well to be honest very few people really know how to play the game well.
but anyone who has played with good players will hit a certain point where they at least understand. their mind morphs into a 3S mind. then you can at least comprehend what better players are doing and why the game plays out the way it does.
Well you know what’s up. I don’t think very many people understand if you play with other people that are genuinely good at the game it’s.entirely different than playing people that just throw out random.shit.
I think at this point most people are tired of arguing the point. Parry gets accused of a lot of dumb stuff (killing zoning, making everything into a guessing game) and there’s probably arguments to be made to the contrary but even in this stage of the game’s life these arguments crop up once a month and it’s not really worth it to go too far in depth.
Someone could write an in-depth exploration of parrying in 3s and how the game functions and save it in a text document to copy and paste, I guess.
I don’t see how parrying killed zoning in 3s when one of Ryu’s best moves is EX Hado, Remy has machine gun LoV and Akuma chucking air fireballs all the time + fierce red fireball, etc. Must be because c.mk x hado isn’t a combo or a true block string at all ranges, stay free SF4 players.
I didn’t really like 3rd strike, to be honest. I probably just didn’t play it enough.
Is 3rd strike up there of being the best fighters…? YES. Is 3rd Strike THE best? See this is where things get tricky… there are so many factors that can define a fighter game I’m too lazy to type them and the fact this also includes 3d fighters makes things pretty debatable. Also is #1 meaning best tourney class fighter? best fighter that attracts the most player base aka fun? best fighter cuz it looks cool? In the end its all about personal preference. Well for me in 2d I particularly enjoyed Marvel super Heroes and Vampire Savior and the recently released Skullgirls. 3D would be Dead or Alive 2 Ultimate and Tekken 6
Capcom vs SNK2 for me. It has parrying, but it has lots of other options and grooves to go along with it.
hell no.
I can separate myself from scrubs in ST just fine with basic zoning and poking. People who think they have a chance against top players without parry are as delusional as SF4-generation scrubs who think the ease of obtaining information nowadays makes them comparable to old top players in knowledge, understanding or skill.
On a somewhat related note why isnt parry called block over here, and why the hell is gouki’s name changed to akuma. Its a lamer name
Sure. The higher level players are better at parrying, when to parry, when not to, baiting parries. Etc.
theres just so much more that separates scrubs from even decent players that parry isnt really needed.
Yes. But can you parry?
Not really. I can parry stuff like full screen projectiles, even full screen shinkuu, but that aside, it is just out of luck, like SRK at Akuma’s dive kicks, notice the unintentional parry, cr.fwd xx SA2 with Ken. I do not play 3S anymore, since it is dead around here and it sucks online.
I do this all the time
oh hey I accidentally parried, time to cr mp xx SA2 with Elena
then I yell “I MEANT TO DO THAT! WHY AM I SO GOOD!!”
Really if u watch highly skilled players (especially Japanese players) they hardly ever parry at all. That’s the way to go instead of just guessing all the time and getting punished for it. That’s really what separates the high level players and the ok ones. I only parry anything when I have too ( in the air, or trying not to get chip damaged to death)
That’s because japanese players do their best not to be predictable. In a sense you could say that they’re just being random, but not in the negative way that word is usually used.
Blocking has always meant what Japanese call guarding since forever (read SF1/2), so it makes sense to stay true to what has been used since the very beginning. Changing terminology would only cause trouble and appeal to almost no-one, since Japanese players do not usually check SRK.
haha reminds me of this one time I was in Japan hanging out with bas and a friend of his and I called Gouki “Akuma” and he twisted his face in disgust and said “They call him Akuma in America? Thats stupid”
Good thing you didn’t mention the rotated SF2 boss names.
Also there’s Nash.