If the choice is between Dualshock and the official 360 controller, I'd go with the Dualshock, no question. Specialty pads like the Madcatz Fightpad are decent if you want a 6-face button controller (as it's a more natural layout for a 6-attack game), but the Madcatz pad in question is rather prone to breaking down, in my experience.
Absolutely amazing. I played my friend in Florida with a really crappy connection and had no problems with lag or anything.
I use the regular PS3 controller :lol I'm probably weird when it comes to that but it's the controller that's the most comfortable for me personally. Any type of Madcatz Pad or whatever would do though.
That makes sense. I don't have any characters in any game I'm particularly attached to. I'm just a casual fan of fighting games. I'll definitely check out the demo to see how I feel about it. I downloaded it last night but didn't have time to actually try it.
I don't come to fighting games for competitive play. I know I'm in a minority here. I play fighting games for the single player content. So it's totally possible for a fighting game to be difficult for me.
All of the above. 360 pad plus laggy screen is a shittastic combo.
The problem is you can't cheese the AI with sweep kicks or rushes or whatever, it has a somewhat realistic fighting style that feels like playing a slightly robotic person, which is why I imagine a lot of players who don't play these games in multiplayer are having a lot of trouble. If anything I think this is really, really fair AI. Much less cheap then input reading motherfuckers you see in other games.
Yeah, I agree with all of this.
they are most certainly valid. usually when i first start arcade on normal settings, i expect a walk in the park and just test my buttons and moves, but with skullgirls i actually had to try. i then went to the hardest settings to see if it would give me trouble if i tried, and nope it didn't--it was roughly the same as normal settings. then i went to the easiest settings and kinda just walked around and let me them hit me and see what they would do, and they actually did some combos. while its not "harder" persay, the progression is most certainly is.discoshark said:
MikeZ said:
i noticed this game is a lot slower and a lot less lenient than mvc3. in mvc3, you can almost piano abc and expect it to chain, in skullgirls you actually have to time it somewhat properly. if you're used to mvc3, basically slow down your button presses and you should get it.
as someone who actually likes q, i'm not sure if i should be happy or feel insulted.
"Big Band is going to play like Q, but not crappy." -Mike Z
I'm going to main this motherfucker so hard:
pretty sure its character dependent. how many ever air dashes you can do per jump, thats what you get for combos.
reset into tricky crossup or fake crossup?
Downloaded it on XBL this morning, and I can't play online. Trying to connect to quick match, or join a room, or do anything really, gets a notification "validating online play" on the screen. But nothing else happens.
That notification bar then stays on the screen in all game modes, including training, until I quit the game
Cerabella was the character I was the least interested in and i can't stop playing her. So much fun. Only dabbled in Valentine and and Parasoul.
While it does show some game specific stuff, it's really a primer for fighting games in general. A lot of the concepts I didn't grasp for almost a year of watching streams and playing. I'm still a better theory fighter than I can execute. But fighting games are so much more fun to watch and play when you understand the fundamentals.
That sounds great! Any more impressions of the learning processes/tutorial.
