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Sure would be nice if I could purchase a legit, netplay-capable copy of Melty Blood without having to buy the first pressing limited edition Blu-Ray of a show I don't like!

Because I decided my money was better spent on games I could actually get.
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hey man help us rig up netplay for this game we pirated!

(should give FB the benefit of a little while to improve things themselves, possibly actually sell game to normal people)

in the meantime this project's going okay



needs something to smooth out rough edges/downplay difference in size of stock lexan sheet vs. random wooden craft box found lying around house unloved, and an art insert, and salvaged 360 pad PCB, and rj45 connector for swappable usb/ps2 cords, etc., etc.
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Am I imagining things, or can you air-command-throw someone out of their airguard-stun in Ougon Cross? Chained ground throws are "blocked" if the opponent's already in guardstun... Dlanor's ground command throw can also grab aerial opponents, e.g after a sweep, which looks pretty goofy.

It seems like all grounded normals are air-unblockable anyway! Not sure why the game needed guard for air-to-air attacks, but, now it has it, I guess.

e: gah this game is the gaudiest shit, and the festival stage music makes me wanna choke somebody
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Not shocked, just disappointed.
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What a terrible decision.
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Personally, I think forcing people to play terrible fighting games in a tournament setting is all sorts of fun. But then, I also like to collect bad fighting games. I've paid cash money for games like Golden Phantasia, Big Bang Beat, Touki Denshou ~Angel Eyes~, FX Fighter, Brutal: Paws of Fury, Advanced Variable Geo 2, the PS1 3D SamSho game, and Super Street Fighter 4: Arcade Edition.
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Yeah, I got BBB via you. I think you organized a group buy of that game and Blitzkampf, but I only had so much cash, and I chose unwisely.

Come to think of it, I think I also own Gleam of Force, which I haven't played much. Guess it's in storage with my copy of Higurashi Daybreak.
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I don't believe you.
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Oh my God, Mr. Karate is so anime, it hurts. I really wanna use him now, but I'm not sure who to kick off my team for him!

Other fun moves: you can dash-cancel his C Cobra Strike and do more stuff (EX DP is the really lazy midscreen option). TK Dive Kick looks pretty safe if it's below the waist, and can be drive cancelled into EX Spinkick into juggle. His counter moves warp him in front of the opponent really quickly, midscreen against fireballs it's slight advantage, and it can be Super Cancelled for the low-hanging fruit punishes. And you can easily do c. B x 2, f+A xx C Cobra Strike xx Dash Cancel xx fun juggles from a low! And you can super-jump-cancel like all of his ground normals on hit! WHEE HAW
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The music in the SFxT trailers keeps getting worse.


Pac-Man and American Boxart Megaman are confirmed, by the way

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From reports about recent builds, he's going to be doing Jab Strong Fierce Launcher, or Jab Strong Fierce EX Rush Punch, just like the rest of the cast.
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Shh, you're harshing my harshing-on-SF4-part-5 buzz.
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They're the silhouettes at the end.
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Spooky no stop don't
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VALENTINEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE doesn't have the same ring to it as JEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN
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One of my fightman buddies knows the guys working on Gilden Tide. They didn't really intend for it to be a big deal announcement yet (game's still REALLY early), but sometimes people with more promotional instincts go all-in.
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My favorite derogatory statement toward SFxT is how it looks uncannily like the 1.0 release of the Umineko fighting game.
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Doesn't matter if SFxT is a bad game, it's the new Capcom game and hence the new competitive standard. Better learn it if you want to be a serious player.
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What the fuck?
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Yeah, and enjoy having 1/3rd the turnout and none of the respect. If you wanna play on the highest levels, you need to suck it up and play Capcom games like everyone else.
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Oh, I'm not actually advocating that, I just want to give Ben fits again.

I'd love to see The Capcom Fighting Game Scene branch out, but I fear that it'll only be taken seriously if there's a complete break-off.

e: could've sworn i heard flash was dismissive toward the game. you strap him down and force him to play it or something?
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I don't think Capcom's taking SFxT any more seriously in the Japanese market than they were Marvel 3, because I haven't heard about an arcade release for it.
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Yeah I miss the days when I didn't want to have anything to do with 3/4ths of the people I played these games with, instead of maybe 1/5th of them
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It feels like less of a design decision and more of a necessity of production schedules. We've got all these new characters and they've got backstories and stuff on the website, but none of that comes into play in the game itself at all. Patrokles and Pyrrha are the only characters who do anything in the Story Mode, and their "arc" is anemic and the worst kind of generic anime bullshit. All of the non-animated cutscenes in Story Mode look like they're cleaned-up storyboard sketches of un-produced animated sequences, with timing & sound effects to match.

The actual game feels like Soulcalibur. It's been so long since I've played one of these, I really have no idea what the "feel" of this game is supposed to be anymore. Plus, blocking with a button again feels extremely weird.
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Well, hot damn. I always liked those guys, even if Super Cosplay Wars Ultra wasn't really a good game.
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The Blazblue DLC characters were still in production when they were released for the home version -- ahead of arcades! -- so I give them a pass. All of the other DLC character schemes can go to hell. Including SNK's. Team $15 are very cool & fun characters but there's no fucking reason that they should've cost that, even including the effort of preparing new assets.

And Firenze: $8 isn't a huge cost for a single person. $8 times let's say, conservatively, 8 setups for a larger regional tournament is a lot harder to swallow.
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[BotageL]

soulcalibur 5 has this cool feature where you can output your online replays as MP4 files.

the problem is they look like this:



that's not youtube quality, that's how the source video looks. the frame rate is the best part
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Intentionally holding back four characters for DLC is being cheap/stingy, sorry. That's without even getting into Cody and Guy already being done.
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