They changed life and damage from vanilla to super.
There were many 1f link combos in Vanilla too. Vega depended on cr.lp, cr.lp, cr.mp otherwise you could just FORGET about playing him. Now not so much.
I know they did, but how do those affect 1f links? I don’t see the correlation.
I’m sure there were links as there have been in every SF game, I just don’t remember people complaining about them or them being such a huge part of the game till Super dropped. It seemed like the number of combos dependent on 1f links increased a great deal and I cant really see any reason why that would be other than Capcom deciding to do it just because they could.
If damage is high enough you don’t have to worry about said one frame links for your bnbs and not mandatory for high level play.
That’s a good point, with higher damage output you could use the easier, less damaging combos more often as they would be more viable.
But then the 1f link combos would tear up life bars… Unless you changed the scaling drastically
Name just frames(or 1 frame links) that destroyed Virtua Fighter or Guilty Gear? As those two are high damage fighting games of a few hits.
Wonder why I didn’t mention ST,MvC2,CvS2 or even Vsav? The thing there is no 1 frame links in those games.
I don’t know about VF, but Guilty Gear has some combos that have really tight timing. And sometimes those are the optimal combos, but you can do pretty good damage with combos that don’t require FRCs. But the non-FRC combos, you sometimes give up positional advantages. Still the game gives you a choice to use them or not use them, and you can be fairly effective without them depending on what level you’re playing at.
SF4, you can’t go too far without running into a bunch of link-based combos, which, considering how they were talking about making it a more beginner friendly game, is pretty ridiculous. And if you’re not using link combos, then you’re likely not playing your character to their fullest potential.
Except the argument isn’t can you do high damage without one frame links, your argument was just give AE way more damage, which does have one frame link combos which could become touch of death combos.
Thanks for reading what I typed jerk.
Except, touch of death isn’t new to Street Fighter they’ve been in most sf games even in games that don’t have 1 frame links due to turbo.
Even a few of them ask you to do one in it’s trail mode.
Quoted for truth. Also a reason I think more of my friends (generally non-FG players) get into “animu” games more than SF.
PS: Arcana Heart 3 also has a really good balance of effort/meter/risk to damage IMO.