Yeah sorry, its Makoto and then uh, is it Mu-12 or something? I know theres supposed to be one character that can sorta compete but is a clear Yang/Fei to Makoto's Yun.

Demoninja

United States1190 Posts

July 05 2011 10:21 GMT

#465

I picked this game up again and then quit. I press buttons for 30 seconds with lambda and then I look at their life and they took 10%. My friend hits me with a random poke that leads into 60% as Makoto.

Lucumo

6850 Posts

July 05 2011 10:34 GMT

#466

On July 05 2011 18:55 Zlasher wrote:
Yeah sorry, its Makoto and then uh, is it Mu-12 or something? I know theres supposed to be one character that can sorta compete but is a clear Yang/Fei to Makoto's Yun.

Nope. More like Makoto, Noel and Jin/Hazama.

On July 05 2011 19:21 Demoninja wrote:
I picked this game up again and then quit. I press buttons for 30 seconds with lambda and then I look at their life and they took 10%. My friend hits me with a random poke that leads into 60% as Makoto.

60%? That wasn't a random poke then. Also, he isn't too bad at doing the combos then+you are terrible.
Arakune can do a 80% combo

Merany

France890 Posts

July 05 2011 11:15 GMT

#467

Wanted to buy a fighting game a month or so ago and I picked BB purely because of the graphics that I find awesome (I'm a total noob so no idea if the gameplay would fit me). I'm trying to learn Jin right now and I have to say, it's really freakin hard, I have so much trouble doing the combos...
I also enjoy quite a lot pro-players matches, the site Dustloop has quite a lot of them as well as some good tutorials. Gonna train harder if I have some free time this summer

CyuntiyuL

Canada1740 Posts

July 05 2011 16:44 GMT

#468

Lambda is one of the more complex characters in the game while Makoto has magic series combos that do stupid damage. You wouldn't pick-up SF4 playing Dhalsim and quit because some Cammy/Yun ran all over you, would you?

This is why Blazblue has such a small scene in NA. Everyone thinks x is broken or y is broken when in reality the game is far more balanced than the rest of the fighting games released this year. Then you have the new fighting game players who started with SF4 and think Blazblue is too hard because there's not as much input leniency and they can't mash dp, and the old school gamers who played Guilty Gear and say Blazblue is too easy because not everything in the game is a 1-frame link.

Even if all of the above doesn't apply, they see it's an anime fighter and are immediately turned off by it claiming anyone who plays it is a "weeaboo".

Shiragaku

Hong Kong4308 Posts

July 05 2011 17:19 GMT

#469

Hmmm...I am not too sure about the game being balanced...at the very top, it seemed like Jin and Noel performed rather poorly overall until CS II came out. But I really cannot say anyone is really broken, but the "broken characters" seem to be just as overpowered as Protoss in D rank.

Demoninja

United States1190 Posts

July 05 2011 17:57 GMT

#470

Obviously what I posted was a slight exaggeration. I'm gonna go ahead and say the real reason I quit is twofold. Using a character I like is not enjoyable and there aren't many people to play against.

1. The reason you listed. What's the point of trying to play a game when you're 1 of 3 players and the other 2 just pick Makoto because she's the best character in the game. Why should I even bother trying to pull through with the one character I like when my local competition just plays someone that's a lot easier to shine with?

And just to answer your question I certainly would quit if I played Sim and the only two local players played Cammy and Yun. Now that I think about it a little bit I wouldn't quit. I certainly would pick another character though and that's not really an option for me in BB seeing how I don't like any other character design.

2. Why am I going to put time and effort into a game when there's next to no competition. Playing the same few people over and over and knowing that you won't find tons of players no matter where you go makes it a bit eh for me. I play games I don't like such as SSF4:AE just because a lot of other people play it.

CyuntiyuL

Canada1740 Posts

July 05 2011 21:09 GMT

#471

I agree with you, but that's the problem. Everyone has the same mentality, so no one ends up actually playing the game. As for local competition, that's a legit reason to drop a game. Online can only go so far. Overall, your first post just made it seem like you quit because you couldn't do combos with one of the more difficult characters in the game which makes you seem like a scrub. : p

There's only one other guy in my local scene that plays BB, but he moved away last weekend. I don't really play it seriously anymore as AE is where all the competition is at now, but I still register for it at the few tournaments where it actually gets hosted.

r_con

United States824 Posts

July 20 2011 15:18 GMT

#472

so i finally picked this game up last couple weeks and was gonna play bang because his combos felt right. Then i got the update....... can't play bang anymore. they took off wallbounce properties of his 623 B at midscreen and they made his 5b alot weaker. I also just dont like his rushdown anymore due to the nerf to nails. also.. 2 c i think they nerfed a little, not sure.

So i tried to play him, and i found that he wasn't the character for me anymore. I tried makoto, but she didn't feel right. Also tried valkenhayn cause i though he would play like slayer.... not really. I tried ragna, and it didn't feel right, his mixup options were meh, and his damage output was kind of meh.

I like rushdown characters, but for some reason, bang doesn't feel right.... So Now I'm practicing Jin.Getting his bnb down and stuff, as well as hit confirm 5c counter hits into massive damage

I just wish i could have slayer/testament/eddie/potemkin/sol though : (

I MISS SLAYER!

MichaelEU

Netherlands816 Posts

October 01 2011 11:11 GMT

#473

Hey guys, I was thinking of entering this BB tournament.

http://www.redfightdistrict.com/home.htm

Not to win but just for fun. Actually, I only played CT and not CS and I can't say I was very good at it. So I'm probably gonna get a copy of CS and dust off my PS3 for this. Any things I should watch to get some sort of idea of how the competitive state is atm? I did watch a lot of BB when it was streamed at EVO.

I wanted to enter the SFIV tourney too but they play it on the 360 and I play with the controller.

zalz

Netherlands3704 Posts

October 01 2011 15:09 GMT

#474

Blazblue, ugh it's been a while since i got to play it.

I do recall only being good at Iron Tager and later discovering he was universally considered the worst character in the game but considering i wasn't exactly aiming for pro's that didn't matter much. He just comboed so smoothly imo.

Hoping they release a new version soon, might spike up my intrest again. A proper sequel that is ofcourse.

Dice17

United States520 Posts

June 04 2012 01:02 GMT

#475

Hey I just played the very first blazblue for the ps3 and it made me want to get continuum shift extend does anyone that still plays this thinks it is worth getting? I want to be able to have all the characters and I know that on the normal continuum shift they are all dlcs that cost a lot of money.

Any advice would be nice

CaffeineFree-_-

United States712 Posts

August 06 2012 01:14 GMT

#476

I thought about dropping this game after all the milking with CS, and with DoA5, TT2 and P4A coming out soon..but not now.

I..just..alsohdalksjdl;adjagjzkbdklabd,a :D :D :D

Cel.erity

United States4890 Posts

March 29 2013 16:52 GMT

#477

Anyone still alive in this thread? My attempts to revive the Guilty Gear thread on TL have failed.

I've been playing BBCSE a lot more lately. It's a good time to get into the series, since BBCP will be coming out later this year, and the current iteration goes for like $10-15 used. I'm not great, but feel free to post questions here or add me on PSN (ItsCelerity) and I'll help as much as I can.

blackone

Germany1314 Posts

March 29 2013 17:36 GMT

#478

Is it true that the console version of the next one is going to be PS3 only? I wanted to try and get into blazblue, but if the Xbox 360 version is dead in 6 months it's not really worth it.

Cel.erity

United States4890 Posts

March 29 2013 17:47 GMT

#479

On March 30 2013 02:36 blackone wrote:
Is it true that the console version of the next one is going to be PS3 only? I wanted to try and get into blazblue, but if the Xbox 360 version is dead in 6 months it's not really worth it.

It hasn't been confirmed, but I would be surprised if it didn't get released for 360. You're right that the 360 online scene is way more dead than PS3, but sales of CSE were about equal between platforms, and more people play P4A online on 360, so I assume a 360 online scene will exist for BBCP.