Why veterans/pros lose interest playing 3s?

Classic Fighting Games Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike
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you will level up 500 times faster playing in this fashion. every hit you get will really be earned, you will see why pros play the way they do. why they move the way they do, why they use the combos they use. the reason why they block more.

you will learn to block their advanced setups, you will learn to react to offense and break down defense.

you well get better SO much faster losing to amazing players and pushing yourself then by doing ANYTHING else. just try to live a little longer, get one more hit in.

when i started i played people far better than me at family fun back in the heyday, every hit i had to work hard for and those fundamentals have stuck me the entire time i have played the game.

i consider myself lucky to have not come up playing mashers and thinking guess parrying was the greatest thing because it has made me stronger as a player.

if you are playing people who are much more experienced you have the ability to level up fast if you push yourself. take advantage!

i know it seems like their 10 years of experience are allot, but guess what 3rd strike in 2009 is NOT 3rd strike from any other year. those years of experience don’t matter as much as you think because you can’t play 2002 3rd strike in 2009.

yes third strike is hard, its the best and most challenging fighter. but its not a game where its just a million years of experience exclusively make a good player. its about how hard you think and solving the problems that you find yourself in.

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no comp

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Excuses.

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@Clunetastic: I started playing 2 years ago and everyone here had a 2 years head start. It was really hard for me to win a match or even a round and I quitted the game on a regular basis but I always came back.

Now I am still playing the game. Not saying that I am really good, but I just love the game so much. And I will still play it in 10 years.

Too bad that I play only online though xD.

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American scene is ‘play to win’ so that would mean using the cheapest and most boring characters to win with. Our limited pool of top players would be whoring Chunli, Yun, and Ken. American 3s tournaments becomes boring to watch. Japan has a greater pool of top players, not to mention diverse selection of characters ranging from Hugo, Remy, and so on.

I end up wanting to to play 3s casuals than in tournament.

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Hi C Royd :shy:

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3s is by far the best fighting game and nothing can come close to touching it

i’m from UK, not london so my only way to play is 2DF or GGPO… I was an alpha3 player on MAME until i saw the daigo parry on youtube and shit man i just had to play that fucking game lol.

i’d be on 2DF now if i had a pc! but all i got is a ps3 with SF4 lol… it will have to do for now… but as of from next week im back at home and will be able to play 3s on 2DF… thank god the waiting is over… i can finally play the best sf game ever created and ever will be created probably.

twelve, ibuki, dudley, hugo and ryu… LETS GO!

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cool thread

I played SF3 when it first came out in 1999 but only casually as nobody really paid any attention to it, the roster wasn’t very impressive.

cut to about now and I discovered cps3 emu with 2df - so it makes sense to revisit it and play online on a solid server with both hardcore and noobs.

I was wondering, how come everyone says that SF3 was the worst in series, disgrace to SF fans or whatever yet it has the biggest competitive install base and is still kicking after 10 years??

Personally I spent the last decade going on and off with SFA3 but I never spend too much time with any one game. Even though I own pretty much every 2d fighting game especially every capcom fighting game, I am just an above average player in each. I believe that SF3 and CVS2 are masterpieces but MVC2 is a fun albeit broken party game.

I realize playing 1000s of hours won’t make me anywhere near the best, so I prefer being casual and invest my free time elsewhere. You either have it or you don’t. It’s genetic. The reflexes, timing, hand coordination it can’t be taught. The japanese players are so great because of dedication too.

One thing I wish is that capcom made more great CPS3 games than Jojo’s and Red Earth, seems like a waste considering how much software CPS2 had to offer but by the time it came out it was too late I suppose.

I was wondering, Denjin said that the DC burnt copies were “crappy” is the Dreamcast version bad? Is it better to get the SF anniversary collection with SF3 for ps2? Well now that it’s on emu I suppose it’s pointless playing it on anything else.

I am on 2df now. I am still on 2i, I prefer that one maybe because it’s simpler, has less of an urban feel more traditional fighting atmosphere… nicer backgrounds. I’ll go to 3s eventually lol. Still trying to polish my skill. Sometimes I own reputable players, the next day they own me. It’s a big guessing game to me.

I still haven’t gotten into SFIV, i’m not sure I even like it yet. I really wish they could have made it in HD 2d.

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troll

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oh shut tup :arazz:.

people don’t like SF3 is because they are either SF2STers or some people can’t play a fighting game with very good animation , they’ll puke .

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3rd strike; Japanese 3rd strike; Kuroda’s 3rd strike.

In which game do your friends lose interest?

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Cool thread, just stumbled upon it. Fun to read how FFA ranbats got started.

3S won’t make a miraculous comeback, but it’s the type of game that will survive the ages because of its history and the players it has inspired along the way.

It might be just me, but I think 3S’ game system has more potential than SF4 due to the parry system that gave us things like option select crouch tech and SGGK. It has more room for creativity than SF4, while still building on Street Fighter fundamentals. Unlike… say “Marvel” whose spacing and zoning game is a departure from the traditional SF games. My point is, that freedom/potential is probably what gave it its staying power to begin with.

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i think they lost interest as rockefeller rarely comments in FFA ranbat :rofl:

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At a local tournament a few months back they had 3s. The top 5 was Chun,Chun,Yun,Chun,Ibuki in that order.

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i think one of the pros on “I got next” said it best, he said somethin like, sf4 is the new game that everybodys watching, so being good at it is more important, would you rather be the best at sf4 when everybody cares, or would you rather be best at 3rd strike where only the hardcore sf fans will care.

I think the reason it might be “dying” is cos the games got a serious balance issue, in 3rd strike, yeah you can win with everybody, but it takes alot more effort (cos of parrying i guess) to win with a low tier in 3 as opposed to 4. and cos the fact that the high tier chars in 3s are so high above the mid-low tier in 3s whereas in 4, mid tiers have alot better chance, and even the low tiers have a good chance against high tiers. 4’s not perfectly balanced but its alot more balanced than 3s, it’s incredibly dull, watching the same 5 or 6 characters in matches, I’d say that’s probably the biggest reason why. That’s why it’s fun to watch kurodas matches on youtube, not cos he picks low tiers, it’s cos you get to see someone who’s not chun, yun, ken or akuma (and the odd urien) owning. So really balance, and the fact that SF4 is out, which has a much bigger chance of being popular and more mainstream with online gaming, ya da ya da, I think thats the reason why people might be losing interest. The best thing that can happen for 3s is a re release of some sort, doesn’t need to be a “hd remix” cos if you ask me, the 3s sprites are alot sexier than HD remix’s, the game is beautiful, but a serious revision of the characters so that everybody has is somewhat near a 5/5 on tier lists, would make 3s truley the ultimate sf.

Are there any sf3 online tourneys bein done on xbl? Where I live theres no arcades and i’m not very good at third strike, but i think id cream if I went online and actually found players for once, to play some of you lads would be crazy fun.

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to be fair it would help if we knew who the actual players were. it wouldn’t be right if those chun players were hardcore 3s players and a lot of the other people who joined the tournament were just casuals.

good shit to that ibuki though :lovin:

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Balance is overrated

Not to mention SFIV might be balanced but I feel like my options are way more limited when I play the game. Like when I rush down with any character I get owned by Srk/jab mashers because the game has no real pressure strings, which are reliable as block strings. So, people can just dp me all the time when I start pressure. So it forces me to bait that shit all day long.

In order to play successful in SFIV I have to play 100% textbook style, and I can’t develop my own way of playing…I feel absolutely limited, and I can’t see myself owning people with low tier in SFIV as much. At least cuz the game doesn’t fit my personality as a player I guess.

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i would seriously pay $200 for 3s to be available on the ps3 network… doesn’t even gotta be HD! plz sony plz plz plz…

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Are those Chuns any good? If anything they could be crappy but everyone else was just straight up worse.

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last tournament i went to…there was absolutely no chun or yun

top 8 consisted of ken, dudley, oro, yang, urien, etc

for ppl to say 3s only consists of yun and chun are simply trying to make an excuse

anyways i found this in the sf4 section lol

http://www.capcom-unity.com/jgonzo/blog/2009/09/02/in_case_you_missed_it_sfivs_yoshinori_onos_panel_from_fan_expo?num=5&pg=2

heres a quote from site that says what capcom though about when asked to continue the series

PERFECTION you sf4 BITCHES!!!