General fighting games thread

Sirlin' turning Fantasy Strike into an actual fighting game? Ha! Talk about snakes and tails..
Didn't know about Rising Thunder, will have to look into that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qxVDOc-oV8
Things of Beauty: Super Smash Bros. as Spectator Sport

I could never get seriously into Smash for various reasons, but I really like this video

yeah, that's interesting; thx for sharing

A bunch of new SF5 characters with interesting moves, (like Tekken they've added an Arabian guy). Karin was a lot of fun in SF Alpha 3.

Teaser for King Of Fighters 14 is really disappointing. I knew they were going with 3d but it looks very modest.

I like Laura's look and moves. Very happy to see Karin and Mika back.

LOL https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/them-s-fightin-herds#/

Just preordered SFV to get access to the second beta round. Getting antsy waiting for the beta code to be emailed to me from Best Buy...

Somehow I missed this. It's from May.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UaXhe_XPsU&t=9m36s

Starting at around 9:30.

good god

http://shoryuken.com/2015/12/05/snk-playmore-bringing-the-last-blade-2-to-playstation-4-vita/

http://mattrifiedgames.blogspot.com/2015/11/my-emerging-love-hate-relationship-with.html

As someone who loves story/single player modes in fighting games I definitely agree with several points in his article. (I wish Battle High 2 didn't have such terrible graphics. Maybe I'll still grab it as a lark - it's free/pay-what-you-want on PC.)

Injustice 2 pre-leaked prior to E3, looks like... I'm in

it has loot crates and microtransactions

argh. i imagine it's gonna be a mess competitively. i'll just have to enjoy the single player mode, i guess

It's EVO time! Psyched to watch the SFV finals on ESPN tomorrow night.
Been watching the SRK streams - they have five this year! - and three guys from my local flew out there to participate so I'm more invested than usual.
Man, I wish I was good at Marvel. Just started getting into Guilty Gear Xrd Revelator and still trucking along w/SFV.

https://i.imgur.com/XvRNfDa.png

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/08/simply-a-smashing-timea-visual-tour-of-super-smash-con/

http://www.polygon.com/pc/2016/9/17/12952688/harambe-vs-capcom-video-game-trailer

I see there's a ROM hack attempt at balancing ST, incorporating the better bits of HDR.
http://www.strevival.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=122

This guy Xanadu from KOF 14 is hilarious
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKNAc6p0aAw

what... what is his gimmick??

Ultra Street Fighter II coming to Nintendo Switch... both classic and HDR graphics, two new palette swaps, no word on gameplay changes. I don't plan on getting a Switch so I don't really care.

really weird for a Nintendo system to finally get a port of HDR so many years later

so from what Justin Wong and others were saying

- SF4 throw teching. throwing command is the original. i guess it removes tic throw loops, but still...
- no old characters! way to remove half the game
- akuma has very low life, otherwise he's ST Akuma
- chun's stored super charge is gone
- sagat's tiger knee is dp motion (f, d, df) instead of d to uf

Been getting back into SFV lately due to the huge amount of Season 2 changes, it's a meaty update. Helps that Laura got so many buffs :) Splurged on the Season 2 Character Pass too, not gonna grind out the Fight Money this time. (Plus I would like to buy some stages/costumes this year with FM)

Also put some time this weekend into GGXrd -Revelator-. Great game, though I fear like Marvel the intensity/frequency of input might be too much for me to play competitively. But I'm having a surprising amount of fun just playing with the single-player (and hilarious chaotic and broken) M.O.M. mode. Each character itself is like an entirely different game, so I feel like I'm gonna have to put more time than I actually have into this to explore everyone to decide on a main, though I've enjoyed the weirdness of Ramlethal and Raven so far.

This year's looking pretty good already between Tekken 6, Injustice 2, the next GGX update, and so on... and if the Switch port of Smash comes out this year, I might jump onto that just out of the sheer popularity of the game at locals and online.

Also, after about twenty years of sticking to pads (after beginning on sticks in the arcade back in the late '80s/early '90s) I finally broke down, shelled out the cash for a TE2+ FightStick. No regrets; hitting buttons will always be super fun.

Uh bad double use of "stick" but you know what I'm saying

Capcom might be rebalancing SFV season 2.

https://www.eventhubs.com/news/2017/jan/27/capcom-open-another-balance-patch-pro-tour-season-begins-quick-line-yesterdays-street-fighter-5-blog-seems-suggest-it/

A lot of the changes they made in S2 were odd, giving and taking things without seeming to consider tiers. One rationale I've heard is that all of the current changes have been "in the can" since the 2016 Evo tournament, which was not a good indication of the relative power levels of the characters. For example, Nash was winning a lot around then because he had easy combos that did big damage, while Guile was considered the best of the weak DLC characters. Right before the S2 changes came out, Nash was considered mid and Guile was considered mid-high. S2 comes out and chops off Nash's legs and turns Guile into a god.

Oh, I'm sure there'll be a lot more changes coming. I mean we've only gotten Akuma and we have five more DLC characters to go, and they always sprinkle other balance patches before/after each DLC release. That said some of the more universal changes, like no more meterless untechable/invincible Shoryukens and general weakening of standing anti-air jabs, I think will stick, and good!

They stuck with very few changes in season 1, usually only changing things they deemed bugs -- although they were selective and left other buggy things in. AA jabs were probably a good choice to nerf as they made defense too good. I thought the srks were fine and nerfing them might make the characters more samey.

SRKs are the way they should be IMO regarding knockdown - the attacker should have the advantage (and not be forced to either bait or cross-up which doesn't work often due to to autocorrects). They remain invincible if you use the EX version, costing a bar seems fair to me.

here's a guy who agrees with me on the srks (and infiltration concurs)

https://youtu.be/bsC8io4w1sY?t=5m22s

I actually agree with that in principle (buffing everyone is generally better than nerfing everyone, and more "fun") but SF isn't in danger of having characters feeling too same-y (except notably the Shotokens), like Mortal Kombat or Tekken.
I stand by the SRK nerf. Seriously, Ryu is always plenty strong in these games.

for honor? its not sf-style but its pvp match fighting. don't know how good the controls are, it was fun to watch on twitch. i plan to try it on the next beta

Love Injustice 2. Sure competitively, it'll probably be terrible, but I just love the effort and characters and tone and feel and so on.

it's fun to watch scrubs getting owned by deadshot and darkseid, the day-one zoners.

good evo finals. Punk torn his way through but Tokido destroyed him in the end to finally get his championship

watch punk's eleague matches if you haven't. he was tearing through everyone there.

i missed the end of eLeague, but i saw his matches earlier in the show, he damn good.
he definitely had the skills to beat Tokido, he just lost his composure / got beat by Tokido's experience

http://www.fightersgeneration.com/screens2/arika-fighting-ex-layer.htm

The Streetfighter Ex series always had a mixed reputation but I thought they were some of the most fun 3d fighters. Curious to see how well this one does, I thought these characters would never return.

This channel does quite interesting videos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sUVNqNSo5M

you in for DBZ or UNIST, RAG?

I don't think I've touched a videogame for 3 years, I just like watching videos about them occasionally. I'd like a go of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild but I probably don't have the patience for playing it anymore.

sad!

that is a good video btw, i think i watched it earlier in the year before MvC:I came out

i kinda liked MvC:I btw. less visually busy compared to MvC2/3, but still pretty crazy and broke when it came down to it. didn't spend much time on it though

sad!

― Nhex, Saturday, January 13, 2018 4:39 AM

It is a little sad but games are just so expensive, time consuming, I've lost interest in gaming challenges, I don't own any consoles and it's difficult justifying a console for a few games I might never play much. I utterly loathe all the DLC and patches stuff. I'm very jaded so hardly anything looks exciting or fun as it used to.
Bloodborne and Dark Souls look right up my street but again, I'm just not up for the challenge. If I could play them with infinite health cheats I'd be very happy.
But I'm always interested in watching videos of whatever cool thing comes out. One of the things I miss most about being a teenager was the absolute certainty I was going to have a great 5 to 40 hours with most things I'd buy.

here's another video I liked.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGSkWVXE2mo

Fantasy Strike does look interesting.

I tried SFV and thought it was fun until I increased the difficulty and realized I would never have a chance against online players. (I couldn’t play online with my pirated copy anyways but I unistalled the game and don’t plan on purchasing it). I also discovered my favorite SFV character is in the lowest tier :(

My all-time favorite fighting game character is Chizuru from the King of Fighters franchise. I like how she creates illusions of herself and is a dance fighter; however, she is one of the hardest characters to control so I mostly just like her from a distance. They haven’t made her a playable character in over a decade. When they do bring ger back, hopefully they will make her moveset more accesible and practical.

Why couldn't you enjoy SFV on a lower difficulty?

Years ago I tried buying some dirt cheap SNK fighting games for kindle and it somehow didn't work. I just bought Garou minutes ago and although it works I can't stand the touchscreen pad and don't particularly want to learn. It's as awkward as I imagined when you can't actually feel the buttons but have to keep your eye on your fingers being in the right place.

Oh god, no, touch screen fightin' just ain't right, especially on ports

Ah yeah I guess when the material's less concisely edited he might have evidenced more chud tendencies, the SF5 stuff was pleasingly all business, even if the videos were 8 hours long

I guess the SF5 new character toolset of "safe poke, reliable anti-air, safe blockstring, punish combo you can consistently do / don't fucking jump all the time" is fairly easy to translate to other characters or games

Yet to even test out Terry B or do much with Bison

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In my very limited experience VF seems like the most elegant of fighting games, a profound game, & it saddens me that I will never have the tiniest bit of competence at it.

VF6 was announced at the game awards

limited hype for vf6 from me because i'm expecting sega to royally fuck it up. at least the changes in revo seem conservative enough to not ruin everything and rollback (if good, tbc yet) is huge

thanks for the beta notice. i haven't touched a VF in so long, i gotta try this

So Capcom Cup happened. The big story is that a 15-year-old got to the finals. Noahtheprodigy also got into the top 8. He first showed up in FGC events when he was 8 years old, playing a Hulk team in MVC3. The younguns are taken over with their superior reflexes.

I don't think the final winner has won a major before, other than his Capcom Cup qualifier.

Interesting... makes sense we'd eventually see a newer generation break through

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Maybe it's too early to say, but apparently the new Fatal Fury is bombing pretty hard. According to some reports, SNK's owners were expecting massive returns. Fighting games can obviously do good business but it's been a much more niche genre for quite some time now... though perhaps not as long a time since the last game with Fatal Fury in the title (before the millennium!). If they really thought all that Ronaldo nonsense was going to attract the masses, they were pretty deluded.

the samurai showdown reboot coming out with awful online play right before rollback netcode became industry standard was unfortunate, thats the best game they've made since the classic days but wasn't given the ability to catch on.

people have been wary of them ever since the saudi prince bought them as a vanity thing and the ronaldo etc nonsense was the vindicating moment. the fg folks i know who check out pretty much every new fighting game weren't interested in this one after that

i havent played anything in quite a while, i was waiting to jump back in on the next big anime fighter once GG Strive runs its course but that may never come at this rate. maybe VF6 will be fun

Yeah some people were definitely put off by the Ronaldo "appearance" (he didn't even record any voice work or anything, so it's more akin to a Fortnite skin or something); I'll bet some people were hoping his fans would make up for that by flocking to an expensive non-football game - more fool them. Extensive advertising at wrestling and boxing events seems to have had no effect either. I must give that SamSho game a go sometime.

Another Capcom fighting collection is out tomorrow. I've made peace with the fact that we'll never see a new Darkstalkers or Rival Schools or non-SF Capcom Fighter game again (which means I might get a pleasant surprise someday...) so it's great to have these collections of the arcade originals.

I have to admit, the Ronaldo announcement killed the enthusiasm I had for the game (as well as that goofy DJ character, to a lesser extent) when I was already on the fence about spending the full $60 on it

I'll pick up CFC2, probably wait until it's $10-20 off, i didn't even open the Marvel collection but bought it for posterity as I will this one

Yeah I was the same with Fatal Fury, Ron and the who-the-fuck-is-this-guy useful idiot DJ just foregrounded the grossness a little bit too much, I was otherwise fairly enthusiastic about it

I'll also probably buy the new Capcom collection and then not play it because those games didn't have much single player stuff and I can't get psyched up enough to play online

The PS1 era 3D games are fun but definitely show their age now. Capcom Fighting Jam is the only clunker in the collection, a rushed hackjob with awkwardly mismatched sprites and some of the worst backgrounds I have ever seen. There's a context for it, but it's a bit of an farcical end to their 2D fighting run.

I don't do much online play myself; what I find is that after a few weeks, the scene is largely dominated by "experts" who flatten me one fight after another. Not fun.

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

A characteristically game performance from Kenny here

Sagat, Viper, Alex...Ingrid

c. viper is such a cool character - her combos in 4 were so fun

It's a good reveal video. I like them trolling with Ingrid.

I'm seeing a lot about Ingrid on my feed atm, I had no idea she was apparently such a "hated" character. Granted, the game she features in is a bit of a mess, but I don't really get it lol

Nice to see another SF3 fighter

I just went past a double decker bus in South London completely covered in a Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves ad. Why yes, 15ft tall Rock Howard, this is the most bizarre and ill-fated marketing push I've ever seen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fbfrV5qqnU
Strange that Marvel given their license to Arc System Works