This old coot still got some fight left in him! Abusing the noobs in the Strive beta with my boomer shenanigans, and general fighting game experience.
The tower lobbies aren’t quite ironed out yet. You’ll see level 0 players on the sixth floor, and 40+ players on the 4th floor. While I appreciate that higher level players cannot move down to lower floors, hopefully the finished product will force you to move up to a floor with more equally matched players.
Match speed is very fast thanks to high damage. Which isn’t really an issue because matches load so damned quickly. Using Street Fighter 5 for comparison, Strive loads super fast. Hopefully they don’t alter this in the final product.
The slowest part is the dumb lobby. The need to walk around in search of a match is needlessly time consuming. If they wanted to do this, they should have taken notes from their other goofy lobby systems and kept the arcade cabinets so players can jump in and out more quickly.
I’ve still got a lot to learn, and I’m leaning on my old standard of Axl who I’ve used since the first game (alternating with May, but her recent incarnation move sets throw me off), but I’ve never been more than a casual Guilty Gear player never really having clicked with the aesthetic of the series until - well, everything around it in the fighting game space just fell off visually.
Being a filthy casual, I’m enjoying myself and lack of franchise attachment means I’m not particularly irked by changes to the game. The only thing stumping me is the Dust function, don’t work like I remember it and using the arcade mapping - it puts the throw button in a goofy spot for me.
Streaming today. Like usually I prolly wont be around much and it will just be some game menu. But if you’re lucky you can hear music if youtube hasnt muted my stream.
I may try out this Person 5 Strikers today. It looks like RPG but not turn based like the other Persona I played. Someone told me its like a dynasty warriors game. I never liked those so I hope thats not the case.
At the 00:49 minute mark of this video reminded me of the pic you posted. Rest of the video made me think of the Shari (sp?) vids where dude’s get gross on her.
More farting around in the Strive beta. I’m glad they prioritized match quality, because all of the lag and time wasting is in the doodoo lobby system. Granted, I have had a few matches here and there with massive dropped inputs, which leads to a frustrating experience - but what else is new?
The unmoving loose fabric and long hair make Chizuru look very stiff unfortunately and her theme is butchered. Still nice to see the Sacred Treasures reunited.
