Who cares if Daigo was talkin’ shit? If this nigga can’t talk shit about Streetfighter then nobody could speak feces ever.
Does anybody honestly think he could be that good without some kind of ego?
So, uh, why are you guys still here? That shit was a driving force to me to enter my local tourneys and show them how it’s done with Fei Long.
puts on Pokemon theme song while he trains
To all non-tourney players itt:
Pretty much all top players think everyone else is free. At that level, being humble means you’ve already defeated yourself before the match even started. This is just as true for the Japanese, but their culture stresses being nice to others at the expense of honesty.
Nice to see Daigo break that mold a bit here. Still nowhere near as cocky as Mago though, you people seriously have no idea…
not really, and just because you had execution problems doesn’t thousands of other players had them.
What A douchebag and his dick riders are hilarious. It’s just a game not a lifestyle how sad
Ya I agree with Daigo when he says that SFIV is a game that is too defensive.
First of all let me say that I like all the SF’s. Love ST, TS, and A3. All games are masterpieces. I also like SFIV but I do agree with Daigo in being slightly unimpressed by it. But you have to understand that I believe that it is still in demo mode right now. Remember demo-like the original SF2 and SF3 were?
Give the SFIV series some time to develop. When I look at the video clips of Super Street Fighter 4, I’m finding out how much faster the game is. Imagine if Super 4 was as fast as level 3 Super Turbo. I think the speed alone would make the game way less defensive and more active.
^ id rather see yake an sf3 turn than a st one
well there ya go!
thanks:pray:
omg, another one of those “it’s just a game” tools. Well guess what, you’re posting on “just a video game” forum. I would like to know what was the purpose of your comment; was it because you thought Daigo would actually read this and get his feelings hurt from you calling him sad or did you hope another person would agree with you? Seriously the man is 28 years old, he has been playing the Street Fighter series for over half of his life. He is confident in his abilities and feels he might be in his gaming prime. Acknowledging that you are good is not arrogance; I seriously doubt that when Kobe Bryant goes to play ball he thinks someone can lock him down. Daigo plays to win, this interview actually made me respect the guy now that i know he approaches winning like everyone else.
I don’t think anyone in the US will beat him as long as they wanna make their fight money.
Justin’s the only one who’s even come close to touching the guy, and I suspect that’s because he’s the only one who actually wants to win and does something about it. anyone see that Fei Long style he made?
actually, he said he felt the Japanese were stronger and didn’t have a reason for thinking it. it was only later that he mentioned the joysticks and how crappy they were. and to be fair, while it might be a fair assessment to say that someone with bad tools may not be as good as someone with good tools, doesn’t mean they’ll lose. Daigo does have some arrogance to him
lol pokemon music? You’re gonna get your ass lit up by a Dan main
what bullshit is this? a personality trait doesn’t determine whether or not you’ll fuck someone up
how cocky is Mago btw
I wouldn’t say he approaches winning like everyone else considering that he’s top and everyone else has failed to follow suit
Well Hideki Matsui recently won World Series MVP this year.
Godzilla. 
Not to mention Ichiro always wins many awards as well.
i think a lot of players could beat daigo 2/3 but very few 3/5… but any US player beating him Ft10 would be nearly impossible
I like how one can’t go 5 feet without tripping over faggots like you. Bonus retard points for your point being that i don’t speak for everyone… because you speak for everyone.
And yes, thousands of others thought the Happ 360s sucked too.
Yeah. You know what the genre needs? Another 20 years to figure shit out. We should give Capcom, makers of tons of fighting games, more time to figure out what works and what doesn’t. Because seriously, how could anyone expect a char with no invul frame moves to be the worst, a char with only 2 specials to be the second worst, and chars with high health and tons of options to be the best?
I liked the interview. The one thing that got me was when Daigo recalled playing Alex Valle back in 1998.
From what I’ve heard, Daigo was so impressed by Valle’s skill at Alpha 3 that Daigo was a little worried that he may actually lose and had to turn it up.
Daigo left the encounter so impacted by Valle’s determination and gameplay that he switched to Ryu as a result. When Valle was in Japan in 2000 representing the US in the Japan vs USA 5v5, Daigo had a translator tell Valle what an impact their showdown had had on him.
That’s what I remember hearing, but who knows how that story got distorted like a game of telephone. Nonetheless, it’s strange to see how Daigo recalls the event now. Maybe he’s not sentimental or lives in the past, but I was surprised that his description of American play was *so *unflattering.
I actually interpreted that statement as flat out modesty, or at least an acknowledgment that at some point he’s not going to be able to keep it up. When he said he’s in his prime it read like he was saying he’s reached his peak. As in, there’s no place left to go but down. Which for anybody in a field that requires physical dexterity, significant time investment, and all around interest in continuing, eventually there will come a time that either you quit at the top of your game or watch others eventually surpass you once time takes its toll. 28 may be “old” in competitive gaming but he’s still a very young man. Who knows in which direction he wants to take his life? If, gasp, he decides competitive gaming doesn’t have as significant a place in his future for whatever reason then that’s his business. If some new hotshot shows up and takes Daigo to the cleaners then that’s the circle of life. Though I expect the internet to be rife with shock, tears, and the usual overreactions in response to either scenario.
Modesty isn’t necessary but self-awareness is. Daigo seems self-aware enough to know that he’s human. Something the internet hasn’t figured out yet.
Is Daigo really the best street fighter player of all time? Wasn’t he only considered the best in alpha 3, darkstalkers, and I guess street fighter 4?
I know Jeff Schaefer keeps saying his sf2 skills were below that of Tomo.
But I guess that is a track record better than the most…
I think people are reading far too much into that statement. Sounds like a pretty cocky and maybe even really stupid way of reasoning, but that’s not really unusual for a teenager. Especially for a teen who had absolutely no info on the competition. Many people still think like that. eg. “I’ve don’t have any idea who this dude is. All I know is that he’s a pad player, so my hunch is that the dude using the stick is gonna win”
It sounds like these days though his views are pretty much the same as what many US players think - the Japanese are better because of their strong arcade scene.
I read that he switched to Ryu because he felt using Akuma was too cheap (he played A-Ryu for a while). Someone else posted something on SRK recently saying it’s basically the same reason he doesn’t play Sagat in SFIV (apparently they asked him at SB4). But who knows.
Edit: Apparently Kuni Funada was the one who said that Valle was one of the main reasons switched Daigo switched to Ryu, so it’s probably legit.
http://www.shoryuken.com/features/e001207-2.shtml
Daigo may not be the best of all time in ST/AE or 3S but he’s certainly in the upper stratosphere of all international players. He has won EVO tournaments for both games. He won the first SBO ST 3v3 format tournament in 2003 (with Kurhashi and Otochun). And he won SBO 2005, 3S 2v2 event, alongside Ohnuki.
He’s one of the best 3S Ken players from what I can tell. And he plays a few characters at the highest levels in ST: O.Sagat, Boxer, Guile, Zangief, and of course Ryu.
As far as his variety in games, playing CvS2, ST/AE, 3S, Alpha series, Darkstalkers, and now SFIV, all at high levels…is there anyone comparable to him internationally that has excelled at so many Capcom titles?
Sure if you had to pick a ‘god of 3S’ you’d take Kuroda or ‘god of ST’ you’d take someone like Otochun but if you had to spread an individual’s success across the entire spectrum of Capcom fighting games it’s tough to find someone more accomplished than Daigo.
Personally my vote would go to Kuroda just because he’s so synonymous with 3S that it’s practically his game but I guess that’s a whole different side topic. 
Totally false. There is a BIG difference between being confident and delusional. Top players are good, and they know it, but they sure as hell know that they’re about to get their ass beat when they face someone like Daigo. Whether they want to kid themselves pre-fight is upto them. Afterwards, they become humble pie.
And btw, mentality has nothing to do with winning or not. This is just hippy bullshit popularized in the US. You win with skill, not with a positive attitude. You become cocky AFTER you start owning people up, not the other way around.
Wasn’t it Kuroda who took his 2 man team in a 3 man tournament all the way to the semi-finals? That’s pretty inspirational, no?