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Fighting Games Weekly | Jan 13-19 | Handsome fighters never lose majors

Kumubou

Member
No, MK9 with a dedicated stream was comedy gold. This thread is just waiting to see what can top that.
This resulted in one of the cooler things at Evo last year though: the smaller communities stepping up and asking where their steam time was, several community streamers offering to run streams and Evo accommodating them. I would like to see this expanded on, to the point where every game at Evo could have its own dedicated community stream, along with the feature streams.
 
If we're talking about speedrunning, I found myself closer than I ever thought possible to the WR of Turtles in Time. 2 minutes off (which is a lot), but still, I was hype.
 
This resulted in one of the cooler things at Evo last year though: the smaller communities stepping up and asking where their steam time was, several community streamers offering to run streams and Evo accommodating them. I would like to see this expanded on, to the point where every game at Evo could have its own dedicated community stream, along with the feature streams.

That is the best form of comedy. It gives you a lot of laughs but then leaves you feeling warm and fuzzy on the inside later.

Kind of like Full House.

we need an evo just for dead games

Probably nobody wants to compete with Yipe's exhibition tournaments.
 
Yo Wizard, Skullgirls Encore should be at Evo as it was voted FGOTY. ;)

If Eco stuff is being announced this week, I guess I should put down a expected/hopeful list of games?

Expected:

USF4
UMVC3
Injustice
KI
KOF13
Melee

Hopeful:
Skullgirls
Anime game
3D fighter.
JoJo ASB

We all know KI will get on the roster, and Melee was so good last year that I think it is a given it will return. I hope SG gets in - because it getting an official event at Evo might finally legitimize it as an active tournament game - but I would expect something like KOF before it. As ever I would also like to see a 3D fighter or BB/P4A make an appearance, but I think they are unlikely. And oh man if JoJos ever made it...
 

vocab

Member
Ya, p4a2 is a game I'm not even interested in. They barely changed anything. Added a bunch of stuff, but didn't fix the bullshit.
 

FSLink

Banned
Yo Wizard, Skullgirls Encore should be at Evo as it was voted FGOTY. ;)

If Eco stuff is being announced this week, I guess I should put down a expected/hopeful list of games?

Expected:

USF4
UMVC3
Injustice
KI
KOF13
Melee

Hopeful:
Skullgirls
Anime game
3D fighter.
JoJo ASB

We all know KI will get on the roster, and Melee was so good last year that I think it is a given it will return. I hope SG gets in - because it getting an official event at Evo might finally legitimize it as an active tournament game - but I would expect something like KOF before it. As ever I would also like to see a 3D fighter or BB/P4A make an appearance, but I think they are unlikely. And oh man if JoJos ever made it...

Have you played JoJo's ASB? I feel like as a competitive game it's kind of garbage. 30FPS is really disappointing too. :(


Also what the fuck at that combo from Shadow Mitsuru that Q posted. That lack of scaling.
 

QisTopTier

XisBannedTier
Aw yeah, Shadow Fury.
That insane power-up mode where specials cancel into specials and you have infinite supers is (hypothetically) balanced out by their lack of bursts and slight nerf to damage (among a few other small things).

Basically playing a Shadow character is like playing Marvel. :p
Who ever though that was a good idea and could even remotely be balanced needs to be fired
Also what the fuck at that combo from Shadow Mitsuru that Q posted. That lack of scaling.

That's P4A2 in a nutshell. The first one was bad enough as it was, they just made it worse.
 
high damage on certain characters (without spending tons of resources) really irked me in p4a =/. I love the game but the damage + oki some characters get is too stupid.

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high damage (50-60%, 70 is pushing it for me) off OMB is fine. But please don't have any more chie oki bullshit. I am already irked that aigis still has the same gameplan and is literally untouched.
 
That's P4A2 in a nutshell. The first one was bad enough as it was, they just made it worse.

Aww, really? Not even worse in a good way?

Hmmm. This makes me a bit more cautious toward a purchase. Is every character at least broken, or is this a situation like the first Blazblue/Marvel series where some characters just eat shit?
 

QisTopTier

XisBannedTier
Aww, really? Not even worse in a good way?

Hmmm. This makes me a bit more cautious toward a purchase. Is every character at least broken, or is this a situation like the first Blazblue/Marvel series where some characters just eat shit?
They can sorta win still it's an arcsys game. But the upper part of the cast is VASTLY better. Game is poorly balanced on almost all fronts of game design. If you want to buy it because you are a Persona fan it's a fun game to goof around with, but it's not one that I feel should be taken seriously.
 

FSLink

Banned
They can sorta win still it's an arcsys game. But the upper part of the cast is VASTLY better. Game is poorly balanced on almost all fronts of game design. If you want to buy it because you are a Persona fan it's a fun game to goof around with, but it's not one that I feel should be taken seriously.

Doesn't help that the new UI color scheme makes me want to stab my eyes out. :/
 

Lost Fragment

Obsessed with 4chan
I watched Full House religiously as a kid because I wanted a family like that instead of the one I had.

Now I'm sad. Why do you do this to me fightman GAF.

So nobody here digs KI? Neither its simplicity nor its great graphics nor its dojo mode nor its pure mindgames nor its great netcode?

I want to dig it but I want to keep my $400 more.
 

QisTopTier

XisBannedTier
So nobody here digs KI? Neither its simplicity nor its great graphics nor its dojo mode nor its pure mindgames nor its great netcode?

I'd play it, not seriously or anything but I'd enjoy it if I could play it. Then again I enjoy random sessions of DoA
I disagree with your p4u and pfu2 sentiments and think you are the weird.
Its fine if you enjoy it, I rank the games on par with stuff like the naruto games and such.
Kappa
 

Zissou

Member
So nobody here digs KI? Neither its simplicity nor its great graphics nor its dojo mode nor its pure mindgames nor its great netcode?

I don't think anybody has an xbone to play it in the first place. Also, what do you mean by "pure mindgames" just out of curiosity?
 

QisTopTier

XisBannedTier
I don't think anybody has an xbone to play it in the first place. Also, what do you mean by "pure mindgames" just out of curiosity?

The game is rock paper scisors sorta. To combo break you have to press what they are pressing. The heavy attacks are pretty reactable to as well
 
I don't think anybody has an xbone to play it in the first place. Also, what do you mean by "pure mindgames" just out of curiosity?

The mindgames you have access to and the choices you have to make (mid-combo) are close to identical for every character. This reduces autopilot by a fair margin.

Similar to Divekick, you can get to the meat of the game quickly.
 

LeMaximilian

Alligator F*ck House
So nobody here digs KI? Neither its simplicity nor its great graphics nor its dojo mode nor its pure mindgames nor its great netcode?

Killer Instinct's biggest problem. It's expensive and few have a good enough reason to own a next gen console. Until a Capcom fighter comes out on one.

However, the greater huge percentage(FGC included) love the hell out of the game if they do have it. Avatar aside, you can't get pissed at KI, just make better choices and have better spacing.
 
Injustice seems like a lock for EVO. At least more likely than MK in 2013. Feels good to not have to be super stressed about the games list announcement. I am excited for a chance at top 8 in IGAU and at peace with no MK.

MK9 dedicated stream and ballroom last year was awesome. We got our perfect send off. Hold that shit.
 

LeMaximilian

Alligator F*ck House
I don't think anybody was really commenting on the quality, just the relative popularity with regards to EVO.

Not saying you're wrong, but Melee was mocked by the FGC for 10 years until it recently returned to Evo in 2013 to insane numbers and support. Not many expected it to pull that kind of viewership, or that kind of donation insanity.
 
Not saying you're wrong, but Melee was mocked by the FGC for 10 years until it recently returned to Evo in 2013 to insane numbers and support. Not many expected it to pull that kind of viewership, or that kind of donation insanity.

It was mocked for 10 years because of its questionable status as a fighting game and some level of community rivalry/jealousy/whatever.

I don't think anybody ever questioned its actual popularity and you can point at various Melee tournaments (400+ entrants for example) to build an expectation for what occurred.

I do not believe you can do the same for Killer Instinct at this stage so I don't see any parallel between the two cases.
 
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