For years people said that Japan was like 3 years ahead on 3s.
Is Japan still ahead of the U.S competition with SF4?
How would one determine who’s getting ahead or falling behind?
I think japan is ahead because they have more arcades with sf4 and america’s arcade scene is about dead and they are generally better at games than us. :wonder:
I think the community’s Top players/Known players should answer this question.
As for the topic, my situation (The arcade scene and FG scene in general) is different from USA and of course from Japan, so I can’t really say what reasons exists that makes Japan superior than US, at least not deep reasons, just that there exists more arcades and players there, they also seem to practice more than us in a few games, although I wouldn’t be sure about that without someone from Japan saying the kind of scene that exists there and how seriously they take the games.
In any case, I know there are more experimented players here that can respond these questions better.
It seems strange that, as long as the US players get to play against eachother, some well-known player wins, but if there is just ONE high-profile japanese in the tourney, he’ll wipe the floor with all of them. Like Evo and SB4. Maybe it is because they read more Manga, who knows.
More access to arcades, more players, more competition. And not so vast spaces between the cities, so ppl can actually hop on a train and travel to the other side of the country in 3 hours.
Name me a top Japanese FPS player.
I’m sure they have some great FPS players too, just that noone cares about FPS games on SRK so we don’t know who they are.
Japan seems to have super-human gamers generally. Plus they have guys like this:
Numbers are much higher in Japan. Any top player in Japan can go play any other top player by taking a train for less than an hour.
If you’re in New York, you aren’t going out to California to play the top guys there unless there’s a tournament going on.
This question gets asks all the time, the only game the US is close to as good as japan in it seems is CVS2.
This is a no-brainer. Of course Japan is ahead of the US.
America has a hard enough time with just Daigo.
JAPAN has a hard enough time with just Daigo.
I think they are ‘ahead’ of us, but it’s NOT because the Japanese have some innate skill. It’s just an area with a lot of arcades and interested players. If the playing field was equal here we’d be as competitive no questions.
Solution: training missions in Japan.
Problem: Shit’s at least 1.5gs easy, not really worth it in the grand scheme of things, you coulda dropped that on a titty bar.
Thanks for the link.
LMAO @ this dude.
Do they really? I was under the impression that “the top” in Japan was kind of fuzzy, like there is a lot of really good people and the winner of tournaments shifts (maybe also because of playing fewer matches in tournaments). But I havn’t been following it, so I don’t know.
Ever hear of Marvel?
MvC2?
I’d say we’re better than them in that game…by quite a bit.
Daigo doesn’t win everything in Japan, but he’s held as a wonderkid in the media still so he gets the most publicity and get to go to the foreign events like SB4 or Evo.