The Fighting Game Thread IV: Arcade Edition

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Spuckuk: Aug 11, 2009; Being a bastard works

Question Mark Mound posted:

I'm sure I broke a blood vessel once when I overheard some people say that BlazBlue looks like a SNES game.

Well, Gundam Wing: Endless Duel was hella pretty..

# ¿ Aug 25, 2011 16:51

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# ¿ May 17, 2024 07:04

Spuckuk: Aug 11, 2009; Being a bastard works

cka posted:

Me too; that's why I'm him in Quest mode as a (kinda terrible) AI player. Maybe they'll run that contest/promotion/whatever the hell it was again for FS for a new set of AI character data...

Really hoping the PS3 edition has halfway decent online play, as much fun as I had with the 360 version the online world was pretty barren most of the time short of super lagged out intercontinental players. Only did manage to talk a few people into doing some sets online, but it was pretty much only the one time for either of them. All the other randoms either cleaned my clock or were too laggy to battle against.

Have to say, I found the netcode by far the best of any online fighter. Maybe there's more european players than I remembered, but I was having great games against US people and even fairly passable ones against Japan sometimes.

..christ why isn't this out now, I love me some VF. Someone stop me from trying to learn Akira though.

# ¿ Jan 11, 2012 09:49

Spuckuk: Aug 11, 2009; Being a bastard works

When you get a choice of which character to unlock from the start, pick Devil Jin, he's a total pain in the rear end to unlock for the mode otherwise, and by far the easiest character to destroy any of the bonus stages with.

Spuckuk fucked around with this message at 14:43 on Feb 2, 2012

# ¿ Feb 2, 2012 14:37

Spuckuk: Aug 11, 2009; Being a bastard works

Sears Poncho posted:

What's a good place to find high level Tekken match videos? I've decided to dust off T6 to start practicing for tag, and I need some inspiration.

edit: I mean outside of Tekken Zaibatsu threads - like is there anywhere with a lot of matches consolidated into one place?

Just watch any/all of Tekken crash, you should be able to find straight up youtube links or entire seasons through Zaibatsu. The variety of characters always suprises me, it's one hell of a balanced game*

*Zafina IS poo poo though.

# ¿ Mar 27, 2012 10:12

Spuckuk: Aug 11, 2009; Being a bastard works

F. Lobot posted:

I know this thread outlaws Smash Bros conversation, but could we make an exception this one time?

Oh awesome, another attempt to shoehorn smash into something it's not supposed to be.

:getout:

# ¿ Jul 10, 2012 10:47

Spuckuk: Aug 11, 2009; Being a bastard works

Buy Tekken instead, it's better at literally everything but tits.

# ¿ Dec 23, 2012 20:52

Spuckuk: Aug 11, 2009; Being a bastard works

There is literally no way Smash Bros Melee will be at Evo, donations or not.

Equipment requirements, but more importantly the odious fanbase and what happened last time they were allowed in.

# ¿ Jan 9, 2013 11:45

Spuckuk: Aug 11, 2009; Being a bastard works

that Vai sound posted:

What happened?

The Smash Community threw a massive hissy fit that Evo organisers didn't implement their utterly gigantic list of rules for 'balanced play', including banning all items and most of the stages.

There was something about thw winner being massively harassed by other 'Pro Smash' players and hassled into giving up his winnings as well, but thats hearsay AFAIK.

Basically, horrible community and the game is dull as ditchwater for non-smash players to watch as well.

# ¿ Jan 9, 2013 17:56

Spuckuk: Aug 11, 2009; Being a bastard works

Do exactly what hapenned last time they let it in Evo, standard rules, items on, any stage.

Then let the entertainment roll on in.

# ¿ Jan 14, 2013 10:44

Spuckuk: Aug 11, 2009; Being a bastard works

iPodschun posted:

After Skullgirls held their Evo eighth spot+breast cancer research fundraiser Friday night, the Melee community held their own on Saturday. Donation totals after them: Skullgirls $22,109; Melee $22,443.

Hoping Skullgirls can pull it out in the end.

So do I, Smash tournaments are duller than watching paint dry.

you'd think the onlygood american indy fighting game should be getting the majority of support, but, whelp.

# ¿ Jan 27, 2013 15:02

Spuckuk: Aug 11, 2009; Being a bastard works

Brett824 posted:

Yeah I can't really comprehend people saying otherwise. Especially pre-patch, Skullgirls was dull as all get out and it still basically doesn't have a scene at all. Maybe Mike Z should fund raise to get his game patched on 360 instead of doing multiple fundraisers to get it at EVO?

Not saying that Skullgirls isnt pretty botring to watch, but Smash is visually dull as hell, with the benefit of being a decade old to boot. That, and as a casual observer, literally nothing in the game looks* interesting or skilled.

*I'm sure theres loads going on that I dont get, but, yeah.

# ¿ Jan 27, 2013 19:40

Spuckuk: Aug 11, 2009; Being a bastard works

The Dark Wind posted:

So uh... what exactly ARE you allowed to do?

And what is this Brawl Club, anyways?

Some sort of after school club for autistics?

# ¿ Feb 1, 2013 11:02

Spuckuk: Aug 11, 2009; Being a bastard works

Shockeh posted:

The Q4RAF is a truly amazing piece of kit; Natively works on PS3/360/PC out of the box, a nice weight & size, and a reasonable price. If I didn't already have a dual modded TE, I'd be using one, and plenty of people locally swear by them, they're really good. If you're going to sink money for a non-custom stick, you really could do a lot worse.

Quoted for truth. I have one, it's fantastic.

# ¿ Feb 7, 2013 02:22

Spuckuk: Aug 11, 2009; Being a bastard works

Aphrodite posted:

I like playing dress-up. What has more/better customization, Tekken Tag 2 or Virtua Fighter 5 FS? Are there any other options I'm not aware of (Besides Soul Calibur, I have that)?

I know you have to pay in VF5, but I got the game for free and would have to buy Tekken anyway, so it works out the same.

I have Tekken 6 but I never played it, so I took a glance at the options but it seems to be mostly different colored versions of 3-4 items per location. Apparently you can't even look in VF without buying the DLC.

I'm going to suck at the game regardless, so the actual play isn't really a concern.

S Tier: Soul Cal 4 (for reference)

A Tier: Tekken 6

B Tier: VF5:FS / SFxT

C Tier: TTT2

Dan Tier: Mortal Kombat

# ¿ Feb 7, 2013 02:27

Spuckuk: Aug 11, 2009; Being a bastard works

PaletteSwappedNinja posted:

I was referring to this, which I thought was supposed to be a list of FGs in order of customisation options:

The swap/alt costumes are baller as gently caress.

It's a terribly biased list.

# ¿ Feb 7, 2013 10:42

Spuckuk: Aug 11, 2009; Being a bastard works

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22883814

Ryan Hart doing a good job of making the FGC look unfairly like decent human beings..

# ¿ Jun 13, 2013 14:47

Spuckuk: Aug 11, 2009; Being a bastard works

AndyElusive posted:

It tends to be a good bet that the best starter characters to play will be whatever character has the most prominent presence on the box art. Honestly, this probably seems completely unconventional and stupid but you'll be surprised.

Unless you're playing Virtua Fighter, in which case you just picked Akira, and put yourself in a world of pain.

# ¿ Jun 29, 2013 20:56

Spuckuk: Aug 11, 2009; Being a bastard works

General Morden posted:

As a newcomer to the VF series, I picked Brad and liked how he played.

Not sure how complex he is as a character but I thought he was fairly simple to pick up and play.

Brad isnt too bad, but he's got a bunch of advanced stuff with his swaying/ducking.

Jean is almost certainly the easiest character to pick up if you're new to the series.

# ¿ Jun 30, 2013 08:37

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Pockyless posted:

VF5 netcode isnt very good but tekkens is amazing.

VF5 netcode is pretty amazing. The issue is theres so few players you'll likely getting matched to a different continent :/

# ¿ Jul 1, 2013 11:16

Spuckuk: Aug 11, 2009; Being a bastard works

Pockyless posted:

It's really not. Especially in a game where hit checking is such an important and fundamental concept, the delay based netcode is really frustrating if you play offline even a little.

Maybe I've been lucky getting matched up with people in the UK, but its felt pretty seamless in comparison to, say SF4. Never going to be identical to offline, admittedly.

# ¿ Jul 1, 2013 20:21

Spuckuk: Aug 11, 2009; Being a bastard works

PLANES CURE TOWERS posted:

Focus-Attack has $10 off Qanba/Eightarc sticks until July 9th

It's not as good as the Madcatz sticks will be when Evo hits (probably $99 for the MLG and others), but you can get a Qanba Q4RAF for $140 bucks, which is compatible with 360, PS3 and PC. So it'd be cheaper/easier to have a dual modded stick than getting a TE with a Cerberus or PS360+. Plus they're supposedly pretty good sticks.

I have one of these, it's an absolutely fantastic stick

# ¿ Jul 7, 2013 10:18

Spuckuk: Aug 11, 2009; Being a bastard works

Broken Loose posted:

Oh, wow.

So, Nintendo is bullying Evo. They're not allowed to stream Melee. Melee Finals are moved to Saturday afternoon.

Persona 4 is now first thing Sunday, with KOF immediately afterward.

lol nintendo

This. This is the greatest.

# ¿ Jul 9, 2013 23:22

Spuckuk: Aug 11, 2009; Being a bastard works

Shoutouts to Nintendo for improving Evo

Edit: Oh god the comments section is blowing up so hard on Eventhubs. A full lake of pubbie tears.

# ¿ Jul 9, 2013 23:27

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just a butt posted:

Tekken Revolution is holding a poll to add completely brand new characters to the game. The descriptions for the choices are so stupid they wrap around to being amazing.

The female sumo character is the least nutso one out there, but only because its been done before:

# ¿ Jul 12, 2013 13:51

Spuckuk: Aug 11, 2009; Being a bastard works

Dias posted:

The Salmon and Pauline Phoenix sound like amazing choices. See, Lab Zero? Those are the type of DLC characters we expect from a fighting game poll, not "pro wrestler" and "magical girl".

gently caress you. Beowulf looks amazing <3

# ¿ Jul 12, 2013 16:19

Spuckuk: Aug 11, 2009; Being a bastard works

Question Mark Mound posted:

Well drat. I really wanna get into a new fighting game since I don't like SF4 (I love chain combo fighters, don't really like the amount of ground links in SF4 combos) and anybody who plays Marvel is just gonna be way too far ahead of me at this point (plus, like with Tekken, there's way too many matchups to learn by now). GGXrd can't come out soon enough.

Skullgirls

# ¿ Jul 24, 2013 13:37

Spuckuk: Aug 11, 2009; Being a bastard works

Buhbuhj posted:

The obvious choice of game to play is Tekken!

Please play Tekken

Tekken is awesome, but hard to get into..and he said he wanted a chain combo fighter, so..

As for Skullgirls, I'm playing the PC Beta, and the combos have been toned down a lot with the changes that are made, it's likely to have a good sized PC community, as we have nothing else with decent netcode.

# ¿ Jul 24, 2013 16:28

Spuckuk: Aug 11, 2009; Being a bastard works

Six Of Spades posted:

From what I understood, even though every character has a ton of special moves, you only need to know a handful! Something that hits hi/mid/low, something that homes, something that launches and bounces, and a few moves you can turn into a simple juggle. That's like, 10-12 moves, which is pretty much like learning what every normal and special move of a Street Fighter character is.

The problem is, you also need to know all of those (realistically closer to 15-20) for every character to play against them, and what sort of punishment you can or cant get if you block, if they can be stepped or ducked.

It doesn't help having more than a few moves that look a lot less or more safe than they are.

EDIT: On the plus side, most of the combos in Tekken are pretty easy/lenient compared to other games, and you'll only ever need to know a few per character.

# ¿ Aug 22, 2013 12:12

Spuckuk: Aug 11, 2009; Being a bastard works

dangerdoom volvo posted:

I can't learn how to get instant while running moves in tekken. Like I know how it works, I know what to do but I just can't ever loving get them to work. I've never encountered something that eludes me as much in any fighting game. It keeps me up at night, tossing, sweating.

f, fF
ff, F

Letting the stick return to neutral where the comma is. It's a pain in the rear end, but bot THAT many characters use the tech. (King, Dragunov spring to mind)

# ¿ Aug 22, 2013 12:40

Spuckuk: Aug 11, 2009; Being a bastard works

Makoto in 3rd strike sits pretty comfortably just below the unholy trinity of Yun/Ken/Chun.

Her potential 100% damage combo is part of that:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdNFkvPzg5s

# ¿ Aug 27, 2013 16:20

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AnonSpore posted:

I thought competitive 3S had since evolved into the dire duo of Yun and Chun with the four heavenly kings Dudley, Urien, Ken, and Makoto sitting below. Also Kuroda somewhere as a tier by himself because what the gently caress Kuroda.

Also what the gently caress people, how can you talk about Makoto without mentioning J vs Kokujin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4wAaQug4HQ

(listen for Kokujin's tortured scream of agony at the second karakusa in round 2)

This might just be my favourite Third Strike video ever.

# ¿ Aug 28, 2013 10:19

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Broken Loose posted:

How else do you think he got the muscles?

Should have rename him Axl Benchpress

# ¿ Sep 9, 2013 14:31

Spuckuk: Aug 11, 2009; Being a bastard works

Hows the netcode?

DOA4 was shocking crap, whereas VF5 was always good to me in Europe.

# ¿ Sep 13, 2013 07:04

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Redmark posted:

To take an extreme example: would fighting game tournaments become more skillful if, instead of isolating competition to specific games, we go the way of chess boxing? Wouldn't it take more skill if instead of being a specialist at a single game, you have to be good at SF4 and Marvel and KoF? It would, in a sense. But it's not what you signed up for.

Tokido would just win every tournament ever.

# ¿ Sep 30, 2013 11:17

Spuckuk: Aug 11, 2009; Being a bastard works

Max Wilco posted:

On another note, is there a good starting point for the Tekken series? I'd been thinking about picking up TTT2, but it's been brought up that the game is really difficult. Is there an earlier entry that works better as a jumping-on point? I�ve read that Tekken 4 wasn�t very good, but thought about picking up Tekken 3 or Tekken 6, since both are pretty cheap now.

TTT2

Yes, it's difficult to be good at. But it's a hell of a lot of fun to play at lower skill levels.

# ¿ Sep 30, 2013 11:51

Spuckuk: Aug 11, 2009; Being a bastard works

I sure as hell prefer the throw system in VF5:FS over Tekken.

# ¿ Oct 1, 2013 10:19

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Endorph posted:

This actually looks pretty decent so far? Obviously it's hard to tell from an early loketest but the animation looks alright and it seems like there's actually damage on the moves and potential for combos. Time will tell but first blush doesn't make it seem as bad as I thought it'd be.

Shizuo from Durarara is in it, throwing vending machines and car doors at people?

Take all my money.

# ¿ Oct 11, 2013 13:55

Spuckuk: Aug 11, 2009; Being a bastard works

Dias posted:

The Future of Virtua Fighter, Western Edition: People Still Won't Play This Game.

True, but oh so sad

# ¿ Nov 26, 2013 13:06

Spuckuk: Aug 11, 2009; Being a bastard works

I think the lovely tribal tattoos are the most offensive thing abaout the character design.

Though on the plus side, Geeses Reppuuken.

# ¿ Dec 13, 2013 14:21

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# ¿ May 17, 2024 07:04

Spuckuk: Aug 11, 2009; Being a bastard works

Personally, as a PC player, I'm sick to death of people on SF4 picking training stage because they saw tourneys doing it.

# ¿ Jan 17, 2014 10:33

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