If there’s a chance they could win money, of course they would. Though I don’t see any of said above mentioned names winning over the 3 dozen or so top players who have been playing for years, so who knows.
I only caught the last bit of the saturday stream. Those F. champ matches were so good. Say what you want about the guy, he has a ridiculous sim, so much fun to watch.
I’m back, we can start playing cvs again
Yes please. I still think vanilla is the best version of the game.
Really? Hit a nigga up sir.
Sometimes I despise Marvel 3, and I can totally understand why a lot of you SF guys have zero respect for the game. Dark Phoenix, Wolverine, unskilled Haggar/Tron spamming cretins like my brother and me, and a whole mess of other issues really can make the game look atrocious at times.
But look at the top three Marvel players at Xanadu! Unknown, Meep, and DJ all use fairly unique and oddball characters, and they all have playstyles that are very distinct from one another. Their success is, to me at least, proof that the game is incredibly open-ended, that it can reward creativity, and that a large portion of the cast is dangerous and viable.
Again, the game definitely has issues, but I really wish some of you guys would have given it more of a shot (at the very least, give it another chance when Ultimate comes out).
selling my hrap 1, the og one with the mirror top:
sanwa jlf stick, sanwa buttons. its a ps2 stick, will throw in ps3 converter, looking for $85. for all the 09ers, justin has touched it so ur guaranteed to place top 3. get at me!
Oh shit is that the unicorn? That stick made playing CvS2 feel fluent as fuck the one time I did touch it. I wish I could buy that off you though.
I guess I’m trying to figure out from an analytic level why don’t we like out what’s there today? What are some components of the MVC2’s, the CVS2’s, old SF games that made them so viable compared to today?
You knew Reggie Etheridge that was gone in 07?
yea how you know him?
He was my uncle
ah, I might’ve seen you around I used to over his place during weekends, i worked with him at starland
I forgot your name but I definitely remember you from Starland. How you been sir?
as far as old sf games. You couldn’t mash out of combos like you can in 4, so pressure actually meant something where as today often times its easier to just stop your combo mid way though and punish the reversal attempt rather than try to hit that 1 frame link. No focus attack absorbing meant that footsies actually played an important roll. Dping on wake up was difficult to do correctly. A lot of SF4 boils down to punishing reversals, which is kinda lame honestly.
Good man, I’m about to graduate next year. I actually played you at xanadu ryu mirror matches for like hours haha. I’ll roll through during the monthly we need to catch up
Kimmmiiickkkksss!!! How far are you from fredericksburg??
next person quoting me is buying my hrap:)
i’m like an hour away what the hell u doing there?
We did? I definitely don’t remember that. Reggie never told me you were the FG guy; I could have some things from you during the early years.
In regards to your quote…I just bought an RJ-45 from Mr. INerd. Sorry buddy :). I’m a try and make the monthly. I work on Saturdays. I’m a see if I can come in later and hit up my first monthly.
All of that stuff is small, IMO.
DP’ing on wake-up isn’t hard in any game. I mean… it’s more difficult in SF2, but nobody here was ever THAT serious with SF2… and if you are, you respect reversals anyway. Good players get their reversals in any game. The complaint about reversal window was always really stupid. If you’re playing games, and making decisions based on the thought that your opponent CAN’T hit his reversal, you’re playing scrubs.
The main difference between SF4, and the last generation of games, as far as I see it, at least, is in the fluidity of the matches.
SF4 is a fairly rigid game. Both in terms of the way the game moves, and the way matches are played. The motion speaks for itself. It’s a slow game, that can be kinda clunky. Where it really comes in as an issue, to me, is that characters in SF4 are all pretty weak. In the history of SF4, there have only been a handful of complete characters, IMO. SSF4 Cammy, SSF4 Chun, SF4 Akuma, AE Yang, AE Yun, and a few others. Most characters in the series excel at a thing or two, and have at least one HUGE glaring weakness. This makes matches between characters set in fairly rigid way. Your goal in a match is to exploit the obvious weakness in your opponent, and try to keep from having your’s exposed. There are clear, defined goals in every match, and the game is a little stale, because of that, IMO. There is definitely a worthwhile mindgame that comes with playing within those parameters, and I’ve come to appreciate it more and more in my time playing SF4, but when you compare that to CvS2… a game in which characters were REALLY good, there’s a big difference.
In CvS2, you’re not attacking A-Blanka’s obvious weakness. You’re not going for C-Sagat’s soft spot. There is none.
What that means is that matches are VERY dynamic, and there is a much larger emphasis on playing the player. More options, all around… more ways to fuck your opponent up badly… but more ways to get fucked up… more shit to think about as you play.
Still, I think the more constricted style of SF4 offers a lot. It’s a game that makes you play within boundaries, and examine how you can make the most of a toolset that can be limited at times. SF4 also has big potential for creativity,by virtue of the fact that you can constrict your opponents in major ways. I think SF4 becomes a LOT more fun, the more you think about using the limits of the game, to come up with fun ways to really fuck your opponents, which is what I do all the time. There is nothing more rewarding than coming up with a set-up that is just fucking retarded, within the confines of SF4’s system.
The difficulty of doing reversals in SF2 is exaggerated to the extreme. It mostly comes from people playing on emulators and people taking second hand info from people playing on emulators.
By saying this, you can no longer shake your head in disbelief whenever you witness a Steve H.
I live in NOVA now
Hey Hav I don’t think I can make it this coming Wednesday for the Xan Gardens. I have an important observation at school that I need to prep for on Thursday. I like DJs idea of having top 4 be for Ultimate. I think it would make for more interesting and funnier matches to watch. TBH i’m sure everyone thats left in the tourney wouldn’t wanna practice vanilla anymore and prep for the new one.