I always go with the flow Romes so its wasn’t a big deal at all. Since my plans got canceled tomorrow I am around if anyone wants to get a few rounds in for anything. Will gladly host (short notice I know). Alright, time to enjoy more sun!
So i’ve watched a bunch of vids lately and read some of the various character forums to dig up some news. some of the new alt. costumes seem really sweet. I especially like how Gouken looks like Raiden from mortal kombat because of the giant hat. also seems like chuns new ultra is comboable from like… anything and even if it knicks you halfway through the animation it looks as though you take all 20 or so hits. Abel’s second ultra is badass. dudley looks like S+ tier so i’m getting ready to see lots of dudley vs. sagat matches once this drops. I’m deeply saddened by the sheer amount of suck every person playing Guy displays (not one FF chain? really? not ONE?) also seems like all the trials for existing characters are the same, they just added some more fluff in there (i’m hoping these transfer over so we don’t have to do them again). And apparently Dan is like… almost worthwhile now. I don’t know what they did but it seems like he got whatever he needed. And, in general, the game looks way faster to me (lvl 2 focus attacks are craaazy fast now) and seems less turtle-friendly. This seems like a way better game in my mind.
Also, 5 Dragons, 28 Railroad Square, Nashua, this thursday, March 25th, at 6pm. NewBlood, it will probably be wise to bring your TvC setup cause I wanna play that thing. Looks like a couple ps3 setups will return as well (I know at least mine will be available) but as we continue to grow you may wanna think about bringing your stuff (mark your controllers and/or memorize your serials as well). Should be a good time.
Yea I saw the vid with the new look, and they didn’t seem to fix the clipping issues yet (his hand passes right through the hat) but no big deal. Looking firward to super and it’s almost here so the excitement is definitely building! ADON!!!
Thinking about making a 5 Dragons thread to make it more known that we are actually having gatherings in this neck of the woods. We will see how this week goes and take it from there, but I think it’ll help a little. I have been looking into melty blood AA and definitely liked what I saw. My import copy should be here soon so if anyone is a closet melty player, rejoice!
Otherwise I think the variety in what we have is really good. I’ll bring TvC and my tv again this week as requested so we can get some solid rounds in. Ill try to bring something different every now and again to keep it fresh. If anything its definitely growing which makes it all worthwhile.
I’ll be there on Thursday… for the crab rangoon.
And Newblood, did you always have that PSN name under your avatar? Wondering why I haven’t added you yet.
I like the idea of bringing new games to the table, maybe rotating some stuff around. Right now I’ve started playing a bit of 3rd Strike (to get a feel for super) and I’d like to play TvC and figure that beast out. I’ve basically stopped playing Blazblue cause, well, nobody else is (when CS drops this summer though… I’ll hand out tager busters for everyone). Melty looks interesting and I’d certainly be willing to give it a try
A 5 Dragons thread probably makes some sense seeing how it is a place for new hampshire/border mass people to play and could probably take over the purpose of this thread. Though i’m wondering where some of the people who have posted in this thread are.
I am sure many have moved on to more active venues, which is fine. The Boston crew has Play N Trade and Wallcade venues on a weekly basis it looks like so the idea is to turn the 5 Dragons venue into something plausible like those events. It may not be weekly, but it can be just as respectable. I am definitely down for third strike as I have anniversary collection.
I will be bringing power stone 2 to the next event in a couple of weeks for DC since I am certain everyone has at least one fond memory playing that game. Trying to find a copy of Jo Jo’s Bizarre adventure which was a completely undervalued 2d fighter, but a fav of mine. Also have Mark of the wolves for DC, so there will be plenty of variety in the coming weeks.
TvC is pretty easy to get into, but the synergy between your two characters is as important as I have ever seen in a vs game which is a very nice twist to a generic formula. I love the roster since I am pretty familiar with the tatsunoko side although the tekkamen need to be toned down:wow: Looking forward to more SF4 and will have Tekken 6 and CvS2 with me this week so it should be a good time. My buddy will be tagging along again this week since the smash comp lit the comp fire! Romes add me already!
As a kid I played a lot of different fighters in the arcade (yes, Manchester NH used to have a respectable arcade on Elm Street in the 90s), and I distinctly remember playing a couple KoF iterations, maybe CvS, and I remember Gill beating my ass with that lame resurrect super in the first street fighter 3. Sadly, I never had a dreamcast and my ps2 received extremely little love cause I was in college the whole time–which means I missed a good number of these things.
Looks like it may make sense to do the whole multi console stick mod. Suddenly glorious memories of battle arena toshinden are flooding my mind… Oh, and any game where I can be Terry is one I wanna play, badly.
Any of you NH people in the house, I would more than love to get together and play casuals and sorts…im from Pelham NH and my xbox tag is n00btr0n1mat1ca Get hype and lemme know of anythign local ill hit it up for sure…and I work in Nashua too so…
If you didn’t go to PAX East I think it’s safe to say you missed out. I spotted J Wong just wandering around the expo floor. And then Romes and I watched him utterly destroy anyone he faced in the sf4 tourney. There are a couple vids of peeps playing ssf4 from PAX on youtube. The Penny Arcade guys have been shown that they need a bigger venue, attendance is rumored to have been like 60,000 so next year it will be even bigger. I also got to play Continuum Shift and I can attest to the fact that it is hype. Animations are way smoother and Tager actually has a mixup game now.
Also, Noobtron, we’ve been playing sf4, bb, tekken6, TvC, brawl, and even some kof12 every other thursday in Nashua. Address is a couple posts up. Next one should be thursday, april 8.
Once I have maximus arcade all set up I’ll even bring my laptop so we can run whatever my laptop can handle and I have an emulator for (Jojo’s Bizarre adventure, old KoF games, samurai showdown, garou, whatevs). This works better for me as my HRAP3 works well with PC.
Thats cool, um i usually am dedicated to TW on thursdays, however maybe i can convince some of that crew to take a night of and come show NH some love (as im speaking of playing in MA) but i will see whats up…also i pretty much think you need to kick some sf3s aniverssary collection on some 360’s that shit is godlike ! Oh and CVS 2~
NOObtr0n welcome to the thread. Just wondering what TW is (probably obvious so forgive me) as I wouldn’t mind checking it out in the off weeks for 5 dragons. To temper expectations we are still growing in this area which is why I know a lot of NH players go to MA events since the scene is more established and the skill level seems to be a bit higher with a higher abundance of players who run events etc.
As a result skill levels in the variety of games we play at 5 dragons differ wildly depending on the game (since you are only as good as the competition you face regularly). The hope is to correct that and promote a more even playing field by attracting more players such as yourself to come out and expand the community here (whenever you can of course). We have anniversary collection, alpha collection, Melty Blood AA (in a few weeks) and cvs2. Since I love street fighter I would love to see more SF players at the events going forward. Now that my preaching is over, welcome once again and hope to meet up soon for some casuals. Peace.
I certainly hope he did, he’s got a rep to uphold after all. If he lost that would be like someone dunking on Lebron James… Oh wait that already happened. Looking forward to BB CS, hopefully Tager was met with some much needed damage nerfs and an improved Litchi…she got no love =p.
everybody does less damage, basically. proration is INSANE if you do two of the same moves in one combo (thus eliminating clap loops), however, combos are longer. So expect to eat at least 2 atomic colliders regularly. Also, i hear that litchi is even better than CT–I mean, she can be rape!zore in CT but she just takes so much damage (720 = death for her, and she negative penalty really quickly too)
also, i talked to phil about having ranking battles or something every once in a while to sorta organize the fray. Cause most of the brawl players just… sit around and play brawl and the rest of us rotate through like 4 or 5 games easy each night. i think if we start showing who’s best in each game we play peeps will have motivation to get better. Also, i’m thinking we may wanna focus and be like “tonight, we gonna play mvc2 and cvs2 and that’s it”, nawmean?
Any chance we can “limit” the brawl setups? I know there are a lot of players that show for it, but 3 setups is too much especially when you have 2v2 teams or 4 player free for all’s going most of the nights. Limiting the setups and giving it a more “I got next” arcade feel would make it more competitive for them, just my two cents. Anyway ranking is cool so long as its focused on only a handful of games. Keeping track of twelve different game rankings will certainly induce laziness in terms of keeping track. Any list must include BlazBlue, SF4, Tekken 6 and Brawl. I would say no more than two other “classic” games like MvC2 and CvS2 or even Third Strike and Alpha 3 be added. Going by setups, I think we can have as many as 8 up at once from the space we have so we can definitely run all of the games.:tup:
Thanks for the welcome newblood, although i am getting quite fed up with the grinding of online play, i am usual on…my tag is same as my name and if any NH kids woudl liek to casual i woudl be more than down, nothing liek playing some new blood…and as the statement “your only as good as the comp that you play against” I woudl have to agree 100% that is why I love to play with the kids that i do play with, always going for broke !
Want: everything you just said. Also means my tager would get to come out of retirement to unleash the power of science. My facebook got hacked a couple weeks ago and I just let it die so I think you should attack phil with this info in that forum. If I see him on gchat i’ll talk to him as well.
Hey guys, just wondering if 5 dragons is going down this thursday or next thursday. I’d like to finally show up to it. Maybe give Manji someone to play street fighter with, ha.
Daikon, it’s next Thursday.
Daikon, I missed finally meeting you at the Sooper Bowl Tournament. Was looking forward to at least some casuals =). I was there for almost 4 hours and finally got to meet some of the other NH players. Regardless I believe 5 dragons is on for the 8th if you can make it.