Why I love videogames

[norecess]

Nothing can beat this. EPIC !!!!!

[Gryzor]

Not sure what went on there to warrant such cheering, but I used to pick up girls over Tetris

[Bryce]

but I used to pick up girls over Tetris

Did you then spin them around to the correct position so that they fit between the sofa and the bookshelf?

Bryce.

[Gryzor]

Seeing as it was in the arcades, sadly no.

[AMSDOS]

Did you then spin them around to the correct position so that they fit between the sofa and the bookshelf?

Bryce.

Hmm, instead of Blocks would it work having Ladies of various combinations squeeze into a row. Rotating them would produce Front, Left Size, Behind and Right Side? Why didn't someone think of this earlier or has it being done? 

[Carnivius]

Holy schnerk!  As a Street Fighter player myself I'm damn impressed by that comeback and didn't realise it was possible to parry all those super move kicks from Chun Li like that.  I was gonna go try that myself but remembered I sold the Dreamcast with SFIII some years ago but then just remember again that SFIII will be on the EU PlayStation store tomorrow anyways and I pre-ordered it last week (Pre-ordering downloadable games seems a strange thing but oh well it just means it's paid for already and got a couple extras).  So yeah I might have acted a bit like some of that crowd.

[norecess]

Yeah I also play Street Fighter on a regular basis (let's say, a 5-min game by week to something like 20 minutes when I'm inspired !). I actually have many variations of the game, starting from SNES, Saturn and ending to the DC. I still only play with Ryu (boohhh) but I know all the possible combo using that character ! (so I have always some fun)


What is impressive in that video is that the guy is timed as a machine. I mean, it has to be perfectly in sync to place his attacks. And with all those people watching in the background, it definitively adds an incredible atmosphere to the scene... I told it : it's EPPIICCC !!

[MacDeath]

Not sure what went on there to warrant such cheering

The guy in Judo kimono spend the game with only almost no energy remaining but kick some serious Chunli butt...

She manages to escape and even to get a proper mega combo launched, he epicly parry all this and kick the bitch out... still with only 1 pixels energy remaining.

Tetris
Chicks...

yep, this is just too perfect when you manage to score a Tetris with a big 4 block rod introduced in the right place... and in the morning she disappears...

[Carnivius]

I still only play with Ryu

If all of Capcom's fighting games from Street Fighter II onwards could have sent player selection total stats to some database I'm sure characters like Ryu and Ken would still be waaay up at the top by an insane amount.  I will admit to playing as Ryu rather much (and I have the SFIV action figure of him, an SFIV t-shirt of him fighting Ken and I've actually sometimes played wearing my real karate gi just for fun ) though I do also have a fondness for playing as the very different Fei Long in SSFII and SSFIV.  I just find the controls for the moves almost second nature for those kinds whereas I'm awful with characters who use 'charge' input moves such as Guile and Blanka.  I've just never been able to make those special moves like Sonic Boom happen fast enough particularly against really good players who give you barely any margin for error.

[Carnivius]

Downloaded Street Fighter III from PlayStation Network yesterday and now I'm reminded just how tricky it is to time those parrys so well particularly against a long combination as shown in that video.  I've got even more respect for that guy's skills now.  I'm struggling to even get the parry tutorial bits done. 

[norecess]

How does it feel regarding controllers ?


I personally prefer playing my Street Fighters on my SNES as also on my Saturn, mainly for the controllers.


On the Saturn, I use the Virtua Stick Arcade (http://www.wwgaming.com/sega-saturn-virtua-stick-arcade-joystick-virtuastick-for-virtua-fighter.html) which really, is the best controller for playing fighting/shootemup games to me.
I also bought a Saturn-to-Dreamcast controller converter, so I can plug this controller with the DC.


Regarding SF3:3rd Strike, I love its gameplay (character animation is quite precise) but I feel a bit sad regarding the backgrounds / music.
My prefered SF* remains the Saturn's version of XMen vs. Street Fighter (which requires 4MB ram expansion) because it has both : great backgrounds, wonderful music, great gameplay.


For those who ignore it, gameplay drastically change actually from a version to an other one. You have new combo, new moves (in XMen vs Street Fighter, you can jump and double-jump by example, which is unique in a SF game).


All in all, I'm completely in love with the SF license, and the really good thing to us nowadays, is that it's pretty cheap to get the full collection.

[Carnivius]

I find the PlayStation Dual Shock a heck of a lot more comfortable than I ever did SNES or Saturn pads to the point I use it for pretty much anything these days even connecting it to my laptop to play various emulators including arcade and even CPC.  I do have the Dual X-Arcade sticks too which I've used on my laptop, PS2, DC (which I sold cos quite frankly I hated that console) and PS3 and it works well but I'm just happiest with a joypad these days.  Just all round more comfortable and the d-pad of the PlayStation joypads are certainly better than most (I used to get severe blisters using the horrible Dreamcast joypads due to the highly pronounced d-pad).  Also I can't get used to any controllers that aren't wireless these days.  Even when I'm playing on the PS3 with the USB cable to charge my joypad while I play I sometimes forget it's connected and when the doorbell rings or something I run off to the door still grasping the joypad and stop myself suddenly before I pull the entire console off the TV unit.

I actually think Street Fighter III's backgrounds are among the very best in any 2D game.  The music does generally suck though and I was relieved when Street Fighter IV went with updated remixes of the SFII character themes.  I was playing online last night but I seem to get quite laggy matches for some reason (so laggy that the game was counting various statistics multiple times for example counting many rounds played when I'd just done a couple).  I took my PS3 over to my girlfriend's house in the evening as we were gonna have dinner and watch the Doctor Who videos on my PS3 and while there I connected to her wi fi router and tried SFIII again and managed an absolutely lag free match.  Maybe she has a better connection.  She only lives two minutes walk away from me though.

I don't enjoy the crossover games at all.  To me they just don't feel like proper Street Fighter games at all and seem to put far too much focus on silly pyrotechnics and superhuman powers over any sense of actual physical combat.  I've owned a few of them but generally sold them on a while after while sticking to the core SF games.  Marvel Vs Capcom 2 is one of my most hated games of all time (the first one ain't too bad but the second game is a total mess).  I owned it on DC then sold it and then some years later when it appeared on the PlayStation Store I bought it again to see if it was as bad as I remembered and it was but the idiot that I am forgot I can't re-sell downloaded games.  Also wish I could get my money back on that Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD as it's absolute crap.  The HD graphics are awful comic art that just don't flow at all and even when you try to change the graphics back, only the sprites revert back to originals and you're still stuck with the cardboard looking backgrounds and some terrible off-color shadows under the fighters.  I rented Marvel Vs Capcom 3 a few months ago and still found it a horrible mess.  I guess that's just the way the fans of those games like it but I really don't.

Oddly enough I found the 15th Anniversary Street Fighter II Ryu joypad for PlayStation 2 at a car boot sale last sunday for a couple pounds.  Ok it's nice having the six button layout but the pad itself isn't very comfortable.  I mainly got it for the picture of Ryu that's one of those images that 'animates' when you tilt the angle of the thing it's on.  I've actually tried using it on my PS3 via a PS2 pad adaptor and it plays alright with some games but oddly the buttons don't relate to the PlayStation properly.   Pressing X registers as O for example.  Not too bad when you remap the actual game controls but still a bit strange cos I've used other PS2 pads through this adaptor and they've been fine.  Not worth the hassle though especially since it purposely lacks the other controls needed to play other games such as the analog sticks and obviously the PlayStation button that PS3 pads have to bring up the XMB menu.


hm that was quite a long post.  I think I rambled on...

[norecess]

You know what ? You gave me motivation to explore back my collection and give you arguments which is the best. 


About the controller stuff, it's more a matter of taste I guess. I personally does not have much love to bring for the Sony's controller, but I know people that do, so..

[McKlain]

I haven't found a better controller than the xbox 360 one. The bad thing is that the d-pad is crap, at least in the standard model (I haven't tried the new one with the "transforming" d-pad). The playstation pad feels really umcomfortable to me.

Still, nothing like an arcade joystick to play street fighter 

[Metr]

I haven't found a better controller than the xbox 360 one. The bad thing is that the d-pad is crap, at least in the standard model (I haven't tried the new one with the "transforming" d-pad). The playstation pad feels really umcomfortable to me.

Still, nothing like an arcade joystick to play street fighter   

That's why I use this one:
http://xbox.about.com/od/xboxaccessories/fr/horiex2stickrev.htm


It's Hori, it's cheap, and is compatible with the pc (used to play SFIII with that mame online emu to play vs people and friends and it's so great )

Nothing can beat this. EPIC !!!!!

A pity EVO this year only had SF4

[McKlain]

 

That's why I use this one:
http://xbox.about.com/od/xboxaccessories/fr/horiex2stickrev.htm

Hehe, I bought this one long time ago:



Thank god the ps2 adapter works without the need of any driver on windows 7 64bits. Still, I barely use the joystick.