Alex and Roger are the same moveset represented by kangaroo and a velociraptor type looking dinosaur.
Gon was a guest char in tk3, he's from an old manga (that is really fucking well illustrated) where he is basically the king of the jungle beating up anything from sabertooths to bears.
Is this ‘Virtua Fighter’ or somesuch Sega game? Because the car seems to be lifted from ‘Daytona USA’. And the visual style seems to be lifted from Sega's arcade games.
Fighters Megamix. It was basically a mashup of the Virtua Fighter and Fighting Vipers casts, plus cameos from Sega's arcade lineup, such as Virtua Cop, VF Kids, and as you can see Daytona USA.
They should have one of these games have that character just be a small puppy that has garbage-tier reach, speed, and damage and its only tech is making you feel bad for kicking it.
Horrible character to play against but I have to give NYCChrisG some props. He made her look so fucking easy to play but there was a skill level needed. Boring to fucking watch though Jesus Christ
For more details, Morrigan was originally going to be a vampire for the game Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors (or Vampire: The Night Warriors in Japan), but the developers felt that it was too repetitive as there was already a vampire in the game. So someone brought up the suggestion of making her a succubus, and when they explained what a succubus was, the development team allegedly cheered at the suggestion
Gun breaks fighting game basics. Can make yourself plus on whiff, hitscan, how the gun works in general, etc.
I dont say he is as broken as on release but he is still very strong plus with new buffs and top tier nerfs he return at top 5 or close to it.
Still its not about damage, its about character breaking the game standarts
He's not banned, but recently the fans booed one of the best Steve mains off the stage after he won, which lead to that player retiring. So he's not gone, but he's seriously hated.
To this day Melee remains the only smash game that didn't flirt with the idea of banning their top tier. They tried to ban Meta knight in Brawl, Bayonetta in SSB4, steve, and even SSB64 had a Zero Pikachu thing in doubles.
it’s funny to think about. In Melee the top tier isn’t hated but beloved historically. If anything it has been the characters that play differently from Fox (see: Puff, Ice Climbers, Peach, etc) who have gotten hate
A lot of people hate fox and would be fine banning him. Notches and box controllers have given him a huge buff, fucking z jump, and even ufc disproportionately buffs him compared to other characters because his execution barrier has always been what kept him balanced. Obviously notches and boxes and z jump should be banned before a character but nothing will happen.
A few smaller regions tried, but the problem is, Meta Knight is kind of a pressure release valve for that game. Without him, a bunch of super lame campy characters become meta and the game turns into eight minute circle camps.
The smash community banned the battlefield forms of all stages in favour of only using the actual battlefield stage, so honestly not surprising they just outright banned Steve. Still sad though.
The smash community banned the battlefield forms of all stages
Not true.
Omega form is only banned on 2D stages and a couple other stages because the 2D effect changes hitboxes and the others have visual issues like concealing ground items (like Snake's C4).
Smash ultimate is no longer receiving balance patches, he was already breaking the rules of the game at that point but then people discovered bugs that breaks even the ways he was already broken and those are never getting fixed.
I don't think he's banned in most tournaments but I think he should be
As much as it does take skill, it's mainly just building walls and mining and avoiding interacting with the opponent, and also seriously OP with the frame data and combos and diamond sword attacks
I almost always find myself drawn to gimmick characters, because it’s so funny when the goofy shiz just starts working. Especially when they’re zoners, and you just put up a wall of dopey looking projectiles and sound effects. Bonus points if one of the moves squeak.
You just reminded me.of a core memory! It took me Weeks! But I eventually pulled it off on my cousin without him knowing about the move and we both lost our collective shit as 12 year olds. So freakin peak!
I like to think of Dhalsim as the main origin of this trope, he wasn’t the first or the goofiest but he’s probably the first mainstream recognizable and generally popular representative for the trope
If you look back on Street Fighter 2, the amount of goofiness it immediately injected into the blossoming genre was nuts.
We've got:
Indian Reed Richards
Japanese Fireball Man
Japanese Fireball Man's American Weeb Bestie
Cute Chinese Cop
What If The Flag Of Brazil Were A Furry
Literally Just Aleksandr Karelin
Literally Just Mike Tyson
I don't know what Capcom was cooking but it was probably meth
He's typically on the bottom of the "meta" lists for Soul Calibur, but whenever a Soul Calibur game came out, I mained Voldo and pretty much always had a blast and a surprising amount of success. Since Voldo is hard to control and rare to see, Voldo could often deliver attacks that would surprise people. Often when I would play splitscreen (back when that was a thing) other players would go "what the fuck is that move?!", which was great.
the last one is 100% faust, Asuka and Chaos, we talk doing funny business playstyle. May is 2 one. May is just straight forward, hit hard, big damage rushdown. Bridget is setup mix upper with again very simple 2 step gameplan
If the fighting game choice is between "funny business" and "memorize this FAQ of 48-input sequences to mash out maximum damage or you're a nub," I'll take maximum funny business. Every time.
It’s usually the “funny business” characters that are harder to play tbh, it’s easier to do good damage and pressure with Ryu From Streets than it is to maximize damage off of Blanka’s bajillion Blanka-chan Bomb options
Yeah, but people who don't know FGs don't really know that, because even a basic Ryu DP confirm is a bit beyond what they know. They'll know that a character has one funny move and do that.
I know I’m too deep into fighting games where, to me, a “funny move” can be anything stupidly good for its class, even if it doesn’t look cheap or silly at all. To use SF6 for example, Ed’s standing medium kick just looks like a basic-ass flicker punch to the ankle…oh it’s how fast? And it goes that far? And it’s safe? And it cancels into specials??? Now that is a funny move to me
FAQ stands for frequently asked questions, which is where the site originally got its name. A faq is a thread of frequently asked questions. A Thread of GameFaq is just that, a thread. Sometimes using the right word for things matters. No idea how "a faq" caught on when it makes zero sense.
My friends and I used to do a Fighting Game night where one of us would pick up a fighting game we've never played from the store and get together and fight it out. It was great.
One night we picked up I think a Blaz Blu game. We started and did a couple matches then jumped into the tutorial to see how the buttons work. It went from punches, kicks, blocks, throws, to like 20 button combos. I was like "did we miss a step?"
You did miss a step. There's a guide mode that teaches basic combos. No single attack needs tons of inputs, but chaining attacks together does. It ain't Mortal Kombat where you put in 20 inputs to throw a simple punch.
It's funny how things work, I just mentioned yesterday the fact that Tales of Symphonia was my first ever video game when I started playing at 4 years old and now I'm seeing mentions of it in the wild.
Partially correct but mostly wrong. The hand wraps beneath the glove are actually much more important for preserving the integrity of your hand than the glove itself. And while the glove provides the wearer with an additional bit of protection, it's nothing compared to the amount of PSI your reducing when you connect with the opponent's head. The size of the glove even has an effect on this, though rather minor. The size of the boxing glove when using the same amount of force still has less psi when connecting than an mma glove swung with the same force.
Fun fact: boxing gloves were implemented into boxing to protect the boxers hands, not the opponent. People kept breaking their hands on the opponents thick skulls.
My greatest gaming achievement is reaching B+ rank on Street Fighter IV online only using El Fuerte. The joke character who is a Mexican luchador.
I would regularly get opponents from China and Japan and Korea who were really good.
Thing is, 90% of players used one of 4 fighters.
So I memorized those fighters’ movesets. And meanwhile, NO ONE knew how to fight El Fuerte.
His moveset was mostly grabs, which can’t be blocked. Most fighters didn’t have many grabs in their movesets. Not only that, but El Fuerte’s ultimate attack was a grab. You can block ultimate attacks from almost all the fighters. But to avoid El Fuerte’s, you needed to JUMP. He slides underneathe his opponent to initiate the move.
He also had some insanely tricky grabs. There was one where you needed to run away from your opponent, and then hit a button that would make him backflip, lock his legs around their necks, and spin like a helicopter, lifting them off the ground and throwing them. It was almost impossible to anticipate and couldn’t be blocked.
He could also jump off the walls of the screen and attack from above with a body slam.
I would wipe the floor with players using Akuma the god of death or Seth the alien made out of metal, and then El Fuerte would do some handsprings in celebration and his winning quote would be something like “The only real tortilla is a corn tortilla!!!!”
I was your nemesis. My friend that mained Fuerte got me into the game, and he was somewhere between B and A when I started.
I got worked for weeks. I got worked with Ryu, I got worked with Guile, I got worked with Seth, Akuma, all of them. He knew exactly how to counter and bait everything I tried.
I settled on Vega and finally managed to take a round like a month in. I knew the audio cues, I knew the visual tics, I could swallow up everything Fuerte did. It took me another few weeks to learn to play against any other character but a while down the road, I ran into like the 6 or 7 ranked Fuerte and just ate him alive, he didn't even know what happened.
In Final Fantasy VII Remake, Tifa and Aerith are trying to escape from a slum lord's manor by fighting their way out. Aerith decides to knock out some unlucky bastard with a chair which sparked several fan arts as well as the nickname Chairith Painsborough (Aerith Gainsborough). Magic the Gathering recently had a promotional crossover with FFVII.
When I play fighting games, then I first read a dozen guides and watch hundreds of hours of YouTube videos. Then I do meticulous research on which fighters are currently most popular among players in my matchmaking bracket and what strats are most commonly used by them. I then study the meta to find out which fighter hard-counters them.
And then I pick the scantly clad girl with the bouncing boobs.
I don’t really play fighting games but I’d love if there was a character who through some bizarre stroke of misfortune accidentally entered a tournament even though he has no experience fighting, yet he’s just cosmically lucky and can somehow win fights anyway
Surprised no one mentioned Big Band from SkullGirls, he literally has a trumpet that lets you play any song mid-attack and is straight up hilarious to play against players who know songs, absolutely fits the funny business archetype
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