Oh Word? 2 can play this corny ass game bitch. Keep it up and i will throw some trash on the ground.
You guys need to consolidate the videos and get them to Ed Whiltefolks so he can work his magic and we can get this shit on the youtube! I talked to him today he’s excited to get this shit going too.
“SuperJoe…I’m speaking to you from deep within the TeePee”
Yeah, I’m waiting to snag these videos from someone so we can get this shit on the interwebs. I think Korean Frank was supposed to stop by or somethin, but I haven’t heard from that nigga in a bit.
You guys need to do this next weekend so I can show up to this shit lol
I’m gonna come to this tournament with a whole different attitude. I’m going to actually get some practice in before I show up, but I’m also going to show up to both win AND have some fun, because last tournament things were tense. After losing my first match, I was pissed, and I had the feeling that a lot of people were feeling the same way because the atomosphere was serious. No one was really cheering or laughing, (I think out of respect for the players), but it was a little to tense for being a tournament.
Also, I think we should lay down the rule right at the start that if you are klling off the winners character to free up the cabinet for the next match, no practicing combos. People were practicing combos and shit for like 30 seconds while their opponent waited, and thats not fair. No warm ups. Just mash Fierce and walk forward.
The reason why people combo is because the character gets killed faster though. It doesn’t have anything to do with getting in extra warmups…I mean to be honest, every time that I did it, it’s not like I had the mindset of “sweet, free practice for 2 rounds.” I was just trying to kill the character to the best of my knowledge through a buff combo.
It’s not as if we lose a lot of time or anything, rounds that a character needs to be killed take an extra 1 minute tops, and after that minute, the matchup is underway. Granted we probably lose about 20 minutes off of just killing characters that aren’t going to be used, but I don’t think as if there needs to be a “rule” to not combo.
I guess I never saw an instance where people were just trying to do combo sessions against one another before an opponent could get up and play. But yeah, in that case, if a player is just waiting for his matchup and 2 people are trying to get a session going on…that needs to be cut immediately.
I saw a guy playing dictator who was practicing linking normals into scissor kicks and getting his timing and spacing down. For me, it also the fact that some people going up to the cabinet start out cold, and for one person to get two rounds to get there bearings and practice there set-ups, allows them that small advantage. Thirty seconds to get your head in the game while playing can mean a whole match if the other guy is just walking up without having touched the game for awhile.
Its not that people are playing each other between rounds. Its the guy killing off the character from the previous match using the dummy character to practice.
All I’m saying is that if I get up there and have to kill a character, I’m gonna be doing combos, and I don’t care if people have a problem with it or not. Seriously, you really think that his minute worth of practice is going to give your opponent an upper edge against you? If you are the better player, you should be winning the match regardless.
Yes, Brent. I support this post completely, if no other other reason than to save time. But also it is an advantage, however slight it may be, to the person getting even a little combo warmup/practice whatever. Please make this a rule.
Too bad you can’t just switch it to event mode.
whoa whoa whoa. This isn’t a stab at yours truly is it? (I thought I was the only one playing Bison [fucka dictator] at this tournament but I could be wrong here)
Nope, not a stab at you at all Frank. Although it may have been you, that was just the most obvious example I could remember. EVERYONE was doing it that night, and that is why it is such a problem. It really does make a difference. 30 seconds of free combo practice to get your timing back and get your head in the game is an advantage, and it shouldn’t be afforded to one player and not the other.
And I don’t think combos kill faster then 8 straight unlinked Fierces to the face.
sorry dude but im not seeing the big problem here. i dont need any warmups and i can do my combos fine. sf4 is the first sf game ive played, and if all you people that have been playing sf for years are gonna complain about stuff like this it really makes me wonder…
are you using this as an excuse because you got xx’ed out by a random shoto? get some more practice playing this game… im sure you will get you timing down for your combos and not lose to some shoto that doesnt even know how to do his own combos.
KKF, Brent is not going to ever complain about getting peaced out. I can vouch for that, Im guessing there should just a be a tournament standard we can stick to.
Actually Nate, I was peaced out by a random shoto, and a little pissed, but that is not why I feel we should have the rule. I geniunely feel it is an advantage to the person killing the character off.
I lost to that guy because I played like shit, plain and simple. I wasn’t thinking.
I can see what Brent is saying, maybe just have the opponent (the one that is waiting) beat up the other dummy. Also this happened I think once or twice. If the person that steps up plays the character that is already there (Ex. ryu player plays and wins, next match is Mickey D) they shouldn’t be given a free ride just because their character is up there. Like I said I think this happened once, where a majority of people didn’t even know that the match had started.
Owned by the White Man
I can see why people would be against it, for me personally, I don’t care either way. I don’t really see any difference from this and when people would pick someone by accident in Marvel back in the arcade days. In both scenarios, your opponent would be getting combo practice. I guess you could just have them fierce/throw someone to death, but that would delay the tourney by hella. In the end, it’s just retarded how Capcom set the entire thing up. Linked kits? Stupid.
My two cents:
Yeah, I don’t really see what the big deal is. Isn’t that what the pre-tourney casual matches are for? Let the opponent practice his combos, whatever. Either way, it doesn’t matter to me.
I don’t think I’ll be able to make it up this Saturday, 'cause I have no ride. Laaame. Oh well, I hope I can go to the next one.
^Dude wtfugg happened to that bomb looking, sensualized japanese chick you had in your av? Why did you replace her with the fifth ninja turtle? That is not how we roll.