thats odd, when I see the vids from acho of A3, Im always amazed at the quality of the A3 matches. A-Ism Guy is the coolest character to watch being played expertly.
Hell, look no further than ST to see how people don’t have to necessarily move on.
Its the same with CVS2, as I get the impression that Japanese gamers play a bit more loosely, compared to the East Coast, which are turtle/run away oriented. The west coast is more rush down oriented.
That’s what we like to call BIG DAMAGE.
A city and state that I wish I was in.
I haven’t been to the arcade in a long while here in Louisiana, but for certain cvs2 is played, but played much less compared to Marvel and Third Strike. I think it all comes down to what game they find more tolerable. I find cvs2 to be the most tolerable.
I think hardly no one plays that game anymore because of the combo glitches and v-ism. sfa3 isn’t considered a sf game according to sf purist who favor sfa2 and hsf. Even 3s is considered to be much more credible.
I personally like sfa3. My favorite out of the alpha series.
Not necessarily. You’re still dealing with speculation.
Yeah, but not that many people play ST in the US even. 
The places where people do play it are far in between. Hell in my ENTIRE REGION, if I want ST comp, I have to either wait on HD remix or go on kaillera.
st is still being played because we as a community accept it as the game (sf2) that STARTED us. If only 10 people start to show up at evo it should still be played every year. I mean, IT’S ST DAMNIT. We must never let it go!
It seems like the execution is tougher in cvs2, since there are so many links, and I’m sure that tends to scare people away. What’s cool though is it seems like one of the few games out right now where you can legitimately compete with mid tiers. I’d really like to learn cvs2, but the amount of time it would take to teach myself, compared to the future of the game doesn’t seem worth it. Anyone feel like being a cvs2 tutor?
CVS2 is the greatest fighting game ever made. Nothing is as deep and complex and fun as good solid CVS2.
The issue is that it’s a bitch to learn and get good. You can’t figure out some basic shit and start applying it, with 6 grooves and lots of playable characters and so much of the game being knowledge based it’s hard to get good fast.
are you shitting me.
did you not see the evo west cvs2 footage?
shit was rowdy.
especially so cal cvs2, people are REALLY good down here.
cal poly and jamesgames have good cabs as far as i know.
NorCal is still strong in CvS2
try N groove akuma, it’s nuts homie
It’s fun to play, but prolly one of the most boring games to watch. IMHO.
SF4 killed it
leave your training wheels at the door
Cause of Ryu’s ugly win-pose.
because u had to play CvS at leat 700 hours to unlock everything, and that was enough
huh? what do u mean. everyone knows he mastered the wake-up fireball…
Is it really that hard to combo in CVS2? I don’t see how this game is that difficult to combo in…Comboing supers, or charge supers in ST, now that’s difficult. Not impossible, but difficult.
Because CvS2 is hard to get good at, and most of the community is scrubby these days.
People complaining about links on a Street Fighter website, now? Wow…
CVS2 is a tough game to get a crowd riled up about. They have to understand the game or it just looks like 2 people being overly patient about what they want to do. It’s funny cuz I’ve noticed sometimes that the crowd is afraid to shout in the game because they know how easy it is to mess up links in that game. I’ve even been told to be quiet during a CVS2 tourney match before. LOL. Just depends on where you play I guess. At Evo people will get loud just cuz of the environment and how tense it can be to wonder when someone will get their hit in that will cause real damage. Everyone’s afraid to get hit by super cuz once you do it’s usually half your life or more you’re gonna lose. People don’t want to be a whole character down while the other person still has 3 characters with more than half life on the 1st character.
Not to mention the fact that there really isn’t as much incentive to throw the opponent as in a game like 3rd or ST so most throws are usually teched. Certain characters have solid throw games like Cammy and Vega yet…generally characters aren’t going to be getting in throw range as much in a good fight as in say…3S. With 3S…with the way the game works pretty much everyone has incentive to throw like mad and even if your character sucks you can still easily throw your opponent 2 and 3 times in a row to break up blocking in the corner. Too many mind fucks u can do once you have the person in the corner in 3S.
Not every character has a universal way to overhead like in 3S so some games just consist of people trying their hardest to wear each other’s guard meters down and then people are just looking to alpha counter that or whatever. Generally…at high level play you are going to see people running grooves C and A. Both of which are grooves that don’t have small jumps so breaking up good blocking can be tough. CVS2 also doesn’t start you out with meter at the start of round 1 and it takes a while to build up enough meter to do anything real serious so the first round in a match can be especially uneventful.
K and N groove as more rush oriented grooves can break things up a bit but generally will still lose to strong defensive play in C and A grooves. Everyone knows when you’re going to use that meter in K groove and N groove stock gives away level 3’s as well. Basically…there’s a lot of ways to stop rushdown in CVS2 and the fact that u have to take out 3 characters sequentially to win the game makes the fights drag on a bit.
I do not mind CVS2, but for some reason I find it frustrating. I am not as good as I should be, but then again I would rather play Marvel over any fighting game.
Well said DiabloJin.
this game is sick and its not that hard lol. practise makes perfect. been playing this game since it cam out till this day
the only thing i find hard about this game is using geese