^ Well, it was an overgeneralization. I was trying to address the apeals to the majorities.
Those games also require incredible technical skills as well. As flashy as they can be those games require more patience, skill, and understanding than raw adrenaline mashing such as say, pressing two buttons and shooting a screen full of lasers ala vs series.
On a side note, I was more addressing the maturity of the japanese fighting games palete so to speak. All three of those are great games and I hope Arcana/mb will take off in the U.S., I am worried they will not however because most people wont recognize the depth of the system over the cute girly fighters lol.
I feeel the same arugement works for the vf series. The games are very plain, bland and basic looking and can only be appreciated by people who can play them. I think thats why vf is infamous in japan and not here.
Random japanese guy: Plays 5 min, see’s huge system and gameplay potential.
Random American guy: Plays 5 min, notices sarahs hot boobs. Finds game boring
after losing to second opponent.
I thinkits all about culture too. Games are more mainstream in japan, at least 2d fighting games for sure.
American’s don’t play VF cause SEGA does it’s best not to advertise or give a shit about VF outside of Japan. If SEGA put the same amount of effort pushing VF5 arcades outside of Japan as they did in Japan, you’d see a very different world as far as VF is concerned.
American’s will play whatever has comp. 3S has comp and it gained it due to many older players like Valle, Watson, and Jason Cole playing the game.
I played 3S as well as the other SF3’s a bit, but never got into it. I’m just not a fan of the parry dynamic. Yet I prefer it over the vs. series, any of them. I guess I’m stuck in the olden days, but HF and St are still my favorites, though I’m liking A2 alot now, because of GGPO.
Maybe If I didn’t move to Maui in 97, I would have gotten into it more. No arcade scene = why bother.
Hell, I might actually like the game if it comes out with online play close to GGPO at some point. Things change when you are learning against good players and playing a decent game, even if you didn’t get it / like it at first.
My two cents are, for whatever reason it started to catch on, it caught on. That brought out competition and players, it started a bigger scene in that game. That’s all a game needs is to be very playable, with good competition and opponents.
Shit, I never even thought about learning A2, but it’s the only fighter I’ve been playing lately, and actually trying to learn the nuances. Only because GGPO gave me playable competition at a decent game.
If that didn’t come out right I’m drunk, but I hope some of you get the point.
I wish more of the decent or better fighters out there would get some sort of push like 3S did, it’s just good for the genre in general, even if it’s not your type of fighter.
You know what 3S was missin all these years? publicity that’s all… I mean look… seriously… if nintendo wanted… they can make 3s as popular as whatever… all they gotta do is remake 3s and put a few mario characters in it… and BAM! 3s live again… but we all know that’s not gonna happen…
Yea it prolly did. There was spots in the ATL to play 3S. That sucks they took it out of the arcade down in savannah.:sad: You came to fr3 huh? Did you get to eat the chicken my wife made? Thanks for the support of final round in the early days.:tup::karate::rock: We’ve come a long ways from the house tournament. I can’t believe we had all of those people in my hommies crib like that.:looney:
I was a fan of the SF3 series the first time I played it. Initially I just played it like the old school Hyper Fighting days and laters learned about parries, EX’s etc.
I thought the animation was great and it had way more style than the Alpha series which I always thought looked kinda weak and kiddy.
maybe its cause of the fact the game got re-released for the ps2 / xbox, the major seeling consoles at the time, as the only release it seen before this was the DC? and DC was dieing [not that it should have]
long live sega
But there are only 9 characters in HNK anyways. If anything we play more characters in MvC2 because a lot of low/mid-tier assist teams have been shown to be at least somewhat viable.
You came to fr3 huh? Did you get to eat the chicken my wife made?
Thanks for the support of final round in the early days.:tup::karate::rock: We’ve come a long ways from the house tournament. I can’t believe we had all of those people in my hommies crib like that.:looney: