Ah, ya checked out the Polygon hands on. It doesnt look too bad. Since it's F2P I'll try it out, I dunno how the stripped down mechanics of the game will work though
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Ah, ya checked out the Polygon hands on. It doesnt look too bad. Since it's F2P I'll try it out, I dunno how the stripped down mechanics of the game will work though
I agree, they should make marvel the main event.
Lostconfused
Member
Yatagarasu and Rising Thunder seem to be demonstrating that pretty much everyone is willing to shit on the indy fighting game.
A Pretty Panda
fuckin' called it, man
And now for the question folks ask themselves once a year...
Same as before, I'll play smush 4 if it's near me. That's really it. Might play SFV
I know right. We blew our load too early
Don't forget Skullgirls.
skLaFarebear
Member
Not sure how I feel about Rising Thunder till I can get my hands on it. Luckily, its F2P,so I have no excuse not to give it a try, but I love the robots.
sleverfunk
Member
I see. Thanks mate.
biosnake20
Member
I think this will be the same for a lot of the top marvel players. I could easily see Chris G, F Champ and a few other players doing this too. Marvel is cool and all but that's not where the paypuh is.
Parallax Scroll
Banned
ChrisG and Justin will be fine playing whatever. But every time Champ says he's going to focus on a new game, you blink and he's already back to playing Marvel again.
"God's Beard!"
Member
People are shitting on Yatagarasu? I thought people just weren't interested, which is fine.
Rising Thunder is getting shit on because it looks like Rise of the Robots.
Lostconfused
Member
See I did it right there, damn.
[QUOTE="God's Beard!";172492562]People are shitting on Yatagarasu? I thought people just weren't interested, which is fine.[/QUOTE]
Plenty of talk about lazy ass UI was going on around these parts. Maybe some other things I am forgetting.
And now for the question folks ask themselves once a year...
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
Guilty Gear, Persona, and USF4. I FINALLY got training buddies so I'm fully willing to commit. It's not like DFO is giving me OV3 set pieces anyway >.>
Well, at least Skullgirls has a pretty loyal fanbase.
Yea, let's not forget F.Champ was extremely good at SF4 once upon a time. If he finds a character he gels with, which I hope he does. He'll go hard on the grind as well.
JeTmAn81
Member
RE: Elena's healing, I was watching EVO with a friend and his wife who doesn't really play but usually watches EVO with us. She had some serious hate for Elena. "That's not fair!". She wanted Gamerbee to lose just for picking Elena. She also hates Phoenix in Marvel (another character with healing powers).
TheRetroKid
Neo Member
to be fair, that's a steroetype, because we have quite a few lab-monsters who put in plenty of time learning tech....it's just too bad that it feels like most players are either lab monsters, execution monsters, or just flat-out clutch, but outside of jwong and pr rog, no one else has put all three traits together and made a consistent run.
as for mentally breaking after 4 heals, i completely agree. all hail infiltration, the only player who can beat a character with 2000+ health.
skLaFarebear
Member
UI, sound mixing, commentators (which you can turn off), etc. Saw some complaints about netcode, but that seems mixed since others like me had good matches online.
MikeBreezy92
Member
I think this is really off base. Im pretty sure Ray Ray, Neo and Apology man really do put in the work. So do Justin, F. Champ, and Chris G.
EVO is usually made of upsets and wild results. so even though it is the headlining tournament in the FGC, the tournament season before and after it usually tells a different story.
oh yea i remember that show
Woody Invincible
Banned
It was flat out heartbreaking to watch Infiltration lose. I did like Gamerbee before, but watching that turtling was really touch to watch. A 30 minute ft3....
From pervious years.
skLaFarebear
Member
Oh god lol.
Skullgirls did it first
Karsticles
Member
The only thing that bothered me was that Infiltration took so long to learn from his mistakes. Fireball after fireball feeding free health. What the hell, man?
Lostconfused
Member
There is some serious, boot straps, back in my day, lazy kids nonsense going on in that thread too, damn.
Edit: I shouldn't be surprised though, what with all the scrubs rushing to pick up SFV with that 2 frame buffer easy mode now.
Edit: I shouldn't be surprised though, what with all the scrubs rushing to pick up SFV with that 2 frame buffer easy mode now.
SixMachine
Member
Waiting for my plane back to home from vegas. Shoutouts to the gaf crew i met on my trip. Strike Villain, Master Milk, Anne, Count Blackule (congrats on the $4 lol), Shouta, Qistoptier, Smedwicks/Dadwicks, Professor Beef and everyone else, I'm really sorry if I forgot your name (I'm dumb like that). You guys are pretty chill in person. Hope to see you next year.
Also I find it hilarious that we all entered Catherine (or at least the gaffers I was around). What wasn't so hilarious is that they weren't really spacing out the matches well at all. Master Milk beat Dadwicks and they called Dadwicks for his losers match like an hour and a half later. I didn't even play my losers match because I went to the SFV panel and was waiting a while for it before I left too. Other people I met also felt that way but we still enjoyed watching the matches, even though a lot of them had to bounce.
Seriously I thought most of Top 8 sf4 was great. In person everyone was hype and tense, even with Elena healing shenanigans because it was a constant life swing and the crowd knew it (surprise infiltration didn't try an ultra 1 switch 2nd game with chun since he rarely landed the kikosho anyways and he can try to scare elena from a full heal). Quite the contrast to forum gaf lol. You bums should get your ass out here. You obviously don't play Tekken if you can't afford to come out here.
Also shoutouts to juicebox, i lost my yata match in a close game. He apparently found it funny and told me Hina's ex flash kick barely had any invincibility, sort of wish I knew that before because I lost the round trying to anti-air with it haha.
Tekken 7 was actually much more fun than I thought. Much better to play than watch. I took a game off the japanese player and he played shaheen, but I didn't feel that I was too outmatched. My losers match was a close game last round last game and couldn't close it out. Casuals happened next day after the tournament and I got 3 games with Claudio in. I really like his moves even though i didn't really utilize the arm to well but found same moves to power it up. It made me feel nice that I wasn't free with Claudio against Kaz players but they admitted they didn't know his moves either.
Also I find it hilarious that we all entered Catherine (or at least the gaffers I was around). What wasn't so hilarious is that they weren't really spacing out the matches well at all. Master Milk beat Dadwicks and they called Dadwicks for his losers match like an hour and a half later. I didn't even play my losers match because I went to the SFV panel and was waiting a while for it before I left too. Other people I met also felt that way but we still enjoyed watching the matches, even though a lot of them had to bounce.
Seriously I thought most of Top 8 sf4 was great. In person everyone was hype and tense, even with Elena healing shenanigans because it was a constant life swing and the crowd knew it (surprise infiltration didn't try an ultra 1 switch 2nd game with chun since he rarely landed the kikosho anyways and he can try to scare elena from a full heal). Quite the contrast to forum gaf lol. You bums should get your ass out here. You obviously don't play Tekken if you can't afford to come out here.
Also shoutouts to juicebox, i lost my yata match in a close game. He apparently found it funny and told me Hina's ex flash kick barely had any invincibility, sort of wish I knew that before because I lost the round trying to anti-air with it haha.
Tekken 7 was actually much more fun than I thought. Much better to play than watch. I took a game off the japanese player and he played shaheen, but I didn't feel that I was too outmatched. My losers match was a close game last round last game and couldn't close it out. Casuals happened next day after the tournament and I got 3 games with Claudio in. I really like his moves even though i didn't really utilize the arm to well but found same moves to power it up. It made me feel nice that I wasn't free with Claudio against Kaz players but they admitted they didn't know his moves either.
Glad Capcom is stepping in to help Americans stop losing to the world. It's not America's fault!
call_kotaku
Member
New IPs in general don't get very much traction in the post-arcade FGC, I feel like; even Blazblue seems like it struggles from that. Yata can be a mechanically better SF game and Skullgirls can be a mechanically better marvel successor but they'll always scrape the bottom of the barrel in terms of community/player interest because they don't have attractive names or accessible presentations.
If the name of your game doesn't inspire some sort of nostalgia people aren't going to be very interested in it. It sort of reminds me of how Jeremy Clarkson (rip top gear) describes the luxury car market: Mercedes and Lexus make amazing cars but they'll never be considered desirable by the market they're appealing to because they don't have one of the half-dozen badges that matter. Even if the car is made by Audi/Fiat/Volkswagon, people will buy the Lamborghini/Ferrari/Bugatti even if the Lexus is the better car.
If the name of your game doesn't inspire some sort of nostalgia people aren't going to be very interested in it. It sort of reminds me of how Jeremy Clarkson (rip top gear) describes the luxury car market: Mercedes and Lexus make amazing cars but they'll never be considered desirable by the market they're appealing to because they don't have one of the half-dozen badges that matter. Even if the car is made by Audi/Fiat/Volkswagon, people will buy the Lamborghini/Ferrari/Bugatti even if the Lexus is the better car.
I was sorta confused tbh, because when infil put Gamerbee into losers he played a rushdown style Chun vs his Elena. Im not sure why he switched to zoning in top 8. That was actually the first time I've seen a Chun player actively try to zone an Elena player out.
ShinMaruku
Member
I don't think it's off base. Those guys are the execption, which is why they are considered 'gods'
I think those little groupings are all due to not a proper teaching regime and far too spread out scenes. If you have people in all those groups play each other and make them counter one set and force them to develop their other skills. It's really small spread out scenes and bad mindsets. It's why I will NEVER give the east coast credit even if it has execution monsters because it is the most cliquish and small minded. Sure somebody there will win something but he's the exception not the rule.
SolarKnight
Member
*coughcough* >.>
But lol I'm the same so I can't judge you for that. It was nice seeing everyone.
Don't forget that it was crowded as fuck. I'm sure it was great for the spectators, but considering that and that I hadn't even had breakfast and that they just wouldn't call me for my match I just bailed out
PAL region so not sure if i am even going to get the beta code after signing up. I did not pre-order. I would still be cool with not getting it tho.
New game is always exciting too. Being f2p is even better.
SixMachine
Member
Oh fuck, sorry about that lol. It was nice meeting you too. Also mad props for bringing a wii u. I wish I did that haha.
Lostconfused
Member
Don't worry Seth knows whats up. That's why his technical Alpha is starting up on the day SFV beta ends. Actually I wouldn't expect much from the Alpha, if the core mechanics are solid then it doesn't really matter what happens until it goes live. When anyone can pick it up and play for free, seeing how many people do try and and stick with it, that will be the real test for Rising Thunder.