Do you consider yourself an OG member?

[Ephidel]

S.AM man wth happened to all these people? I also remember Geekboy.

[mr.sagat]

I’m an 02’er but I go back a little further. I was a regular on the ShinAkuma.com Forums in 00-01ish. I also used to own the gamepro SF2 guide and got heavy into Champion Edition as a kid around 94

[KING]

Id love to play against you old farts from the first gen and second gen in those respective games you all are supposed to be like.Something tells me I could stomp yall in sf2 pretty badly.

:wtf::rolleyes:

^^^ there’s your answer.

[KING]

Weird question: did anybody actually play SF3: NG?

Did anybody actually play it and like it?

I know I did, though I wasn’t evaluating it in terms of competitive worthiness at the time. I was more impressed with its presentation, which decayed with each installment even as the gameplay improved.

I am actually guilty of enjoying it. I played it hardcore when it first came out in our university arcade/pool hall. Then I fell in love with Second Impact… personally, I wished 3s kept some of the awesomeness in Sean from 2I and Ryu’s rediculous 2x Denjin. sigh

[King9999]

God bless the WayBack Machine.

That site is amazing! Thanks to it, I was able to find some old reviews that I lost. I wish I could like your post 100 times.

[Vynce]

Weird question: did anybody actually play SF3: NG?

Did anybody actually play it and like it?

I know I did, though I wasn’t evaluating it in terms of competitive worthiness at the time. I was more impressed with its presentation, which decayed with each installment even as the gameplay improved.

I played a few rounds of it at a beach arcade one summer. I was like, “Street Fighter THREE? …Where the fuck is everyone?” I picked Ken and forgot about the series until Double Impact dropped on the Dreamcast. I liked each installment. The hip-hop soundtrack of 3S was cool, I thought.

Surkin (feat Chromeo)- White Knight reminds me of 3S, and the title reminds me of SRK.

[Sexperienced]

So I remember stuff like Bloofy, Akumachan, STA, forum wars, Azrael, rampant racism againt black females, ect.

I remember a black female poster (not rock-chick… or was it roxie?.. some other black chick, not her) who often complained about black men being in interracial relationships, as if SRK was the type of place you’d vent such frustrations, and she didnt even see the irony in her views even-though she’d tell us she was engaged to her white fiance… the funny thing was she was also racist towards the white members on srk, calling Limegreen and one of the moderators “dumb crackers”… she eventually left SRK after being cussed out by everyone.

[Branh0913]

Not an OG, despite being registered with SRK for 8 years. But I registered in 04, which was the original 09.

[Lantis]

Weird question: did anybody actually play SF3: NG?

Did anybody actually play it and like it?

I know I did, though I wasn’t evaluating it in terms of competitive worthiness at the time. I was more impressed with its presentation, which decayed with each installment even as the gameplay improved.

I DID play SF III: NG back in the day. As you said, it’s one of those games that after so many upgrades and revisions it becomes obsolete and ugly every time you play it (WW, X-Men COTA, KOF '94, Fatal Fury 1, MK I, etc.). I also enjoyed it throughly and it’s the arcade game to which I owe my biggest offline streak (37 wins with who would become my main throughout the series, Alex. Dunno how this guy keeps getting jipped in every SF IV revision + SFxT, I DON’T WANT NO MOTHERFUCKIN TWINS!).

[Black_Jesus]

What.

No, I’m not an OG.

Apparently Azure thinks I’m technically still new, so I guess I’ll still be new in like 3 years.

It’s whatevs.

Why do you have an avatar of Lance Bass?

[locoghoul]

Weird question: did anybody actually play SF3: NG?

Did anybody actually play it and like it?

I know I did, though I wasn’t evaluating it in terms of competitive worthiness at the time. I was more impressed with its presentation, which decayed with each installment even as the gameplay improved.

I played it. I almost skipped 2I because no arcade had it at that point. We got 3S kinda straight from NG. I liked the new characters and the new art, so you could say I liked it in a scrubbish way, as in when I played it I wasn’t doing it competitively (that started with 3S).

[Branh0913]

Weird question: did anybody actually play SF3: NG?

Did anybody actually play it and like it?

I know I did, though I wasn’t evaluating it in terms of competitive worthiness at the time. I was more impressed with its presentation, which decayed with each installment even as the gameplay improved.

YES!!! The arcade I went to at the time was called Gamewarp. Had it on a showcase cabinet right in front of the arcade. I loved the game, but hated that Dhalsim wasn’t in it. Personally, I NEVER knew about parries. The arcade I went to actually was a bigger MK arcade (that was the most popular game there), and later own the arcade got ruled by Soul Calibur and Tekken. Street Fighter 3 wasn’t a big hit at the arcade, but there were about 4 or 5 guys who played it regularly. It went away pretty quick though. I never really had much of a problem with the game to be honest. I thought it felt good (keep in mind at this time I was play Super Street Fighter 2 on Genesis). I remember hating the fact that Ryu and Ken lost their air tatsu’s though, and you had to choose your super art. I had been playing Alpha so I didn’t like those changes.

In terms of presentation, I think 2I had the best, 2nd was 3s, last was NG. Now Dudley theme and Gill theme in NG were much better than their later incarnations. I also liked the zoom in vortex effect during super arts. But other than that, no much write home about. Alex and Sean stage in 2I were all much better.

[Black_Jesus]

Weird question: did anybody actually play SF3: NG?

Did anybody actually play it and like it?

I know I did, though I wasn’t evaluating it in terms of competitive worthiness at the time. I was more impressed with its presentation, which decayed with each installment even as the gameplay improved.

I played it, but I didn’t really appreciate it at the time. I found it at a arcade a few months ago and all I could think was “holy shit these hit confirms are easy.” Still hate SF3 series though.

[Havatchu]

Why do you have an avatar of Lance Bass?

You just skull fucked my mind.

[aku]

I was always impressed with how pretty NG looked, but I couldn’t take the time to invest much time in it. I had no particularly strong feelings towards parries, but I also didn’t realize how they’d change the later games. I will say this though, NG felt so empty and incomplete(that’s because it really was). Especially compared to the bigger game out at the time, Alpha 2. If I stuck around for 2nd Impact, I’m not sure how I would have felt for 3rd Strike.

I will say this though: I hate 2nd Impact. lol

[R.P.D_rookie]

I remember a black female poster (not rock-chick… or was it roxie?.. some other black chick, not her) who often complained about black men being in interracial relationships, as if SRK was the type of place you’d vent such frustrations, and she didnt even see the irony in her views even-though she’d tell us she was engaged to her white fiance… the funny thing was she was also racist towards the white members on srk, calling Limegreen and one of the moderators “dumb crackers”… she eventually left SRK after being cussed out by everyone.

It MAY have been rokchik. She changed her name to Roxie and then RC went ballistic on her in a post and banned the shit out of her. She has never been back. She used to date a poster on here…I forget who. I remember S.AM’s “YOU WANT PAIN?!” post, shit was awesome.

And when Black Jesus was really Adam Warlock and his “Arpe” avs.

Good times, srk…good times.

I’m 2003 but I figured only 2000 members were considered OGs.

[caliagent_3]

Where is Geekboy? He would close strategy threads faster than the white gets on rice when you pop the lid, and I admire him for it.

Yea, i’ve always wondered where he went. I loved how he used to leave witty comments every time he closed a thread.

[BBQ]

Not an O.G. of this forum. Though I’m glad I did join at the time when games weren’t called E sports and people in the community didn’t get too damn big headed and demanding of self importance because they did well at a majors or is involved or some shit. I look at some of these recently past streams and a lot of the times I’m thinking “This guy is out of his fucking element.”

I’m happy to fall into the 2nd gen of Havatchu’s post. 3rd Strike along with CvS2 got me back into fighting games even though now I don’t care about some Tekken cross shit or SFIV

[Havatchu]

Not an O.G. of this forum. Though I’m glad I did join at the time when games weren’t called E sports and people in the community didn’t get too damn big headed and demanding of self importance because they did well at a majors or is involved or some shit. I look at some of these recently past streams and a lot of the times I’m thinking “This guy is out of his fucking element.”

I’m happy to fall into the 2nd gen of Havatchu’s post. 3rd Strike along with CvS2 got me back into fighting games even though now I don’t care about some Tekken cross shit or SFIV

I’m glad to be late to the party as 3rd gen.

I dabbled a little bit during the 2nd gen, but I never had anyone to play fightmans with back then so I just start from last year.

[Smashbro29]

I was reading here way before I knew anything about fighting games. I just liked picking Spider-Man in MvC2.