I was talking about Third Strike. Keep it in Third Strike.
I’m not judging how good Tennessee 3S is because I never been there. I’m sure they’re great. I mean that sincerely. But if you’re playing on a pad then that means you’re playing the console version unless you have a supergun hooked up to a pad. But in So Cal and Texas the best 3S players play the machine. So Cal and Texas Arcades kept 3S alive in America for the past ten years when no one played the game seriously. I’m just saying. So now that it’s on console, it’s like we have to make the game suitable to all the scrubs out there. That’s sickening.
IMO I don’t think most of the SF4 generation would last in the SF2 or 3S era. Things were a lot harder back then. We had to fight for everything. Now SF4 players have everything: Youtube videos. Ultra meters. Consoles where they don’t have to spend money to practice combos. And they even get to program there buttons to their own liking. They fucking have PPP or KKK ready to go.
And now when they can’t do something or if something’s too hard they whine.
The standards for Street Fighter and Marvel are really really really low right now.
Unlike SF4, Third Strike isn’t made for a broad audience. So when the broad audience tries to get into the game they complain about everything. Just play it or don’t play it. It’s not for everyone. You have more than enough tools on your Online Edition. They never had anything like that on the machine. You have your parry mode and everything. So just play it and learn it. Stop complaining about how difficult it is. It was difficult for everyone. Game came out in 99 and players didn’t start scratching the surface until 2002.
I am/was the best Memphis ever had to offer in 3S (born there and grew up there), but Majin doesn’t even play 3S, even though he has a decent Hugo when he does play.
We played a lot of 3S since he respects my game and he does love Hugo…even though he claims to hate street fighter he will occasionally play me or a tourney in 3S.
He plays Guilty Gear and Tekken, and yes, he Will destroy you at both of those games. I would say he would even destroy FlashMetroid at Guilty.
Which brings up the pad thing. Majin does play pad, BUT he is one of the very few who does it and does it WELL…maximizing all the character’s and game’s potential.
So yes, joystick is the only really way for 99 percent of players to maximize all of their moves to full potential. Only a few can achieve this on pad. And even though Majin is beast on pad at all those games, he still can’t touch me at 3S except on rare occasions he might get a win…Guilty Gear and Tekken…that’s another story.
For all of you who are overwhelmed by the elitist.
We are fortunate that the Street Fighter/Fighting Game Community has the type of depth that it would even have elitist. When the masses leave the hardcore will always still be there keeping these games alive. I myself am not too fond of SF4 but I realize it’s importance. The Street Fighter community can now serve two types of players. The hardcore and the casual. And yes the old and the young. It’s a multi-generational group now.
IMO I believe 3S is the peak of SF while SF4 is just regression and nostalgia. Guile is a way more fluid character in ST than he is in SF4. One of the reasons why SF4 doesn’t appeal to me.
dude I know right, I don’t have to worry about my moves not coming out correctly because of bullshit shortcuts up the ass. When I want a move, It comes out! It’s awesome!
Dude I been playing fighters since SF2, I know the names. Dont take my word for it - check the sales figures, there is a REASON Capcom took a 10 yr break.
If new games were being made, it was because the profits of arcades and console port sales were high enough to justify making more and more games. That’s how every business works.
SF4 didn’t “save” anything.
Edit @Ellipsen: Fighting games were fine during that 10 year break. I was happy at first SF4 came out. But a certain muay thai fighter ruin it a bit for me. Still a fun game though.
Uh so what’s your point…
That 3S came out near the end of an era? Ok…yes, it did.
People were ready for SF to return and consoles are an extremely viable platform now. It’s good for us and good for Capcom. That doesn’t mean tons of people weren’t already satisfied and didn’t need or want anything more/new.
Can someone just rename this thread so people don’t come here already annoyed?
Oh ok. I didn’t like that part of, “how I’m a scrub all because I don’t play on overprice arcade sticks.” No offence to you or any stick players though.
I’m always going to recommend sticks over pads in regards to 3rd Strike. I was a pad player for my first two years of playing 3S, and I didn’t get anywhere until I bought an HRAP. Things just came out easier after the switch, especially Urien setups and combos. It made doing link combos much easier because of being able to piano the buttons, not to mention doing QCFs on the stick is much much easier than on the d-pad, especially during a combo. It’s expensive but well worth the price. This is why I hate when people say “sticks suck ima keep playin on pad”, because I feel like they’re handicapping themselves when they could be doing so much better…that or they’re just trying to prove a silly point because they think “stick users are elitist jerks”.
That’s just how I feel, anyway. You don’t have to take any of this to heart, so just play on whatever you feel like. I mean, there have been players in Evo Top 8 who use the d-pad, and they use execution-heavy characters like Viper too so whatev.
I’m kidding.