nothing will ever beat the experiences I’ve had back in the day at arcades. Plus 90% of everyone online suck at every game there is. Seriously. If you sucked at a game back then, you got told so to your face, and ya know what, you wanted to get better. Now we have a whole new breed of shitheads online that think they are awesome, and don’t go anywhere cause they are too afraid to show their faces in a tourney setting. Come to find out, if they came to a tourney and got stomped on, they would have no balls and wouldn’t know how to take it. Prolly wouldn’t even learn anything from it.
Grego’s running it.
I’m sure people sucked just as bad back in the day, they maybe just don’t realize it as much now, which makes it even more fun to stomp them and watch them get mad 
Edit: If anyone can bring a setup (TV and xbox) for the tournament this Saturday please do.
Should we do it after Super comes out?
The hardest thing about casuals is location and time. Most people don’t have the time during the week to drive out (for example I STILL haven’t found time to drive down to the Gameyard) to play SF. I really think our community is just spread too far and have too many non-SF things going on to make a solid casuals night every week. Then again I really don’t know the local scene and players as well as I’d like to as I’m fucking chained to my desk here at work 
Yeah, weeklies are gonna be tough but we should still try harder to set something up every once in a while.
I’m thinking we should have some kind of ssf4 gathering a little before the first tournament. With tacos.
mmmmmmmmmm tacos. Needless to say mexicantown has alot of great restaurants for tacos 
I’ll try to make it and if I do I’ll bring stuff. Depends on who I can get to car pool.
Amen… That’s where it all started, that is the essence, that is where ALL of the top players around the country come from, from coast to coast, they all are arcade players… That’s where SF was born, Tekken was born, MK was born, if it weren’t for arcades they wouldn’t even make console versions of these games, because there would be no interest. The console fighting game generation was only born from people who went to the arcade to play and got their asses handed to them on the regular, so they brought out console versions so scrubs can go home and practice up, a way for them to survive the onslaught of the arcade gamers, but even still, it’s never enough, arcade players always prevail, see Daigo for a reference!!!
That’s the difference between an arcade player and a casual console player… For the most part console players are idiots when it comes to games, literally… They have no skills for fighting games, so they need as much practice mode and youtube as they can get. Dudes who play on the arcade are usually smart and innovative, they can figure out combo’s, what’s good and what’s bad etc all from a few casual matches. They are the elites and console players are usually the dummies. For example I can learn a new character on Tekken from a few games on the arcade, all I need is a few pokes, a launcher and a staple juggle, once I figure that out I am solid and I get better and better every game I play afterwards. Since I am playing on an arcade, the machine doesn’t move, I get used to the joystick, I don’t have to sit a certain way, doing the same moves and motions over and over again, it creates like a save point in your brain, and you almost never forget after that. Playing on console you can play tons of matches, with tons of characters, you can play characters you don’t like when someone is playing you seriously at 1000%, and say you lost because you didn’t pick your real character, you can bullshit around because it’s free… In the arcade, its WIN or go the fuck home, and wait in line for 20 minutes to play again… Two different mentalities… Imagine War in real life, if the soldiers could simply reload their last save points when they die, lol, that’s what console gaming is, thanks!
yep!
YEP!
hmmm anybody willing to come scoop me up for this weekends ranbat? 
i got some gas on it
Heh, I’d argue Arcades were on the decline long before online gaming at home became the standard. They were declining when fighters picked them back up, when DDR picked them back up, up to today, where there’s nothing.
It’s true that online gaming brings a level of opponents only seen in arcades and a rare few gatherings. But arcade perfection at home hurt the industry, since now casual players could just have their friends over and play themselves without waiting around in line. This isn’t so much the case in Japan, since the industry there adapted by primarily pushing games not reproducible at home - the fact that they have mass transit systems with arcades near the stations helps too - but even there things are slowing down.
Then there’s just general complacency, both on the part of the arcades and on the companies who make the games. What have they done to really draw a person to the arcade that they couldn’t have done at home? Pinball Pete’s barely maintains their machines anymore, so what’s my motivation to put money in their games when it won’t work? Hell, what’s my motivation when, due to the lack of new games, the only ones I play are ones that I can’t play at home, like Mr. Do or Donkey Kong? The actual arcade companies charge out the ass not just for their boards, but for their upgrade kits, as well; what arcade is going to afford that?
I’d also argue that the fact that inflation has lessened the value of the quarter and the fact that no other single coin has become the standard, like the dollar coin, has hurt the business stateside. But a lot of the problems the arcade industry has it brought on itself, and it’s nothing but bad for these new players who have never experienced it.
Hell yeah, like, day after release or close to it, find out all the new shit and eat some tacos.
Oh yeah, I sent you a PM about MM2
so uhmmm anybody?lmao
i agree. back then it was no…i’ll just press “rematch” and try again…nope! you put your 25 cents on that tv and wait your damn turn…i remember when mortal combat and street fighter came out you had to wait A YEAR til that shit dropped on sega or super nes…i miss the arcades where ass you play in person not just i’m at home and he’s at home type of shit…
Tekken Tag Tournament arcade days are unforgettable. You can’t replicate that goodness!
Lol, and they weren’t arcade perfect, so you still wanted to go to the arcade “to play the real thing.”
I skipped a lot of school to go to Roscos. For me, I thank console online for bringing back the competitiveness like the old arcades did, even tho its a lot of scrubs. But it was a lot of scrubs at the arcades too.
I didn’t know they had arcades in 1903 surprised they even let you on the there property with you being a negro and all :lol:
Definitly. Like three-four places around Saginaw had it too so there were lots of places to play. Now there’s ONE BR machine in the state.
agree on adonis post
ROLF That’s too mean.
Anyone heading out to Lansing this weekend from roughly Ann Arbor? I’ll help pay the gas and everything if you pick me up. I would just take a bus up there, but that would mean I’d have to check into a hotel if I wanna go to the tournament. The bus doesn’t leave after 3 PM. I can’t be there all night without leaving any sooner than the next morning.
I would love to go do casuals but im in the same boat, totally stuck in Mt. Pleasant and Gameyard is just too far away. the only person I play with is Viache because he visits Mt.P every so often.
I’m kinda boned too, I have class and wont be leaving until around 2:00 pm and prolly wont be able to get a ride out there in time for sf4.
But we’ll see, if only it was on sunday! Q(’- ’ Q)