[Sniper Honeyviper]

someone make a fightman with no one but dhalsims and zangiefs

[Isfet]

[P1d40n3]

[analogos]

guess this is mostly @Booter:

I'd also just like to point out that when you say Third Strike or MVC2 isn't balanced because some specific handful of characters utterly dominate the rest of the cast, you have to remember that it took several years for the game to even get that way. I think it's a little ridiculous to hold it against the battle designers that they didn't account for the way the game would look five years down the line, especially considering all the potential contributing factors that ultimately informed its being played that way.

I mean, "lol capcom jus can't balance SHIT!!!" and yet they've remained far and away the games still getting the most play all these years. Where are all those games getting it so much more right, and why aren't they being played? And I don't pose that question to absolve Capcom of all criticism, I'm just genuinely curious what standard of balance anyone might be holding up as a point of comparison.

also yun is good but in general AE is really not that broken

[mauve]

Of course you need a reference point for balance. The strongest characters are those who, by nature of the system's mechanics, play the game to the benefit of the other characters the most. So you can't just make whatever-the-fuck the character, it needs to fit within the context of not just the system, but the other characters that have been created for it as well. Those who fit poorly with either the mechanics or the other characters available are going to be weaker by definition, so you need to decide what your baseline is going to be within that game or you'll end up tuning too hard in one direction or the other.

And I'm not ignoring those steamrolls, that's for sure. X-Factor level 1 or 2 does make the difference between nearly killing someone and completely killing them flat out. But the game would be hopelessly dull without it too, as it stands right now, since the game does need something to compensate for guessing wrong just a couple times in highly controlled situations. Even without deciding to blow it early to kill someone off, you'd still have the same problem of a single reset or okizeme setup causing the same issue. A good example here is any match vs Phoenix will generally involve a lot of resets or snapbacks into setups because long combos build too much meter for the opponent. Too easy to setup pure guessing situations that are in your advantage.

[nothingxs]

[analogos]

I still think SF4 might have benefited from a visible stun meter. An explicit visual indicator of the reward for staying offensive could have potentially gone a long way toward informing the way people play the game and the risks they're willing to take.

on the other hand it'd probably just make folks even more angry about yun

[nothingxs]

A visible stun indicator would've been good and I always wondered why that wasn't kept from 3S. It was one of the smartest features in it.

I've also always been very partial to guard meters; unfortunately, guard break would've worked great in Vanilla. Now it's a terrible idea since offense is so good already.
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kuroda
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[mauve]

http://typemoon.org/products/cp/outline.html

MBAACC PC confirmed.

Revving up the Caster hacking engines here already. I want to get my F-Akiha on.

[BotageL]

Wha--

Fuck, when do I get to place my order? I will force the local Anime Krew to play MB and we'll fucking like it
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[Drem]

[ionustron]

Kinda wish when AE goes Koryu, there'll be a mode where the moves of every character is just put into a massive folder and are doled out to random slots and reset every 4 weeks presumably at the end of a tourney with an ai tabulating player tendencies for no useful reason. It would be horrible but I just want to see more grotesque street fighter models (don't post that Chun-Li fanart please.)

Course I'd be happy if they just made a Blanka dlc costume that looks like that damn action figure.

[1CC]

I want to play Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo, but I don't know which version I should get. What's the consensus on the HD remake? Is it superior to the original and did it replace it in tournament play?
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[P1d40n3]

[BotageL]

[RobotRocker]

Guess what upcoming fighting game is getting a PC port

No, not that one. Or that one either. But you will like this one

Cerebella, Peacock and Filia hats for TF2 please
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Yeeeessssssss

[BotageL]

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[ArOne]

[Deets]

[Sniper Honeyviper]

Hyper SFII was never even considered for being a tournament standard, right? I've read Insert Credit's scathing old review of the game, but can anyone explain more specifically just what was wrong with it? I know they fixed all the glitches.

It has the distinction of being the final CPS2 game, at least (long after the CPS3 died)!

[P1d40n3]

[Pat the Great]

[nothingxs]

CE Bison was absolutely goddamned retarded in that game. There were also some blatantly bizarre bugs (Vega walldives in Super / Super Turbo come to mind).
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[BotageL]

SBO has run a lot of games that really didn't deserve to be there, though.
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[Sniper Honeyviper]

I figured they would've only allowed ST/Super X characters in tournaments? I can imagine the CPS1 characters clashing pretty violently with the CPS2.

[Pijaibros]

CE version Guile and Ryu are also God Tier. can chain jabs/shorts for dizzy and has that Four Fierce combo for another dizzy. Plus that untechable throw damage.

It is stupid retarded. The Hyper Anniversary though nerfed Bison slightly by making a blocked Psycho Crusher do less chip than genuine arcade edition. Yet, he is still so good. Then again if it is an all CE char tournament, well then who cares.

[Persona]

[Sniper Honeyviper]

The early samples of HDR's art looked amazing, but the project was horribly rushed and they had to cut some pretty severe corners. It was far, far too labor-intensive to redraw every frame of animation in that original level of quality.

[BotageL]

[Pat the Great]

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