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PowerUp 2012 | Fighting game tournament | April 13-15
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He's eating everyone.
So this is it for the night, huh? Was hoping to see some KoF, but this is my first time watching this game and it looks really good.
Yeah, I think it's just Vsav for today.
Tonight was Exhibition night. Tourneys start tomorrow, methinks.
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20-20 with winning match being played by twins...
THIS SHIT IS STAGED. 0_0
Edit: That was freaking fast. Felicia is a beast.
Sixfortyfive
He who pursues two rabbits gets two rabbits.
I'll hop on the GGPO room in a little if anyone wants some games. Got to take care of a few quick things for work first.
Spoiler: Solarpowered is actually pretty free to flowchart Hsien-ko.
Not until there's a website telling me so.
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They are running casuals right now. Mar vs Kajoq is pretty tense and high level.
You played me months ago when I couldn't even pushblock or TRH. I expect things to play out a little differently this time lol.
Sixfortyfive
He who pursues two rabbits gets two rabbits.
Man I don't even have GGPO installed on this box yet.
Gimme a minute and I'll be in there mashing out magic series and shit. (I am so noob at this game.)
EDIT: I'm in there. Where you losers at?
Gimme a minute and I'll be in there mashing out magic series and shit. (I am so noob at this game.)
EDIT: I'm in there. Where you losers at?
Sixfortyfive
He who pursues two rabbits gets two rabbits.
Man fuck this game.
StriKeVillain
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Oh man, hope they get Triforce to commentate.
crimzonflame
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Stream is skipping frames for me.
djplaeskool
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Bah. All these venues with cut-rate internet are killing my inner stream monster.
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I guess I really have improved...
Eh, it's not gonna go anywhere until after EVO at worst. It'll have a better chance to prove itself than many other games. Things can still turn around...
I don't really know what to think of the whole SFxTekken situation. It really is one of those games that is more fun to play than it is to watch (where as Marvel at least at high level play is EXTREMELY stressful but fun to watch). Game is really made to be played with Gems and without it you are missing out on a core part of the game.
Beating the dead horse/10
The only thing I want out of PowerUp is if Big Marcus shows up he blows someone on stream with Firebrand unblockable set ups. Other than that, I don't expect this to be too hype of a tournament. I am actually more looking forward to Clockwork's tournament.
Beating the dead horse/10
The only thing I want out of PowerUp is if Big Marcus shows up he blows someone on stream with Firebrand unblockable set ups. Other than that, I don't expect this to be too hype of a tournament. I am actually more looking forward to Clockwork's tournament.
I don't know about SFxT needing gems. It doesn't really bring anything amazing or anything different to the table and even with the tournament patch, it still a pain to select them.
crimzonflame
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Did SFxT bomb sales wise?
What would you rather they play?
Street Fighter EX Plus Alpha would be an improvement.
Seraphinianus
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I would still like to see the technology and strategy the top players would employ using gems. Get some 90% welcome to USA combos going (non-infinite combos of course). Some gems give bonuses on blocking so it might help in dealing with the whole jab, jab, walk up, jab, jab non sense in the game.
Probably wishful thinking but it's still too early to write the game off IMO. And like stated before the game isn't really going anywhere until EVO so might as well put some effort into it.
Ideal would be 2 streams. AE and MvC on one, rest on the other. They're the ones people come to watch anyways.
AE and MVC are usually about the same.
Steve has an infinite if he has gems iirc. I think gems are unexplored right now. IT might really help the game.
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u need Time out young man!!!
Seraphinianus
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Sleep Fighter x Timeout is the general consensus on a mocking name, according to stream chat.
WesternHeretic
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You know Cl0ckw0rk's tournament is SFxT and UMVC3 only too.
So no AE period anywhere.....
Between 150 and 600K ish is what I recall from
NPDs. That's for only one region though, I'd say that's decent. Probably not up to expectations, but we'll only really know until we get total sales numbers.
Also, do stream viewers usually drop with SFxTK comes on? I'm genuinely curious who enjoys watching this stuff if even the SFxTK GAF community is bored to tears of if.
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Is Stunfest already done with AE? If yes then I guess there will be no AE today, damn.
enzo, it sold over 230k at the very least. Even if we give it a optimistic number of 300k, that's very low compared to SF4 and Marvel 3 which had 849k and 798k each respectively. So that's a pretty sharp decline. But I don't think this means trouble for SF5 and Marvel 4 though. Those games will still sell fine IMO. I think it's just SFxT not having the kind of appeal they thought it would.
enzo, it sold over 230k at the very least. Even if we give it a optimistic number of 300k, that's very low compared to SF4 and Marvel 3 which had 849k and 798k each respectively. So that's a pretty sharp decline. But I don't think this means trouble for SF5 and Marvel 4 though. Those games will still sell fine IMO. I think it's just SFxT not having the kind of appeal they thought it would.
I believe it dropped noticeably at NCR despite being the main game. It's just one of the worst tournament games ever. They can't make the timer longer and keep the rounds the same or it'd be too long. Now is obviously horrible. I wish it'd just die already lol.
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I am. I enjoy playing it more. I feel like SFxT had the fundamentals of old games unlike UMVC3 and SF4.
Example...
In Marvel it was always a bad idea to raw tag (90% of the time).
What happens in UMVC3? Raw tags become an overhead and is viable 50% of the time.
In SF4 wake up DP is generally a bad idea.
What happens in SF4? Wake up DP becomes safe and even rather smart when you have meter to FADC.
In SFxT those general rules still apply. Wake up DP tag cancel isn't safe even though it may look like it, and raw tags leads to your character eating 50% damage.
So those old rule that I learned and grew up with still applies and therefor I enjoy playing it. Not only that but if you look at WNF, Big Two, NCR, TNT, and TX Showdown results you noticed that the players who ranked high all are known top players. No disrespect to anyone new but I just like that generally the better player usually wins.
WNF has been pretty much Justin, Floe, Marn, Clakey D, Marn, Mike Ross, Mike Watson, Snake Eyez, Alex Valle.
Big Two has been Chris G, Chris Hu, Dieminon, and Josh Wong when he came.
NCR top 15 out of the top 16 are notables names the only exception was pop187.
So that's my own reasons to why I enjoy SFxT.
I still would like to see gems being added and stages being shorter.
I mean just spectating, I have no problem with people enjoying the game. It's just fundamentally unsuitable for spectating and no amount of patching can change that. Been over this in previous threads. There seems to be a decent consensus on it being a terrible spectator support, which is why I wonder who is actually watching this, especially with the divide it has had in the community beforehand.