Slutty
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Post by Slutty on Jan 28, 2013 22:51:01 GMT -5
If you couldn't tell from my sig and avatar, I like fighting games. Well, more like, I love fighting games. Definitely my favorite genre. Any fighting gurus in here? Lately I've been playing Virtua Fighter 5 Showdown like crazy. Probably my 2nd favorite series.
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Post by shiningphantasy on Jan 29, 2013 2:20:59 GMT -5
I like fighting games for quick burst sessions of play, but I am not as skilled as I used to be in the nineties when I frequented the arcades and practiced a lot more. I don't have any current generation consoles/portables however I was already content with the multitude of fighting games that I have across PS2 and PSP to continue buying new releases. I already have most of the SNK collections for PS2, VF4 Evolution, both Street Fighter Collections for PS2, Guilty Gear Accent Core XX, Tekken 6 on PSP, and Darkstalkers Chronicle for PSP, as well as a Street Fighter Anniversary stick and Tekken Arcade Stick, so fairly well-rounded.
Problem is that I can never find the time to actually sit down and hone my skills in a sustained fashion.
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Post by Slutty on Jan 29, 2013 7:21:58 GMT -5
I like fighting games for quick burst sessions of play, but I am not as skilled as I used to be in the nineties when I frequented the arcades and practiced a lot more. I don't have any current generation consoles/portables however I was already content with the multitude of fighting games that I have across PS2 and PSP to continue buying new releases. I already have most of the SNK collections for PS2, VF4 Evolution, both Street Fighter Collections for PS2, Guilty Gear Accent Core XX, Tekken 6 on PSP, and Darkstalkers Chronicle for PSP, as well as a Street Fighter Anniversary stick and Tekken Arcade Stick, so fairly well-rounded. Problem is that I can never find the time to actually sit down and hone my skills in a sustained fashion. Yeah my fighting game collection for ps2 is pretty large as well. That was "the" fighting game console to have during that gen, and I would say ps3 is the same now. Most of them are on xbox as well, but something just doesn't seem right. I use a stick for every fighting game except MK9, I don't know what it is about that one but it just doesn't feel right for some reason. But I have had to try playing MK9 on an xbox controller and it sucks. Also the reason I think ps3 is still the console for fighting games is all the great psn exclusive fighting games like Arcana Heart 3 and Battle Fantasia. My advice man if you want to get into them a little more, because you obviously like them, go pick up a used model 1 ps3 when the model 3 drops, the prices are no doubt going to go down on those and they will be pretty affordable.
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Post by ShinobiMan on Jan 29, 2013 9:52:34 GMT -5
Love fighting games. Never been a champ of any (except maybe Street Fighter VS. X-Men... I for some reason killed in that game). Before I relaunched this site, my friends (who are collaborators on SMS.com) and I made a few videos in a series called Game Scan TV. It was our hope to somehow get picked up for television, but those plans never panned out. One of the vids we did was all about BlazBlue: Continuum Shift II and It's USA arcade debut. You might want to check that out!
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Post by Slutty on Jan 29, 2013 12:21:53 GMT -5
That's pretty cool. First time I played Blazblue was at Quakecon before it was out. For some reason they had a venue there. Which was also the year I got my 10 minutes of fame. I played in 3 Street Fighter 4 Tournaments. Two were at Quakecon and I placed 2nd and 3rd if I'm remembering right. Then I played in the Street Fighter 4 tournament at Screwattack's game store grand opening called Game Attack, and I won 1st place at that one. Won a Madcatz TE arcade stick.
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Post by jessie on Jan 31, 2013 19:20:54 GMT -5
It's a great genre. I played the poo poo out of Mortal Combat, (all of them) Tekken, Street Fighter, Marvel vs, etc. I am a little rusty but I do enjoy them.
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Post by Slutty on Feb 1, 2013 14:57:37 GMT -5
Probably my least favorite fighting games are Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 and the Soul Calibur series.
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Post by shiningphantasy on Feb 1, 2013 15:23:34 GMT -5
I agree about those two games that you don't care for; Soul Calibur on the surface seems like a premiere fighting game and it is high quality technically speaking; in spite of liking many of the character designs the gameplay just gets stale and boring to me and never holds much of a shelf life; I decided after SC 2 that I wouldn't invest in that franchise any further.
I enjoyed the first Marvel vs. Capcom well enough but after that the action on screen just became too crazy and over-the-top for my liking.
One game that I had a lot of fun with and that was streamlined a bit from the usual and featured a more open play style was Fighters Megamix for Sega Saturn.
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Post by Slutty on Feb 1, 2013 23:16:08 GMT -5
I agree about those two games that you don't care for; Soul Calibur on the surface seems like a premiere fighting game and it is high quality technically speaking; in spite of liking many of the character designs the gameplay just gets stale and boring to me and never holds much of a shelf life; I decided after SC 2 that I wouldn't invest in that franchise any further. I enjoyed the first Marvel vs. Capcom well enough but after that the action on screen just became too crazy and over-the-top for my liking. One game that I had a lot of fun with and that was streamlined a bit from the usual and featured a more open play style was Fighters Megamix for Sega Saturn. You should try Fighting Vipers if you haven't already. I really wish that would have caught on more. Well I feel about the same as you do when it comes to Soul Calibur. I played the 2nd one quite a bit and didn't bother with 3. I played 4 for awhile and didn't really have an opinion and then I gave 5 a fair chance and it was the most god awful mechanics and broken down mess of a fighting game I have ever played. Since I tried to erase it from my memory, I am a little fuzzy on the details, but definitely made me drop the series all together. As far as MvC 1 goes. I loved the first one. The 2nd one was a lot of fun simply because of the outrageous amount of characters, the new shifting mechanic, crazy ultra combo. But the thing that killed it was it was completely broken, and I do believe this was on accident. However, the 2nd one because so notorious for this that it seems they decided to make that a tradition by purposefully making 3 the most unbalanced broken fighting game with way too many unnecessary elements and absent of any necessary elements, which really killed it for me. Which is sad, because I did want to like it.
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Post by shiningphantasy on Feb 2, 2013 1:30:18 GMT -5
I took a quick look at MVC 2 when it was in the arcade and was deterred by the multiple fighting engines/variations that were available after choosing each character; I just don't wish to spend that much time re-learning gameplay concepts from scratch--especially at fifty cents a try and with expert players waiting for anyone who dares approach the machine--so I decided to stick with more familiar fighting games that I was already well versed with.
That is the thing with fighting games for the present; the entries of the 90's already had a wealth of content/characters/strategy that could keep players occupied indefinitely (As long as you don't mind the "dated" visuals, but I happen to like them) and thus I don't feel the inclination to move onto current generation when there is not that much new ground to break; and the nonsense of downloadable content that used to be part of the package now being tacked on later for a price is cause for me to stay away.
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Post by Slutty on Feb 2, 2013 7:29:47 GMT -5
I took a quick look at MVC 2 when it was in the arcade and was deterred by the multiple fighting engines/variations that were available after choosing each character; I just don't wish to spend that much time re-learning gameplay concepts from scratch--especially at fifty cents a try and with expert players waiting for anyone who dares approach the machine--so I decided to stick with more familiar fighting games that I was already well versed with. That is the thing with fighting games for the present; the entries of the 90's already had a wealth of content/characters/strategy that could keep players occupied indefinitely (As long as you don't mind the "dated" visuals, but I happen to like them) and thus I don't feel the inclination to move onto current generation when there is not that much new ground to break; and the nonsense of downloadable content that used to be part of the package now being tacked on later for a price is cause for me to stay away. Yeah I hear you on that. The one screwing players over the most is Capcom what with the dlc. I suggest doa or virtua fighting. The only dlc for those is costumes and those don't effect the gameplay so it's up to the player if they want them. As a matter of fact, Team Ninja stated they will not do dlc characters because it is a disadvantage for anyone who cannot afford them.
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