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
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 13 January 2018 19:01 (six years ago) link
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.
― Woon... Doopee Time (FlopsyDuck), Saturday, 13 January 2018 23:44 (six years ago) link
Why couldn't you enjoy SFV on a lower difficulty?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 15 January 2018 12:57 (six years ago) link
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.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 18 January 2018 01:20 (six years ago) link
Oh god, no, touch screen fightin' just ain't right, especially on ports
― Nhex, Thursday, 18 January 2018 02:02 (six years ago) link
I know I'm not gonna have the time to get competitively "good" at it (as if I ever do) but I said to myself "screw it" and pre-ordered Dragonball FighterZ which comes out Friday. Tried the beta, feels great, looks amazing, and tons of fan service for DBZ fans.
― Nhex, Sunday, 21 January 2018 09:20 (six years ago) link
is the latest SFV "arcade edition" good? all these editions I can't keep my head straightI would love a marvel v capcom w/ xmen but I guess the dumb fox/sony thing is at play here? I will waitkinda tempted by Injustice 2 even though I don't like the DC universe as much
― droit au butt (Euler), Sunday, 28 January 2018 17:32 (six years ago) link
SFV AE is what the game should've been at launch. Has the 12 extra characters from Seasons 1 and 2 (a third one just started), arcade mode, story mode. Feel safe in getting that.
MvC:I is fun but pretty barebones. Also kind of a failure commercially because of many reasons, seems to be dying. Hoping to pick up a complete edition with all the characters/skins if it ever comes out, but there's a chance this could play out like SFxT and never get it
I love the hell out of the Injustice games, but to each his own
Get DBZ, and took a look at UNIST which is about to finally get over here
― Nhex, Sunday, 28 January 2018 19:05 (six years ago) link
Thanks!
― droit au butt (Euler), Sunday, 28 January 2018 20:58 (six years ago) link
I watched a lot of the EVO Japan SFV tournament. It was pretty entertaining, especially the pools. Abigail and Menat have added some needed diversity to the game.
― adam the (abanana), Monday, 29 January 2018 22:11 (six years ago) link
any ILXORs playing SFV? I'd like some friends to battle!
― Thomas NAGL (Neil S), Sunday, 11 February 2018 10:13 (six years ago) link
i don't play that much now, but if you're on PS4 hit me up: n-hex
― Nhex, Monday, 12 February 2018 00:37 (six years ago) link
I'm RumTum in PS4 SFV. Playstation name is greendat but I don't often play other fighting games.
― adam the (abanana), Monday, 12 February 2018 06:41 (six years ago) link
thanks guys, will give you a shout later...
― Thomas NAGL (Neil S), Monday, 12 February 2018 07:21 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/O3quT0d.jpgI 100% approve of this
― Nhex, Monday, 12 February 2018 20:51 (six years ago) link
auction tournament for SF 30th Anniversary Collection
https://youtu.be/SxvGhTsB7iY?t=1h36m38s
― adam the (abanana), Saturday, 26 May 2018 11:34 (five years ago) link
SonicFox: still gay https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2019/02/12/im-gay-esports-player-years-swagger-inspires-draws-ire/
― Norm’s Superego (silby), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 21:32 (five years ago) link
wow, SonicFox is only 20? damn these kids are young, feels like he's been around forever. good for him though
― Nhex, Thursday, 14 February 2019 00:25 (five years ago) link
I think 2d fighting games could learn a thing or two from Smash. What I had in mind was stage design. A gradual slope here and there. A stage on top a train that makes moving one direction a little slower and the other a little faster. Maybe a wooden raft stage that tilts up and down. All of this effecting hitboxes etc. Non-tourney levels could be more far out. I imagine an alley scene with climbable props like a dumpster and those metal fire ecscape platforms which you can use new hanging attacks.
― ٩༼ º෴º ༽۶ (FlopsyDuck), Thursday, 14 February 2019 01:02 (five years ago) link
have you watched smash tournaments? they ban virtually everything. https://www.ssbwiki.com/Stage_legality
the one stage in SFV that has a bit of water on one side is banned, not because it changes the physics at all, but because it's harder to see low projectiles on that side.
― adam the (abanana), Thursday, 14 February 2019 03:10 (five years ago) link
Yeah, I've watched them. I've seen some tournaments allow Castle Siege and that slope is much steeper than anything I had in mind.https://www.ssbwiki.com/File:SSBU-Castle_Siege.png.
Smash is very different though. Most stages have floating platforms and that doesn't really work with a Street Fighter 2 style fighter.
― ٩༼ º෴º ༽۶ (FlopsyDuck), Thursday, 14 February 2019 14:05 (five years ago) link
Other stage obstacles could be an ice floor with a little bit of a sliding effect and vice versa for a sand floor.
― ٩༼ º෴º ༽۶ (FlopsyDuck), Thursday, 14 February 2019 14:13 (five years ago) link
Here is the official lineup for #Evo2019 ! pic.twitter.com/wgZrwXTGF3— EVO (@EVO) February 27, 2019
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 27 February 2019 04:07 (five years ago) link
really good lineup, excited to see UNIST get a spotlight as it's a great game to watch. also happy that samsho is apparently coming out soon
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 27 February 2019 04:09 (five years ago) link
didn't even realize a new SamSho was coming out. cool to see BBxtag and UNIST for sure
― Nhex, Wednesday, 27 February 2019 04:28 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R0hbe8HZj0
everything you need to know to understand fighting games in 15 minutes
don't normally care for this guy's vids much but this one is really well done
― ciderpress, Saturday, 18 May 2019 16:38 (four years ago) link
Button mashing was a frequent complaint about Soul Calibur and Tekken characters like Eddy Gordo. Beginners often beat good experienced players (but not the best players).
Surprised to see no mention of Virtua Fighter, which is hopeless for beginners to win and has very little satisfaction for button mashing players (probably why it isn't as popular). Experience is always rewarded in Virtua Fighter.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 18 May 2019 17:48 (four years ago) link
VF is criminally neglected in the west, probably because its original home release was on the saturn
― chihuahuau, Saturday, 18 May 2019 19:12 (four years ago) link
Possibly, but if there's something I've known people to criticize about Virtua Fighter, it's that it's never had particularly compelling character designs. The character movements were also somewhat robotic, maybe that's why it was such a precise game.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 18 May 2019 19:54 (four years ago) link
Even though I used to be quite a fighting game enthusiast, I never got the record straight on how deep the gameplay was in Dead Or Alive, which was quite button-mash friendly but some people said it could be taken to deeper levels, but I don't recall there being many expert players/tournament popularity. Reviewers often contrasted Itagaki's Ninja Gaiden games with his supposedly much simpler Dead Or Alive games.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 18 May 2019 20:03 (four years ago) link
I certainly found Soul Calibur and Dead Or Alive less engaging because I felt I didn't need to put in as much attention to my inputs. But eventually Virtua Fighter got more demanding than I could deal with. It was annoying that the character Akira required such incredible precision.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 18 May 2019 20:06 (four years ago) link
played a bit of the granblue fantasy versus beta - it's alright, weird to play an arcsys game that's got a slower street fighter like pace to it
― ciderpress, Friday, 31 May 2019 13:18 (four years ago) link
Seen trailer of new Samurai Shodown. Looks so much like a modern Capcom game, they certainly put more into the graphics than the recent King Of Fighters. The "ghost" practice gimmick is a good idea, don't know if fighting games have done that before?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 31 May 2019 16:16 (four years ago) link
the killer instinct reboot had it i think
― ciderpress, Friday, 31 May 2019 16:19 (four years ago) link
SFV was supposed to have this sort of data-driven stuff, never came to pass
― Nhex, Friday, 31 May 2019 17:29 (four years ago) link
Badly presented video but there's some funny ones in here. Only one I hadn't heard of is the vehicle one.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TWkmjgb6VoSurprised the Power Instinct series isn't in there.
It's not wacky but I think Dark Edge is one of the most unique looking fighting games.http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/dark-edge/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24qpp_7mqNU
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 14 July 2019 02:26 (four years ago) link
that DOES look crazy!
― Nhex, Sunday, 28 July 2019 00:21 (four years ago) link
So George Clinton is coming to Tekken: https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-08-05-tekken-7-gets-a-brand-new-character-called-leroy-smith
― Coelacanth Green (Leee), Monday, 5 August 2019 21:29 (four years ago) link
I was hoping that you were being literal
https://i.imgur.com/E7SyqBY.jpg
― adam the (abanana), Monday, 5 August 2019 21:37 (four years ago) link
excited for new guilty gear, have wanted to learn it for a while but waiting for the next full version up
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 7 August 2019 21:30 (four years ago) link
ehh. i don't really see a huge difference in the trailer from the current GG. but i'm sure it'll be good, Arc has been consistent
― Nhex, Wednesday, 7 August 2019 22:04 (four years ago) link
visually it's just a gen-up of the same artstyle yeah but they've talked about planning to streamline the mechanics and such
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 7 August 2019 22:31 (four years ago) link
https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/08/13/multiple-sexual-misconduct-allegations-rock-the-fighting-game-community-following-evo-2019
― Nhex, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 06:47 (four years ago) link
i didn't even really watch evo this year other than UNIST because i was mad that they let Infiltration back in
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 13:06 (four years ago) link
I watched the EVO Japan SFV tournament (on youtube here: http://www.youtube.com/user/evo2kvids/videos ). The new balance patch has made a lot of characters viable. A character I had written off ended up winning. It's made the game the most interesting it's been since Menat and Abigail came out.
― wasdnuos (abanana), Sunday, 26 January 2020 17:09 (four years ago) link
A shame that the (real life) tournament players sometimes have a ton of arrogance and all this trash talking and screwing with each others heads is expected. Probably a lot of players who could thrive if it wasn't like this.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 12 April 2020 20:14 (three years ago) link
It's always there to some extent, but in my experience I've felt far more positivity and kinship in the FGC than in most gaming cultures. There will always be a few who take competition to the Kobe psychopath level though...
― Nhex, Sunday, 12 April 2020 20:45 (three years ago) link
Been playing some Fantasy Strike lately, as it went Free-to-Play recently. Gives you all the characters, practice and online modes; you pay $20 if you want Arcade Mode and the ability to match with friends. It's pretty solid, I like that it's very distilled and simplified. (Maybe too simplified for an old head like me) Definitely fun to see their interpretations of existing FG characters, like Geiger/Guile, Rook/Zangief, Setsuki/Ibuki, etc.
It also does a lot of things right I wish all fighting games these days would incorporate: cross-platform play (PC/PS4/Switch), rollback netcode, and great tutorial videos explaining exactly how each character is basically supposed to work. Worth a peek for anyone who likes the genre, especially if you find modern games to be overwhelming with the inputs.
― Nhex, Wednesday, 26 August 2020 01:36 (three years ago) link
Ryan "gootecks" Gutierrez (fgc commentator; pogchamp icon) is now a hydroxychloroquine conspiracy theorist.
― wasdnous (abanana), Wednesday, 26 August 2020 23:40 (three years ago) link
yeah, makes sense.... he was always a bit of a huckster
― Nhex, Thursday, 27 August 2020 00:07 (three years ago) link