All I can say is it’s being seriously talked about currently. I’m pushing for it and a lot of people want it. I’d say more but things are still being worked out.
However this years digital life will be on satalite HD TV and I’m talking to people to help get fighters a showing there.
Yeah lost cause was a comeback. Though it’s been my exprience in TDM that once you get “locked down” the other team tends to get a lot of kills quickly. It’s much harder to come back and requires a really focused effort.
I think his outlook on the US Arcade scene is totally wrong. I’ll talk to Chris Wong about the subject and maybe get him to give his 2 cents on the subject.
Not any hostility to Triforce, but someone that extreme may put off casual mainstream people. I can just see G4 twisting it to further the “oh look geeks” angle.
I disagree. Nobody will follow a person that doesn’t buy into their own beliefs. Trifroce obviously does. Regardless of where you stand you have to admit he believes it and drinks his own koolaid… that makes it easy to go along with what he said.
Eh, it’s like trying to get people into comic books who don’t read comic books, you want the guy who changed his name to Bruce Wayne and wears Batman costumes being the face of that? Not really, if anything, it’ll further the image of it being a part of some smaller counter-culture, rather than something with mainstream potential. Extremes aren’t usually the best face.
Also, reading further I disagree with much of the assessment on arcades, really because Triforce plays it across as if it was something rather simple to fix. Sure McDonalds would get a new marketing campaign out, but they have a whole part of their company devoted to PR. Joe Smhoe running an arcade in the mall doesn’t have that, different business models, and not really as equatable as one would make it seem.
Seems like a cool guy though, and I hope he is right and I am wrong, and I appreciate what he is trying to do, I just don’t agree with much of what he has to say. We’ll have to agree to disagree on the subject I suppose.
I was overgeneralizing with my statements, but my point was that the possibility of someone coming back from near death is much easier/more likely in a fighter, since you can win an entire match in less than 30 seconds, whereas in most other games, the pace is very different.
I have seen high level SC/WC3 play and I’m aware that comebacks are a possibility, but that is a genre where 90% of the time, people leave before their base is even destroyed because they can tell they’ve already lost. Not because of cowardice or lack of will, but because as a tactician, they’ve already weighed their losses, and they know if they’re fucked or not.
It is more of the thing that no one cares anymore. Everyone already knows about Triforce and has already had their decision. Like I have said numerous times, its a good idea with terrible execution and will leave it at that.
na everything I could say to flame him has been said before so it would be wasting my time that I could spend rolling up gods green gift to earth, plus art you know me I am a face to face kind of guy
Yeah thats true - good shit. I just think that he’s misunderstood and that is not fair because most of the people who flame or flamed him just haven’t been around him to see what he’s about and what he really does. I know and I have seen a lot of his sacrifice so its like I’m kind of trapped between understanding him and then understanding my friends. That part sucks! I just hope that when Triforce finally gets what he needs to get the ball rolling then everyone will see and just be like “oh I didn’t know” then everything will be fine. idk I guess we’ll see. see you on saturday man why notttttttttt?!?!?
so all the memebers of Team arcadia take gaming as a job? they get paid % if they win tournaments?
can someone explain this, i only heard a little about them before but i always wondered if its like a job, and do they have real jobs? no offense i junt want to know:sweat:
High level Starcraft and Warcraft 3(To a lesser extent) are just as prone to close matches as any fighting game. Its just in a different scale, if every game of Starcraft was played out to its complete end it would be different. But the way the competitive play for the game works is more like watching boxing or mma, either player has the option to “tap” whenever they are done and know its over. Waiting for the tap is exciting and anytime players who are of a similar high level come to the table with good strats it will end up being an exciting match, these guys bring heavily practiced strategies and tactics that they know how to make effective in the most possible situations. They only leave because the game is over, you shouldnt be waiting for their whole base to be destroyed. Wouldnt that be sort of anticlimactic, they have already lost and then you have to wait a solid minute or two for their base to be razed? It leads me to this…
I think for people who dont know much about fighting games they get about the same amount out of it as a person who knows nothing about RTS. Its that you are watching “personalities” play against eachother and there is implied greatness in what they are doing. But to be honest if you dont have some indepth knowledge of whats going on then you really are only experiencing a fraction of the excitement.
Well personally I sat and watched a WCIII replay with my brother, who is very into th game, and his friend. At one part one of them went “Nice!” indicating that something one of the players did was rather clever, effective, or something.
I wouldn’t know, as I had no idea what just happened. I don’t know the attributes of the units, I don’t know who has what move, where it works, or any of that. So my lack of understanding hurt that a lot. It all falls down to which army is left standing, and I do know the significance of the heros, but I can’t tell half the time by watching what strategy is being employed, I know it’s there, it’s just all foriegn to me.
Fighting games are much simpler in that everyone understands the mechanics of a fighter, you can lean over to someone who has never even heard of a fighter and tell them that it’s two people fighting one another till their health ends, and that’s enough info for them to be able to tell somewhat what is going on. They may not know the attributes of the moves, but getting juggled around is something they can see. I had a girlfriend who decided she wanted to try her hand at Street Fighter Alpha 3, and upon seeing Sodom pick her up and slam her repeatedly (I was showing her just random stuff.) she said “Damn!” since she it was easy to understand someone picking your character up and jump slamming you.
Ive said this before but Ill say it again to a new audience. I can see how Triforce can be misunderstood. At first glance I would have to say I would assume that there was something wrong with a guy that walks around with a 20 year old gaming accessory on his arm. But after speaking with Triforce on quite a few occasions I will honestly say that he is a great guy who really beleives in what hes doing. I hope he gets his due soon.
