Hmmm alright.
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It is him, look at this cross up.
When I first saw that Wonder Woman image, I deadass thought it was Keanu Reeves.
What do you have against poor Keanu though ?
Or is it a sweep?
I love Keanu Reeves.
But I really thought it was him because it looked so real. Still find it hard to believe she looked that bad.
Sadly this is such an abomination tournament wise that I don’t think that’s a good enough explanation. Maybe the IJ2 discs smell bad or something.
I recall NRS games really dropping off before the new one comes out.
If my memory serves anyways.
Dropping off is like ok 50 to 100 people I got you dropping off.
17 is ???
That is in fact the cycle. Injustice is also a really unpopular game because the scene is very young and has terrible leaders who don’t do anything to influence people to play offline or go to anything. I’ve written about it a lot.
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Reminder that Will thinks plain cheese pizza is the best
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Okay, so to elaborate further on that post about Tekken: combos in that game is piss-easy for the vast majority of the cast. People tend to talk big about how important movement is and backdash canceling and shit, but in reality the most important thing when it comes to movement is knowing how to combine it with your pokes. A single jab string into a backdash or a sidestep to create a whiff is a million times more important than being able to do lightning fast BDCs. Even though all characters have somewhere between 30 and 150 moves, a lot of said moves have very similar properties, and knowing that GREATLY reduces the knowledge load you need to just play the game. You can also shut down most of them with simple poking if you know the key buttons of your character; beating just jabs or df1s up close gives them about 5 options, and most of those can be blown up hard by low-risk options if you counter them. If you know the concepts of how to move, know how to whittle down their move list, know a few simple mix-ups, and get some basic block- and whiff punishes going, you’re probably good for the first year of playtime in T7. Especially if you throw a few gimmicks on top to steal games from people every now and then.
The problem for intermediate players is that you get to a point where you’re gonna need specialized defensive knowledge. And that shit takes some serious effort. Learning how to win in Tekken is one thing, learning how to not lose is an entirely different story. Ducking strings, knowing where to low parry, breaking throws, optimal punishes… the rabbit hole for this is deep AF. And even though I told you simple movement is more important than advanced movement, you’re probably gonna need advanced movement at some point, which has a very high execution ceiling.
I highly recommend the game for a multitude of reasons. Especially if you, like me, don’t really have ambitions about becoming a top player. But if you want to go from intermediate to good in Tekken, you’ve got some serious work ahead of you.
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I guess this is what happens when you make netcode too good. Kids just want to stay home. I don’t blame em I like just being home and playing when I want, but tourneys still where it’s at to really prove yourself and learn in real time.
I’m…not sure how the two are related?
Cheese pizza is the best, and majora’s mask is one of the best games ever made.
Ed is an annoying poser though.
That reminds me, you could use another coffee or two~
NRS games always had a very online centric scene for a long time, the offline part is not as ingrained in that communities “culture”.
Not saying it’s good, just that it’s kinda par for the course.
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That has something to do with it, but I also think, again, it’s how the scene’s leaders are just really bad at doing anything but playing and being just extremely online shitposters and memesters. There is no like Valle or Art type, everyone is just someone who has been extremely online since the 2000’s and are just kinda bad trolls.
One of the most popular players was adamant that locals are bad and not worth going to if you can just play the best online. I can hear Pertho’s blood boiling from here, and for once I agree.
The one true leaker got caught! What will we do now?! 
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Seems like Injustice 2 never caught on. Most of the people I know who were actively playing it were always complaining about it. I dunno. I just couldn’t get into it.
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