Actually, I think it’s more of a COMIC BOOK cliche; Anime doesn’t abuse the “time travel” thing nearly as much as American comics do.
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He has safe approach options, and Post 1st BnB You’re looking at 4K Meterless from common starters and throws. Then you have BHS Unblockable Resets / Valiant charger / Double Weakpoint combos etc.
His damage is definitely well up there. 6K from 5B + 1 Weakpoint is nasty.
I was laughing my ass off at the discussion of BB’s story line. I love it–at least, what I can make of it–but the game itself really doesn’t do players any service w/r/t figuring things out. You gotta look at the ancillary materials–otherwise you’re just left with a bunch of vague references and ominous pronouns. (eg. “No–not Him!” and "Can it really be… Her?!)
Hopefully CP will clarify some of this.
Hopefully.
Cool. Got vids of him doing anything interesting, because all the ones I’ve seen so far haven’t shown him approaching safely or doing 4k meterless.
Also, I think he has a fundamental problem where all the high damage combos he does rely on you having a weakpoint already in place, but most of the combos he does with no weakpoints in place consume the weakpoint by the end of the combo.
I don’t particularly watch too much Azrael play, but I did see this recently. Go to 7:30.
I like it, except that…well, how stupid looking IS that combo? =( I guess it’s SUPPOSED to be a repeatable move like that? 'cause…well. Lame. =( I’m really not a fan of “Look at me as I repeat this same move like 4 times in a row” ‘combos’. What confuses me though is…if that combo can be done in any reasonably common situation, why have I just watched like 10 videos of the highest ranked Azrael player in Japan and never seen him reach that level of damage?
I mean, watching the rest of that video, there isn’t much going on there that screams “look how strong this character is!”; Everyone in this game blows up for 5k occasionally.
I mean, does THIS mean Tsubaki is high tier? 
Azrael looks middle of the road to me still. He doesn’t have anything dumb, and dumb is what makes you top tier in this game. I mean, I watched all the Azrael matches in that vid, and he got this supposed “post 1st BnB 4k damage” once. And this is a 12th Dan Azrael. Then I watched a bunch of Dogura matches, and I saw him do that combo once, although it only did like 3.9k. So it exactly can’t be off “common starters”? I mean, watch that video from here and you’ll see Tsubaki blowing up for more than 4k more often then Azrael did above.
Azrael’s damage is…above average. But I’m just not seeing some sort of crazy “look at my damage propel me into top tiers” sort of stuff.
Challenge Mode, Score Attack, and Unlimited Mars modes were revealed on the console version. YAY!
Just curious what some of y’all do about the local community for BlazBlue in your area. I live in a place where few players give a solid attempt at playing non-Capcom/Tekken games so the other wonderful fighters go unexplored locally.
With that said, I used to take CSE out to gatherings regularly but I’d end up playing the same two/three dudes no matter what. Don’t get me wrong, a few others tried it out but I think were high on dat Marvel crack and couldn’t think about anything else but… that’s not enough to TRULY level up any player, especially not for any sort of tournament play.
While I’m not saying I’m going out there to be #1 in BBCP when it comes out but I would love to be able to travel out and meet some of the other passionate players that are interested in the game on a higher level, so to say.
For the players who play BB games at tournaments regularly/often AND your local BB community sucks ass… how exactly are you preparing for tournaments? I imagine there are quite a few online lobbies (regularly hosted by certain players/weekly SRK nights/etc) but… outside of that I cannot really come up with anything.
Sorry for long winded post d00ds.
Peace!
I live in NYC and i am graduating, so i will be out for bbcp since i know there is an active community here.
Right, I’ll be here too when the game launches but I’m really wondering how people get LEGIT practice on when their local scene is… eh… lackluster. 
The nation’s capital is actually primarily a Capcom/Tekken city from what I’ve seen, but sometimes there’ll be a few guys with offline gatherings (though that’s on temporary break). I can’t normally make them on account of it actually being a 45 minute drive (both ways, so that’s about 90 minutes of driving and $20 gas) and since I’m currently unemployed and struggling to find a job, I can’t really feasibly afford it every week.
However, I have a good group of people I play with online from another board (and some from Dustloop as well) that keep me in top form, since netplay is primarily what I have. Fortunately, Montreal has a good scene, and isn’t too too far (just a couple of hours), so whenever they have a big tournament (and I’ve yearly gone to one in Toronto for a bit now), I’ll usually be able to carpool something there and back.
There are some people around here who play BB/GG/P4A, but when you split things three ways because everyone wants to play their favorite game, it doesn’t really add up to critical mass of anything. Some folks tried to organize some stuff hereabouts for a while and I did my best to show up, but attendance was never very good and trailed off fast. =/
So is this why BB tournaments never have entries? lulz
Because there aren’t enough people who play it? 
It’s not that there aren’t enough people who play it, it’s that there are too many online warriors. The game is very much alive, you can find good practice partners any time of the day (even on XBL probably), but they don’t go to tournaments. It’s just a different scene.
A bunch of what I’ve found stems from a number of online warriors for P4A or BB run into things where the rest of their city’s tourney scene does the whole bit about looking down on Airdashers and they’ve gotten a bit of a hard time for it, so they sort of go “well fuck it, I’ll just go back to playing online then” and don’t go other places or whatnot for things.
The problem is, with that mentality, it’s hard to motivate Capcom players to try anime games. They assume the games are dead because the SRK forums don’t move and tournaments have only 20-30 entrants. This creates a vicious cycle where anime games aren’t popular, so people don’t give them a fair shot, so anime players get discouraged. The cycle begins and ends with us. We need to break it with BBCP & Xrd, show up to majors and try to indoctrinate educate as many people as we can.
Totally agree, and I admittedly tried to get this started with CSX, and kinda thought it would happen a little bit with P4A, but I’m not entirely sure how much it has.
I will be trying my best to spread the BB joy locally. Hoping that the game is what gets me back into traveling for tournaments. It’s been a good while since I last left town to go play anything for better or for worse!
I’m not actually convinced that BB has a meaningfully larger percentage of “online warriors” than other games. There are TONS AND TONS of people playing SF4 and Marvel online ALL THE TIME. MANY more than you see playing BB. But nobody CARES because if one hundredth of a percent of 2,000,000 people shows up for a tournament, you have a good size tournament, but if 0.01% of 200,000 people show up for a tournament, suddenly, it’s the fault of all the netplayers that you have a “dead game”.
And yes, I think the numbers of players really are that different in the US.