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Those Volcanic Viper or WT 50/50’s were too godlike 
Actually I can answer this one…
He never really was top-level in Japan. Good enough to stomp on American scrubs at Evo, but in SBO he was out in the first round every time. After a couple years of this (early in #reload IIRC) he switched to Slayer briefly then quit.
GG is a really bad game for his playing style because there are so many more reversal-safe methods of offense than in Capcom games, and DPs have much worse risk/reward. Makes sense that it wouldn’t stick with him.
Yeah I wish he played GG again, it was hilarious :lol:…
No one consistently wins tourneys in Japan. 90% of them are one match single elim.
Only player I can think of that did was Ogawa.
And this article made him sound more cocky than anything else I’ve heard from him.
Decent interview, I always viewed Daigo as a humble player. I still think he is but he was brutally honest in this interview about his skill level. I just wished the interviewer asked what Daigo thought about his losses in various games.
Uh, didn’t he stop to go play poker? Also, I’m pretty sure it wasn’t as long as two years.
I agree with him about the throw clash system. Person teching should still get thrown back to keep the momentum of the match on the aggressor’s side. They’d have to tweak the game’s design a bit to implement something as drastic as guard crush though.
Also, lol at this:
I think this is how pretty much every older player feels.
Oh Ogawa that dude was a beast, did Daigo ever get a chance to fight him?
Daigo quit before reload hit which is when Ogawa got big, and like Josh said, he wasn’t ever that good at gear.
He said he wanted parrying back? I must’ve skipped that.:razzy: Lemme check.
do you mother fuckers know what “if” means?
I didn’t say that he sucks in Japan, it’s just that that’s what it sounded like. I hear tale after tale after tale about what he’s done here in the US and I hear about that one 3S match more than anything.
so enlighten me. what does he do in Japan?
could you help with my enlightenment?
somebody else is probably better suited to answer this, but didnt daigo at one point have the highest win to lose percentage in sf4 on his card. there is no point in debating this. daigo is a top player in anything he touches, and can never ever be considered a scrub. period. only most recent accomplishment i know, because i dont really keep up with sf4 anymore, is the mago thing, whether close or not, he beat him 22-8 out of a best of 30. everyone loses, but daigo aint no scrub, and know he isnt. end of story
Daigo had a sparring competition with mago, and supposedly he beat him 30-6 or something retarded like that. He’s always had a strong pressence in Japanese tournaments. :\
Also, I think there’s more translation misunderstandings. I think Daigo is saying that If there had been more new and decent 2d fighters coming out when SF4 was released, it wouldn’t hav been as popular. But it was because it was the first Street Fighter game in years and there was basically nothing else new to play at the time. So it was popular.
OMG Daigo, you’re so tall and handsome! Please DP on my stick!:lovin:
He didn’t just “become famous” after playing SF3 at Evo 2004. He won a japanese national tournament in the 90’s as the youngest ever, and became a media phenomenon of sorts, “the wonderkid”.
Guy’s been playing in the arcades since he was a kid, probably logging more playing hours than the entire SRK forum combined. No wonder he’s good now.
Shit makes me wanna train and try to beat him eventually . So Daigo uses his experience and skills to win a longset while he can actually be defeated in a short set of matches. Im guessing what makes him the best is his anaylitical skills .
I give Diago all of the props in the world for being the best at what he does, flat out, he put in the time and now he is reaping the benefits. The problem I had after reading that interview is that, I’m sorry but the dude came off kind of arrogant. It could have totally been a translation thing, but basically saying that Americans aren’t good and that our joysticks are wack, I mean come on, be at least a little bit humble. I think that if this was anyone else then the whole community would be calling the guy a prick, but because it’s Diago, everyone just lets it slide and agrees with the guy. I’m sick of all of this Japanese vs. American crap, just play your games, do what you do and go about your business.
I’ve been looking at him for a while and I agree that it’s a big part of it. there’s not that many things you can do to combat good analytical skill. I don’t think that he’s relying on it though… it’s dangerous as hell to RELY on analytical skill for tournaments. then again that may very well be what he’s doing. in SF4, he almost lost to Justin’s Balrog, which came up out of nowhere. it would make sense that he was losing at first because he didn’t account for Justin’s specific style, and started winning later after learning it
WTF are you gonna do about it?
Absolutely nothing at all, it ain’t that deep, I was just speaking my peace. Why, you his personal bodyguard or something? Or are you just senselessly riding him like everyone else? I’m guessing the latter and not the former.
neither.