I wish I found all these legions of good players. My memories of SF2 in the 90s was [:qcf::hp:]xN until I got bored watching other people spend quarters… In SoCal for that matter. I wonder where all of ElderGod’s legendary “average” players were hanging out at the time :sad:
The players of that era need to enter the next evo (only for ST) or SBO (preferably) if they want to prove that they were the best ever.
well HF would be a better bet since that was the last main game that most of this thread is dedicated to. However with no SF2 of any type at evo this year, all they’d have left is ST at a few majors or SBO.
O_o I could probably outrun Harvey Glance these days, but that doesn’t change the fact that he was the fastest man in the world in 1976 (name chosen totally at random from list of former world’s fastest men). Likewise Shaun Alexander was a beast running back in 2005. He sucked after that, but that doesn’t detract from his competitive skills evinced in 2005.
It’s easy to bring up a million examples of how people’s competitive skills are arcs, not plateaus. Even for someone as consistently mediocre as myself, my skill levels wax and wane over time. If you’re not around for someone’s heydey: sucks to be you.
This is kind of why the modern era is so much fun: it’s way easier to recognize good people as opposed to only finding out years later that you were a block away from the secret dojo.
someone wound up in jail?
Oh god no…
Ya that’s just what they need to do. “Hey buddy, leave your current life style right now in order to train your ass off at a game you haven’t played in 15 years just so you can beat some guys that continue to play the game post golden era. It won’t get you anywhere, but it will prove you were really that good back then.” Besides, guys like Watson, Schaeffer, Valle, and Choi have already shown that the OGs are dominant when it comes to the old games without even practicing. God forbid if they were to actually try again.
This post is genius and really highlights the ludicrous logic of the golden era nut huggers.
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Recent footage of the man himself playing some online casuals!
This Elton Chong guy must have some kind of special mission of some sorts, because I see him allover on Youtube spewing the same shit.
Tomo and jeff never stopped playing. They still both crave the limelight. Loving the tomo legend ohira tee shirt
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And Jeff obviously believed he was gonna dethrone Old mastah. I think Jeff lost 9-1
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LOL: online play.
Axl spoke the truth. The rest is silence.
Oh another flat earther.
Do me a favour and change ur name to “Old School BS”
Shut the door on the way out and try not to fall off the edge of the planet when ur holding onto Jeff’s nuts.
lol dis dude
So you’re a stalker…
… and a psychic …
I’ve had more than several top players in the world at my house (and been with others at their house) playing online and they’ve lost to randoms, let alone ‘good’ people. Probably the best was watching Ricky and Justin at Random James’ house getting destroyed online in 3S. It’s almost like it’s a completely different game. Nearly twenty years after anybody but psycho you would have cared. It’s interesting and cool that these guys are playing now, but … grow the fuck up.
Anybody bringing up online play in this thread is going to be nearly guaranteed to be heavily infracted for being trollingly stupid. See also this.
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also, may i add that there are no vids of gameplay of those early 90s due to a few reasons.
1, most people had what…dial up internet speed in those days. you can forget about watching or uploading vids at those speeds
2, since you weren’t watching/uploading/downloading vids…why make them? who were you gonna show gameplay vids to? your friends? why? they were there. they didn’t wanna see your gameplay again. they were there. they saw it.
3, if you did have a cam, you were too busy taping girls in bikini at the beach. turning the cam on sf2 gameplay was ludicrious at that time. why tape that of all things? why waste video tape on something no one cared for at that time which was SF2 gameplay footage.
???
now things are different of course.
sorry if the youngsters(in their teens & early 20s) don’t have any vid evidence of how much better the players were in those days…but there are fundamental things you can learn from an OG. just ask them.
really basic stuff that the younger crowd seemed to have missed.
for example…from watching AE matches of high level players…i’ve noticed a few things. like, for example…against a Blanka player, no one spams standing jab from a distance. you have to spam standing jab from a distance. why? just to get into a Blanka player’s head. to show them their rolls aren’t safe and that you won’t be free by their rolls.
plain old psychology my friends. mind games.
the youngsters never spam jab from a distance. hence why most blanka players do nothing but roll and control space.
or,
how youngsters don’t seem to realize that all you have to do against grapplers, most grapplers, like Zangief…is jump!
just jump mo fos.
jump.
the last thing you want to do against grapplers is to box them. don’t box them. if you are using a character that can throw out projectiles. then throw projectiles. if gief gets close, either jump away or straight up and HK them…but don’t be anywhere near the ground with them close to you.
basic SF2 knowledge.
shit the old timers know from SF2 days.
i’ve even read youngsters posting up sayin “never jump against Gief”
???
but jumping is what you’re supposed to do!
???
you can’t outbox a grappler. especially gief that can grab/throw you from a considerable distance and has ridiculous priority in his grabs/throws.
he can’t grab you while your feet aren’t touching the ground.
hence…
j-u-m-p.
Or you can let them think their roll is safe and then punish it with something harder than a jab. You don’t want to let them know that you’re ready for everything, even if you are, or they’ll just never commit to that thing. You want to either bait them to commit, or make them forget that you are ready for it.
Um, because jumping out of a grappler is so obvious that grapplers would just wait for the jump and punish it. This is why in high level play you actually see some players walk right up to grapplers, because the players don’t want to take the risk of committing to a grab and having the opponent jump out, so walking up to them feels safer. Walking up to a low level grappler player will probably get you grabbed though, because they aren’t thinking ahead that the opponent would probably jump.
Your “old psychology” sucks…the funny thing is that this isn’t even how the OGs are thinking. Don’t speak for them.
the cliche is true.
there’s a critic everywhere.
i swear man, lol.
you guys are too much.
there are trolls everywhere on the FGD boards
yeah, thx for explaining to me that a blanka roll can be punished with something other than a jab.
i didn’t know that until you enlightened me.
i didn’t know i could block a roll, dash in, and pinwheel(using juri han)
or shoryuken the shit out of it, flash kick it, etc.
who are you?
and what makes your strategies>OG time-tested-proven knowhow?
ok then, do it your way.
good luck with trying to commit bait shenanigans against zangief that can grab you from 2/3rds of a screen length distance. good luck with that(losing).
don’t make the game more complex than it is.
don’t make it harder for yourself.
sure you can shinshoryuken a blanka roll offline…or bait a gief grab…offline.
good luck with trying that online where even the most minute lag is gonna throw your timing off.
online. keep it simple. and safe.
Someone linked me to your post, laughing at how bad it was. So I responded.
Your laughable strategies (more like level 1 mentalities) are not “OG strategies”, gives OGs a bad name (and I’m not OG).