Yup, he’s tourny legal. No banned characters as of yet, except for create-a-chars.
12 DLC characters already completed but you have to pay for them anyways. Thanks capcom.
I’m pretty sure EX Iori/EX Kyo/Mr. Karate were done when KOF13 was released and then just staggered (though considering how good they are, maybe they really WERE rushed out in that short amount of time). But hey, as long as you like the game, cash grabs are okay, right?
You’re not getting the game, nor are you buying DLC. Why should you care? Why don’t you start crying about all the Idolmaster, Forza, and Fable DLC while you’re at it?
You say this as if I was happy about KoF having DLC either. I was actually pretty pissed when that happened, too, but you aren’t privy to that because you don’t live here.
But I care because DLC is the scourge of modern gaming, and I will continue to shit on it anywhere it goes, but in this particular case capcom went even farther with DLC characters, DLC gems, pre-order gems, and DLC costumes.
Based on that, I’ll concede the point. Truth be told, I don’t MIND some DLC, but with fighters it’s a giant pain in the ass…and usually something that’s done before the game’s released anyway, regardless if it’s on-disc or via patch.
And sorry if I was snippy. I love KOF but I’m so freakin’ sick of the fans of the game saying it’s the Second Coming it’s spoiling the game for me. Especially when they site things like SF4’s shortcuts, input buffers and reversal windows as reasons SF4 sucks when KOF is roughly the same or even worse in some cases. I feel DIRTY holding a button down for a HD/Drive cancel and having like a 30 frame buffer window or something. So I kneejerk’d when I saw a KOF player complain about Capcom’s DLC.
DLC sucks for every game but I’m more annoyed that they’re waiting til Fall for all of them to be here? Its like straight up milking and their excuse is to “keep the game fresh.” Artificial extension of the game’s lifespan if you ask me.
The whole game in general is built upon this scummy marketing practice and it sucks for tournaments.
I must learn to swag kick IRL
So it’s been confirmed that many of the DLC gems are 100% exactly the same as non-DLC gems but without the negative portion of the effect. Pay-2-win gameplay at its finest.
Wow, are you serious? So, there are gems that have no negative effects whatsoever?
It’s like a busted RPG for fighting games. I really hope people decide to simplify this BS and just ban gems.
So far most tourneys have decided to ban them, and we have yet to see what exactly tournament mode is like.
Its like the worst pay2win option ever, because it adds almost no depth to the gameplay whatsoever. Literally just straight up advantages.
Does anyone know if you can even disable the gems prefight, or in options? How does that work?
Honestly, this makes the game sound like total shit. Game developers are getting fucking greedy. Since so much gameplay is online these days, it basically forces everyone to buy gems. Since 75% of my gaming is online it sounds like there’s no god damn way i’m ever buying this.
Anyone with two working eyes and an IQ over 20 could see SFxT was going to be a fantastic trainwreck. That said, even I have to admit that capcom has exceeded expectations for me on this one, the laundry list of issues this game has is absolutely impressive, and no ones even played it long enough to find out if the basic gameplay or characters is loaded with broken/stupid horseshit yet.
I’m not sure I have enough popcorn ready to watch this freakshow.
ban dlc gems, use regualr gems, ban them all to gather, or i think what could work is just use what comes in stock for each character.
Based on what I’ve seen, if you were going to keep ANY gems, you would want to keep whatever the “preset” gems for each character are since, according to the developers, those are supposed to be the ones that “best” compliment a character’s moveset. Honestly, it sounds like horseshit, but it is what it is. The big issue with banning, though, is Evo. AFAIK, Evo hasn’t decided to ban anything for SFxT (unless I missed something somewhere), so if you don’t play with all the gems and they end up allowing them all, you’re walking in with a huge handicap.
Evo is holding off until the specifics of tournament mode are known.
And, of course, we have to wait until they release it via DLC. Pro as hell.
Posted most of my qualms with the game on facebook. I’m having more fun with it then SF4 though, so I’ll take it until I start getting bodied too hard.
Off that topic, Persona 4 fighter looks really fun. I really want to play that game.
Dubuque players - I will be running games at Comic World this Tuesday night (3/13). I can’t promise I’ll be the best competition, but I will show up and run things at the very least. Just don’t be surprised if I curl up on one of the tables and take a nap halfway through the night. 
Scheduled first will be UMVC3 tourney ($3), followed by the KOF13 tourney (Free unless we can actually get 4 people to pay this time) on one setup and SFxT casuals on the other.
Also, I’ve spent all of like two hours playing SFxT, and it’s all been doing Asuka and Hwoarang trials with a PS3 pad while half-drugged up. So don’t expect much from me.