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Got my Rising Thunder invite!

Hoping they made all the characters boring as fuck looking so the F2P aspect makes them look like gundams. EASY MONEY for them.
 
CPS2 said:
I'm ignoring all of that because the problem with all AAA games is that their tone, artwork, story and music are generally fine, but they're barely even games. This at least looks like a game and they can add all that superfluous stuff later.
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This is how I feel on it and why I say it has a lot of potential. The core gameplay is solid and you can feel how much love went into it. It just needs the time to polish itself up to be more appealing and if your only real issue is a need for more visual flair then thats nothing to worry about. You can always spend time on a title like this since its freemium to continue to polish your atmosphere as you go.

I'm kind of wondering on the hitstop though if that wasn't added as another, but more subtle tweak aimed at making things more approachable to casuals. It slows things down a bit which is a hype dethrottling thingy, but it doesn't kill things off completely. It does give lower level players more reaction time to reorient themselves to whats happening. If so...very clever idea since thats a big chunk of where that market's money comes from.
 
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Running RT on maxed settings. 4790k + 970. Runs real good. I mean there's really nothing going on in the backgrounds, but smooth is smooth.

Games kinda fun. My stick isn't working with the game so I'm messing with pad. I played a set against some guy. He knew combos and how to extend combos. I almost beat him with just normals, 2 and 1's into supers and anti airs, but he got me with a super haha.

Online felt pretty good. There was some dropped frames (felt like a stutter/slowdown), but the ping was good. I have no clue on my opponents specs or connection so its hard to guage where the issue lies.

It has potential to be a fun fighting game. Is it the next best thing? Way too early to tell, but if they have the online setup where it can sustain it self, it could be the start of something big in the future.
 
QisTopTier said:
He has a valid point
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This. Folks seem to think videogaming on stage makes you a pro wrestler and you have to cut promos and play some sort of character.

Its not. Its videogames. Its competitive yes, but why should we act like jerks to each other and try to be antagonistic. The best EVO moments I had was the ones where I saw the players smiling and laughing after matches talking excitedly about each others tricks and how they worked. Heck Sonicfox hugged probably everyone there.

Folks should feel like esports is welcoming...not like some angry back alley arcade that you invaded the "turf" of.
 
shaowebb said:
Folks should feel like esports is welcoming...not like some angry back alley arcade that you invaded the "turf" of.
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Yup, everyone that is like OMG WE DONT WANT TO BE LIKE ESPORTS OMGAH. Grats you are already doing the same shit as esports.

Edit: Basically people are stupid.
 
ElTopo said:
Roll Cancelling wasn't an end-all be-all kind of thing. It just made specials have startup invincibility, that's it. It didn't make them magically safe on block or anything like that. Roll Cancels just meant that you could get through fireball zoning and made Oki a little more interesting, it also benefited charge characters more than anyone else because it was easier to pull off with them.
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Let's not forget that you can throw people out of certain specials being RC'd, like psycho crusher.

"No one" gave a fuck about the EO changes on Xbox because hardly anyone that took the game seriously touched it on that console.

Back to RT..
 
That was a poorly thought out stunt, I don't know why security didn't just haul his flabby ass out the door. Evo security lacking this year.
 
shaowebb said:
This. Folks seem to think videogaming on stage makes you a pro wrestler and you have to cut promos and play some sort of character.

Its not. Its videogames. Its competitive yes, but why should we act like jerks to each other and try to be antagonistic. The best EVO moments I had was the ones where I saw the players smiling and laughing after matches talking excitedly about each others tricks and how they worked. Heck Sonicfox hugged probably everyone there.

Folks should feel like esports is welcoming...not like some angry back alley arcade that you invaded the "turf" of.
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The FGC has a lot more of its DNA in common with Boxing/Pro Wrestling in many ways than it does traditional E-Sports. (Hell, it's even coming from the same general socioeconomic groups.)

The thing about "playing a character" is that it works. You have to make money somehow- and playing a character sure helps get you a sponsorship and attention. Stone Cold K-Brad blew the fuck up - EG and its sponsors had to be THRILLED at that.
 
kirblar said:
The FGC has a lot more of its DNA in common with Boxing/Pro Wrestling in many ways than it does traditional E-Sports. (Hell, it's even coming from the same general socioeconomic groups.)

The thing about "playing a character" is that it works. You have to make money somehow- and playing a character sure helps get you a sponsorship and attention. Stone Cold K-Brad blew the fuck up - EG and its sponsors had to be THRILLED at that.
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K-Brad's stunt didn't come at the detriment to others. That YT comment is ridiculous, but it is hella uncomfortable.

I don't think it's hard to be like "dude, don't make people uncomfortable"
 
Anne said:
K-Brad's stunt didn't come at the detriment to others. That YT comment is ridiculous, but it is hella uncomfortable.

I don't think it's hard to be like "dude, don't make people uncomfortable"
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I can't see the comment right now.

edit: Oh, yeah, no- tossing your shirt onto someone else is just gross. That's not hype, that's just stupid.
 
QisTopTier said:
Yup, everyone that is like OMG WE DONT WANT TO BE LIKE ESPORTS OMGAH.
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I never got this

" we don't want to be esports"

But your scene is growing... and the folks making the game are now taking active steps to make it esports. Its a loosing battle when it benefits the person providing you the sport.
 
Village said:
I never got this

" we don't want to be esports"

But your scene is growing... and the folks making the game are now taking active steps to make it esports. Its a loosing battle when it benefits the person providing you the sport.
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We don't want to be esports but we want to have big awesome tournaments with lots of prize money aka esports.
 
kirblar said:
Poker and TCGs (that aren't Hearthstone) aren't E-sports- it's just competitive gaming. E-sports is just a really obnoxious branding term.
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I don't think you get what that statement means.

People are crying they cant be obnoxious as fuck with no respect to fellow players. Yet want big organized events with lots of money involved.
 
Taking off your shirt is one thing, but putting said shirt onto the guy you're about to face is something else. It's not that big of a deal, relatively, compared to other kinds of player interference activity, and fortunately, Poongko took it sorta well. Kinda sorta.

Dude should have just took of his shirt and thrown it on the ground.
 
my computer can run RT but It was producing a massive memory leak (which is totally normal in alpha builds) that was crippling my PC by the time I closed it.
 
shaowebb said:
This. Folks seem to think videogaming on stage makes you a pro wrestler and you have to cut promos and play some sort of character.

Its not. Its videogames. Its competitive yes, but why should we act like jerks to each other and try to be antagonistic. The best EVO moments I had was the ones where I saw the players smiling and laughing after matches talking excitedly about each others tricks and how they worked. Heck Sonicfox hugged probably everyone there.

Folks should feel like esports is welcoming...not like some angry back alley arcade that you invaded the "turf" of.
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I agree with the shirt thing being grimy, but i disagree with your point. Why should everyone have to be friendly with each other in a competitive environment? If people dislike others and play up the heel angle there's nothing wrong with that (unless it starts turning too personal). Fans love the assholes, shit talking, and rivalries in other sports, so why does everyone have to play nice here?

I know the fighting games are for the players and not for the fans, but players dont always have to place nice, especially with so much at stake for some of them.
 
skLaFarebear said:
I agree with the shirt thing being grimy, but i disagree with your point. Why should everyone have to be friendly with each other in a competitive environment? If people dislike others and play up the heel angle there's nothing wrong with that (unless it starts turning too personal). Fans love the assholes, shit talking, and rivalries in other sports, so why does everyone have to play nice here?

I know the fighting games are for the players and not for the fans, but players dont always have to place nice, especially with so much at stake for some of them.
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You do realize other sports have fouls and penalties for shit like that right?
 
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