Yes, but last year Nin won the T5 tourney. The gap between Japan and Korea is closer now, that’s for sure.
I’ve got 170 match videos from the SBO tournament and the korean players did extremely well. I don’t wanna sound like a fanboy but the korean style is 1000 times better than the japanese style. Japanese players turtle so much, it makes you go crazy.
Ditto.
Americans play more sports than the Japanese. How many japanese guys you see play basketball or tennis and all the other sports? Not even soccer I bet. Except baseball and ping pong.
for what its worth, americans are better at smash bros (melee and n64) than the japanese, and they play that seriously over there as much as we do over here.
I see plenty of them playing all of these sports over here in Okinawa. Some of them can even beat some organized teams made up of Marines from over here too. Don’t sleep on them, they actually do pretty fucking well with team-based games.
Are you joking me? Don’t assume things if you don’t follow competitive RTS gaming. Koreans have always dominated at RTS, especially Starcraft and WC3. Don’t tell me you actually believe that fighting games take more skill than RTS? There’s a freaking Starcraft channel on Korean TV for god sakes. To them, RTS is as much of a sport as baseball is to the US.
Question…
This may sound stupid, and I might not be correct in this matter, but since the arcade scene in America is pretty much dead, why haven’t alot more people hopped on X-Box live? I haven’t started playing it myself, as it’s been hell trying to find a converter, but it seems like a legitamate means of finding compitition. Unless there’s a reason why people don’t enjoy using it, like lag throwing off parries in 3s, but is that the only reason?
-Fritz
No good online modes, it takes longer to find and setup a game than it does to play the game.
The netcode is terribly done, it’s not just lag, but how the game deals with lag that pretty much makes every move a guess.
Anything else you think an online game should have, SF probably doesn’t.
Althought we can make lemons into lemonade, the XBL support in fighters (aside from DOA4) is just rotten fruit to work with.
lolololol
I think a srtyle that is 1000x better should win and not get knocked out first round. They may have prettier games though…
Box - Thanks for clarifying
If all the top japanese 3s players came out to evo, and usa swept top 3, japan would still be a far better country for fighting gamers. Someone winning evo or sbo doesn’t change the fact that most of the country has no scene, and most of japan does.
If your asking who can win a tourney, any of the elite players from any country have a shot at least.
The two issues are seperate.
Jesus, you just cannot lowball things enough for some people in this place. The “like skill, for instance” crack was a joke. I stuck it on the end of the part of my post that actually contained my point… which I’m sure you read carefully and understood its entirety before you decided to educate me, right?
Try not to feed the RTS/FPS troll. He’s very good at attenion whoring.
I suppose it is my fault. I thought it was funny, but it’s the kind of humor that results from watching some dork get baited and losing his shit. There’s at least one in every crowd.
Nah im pretty sure it was just you who missed the “3.” As a WoW tourney doesnt even make sense.
Japan doesn’t play marvel because I PLAY MARVEL.