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

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I'm really enjoying reading the salty tweets.

I'm done
haha fuck every single person there. i kinda liked gcyoshi but fuck him too.
 
Kinda regretting not getting a PS4 stick at Evo, but it wouldn't have fit in my luggage.. and I wouldn't have had any money to go to the Twitch afterparty on Sunday
 
This begs another question - Soul Calibur 2 is one of the most popular fighting games ever made, why did people stop playing it? Is there something that keeps new players from picking up SC2 while games that are even older like 3S or Melee continue to get new blood? Is GI not as gratifying as parry?
inb4stepguard
The dirty secret about SC2 is that it was never as well-liked as people make it out to be. A large portion of SC2's audience were Tekken players who glommed onto it because the only other current Namco fighter was freakin' Tekken 4. Once Tekken 5 came onto the scene, the Tekken die-hards pretty much all bailed.

And trust me, there was plenty of mud being flung at SC2 for the many problems it had. If the old Soulcalibur.com forum archives still existed, there'd be more than enough proof of that.
 
I am probably going to be playing an aggressive character in the SFV beta like Cammy. I don't think a zoning/defensive character is going to work that well in SFV. Not that they have a dedicating zoning/defensive character in SFV yet anyway.
I am going to pick a new character to focus on each day.

Yeah, saw that last night when it went up. Am suitably amped for my main, even if my favorite roundhouse ever isn't the same anymore.

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A question that I probably know the answer to. My hands are slightly messed up.....and it would be much easier for me, I am guessing, to map V-Skill to HP + HK and V-Trigger to MP + MK, but I am guessing much like Focus attacks in SF 4, I am out of luck, aren't I?

:(.

If so, goddamnit....:(
Biz, do you have trouble double tapping to dash because of your situation?
 
I'm saying. Kane has used this team forever but never won a major but he made it happen because got better, he got smarter, he played better and smarter. Gcyoshi sounding scrubby as fuck.
 
I'm saying. Kane has used this team forever but never won a major but he made it happen because got better, he got smarter, he played better and smarter. Gcyoshi sounding scrubby as fuck.
Unsurprising coming from a dude who's idea of Sentinel neutral and footsies is to mash out st.S.

All these players need to look inwards before complaining outwards.
 
Mogoatchi taking capcom cup too. The most dominate player at the end of vanilla, the most dominate player at the end of Ultra. The true sf god
 
HRAP4 Kai impressions:
Wow, the stick has no resistance at all. I am not sure how I feel about it so far. It will take time to adjust, because the resistance on my SA guides my execution.

Still, I played two hours of Xrd without serious issues. Double tapping is much faster, though, and my Eddie sandwich strings are more precise than ever. This makes me think it will be a good change overall.

The buttons are definitely harder to press in, but it hasn't messed up my execution yet. Pianoing took a bit more effort, and I wonder if my hands might become more tired sooner as a result of the Kuros. I am less excited about the buttons, and I might swap those out. I will at least give them through the SFV beta to feel them out. It might just be a period of adjustment.
 
Where was the complaining last year when Wong won with storm and Akuma. Game should have already been died then. How could two under used characters win! Living games only have the same characters always winning!
 
Zero/Magneto/Doom/Vergil/Morrigan only

Only Missiles assist allowed

No X factor

No TACs

Training stage only

360 console

No Handicaps

FT100, win by 10

No coaching

Start of round both players back off to the opposite side of the screen

#REALMAHVEL
 
Zero/Magneto/Doom/Vergil/Morrigan only

Only Missiles assist allowed

No X factor

No TACs

Training stage only

360 console

No Handicaps

FT100, win by 10

No coaching

Start of round both players back off to the opposite side of the screen

#REALMAHVEL

Or we could just play Galactus mirrors.
 
Where was the complaining last year when Wong won with storm and Akuma. Game should have already been died then. How could two under used characters win! Living games only have the same characters always winning!

Besides Justin not being an "outsider," people were rooting for him because he beat ChrisG and almost beat Flocker, so it had a nice hero vs villain narrative. Also his characters don't have super armor.

Enough people were rooting for Justin to repeat his win this year that KBR beating him made him the bad guy I guess.
 
"Real Marvel"

These guys live in a fantasy.

What the fuck is even Real Marvel? It's not like their teams don't have set plays and one touch kill shenanigans. I thought Jwong and the other "Gods" wanted to rejuvenate the scene by placing bounties on themselves. What was that nonsense, if they can't accept defeat? Hope KBR actually never gives them any runbacks and just make them hold those Ls forever. >: (
 
no more of this cheap overpowerd hulk stuff. marvel players need to play with honor

Yeah, the honor of Zoop Zoop/Sou Sou Sou/"What is gravity" TAC infinites/80Ks/etc.

Marvel is the filthiest game played by a large number of people in mainstream circles right now. Dudes should be walking out of sets thinking "I need Jesus" after some of the scumminess they witness or perform on someone else and there is no "one scummy is better than the other" about it.
 
Yeah Justin had decades worth of reputation behind him so of course people were going to respect his play and win. It would be like Daigo winning SF4, it's just expected.

Aside from Justin, all of the EVO champions of MVC3 have gotten shit or hated on. Viscant got hate, Flocker got hate, FChamp got hate and now KBR is getting hate.
 
lol marvel has traumatized me! i never thought kbr was going to win even when he was up a game on rayray. i'm used to haggars always getting bodied in GF. ;_;
 
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