Week of March 23rd to the 29th, 2015.
Fighting Games Weekly is the weekly discussion thread for all things fighting games. News, events, streams, videos, players, drama, everything fighting game related.
Don't know what to watch right now? Check the FGCPros Twitch Group or Jaxel's Stream Viewer. If you want to watch multiple streams at once, you can use Jaxel's customizable multiviewer as well. If you are looking to see what events are coming up past this week, check out the FGC Event Calendar that our own Malice215 put together.
New to FGC-GAF is the FGC-GAF Index which lists the fighting games GAFers plays as a neat reference with some rough statistics to boot. To add yourself to the index, quote this post and use the survey link below. Please remember to save/bookmark the "Edit your response" link so you can edit your responses if/when you buy a game already on the list or a new game that releases in the future.
Last week's thread. An archive of previous FGW threads is available here.
Fighting Games Weekly is the weekly discussion thread for all things fighting games. News, events, streams, videos, players, drama, everything fighting game related.
Don't know what to watch right now? Check the FGCPros Twitch Group or Jaxel's Stream Viewer. If you want to watch multiple streams at once, you can use Jaxel's customizable multiviewer as well. If you are looking to see what events are coming up past this week, check out the FGC Event Calendar that our own Malice215 put together.
New to FGC-GAF is the FGC-GAF Index which lists the fighting games GAFers plays as a neat reference with some rough statistics to boot. To add yourself to the index, quote this post and use the survey link below. Please remember to save/bookmark the "Edit your response" link so you can edit your responses if/when you buy a game already on the list or a new game that releases in the future.
Last week's thread. An archive of previous FGW threads is available here.
Last year, GAFer Shouta helped organize donations from various FGC-GAF members to send fellow member QisTopTier to EVO. Q suffers from Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy, but has always wanted to go to EVO and we're looking to double up this year and send him to EVO again!
If you want to help out, you can check out the details and pledge on this spreadsheet.
Red Bull Kumite [ Saturday ]
- Red Bull's long anticipated 16-man USFIV invitational featuring top names from all over the world converges in Paris.
- More information is available here.
- An all-Smash tournament out of Arlington, Texas.
- This event continues through Sunday.
- More information is available here.
- Gamer Phunk Lab and Capitol Fight District team up to present a 12 hour charity event in Sacremento, California.
- All proceeds will go towards Extra Life and Children's Miracle Network at UC Davis Children's Hospital.
- More information is available here.
Every week, FGW will spotlight one GAFer to get a better picture of their history with fighting games, their preferences, and much more. For this week's FGW Player Spotlight, we will be taking a closer look at ShinMaruku!
What fighting games do you currently play, what is your all time favourite and why?
I currently play Dead Or Alive 5: Last Round and Ultra Street Fighter 4.
What are your favorite mechanics from the current selection of fighting games and why? What are your least favorite and why?
My favorite mechanic from the current slot of games would probably be Snap backs in Doa5:LR tag mode. Too few people play tag but if you use a snap back you can remove a lot of recoverable health as well as set your self up back to neutral. My least favorite is probably false roman canceling as it removes some of the complexity from the game that people enjoy. I don't like things that Take away bar myself.
What got you into fighting games? Are there any other genre of games you play?
Probably DOA2 got me inot fighting games. I saw a ninja who had great honkers and I thought to myself "I'll give this a shot for my first dreamcast game and from then I was hooked. I tend to go to action rpgs and action games more than anything. I love a game with a deep combat system that I can really exploit. So the DMC games ,Oneechanbara and Ninja Gaiden are my Jam.
What is your favorite fighting game character and why?
My favorite fighting game character is probably Ayane from Dead Or Alive. Her back story is probably one of the darkest in fighting games, she's the illegitimate Ninja Princess of her clan, her mother is one of the leaders along with her father's brother, and her father comes in and rapes his brother's wife and she's born.
That adds to the fact that 1 she's a rape baby and the fact that her father was supposed to be heir to the clan adds much more social stigma to her. That gives her a bitter exterior, but under neather there is one of the sweeter DOA characters.
I also love her play style that she's a fast character who has crushes on her moves that serve her as a counter hit character who has launches and high damaging combos.
Describe your style of play, and how do you play (local, online, etc.).That adds to the fact that 1 she's a rape baby and the fact that her father was supposed to be heir to the clan adds much more social stigma to her. That gives her a bitter exterior, but under neather there is one of the sweeter DOA characters.
I also love her play style that she's a fast character who has crushes on her moves that serve her as a counter hit character who has launches and high damaging combos.
My style of play is rush down. Or Fishing for counter hits or holds in DOA, when I pick Momiji for example I press buttons that make people mash counter, then they get thrown for 40% of their life and she look pretty doing it. My rush down style makes people try to mash that and get thrown.
What do you feel are your biggest strengths and weaknesses as a player?
My biggest strength is my unconventional play, people think I'm not going to do it, and I DO do it. My Weakness is I need to work on my defense. Sometimes I play patient then I just sometimes just auto pilot.
Best and worst moments in the your fighting game career?
Best Moment is when I had a epic 14 min match in Tag on DOA5U where a guy has been beating me for the past hour I lock down and beat him. Worst Moment is when I did a long set in SF4 and got just beat down for 2 hours and just got to the point that I did not play sf4 for 2 months.
What do you want from future fighting games?
Future fighting games should have a well structured story and good way of teaching new players. Using resources made by fans to teach new players is not accessible.
Who should be on next week's GAF Player Spotlight?
I vote for Marz he played a few sets with my on sf4 even though Im terribe 
Since Dahbomb strongly encourages pre-orders, what games do you plan to buy that have been officially announced?
I plan to buy Senran Kagura Estival Versus and Onnechanbara Z2 Chaos, those games have no shame and I respect their hustle.
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04/15 Mortal Kombat X
SUMMER BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma Extend
2015 Rivals of Aether
2015 Skullgirls Encore
TBD Beast's Fury
TBD JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven
TBD Next The King Of Fighters Title (tentative)
TBD Rise of Incarnates
TBD Street Fighter V
TBD Tekken 7
TBD Tekken X Street Fighter
TBD Yatagarasu: Attack on Cataclysm
TBD Yatagarasu: Legend of Raven
Super Desperation Radio [ 9:30PM EDT | 6:30 PDT ]
- Hellpockets and various other members of the KoF community discuss KoF and happenings in the FGC.
- Out of the ashes of The BOX Arena, comes the San Diego FGC's newest organized weekly for UMvC3.
- Weekly FGC show dedicated to match analysis, teaching, commentary, news, debates, and more! Hosted by UltraDavid and James Chen.
Kachitagari TV (JP) [ 9PM JST | 8AM EDT | 5AM PDT ]
- Bon-chan, Kazunoko and Fuudo's new show, focusing primarily on SSFIV AE ranked matches but is branching off into other games as well.
- Logan Sama, organiser of the old WSO weeklys in London, invites some of London's finest to Capcom UK HQ for first to 5 sets in USF4.
- NYC VF crew presents VF5:FS tournaments casuals out of The Next Level arcade in Brooklyn.
- New Jersey's largest weekly featuring UMvC3 and Injustice.
- JamessMK & DarKNaTaS host a raw and uncut weekly talk show discussing events in the FGC with various FGC personalities.
- Weekly FGC show dedicated to match analysis, teaching, commentary, news, debates, and more! Hosted by UltraDavid and James Chen.
- iPlaywinner hosts a weekly talk show featuring alpha stream monsters Harrison and Honzo Gonzo.
Game Spot Versus KoF Casuals (JP) [ 7PM JST | 6AM EDT | 3AM PDT ]
- KoF 1998UM, KoF 2002UM and KoF XIII C action from Japan.
- A weekly show featuring Mago, Tokido, and Momochi. They go over the tournaments they will participate and have participated in overseas and in Japan, as well as the general news in SF. For long periods of the year, there is a student-teacher session involving one of the 3 Topanga members taking a player under their wing and teaching them how to play SF. The show features rank matches (sometimes random char. matches) and ends with a 8 man online tournament featuring players around 4.5kpp such as Poongko, Inco, and more.
- NYC's biggest weekly at The Next Level Arcade in Brooklyn featuring SSFIV AE, UMvC3 and TTT2. If the Teamsp00ky link is not working, it is likely on the backup stream on Arturo's channel.
- Often, WonderChef will stream Injustice pools up until Top 4.
- SoCal's biggest weekly at Super Arcade in Walnut, featuring Injustice and SSFIV AE. Season details are available here.
HBTB Live [ 8PM EDT | 5PM PDT ]
- Hold Back To Block hosts a weekly roundtable discussion of various happenings in the FGC.
- A bi-weekly Smash podcast discussing recent events, news and issues in the Smash community, hosted by Scar, Prog, Cactuar and Sheridan.
- Galloping Ghost Arcade presents an Injustice weekly out of Chicago.
- A weekly FGC talk show hosted by iPlaywinner, featuring a varying, ensemble cast of prominent members of the fighting game community.
- Aris' new weekly show, discussing whatever he wants to! The format resembles old ATP podcasts.
- The UMvC3 and KoF XIII branch of Wednesday Night Fights also hosted at Super Arcade in Walnut, California.
The Smash Break Bi-Weekly [ 6PM EDT | 3PM PDT ]
- The Break hosts a new Melee bi-weekly to replace Rokunaya Bi-Weeklies which are ending.
- Arturo streams a BlazBlue and Guilty Gear bi-weekly out of Next Level arcade in Brooklyn.
- For those who know how to use Nico Live, also join the GODSGARDEN community page on Nico to know when Ura KaoTV! goes live.
- A bi-weekly Skullgirls event hosted by members of the Skullgirls development team, often featuring preview builds of the game.
Rebel Up [ 7PM EDT | 4PM PDT ]
- Super Arcade's anime bi-weekly, featuring GG, BB, P4A, SG, Gundam and older anime games as well.
GGPO VanBats [ 4PM EDT | 1PM PDT ]
- Weekly GGPO Vampire Savior ranbats streamed by GAFer Rotanibor.
- SuperDojo and Team OXY partner up to create a new weekly for the SoCal Melee community, featuring doubles and singles.
On GAF we have various members that stream fighting games from time to time too. If you would like to add your channel to this thread, send me a PM.
Often, some fighting games can seem intimidating to players new and old. Below are a bunch of resources that may be of aid to new players, or handy as references.
- Learn How To Play Fighting Games Free eBook from Shoryuken is a fantastic primer for new players to the genre.
- Footsies Handbook is a guide to the potentially elusive, but integral part of doing well in any fighting game.
- NeoGAF's Arcade Stick Thread is the place to go for questions about anything arcade stick-related.
- Step Up Your Game is an editorial series by Justin Wong that covers a multitude of topics, notably focusing on strengthening your mental game and playing smarter instead of harder.
- Tips for first time competitors will help you straighten out those nerves and expectations when you head out to your first tournament.
- Domination 101 is almost a cult classic article in the FGC, which has Seth Killian telling us how he really feels about the idea of "cheapness" in fighting games.
- Team-building Guide by our very own Karsticles, which helps make it easier to approach team-building in MvC games, and games with similar synergistic elements.
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If you have any suggestions for the OP, please do not hesitate to post in this thread or (preferably) PM me to let me know.
