theprodigy
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Define "big".
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Fighting Games Weekly | 4/20-26 | Beowulf Wrasslin', Mewtwo Smashin', Netkode Krashin
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What tourney is this? For smash to be up there with every single game in its existence and skullgirls can't have infinite numbers
Salts everywhere yo
Yo SMASH, even those Project M numbers are surprising.
Guilty Gear showing a big presence too.
Lostconfused
Member
Yes, With Ken.
Sent him to losers with a 0-3. The finals were a lot closer and Smug managed to reset the bracket.
It's wishful thinking from Art that MK X will kill off SFIV.
Humans are more often than not the product of their culture, and SF has earned it's place in the FGC over two decades. Right now, MK X is popular with a casual audience that probably won't cross over to FGC. The best case scenario would be for it to take the UMvC3 spot as the third place after SF and Smash melee. This is just as deluded as an hockey fan thinking the NHL was going to overtake the NBA and MLB in popularity after the 2014 Olympics since Obama tweeted over the T.J Oshie shootout winner.
Thats not even a real day.
ShinMaruku
Member
You can't say that when Current Gen is over 30 million.
And yet Smash 4 on Wii U has over 100. lol
irfaanator
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tron bonne is awesome
Osu 16 Bit
Member
Hopefully 150 to 200 or even 300. Combo Breaker is kind of a mystery since it's not technically UFGT but hopefully everyone knows it will be good and comes(from talking to friends that does seem to be the case)
Thomasorus
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People thinking Capcom Fighters Network is a megaton have short memory. Remember that Tekken Tag 2 had the World Tekken Federation where everything was regrouped. You could see % for almost everything: character use, moves used, how many combos you missed after landing a launcher, how many throws you made, how many throw breaks you did... That was like the best thing ever done for a fighting game as you could study your opponent just by watching his stats and finding habits from them.
Too bad they had to shut it down due to cost but let's remember that often it is Namco that innovates with Tekken while Capcom just wait and see without taking too much risk. And Capcom is very honest about this by the way.
Too bad they had to shut it down due to cost but let's remember that often it is Namco that innovates with Tekken while Capcom just wait and see without taking too much risk. And Capcom is very honest about this by the way.
Damn, its a leap year nevermind.
don't worry, it always get's people.
Shouta
Member
According to the last few years, we usually get 10-20% of our total reg numbers. Not sure how that'll change total number of players for the games but as far as I've noticed, it tends to be Smash heavy for door reg.
NRS games aren't super big in our area so getting as many folks as we are for MKX is pretty great. Hopefully more people will become aware of the event so they can come out.
The strongest communities in the area are Smash, Street Fighter, Airdashers, and Tekken which is why their numbers are pretty solid. If you look at Tekken pools, it's basically full of Killers everywhere. It's a shark tank.
DryEyeRelief
Member
Usually entrants coincide with general interest level and thus are the highest at release.
That being said, it's annoying that people look at entrants numbers, and are quick to proclaim if a game is going to live or not. Marvel minions did that all the time in 2012. I know the general interest for MKX is there, in ways that haven't been seen since SF4, so maybe it just needs time to get the ball rolling.
Why you gotta hate?
I think it places ahead of Marvel, but behind the Smash games and Ultra.
yea I've mostly known West coast for their airdasher's, smash support.... god I wanna move there...
NRS games are usually East coast, Chicago mostly so I am not really all that surprised by the low registrations but it can always bump at the gate.
he's a B-Boy now!
theprodigy
Member
hmm...I thought Marvel had a big drop from last year, but it turns out that last year only had 63 entrants anyway, so that's a 25% drop before door registration
I wonder what it looked like for Final Round/NCR though
I wonder what it looked like for Final Round/NCR though
"God's Beard!"
Member
I watched Juicebox's footsies video and now I feel really ashamed of myself.
Time to hit a lot of training mode.
Time to hit a lot of training mode.
DA KING.
#SmugSux
Also how ya'll gonna namedrop fruit snacks and not mention the Scooby Doo ones?
Break dancing career? I remember watching a video of him going in hard.
SloaneRisette
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Really glad Smash 4 is getting a decent turnout, hopefully I'll actually be able to catch Top 8 on Sunday.
Are there any events/exhibitions happening on Saturday?
Are there any events/exhibitions happening on Saturday?
For a second I thought you were talking EVO, was gonna get mad at you if you're not gonna be there all day like last year
theprodigy
Member
I meant YoY changes, Final Round had 247 entrants for Marvel this year but I can't find anything on last year
meanwhile, NCR had 147 in 2014 and 103 in 2015, a 30% drop
An interesting thing I'm noticing about MKX is that there are some Russian-language channels streaming the game and getting lots of viewers (like this one which currently has over 1k viewers). The CIS countries are big into competitive gaming (see CSGO and Dota2), but never fighting games. And yet, MKX seems to be doing quite well among the Russian-speaking population, at least for now.
Funnily enough, there was a day I think in 2013 when MK9 had over 10k Twitch viewers, and it was because Ukrainian Dota2 superstar Dendi was streaming it. (Can't find the video, but there are clips of Dendi and his teammates playing MK9 at a LAN event.) Also, I once had a conversation with a Russian-speaker (in Twitch chat of a Dota2 channel) who was excited by the fact that I had met Tom Brady in person. It's possible Mortal Kombat may just reach a large part of the world that Street Fighter so far has not permeated.
Funnily enough, there was a day I think in 2013 when MK9 had over 10k Twitch viewers, and it was because Ukrainian Dota2 superstar Dendi was streaming it. (Can't find the video, but there are clips of Dendi and his teammates playing MK9 at a LAN event.) Also, I once had a conversation with a Russian-speaker (in Twitch chat of a Dota2 channel) who was excited by the fact that I had met Tom Brady in person. It's possible Mortal Kombat may just reach a large part of the world that Street Fighter so far has not permeated.
This can pretty much be a rebranding of existing featuresets in SFIV, seems like an umbrella for a persistent online service. Wouldn't jump the gun yet on assuming features.
VF4 did it first.
Just like customization.
MiniBossBattle
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[QUOTE="God's Beard!";161283388]I watched Juicebox's footsies video and now I feel really ashamed of myself.
Time to hit a lot of training mode.[/QUOTE]
RIP my Bison vs your Ken.
Time to hit a lot of training mode.[/QUOTE]
RIP my Bison vs your Ken.
Really? Wow. Straight to youtube to look for videos. Does he still use the Jago name?
Lostconfused
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That's because those competitive games are on PC which is the dominant platform in those countries. That and maybe MK might just be a more popular franchise than SF over there.
SloaneRisette
Member
Haha nah, I'll be there all day everyday at Evo, except for food, you don't have to worry about that.
Don't remember the video name, but there was a story of someone buying a stick and it ended up being jago selling it and the person had him sign it before shipping it to him. He said he didn't need it anymore.
Russia was about 20% of MK9 sales on Steam. Russians are PC gamers, and competitive gamers, so PC fighting games isn't a huge stretch.
NRS should make a Russian character for them.
Yeah... because it was Russians playing....
Slamtastic
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SloaneRisette
Member
Hold my seats during Smash, both of them.
Smash is boring
I remember you leaving for a lot last year, lol.
I wanted to leave during KI but we were only gone like 20 minutes so we sat through a bunch of it. At least the hotel this year should have better (actual) places to eat at
CommandThrower
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That Kold War Scorpion still looks really dumb, and it's all because of the cartoonish helmet; it's completely non intimidating.
The other three are pretty good. That Kold War Sonya~
The other three are pretty good. That Kold War Sonya~