Also, on the ranbats, I was thinking that the arcade admission would be discounted so you guys could have some sort of prize money at the end. I’m open to any suggestions. If you guys come up with something that works for everyone, I’m game. I just want to have people in here playing our games and make enough money to stay open and feed my kids
I say we make it a $2 entry, then split the money up. $1 from everyone goes to 1st place, and the other $1 goes into a pot for the person with the most points at the end of the Season. $2 every 2 weeks is NOTHING. Seriously, bring quarters and pennies, lets just make some incentive.
Games we can obviously do this for: SF4, 3s, maybe CVS2? (it was getting a lot of play the other day) Marvel, and once the GG community starts coming out the Arc-System games as well. Maybe run a different ranbat every week, or put them on a schedule. Like Marvel gets the first week and the third week or something like that. Then the next month we rotate something out. I remember we went on for hours about it at Illuminaudi, but this time I think we should get serious about it. This place is EXACTLY what the community needs, and I’ll be trying my hardest to keep it alive and well.
Edit: Or what A.L. suggested works. Lowering the entrance fee to allow us to play in the tourney. I’m down.
Still thinks free admission would be a great prize.
$2 isn’t too bad. Just keep in mind ranking battles are for ranking and tournaments are for prizes/money. We can still have tournaments there apart from ranbats.
That sounds good then.
Also: Boss (YU) / Rikimaru (CH) / Momochi (MA) …it might already be over for 3s SBO 
, what a stacked team.
yeaaa good shit in cvs2 everybody S groove will live on! Thanks for the stick jordyn im actually gonna start playin 4 again. we should run rose ball ranbats. i cant weight till 98 gets put in dat mvs cab
No problem
Well, I’m officially done with 4, I’ll be playing it at the tourney since I already paid, but this game is such garbage I can’t stand to play one more minute of it. Yet again a decent game franchise is ruined by making the graphics pretty and the game play shitty. People complain about the tiers in 3rd strike, pft, don’t make me laugh. Top 4 are easily Sagat, Ryu, (a very good) Akuma, and Rufus, but Rufus loses to all top 3 characters. A game with 6 shotos, and 3 of them are top? Were they even thinking when they made this? Also, who the hell was in charge of level design? The stages reward constant running the second you get a life lead. There isn’t any zoning, why would you need to zone when you can just mash DP the second someone gets close, and fireball when they are away?
There is no meta-game AT ALL in this game. Seriously, prove me wrong on this one. Mind games? Those don’t exist, because you don’t need to THINK. 3rd strike, you’re scared to DP because the person could parry you, that’s a mind game. HDR the input windows and execution are difficult enough to force the person to be perfect or risk getting hit. It’s sickening to play championship mode and get maybe 1 other character aside from Ryu. And having to play people with turbo controllers. And having to play people who just wait and blatantly buffer shoryus. My disc doesn’t even work anymore, I think that is a sign that I should stop playing this piece of shit. My copy now resides in my trash can, where it belongs. Maybe the 2nd iteration will be better, but I highly doubt it. Sf4 is like Brawl, meant for casuals to still have a chance. $ and market over skill and experience. Maybe in 10 years when this game becomes a shell of its former self through updates I’ll play it, until then it’s World Warrior underwater with no brain required.
I love how the only reason people play this is for the money. No wonder they want to get it sponsored at the WCG, only fucktard scrubs play their shitty game line-ups, so they could go in and clean house. I swear this game hurts the community more than it helps it, with players charging money for “lessons” and shit.
I’m gonna go reserve BB when I get my next paycheck. I don’t think KOF12 will catch on here really, so I’m not going to jump in on that one. Bides time till June 30th
Also I will not be pulling a “Dayton Player” here and say I quit and be back a few weeks later, I’m playing it on Saturday, and then I’m done, period.
I thought Boss played Makoto?
Edit: why can’t you just bait shoryus adam? If ryu is such a god, use him. I don’t mean to be a dick but you know better than to raise these arguments you’re just frustrated.
I need a few people who are not constantly complaining…
He uses nearly everyone, but mostly the twins and Mak.
adam, i agree…4 made me play 3s again. Cant weight for mvc2, bb and kof12
I did bait shoryus, but Rufus HAS to go airborne to get any mix up going, that match is so against him it’s retarded. People play safe in tourneys and don’t risk mashing SRK so much, but online there is nothing to lose. However, if I keep practicing against people who like to mash, I’m just going to be practicing the wrong way constantly. Ryu is a god, period. He’s worse than 3s chun IMO. Trades into ultra? Give me a break. It’s not wake up shoryus, nobody does those in G2, but any time, and I mean any you go for a string, they mash that thing as hard as possible. Sagat requires a tiny bit of execution and spacing knowledge to play but played correctly he is also ridiculous…and boring. I think SF4 will be dead around here before too long. When A.L. gets that 3s cab, it’s over.
Also the fact that I CAN complain about this game makes it bad. I complain about Marvel as well, and there are definitely things wrong with it, but at least I don’t take it seriously to want to quit that game. I can’t complain about 3s, everything in that game makes perfect sense and I readily accept it. To a degree CVS2 does as well.
I dunno man, there’s plenty to complain about in 3s. Chun’s low forward? Ken super links off of everything? Oro’s juggling??? -------Yun---------
If they tweaked 3s (well) for XBLA it would be king godlike
I can accept those things though, Chun links her super into everything, I’m ok with that, even going against her. You just have to be more cautious. Oro’s juggling, eh, he really doesn’t have crazy damage, I think that’s the best you’ll get with it, and some of his juggles are character specific, and they only do decent damage if he has meter. I’m able to accept that too. Yun, well as much as people hate Genei-jin, Yun has no health. A few mistakes on his part and he’s dead. Yes he is very tough to combat against in the right hands, but we only saw 1 Yun this year in top 8 at EVO.
Ken can be ridiculous too, I mean he’s got awesome damage, but some of his hit confirms are a tad difficult. He doesn’t bother me though, and nor does Ryu. I understand what options they have and how heavy they can hit, but I know they can be beaten.
Hah…figured this would happen.
Honestly, all the game really needs is midair focus attacks to balance out the DP nonsense. If you can bait a DP easier, it automatically creates a better meta game, and gives rushdown chars a better chance.
Even make it an EX focus attack or whatever and suddenly it works just like FD in GG going up against ground to air attacks.
Rufus isn’t the only char who basically needs to be in the air to get his mixup. When I was working on Sakura…she’s basically the same way, as is Gen, but Gen at least has a decent crossup. I saw this nonsense the first few times I played and watching non DP chars fighting DP chars…
/whichever though.
It’s the first iteration, and Capcom wanted NEW blood playing their fighters again, just like every other company. Capcom players are just really, really, picky about what they want to play.
I’m really, really waiting for BB now. I want to see how everyone reacts to it…even if it IS a dumbed down GG there will no doubt be plenty of weeping and gnashing of teeth when you can’t pick up a character and be “good” in a few weeks.
See, 3S at least has lots of bullshit whether its Ken, Oro, Chun, Urien, Dudley or Yun. That shit’s just WAY more interesting than “Do anything, Ultra” which everyone cant do. They basically chose which characters would be playable in that game. I wish Ultras didnt exist and it had parrying. THEN 4 would be more playable.
I just hope we can do a ranbat without everyone falling apart emotionally. I was amazed at the amount od crying at the arcade by a bunch of people.
4 is the obvious choice but I will play any game to support the scene. If you guys want to pretend 3s is the only game ill play but there will STILL be crying.
Umm…Chun is like >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Sagat/Ryu
Chun seriously ruins 3s for me.
This is very true. I was really angry when I read that took Parrying out of the Alpha build last year. The game is BUILT for parrying imo. There are no crazy stupid fast lows.
I was so-so on Ultras until I played it, and now I HATE them. They’re worse then the crazy DP range imo. DP bait timing is just different and slower in this game as opposed to any other SF or even any other 2-D game. It moves so slow, but DP’s just come out so fast and with so many invincibility frames that you cant even trade with any of them if you hit meaty enough.
Exactly. If I wanted to play keep away, I’d play dodgeball.
You won’t hear any from me about 3s, ever. Even when I first started the game, people can attest that I wasn’t all that frustrated with the mechanics. Discoveries in that game felt like “oh, you can do that…cool”, where discoveries in 4 feel like “HA HA how the fuck does that work, what awful bullshit.” I can’t wait for that game to die.
On that note, let me give you an idea of the variety in 4. Oh wait, there is none. A turtle Blanka goes for the same thing as an aggressive Blanka, just at different intervals. However, you play a turtle Chun vs. a rushdown Chun, it’s a totally different ball game. So many characters can be played defensively that it causes the game to be a boring stale-mate of fireballs until somebody attempts to go in. At this point the speed and pacing of the game is so awful that you can’t go in. In ST, you had to jump to close a gap, or if your character had moves to get around fireballs you had to do that. Then it became about their spacing and execution, if they could punish your jump, or simply have to give up the ground. 4 is so slow, they just wait till you get in the air, dash up, and pull off a pitiful SRK that requires the follow input, DF DF punch. Pure stupidity.