Fighting Games Thread: GAROU 2 GAROU 2 GAROU 2 GAROU 2

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In honor of EVO 2018, here are two new emoticons featuring two of the greatest, most-respected, incredibly-skilled players of all time.


Darksyde FAP


GET THAT ASS BANNED

[Akala]

NIS fans have gone too far.

 

[Himu]

[Sho Nuff]

Please take away Falcoon's wacom

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Just turned on the EVO stream.  Punk just got sent to losers by an Alex

[Akala]

I watched a bit of pools. I think best thing I saw was two kids who were not great flail around for a bit. Everyone on stream and commentators kinda laughed it off, then next up realized they left w/o de-synching their controllers causing further delay. 

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I pretty much just watched that Punk/Prototype match, stopped watching, came back to watch Arc show off the Kill La Kill game for a little bit (It's an arena fighter with pretty simple mechanics and some cool stuff, but ultimately looks too simple for anyone to take seriously, methinks), then stopped.

Might check some of the finals out tomorrow if I get a chance.  Dunno what I really care about watching on Sunday apart from SFV, and that's going to start too late at night for me to be able to see it all live. 

[Akala]

I plan on DVRing it on ESPN, too old to stay up on a Sunday. 

[bork]

I plan on DVRing it on ESPN, too old to stay up on a Sunday. 

I feel you.  I have to wake up at 5:30 AM on Mondays.  Can't stay up to 1-2 AM EST waiting for it all to finish.

[nachobro]

SFV isn't on ESPN this year, they are showing an Overwatch Finals repeat instead.

MVCI top 4 last night was really good last night with some weird moments. Cyber Japan Agent is on another level with that game and shows off some really cool shit.

[thisismyusername]

A "Make Marvel Great Again" shirt.

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https://twitter.com/jchensor/status/1025909225925402624

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This Fame96 dude got wrecked in the first match of the BB Cross-Tag grand finals, but just managed to get a win.  Can 'Murica win an anime final??
 

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Not looking good.  Heiho just reset the bracket and Fame is now in losers. 

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Fame is just getting destroyed now.  Guess he couldn't handle the pressure.  Pretty obvious he's losing it.

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Aaaaand he's done.  Heiho just played like 19 matches straight and wrecked muthafuckaz.

He had no idea he just won the tournament, lmao. 

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Next round of Cross-Tag Battle DLC characters are out on 8/6:

• Nine, Izayoi, Mai will be joining from BlazBlue.
• Yuzuriha, Mika, Merkava from Under Night In-Birth.
• Akihiko, Mitsuru, Labrys from Persona.

But it looks like they're about to announce some more!

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Boo, hiss- didn't announce anything, BUT they just hinted that the logo has more colors added, apparently indicating that another series is getting added in.

They're about to do a stream at Barfights and are saying something big will be announced there. 

[nachobro]

Heiho was in BB and UNIST grand finals lol. What a boss

[nachobro]

Pretty hyped for the Fight Club thing going on in tonight after EVO too, mainly for the old game exhibitions.

    Main Event: Dominique “SonicFox” McLean vs. Goichi “GO1” Kishida (Dragon Ball FighterZ) Casted by Yipes & Chris Matrix

    Co-Main Event: Hajime “Tokido” Taniguchi vs. Lee “Infiltration” Seon-woo (Street Fighter V) Casted by James Chen & Sajam

    The Fight of Legends: Alex Valle vs. John Choi (Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting, Street Fighter Alpha 2, Street Fighter Alpha 3) Casted by James Chen & Sajam
    Fox Family Feud: Kim “JDCR” Hyun Jin vs. Choi “Saint” Jinwoo (Tekken 7)

    Coastal Rivalry - West vs East: Abraham “GoldenboyNeo” Sotelo vs. Desmond “Xecutioner”Pinkney (Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes) Casted by Yipes, Chris Matrix, & Neo

    Triple-Threat Brawl: Justin Wong vs. Sanford Kelly vs. Michael “YipeS” Mendoza (Marvel vs.Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes) Casted by Yipes, Chris Matrix, & Neo

    Meeting of the Melee Gods: Adam “Armada” Lindgren vs. Joseph “Mang0” Marquez (Super Smash Bros. Melee) Casted by D1 & DJNintendo

    The Great Marvel vs. Capcom 3 Clash: Ryan “Filipino Champ” Ramirez vs. Christopher “NYChrisG” Gonzalez (Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds) Casted by Yipes, Chris Matrix, & Neo

Gonna be on https://www.twitch.tv/twingalaxieslive at 9 pacific

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People keep throwing out that the big Arc announcement is going to be Senran Kagura characters in Cross-Tag.  Evidence here from May:

http://shoryuken.com/2018/05/16/datamining-of-blazblue-cross-tag-battle-announcer-voice-reveals-possible-senran-kagura-guest-characters/

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Daigo about to get wrecked and knocked out of SFV in a moment.

EDIT: Daigo's out...eliminated in a Guile mirror by Caba. 

I really think Guile is not his character.  OK, Ryu didn't work out for you, I get that.  But I don't think you found the right replacement duder.

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Menard is out!

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There's a new game "? ? ?" for 2019 though, are they not going to announce a game?

Not expecting Arc to announce a brand new game at like 2 AM PST when the announcement will supposedly be taking place.  Hope that's not true and it's much earlier.

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Pullum Purna and Vulcano Rosso will be out for Fighting Layer by September.

The game is also getting an actual arcade version...in North America.

And it's also getting a guest character- TERRY BOGARD.   

The announcement also very briefly showed Sharon and Area.

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Tekken 7 is so far behind.  Still doing top 64 pools. 

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Bar Fights is going to have a stream: https://www.twitch.tv/crosscountertv

The Arc announcement may not be for another hour or two...or three.  Dunno if I'm gonna keep this shit on long enough for that.

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[Himu]

Played this claw twice in a row and won both sets. Felt good. Feel like I’m really growing as a player even if he’s not the best Claw.

[parallax]

Pullum Purna and Vulcano Rosso will be out for Fighting Layer by September.

The game is also getting an actual arcade version...in North America.

And it's also getting a guest character- TERRY BOGARD.   

The announcement also very briefly showed Sharon and Area.

fucking vulcano? where the fuck are the fighting layer characters? george, sessyu and tetsuo should have been in long before jack

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Bar Fights is going to have a stream: https://www.twitch.tv/crosscountertv

The Arc announcement may not be for another hour or two...or three.  Dunno if I'm gonna keep this shit on long enough for that.

The Arc announcement on the stream just ended up being the Cross-Tag DLC trailer with English voices.  Some people waited for hours after this expecting to see something. 

There were some fun parts of what I watched.  Seeing Daigo play Street Fighter 1 was great.

[nachobro]

Smash 4 finals were a bit of a blow up. GF ended up being Bayo vs Bayo and the crowd revolted over it. A mix of them walking out and those that remained were booing the match. At some point one of the players purposely jumped off the side in game and one of the sets started with them having a conversation with each other and just holding neutral B (to piss off the crowd that was booing them) until a TO had to get on stage and ask them to keep playing.

Clip of players stalling and the TO telling them to fucking play: https://clips.twitch.tv/WonderfulPiliableSquirrelBleedPurple

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Smash 4 finals were a bit of a blow up. GF ended up being Bayo vs Bayo and the crowd revolted over it. A mix of them walking out and those that remained were booing the match. At some point one of the players purposely jumped off the side in game and one of the sets started with them having a conversation with each other and just holding neutral B (to piss off the crowd that was booing them) until a TO had to get on stage and ask them to keep playing.

Clip of players stalling and the TO telling them to fucking play: https://clips.twitch.tv/WonderfulPiliableSquirrelBleedPurple

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Pretty cool watching Lost Soul (Holy shit, a player from 'MURICA getting into the top 4!  ) getting so far in this Guilty Gear GF.  Dude is now guaranteed top #3.  Gonna be super-hype if he makes it to the final match.

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Lost Soul is out, but he went out strong- got a PERFECT round on Machabo before Machabo came back to win loser's. 

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Omito won pretty easily with Johnny. 

Arc announced a Capcom Pro Tour-style tournament series.  No new games shown.

Next up is Smash Melee, so I guess that means break time for a few hours.

[curly]

announce melee hd

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Tekken 7 is getting balance adjustment, new play mechanics, and a new DLC season-

Anna and Lei Wulong are back!

Plus...Negan from the Walking Dead!? 

[eleuin]

https://twitter.com/Harada_TEKKEN/status/853946535746207744

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[Akala]

Does this guy always wear a tail? 

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Does this guy always wear a tail? 

He used to have a furry hat with ears, too.  Looks like he's now full-on furry with that helmet. 

[toku]

https://twitter.com/SonicFox5000/status/1026304623550726144

https://twitter.com/austin_walker/status/1026304575307964416

legend

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https://twitter.com/cloud805/status/1026310363799642114

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G and Sagat are out tomorrow!

[Bebpo]

Evo live was ok. I’m just not a big fan of watching videogames, and just like normal sports I’d rather play a match against a friend than watch a match of the world’s top players, in terms of fun.
But the very final matches were pretty exciting and there were some good moments throughout.

The bracket thing is weird and makes the top8 take fucking forever. Not a fan of that part. Almost fell asleep a few times during T7, it was just so long with the same players over and over. I could never watch a match of Tekken again and be happy at this point.

Also live there’s no commentary which makes it less interesting to me. I tried bringing headphones and listening to the stream commentators and the stream was like 5 second delay so it wouldn’t work when watching live which sucked.

Probably won’t go again, but it did make me excited to go home and play some online matches.

[Bebpo]

Actually in the hotel in a lot of the rooms I’d walk by I’d hear arcade buttons tapping and groups of people shouting and having fun.

I think I’d like Evo more if it was like with a group of people that like playing fighting games and we bring a console and controllers/sticks and just play a bunch. I love playing fighting game for hours locally with friends. The metagames between your local friend groups are the best. Like one player gets real good at a tactic with a character and then another player learns how to shut them down consistently. It’s exciting. I never get that from online vs with randoms.

[bork]

Evo live was ok. I’m just not a big fan of watching videogames, and just like normal sports I’d rather play a match against a friend than watch a match of the world’s top players, in terms of fun.
But the very final matches were pretty exciting and there were some good moments throughout.

I'm the same way.  I don't watch tournaments very often (Evo and FR are about it) and never got into watching that kind of stuff very much.  But it does depend on the game- Guilty Gear is pretty awesome to watch and the finals are the best, IMO.  Marvel was awesome too.  Lots of insane, insane comebacks or wins that seem almost impossible to pull off.  Smash is boring as fuck to watch.  Looks like two people spazzing out and jumping around all day.  Snore.  Tekken isn't very exciting to me at all to watch.  Street Fighter is a mixed bag and it really depends on the players.

Probably won’t go again, but it did make me excited to go home and play some online matches.

Actually in the hotel in a lot of the rooms I’d walk by I’d hear arcade buttons tapping and groups of people shouting and having fun.

I think I’d like Evo more if it was like with a group of people that like playing fighting games and we bring a console and controllers/sticks and just play a bunch. I love playing fighting game for hours locally with friends.

What's the point of going if you're just going to sit in a hotel room and play games? Might as well stay home.  Pretty sure EVO has lots to do besides take part in tournaments.  I wouldn't go unless I was going to compete, though.

The metagames between your local friend groups are the best. Like one player gets real good at a tactic with a character and then another player learns how to shut them down consistently. It’s exciting. I never get that from online vs with randoms.

I do.  You have to play more than a match or two online, bruh.    Or play with someone you know from a board like this one. 

[Freyj]

Watching Majin play King was the most exciting part of the tournament to me. Like Shaheen vs. Devil Jin put me to sleep sure but I don’t think I ever heard that arena as loud as when Majin was rolling perfects with King.


I haven’t played Tekken since the Arcade 4 days and I almost bought 7 last night.

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Watching Majin play King was the most exciting part of the tournament to me. Like Shaheen vs. Devil Jin put me to sleep sure but I don’t think I ever heard that arena as loud as when Majin was rolling perfects with King.


I haven’t played Tekken since the Arcade 4 days and I almost bought 7 last night.

They were getting hype for Lil Majin because he's an American player.  And I get it- when Lost Soul was getting those wins in Guilty Gear, I was glued to the screen.  Kind of didn't care about the grand final after he lost.  I like seeing new people get wins.  Am interested in checking out SFV now (3.5 hours?  Uhh...maybe will skip through some of it) since Problem X won it for the first time. 

Was really glad to see Ono pop up at midnight EST so I could check out G and Sagat, then go to bed.   

[Himu]

Is there a trailer for sagat? Depending on how his gameplay is I might jump into SFV

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What I saw in GG did actually make me want to play it more, but generally what gets me hype are new content announcements. 

BB Cross-Tag getting nine new characters today?  And characters I actually want to use this time around?  Yessir.  Will start playing again.

SFV getting two new characters today?  Good stuff and nice to see what was a lackluster Season 3 over with.  Hoping that G and/or Sagat will be really viable characters.

Tekken getting some game play changes and new characters?  Cool, will check it out...especially since Anna was a main in T6 and TTT2.  But I'm more interested in Soul Calibur.

Fighting Layer getting more content is also welcome since it really NEEDS it, lol.

So, more content for existing games now, then SNK Heroines Tag Team Frenzy in a month, then October is Soul Calibur VI and December is Smash?  Nice to have things to look foward to.

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Is there a trailer for sagat? Depending on how his gameplay is I might jump into SFV

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I think you can get Fighter Layer somewhere for like $22 right now, BTW.  Worth picking up for that price.

[Himu]

Looks like I’m back into SFV. Finally my type of character.

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I also liked that for all the talk of CAMMY FIGHTER V...no Cammys were in the top eight.


SSF4 AE Yun this is not.

Looks like I’m back into SFV. Finally my type of character.

[Himu]

I considered going Ken rather than Ryu in SFV but Ken is so ugly.

Sagat looks sooooo cool now.

[Bebpo]

Bork, yeah I gotta check the GG finals. GG is my favorite in the lineup but making them at 8am in the morning was  :'(

Watching Majin play King was the most exciting part of the tournament to me. Like Shaheen vs. Devil Jin put me to sleep sure but I don’t think I ever heard that arena as loud as when Majin was rolling perfects with King.


I haven’t played Tekken since the Arcade 4 days and I almost bought 7 last night.

Like Bork said, a lot of that was that the crowd would generally go nuts every time a USA player was winning because home court.

Also watching King play at high level made me wonder if throw escapes are really a good thing in fighting games. At high level when 9/10 times the opponent will throw escape, it neutralizes throws and for grappler characters like King that means losing half of their strength. At lower levels of play throw escapes are much less consistent so grapplers are much stronger characters.

Like in B.B. Cross Tag, a lot of people were playing big claw arm guy for the throws. If you could throw escape all those he’d probably be dropped for someone else.

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I considered going Ken rather than Ryu in SFV but Ken is so ugly.

Sagat looks sooooo cool now.

1. Play the Extra Challenge battles and get Ken's Monster Hunter armor
2. Pick this costume- no more Ken face
3. Profit

[Himu]

Tekken 7 has easier throw escapes than other games. King is still viable though.