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Fighting Games Weekly | July 20-26 | No Gods or Kings, Only Tears

shaowebb said:
And now for the question folks ask themselves once a year...
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For me, I'm gonna try to play more anime in general and Skullgirls. They had the hypest top 8.

EDIT: Also I really wish the title was Fighting Games Weekly|Frauds Among U.S.
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i'VE ALways been wanting to play KI and it's coming to PC so scratch that.
Honestly though it's SF5, if SNK still exist they better announce a new KoF or something so I can be hype for that too.
 
SF5 for me, and the new KOF whenever SNK announces it.

Xrd was hype but I don't like the company's sales model, even more so after what Capcom has revealed SF5's will be like.

The Tekken 7 top 8 made me want to try the series again.

Rainy said:
momochi did a vid on ken in sf v

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=708chf36Ihg&feature=youtu.be
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Great vid, the guy did a really good job translating.

Momochi was bummed that Ken seems to have lost his SF4 step kick.

That EX air tatsu though.
 
Shitty thread title.

Shouta plz change to:
Anne said:
Full Boost Weekly | Shouta Still Loves Us
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Dahbomb said:
Just some food for thought. Not many heal mechanics in fighting games, most are usually pretty weak/benign (like Shuma's life drain which you earn by landing the throw) or have some caveat to them.
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Blazblue. Poster character literally regains health with any drive attack/special. You can ballance HP regen mechanics. What breaks it in USF4 is focus attack mechanics.
 
Gonna go back and watch the non-Sunday top 8's, missed them. Did we find out what happened to Momochis stick in the end? Was it a loose USB port-head, or something else? Oh, and I picked up P4AU for £9.99 from 'the game collection'. Thought I'd give it a gander.
 
Karsticles said:
Apparently ~250K. Huge increase.
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toddhunter said:
According to http://www.reddit.com/r/Kappa/comments/3dwx4z/evo_2015_finals_twitchtv_peak_viewer_counts_stats/
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I guess 250k was with the Topanga and French restream, absolutely huge increase when SFIV didn't even break 150k last year. I alway fear we're going to hit a ceiling soon, but it's great to see how fighting games are getting bigger than ever. The future is bright and EVO needs a bigger venue.
 
Karsticles said:
Thinking about Necalli...

His normal form looks like your typical caveman idiot. When he uses the V-Trigger, his facial expression changes. Compare:

In the first image, he looks like he has a thicker brow region, suggesting a neanderthalic motif. His opening line is "Devour-our-our", and he says it as though speaking is not something he is particularly skilled at. While fighting, Necalli is hunched over, and his attack motions are brutish and imprecise. His attacks are typically accompanied by grunts or groans.

When he uses the V-Trigger, his face becomes more finely featured. His attacks are still just as impactful, but now they feel more like martial art techniques rather than the strikes of a brute. This is especially apparent in the Critical Art change. Normal Necalli's Critical Art is a Berserker Barrage X adaptation, and he flings wildly at the opponent while clawing them up. V-Trigger Necalli drags his opponent to the wall and unleashes one precise powerful punch, suggesting skill and sophistication.

My immediate reaction to this is that Capcom is defying a stereotype while also giving in to it. When people saw Necalli's preview, I heard two things:
1) "Ugh, probably some stupid beast man trope."
2) "Ugh, probably some noble savage trope."

Surprise! We got both in one character. He swaps between the two modes of being. What this means in terms of his character are uncertain, but the summary on his character says the V-Trigger "completely changes his personality". There is also something unmistakably supernatural about Necalli, what with the glowing anti-gravity hair he possesses in V-Trigger.

That's all I got.
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Cool beans, that makes me feel a lot better about this guy for sure. Still not entirely happy we're getting another beefcake muscleman.. The next character revealed had better be some pretty girl or something.

shaowebb said:
And now for the question folks ask themselves once a year...
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Tekken. I want T7 on console like yesterday, it looked fantastic. But i'll just go ahead and play more TR and TTT2 in the mean time. Maybe some Guilty Gear to help pass the time. And i'll continue messing with BBCPE of course, but that has nothing to do with EVO since that stream was practically unwatchable.
 
shaowebb said:
And now for the question folks ask themselves once a year...
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In general SFV. Most things I've heard about it so far sound appealing to me, and I'd be excited to see the SF playerbase move on to a new game. If i see PS4 Xrd on a deal I'll snap it up. I got P4AU for cheap yesterday, but I haven't seen their Top 8 yet.
 
Probably going to return to skullgirls and give Beowulf more attention, just found out about his dash gimmick. Also USFIV and soon SFV :)
 
shaowebb said:
And now for the question folks ask themselves once a year...
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For me, I'm gonna try to play more anime in general and Skullgirls. They had the hypest top 8.

EDIT: Also I really wish the title was Fighting Games Weekly|Frauds Among U.S.
lol
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Well it's gonna be the SFV beta when it comes out Thursday
 
shaowebb said:
And now for the question folks ask themselves once a year...
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For me, I'm gonna try to play more anime in general and Skullgirls. They had the hypest top 8.

EDIT: Also I really wish the title was Fighting Games Weekly|Frauds Among U.S.
lol
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Street Fighter V and Tekken 7
 
Baleoce said:
Gonna go back and watch the non-Sunday top 8's, missed them. Did we find out what happened to Momochis stick in the end? Was it a loose USB port-head, or something else?
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Since I already replied from the other Evo thread, may as copy/paste it over here too since that thread's most likely going to die soon. http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=172456492&postcount=16175

From experience, the connecting ports at the top of the stick gets loose over time since you're constantly connecting/disconnecting the usb cable from it every time you play and pack it up. The store for our local meet-ups provided several of them for use and this was the most common failing point. A pretty major letdown considering the big price point on the stick tbh. Everything else about it is fine though and the pop up feature is very nice. Just the damn lifespan on the connecting port is flimsy as hell, pretty poor design really.

If I had to make a wager, I'd say that's what gave up on Momochi's stick. The fact that it worked and disconnected again a short while after (probably because he moved/bump it) are the same symptoms for the same problem we experienced at the store.
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Goto timestamp on the vid below if you want further examples:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvHEilllGZg#t=12m08s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvHEilllGZg#t=13m38s
 
Beesuit said:
Since I already replied from the other Evo thread, may as copy/paste it over here too since that thread's most likely going to die soon. http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=172456492&postcount=16175

From experience, the connecting ports at the top of the stick gets loose over time since you're constantly connecting/disconnecting the usb cable from it every time you play and pack it up. The store for our local meet-ups provided several of them for use and this was the most common failing point. A pretty major letdown considering the big price point on the stick tbh. Everything else about it is fine though and the pop up feature is very nice. Just the damn lifespan on the connecting port is flimsy as hell, pretty poor design really.

If I had to make a wager, I'd say that's what gave up on Momochi's stick. The fact that it worked and disconnected again a short while after (probably because he moved/bump it) are the same symptoms for the same problem we experienced at the store.
razer-arcade-stick-4s.jpg


Goto timestamp on the vid below if you want further examples:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvHEilllGZg#t=12m08s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvHEilllGZg#t=13m38s
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Thanks for the reply, and yeah I suspected this might be the case. It's a shame in some ways that there isn't some kind of soft-lock on USB (something similar to say how an ethernet cable soft locks into its port). It's not especially important for most devices that aren't constantly being switched, but for fight sticks it seems like a huge problem over extended periods of time.
 
I was wondering if there was a standard speed setting for a SFA2 and Vampire Savior that people used for most tournaments and stuff? If anyone knows I would appreciate the info!
 
shaowebb said:
And now for the question folks ask themselves once a year...
Coqlmnn.jpg


For me, I'm gonna try to play more anime in general and Skullgirls. They had the hypest top 8.
lol
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More Xrd and SFV later on... So nothing changed after EVO.
Will be picking up Tekken 7 and MKX(when it's cheap) to play casually though.
 
shaowebb said:
And now for the question folks ask themselves once a year...
Coqlmnn.jpg


For me, I'm gonna try to play more anime in general and Skullgirls. They had the hypest top 8.

EDIT: Also I really wish the title was Fighting Games Weekly|Frauds Among U.S.
lol
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Blazblue, and obviously more EXVS.
 
Dahbomb said:
9 different characters in Smash Melee: Pikachi, Fox, Falco, Marth, Peach, Jigglypuff, Ice Climbers, Samus, Sheik
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Even though Armada played Peach almost the entire bracket leading up to it, in Top 8 he ended up going all Fox. So only 8 characters really.

Karsticles said:
Just Smash 4. Though after watching Hungrybox play, I realized that I could probably play Melee at a proficient level without having to deal with all the technical crap.
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Karsticles said:
technical
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Karsticles said:
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Bruh
 
Does anyone know how long it usually takes for arcade games to get ported to home consoles? I'm pretty interested in Tekken 7 after watching it at EVO.
 
Chase17 said:
Does anyone know how long it usually takes for arcade games to get ported to home consoles? I'm pretty interested in Tekken 7 after watching it at EVO.
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I would have bought that game immediately if it had been available. I understand why the Japanese companies released to the arcades first, but it frustrates me since we have no arcades here.
 
Fell asleep after Melee. Just caught up with all of Marvel and will watch USFIV later(spoilers). Marvel was awesome.
shaowebb said:
And now for the question folks ask themselves once a year...
Coqlmnn.jpg


For me, I'm gonna try to play more anime in general and Skullgirls. They had the hypest top 8.

EDIT: Also I really wish the title was Fighting Games Weekly|Frauds Among U.S.
lol
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I'll most likely take Guilty Gear a lot more seriously.
Tekken 7 and SFV just because they're new.
 
Gamerbee's mental fortitude was seriously impressive, so many stressful matches almost back to back and still hung around till the very last match in grand finals.
 
Yatagarasu at Evo was hype. Lots of people who hadn't heard of it gave it a go, and we had a 96-man single Elim tournament on saturday.

(Then I played the winner in a FT3 and bodied him)

Yata isn't done, looks like we might be able to bring a copy or two to other US tournaments down the road.

Also, had a chance to speak with the game designer Umezono. They want to fix some UI/connection issues but it's a matter of -when they can get around to it- as Yata is their side project on top of their real jobs.

I speculate that when GGPO is added other things will also get fixed.
 
BadWolf said:
Gamerbee's mental fortitude was seriously impressive, so many stressful matches almost back to back and still hung around till the very last match in grand finals.
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This I can agree with. I thought Momo was going to demolish him in finals after watching he and Infil go at it for 20 minutes. Surprised me with the fight he put up.
 
Lulubop said:
Hellpockets and Ryan Hunter were the best commentary duo, true or false?

So good.
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They were great, so were Persia and Spooky.

Markman and Rip did a good job during T7 top 8 as well.

Was very happy to see Hellpockets back, missed him last year.
 
shaowebb said:
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Honestly, I'll play almost anything. The fighting games that I'll be putting the most serious time into will probably be Mortal Kombat X and Killer Instinct.

I'll eventually give Street Fighter V a fair shot. Tekken 7 isn't thrilling me, but I may eventually play it. New GGXrd and New UNIEL will have my attention when they're put on consoles. BlazBlue doesn't click with me, so I don't know if I'll really put serious time in BB Central Fiction, but we'll see. I may come back to Skullgirls at some point, but I've almost come to the conclusion that the game's too hardcore for me.


So...I guess in the wake of EVO, it'll just be MKX and Killer Instinct for the time being. Tremor coming to MKX on Tuesday will bring me a new main, and I'm eager for more KI.
 
USFIV Losers Finals was probably one of the very best SF matches ever.
It was incredible, someone should make a match analysis vid.

GFs were awesome too.

Im so hype for SFV!
 
Oh and Skill and James tears got me good right in the feels.
 
Fersis said:
USFIV Losers Finals was probably one of the very best SF matches ever.
It was incredible, someone should make a match analysis vid.
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The only thing I did was watch it from my couch and I felt like I went 3 rounds against Tyson. That was an instant classic
 
Think it's safe to say that neither Momochi, Infiltration or GamerBee would have made it as far as they did if they didn't use multiple characters.

Wonder how long the character loyalists will stick to their guns, especially with CapCup later this year.
 
Unlucky said:
BE|Kane Blueriver ‏@KaneBlueriverCL 11m
After this win, I've done everything I could aim to achieve in Marvel. I'm retiring to take down other games now.
https://twitter.com/KaneBlueriverCL/status/623067118309785600
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Shackzam said:
Oh, he thinks he's done with mahvel. Mahvel ain't done with him.
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Uraizen said:
How about consistently keeping that spot?
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Read the tweet again dudes. There's a #Kappa at the end.
lol

#Keppo
 
actually picked up a little interest in killer instinct but we'll see how it looks on PC and whether i'll bother upgrading to win10 or whatever

been playing a lot of skullgirls recently. i'm not very good or anything (i cbf learning even bnb combos reliably) but jesus god these animations. every single one of them is so good, I spend time in training mode 10% speed just watching animations... god, I wish I had put more effort into learning animation when I was younger...
 
The plan is Yata -> SFV -> T7. This starts after I 1CC Volgarr, which I just started.

I've played every Tekken since T2 on release, but the game isn't really changing it up enough for me. So I might just stick with SFV. It really reminds me of the older games which is fantastic.


Also, regarding dahbomb's questions: the eventual winner of Tekken cried when he won loser's finals. So really both grand finalists teared up on the stage.
 
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