Your car combat game ain’t worth shit unless it’s named Twisted Metal 2 tbh.
I’ve always wanted to play the PC version of TM2 so I could experience the netplay and see if it was decent.
I heard the new Twisted Metal game was so bad that they had to take down the demo from PSN to prevent lower sales. Confirm/Deny?
Man, I hate street fighter. Fighting games in general are dumb. I made it to 1200 PP with Ibuki and then stopped focusing on trying to win and now I’m working on trying to improve. Hours and hours of practicing DP motions, half circles, double half circles and quarter circles and it is irritating that I have to go through all of this in the first place.
And then, even after I get the inputs, I’ll have to work on doing them from different positions besides neutral, doing them faster, doing them cleaner, doing them on both sides, then finally using them in matches. All of this in training mode, which is useless outside of working on execution. No other genre makes you do something so boring and tedious for so long before you can actually play the damn thing-- except maybe MMOs. But even those have the social aspect, and the tiny fake rewards of exp, money, and whatever else.
Also, playing online with a character with a normal as her AA sucks.
Once upon a time, fighting games didn’t have training mode. You had “get your ass kicked until you get your shit together” mode.
[/old man]
word. [/shaolin]
edit: wasnt their an article in like 03 basically covering the idea if good players should go hard on noobs in the arcade? i feel like your statement follows the line of though in the article…or was it a series on it? damn so long ago i forget.
Training mode was a DLC. You had to pay to get your training. It made learning everything you could much more important when the tokens were running low. 
-Starhammer-
Fucking stream monsters…now SFxT is the greatest game EVER?
that and home console, you’d get as good as you could at home and then try shit out at the arcade. i remember when dudes used to bring 3 ring binders with all the movelists to the fuckin arcade.
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This brilliant brilliant man would’ve been 48 years old today. Happy Birthday sweet angel!
According to a person that I talked to today in person, you’re a hipster if you don’t want to play SFxT and you like ST.
I fear for the community.
dead imma smack kids upside their head.
You should of punched that person in the throat.
Shit, that reminds me that I need to catch up on Portlandia…
Say wha? 
-Starhammer-
And getting my ass beat wouldn’t have helped. I have shit for execution-- if I want to improve further, I have to fix that, no ways around it. I spent 2 hours every day from November until half way through January doing nothing but half-circles because when I started I couldn’t do them at a speed that was in any way useful. I couldn’t do it for more than that long because the muscles in my hand got tired. I can currently do a half-circle in about 15 frames from neutral, and my goal is to get that down to sub-12 from a starting point opposite to the direction of the half circle (F, HCF F).
I still have to do this with quarter circles (my fast ones usually miss the forward input).
And then DPs (my DPs are nonsense).
And then my double-quarter-circles.
There is no way in hell I would have ever picked that up from playing matches. It was the reason I fell off from CvS2-- I was ok, but I either couldn’t keep up with the damage of the other people I was playing, or my options in certain situations were too limited without a reversal.
But even after putting in all that work, execution doesn’t have anything to do with the actual game. If you bring up any of the other competitive gaming genres (FPS, RTS, shooter, rhythm, whatever), the best way to improve is by playing the game.
And all of this just because I want to play Latif. =/
You might be talking about Domination 101–specifically, a bit that discussed Thomas Osaki’s habit of pinning all opponents down with a constant stream of carefully timed sonic booms.
i went down to the depths of the dom 101 forum and read a bit. it didnt feel like it was the same article but then again shit was about 9 years ago when i originally read it. for some reason i keep thinking it was vale who wrote a similar article.
The Freedom OVA is incredible.
I’m going to start playing Dark Souls again. It’s literally the greatest game in console history. Fuck what everybody else has to say. Don’t even bother quoting this and disputing this, because you’re fuckin wrong.
I just had to register for imageshack wtf?
I’m semi-retired from fighting games, but my execution on specials was the only thing I ever did well. SNK games are very demanding in that regard. Maining Iori in any game made it a necessity.
I was also a big Ken player, so the srk input was one of the first things I ever got down pat in fighting games. I used to do 50 in a row in practice mode in Alpha 3. Of course, sometimes I’d accidentally srk instead of throwing a hadouken…That’s embarrassing, and something I did kind of often in SFIV.