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Fighting Games Weekly | July 20-26 | No Gods or Kings, Only Tears
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"God's Beard!"
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Now I remember why I stopped playing Xrd.
Playing I-No on pad kills my fingers lol
Playing I-No on pad kills my fingers lol
Karsticles
Member
GGs man. Intense set, and I appreciate the variety of characters. I wish I could do Ogawa's setups off of a drill, but I only landed the j.K once before you hit Eddie. Probably my best play with him to date, even if it wasn't great. On several occasions I had total control of Zero and Eddie in the neutral, which has never happened before. I also started using Eddie as bait more, which paid off wonderfully when I punished properly.
I don't know how Faust's items work. They all scare me.
I don't know how Faust's items work. They all scare me.
AmethystEnd
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I saw Nage's Evo impressions posted earlier but I didn't see if Woshige's were posted so here they are if anyone's interested:
http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1sn4dso
Again, great read, and again, I love his outlook on the whole thing.
http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1sn4dso
Again, great read, and again, I love his outlook on the whole thing.
KidA Seven
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Looks like KBR is going to be staying in Japan until October probably at forgenjuro's place. lol
I was a bit disappointed with the intros for EVO this year. Especially SF4. There should have been a focus on previous evo history seeing as this is the last year where SF4 is the main game. That adds weight to the top 8 as opposed to just random SF clips.
Something like this with added footage of Xian and Luffy winning would have been dope.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHvXGRPVXrw
2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVvJMzsHFd8
I was a bit disappointed with the intros for EVO this year. Especially SF4. There should have been a focus on previous evo history seeing as this is the last year where SF4 is the main game. That adds weight to the top 8 as opposed to just random SF clips.
Something like this with added footage of Xian and Luffy winning would have been dope.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHvXGRPVXrw
2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVvJMzsHFd8
Uneil_latest nico stream for those interested. http://live.nicovideo.jp/watch/lv228860579
TheRetroKid
Neo Member
tbh between the two halls there was just so much space, but nobody wanted to be in that 2nd hall so they all snuck into the main hall anyways and it got crowded p fast.
Yeah, but that's my point. I wouldn't want to be in the second hall either. Might as well chill in the hotel room watching the stream at that point.
If this really is the last year for Street Fighter 4 it makes me a little sad this wasn't the intro.
The 2013 one is even better IMO. A good history of the events leading up so far and a godlike remix of Hakan's theme for the end.
sixteen-bit
Member
I doubt it's SF4's last year tbh. It won't be the headliner, but It'll prolly have enough ppl playing to be a main game next year.
Take this with a massive grain of salt at this point, but there have been some rumblings on the Kappa side from a few players that are in the know with Neo's crew. Some stuff is floating around that the person responsible for taking Neo's bag is actually someone in Neo's circle. There are some other low-grade rumors that the amount Neo is asking for actually doesn't match with what was found.
Again, take it with a grain of salt, but the guy who posted it has a credible history and people are suspecting that it may lead to a full on blow up.
Again, take it with a grain of salt, but the guy who posted it has a credible history and people are suspecting that it may lead to a full on blow up.
Master Milk
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i happened to be walking by when stickbug was looking at one of the jp's sticks in the hallway . . . those things are sick as fuck
MajinSweet4
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All speculation of course, but this wouldn't surprise me. In situations like this, it's pretty common that a friend/co-worker or whatever is involved.
That's the difference between Japan and America right there in a nutshell
sixteen-bit
Member
RF with that deep understanding. I'm impressed.
Honestly at a certain point in your life you need to learn not to leave a literal bag of cash alone in a public place. Like how dumb can you be?
This while GoFundMe is ridiculous, Neo is an idiot let him learn from his mistake if it isn't a scheme in the first place.
I'll have to agree with you on this. You're in a ballroom with 2000+ people and you leave your shit alone?! C'mon....
And everyone on twitter screaming at him to go check security cams and stuff and the first thing that comes up? A GoFundMe.
Did he at least go and check security cams ?
I wouldn't mind, if you still have it !
sixteen-bit
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if anyone in the us could hook me up with a code that would be super swell.
i can't preorder on amazon, they don't allow foreign CCs
matchmaker, matchmaker
i feel like a game like marvel lets this difference in styles show up a lot more since the degrees of freedom mean the difference is expressed harder. it's really cool and makes me really hope the international vs. US scene flares up hard as a result of this EVO
ShinMaruku
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Good to see more scietists win at this game more than feeling peope.
I wish I could be a scientsits but I suck ass so I'm assed out.
I wish I could be a scientsits but I suck ass so I'm assed out.
Lostconfused
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So you are saying that America is just too ham?
call_kotaku
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Now that I think about it, wasn't KBR the player who accused most marvel players of just "tossing coins"?
Them turning around to call him random is some irony
Them turning around to call him random is some irony
Go1 needs to figure out how to get to Orlando, first. He has no money.
I feel this is true about Marvel but I think it also illustrates how Japanese players approach fighting games versus how Americans approach the games. Not that one approach is better than the other necessarily but the divide becomes clearer in games like SF4 where the game is riddled with option selects and shit of that nature that Japanese players will study, invent, and exploit while American top players for the most part thinks the game starts and end with footsies and yomi and are apprehensive towards exploiting the engine due to misguided philosophical reasons. I know I'm making generalizations but it is something I noticed. I remember when Sako came over to compete in America for the first time in SF4 and players on Twitter said something to the effect of "Playing footsies with Sako is like playing footsies with the computer". I think this also highlights a specific mindset.
Because Jabailey wants to keep the CEO branding and couldn't think of another word than Otaku.
He's not wrong about CEO branding, BTW. Its such a strong brand, it'll help draw people into the area.
He was doing this as Evo, as well. Says he wasn't feeling well enough to go to the Twitch after-party and then is itching to play GO1 about 5 minutes later. :x
The issue with that is even if he does practice, there are no C-Arcs in America that are anywhere near GO1's level. That and he can play about two-thirds of the cast....
What happened to all of the money that he won from the anime side games... oh, right.
VanillaCakeIsBurning
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It's possible, but I think the kind of people who seriously use that phrase are also the type to think that sitting at home masturbating really is a better use of time than whatever it is your're doing since "nerd" stuff is considered to be at the bottom of the totem pole, in other words ripe for people to prop themselves up by bringing others down regardless of their own position.
Yeah, I can't remember his name at the moment but I recall him calling everyone in the room virgins for being excited about that match's outcome.
I don't know how misguided you have to be to inversely equate being excited about a game to having sex with a woman (I don't mention women having sex here because it's obvious his comment was exclusively aimed at men), let alone the fact that he's using whether a man has had sex a single time as some kind of measure for personal value/worth which is laughable shit to say the least.
Like I said before, these kinds of people seek to address their own insecurities by bringing other people down who have different hobbies and interests than them.
I think there is a difference between the average mentality of Japanese vs. U.S. players, but there are plenty of scientists in the U.S. and cowboys in Japan as well.
ehhh, if dudes are saying that it's probably not that they're saying he's random.
the issue folks have w/ his team if they're actually versed in the game and not a moron isn't really that he's "random" (that's a scrub complaint), it's that his playstyle/team is built around forcing cointoss situations and defeating it requires you to play under the team's flow exclusively rather than going with your own due to how hulk works- you can't attack him safely (and you ALWAYS want to attack safely in marvel for obvious reasons) without forcing your exact ideal safe approach on him while he is waiting to punish you for messing up or continuously forcing you into his offensive game/range
he also does a lot of hail mary stuff w/ the intention that his reads are better than yours when he's got the pressure on in key situations where the other player might escape and actually begin their offensive plan or when he's down b/c his team being put outside of it's naturally advantageous position makes it start to lose really really badly. this is where folks have a lot of issues w/ his win too and where the disgust comes from too i guess b/c forcing scrambles as a central part of a gameplan exposes the game for being pretty dumb as that wouldn't work in literally any other FG
this is what gcyoshi is talking about when he says you have to play perfectly against KBR to beat his team btw, he's not technically wrong bc that's ultimately what it comes down to for most of the cast. that's also where stuff like "i gotta defend REAL marvel" comes from
of course the hilarious truth is that zero and morrigan shit on hulk for life bc they have offensive plans that naturally cover themselves and can win without having to put themselves at risk too- it takes serious as fuck hard reads or massive fuckups for hulk to slap em down which is why it's incredible every time jan or kbr wins vs those chars
i don't really have a problem w/ it because the best chars are still infinitely better in terms of how instead of having to be perfect w/ your gameplay to beat them your it's more likely that your gameplan is invalid or close to it so you have to make hard reads constantly -while- playing perfectly to beat them instead of just the latter.
the big difference between those chars and team big body's is simply a matter of execution- the zero/morrigan stuff is more involved on a technical level than hulk so hulk's threat level is much higher in that sense
there is an actual sense of irony if KBR said that but i don't think he would b/c he's pretty clear about what his team and style are about and he maximizes what he does very well
Sounds about right. Also, the gofundme is getting blown up by comments.
http://m.imgur.com/J7RAP8Y from rKappa
More at http://www.gofundme.com/zrs63g8
Even if Neo is being legit the company he keeps has pulled too much shady shit so people are calling this gofundme out as a scam.
Lostconfused
Member
This sounds ridiculous, like look at Pepedai's interview. He mentions option selects once in a brief sentence. The majority of that interview still about practice, learning the game, learning the ins and outs of your character, the tools available, how and when to use them. OSes are just another mechanic you end up using, not a strictly codified one in the game but its still just another set of button inputs you have to do based on your decision making process.
Although I guess if you refuse to use them, then yeah you might be playing on a different level from someone who does.
It was awesome seeing how well KBR read them and countered accordingly. My friend who loved playing Hulk got so hype whenever he saw him armor through attacks and punish them.
So tempting to hit that report for fraud button.
Osu 16 Bit
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I agree. I am usually a big fan of the EVO top 8 intros but MKX and Ultra were disappointing this year.
The player clips at the end were awesome again though. I wish everyone actually did something fun like PR Rog. Half the guys just stare at the camera.