To me, characters like Kazuya, Julia, and Yoshimitsu look fine in this game while Heihachi, Nina and Kuma look ridiculous. It’s so inconsistent, then again, that pretty much describes the whole SF4 series.
I just don’t like the way some characters look when they moves have to be cancelled for combos. It looks ugly to me.
If they didn’t recycle they could… I don’t know, add different characters?
The Tekken characters look nice though.
To me it seems like a lazy way to release a game quickly and milk some cash quickly. The fact that they are now even doubting if Pandora is in or out means they don’t know what the hell they are doing.
If you consider your system solid, you release it. You don’t add things here and there just for the heck of it.
this game has been in development for about a year & a half…Not sure how they want to milk some cash quickly
Perhaps I should have used the word “effortlessly” instead of quickly.
Adding the GEM mode will not get Capcom that much revenue from DLC… Which I’m sure is the driving force behind it’s creation in the first place.
But if they lose even 50K sales of the game that’s probably 1.5 million in profit lost. I hope a few of us hold firm and hit Capcom in the only place they care about (their bottom line)
But they can’t.
Releasing SF x Tekken without Ryu, Chun, and Guile (At the very least) is like releasing Tekken without Jin and Kazuya, it’s just not happening.
Then they think, SF is dead again and we go another 10 years without a new game.
I do wish they would at least update Ryu etc. I don’t expect a model from scratch but they could certainly be improved upon.
Huh?
Is there a link for this or what did I miss?
Damn. That shit is whack yo!
(and that is literally the only way to describe how I feel about the whole thing)
Extra rant: taking out chains into specials is retarded, seriously, how the fuck is that making the game better?
You’d be surprised how many scrubs think that high level SF is almost entirely execution based (Ono himself thinks it’s all execution and luck, too 
)
Removing the ability to chain into a special, coupled with the horrible red health left over from cross rush, makes links all that more desirable, this kills 2 birds with one stone:
- High Level play becomes very link heavy, scrubs think it’s deeper because of it.
- SRK shortcut mashers (IE more than half of the online-only community) can still get free damage, more likely to stick with the game and buy DLC/expansions
It’s not Jill Valentine’s Theme from RE5, but…
[Sad But True] lol
Wasn’t it done to where you can’t do Cross Rush into specials? I don’t think they took them out entirely. If anything, expect chain trees since Tekken more or less has that.
I think you may be right. I was almost looking forward to SFxT because it was set to be less link based (obviously emergent link shit comes about, but not the whole game) but I can see the logic in your reasoning, though I wish it weren’t true.
I remember reading something about Cross Rush (the thing where you sandwich the other dude, right?) disabling special moves or something, but I guess it was just too OP without it. Anyone that ever played Dramatic battle in Alpha 3 against the CPU knows what I mean if you and a buddy stagger your tatsus you can just deplete the CPU life in no time (…SHORYUREPPA! finisher for style points), but I think Cross Rush is going to be royally busted anyway.
Cross Rush is LMHH. Cross Assault is the sandwich one.
Wait, so can you still do basic shit like LMH x Special?
That was the bit I thought they took out.
I think that’s the only chainxxSpecial you can’t do.
That is so lame. We’ve been doing that shit since MSH, or maybe even COTA, I can’t remember cuz I was too scrubby when I had that on Saturn.
Seriously, no chain x special is more retarded than a chained up “special”.
Way to go Capcom!!
I’ll learn my way around it (assuming I buy it), but it’s gonna be really fun explaining that shit to my friends who aren’t hardcore about fighting games and when they ask “Why can’t I do that?” (which they will, they’re not idiots), I’ll be like “idunno, cuz capkom sez soo”.
Read it again.
I believe that the only chain you can’t cancel specials into is the LMH chain. However, I’ve heard Chun-Li can still do it so it may just not be universal anymore. As I said before, we may very well be looking at chain trees. One chain might allow Poison to cancel into Truly, Truly, Truly Outrageous (her rekka), but another might not. They may have stuff like this to balance damage output when you take things like tag cancels and stuff into account. Imagine being able to do LMHxxSuper. You’re getting very good damage off of a rather safe hitconfirm.
Assuming I’m right, expect a lot of people to be in the lab finding all the possible trees for their characters.
Ok cool, rage on pause mode for now.