On February 05 2014 08:33 Trumpet wrote:
Evo lineup announcement delayed to Thursday. I just wanna know if KoF will be there so I can start saving

It was super hype last year.

pachi

Melbourne5338 Posts

February 05 2014 00:05 GMT

#863

On February 05 2014 08:59 stuchiu wrote:

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It was super hype last year.

Trumpet wouldn't know he missed watching top32

Trumpet

United States1935 Posts

February 05 2014 00:22 GMT

#864

On February 05 2014 09:05 pachi wrote:

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Trumpet wouldn't know he missed watching top32

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still mad about that. if a pool overlaps again this year I'm skipping it.

WindWolf

Sweden11767 Posts

February 05 2014 04:58 GMT

#865

On February 04 2014 15:56 Shikyo wrote:
I have no clue why Marvel is so popular. The same combo, same characters over and over again (Doom, fo-footdive! Vergil, You're going down!) and it's just an incomprehensible mess. It was fun for a few months but meh. KoF even is a lot more difficult.

Never doubt a raccoon!

But on a more serious note, that's also what I thought about Marvel when I saw it first, but after giving it some time, there's lot more going on that just that

Excalibur_Z

United States12235 Posts

February 05 2014 06:15 GMT

#866

For a spectator the only thing boring about Marvel are the combos because a) you've seen these same 10-second-long combos hundreds of times before and b) everyone is at such a high execution level now that a combo guarantees a dead character. The space control and footsies tension is way more exciting because the stakes are so high, and the mixup on incoming characters is so refined now that pretty much the first character to land a hit gains a tremendous advantage. The other really cool part about Marvel is ironically X-Factor, because even though it's a comeback mechanic which so many players started out hating, it's frequently the only way a player will be able to even have a fighting shot due to the prevalence of touch-of-death combos.

Lemstar

United States387 Posts

February 05 2014 10:16 GMT

#867

On February 05 2014 07:25 Cel.erity wrote:
You think? The combos maybe, but there's a lot of character diversity. P4A does get kind of repetitive though.

BlazBlue and Guilty Gear are definitely both tough to follow visually when you have no idea what to look for. (Subjectively, I think that the most popular stages in MvC3 having less stuff going on in the background makes a difference.)

P4A is comparatively easier to follow, but I'm sure you can think of a bunch of reasons it's kind of crummy for spectators.

Noocta

France12578 Posts

February 07 2014 03:24 GMT

#868

EVO 2014 Roster

UMvC 3
USF4
KOF 13
KI
Injustice
BBCP

Apparently Melee is going to be part of it, but Nintendo is late to let them use it.

No 3D games at all is surprising.

Looms

United States4624 Posts

February 07 2014 03:24 GMT

#869

shoutouts to Nintendo trying to stop Melee at EVO for the second year in a row

neurosx

Luxembourg1096 Posts

February 07 2014 03:28 GMT

#870

So. fucking. happy. there's gonna be blazblue. holy shit I'm stocked

Noocta

France12578 Posts

February 07 2014 03:29 GMT

#871

Also, RIP SFxT lol

Trumpet

United States1935 Posts

February 07 2014 03:34 GMT

#872

KoF at evo

SEE YALL THERE

Looms

United States4624 Posts

February 07 2014 03:55 GMT

#873

no one mentioned this yet, but there will also be the first X-Mania tournament(Super Turbo) outside of Japan, so that should be pretty hype. ST was probably my second favorite game at EVO 2012, and that was just for an exhibition tournament.

Cel.erity

United States4890 Posts

February 07 2014 06:56 GMT

#874

Kind of annoyed to see KI as a main game, since I don't think many people play it anymore, and certainly nobody's going to give a shit about it in July. Then again, the turnout will probably be higher than SFxT or Tekken or whatever. P4A still pulls in decent numbers, but I guess they don't want more than one anime game, so that makes sense.

Lemstar

United States387 Posts

February 07 2014 08:21 GMT

#875

Running P4A when BBCP is out would be like running MK9 after Injustice's release.

...Oh, wait.

2xNoodle

United States201 Posts

February 07 2014 08:44 GMT

#876

I don't think that there's a game that's been released and isn't already in the lineup that would get more entrants than KI. The hype has died down some, but not by too much. Either KI or KoF13 will probably be the smallest games at this EVO, but I don't think KI is really stealing a spot from a more deserving game (you can argue for a 3D game just so EVO can have one in the lineup, but the numbers for all those games are really low right now so KI would probably make for a better overall tournament).

Dybdal

Denmark67 Posts

February 07 2014 11:02 GMT

#877

Its really a shame that it had to come to this point with no Tekken at EVO but i think Mr Wizard has had to been looking at the crowd support for the game and realised that there were better options out there.

It just seems to me that the fall of the 3D games has much more to do with how the ones playing the game presented it to the general public more so than the game it self, everything is presented in directions and numbers like Back2+3 and as someone who dosnt know what the hell that means, that makes it really hard to learn the game without playing it yourself. I can remember watching the first EVO SF4 event without ever having touched a fighting game and within the stream hitting the finals i was able to couchcoach the game, noticing when players made mistakes but regardless of how much i watched Tekken i still didnt understand what the hell was going on and why the person winning.. was winnning if that makes sense?

Oh and on that note.. Injustice again? sigh.. that game is so borring

Dybdal

Denmark67 Posts

February 07 2014 11:05 GMT

#878

Oh and as someone allready mentioned.. SF Revival has mainstage again for an event! and this time its X-Mania?. .. DROOOLLLLLLLLL thats going to be soooo good

greenelve

Germany1392 Posts

February 07 2014 11:14 GMT

#879

On February 07 2014 12:24 Looms wrote:
shoutouts to Nintendo trying to stop Melee at EVO for the second year in a row

lol really, what is there explanation this time?

Trumpet

United States1935 Posts

February 07 2014 12:04 GMT

#880

I dont mind injustice being back as it gets a lot of play at US majors and brings in a different community that wouldn't be there otherwise, I just kinda hope it doesn't get that 3rd to last time slot again, cause that really killed the hype last year during the top 8s. That spot belongs to melee imo.