Tenka to me has too many issues to be the best Samsho. It’s still an ok to good game, and better then a lot of major tourney games, but there are better Samshos.
I think Tenka also misses the mark on a lot of issues. SS Zero SP is fantastic as it is, so its not like Tenka being good/bad makes an effect on that. Shin SS/SS2 and the original are also superb?
(ridiculous amount of info on this page to those who don’t know about it: http://poormanweb.ddo.jp/~shinsamurai/SinSamurai_Main.htm I wish I could find something similar for the first game.)
Can someone give me their opinions on the the third and fourth games though? I’ve read that they are combo-happy broken games but I wonder how exactly.
Here’s a site for SS1: http://samurai.mania.cx/kekka/free/5f/5f.html
And if you have a nico nico account, you can view tons of SS1 footage
Ss3 is to look at is probably one of the best games in the SS series, but to play? it’s a shambles, in fact it’s beyond a shambles, there’s at least 20 reasons why the game is complete crap, i’m not gonna go into all of them just the mains ones
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infinents all over the place, some stupidly easy
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the damage is just fucking stupid, it’s just stupid one hard slash can take 60% if not more due to the strange counter system that probably somebody understands alot better than me, i could never get my head round it.
stupid things like hanzos command grab takes like 3 to kill you
3)glitchey as fuck, basara and gaira have a stupid GC glitch that nobody else has, while it does not benifit basara or even slash gaira it makes Bust gaira a complete broken bastard, basically anything blocked = you being command throwed for 40% of your life IF NOT MORE!!! or supered or QCFC which 98% of the time GC’s and never trades
- for me this was the biggest killer of ss3, i can live with the stupid damage infinents glitchy crap, the hit detection is the worst i’ve ever seen for any fighting game i’ve ever played, things you think will hit will somehow whiff or pass through, especially up close, everybody always uses SVC to highlight the issue of poor hit detection, but ss3 makes it look fucking AWSOME in comparison
3 is a terrible game, looks fantasic sounds even better, but to play, well it’s painful
4 is alot better yeah there’s alot of infinents, yeah the dial a combo is stupid but it’s an enjoyable game there’s alot of bullshit but so what, it’s the anti ss5 special it’s alot faster paced you can be alot more agressive, i mean i love ss5 special i like the slower gameplay, but there are times when i do enjoy 4 because of the aggressiveness, even with all of 4s faults i still prefer it to tenka
Thanks man. I just saw the system explanation section on that site, looks really good. I remember trying to find SS2 match vids on Nico but I had no luck, didn’t really think about looking for nr.1 though. I’ll def. check it out
Leon, doesn’t the fourth one supposed to look very good too? I mean I realise the sprites are the same base as the third game but its the same artists as before, so I thought the style was still unified (unlike Zero which the new char. don’t look quite as good.)
Question: what is the command for grabbing a weapon bare handed in SS1/SS2? On one page it says its a normal throw when being hit, on another it says HCF at the moment of being hit…
Samurai Spirits Collection coming out in Japan on 07/24/08, US$49.90:
http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-40-77-2-49-en-70-2qn0-43-fh.html
wheres the storyline at now?
anyone else disappointed by old haohmaru in the SS from the late 90s?
who else never saw the 2nd ova but wanted to?
It’s HCF. When you’re bare handed you can see your character do a whiff catch
Good stuff.
Though…the only thing I’m “worried” about, is that the JP version doesn’t make any mention of having Zero/5 Special, but the US version has supposedly confirmed that it will have the game at GDC months ago.
If that much is the case, then this will definitely be a case where I’ll be willing to wait for the definitive version of the game that will have ALL of the games.
it doesnt mention 3 or 5 either if you’re judging by pics alone but im pretty certain the jap release is gonna have all of them
3 and 0/5 were mentioned in a Gpara article I found off of 2ch. So I’m not worried about those games.
But on the same note, that article didn’t mention 0 Special, which is what brought me to be concerned in the first place. We’ll see soon enough, but no complete package deal = I’ll be willing to wait til the US release, which does have such things.
ME! Egm wisely steered me away from the first, but I didn’t find out there was a second one until…well, 3 years after release.
I really hope the Samurai Shodown Anthology for psp is gonna be right. Hey, SS6 is Tenkaichi Kenkakuden, right?
Yes! We’re getting Tenka on PSP!
drool
If you google Samurai Showdown II XBL, the latest news has the game being cancelled. However, the news was posted on April 1st so of course there is the obvious chance it was another retarded joke. However all the other links that come up are crazy old.
Is there any news on this game? If it is cancelled on XBL, is it still coming for PSN?
Honestly, I think they’re the worst games in the series, and 3 was SNK’s biggest disaster and series-killer ever. I really blame Samsho3 for killing SNK in the US since it sucked that bad, and Samsho was so huge in the US at one point.
Poor SS3, getting so much hate ;_;
Surprisingly the game still had a number of players in the Detroit area even up to a couple years ago, but then SNK never did cease having a scene around here.
Samurai Showdown rocks, and is underated as hell
My fav SS = 4
fav character = Kazama Sogetsu and Suija (like father like son combo)
For importers, anyone besides me picking this up
http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-40-49-en-15-Samurai+Showdown+-70-2qn0-43-3.html
I play 2 and 5sp. I use Charlotte because she is basically Chun Li and she says “I love my nation”.
SS5 is now ranked on 2dfighter.com, SS4 will be ranked in aweek. Samsho 2 will be ranked in afew days.
Anyone know what SS5sp roms I need to play it via 2DF? I have “samsh5sp.zip” which is 79.3mb and “samsh5sn.zip” 2.14mb. Are these the right ones?