The Official Ranting Thread

Same I thought about the same. So hard to fix, took over a month, no side effects.
I dunno. It’s like it had the kool factor, but when you combine the easybake oven combos, gems, on disc char shenanigans…
And the masseffect3 patch broke my game so I cant play, so either SSF4 or Diablo2 tonight.

I’m already back to playing SSF4. I’ll only play SFxT in Endless sessions, but apart from that, the game is dead.
Acutally noticed myself not watching any tournament SFxT video’s because the matches are horrible. I’d much rather watch a good SSF4 match or some UMVC3 (even though I can’t play that game if my life depended on it).

Feel free to add me if you want to play some games on PSN. SRK handle is my gamertag on PSN.

i didn’t drop MvC3 that fast, and i HATED that game.

I don’t play UMVC3 unless it’s low level, serious fun. I suck at that game, big time!

I will be playing SFxT on Endless sessions, but unless they patch it really quick, the game just doesn’t feel that enjoyable at the moment. A bit inferior, like it was rushed.
Then again, who knows what the game will be like in 6 months? There’s always hope…

I’m not sure I understand, you’re criticising people for not blowing all their meter on a stupid switch cancel combo that does an extra 50 points of damage??

I’d personally save the meter for an easy Super confirm, as raw as possible or for switch-cancels, to save your character. Or Alpha Counters, but I seem unable to use them at all, so…

Gah raging so hard. HERP DERP RYU! I’D LIKE SOME POUND CAKE!

I’ve been debating using Ryu just because I’d like to “give back” to the community.
I think its also ridiculous that Ken will magic cross you up and then go into some crazy ass combo afterwards.

I actually am ashamed to say that I kind of enjoy this game.

But there’s a few things I hate.

Xiaoyu’s Breakdance. It’s aesthetically unpleasing, and it’s stupid good damage, and if they’re playing some herp derp team like Raven/Rufus/Ryu-Xiaoyu it means one tiny mistake and you’re eating more than Hugo damage. Also it’s meterless, so they can alpha counter into it with the right setup. (I’ve seen Raven do it, dunno if anyone else can) It’s just absurd to get that kind of meterless damage off safe pressure and still have meter to do it again if you block something.

Adding a few frames of input delay to fix sound. SERIOUSLY CAPCOM GIVE US A SLIDER LIKE SKULLGIRLS.

The entire online community sticking to the R-tier Ryu/Raven/Rufus, and or a gimmick team. Also auto block Dhalsim/Ryu/Raven at 12k bp.

There’s nothing to be ashamed for liking this game. People are just hippies at hating this time around.

I suppose, but it’s hard not to feel a bit silly sinking hours into this game when everyone in the local community (Pittsburgh) gave it up within two weeks. Right after the anti-hype of NCR everyone just agreed to sell their copies and switch to KOF. And while I really do enjoy KOF, I don’t have a lot of opportunity to go to meetups and I need a game with respectable netcode to enjoy playing at home, so I’m left with SFxTekken and nobody locally who will even play with me.

Yeah you should be ashamed specially when you mention it in the official ranting thread. gtfo.

nina is the most generic, bland, boring character in the game.

her character has no personality and she speaks in a monotone voice. compared to t3, t4 and death by degree, she doesn’t even look hot anymore. i guess age is catching up.

she has a fireball that shoots out no fire, a cannon spike that doesn’t leave the ground.

however, i’ll still learn her just because i used her in t5 and she has some really good tools. huge damage, 3 frame jabs, probably the longest ranged c.lk in the game, kicks with no hurtbox, etc. shes one of the better tekken characters in the game.

I keep trying to like it but just cannot. Outside arcade mode and versus I flat out am not having fun or a desire to play the game. My friends are trying desperately to get me to stick with it but I literally cannot at this point. Everytime I put it in the ps3 I just get reminded more and more why I am not enjoying the game.

I keep doing the “one more day one more day” but… it seriously is not enjoyable for me. Outside of Nina the game just is not doing it for me.

i think there are some really seriously weird vibes coming off this game

its so dense and psychically disorienting

but i think thats just good funk

the first whiff seems to have driven us all a little crazy for awhile and there are a lot of very logical argument vortexes swirling around wreaking havoc

i say, in about a year, when all the heavy chemical vapors (probably a byproduct of shiny industrial paints) have evaporated, and all the real junkies are starting to develop tolerances, people are gonna start to crack the chains on the daemon that lives deep within this game

then the beast will emerge!

the first sign will be when people start to complain about all the dhalsims and yoshis (real kings of this game)

ps-i was buttonmashing metaphores, please forgive and bear with

pss-i didnt like this game until i gave up on being good and realized there were a million esoteric trollish but difficult tactics you could actually win with that are way more satisfying and showy than a lame ass combo

then i started winning a little and now i love it

nobody knows how to play against anyone but ryu and kazuya right up close and/or jumping in/crossing up

pick a zoner now, before everyone gets their hands on alisa

everythings gonna be sooo different (cept raven and hugo, theyll stay the same)

Not to d ride the Japanese, but kinda curious about what they think of it over there. Haven’t really been paying attention outside of North America.

No it’s not that simple. There are things I like about this game, but so far the cons outweigh the pros, especially in Ranked matches. I don’t think Arcade mode holds any appeal for the people on these forums, they want to play online against other players with similar skill or maybe even better players.
The thing is: there’s so much crazy shit going on in this game, with let’s call them unbalanced characters, quite a few abusable glitches and the broken gem system.

Look at it this way: it only took Capcom to fix the online sound issue. Did they seriously think people would NOT complain and make a big deal out of this?
What stopped Capcom from saying: “Look, this product’s not finished and it’s not up to our standard, so we’re postponing the release”. Blizzard does it with every game and they consistently release really good games. Instead, Capcom said it’s either sound or smooth gameplay, can’t have both. Three weeks later they fixed it: you be the judge of that situation.

What’s more, after three years of adding to and tweaking the SF IV series, you’d think they know how to properly test and balance a game? I’m not saying it is arrogance, but to me there’s a lingering doubt about it. There was a lot of (anti-)hype about this game and Capcom clearly made a couple of very stupid decisions (The DLC debacle, no co-op on Xbox, sound glitch on other systems, in-game bugs and abusable loops).

All these little annoyances would not have been so bad on their own, but they’re all combined into one major title and the company appears to just shrug it off instead of coming clean and saying “we could and should have handled that better, we’re sorry”.

By all means, if you like the game, play it. I hope there’ll be a lot of nice things uncovered within the next few months as well as the release of a balance patch. I like quite a few elements in this game, but it’s not exactly encouraging to play competitively, untill they level the playing field somewhat.
I’ll still be playing it in Endless, and I hope I’m wrong, but I don’t think this game can compete with SSF4, UMVC3 and/or KOF on the tournament and longevity scene…

Hey guys, Huggy here.

This game fucking sucks.

Bye.

So you gave them 3 years to balance SSF4 yet you expect them to balance a new game with X amount of new systems/mechanics before release? How is that fair? And how is it different from Marvel? Remember mvc3 Akuma?

Skullgirls is here… close this thread