Gamestop can singlehandedly bring the FG scene to the mainstream if they wanted, NOT GOOTECKS tho… you just dont know!
Honestly, it was then and there that I knew somethin wasnt right.
yeah that was kind of iffy but hey if people wanted to throw money at me then i wouldn’t decline it
Do you realize how many people recommended that podcast to me? Serious players man. Real people saying, “Look, listening to this podcast might help you understand certain things and it has a lot of really good information.”
You’re always going to have people thinking top players owe it to them to give them this information. Most people aren’t sour he made the podcast, they’re mad he charged for it. Well don’t buy it? The guys trying to make a living playing fighting games instead of just playing for fun on the side. I mean, damn.
Besides, top players don’t post because haters like you make them feel it’s not even worth it. Thanks for being part of the problem instead of part of the solution.
Which DBZ character is Gootecks again? Was he one of the guys with the eye scanners?
I believe Gootecks was the guy who’s power level was over a certain number…
…9,000?
Over 9,000???
Very good post. I agree with it.
But yeah… I think he was doing the KOFXII thing in joking or maybe he was tired and just blurted it out without even thinking… it could also be that the interviewer adjusted the words and made it look like it was a bigger than what gootecks actually said. From reading a lot of guitarist’s interviews you can see where that can happen.
It’s over 9000!!!
That’s a possibility, too. I don’t know what his stance on the series is, but as a huge fan, I would say nobody cares about KOFXII.
that’s impossible!!
yeah if they gave a fuck about selling fighting games we want.
He’s said stupid shit about other fighting games… like how the skill required to play tekken and soul calibur is much lower when compared to SF4, which is laughable.
Look, everyone is entitled to their opinion but in a situation like this interview, keeping your mouth shut about certain things is probably best, especially if you don’t know what you’re talking about. There’s a difference between an interview like this and say… a post on SRK.
I don’t believe you have to worry about High Crush and Low Crush when playing SF, and how many frames you have and WHAT move you have to use when punishing a whiffed EWGF, nor about if you should take the throw to improve your position or block it and get put in an even worse one. I don’t have to worry about that when I play SF, nor do I have to worry about Okizeme, cause no move can hit you on the floor in SF.
Soooo Gootecks is extremely wrong about that one. Especially Tekken…SC I don’t play much so I can’t comment, but if he said something about VF I would laugh in his face.
first of fuck seeds. its not like only the best people in the US are entering tournaments. everybody should have a fair shot, you lose, you lose.
also whos interrested in sf4? id take TS any day of the week over this shit. and im a kof player.
Actually what I should have said was, he has said something about how with sc4 and tekken it is difficult to tell between people who don’t know what they are doing and people that do… as opposed to street fighter 4 (but then cut to 30 seconds of turtling boxer vs e-honda at devastation and then I don’t get it)
So anyway, my bad if I took that out of context but you get the point… he doesn’t understand about games he doesn’t play so why even bring them up. Even though not many people will read the interview, he’s gotta realize that he must have some influence over people. People aren’t complete morons but come on.
The turtling for 30 secs happened and sometimes happens in a Balrog VS E.Honda match because this match is a very ‘stalemate’ type match. Both characters are very turtle heavy and they’re wait and react type of characters. So they killed the clock because each player had in their mind that when there was only a few seconds left they would attack the other player to get a health advantage then flee with only a few seconds left so that they could hold on to their health advantage and win the round due to stoppage by the clock.
/madden.
personally i don’t much give a fuck about this whole gootecks argument,but there is one huge issue with this plan. is he just pushing sfiv or sf, because what about SFV?
the lets just say that sfiv were to become a huge spectator sport. the pace of the game is determined by the tools and mechanics of the game. if sfv turns out to be CVS2 all over again what then? do you keep playing 4 and trash 5. what if the glitch or technique that makes the game unspectator friendly isn’t discovered until a year into the game? do you dump the game? do you ban something completely legit to keep the fans happy and the money coming in? what happen when the best characters of two top players have an ass boring match up and they don’t agree to use other characters?
AT SOME POINT PLAYING TO WIN IS GOING TO COME IN DIRECT CONFLICT WITH KEEPING A MAINSTREAM CROWD ENTERTAINED/MONEY COMING IN AND THE DECISION MADE ON THAT DAY WILL DECIDE THE FUTURE OF THIS COMMUNITY.
I think we’ve beaten this horse pretty much to death, don’t you?