The only thing I don’t agree with is the music. If you don’t like it, it’s pretty easy to hit the mute button. Most of the time the music is irrevelevant to the combo video. Also, when the Japanese are the ones making the combo video, can you blame them for using Japanese music? I don’t get it. Of course you’ll see a lot of combo videos like that.
Obviously, too much of anything is a bad thing, (which you have said - credits, intros, etc.) but there is no reason to criticize what someone wants to do in their own video. So, I don’t really think telling people to stop shit because it isn’t in your taste is the greatest idea.
So how do you people feel about hex combos? There’s been retarded debates about it in the past…
I don’t have any problem with them…as a game becomes older, finding new combos using human precision is near impossible. Hex is a good way to test for the existence of new combos, and it obviously saves time. Not all combos are about proving the ability of the combomakers, some of them just want to show what is possible.
Well I kind of draw a line between music I perhaps don’t personally like but I can see how it adds to the video, and music that is just plain old bad taste. I don’t mean to sound like a dick, but in my view if you’re over the age of 15 and still listen to j-pop or Linkin Park then you kind of need to re-evaluate your taste. As for power metal or trance or whatever, if you like that stuff, that’s cool, but at least accept that it’s cheesy as FUCK and also it’s been pretty much done to death in combo vids. Seriously, do we need another fucking video with Nightwish in it?
It’s not a HUGE deal. Most of my points alone aren’t (except for stupid effects that obscure the action and huge intros/credits, those two really piss me off to the point that I won’t watch a video that has that shit), it’s when they add up that it gets irritating. I mean if someone REALLY REALLY likes power metal and they don’t listen to any other music then I guess I can’t really blame them for sticking with what they know.
Yeah, I’d like to see more stuff like that actually, it’s an interesting new direction. And yes, I am on NeoEmpire :looney:
The only thing that really gets to me is trapcode shine. I can stand 3D stroke but shine is just- … well it is what it is. If you don’t know what trapcode shine is, watch tv or movies. I even told **Joo **from Meikyousisui to not use it any more. bleh whatever, some of the combovideo people nowadays only make videos for themselves or for like 3 other people to notice shrug I should just learn to live with it (trapcode shine)
Hex combos are BS because mainly at times they aren’t doing the combos…I lose respect for people like that. I’m like the others, I speed past all the techno and all the other shit and get to the combos and see if they are practical if not make them practical…and Hex has a very bad name because of the fact that the combos are mechanically done…
I have no respect for people that use Hex…because they are casting a “Hex” on many of us…
Who cares about that shit? If a combo video just existed to show how good execution the guy performing it has, I wouldn’t be interested. Combos that are hard to do aren’t necessarily fun to watch. Crazy system exploits/ridiculously situational combos are far more entertaining, and I don’t care if they were done by hand or not.
Shit videos that qualify for every single one of your points:
Anything SNK related. Holy sweet Hitler’s ghost, watching that shit is fucken brutal. I can’t think of the specific group but holy fuck, I don’t care who’s doing the combo and having shitty ass anime guy covering half the screen.
Then again, GG’ing myself for watching shit like that.
man i was actually going to list “don’t use cheesy screen wipes” but i realized i’d never really seen them in combo videos but then i was looking around on youtube just now and the south american kof community manages to exceed my expectations yet again
Well I dont watch combovideos for shit that aint practical…but thats just me…They dont entertain me…esp when you see the SAME COMBO 50X by different people… I close the media player immediately.
that’s pretty fucking fast, considering my computer actually has lag on closing WMP.
Not to be Nit-Picky but what I think you’re refering to is Tutorial Videos. From my experience watching videos, combovideos usually tend to be really extreme and extremely situational, thus making them impractical. Whereas a Tutorial Video will display various common instances in matches which will lead to you seeing the “SAME COMBO 50X by different people…”
Once again, just offering what little knowledge I can.
i didnt really want to cite certain examples 'cause i’m not that much of a dick but i managed to find this again and i dont want it to go to waste so here it is, the worst, most wanktacular production job in a combo video ever:
I close the media player immediately.