The Fighting Game Thread IV: Arcade Edition

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Electromax: May 6, 2007

For me, I don't feel embarrassed if friends see me playing Street Fighter or Marvel.

I feel like I would be embarrassed playing Skullgirls. It's totally reasonable that lots of people don't care either way or think that's a stupid reason, but it's enough to dissuade me from getting it because I would cringe with some of that anime stuff personally.

To change the subject, I recently got a TE and it's noticeably smoother on button presses than my old SE stick was. Part of it is probably the better quality parts, but I also thought and I never really cleaned my stick beyond dusting it off. Do you guys occasionally take it apart and clean around the edges of the button caps (removing them from the wells) and stuff? My keyboard gets cleaned from time to time because dirt and fingerprints build up over time, never really thought about that with fighting sticks.

I used to have the clean my Gamecube controllers after friends would be using them for an extended period, lots of grossness there.

Electromax fucked around with this message at 15:45 on Sep 18, 2011

# ? Sep 18, 2011 15:39

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# ? Apr 29, 2024 04:24

Cinroth: Dec 11, 2008; Has it never occured
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3uKGAYDidQ&feature=player_detailpage#t=522s

# ? Sep 18, 2011 15:42

Jmcrofts: Jan 7, 2008; just chillin' in the club; Lipstick Apathy

BUTTERWORBS posted:

I seriously disagree.

# ? Sep 18, 2011 16:06

Eeevil: Oct 28, 2010; Well obviously he didn't see it, or he'd be wearing a hardhat

Electromax posted:

For me, I don't feel embarrassed if friends see me playing Street Fighter or Marvel.

I feel like I would be embarrassed playing Skullgirls.

If you don't mind, could you please explain why?

# ? Sep 18, 2011 16:14

Sade: Aug 3, 2009; Can't touch this.
No really, you can't

If you would be embarrassed playing any game, that's really your fault and not the game's.

# ? Sep 18, 2011 16:56

quakster: Jul 21, 2007; by FactsAreUseless

Sade posted:

If you would be embarrassed playing any game, that's really your fault and not the game's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQkbq-jNcYc

# ? Sep 18, 2011 17:27

TaurusOxford: Feb 10, 2009; Dad of the Year 2021

Sade posted:

If you would be embarrassed playing any game, that's really your fault and not the game's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q2Ep9lz5Ao

# ? Sep 18, 2011 17:31

Ashenai: Oct 5, 2005; You taught me language;
and my profit on't
Is, I know how to curse.

Sade posted:

If you would be embarrassed playing any game, that's really your fault and not the game's.

Well excuse us for not all being self-actualized enough to invite Grandma over for a friendly game of Battle Raper: HYPER REALACTION.

# ? Sep 18, 2011 17:36

Metrohunter: Sep 30, 2009; Ain't no thing like me, 'cept me.

I look forward to playing the MLP fighting game.

# ? Sep 18, 2011 17:43

GabbiLB: Jul 14, 2004; ~toot~

Those are good vids, here's another game I want to play:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ0c3S_W8PI

# ? Sep 18, 2011 17:49

Sade: Aug 3, 2009; Can't touch this.
No really, you can't

Comment redacted holy gently caress do you guys just keep this poo poo on your clipboards just in case someone says "if you would be embarrassed playing any game"

# ? Sep 18, 2011 17:50

Question Mark Mound: Jun 14, 2006; Tokyo Crystal Mew
Dancing Godzilla

Sade posted:

If you would be embarrassed playing any game, that's really your fault and not the game's.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrOAgaNs_SQ

# ? Sep 18, 2011 17:53

quakster: Jul 21, 2007; by FactsAreUseless

Sade posted:

Comment redacted holy gently caress do you guys just keep this poo poo on your clipboards just in case someone says "if you would be embarrassed playing any game"

Yes. Yes I do. :colbert:

# ? Sep 18, 2011 17:59

moron izzard: Nov 17, 2006; Grimey Drawer

Buhbuhj posted:

Those are good vids, here's another game I want to play:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ0c3S_W8PI

Of all the games for capcom to lift moves from...

# ? Sep 18, 2011 18:00

Electromax: May 6, 2007

Eeevil posted:

If you don't mind, could you please explain why?

I don't want to stir this pot because I really don't care either way, as for the guy who said "that's your fault and not the game's", it isn't anyone's "fault" I was just saying that's my personal reason for not buying it, I didn't try to convince anyone else to agree. The game looks beautiful in motion and the devs are obviously very passionate, and I can appreciate that, I just don't like the style/art direction they went with.

My reasoning is the same reason I would be embarrassed if my girlfriend came in and I was watching Tenchi Muyo or whatever (which I did when I was 11). The cast is all youngish girls (or at least all the footage I've seen, maybe there are others to be revealed) with interesting character designs which for me are lessened by short skirts with 2' thighs and that type of thing.

Street Fighter and Marvel obviously have Chun, Elena, Felicia, etc, but it isn't the entire cast or the theme of the game and there's other character designs like Oro and Dudley which DO appeal to my aesthetics. It isn't me attacking any of your guys' likes and dislikes or whatever, just that for games to grab me they have to have something that I can relate to, and although I like fighting games if all of Marvel's cast looked like Morrigan and Felicia I wouldn't have been interested in that either.

Dunno, just my 2 cents.

# ? Sep 18, 2011 18:03

Schmendrick: Aug 22, 2003; (Insert stupid MMO name here.)

Robolizard! posted:

Of all the games for capcom to lift moves from...

Kuma had the fart move since Tekken 3 if you're thinking about SFxT.

# ? Sep 18, 2011 18:32

Gutcruncher: Apr 16, 2005; Go home and be a family man!

Buhbuhj posted:

It would be cool if people weren't babies over an anime-ish artstyle.

No you dont understand! ANIMES ruin the PURITY of my manly FIGHTING GAME WITH FIREBALLS! REAL MANLY AMERICAN MEN ONLY

# ? Sep 18, 2011 18:40

angel opportunity: Sep 7, 2004; Total Eclipse of the Heart

I'm not talking about anything in this stupid argument.

Anyway I'm kind of excited for Skullgirls because it looks fun in the same way Guilty Gear was. I'm kind of worried it will end up playing too much like Marvel though, but I'm looking forward to giving it a try. Unfortunately no one in my scene is excited for it at all, so I have to hope it's just really good and once they all see it in action they will give it a try. Because regardless of how good it is, if no one plays the game it will be irrelevant like KoF.

# ? Sep 18, 2011 18:53

MillionsV: Jun 11, 2010

Jmcrofts posted:

Hey, you're the one with the gifs saved. :colbert:

# ? Sep 18, 2011 18:53

Spaceship Zero: Jul 24, 2006; The soul of vengeance is a robot dinosaur

Sade posted:

If you would be embarrassed playing any game, that's really your fault and not the game's.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg9qyNmLQJU

# ? Sep 18, 2011 18:56

Ash Crimson: Apr 4, 2010

Buhbuhj posted:

Those are good vids, here's another game I want to play:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ0c3S_W8PI

Is.. is this an actual game?

Why does this exist?

# ? Sep 18, 2011 18:59

Countblanc: Apr 20, 2005; _{Help a hero out!}

I'll only be embarrassed if the load I shoot in front of my friends while jerkin' it to the hot babes in Skullgirls doesn't live up to my expectations. Yowza!

# ? Sep 18, 2011 19:01

Jmcrofts: Jan 7, 2008; just chillin' in the club; Lipstick Apathy

MillionsV posted:

Hey, you're the one with the gifs saved.

Nah I copied them from this article:
http://borderhouseblog.com/?p=5366

# ? Sep 18, 2011 19:06

blue font: Feb 28, 2011

Electromax posted:

Street Fighter and Marvel obviously have Chun, Elena, Felicia, etc, but it isn't the entire cast or the theme of the game and there's other character designs like Oro and Dudley which DO appeal to my aesthetics. It isn't me attacking any of your guys' likes and dislikes or whatever, just that for games to grab me they have to have something that I can relate to, and although I like fighting games if all of Marvel's cast looked like Morrigan and Felicia I wouldn't have been interested in that either.

This is a good point, and pretty much my stance as well. Skullgirls looks painstakingly drawn, it's animated very well, and the art style is not hard on the eyes... obviously a lot of effort has been poured into it. And it looks like a solid game. But for fucks sake, Peacock is the only character shown so far who doesn't flash her poo poo whenever a button is pressed. It's not a dealbreaker for me, but come on.

I don't consider Skullgirls any worse than Soul Calibur or DOA in this regard, but it's funny how hard people will defend the panty shots as an... 'art style choice', meanwhile completely making GBS threads on other games for baring some skin.

# ? Sep 18, 2011 19:07

GET IN THE ROBOT: Nov 28, 2007; JUST GET IN THE FUCKING ROBOT SHINJI

MK, DoA and soul calibur are all way worse than skullgirls when it comes to being tasteless and arcana heart is an entire magnatude worse than those. Skullgirls doesn't come off as a game that uses sex as a selling point to me.

# ? Sep 18, 2011 19:27

Kuai: May 25, 2004

Gotta hate anime or else you are put on the pedo SA watchlist and might be permabanned.

# ? Sep 18, 2011 19:33

quakster: Jul 21, 2007; by FactsAreUseless

Gotta like anime because else I might hurt the feelings of an anime otaku.

# ? Sep 18, 2011 19:42

Countblanc: Apr 20, 2005; _{Help a hero out!}

quakster posted:

Gotta like anime because else I might hurt the feelings of an anime otaku.

Owned, Kuai. You're owned now.

# ? Sep 18, 2011 19:58

ShinsoBEAM!: Nov 6, 2008; "Even if this body of mine is turned to dust, I will defend my country."

Can we stop having this argument for the millionth time.

# ? Sep 18, 2011 20:15

FossilFuelUser: May 8, 2004; Global Warming

systran posted:

I'm kind of worried it will end up playing too much like Marvel though,

Funny, your worries are my hopes.

# ? Sep 18, 2011 20:24

Gutcruncher: Apr 16, 2005; Go home and be a family man!

ShinsoBEAM! posted:

Can we stop having this argument for the millionth time.

The problem with your proposal is that Anime is to Games what Religion is to GBS. It would be like asking a bird to stop chirping.

# ? Sep 18, 2011 20:34

Ultima66: Sep 2, 2008

Also not embarrassing: Long shots of Megan Fox's tits and rear end in Transformers.

# ? Sep 18, 2011 20:39

FossilFuelUser: May 8, 2004; Global Warming

BUTTERWORBS posted:

I seriously disagree.

You're seriously blind.

# ? Sep 18, 2011 20:57

Zaa Boogie: Sep 13, 2007; "Suckle on this receptacle!"

Look, it bothers some people. It doesn't bother others.

Can we agree to *this* point and go back to practical discussions?

# ? Sep 18, 2011 21:09

tranceMD: Apr 25, 2006; Forsooth! Methinks thou art no ordinary talking chicken.

Everyone in the thread who disagrees with me is wrong, and I am going to be smug about it.

Heh. That'll show 'em. :butt:

Anyway how about some real fightin' game topics. I hope young Anakin is a guest character in SCV.

# ? Sep 18, 2011 21:31

Boxman: Sep 27, 2004; Big fan of

ShinsoBEAM! posted:

Can we stop having this argument for the millionth time.

If we can't stop talking about panty shots, this thread will be gassed by the end of the month!

http://www.pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF071-Weeaboo.gif

# ? Sep 18, 2011 21:57

Dias: Feb 20, 2011; by sebmojo

I thought there was an option to give the characters tights or something like that? Just turn that on and play it, it looks like a pretty fun game and you won't have to worry about pantyshots turning you into a sexual deviant. Otherwise, I dunno, just don't play it? It's not like the scene will be all that big.

So, anyway. KOF XIII. What are the chances that Americans will pick up that game? The series was popular as all hell here in Brazil and the rest of South America, but I feel like even at its apex, it wasn't all that popular in the USA. Am I right? If it becomes somewhat popular, you'll start seeing a lot more of South Americans at big majors, I'd wager.

# ? Sep 18, 2011 22:12

Sade: Aug 3, 2009; Can't touch this.
No really, you can't

Dias posted:

So, anyway. KOF XIII. What are the chances that Americans will pick up that game? The series was popular as all hell here in Brazil and the rest of South America, but I feel like even at its apex, it wasn't all that popular in the USA. Am I right? If it becomes somewhat popular, you'll start seeing a lot more of South Americans at big majors, I'd wager.

There's apparently a lot of top SF players who are interested in it. There's really no telling if there'll be a scene for it here in the US though.

# ? Sep 18, 2011 22:19

The Rokstar: Aug 19, 2002; by FactsAreUseless

Spaceship Zero posted:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg9qyNmLQJU

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# ? Sep 18, 2011 22:26

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# ? Apr 29, 2024 04:24

Mochiballs: Aug 27, 2006

Dias posted:

So, anyway. KOF XIII. What are the chances that Americans will pick up that game? The series was popular as all hell here in Brazil and the rest of South America, but I feel like even at its apex, it wasn't all that popular in the USA. Am I right? If it becomes somewhat popular, you'll start seeing a lot more of South Americans at big majors, I'd wager.

I've been asking people in my area if they're planning to buy it and the general consensus seems to be that they'll give it a shot. I play near Sunnyvale too which is Street Fighter city so I have high hopes for it.

# ? Sep 18, 2011 22:28

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