Fighters Discussion

[Femto]

Tekken is terrible.

Period.

[Libaax]

What your fav series ?


I only care about Soul Calibur.


The rest i dont bother with other than trying every new Tekken once or twice.

[Femto]

3D: Soul Calibur

2D: 3rd Strike

[Buzkashi]

3D: Battle Arena Toshinden

2D: Street Fighter : The Movie

[DarkenRahlX]

Third Strike and Virtua Fighter 4 Evo.

[Libaax]

Third Strike whats that?


Is out on PSP or PS2?

Just wondering have seen some 2d fighters out these days.

[Ayanami]

Street Fighter III 3rd Strike is what he is refereing to.

It is the best fighting game period if you ask me.

I like VF, Tekken and Soulcalibur. I have to say Soulcalibur is my favorite though. Wish SoulCalibur 3 hit arcades before it hit home.

[DarkenRahlX]

The arcade version is awesome. Doesn't play anything at all like the home version. Like you said. The arcade version should have been released on to consoles.

[Libaax]

Oh i have seen some SF collection, might find Third Strike.




Heh cant even imagine how it is to play fighting game in arcade. We dont have stuff like that here.

[Femto]

3D: Battle Arena Toshinden

2D: Street Fighter : The Movie

Hardy har har, Buzkashi.

Hardy har har.

[Malvado]

Toshiden was my first 3D fighter that I owned. Was a great experience even if simple and unbalanced. David from 3 was awesome.

[ShinigamiGuts]

Oh i have seen some SF collection, might find Third Strike.




Heh cant even imagine how it is to play fighting game in arcade. We dont have stuff like that here.

Collection comes with SF1, and 3rd strike.

[DarkenRahlX]

I got Hokuto no Ken yesterday in the mail.

-Hokuto no ken's animation is horrible.

-Music is composed nicely but the quality is like a 16 bit game.

-Backgrounds are sloppy.

-I suck at this game.

-Raoh is a bitch.

Edit: Getting used to the game. It's pretty okay.

[Tempest]

Ayanami got his copy in the mail yesterday and a few of us played it for a couple of hours before "House" came on. I pretty much agree with Darken's take on it. Even I can tell the animation is bad in this game, and that's saying something. I mean Christ, Raoh's cape has litterally two frames of animation. TWO. And yeah, the music sounds like it was nicely done but the quality of the sound is just off, partly IMO because in the sound edits Voices and SFX are at level 100ish and the music is at almost 60 (Out of like 150 or something) so that was changed in short order.

Even with those going against it I managed to find the game very enjoyable. I already know I will end up liking it more than I do Guilty Gear. It just saddens me that the game had so much potential in many different areas and Arc Works just got sloppy. I guess it was taking up too much of the time they had set up for the 18th reiteration of Guilty Gear X2.

Points to Ponder:

1.) I know Toki is a top tier character. I've seen videos, I've heard people's rants about him. Playing him and watching the others play him I just don't see it. I mean, Shin, Raoh and Rei's abilities are very apparent after a match or two. This guy has to be the least intuitive character in any fighting game I've ever played. But alas, someone in our group is going to learn him, and bust out an infinite combo, and all Hell will break loose.

2.) Why is completing (Or better yet, comboing into) a Fatal KO perhaps the most gratifying thing I've ever done in a fighting game?

[Malvado]

Even with those going against it I managed to find the game very enjoyable. I already know I will end up liking it more than I do Guilty Gear. It just saddens me that the game had so much potential in many different areas and Arc Works just got sloppy. I guess it was taking up too much of the time they had set up for the 18th reiteration of Guilty Gear X2.

Blame the former Capcom Street fighter employee's.

[Ayanami]

-I suck at this game.

Same here. Hakuto no Ken kicks my ass and makes my thumb hurt.

It is better than Guilty Gear and Melty Blood as far as gameplay goes.

[DarkenRahlX]

I play as Toki, Raoh and Ken. I can see why Toki is top tier. He can dish out so much damage in such a small amount of time. His dash super is so easy to link at the end of a combo. Only thing that sucks about his is that I think his fatal KO is easy to escape from.

But yeah, every time I get a fatal KO... it get my chest pumping man. Especially when I do one with Raoh or Ken. I think it has alot to do with the music that plays when I'm executing the move. For some odd reason I love that song.

[Ayanami]

Toki's fatal KO is retarded easy to combo being a beam and all.

I play Mamiya, Kenshiro, and Thouther mostly.

[DarkenRahlX]

How do you combo in Fatal K.O.'s? Every time I try to it always does the HK+HP attack instead.

[Ayanami]

How do you combo in Fatal K.O.'s? Every time I try to it always does the HK+HP attack instead.

I suck at the game, combo in to any fatal is nigh impossible for me. But I will tell ya what I have seen.

It has to do with learning to combo the HK+HP attack with what ever ya got going on. Once the opponent is flying against the wall, he can't do shit, and you can bang him up against the wall multiple times with certain attacks. All ya gotta do is bang them against the wall once and land the Fatal really. I just have not found an easy way to combo the HK+HP yet.

Hope that helps...

[Tempest]

I think it has alot to do with the music that plays when I'm executing the move. For some odd reason I love that song.

I was thinking the same thing. Even though the affromentioned quality issue is there, that song is just so Goddamn epic it doesn't even matter.

As for comboing into Fatal KO's, if what I've seen for Japanese Tournaments is worth anything, the safest way to do it is to do a move that wall bounces your opponent and follow it up by boosting right up to them and doing the move. Also, I put it into practice mode at AYanami's and was able to combo into Rei's KO with just low kick, punch, FKO (I was up in super-close, sexual range though, so it probably only works there)

If it helps at all, here's a Japanese Tournament vid (2 Parts) I found on YouTube. The video quality isn't that great and the announcer/crowd is annoying at times, but you can see some great combos and strategies (Like how important comboing is for Souther when it comes to taking off Stars). The Wall Bounce-->FKO is there mulitple times, in fact in the first match (Souther V Souther) you see one guy do it wrong, and in the next match the other guys does it right.

[DarkenRahlX]

Doujin Games:

Big Bang Beat: http://rapid.vis.ne.jp/NRF/Products/BBB/index.html

The game does have air recovery. They were just trying to make things look cool. This game hasn't been released yet. Play testing will be going down this week and on April 30th.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kG6y0o16SPk

Monster: http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/8105/

Furries duking it out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKS5iOwGYA4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EL_qr-m2BZU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiINY9OJ5b8


Hinokakera:

IF this 3D fighter came out during the PSX era I would have creamed myself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByupEQJevgI

Here are their finishers I guess. The game slowed down during the video capturing process for some reason.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD4kS084xuQ

[Syoyohara]

I played Hokuto no ken and it is rough. Does anyone know if the ps2 version is a pure port because I hear that Toki might have been nerfed from the arcade version(even though if he was it did not stop me from getting owned all night by his talents).

[Tempest]

Does anyone know if the ps2 version is a pure port because I hear that Toki might have been nerfed from the arcade version

All that I've heard is that the changes are "Minor tweaks", but I do think includes changing some of Toki's stuff, which is fine by me because I've seen a bunch of arcade videos of infinite combos he has. If that is the case it's not "nerfing" it's "fixing".

[lon3vvolf]

Pocket Gem Fighter FTW!