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No I don’t follow up on the fighting scene or know the technical terms for specific combos or watch videos. I play casually and do what I know. Yeah I can wavedash in Smash Bros and know all of Marth’s cheap tricks, but that’s one of the few games I have played people on. I don’t get to play SF/Tekken/SC with others cuz I don’t go to arcades or have friends who play them atm.

Now I’m gonna take all of what you said, don’t worry. But a lot of what you said I did admit to you here and when I saw you. I don’t play people and that’s partially why I came here. But The games I know weren’t really bing played last night except CvsSNK2, and dispite everyone saying they don’t play it much, an hour of minimal playing every once in a while against real people gives you so much more experience than what I’ve gotten. So I was happy to go over there and play and learn some stuff. I donno if you really liked me being there but I can’t really get good in a few rounds to give you a challenge so…either I’d have to spend many hours getting beat down and learning the hard way or someone would have to teach me a few things. I didn’t want you to have to do that so I mostly watched you play and tested my playing style to yours.

I had to take a break after about 2 1/2 hours of losing to let it sink in, but yeah, I learned stuff. However, when I kept saying frame advantage, you were probably thinking of some phrase tournament people kept saying. I have heard frame advantage from people talking about Balanka and Sagat (and I think Sakura’s), who have their supers go off with less animated frames than other characters. That’s what I thought frame advantage was so yeah…

So my point is…no I’m not all that knowledgable about fighters. But I do play them a lot. I don’t own a stick and I don’t hang out at arcades, but I don’t really like the fact that people who don’t do those things aren’t deemed people who ‘play fighters’. I love fighters and they’re the biggest genre I play. But I’m just at a point now where my friends are off doing other things and don’t want to play them so when I play games, its usually a fighter for about a half an hour-an hour at home. Thought I’d come and see how you guys work and obviously, you guys are a whole different tier than me (way beyond casual). That’s cool. Probably my fault for posting in the ‘tournament’ section. But that’s where a friend said I should post to see where people go to arcades. I gotta start somewhere ::shrug::. Sorry if that was the case.

And anyway, there are fighters which aren’t even in arcades, some which have large tournaments and fanbase. Some people I know are saying the biggest fighter atm is Smash Bros. I don’t know how much truth there is in that, but when one year I go to a Smash Bros tournament and there’s 20 people there, and the next there’s 425…I think that shows something. Especially since Smash Bros is now 5 year old. And not in arcades.

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i’m going back home friday night.
if you have someone to stay with, i can take you there, and i can take you back sunday afternoon too, i’m also going to FFA.

i have stuff to do saturday morning and sunday morning which is why i don’t feel like letting you stay at my place. =P consider it a last resort kinda thing.

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Jason Cole , Alex Valle , Tragic, and others love this game, and are trying to get it in evo, if its possible. DOA4 is hella polished and is a real good game, like ANY fighting game, mind games is the key, and standard combos are not the key too victory, anyone who plays doa and throws a fit over doing a combo and getting countered doesnt know how to play. The changes made in DOA4 are massive. Countering no longer takes half your health and shit, it takes longer to die, you get alot of health, the amount of frame time you have to counter has been cut by 60%, so its way harder to counter, and the game is three times as fast as previous doa games, which is a big plus.

Like most 3d fighters, throws and air combos is key, like i stated earlier, if your doing a full fledged by the book combo, STOP. Mind games is what you need, jab, jab, wait for stun, wait for inevitable counter from scrub, hit LOW, then hit mid, wait for another counter, then either pop up, grab, hit low again, or whatever. The options on the offensive or defense are far from just Combo or counter! on defensive, you can shoose to counter low, mid, high, or mid high, depending on the attack coming your way, so mashin Back and Free to try and attemp a counter wont do you jack shit anymore. If your stunned, you can hold black, and mash the joystick like crazy and try to recover in time to either attack, block, or sidestep/ or try another counter if you know your opponents mind game already.

I can go more into it, but the bottom line is DOA has gotten a bad rep thus far, but DOA4 changes all that, its so much better than it used to be, its like taking a jump from tekken 4 to 5 imo. play GOOD players on doa4 and see what you think of the game.

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tekken god: sweet!

anyone else up for 3s at tekken god’s place on thursday?

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yo.

can anyone go…if so, can you send me a message of the address and anything else i need to know. i wanna play some 3s ppl. thanks

-Matt

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dios, if you’re looking for comp in doa4 i can try and pick it up. i didn’t spend too much time with it, all of my comments were based off of doau, and when i did try doa4 i think all my stuff from doau changed.

the thing that irks me most about doa4 is that it’s on 360, and i don’t have the money to buy one =X heh. but if you have it, let me know if you want to play =P

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uh yeah so Ill be goin to plaza today after 5 or so

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I wanna go to FFA when there’s a ranbat. And frame advantage isn’t when you have less frames -_-

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gene and i will be at nickel city for 3s.

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@kblach: GAWDayum!!! Already invaded the thread I see. :rofl: Well, good luck converting some people over to playing #reload, as u kno we can always use the comp! btw, thanks for always hosting!!! :rock:

@SD guys: I’ve posted a couple times before but I’d just like to say that you guys are always welcome to play #R with us. Atm just to reiterate what Kbalch was saying, sense THERE ARE NO #R CABS IN SD (at least that I know of) we usually like to play at people’s houses. There are about 5 of us GG#R players in SD, but sometimes we have people come down from LA and up north just to play over the weekends. We usually play at kbalchs (clairmont, probably 30 min drive from national city for those of you down there) during either Fri or Sat (depends on who can come, so post up) but sometimes we go further north for gatherings or tournies. Tho #R is our main game, were always up for other games. I personally dont kno all too much about other games but Im definitely willing to learn if you guys offer to teach me! ! If you guys are interested in seriously picking up guilty gear just post over at the thread (SoCal guilty gear thread) were all really nice people! Also, Im definitely down for some kofXI at either Chula or Plaza, just name the date/time!

Im under the impression that the majority of you guys dont know what #R is, so let me break it down a little. Alright, basically there are two versions of guilty gear that have ever been included in the EVO game roster: GGXX in 04 (guilty gear double X) and GG#R in 05 (guilty gear sharp reload). The version preferred by all serious guilty gear players is GG#R (PS2 import) which is basically just a revised version of GGXX with some tweaks to make the game more balanced (the difference is huge enough to change play styles for certain characters.) If you have guilty gear for your PS2, and its not imported, chances are that you have regular GGXX. If youve never played GG then playing GGXX certainly wouldnt hurt your game, at the very least youll be able to get a feel for the game, however dont rely on this version for your frcs or JF combos cuz the timing is different in GG#R. If you have guilty gear for XBOX, more likely than not you have GG#R. Tho the preferred version is import PS2, I believe the only reason why we dont play the XBOX version is to avoid any possibility of lag with sticks/converters in tournies. Sorry if I explained the obvious but after reading the above post I felt that I might as well give you guys the heads up cuz Ive played most if not all the guilty gear cabs at SD and none of them at any time was GG#R, not the one that was at mission, not the one that was at chula, and not the one that is in SDSU now! A sure fire way to tell if its #R or not is if youre able to pick robo-ky from the start.

BTW, ANYBODY ABLE TO PLAY KOFXI AT EITHER THURS OR FRI EVENING AT CHULA/PLAZA? :sweat:

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I unno joe, I dont think i have anyone to stay with. I’d like to go though… I don’t wanna put any pressure on you though about letting me stay with you. If you can’t then i just wont go.

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TekkenGod: Im always down for some 3S so thursday would be cool.

Wuziq: Roll up. Bring you controller hehe. Last I heard though I think someone told me it broke?? That would suck man you need to totally get metal casing for that.

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just confirming that there are indeed no #reload cabs here in sd, only ggxx on crappy misconfigured button setups. regarding #r i heard there is one up in ai up near la at walnut.

@kbalch: hey just pmed you. regarding the pm, i might consider heading up to laguna beach over the weekend for some gg#r, hokuto no ken, and rumblefish2 in the case stormlocke decides to host anything. also i recall you mentioning your gf flying over this weekend as well so hopefully you’re free sometime during the week.

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ggs tonight. gene get better, being sick is for SCRUBS

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FFA? everyone speaks of it but what is it really? sorry noob to that but everything else i’m familiar with. btw, when you guys hit up chula, haven’t you realized the joysticks on MvC2 suck ass or is it just me when I played last? ( about a week or so; last thurs afternoon)

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mike and i are down. and no, the controller’s fine… it’s just one of the connectors keeps falling off. i’m still working on the casing… just wood, not metal, hehe…

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Throws up

Yeah, so are you guys gonna go to tekken god’s every thursday now, or am i still “the place” to go? IM SORRY IM SICK!!! :sad:

baahhhhhhhhhhh. Tenchi is annoying, freakin ibuki…We need more cvs2 players in San Diego.

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i hit up ai fairly often, and i think buttons are for #r might be broken, last time i had no kick… i dunno. it seems that they only maintain games that people actually play fairly often.

his controller always breaks, its his tournament strategy :rofl:

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his controller always breaks, its his tournament strategy

LOL

So does anyone play any other games besides the “newest” ones (i.e. CvS2, MvC2, Tekken5, GGXXR). I know some of these games are slower than recent titles, but a little variety is nice.

I know in some parts of LA, a good number of people still play Alpha 2, KOF 98, 2002, MvC1, XvSF).

Just asking.