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[Fersis]

The @MadCatz final sale before EVO ends tomorrow at midnight (PST) ! Don't miss out! Everybody's got a price! - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeBK6PVTRd8

<3

BTW it was nice meeting a lot of GAF at the event! Nice seeing everyone. <3

Thank you!


Also, Mago lost his passport, we're trying our best to take care of him. Since we can't find his passport and EVO is so close, he will be staying in SoCal

For realz the FGC is the damn best. Lost your passport? Dont worry we'll shelter you for a month.

 

[SDBurton]

The @MadCatz final sale before EVO ends tomorrow at midnight (PST) ! Don't miss out! Everybody's got a price! - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeBK6PVTRd8

<3

BTW it was nice meeting a lot of GAF at the event! Nice seeing everyone. <3

Thank you!


Also, Mago lost his passport, we're trying our best to take care of him. Since we can't find his passport and EVO is so close, he will be staying in SoCal

You guys are so damn awesome.

 

[toddhunter]

Awesome for Mago too. He may be able to level up a bit in that time.

 

[GotchaForce]

I had an amazing time. It was my first major I attended and was kinda awestruck to be in the same room with everyone I've been seeing on streams for the last few years. I thanked MarkMan, UltraChen, Jebailey and Spooky for all their hard work. I told Mike Ross after the event that "I've mained Honda since SF2, watched Cross Counter since the first episode, I lost ten bucks to Air betting on you but you're still my favorite player" and got a good laugh out of him. I held my own in the VF5:FS side tourney and wasn't free even though I was nervous as hell. Going was kinda out of the blue but I'm really glad I went and can't wait to go to EVO in a few weeks.

 

[SolarPowered]

From a player perspective, the overlap sucks because people don't take the game as seriously as they do other games. When time comes to take a game seriously, people will pick one game over the other, and games like Skullgirls or KOF will be pushed to the side. When people decide to host smaller tournaments or monthlies, it will be Skullgirls and KOF that will be relegated to a corner. Majors are one thing, but I was seriously surprised at the number of entrants for Skullgirls and KOF because of how small those games are in Florida until I went to CEO. There were 4 casual stations for Skullgirls and KOF. By the beginning of Sunday, the Skullgirls casual station was completely empty and although Mago, TheAnswer, and Romance were playing KOF, there was probably one person, if any, in line for each casual station. Compare this to Momochi or Daigo, where there were massive lines of people trying to get games in with them. That's why it sucks from a player perspective.

Casual stations are not something I've given much mind to at tournaments. It just seems like people with varied tastes are very good for tournaments because they put more money into it per game as opposed to specialists that only come and pay for one game(which is totally okay).

I also don't think that is entirely true. Lots of people have picked two or three games at majors as of late and they've done really well. Picking a couple of games is very different from stretching yourself thin with four or five. Skullgirls is close enough to the versus series in mechanics that it can actually help develop your game further as a player. I find multiple game experience to be a strong asset and it seems like a logical plus for tournaments from a player perspective, money perspective and community perspective. Lots of notable players like Chris G, Justin and Combofiend have a long history with all kinds of games. Hell, even Daigo dabbled in Guilty Gear at one time. Other players like Spooky(pretty decent at Mahvel) even have a background with pretty obscure games like melty which kept him active in the scene.

Why do you think the overlap of these games will last forever? It didn't last with MK9. It's already disappearing with SCV (although that game is a 3D game so it makes more sense). I'm not saying that everyone is suddenly going to drop KOF or Skullgirls, but I really wonder why people say it's a good thing that games don't have dedicated scenes and instead piggyback off of the scenes of other games.

I was not aware that MK overlapped with anything. I also don't think that it's piggybacking at all. People playing different kinds of games is a good thing because it makes people more open and less likely to leave the scene(ie: it makes makes the community robust and healthy). No one here could say that they would have preferred the death of the scene over the increased relevance of GG and "anime" games. I would have taken that over the "death" of the scene until SFIV any day of the week.

 

[ipitydatfu]

speaking of sp00ky's knowledge of obscure game, remember him beasting at that random fighting game at UFGT7? shit is insane

 

[LakeEarth]

I still haven't had a decent go at SFxTK, but isn't the reason jabs are so good is because they all hit everyone crouching, whereas in SF4 most standing jabs whiff on like 80% of the cast (or more)?

That's part of it. They're mostly really good because they are hugely + frames on block, and the threat of throws is so low because they have no range/have longer startup.

 

[GotchaForce]

I like SFxT but man...the top 32 for UMVC3 had the entire room checking it out while the SFxT final 4 had like 7 people watching.

 

[alstein]

If it wasn't for the obscure games like KOF and VF, I wouldn't be in the FGC.

 

[sleepykyo]

You're forgetting jabs lead to a full combo (40-50% hp) if they land in SFxT.

They don't though. After the second hit scaling kicks in (carryover from SF4) and another set of scaling kicks in on boost combos/chain combos (SFxT addition). Remember, the other complaint is nothing does damage in SF x T.

 

[fauxtrot]

I had an amazing time. It was my first major I attended and was kinda awestruck to be in the same room with everyone I've been seeing on streams for the last few years. I thanked MarkMan, UltraChen, Jebailey and Spooky for all their hard work. I told Mike Ross after the event that "I've mained Honda since SF2, watched Cross Counter since the first episode, I lost ten bucks to Air betting on you but you're still my favorite player" and got a good laugh out of him. I held my own in the VF5:FS side tourney and wasn't free even though I was nervous as hell. Going was kinda out of the blue but I'm really glad I went and can't wait to go to EVO in a few weeks.

This is adorable; no offense. The evolution (heh) of the FGC and these tournaments has been such a cool thing to witness over the years... I have a hard time believing that there are people out there that truly think the scene was better off before SFIV came along.

 

[Corky]

I'm not that fond of schadenfreude but god damn if I ain't smiling at the corpse of SFxT crashing and burning.

Only a couple of months left now before we can buy those characters!

*cricket chirps*