Well, e-sports suck cos they have dropped the good shotters (Q3A-ProMode) and football versions in favor of the yearly produced new versions. The “FGC” does not even exist: what exists is new big games swooping the other smaller communities. Thus, both are the same crap, which is flavor-of-the-month > classics. Coren’s post is perfect, but by assuming there is a community. The SF4 community does not give a shit to other games, while we older players did give SF4 a shot, played it at the arcades, when available, and quit cos I thought it sucked.
KoF never held a candle to classic SF. The reasons KoF and MK stole players from SF2 is the same one why new players all play SF4: they were flashier, were more appealing to their eyes, and they were new, and “new is supposed to be an improvement”.
fallot
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I guess when you name yourself oldschool, you really have to play the old-school shtick hard.
Played CE at the local arcade like 15 minutes ago.
Nice troll attempt. But I only challenge in that game, and it has been months some SF2 player refuses a challenge, even if they know they are going to lose. And I give free coins to people willing to know why they lost, so they keep playing.
so can you give an explanation why SF is the omnipotent God of anything else seriously
problem is most fighters coming out have those aesthetics you’re talking about. It’s funny when people say “I don’t play anime fighters” lol!? what fighters you play then?!, I think a better answer would be “I just play capcom fighters” but nobody will say that.
here people tries to denigrate and look down on those games but the truth is the opposite. I remember there was a thread here in srk talking about this very issue how back in the day every other FG was trying to copy SF but now days it’s GG, GG is the new SF.
M.D
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“I don’t like Capcom’s comeback mechanics. That’s why I play SNK fighting games like Samurai Showdown and Fatal Fury.”
zeech
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Beware what I call “the hierarchy of contempt”. Despite the fact that as video gamers we’re looked down upon by mainstream society, for some people that doesnt teach them any empathy at all, and they quite cheerfully heap scorn upon other subgroups in the community. I think it’s one of the sadder things about human nature (of jerks).
Mightfo
90
hahaha wow, either you’re trolling hard or you’re just another player who thinks their opinions of gameplay dictate good game design
in before you say kof has no zonign or something
I do not think SF is better. I believe CE, HF and ST are great games, and I love WW cos it created everything and was an absolutely amazing game, until CE arrived. But if you want to pair, say, some KoF, SF4 or any hit-confirm or combo fighter you may want to mention, well, I do not give a shit about any of them. I also do not give a shit about franchises, I worry about games. KoF had a track record of PoS games, and SNK fans had a track record of disliking the good ones (Fatal Fury Special, Samurai Shodown 2). I always hated the yearly versions of KoF that instead of polishing gameplay, had to add some wacky shit to make them “different enough”. I disliked dodging projectiles and pokes in KoF for the same reason I think get-out-of-jail moves in the SF4 series are bad. Now, well, after I went to college/university, some may say SNK finally got something right again the this or that KoF happens to be good. They were too incompetent to get things right when it was time, and I did not bother to try each of the thousands of SF2 clones they have released just to check which sucks and which doesn’t. That’s like some blues band releasing 200 records, and people calling out blues fans for not having bought them all just so they could find the 113rd and 175th ones happened to be good.
I dislike most SNK games for the same reasons I dislike most Capcom games. The SNK fanboys whine about the reasons why SF4 is popular, but those are the same things SNK used to steal players from SF2 back in the day.
Great, yet another anime lover who dislikes my opinions…
WTF are you talking about, Capcom has released many POS anime fighters. Being more of crap games than those of SNK does not really matter, at all. BTW, SNK has comic-style games too, such are the first Fatal Fury ones.
yea, like i do like blaz blue/melty blood. but holy fuck are the fans full of weirdos. like i remember when i went to ECT2 and there was this one hairy guy who barely shaved ( and he smelled ) and i noticed that the pillow had some anime chick on it so i proceeded to ask him who was the character, and this guy seriously says " she’s my wife " and i was like are you serious? and he was like " yes ". i pretty much just left him alone.
tataki
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If you really want to be fair, pass judgement only on the relevant competitive titles- 2k2um’s latest version, and kof98umfe.
What you just did is like saying “Guilty Gear sucks cuz of GG1 or GGX”.
Maybe that’s why you like a fighting game that has…
Spoiler
2 men wearing thongs, and Oro’s 1 frame exposed penis 
lol at the joke on pherai!
I see where you are coming from. My point was more like “Why the hell am I to be blamed cos of giving up on SNK competitive scene by the time they released 98 after 4 years of either constant trash or good games getting ignored?” SF2 was good from the start. Fatal Fury and KoF, were not. SamSho1/2 was cool and was largely ignored but by… SF2 players, like, 3 of them. At least that’s the way it was around here.
Gimnbo
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oldschool, I don’t think I’ve ever observed someone as militantly hipster as you.
tataki
97
What does the quality of the games themselves has to do with the treatment from the local community?
As an SRK member you should already be used to people ignoring the good and playing shit instead.
The important part for you as a player is that SNK themselves know what the best KOFs are, and improved them even more. IIRC if you look at the change list of 98FE it really makes sense and shows understanding of what’s happening at the high level of play.
About Samsho don’t expect any redemption there because it has less selling power and the people who made those games good left long ago to other companies.
Fulaani
98
this
and a couple more words so its not a one word reply.
EmX
99
So, conclusions:
my clique of nerds can beat up your clique of nerds.
the guilty gear community’s spokesperson is an anime pillow.
eSports = Starcraft
SNK couldn’t have made a good game! I played a neo geo once in 1997!
oldschool_BR is a militant hipster
What do you care about that guy though, you like the games don’t you?
You did this with Arcana too, you started running around like a chicken with its head cut off in fear that someone might see you enjoying the game. You know, in public?
I mean I’ve been part of the MvC2, CvS2, GG, MB, 3S, and other communities for a little over a decade and each game had its share of weird ass mother fuckers. I just never gave a damn about them. They were there to play and so was I, and that’s the extent of the relationship. So the guy who comes dressed up as Bridget to a GG tournament is nothing more then another obstacle between me and getting first.
After ten years I still don’t understand the internal conflict this community goes through.
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