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 (four 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 (four 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
Buckley landed literal tekken shit last night pic.twitter.com/4fECvGQ2YS— creepy slowed down version of an upbeat song (@high_light) October 11, 2020
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 17 October 2020 18:37 (three years ago) link
haha nice
― Nhex, Saturday, 17 October 2020 18:50 (three years ago) link
In this little twitter thread here, I'm going to show some appreciation to Virtua Fighter's amazing throw animations. Starting with Masato Tanaka's Diamond Dust. I especially love the way the opponent animates standing back up and staggers around a bit before falling down. pic.twitter.com/YXgxLHmp0g— Manny Biggz (@Mannyfcknking) December 7, 2020
― chihuahuau, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 13:51 (three years ago) link
The dream SNK and CAPCOM collaboration title that can fit in your hands is coming to the Nintendo Switch!SNK VS CAPCOM: MATCH OF THE MILLENIUM launched on the NEOGEO POCKET COLOR back in 1999, and now it will be available to download on the Nintendo eShop Feb, 17th PST! #SVC pic.twitter.com/QzIWTghzy6— SNK GLOBAL (@SNKPofficial) February 5, 2021
― chihuahuau, Friday, 5 February 2021 18:11 (three years ago) link
The revival of these old NGPC games is not something I expected in recent times, but welcome all the same
― Nhex, Friday, 5 February 2021 18:23 (three years ago) link
I forgot about that trend of drawing massive hands.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 5 February 2021 18:55 (three years ago) link
I've heard that SNK hated Capcom because Capcom's CvS games were hits and SNK's SvC games bombed, and the agreement between the companies was that they only profited off their own games. SNK was bought by a Chinese mobile game company in 2015 so I don't know if that still applies.
― wasdnuos (abanana), Friday, 5 February 2021 20:02 (three years ago) link
free guilty gear strive beta now open for everyone on ps4/5
bundle of all steam ports of older gg titles including the oddball action/rts hybrid sequel available for less than $20 total:https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/18200/Guilty_Gear_Franchise/
― chihuahuau, Friday, 19 February 2021 13:03 (three years ago) link
Didn't realize the PS1 original had been ported to modern systems, cool
― Nhex, Friday, 19 February 2021 21:21 (three years ago) link
Downloaded the Strive beta on PS4, but it looks like the servers are still down
― Nhex, Saturday, 20 February 2021 00:16 (three years ago) link
they've been down all day afaik but some people have managed to get the offline modes to work by using a secondary account and refusing to register with the servers
this worked for me to get training mode going btw pic.twitter.com/KkifAKsV9Y— cams (@camsteh) February 19, 2021
didn't work for me though
― chihuahuau, Saturday, 20 February 2021 00:48 (three years ago) link
i don't know how i did it exactly, but after online connections weren't working i just mashed buttons and eventually got to the menu
― Nhex, Saturday, 20 February 2021 01:32 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qg8nWyHAB0
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 20 February 2021 20:18 (three years ago) link
Capcom finally made Ryu good in SFV. Probably too good to stay that way, but it'll be fun while it lasts. They also nerfed Guile to the ground. They must really want Daigo Umehara to go back to being a Ryu main.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL0pJDa-ljM
― wasdnuos (abanana), Sunday, 28 February 2021 19:28 (three years ago) link
guilty gear xrd on sale on european psn store for less than €2
💥 Fighting fans!Guilty Gear & Guilty Gear Xrd Rev 2 are both currently massively discounted on the PSN store (literally, we're talking £1 a game here!) Guilty Gear (90% off) 👉 https://t.co/Ao9Q0dkRYqGuilty Gear Xrd Rev 2 (97% off) 👉 https://t.co/JhMdrylzRI pic.twitter.com/HDvRChqpqG— PQube Games (@PQubeGames) March 17, 2021
― chihuahuau, Wednesday, 17 March 2021 19:05 (three years ago) link
Thank you - been vaguely wanting to try GG and that is the right price.
I am a middle aged man with sluggish reactions whose last fighting game love was SNES SFII in the mid-90s & I'd sort of resigned myself to playing Civ, Xcom, a bit of low-intensity Kojima and failing at the Souls series. So I am frankly surprised that I have developed a sudden intense passion for SFV - training, training, then going online, getting the shit kicked out of me repeatedly (& haha watching replays and thinking 'What can I learn from this loss?', like I am some warrior philosopher) but getting immensely high from any win I can scrape off an incompetent, naive leaper.
― woof, Thursday, 18 March 2021 14:33 (three years ago) link
love to hear it!
― Nhex, Thursday, 18 March 2021 14:33 (three years ago) link
sony own evo now?
https://www.sie.com/en/blog/welcoming-evo-into-the-playstation-family/
https://www.evo.gg/press-release
― chihuahuau, Thursday, 18 March 2021 21:15 (three years ago) link
Real shame Death Cargo didn't live up to hype and gameplay is always deleted because it looked great in motionhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl9diPC0zpQhttps://multiplayer.net-cdn.it/thumbs/images/2014/06/05/asb7mv7hyqbcgnpgrnsc_jpg_1400x0_q85.jpg
This beat-em-up is replacing ithttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c698MR8uE7E
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 24 April 2021 18:14 (two years ago) link
What happened with Death Cargo? Kickstarter vaporware?
― Nhex, Saturday, 24 April 2021 23:53 (two years ago) link
I think it's just really poorly managed business and an unplayably buggy game that very few people got to play. Maybe they switched to a beat-em-up because it seemed simpler?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 25 April 2021 00:06 (two years ago) link
Guilty Gear open beta again: https://store.playstation.com/en-us/product/UP0036-CUSA24910_00-GGSTOBTUS0000100
― Tahini Coates (Leee), Friday, 7 May 2021 21:52 (two years ago) link