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SayaSP
Laos5494 Posts
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Scooter
United States747 Posts
On January 03 2009 10:36 MCMcEmcee wrote: Like freelander said, SBO Jack Sparrow = Mike; don't think SF Inoue plays GG- there's like 2-3 relatively big-name guys named Ino or Inoue who play GG, pretty sure none of them are the 3S Ino(ue). Off the top of my head there's an I-no player (how appropriate, I guess) and an Order Sol player... can't think of a Jam Ino(ue) though. Oh man, my crazy dyslexia confused me. For some reason I thought that Jack Sparrow Jam was Ino -__- SBO '08Was great though, it was great watching Nanashi actually getting some wins in. His rush down Venom is so damn awesome to watch. I wanted to see a bit more Woshige though + Show Spoiler + and the OCV final game was disappointing. Wanted to see another N.o or Dogura game. Ahh well, this next SBO I'm gonna be trying to qualify for Tatsunoko SBO in Japan though, I'm gonna be studying abroad soon and hopefully I'll be able to level up against players over there. The Marvel scene up here gave Tatsunoko a try and only maybe a third of them feel like giving it any effort. I flew over to New York this Christmas break and played a couple games with JWong and Demon Hyo and I think if I got into the scene in Japan I'd maybe have a 2-5% chance of qualifying. | ||
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H
New Zealand6138 Posts
fuck yeah, I'm totally heading out there tomorrow to spend ridiculous amounts of cash-money on scrubbing people out with liberal usage of Blood Kain and Yami no Kuwarero | ||
pachi
Melbourne5338 Posts
On January 05 2009 09:06 H wrote: OH SHIIIIIIIIIIITTTTTT I JUST FOUND OUT MY ARCADE HAS BLAZBLUE fuck yeah, I'm totally heading out there tomorrow to spend ridiculous amounts of cash-money on scrubbing people out with liberal usage of Blood Kain and Yami no Kuwarero impossible, i think you're dreaming again. (overseas, driveby hate) | ||
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H
New Zealand6138 Posts
 disclaimer: I will only actually be playing BlazBlue | ||
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pachi
Melbourne5338 Posts
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SayaSP
Laos5494 Posts
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Trumpet
United States1935 Posts
On January 04 2009 12:06 Scooter wrote: Ahh well, this next SBO I'm gonna be trying to qualify for Tatsunoko SBO in Japan though, I'm gonna be studying abroad soon and hopefully I'll be able to level up against players over there. The Marvel scene up here gave Tatsunoko a try and only maybe a third of them feel like giving it any effort. I flew over to New York this Christmas break and played a couple games with JWong and Demon Hyo and I think if I got into the scene in Japan I'd maybe have a 2-5% chance of qualifying. $1,000 to the American that wins TvC at SBO. It may be more worth practicing than you realize ^^ Link. | ||
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SayaSP
Laos5494 Posts
Cammy vs Feilong Gen vs Rose (Not in HD cause service is whack ya) | ||
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Ginseng
United States268 Posts
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Bill307
Canada9103 Posts
It's like, I'm getting my ass handed for me for pretty much the entire match, and I'm thinking to myself "oh man I'm gonna lose this for sure", but somehow I get a few hits in and I win!  | ||
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anotak
United States1537 Posts
On January 07 2009 06:27 Bill307 wrote: Playing Tager is such a strange experience for me, btw. It's like, I'm getting my ass handed for me for pretty much the entire match, and I'm thinking to myself "oh man I'm gonna lose this for sure", but somehow I get a few hits in and I win! well if he's the zangief of that game (which as i recall he is (not that I've played blazblue or even watched more than 2 minutes of footage of it)) that would make a lot of sense | ||
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MCMcEmcee
United States1609 Posts
On January 07 2009 06:27 Bill307 wrote: Playing Tager is such a strange experience for me, btw. It's like, I'm getting my ass handed for me for pretty much the entire match, and I'm thinking to myself "oh man I'm gonna lose this for sure", but somehow I get a few hits in and I win! You aren't losing till you're dead if you're Tager with any kind of meter or full magnet bar D: | ||
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freelander
Hungary4707 Posts
and backdashbuster ofcourse. | ||
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MCMcEmcee
United States1609 Posts
Then again a lot of new moves in BR seem kinda haphazard. Overall seems to be slightly less stupid in terms of damage, but more stupid in terms of character coherence; having a big set of generic customization options doesn't mean every character has to take a move from another character~ Still, we'll see. Don't get BR here for a few weeks anyhow, maybe I'll be like "omg Hwoarang stomp is the best move ever" after trying it out. Doubtful. | ||
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freelander
Hungary4707 Posts
shallow, uninteresting | ||
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SayaSP
Laos5494 Posts
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H
New Zealand6138 Posts
On January 07 2009 08:54 MCMcEmcee wrote: Surely he could have gotten something like, oh, I dunno, a move that actually tracks well? He has a new tracking move in BR, right? I dunno about the "well" part of the criteria, though. From what I read on TZ it's apparently crap So I played BlazBlue today, and learned a multitude of things! I will now impart to you my new-found knowledge. Learning stick execution on a new game when you've never invested serious time into it is retardedly expensive and a very stupid idea. When I arrived at the arcade, the BB machines were unoccupied. I was like "Sweet, time to embarrass myself in front of the six people watching the guy playing SF4 next to me". So I picked Ragna, colour 6.. ![[image loading]](http://i39.tinypic.com/hu3via.jpg) and gave arcade mode a try. I spent two rounds against CPU Carl doing 214A, 214D and trying to remember combos (all that came to mind was 5B, 5C, 5D, 214A, 214D). Also, obligatory self-imposed rule of fighting characters with a puppet/summon: kill the summon. So I beat the shit out of Nirvana and then the little boy accompanying her and fought Noel. I beat her uneventfully (lots of INFERNO DIVAIDAH though) and then faced Tager. I very quickly discovered that the opposite of what Bill said is also extremely true. On January 07 2009 06:27 Bill307 wrote: Playing Tager is such a strange experience for me, btw. It's like, I'm getting my ass handed for me for pretty much the entire match, and I'm thinking to myself "oh man I'm gonna lose this for sure", but somehow I get a few hits in and I win! Ragna actually has the second lowest life out of all the cast, with a total of 9000 (Carl is the only one with lower - 8500. Tager has 13000). A Tager combo will commonly do upwards of 4k. You can probably see where this is going. Anyway, I didn't lose to Tager because someone happened to challenge me right then! He picked Noel and proceeded to pretty much roll me over, with me practising Gauntlet Hades/Hell's Fang/Inferno Divider movements in between the rolling. Every so often I got off a combo that was 6-12 hits but it was never enough to win the match. I took a break after losing six or seven times to grab a drink from Burger King and study the paper I'd written Ragna combos on the night before. I returned to the arcade remembering about an extra three combos. When I returned, there was nobody there again so I decided to have another go. I slip in my 2 dollars (extortion) and am instantly challenged by an Arakune player. Fuck. It actually came down REALLY close, I was pretty careful about dodging the unblockable cloud and getting my hits in where it counted (and where my hands let me). I took the first round with liberal usage of Blood-Kained 5D, Dash Cancel, 5D, DC, 5D, DC, etc. Shout out to 3MC for being a Blood Kain revolutionist. The second round didn't go as well, but it was close enough that I could tell the gap in skill between us was much smaller than the gap between the Noel player and I (or maybe Noel is just easier). The third round was pretty much a battle of epic proportions, two mythical beasts battling it out for supremacy. Only neither of us was very mythical. Or beastly. Or even supreme. So I guess it was nothing like that, really. The match was pretty hype and it all came down to whether my super was going to hit or not. Neither of us had visible life (I'd used Blood Kain earlier in the match and it drains your life at a steady pace), I was cursed by Arakune, and he was on the other side of the screen. This was a terrible situation to be in. I thought "What would Justin Wong do?" and I was struck by inspiration! I fullscreen supered only to have it blocked and was promptly 5A'd to death. Oh well, nobody could fault me for trying. After that some technicians came around and asked us to get off the machines so they could unlock Hakumen. As it turns out, the Arakune player was a dude from a New Zealand fighting game community site I sometimes go to. We talked for a little bit about how I had no stick, why learning execution at the arcade sucked, and this other dude who had just arrived. Apparently he had a sick Ragna and a pretty good Tager as well. The game had apparently been out for two months at this point so I figured it wasn't implausible that this guy was actually good at the game. The techs finally unlocked Hakumen and I sat back down to play. So did the aforementioned Ragna/Tager player. We both picked Hakumen to check it was working properly and I basically won using a lot of 214 motions and button pressing. Also ink-kicks. If you don't know what I'm referring to, Hakumen has these kicks that have that SF4 trailer effect where ink seems to follow every movement. I scrubbed him out after figuring out some terrible combo that did like 2500 damage because Hakumen does ridiculous damage. Then he picked Tager, and the lesson began. Bill's words hazily floated to the top of my mind as they rang true again and again. I never really got close to taking more than one round. Also: throw-breaking is a lot harder than it looks when you're actually playing the game instead of watching a video. I take pride in the fact I was able to throw him and activate Blood Kain in time to spam lots of 5D, though. Anyway, I basically got rolled and it wouldn't be very interesting to write about losing 7 matches in a row so I decided to go play 3S to practise my execution. I picked Ken and basically shoryu/hadoken/tatsu'd my way through CPU opponents. After that, I returned to the BlazBlue machine to find the Tager player was still there and beasting some Hakumen player. I decided I'd had enough for one day and returned home. Tangentially related note, crowded buses suck when you're 6'3". | ||
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Trumpet
United States1935 Posts
On January 07 2009 15:14 H wrote: I slip in my 2 dollars (extortion) and am instantly challenged by an Arakune player. $2 per match!? That's insane, skip a day of that at the arcade and you'll have enough for a stick | ||
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Bill307
Canada9103 Posts
 Did you get mercy rounds? I found those to be extremely helpful when I was first learning fighting games (namely 3s) and playing on an arcade stick. They're a great opportunity to practice your execution. lol @ Tager never being in a "losing" position as long as he has metre and charge. Honestly, I can't argue against that. Edit: waitwaitwait, $2 per match?! O_O | ||
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