust is considered pretty easy to use, but isn't Eddie difficult?

 

[toddhunter]

i can understand people being into the story and shit (bb story is sort of interesting) but i dont understand you willing to wait MONTHS (sometimes years) for someone to translate スタート to start ....esp when that is something that has no bearing on the actual gameplay

If you wait for a release, you also get more people to play against. Case in point, there were like 3 guys in Australia playing BBCP back when I had it available. It is never going to be thousands, but there was a lot more on the versions actually released in stores.

Meanwhile there are lots of other games to play...which is what everybody else is playing. It doesn't matter how much you care unless you want to sit in the training room for a year.

 

[Jazz-ism]

in the new strider how satisfying is it to mash on attack and just plow through enemies while going real fast but slowing down for cool acrobatic sections

the metroidvania thing really worries me because like, a big part of strider 2 i feel was the really tight level design pace-wise and the sheer satisfaction of the extremely tight feel of the movement

i think people are heavily overthinking the strider thing. the only questions are whether or not it is fun and has the same fast paced action that strider 2 did, and also whether or not it improved on that formula. i dont care at all about the metroidvania semantics just tell me whether or not its a good game to buy for 10-15 dollars.

consider strider 2 for psx regularly sells for 70+ when its actually a 10 dollar game by todays standards

 

[Ragingnight]

the only other kof i tried was 2k3 and only for like a month, so, i can't really answer this question tbh.

Yeah sounds like you would probably hate/dislike KOF wakeup options in general. Nothing in KOF13 is new as far as I'm aware but I did skip from 98 to 13 (with a tiny bit of 2k? whatever version had vanessa)

 

[QisTopTier]

I know Faust is considered pretty easy to use, but isn't Eddie difficult?

Eddie's only hard until you learn how to control the minion after that he's pretty easy. With the removal of FRC drill and being able to just YRC them he will become a bit easier

 

[Essay]

Who would suit my playstyle in Xrd? I play marvel exclusively at the moment and point Doom is my favorite character, followed by Dante. I guess I like lame/space control characters and anything that's assist-like in nature is a bonus. I have mediocre execution at best. I refuse to play awful looking characters like bed man . I'm interested in Ino, Faust, and Eddie so far.

Consider Axl as well. He has a new full-screen zoning stance and plays kind of lame in most matchups, pressuring from outside of characters' effective range.

 

["God's Beard!"]

What are some good KOF primers?

I've been farting around with Duo Lon/Kim/Leona, but I don't know what's good or not. I don't know any fancy combos, but I'm working on the basics anyway.

Leona seems really good with the relatively safe DP at max range and her lockdown pressure. Kim is just fun and sounds cool when you play. Duo Lon is my home boy.

 

[Passive Assassin]

have you been watching the juicebox kof13 vids? so gewd.

 

[Rhapsody]

On the Strider note, is Strider 1 and 2 not yet on JPN PSN? I remember the JPN retail version of the new game comes with a download code for the two games, but I don't even see the games on the online Sony site.

 

[kirblar]

i guess man...but i dont see how you can say "i care" then follow it up with the rest of your post. (considering the "hassle" is no hassle at all and you are just a petty casual)

thats not me shitting on you either its just me keeping it real. just say you dont care

Because I read/speak English and want a game where I don't need to be hitting google translate every minute. That shouldn't be hard to understand.

 

[Retro_]

How's Jin in BBCP?

Part of my trouble of finding a character in BB is that unlike GG, most of the cast doesn't look fun at all to me. lol

 

[Lemstar]

Because I read/speak English and want a game where I don't need to be hitting google translate every minute. That shouldn't be hard to understand.

you're obviously not real enough

 

[SixMachine]

[QUOTE="God's Beard!";101391329]What are some good KOF primers?

I've been farting around with Duo Lon/Kim/Leona, but I don't know what's good or not. I don't know any fancy combos, but I'm working on the basics anyway.

Leona seems really good with the relatively safe DP at max range and her lockdown pressure. Kim is just fun and sounds cool when you play. Duo Lon is my home boy.[/QUOTE]

Juicebox has some vids on characters that you can dig around where he went over them. I know he definitely did a Leona one. Besides that just look some of the wikis from Dreamcancel and check out the forum. You might not find out everything you need but it's somewhere to start.

Do you have this on steam and are east coast? My steamid is simsiriphanh and I anchor Leona too.

 

[Retro_]

Because I read/speak English and want a game where I don't need to be hitting google translate every minute. That shouldn't be hard to understand.

The Japanese version of AC+ supports full english menus actually

Not sure about arcade endings and dialogue but you should have zero trouble playing the game

 

[ThatCrazyGuy]

Because I read/speak English and want a game where I don't need to be hitting google translate every minute. That shouldn't be hard to understand.

CARE MOHR!!

 

[kirblar]

The Japanese version of AC+ supports full english menus actually

Not sure about arcade endings and dialogue but you should have zero trouble playing the game

CP, not AC+. Just waiting on Xrd cause I don't feel like playing a decade old game with people who will murder me.

 

[Retro_]

AC+ is like two years old though

and, Oh. My bad

 

[enzo_gt]

i guess man...but i dont see how you can say "i care" then follow it up with the rest of your post. (considering the "hassle" is no hassle at all and you are just a petty casual)

thats not me shitting on you either its just me keeping it real. just say you dont care

 

[BakedYams]

 

[toddhunter]

Because I read/speak English and want a game where I don't need to be hitting google translate every minute. That shouldn't be hard to understand.

If you really cared you would move to Japan, learn the language, build up a community of local players back home and then return and import the game.

But no. Lazy.

 

[vocab]

How's Jin in BBCP?

Part of my trouble of finding a character in BB is that unlike GG, most of the cast doesn't look fun at all to me. lol

easy. his combo routes are the easiest in the game really.

 

[QisTopTier]

How's Jin in BBCP?

Part of my trouble of finding a character in BB is that unlike GG, most of the cast doesn't look fun at all to me. lol

Jin is really really solid in BBCP, he should be strong still after the patch as well.


If you are having trouble finding a character that looks fun you just gotta watch more high level matches

 

[Retro_]

easy. his combo routes are the easiest in the game really.

Sounds like my dude. lol

If you are having trouble finding a character that looks fun you just gotta watch more high level matches

Got any good links/resources for high level matches

All I know is ACHO's super videos but man I don't really want to watch a bunch of characters I know I'm not interested in

 

[VanillaCakeIsBurning]

i guess man...but i dont see how you can say "i care" then follow it up with the rest of your post. (considering the "hassle" is no hassle at all and you are just a petty casual)

thats not me shitting on you either its just me keeping it real. just say you dont care

There are varying levels of care. Some of us wanted to play at the earliest opportunity (importer here) and others want to be able to play the game with a larger English community with menus and text that they can understand. There's also the issue of double dipping for what is essentially the same game that makes importing the JP version first undesirable to some. It's not really an issue if you have patience (I don't have patience) and are willing to wait for what will be more enjoyable/less expensive (if English is a concern for you) .

 

[Rhapsody]

Sounds like my dude. lol



Got any good links/resources for high level matches

All I know is ACHO's super videos but man I don't really want to watch a bunch of characters I know I'm not interested in

Jourdal's channel is a good go to source for BB http://www.youtube.com/user/Jourdal2012/videos

 

[SloaneRisette]

you're obviously not real enough

It's supposed to be with italics.

I guess YOU aren't real enough.

 

[Uraizen]

How's Jin in BBCP?

Jin is cray cray and pretty strong. He is pretty fun to play as from what little experience I have playing with him.

 

[Silky]

Soul Calibur 2 HD is gonna be $5 on XBL tomorrow. Buy?

 

[enzo_gt]

I was going to write a part about how a real vs. puzzle game is nearly impossible due to lack of direct player interaction... but then you went and edited that in. Tetris has always been the worst about that though IMO -- it feels like whoever has the higher APM and cleaner builds wins 95%+ of the time. Lesser skilled players have no shot unless you're playing some weird variant, and the game ends up about as interactive as a versus game of Beatmania IIDX. (As an aside: high-level Tetris w/ Card Captor Sakura is hilarious because specials are going off every 2-3 seconds -- it's MvC3 levels of spastic at times. But that just makes things for the slower players worse...)

At least in Puyo you have some decisions to make in regards to cutting a chain short, and players being attacked can keep building out during the chain and counter with something bigger. That leads to its own problems, though. I always thought Puyo would have been better if a counters led to a soft reset of the chain, so that a 10 chain clearing an 8 chain would lead to a 2 chain's amount of garbage being sent over, not the 9th and 10th parts of the chain's garbage... but what do I know, I'm a scrub at that game.

Hey Kumubou, are you willing to do next week's FGW player spotlight? If so, let me know and PM me the answers to the 9 questions in OP before Sunday night.

 

[BakedYams]

Soul Calibur 2 HD is gonna be $5 on XBL tomorrow. Buy?

Soul 2 is by far one of the better Souls game for me. Never played 1 but 2 is one of my favorite fighting games. If its 5 bucks, buy it. Then play Voldo, my main.

 

[enzo_gt]

What was the big reason everyone hated SCIIHD?

Tempted ATM because I think my MS bucks are going to expire soon.

 

[smurfx]

http://www.twitch.tv/fgtvlive

whens marvel weekly.

What was the big reason everyone hated SCIIHD?

Tempted ATM because I think my MS bucks are going to expire soon.

wait they expire? i have 1600 points unused from buying gta5.

 

[Xevren]

What was the big reason everyone hated SCIIHD?

Tempted ATM because I think my MS bucks are going to expire soon.

Online sucks.

 

[Karsticles]

MS points expire?

 

[smurfx]

MS points expire?

i just read up on this. points that you had on your account when ms went cash only expire but any unredeemed codes you have do not have expiration dates. i have a code so i'm good for now.

 

[Retro_]

Jourdal's channel is a good go to source for BB http://www.youtube.com/user/Jourdal2012/videos

Gross. Persona

Ty for the link

 

[Niitris]

What was the big reason everyone hated SCIIHD?

No Link. lol

Online sucks.

That too.

 

[enzo_gt]

Online sucks.

Is everything else good though? I don't care for online and will never play it online.

i just read up on this. points that you had on your account when ms went cash only expire but any unredeemed codes you have do not have expiration dates. i have a code so i'm good for now.

Yeah. Otherwise I don't think they expire.

 

[smurfx]

btw has twitch been using up more of your cpu resources these past couple of months? seems like watching a stream at source quality almost uses up all my laptop power. it never did this before when they had the other quality options. its only twitch that does this to my laptop. i can watch streams from netflix or time warner online at super high quality and it doesn't slow me down as much.

 

[Kumubou]

Hey Kumubou, are you willing to do next week's FGW player spotlight? If so, let me know and PM me the answers to the 9 questions in OP before Sunday night.

I have no problem doing it. I'll try to get it to you tomorrow if I'm not being lazy (which means I'll probably get it to you on Saturday or so).

It's based on the PAL version which apparently upset a lot of people.

There's also a couple of really dumb bugs, like how Cervantes' 4A will lock the game up if the auto-GI goes off. It's just a rushed, half-baked port.

 

[Uraizen]

Is everything else good though? I don't care for online and will never play it online.

It's based on the PAL version which apparently upset a lot of people.

 

[Juicebox_FGC]

[QUOTE="God's Beard!";101391329]Leona seems really good with the relatively safe DP at max range and her lockdown pressure.[/QUOTE]

Moon Slasher is not safe, people are just terrible, especially at punishment.

Her pressure is fairly average until you learn her instant overhead stuff, but she runs pretty fast so she's good at low/throw stuff.

 

[Retro_]

Mu12 looks kinda neat.

 

[Passive Assassin]

http://www.twitch.tv/ultrachentv twitch plays ultrachentv ... but the chat is rip.

 

[commanderpepper]

Twitch chat is so barren.

 

[QisTopTier]

Mu12 looks kinda neat.

She's awesome and pretty simple to learn. She's one of those characters that looks super complex but isn't

 

[Kimosabae]

It's based on the PAL version which apparently upset a lot of people.

.


It's not just that the online is absolute trash but that the port is buggy and is based off the worst version of the game. That's not going to matter to you if you've never played the game seriously though.

I just support the idea of not giving Namco a cent for it to send a potential message. I'm so salty over that release you can't imagine.