Cag Fighter Thread XLI - The New, Grotesquely Overweight One!

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Arcades are still going strong in Japan. The article was a bit out of context. Sega and Namco are making profit and just decided to close down some of the mom and pop locations carrying the Sega/Namco name.
 
[quote name='kristianator']part of it's gotta be the culture. back in the day, everyone played fighting games. it was the hot shit, it pretty much had most of the media coverage, people you knew who you didn't think even played video games knew street fighter.. it's just different now. and it's hard to explain it. everything else is clear cut (desire for lower costs and more availability of comp), but i don't really know what happened with the culture. less players, less media coverage, less games being made. were fighting games just a fad? did the decent-to-shitty players just give up on the grind? do new players really dislike fighting games that much because they lack a rewarding single player experience? maybe fighting games aren't pretty enough. it seems like the prettiest ones seem to be the most popular with casual fighting gamers.

i think that if fighting game scene didn't have the drop-off that it did in the late 90's, arcades would probably be more prominent than they are now, even with online console gaming available.[/quote]
if anything, games are more complicated. and there are more of them.
sf2 was pretty easy and had a good learning curve. 3 kicks, 3 punches, a couple special moves. you could be crap skill level and still have things to strive for or find people to compete with. everything was fairly easy to learn just by watching, but hard to master.

on the other hand, sfa2 had custom combos, supers, escape rolls, there might've been a chain combo somewhere. people had enough trouble doing regular moves, and now you got SUPER moves? dang. when you went to the arcade, you got beat bad and you had no idea where to even start.

nowadays, we have GG with 2 different bursts, a guard break meter, IKs, dust combos, certain moves with an EX version, RC, FRC, air recovery, the green block, the yellow block, some characters have parries, dashes, air dashes... and i didn't even mention how complicated the characters are. how's a new guy supposed to watch a match and understand what's going on? and oh yeah, because the arcades don't make enough money, they can't market themselves or always have working parts.

FG coverage probably dropped because it was too complicated for them to actually come up with decent strategies. Gamepro's MvC2 combos didn't even work, with things like (C.HP, wait for opponent to come down, super).

ddr and associated rhythm games led a tiny resurgence of arcades, but only for a little while. you could charge a decent amount of money. the graphics were kinda ugly. it was extremely simple to understand and learn. that's what FGs need. and money, so that they can actually afford to make their place look nice.
 
can't stop won't stop... JEKKI boy for life.

ah uh ah uh *uprocks*

I got more of the sheeeeyit for yallz.

it may be old but I never saw it before X_X coz I've never seen it before

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEDmbAPH8LI[/media]

Bang The Machine clips.

there are 4 total, so click thru the related videos or the user's profile to find the rest.

#3 is hilarious!
 
Saw the movie twice. Good stuff ;)

I was there at SHGL while i was in high school while they were filming that

good times.
 
JCVD.

The man, the myth, the living legend.

Oh yea. If anyone has a dev xbox 360 or access to one, partnernet just put up Commandos 3 with the SFHD Remix beta.

The game is done btw, it's just the netcode that needs testing. I can't comment anymore on the netcode being used but it is good. ;P
 
[quote name='MarkMan']JCVD.

The man, the myth, the living legend.

Oh yea. If anyone has a dev xbox 360 or access to one, partnernet just put up Commandos 3 with the SFHD Remix beta.

The game is done btw, it's just the netcode that needs testing. I can't comment anymore on the netcode being used but it is good. ;P[/quote]

Thanks, as always, for the scoop.
 
[quote name='MarkMan']Good luck finding it :(

It was supposed to be released on UMD and DVD but it seems the project has been scrapped.[/QUOTE]


there was some shit going around that the footage was destroyed in the 9/11 attacks..

then somehow they show it at evo
 
[quote name='RelentlessRolento']looks like commandos it is whenever it's out.[/QUOTE]It's a sweet deal; I was actually interested in that already since I had fond memories of Commando on my cousin's C64 and MERCs in the arcade. Nice to see an honest-to-goodness, NUMBERED sequel to an old school franchise show up on XBLA. So it's quite possible I would have eventually bought it anyway... but naturally the HD Remix beta upgrades it to urgent.
 
I've been watching some videos of Tekken 6 recently, and it really makes me want it to come out on ps3 right now! Bah!


When is it supposed to come out anyways? (I need to play miguel since he looks like he could be my cousin or something, seriously)
 
[quote name='heavyd853']I've been watching some videos of Tekken 6 recently, and it really makes me want it to come out on ps3 right now! Bah!


When is it supposed to come out anyways? (I need to play miguel since he looks like he could be my cousin or something, seriously)[/QUOTE]

supposedly the fall or winter of this year... and yes, I have had the same thoughts ever since actual gameplay was shown nearly over a year ago.
 
emergency!! EMERGENCY!!!

press PLAY!!! DO IT!!!

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0N1CkVshOc[/media]

PRESS IT NOW!!!

this is NOT A TEST!!
 
[quote name='hankmecrankme']I played the Battle Fantasia demo last night. I really enjoyed it. Is it coming to the US, or am I gonna have to import it?[/QUOTE]

what? the japan store has it? downloading naoe!!!!
 
just played Battle Fantasia and can say it's the most fun I've had with a 2d fighter in a long ass time. For some reason this makes me look more forward to the 2.5D games coming out down the line a bit more (street fighter 4 and blaz blue)
 
Yep, just gave Battle Fantasia a go as well. I'm definitely looking forward to the full release, but I still need to get used to this whole 2.5D thing.

For some reason, the characters seemed a little sluggish to me and I'm not sure if that's because they aren't just 2D animations. I really liked the RPG style of hitpoints that the game had and both playable characters were fun to use.

This might be the most talky fighting game I've ever played though. There must be some deep philosophical crap going down prior to me having to beat up a bunny with my pet dragon.
 
Battle Fantasia looks nice, I want to see some experts playing the game, I'd like to see nice combos and special movies; people showing off the game.
 
Oh yea, I don't know if this has been mentioned before.

KOF XI and Blaz Blue are 3D graphics engines with 2D animated layers going over the polygons. It is not noticeable but that's how they are designed.
 
NO SHIT?! Blaz Blue is 3D engine? niiiice

Do we have confirmation that it is coming to US, and if so, for which console(s)? Unfortunately, all I'm seeing mentioned is that it may come to Playstation Network. If so, my wallet is very sad since if that is the case I'm buying me a PS3.
 
Blaz Blu, I can't say shit on, it hasn't even been released in Japanese arcades yet. Next Famitsu should unveil 2 new characters though (not the previously announced 2 chars that were revealed this week).
 
Man I really can't wait for Blazblue, but I was really suprised that it uses a 3d engine! One thing I want to know though, are the animated layers over the polygons 3d as well? Or is it like only drawn on the plane facing the screen or something cheap/cost-efficient like that?

I was thinking that if it was all around they could do all sorts of crazy camera spins or something like that. But I really have no knowledge of such things.
 
One of my favorite PS1 import fighting games that is in my collection...

[media]http://youtube.com/watch?v=zi1zBsUbvnE[/media]

Just uploaded it to my YT the other day... ^_^
 
I think it's worth trying again. I mean the quest mode itself in part 1 was pretty fun. I got a lot of play out of that game (even though I just bought it for the FF VII demo)... It was a good pickup indeed...

Kinda like how most ppl got Zone of the Enders for the MGS2 demo, and got treated to an excellent game.

And not like buying Death By Degrees for the Tekken 5 demo and getting, well... you know.
 
[quote name='GuilewasNK']Nice news about the Flash Kick. I'm not a great player by any stretch, but playing against Blanka definitely gives me more problems than any other.[/quote]

Back in the day, most of the players I faced w/Blanka didn't really know how to use Blanka effectively and I could own them with Sonic Booms, Flash Kicks, and timed crouching short punches. And I wasn't that great of a player either.

Ah, those were the days...
 
Tekken 3 had some good stuff. IMHO tekken music started to really take off when TTT was started. Tekken 5 and DR are probably the best fighter soundtracks ever IMHO, and I'm still weirded out how Tekken 6's soundtrack is almost like it's either going backwards or more like Soul Calibur...?
 
Good god, I can't believe what I just did...

A couple months ago, I emailed NCSX about the then upcoming HRAP2 Special Addition (Edition? w/e). I let them know that I'd be interested if they'd be getting them in for under $200, thinking to myself that there's no way such a stick would be available for less that $250-300. They just emailed me today with my order link and I bit. Something like $206 after shipping. I already have a regular HRAP2 (which I love), now he'll have a brother.

I really need to get better at fighting games to be worthy of the stick.
 
I really liked Tobal and its sequel. It's a shame that Tobal 2 never came out over here, but I guess Square was too busy with gems like Chocobo Racing and Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon. At least there's an English patch for Tobal 2. . .
 
[quote name='Halo05']Good god, I can't believe what I just did...

A couple months ago, I emailed NCSX about the then upcoming HRAP2 Special Addition (Edition? w/e). I let them know that I'd be interested if they'd be getting them in for under $200, thinking to myself that there's no way such a stick would be available for less that $250-300. They just emailed me today with my order link and I bit. Something like $206 after shipping. I already have a regular HRAP2 (which I love), now he'll have a brother.

I really need to get better at fighting games to be worthy of the stick.[/quote]

Akihabara Shop is selling them for the same price, about $205 shipped via EMS to the US.

Aesthetically it looks nice. But you can make it the same stick if you just buy the buttons separately. I believe the buttons are just OBSF-30s, not the RGs. The price hike is due to the damn shipping :(

Cuz it's only 10,000 yen vs 8,400 yen (HRAP2). Damn shipping costs almost as much as the stick.

Nice stick though. ;)

I love sticks.
 
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