this is a good one
Speaking of Geese Howard, doesn’t he look a bit like Souther from Fist of the North Star?
Barbarian has parry, it actually has 2 high and mid. They are ub and uf if i remember correctly (too lazy to check). In the video u can see the mid one @ 0:35 and 0:36 and the high one @ 1:12 (fail). However its more like a block since it can be held indefinitely.
I don’t remember any parrying in karate champ or international karate, I could be wrong though.
Just remember to differentiate on counters and parry.
Counters are activated and if hit will absorb the hit (typically with no damage taken) and then do an auto-attack.
A parry, when used and hit by an attack will absorb the hit (again, usually no damage taken), but will instead just negate the move and return you to neutral.
In addition, there are armor attacks (like the focus attack in SF4) which will ignore a hit, but typically take the damage.
Also, Soul Edge came out in 1996 and has guard impact. It’s not as good as the parry in SF3, but it does the same function.
Not really. In 1992 Kintaro was doing that Geese counter all day and all night long
MK2 came out in 1993. And if you are talking about non-playable boss characters, Geese was still there as one in the original FF in 1991.