Being from Minnesota and playing SF2 against Jesse Howard brings back some awesome memories of the Glory days of the arcade scene. :sad:
We also played VF2 and the Shodown’s (1-4). I think I’m also one of the few (if only) MN players who played Primal Rage competitively, or at least tried to get and build a scene for it.
Good to see someone posting those GamePro magazine pics! :tup:
Wow never even realised U play SF2, and with Jesse Howard NEB! Gotta chat abt this soon 
Hugely exciting prospect over in the Tomo thread:
http://forums.shoryuken.com/showthread.php?p=5057983#post5057983
Great set of matches against another of the Caribbean HF players.
*Oski H, Ultima and rootsmannick, U guys gotta hook up for some play in the Trinidat&Tobago HF arcades and film it!!
Sim vs Dictator is a rarely played gem of a matchup…
M.Bison vs Dhalsim x2 (vs GODtier aka Oski H)
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*Listen in the first round for the cats fighting outside my window!!
While I’m not the biggest HF person, I know a few people that have put rootsman to shame, the biggest problem is getting them altogether in 1 place. The arcades in port of spain had some REAL beasts as did chaguanas a few years ago.
I could probably facilitate the filming of the matches if something could be organised, will keep you updated crayfish.
Im from T-n-T and, i have done almost every tournament there not to put my people down in no way of course because we all know that Trini’s are de best, But, i have not really seen any expert gamers down there at all
its a known fact that trinis can’t play anything post sf2 to save their life, but there are a few that are getting there.
Which tournaments did you enter down trini :S
Hey rb! Who is Rootsmannick, and should I give a crap about facing him in HF?
Well the last on that i did befor comming back to the states was in san fernando at the The Royal hotel if i remember right
Re: Ultima
Hey,you’ve probably played him before if you’ve been in the arcade up trincity on a weekend, he mains chun li, Q could possibly give a better assessment of the man since trincity is his territory.
rootsmannick won the HF tournament @ Arena last year, but that setup was laggy as it was from emulator on pc. A lot of guys noticed it instantly but when they complained they were told to either bear with it or forfeit (gotta love trini mentality)
Re: Mavrick
that sounds like a long time ago :S, then again south guys rarely mention anything to the north guys and vice versa lol.
Well I’ll be in Arima in two months we could prob get some games in
RB:
Trinicity eh? Then yes, I’ve faced him, as the only good CHun I ever faced was there. He annoyed the hell out of me, but I still beat him something like 6-2 or 6-3 with my Bison. He wouldn’t stand much of a chance against the old Colsort Mall crew.
Wow Spoonz, that would be fantastic. Its really wonderful to hear all this discussion. :lovin:
*FINGERS CROSSED
Shit. All RB or Q has to do is come to St. James on any given day between 5:00 and 8:00 PM and he could get plenty of footage.
Granted, it would be limited to mostly Ken, Ryu, maybe the occasional Sagat, and if Daryl*** is there you could see some Dhalsim, Vega, or possibly Chun-li and he felt like dicking around, but it would mostly be Ryu/Ken. Believe it or not, Guile gets wasted here. I’m inclined to believe it’s because our Guile’s aren’t that good, but I’ve seen the FIERCENESS of our Ryu-Kens, and I’m convinced that Ken-Guile is 5-5, and Ryu-Guile is 6-4.
*** A note on Daryl: This guy has world class potential if he could play elsewhere and didn’t have to face our losers. He’s an exceptional player in the old school vein, meaning his knowledge and experience are top class (at least in HF); he doesn’t beat you with fancy combos, he straight up owns you and keeps you where he wants you, and he fights to the very last pixel.
BUt his adaptability is Choi-like: A couple months back we were playing HSF, and I had been beasting with CE Bison (I only play Bison in HF, and while I can hold my own against anyone who is not Gief, I lose a lot just based on character power, or lack of it, so CE Bison gives me a chance for revenge when I don’t feel like thinking to win). I can beat Daryl in HSF because, well, it’s CE Bison. PLus, he’s not as familiar with HSF and ST as he is with HF. Anyway, he picks CE Vega. The first match, I killed him. I explained to him that Bison’s Scissors Kick is his most dangerous weapon, and if it makes contact, you’re screwed since he can continue punishing you afterwards if you don’t have invincible reversal. So what does Daryl do? The very next round he takes my primary weapon away from me! He stays just out of range so that my Scissors Kick would whiff and he jabs me in retaliation. He basically stays away from me the entire match, counters my jump-ins with s.LP, keeps me out with c.LPs, and sneaks in the occasional throw somehow. BUt mainly, he manages to play without letting me connect with a Scissors Kick once, and I’m astonished he’s able to do that for four rounds (I lost twice).
Now I guess you could say my Bison sucks, but I’ve been playing the guy for 17 years, so I think I at least know how to make contact with a Scissors Kick, so Daryl managing to change his gameplan to take away my primary weapon within one round is nothing short of amazing.
Is there any good console port at all ? the ps1 version isn’t all that great, I’ve seen random dizzies from all kind of nonsense while playing my boss after work sometimes.
Re: Ultima
I agree that not many down here can play Guile competantly, I’ve probably seen like 3 people total in all my years around the place who’d totally own with Guile and one was like this vagrant who’d I’d randomly see sniffing glue around the place, then he’d appear, buy 1 token and spend hours whooping ass… I haven’t seen him in years though.
St James at that time is pretty much out of the question for me unless I can somehow get transport back to chaguanas afterwards. I’ll talk to Q though and see if he can organise something up east where I can make it with less trouble.
Is Daryl black or indian
I played some hyper at a local arcade today. It was pretty fun.
Some revelations.
Apparently, I cannot win with blanka offline against shotos. Online with no lag I can win, but offline it’s much harder.
My chun does better against harder matchups (shoto) than matchups I’m supposed to win (honda).
Dhalsim vs Sagat is better than I thought. The vids in this thread really helped my Sim out.
Ryu may be better than ken, but ken vs ryu is pretty equal imo. It all depends on the players.
Blanka online=godtier king of lag tactics:bluu:
Chun is ridicuously good in hf for some reason even without upkicks.
What do you mean sim vs sagat is better then you thought, are you saying sim does better against sagat then u thought or the other way around? Sim dominates o.sagat and while he is still a counter to sagat in hf this matchup is ALOT more manageable. As balanced as hf is sim is still one of the weaker characters especially compared to his st counterpart and he gets cleanly beaten out of everything he does even against sagats low priority dps. In st I think sim beats o.sagat 7-3 but in hf I think sim beats sagat 6-4, because sim has all the tools to beat sagat but it’s riskier for him to stick anything out since he has less priority then he does in st and hf sagat does a lot of damage.
I agree ryu v ken is more or less even, though ken’s jump in fierce dp combo is probably the scariest combo in the game since it dizzies:wasted:
^^^^^
Took the words right out of my mouth
I don’t know, I always thought Sagat vs Sim was in sagat’s favors because of damage even though Sim has the tools to beat him. Yeah in ST it’s definitely in Sim’s favor that’s no question I think. And in HF I always thought it was like 8-2, then 7-3 (remember the tier listing I attempted) Sweet Johnny said it was more like 6-4 and I agree now, if not 5.5-4.5. But that’s just my opinion.
if anyone wants to play hf let me know
no one will play me on 360 anymore for some reason
I’m gonna stick with 6-4. I went to a small HF tourney at Cal Poly today(where you there?) and during my last set I lost a round to Sagat almost entirely from him uppercutting two j.MK of mine. Seriously, the two uppercuts did about 90~95% damage…it was nuts! Sim takes sooo much damage if you screw up :sad:
On a side note, the machine we played on seemed really, really slow. I know that on XBL, Ultracade machines, and most emulators it runs faster than normal. But this machine seemed even slower than what I expected. It almost felt like WW/CE speed. Could you change the speed on HF arcade machines? Maybe it was just my imagination, but it felt really weird.
PS: GG’s to everyone I played there…in case any of you read this thread :wgrin: