Samurai Shodown Anthology

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Shishioh:

> 1. 2 is bad by today’s standards and at least I have listed some reasons why.

Your reasons are either wrong (“Random scrubs killing you with random slashes”), exaggerated (“random damage”), or irrelevant (“funky ass animations” - note: also wrong). SS2 does have issues, but not any mentioned by you.

> 2. Burst was sloppy and pissed me and a whole lot of people off. Deal breaker there.

You’re the first one to mention it as such. Most just deal with it and move on.

> 3. You seem to forget that 5 special has 100% combos that start from a single front hit. Get over the throwing aspect in 3/4 please.

Don’t change the subject. We were talking about throws. I said dashing throws in SS2 were abusive, but throws were arguably more abusive in SS3/4 since you could potentially kill a character off a throw in those games, which is not possible in SS2.

> 4. I still don’t see what’s so great about 2 since you won’t elaborate.

I’ve mentioned my preferences for SS2 for various reasons in this thread multiple times, but what I was specifically responding to was your statement: Random scrubs killing you with random slashes that take huge chunks of energy off+get you dizzy. Risk/reward was pretty fucked up in that game IMHO. Your opinion is wrong. This only applied if you sucked at Samurai Shodown.

I have no problem with you preferring the later SS games, but when you make false statements, I will call you out on it. Stop while you’re behind.

> If you don’t want 2 to be exposed/defamed, don’t throw unjustified hate on the others in the series because a vast majority in this thread seems to like the later games a little more.

Are we reading the same thread? Unlike you, I’ve been here since the beginning. The games that get the most praise are SS2 and SS0S. SS6 and SS4 has fewer defenders, relatively. And I wasn’t even shitting on the other SS games when we off on this path; once again, I’m merely correcting your blatantly incorrect statement about SS2. Get over it.

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For real. You know what else speaks volumes of PSX WR’s shittyness? You know what is the HARDEST motion to pull out in this game (and I’m not kidding)? BUTTON TAPPING! Yes, like in Hundred Hand Slap/Lightning Kick kinda moves. I would literally MASH on the button like crazy, and the move would seldomly come out! Like WTF?? Why does button tapping suddenly become harder than a Fatal Fury Special DM motion? :mad:

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Its button tapping there was certainly weird, Garyo and Tashonmao used it in their special moves. I was able to use strong version of button tapped moves if I buffered it at the end of some other attack, but I was never able to use weak version of those moves.

About input difficulty, I thought I’d mention that game’s Practice Mode has its game speed actually heightened, so it was harder to perform special moves there than in other modes.

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WIN QUOTE RESETSUMARU (ss6) english translation

“would you like to die with your boots onn?” WTF why is this a win quote

“I came to get down, i came to get down, so get off your feet”. I am not even kidding, this is a real f()(king resetsumaru quote. House of pain isnt making money any ways. :slight_smile:

I dont think SNKUSA translated ss6 at all. I think they just made stuff up.

koyshiro talking to hoahmaru

“have your poeple call my poeple”… they dont HAVE PHONES

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SS5sp does have 100% combo but i have never seen any one do one in a tournament. Doing infintes and 100% combo inn ss5sp is super super super advanced play. You are more likley to take 100% inn any other samurai shodown game accept ss1. You gota remember that even in ss2 pro players get close to 100% combo’s.

Grab in ss3 and ss4 is broken. Its way way way too good. At least in ss4 they made your slash and pokes faster so its very hard to grab good opponent. But grab in ss3 is just stupid. So to make it clear, If you are good at ss4 you almost never get grabed. But other samurai shodown games it is inevitable to be grabed. Expert samsho players say ss5 is the most easy to grab inn. But in ss5 you can also be hurt very bad on a dodged grab, so they always balance it out.

I hate to say it but grab in all samsho games is abusive. Samurai shodown 1-5 do not have overwelming offensive set ups. SO grab becomes a huge part of your game. As well as countering grab’s.

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In the old days of heavenlyspirits.net the main argument was always ss4 vs ss5. LOL, we would all argue all day. I feel your pain, but the thing about playing a game like samsho in usa is you have to make your own decisions about stuff. There isnt thousands of players to discuss stuff, so to have your own opinion is only natural. But this is what makes fighting. Everyone can agree ss3 sucks… right? :slight_smile:

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If you put the game on no items the game says

“These swords will cut you”… :slight_smile:

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This is a tough request, but i got afew vids for you.

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[media=youtube]V23oRFmEV6o[/media] (samurai shodown history vid VERY COOL)

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[media=youtube]uHRSJov-Wyo[/media]

You may have already seen these vids. If you have i will upload some new ones for you when i get time.

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Since Ultima doesn’t understand how to debate or quote, we’ll just leave him in his angry corner. Seems shit goes in circles with him(as evidenced in other threads). Even the forerunners of the thread are correcting you. Stop fighting.

And what the fuck is so hard about using the quote button? Do you post on gamefaqs?

Enough out of him though. On to what m216xlegendx said: Man, ain’t it the truth? I had to build a player from the ground up to even play the games with because I couldn’t get 2df to work right(I like to host sometimes).

And yes…3 is pretty bad all around. Some say it’s misunderstood but I can’t find anything redeming about the gameplay to warrant that.

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SS VI is just chokeful of LOLZ. They make pop culture references which are just full of WTF (Sogetsu mentioning “Three’s Company”? THE FUCK, SNK??), or are just plain disturbing (I still can’t get over Kusaregedo talking about biting off your penis). :wasted:

I felt dumb writing down the animal helpers’ win quotes.

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All I have to say about SS6 ingame quotes:

Ingame texts from original japanese game:
http://www.geocities.jp/abxy_lr/sst/message/
+Translators
http://translation.infoseek.co.jp/


http://www2.worldlingo.com/en/products_services/worldlingo_translator.html
+Dictionaries
http://dict.regex.info/cgi-bin/j-e/dict
http://jlex.org/
= 100 times better than SNK USA translations

You only need to know how those translators will translate character names (they think of them as simple words of course)

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Shishioh:

> Since Ultima doesn’t understand how to debate or quote, we’ll just leave him in his angry corner. Seems shit goes in circles with him(as evidenced in other threads). Even the forerunners of the thread are correcting you. Stop fighting.

Wow you fucking fail at reading. He’s correcting you, not me!

Now you’re just trolling. No one could possibly be this thunderously stupid without killing themselves years ago. Good job sir. You got me.

> And what the fuck is so hard about using the quote button? Do you post on gamefaqs?

Quote button = too slow. I’m OG. I post newsgroup style. Get over it.

m216xlegendx: re: SS2 matches

Man. Lag sucks… :frowning:

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Now he’s getting it.:rofl:

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I see where you both are comming from. I am not taking anyone’s side. I just feel you guys could discuss instead of insulting each other. Some one said earlier that the samsho community is too small to have poeple fighting with each other. And i agree with that. And to be honest i am just like both of you i love to argue. But there is arguing and there is fighting. SO lets keep the peace. How good some one is means nothing. you could suck at a game and still have great understanding of it. Which is ushualy the case with great combo video makers:)

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Just got the PS2 U.S version of the Samurai Shodown Anthology, and Nice! I figured after seeing how crappy the PSP version needlessly turned out, that the console versions wouldn’t be much better.

Thankfully i was wrong, this collection rocks. The first 5 games appear to be emulations of the original NeoGeo roms, so arcade perfect. And SS6 Tenka which was dog vomit on the PSP, appears properly done port on the PS2. Sprites are a bit pixelated but the rest is smooth and plays great as far as i can tell(never played the original arcade version).

Overall, joins metal slug antho as one of SNK’s best console collections. Totally worth the mere $20 it goes for on several sites. Playing through SS4 right now.

Edit: Also works fine on HDadvance. So good loadtimes.

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Last post was on my birthday…awesome.

We need to edit the title to warn people about the poo poo that is the PSP version. It’s only use is to play 1 and 2 but even they fuck up with new glitches and underwater-like button lag.

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So is samsho dead in 2010? No love for SNK inn usa. I swear poeple just play SF cause everyone else does. Its a vicious cycle of hadukens and shoryukens :). Hopefully ss6 gets emulated soon so i can play some international competition.

Recently i referbished a buddys xbox 360 and he let me keep it so i have a xbox again. LET SEN COME OUT hahhaa. happynew year everyone , be safe, dont drive drunk(…who doesnt…)

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Thinking of making the poll for the SamSho game at Final Round. Don’t wanna post it in FGD since it’ll get buried and voted on by random people who aren’t even coming or playing.

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After playing Sen, it makes me want to go back and wash my hands to play a real Sam Sho game. :frowning:

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I would have slapped you if I saw you playing that.

Is Tenka still at PZ? I’m in H-town till at least the 2nd.