When this game is played well, it's impossible to stifle a massive grin.
I don't think it's just fighting game fans that will get that either...

This game could end up being the defacto vs fighter.

DBFZ, lost connection to my first matched opponent, then lobby crashed. Never mind. I’ll try again tomorrow. How long is it running for?

To be honest I’m just gonna buy this for the single player. I’d pretty much buy anything DBZ related

It closed just now at 8!

I'd rent it if I could, but I'm well on the fence for now. I had to press a variety of buttons to get Slayer going in ACP, along with his jump-inserts. Whereas I felt like I was being funnelled into rote combos with this. I found you can mix them up from messing around with them, but there's loads of mash.

It doesn't strike me as being as open as KoF XIV in reserving its autocombos for beginners; they seem to feature quite heavily in Sako's play from what I've seen of it. Dunno.

https://www.twitch.tv/sakonoko_game

Escape wrote:

It does move nicely.

This.

Also, I'm not a DBZ fan by any stretch, but the graphics are really impressive.
So I'll admit to being carried along by that in no small part.

And yes, attacking play at this stage does look a little repetitive. Very Marvel like with assist/overhead/low mixups all over the shop when the more serious mans are playing. And characters who look so different visually, currently appear to share very similar movesets.

Re combos by rote, I believe the combo system (at this time) appears to be more restrictive than Xrd, however this game is a 3v3 tag battler and as such it appears the emphasis is (rightly imo) on team composition a la glorious MvC3.

Yeah. The homing dash is an interesting thing...

The game is quick, the stages, both horizontally and vertically, are huge, and the characters are relatively small. 

I think it's a concession to 'mid-level' players like me, who ain't got them 1frm lnkz, and Sirlin spacing, but will spend a pair of lost hours in training mode looking for the longest string I can mash, before the execution barrier sets in.

As for combos, pretty sure Scape' just being facetious... It's not even day one yet.

Extra day of beta.  I'll try again tonight and see if I can get a match.

It's also made me realise how much I hate the modern games media now...

Edge had a preview recently... I bet you the details can be found there.
Run a Google search though, and all you find is "Latest test adds Goku's dog!!!" or something.

I just read the EG preview for Dragonballz, the casual stuff appeals greatly. This may be the first fightman I pick up this gen.

The immortal legend



Such restraint.

I am to the available depth in fightmans as paddling toddlers are to the ocean.

Kuroda is just a fucking deity.

Almost everyone else plays a lively frame-exchange game in 3S. Its pace really encourages the cultivation of flashmen, their desire to break Kuroda's rhythm to suit their own his recurring strength.

Qudans is similar in using Devil Jin's frame-advantage to make others doubt the viability of their options, often proving their doubts correct via constriction. We've all lost for giving in to the cheapness urge when losing badly, just as we've felt mindgames shift in our favour when storming ahead.

I've always visualised mindgames between equal players as a balanced see-saw at the start of each round, and so the more airtight on frames and punishes you are, the fatter.

Reads are great, but you can never count on them as an influence because the other player obviously doesn't predict them. Whereas staying on top of frames and in control is a visible metric that gets into others' heads. Kuroda gives more of himself away with Akuma, I think, despite the tier-jump from Q. And that temptation to get in on Akuma's always much higher given his health, so the dynamic's less psychologically exploitative.

Brooks wrote:

It's hard to beat the sheer efficiency and sound reads, and Q is a great platform for that sort of demonstration for having specific limitations. He should be a sitting fuck on paper, but Kuroda manages to control the matches by what appears to be well, a lot of sitting. Proper tense footsie fightman - the best fightman. I've been trying to model my Oro play on Kuroda's lean approach for ages, but I'm bound to be outta shape now. Need regular comp.

That's the archetypal Itabashi/Snakeeyez game, isn't it?
Also, that kara throw is a fuck.

While fundamentals are character agnostic, you can't neglect your toolset in a serious game.

When Snakeeyez plays as a shoto (Ryu/Akuma), there's more patience than the typical Ryu player there, but he does play more like every other decent shoto player, because he now has more offensive options, and no way of claiming a fifth of a healthbar with one throw.

When I watch the UK WSO stream from time to time, I like to watch Hurricane... He's not as famous as Problem X is now, and Cammy's toolset masks his intention, but Hurricane has the kind of working memory that your Kuroda vid illustrates.

He'll remember a repeated pattern of play, 10+ exchanges down the line, and will fuck you with full punishes, just because.

Basically, I'm trying to say, you can't just sit there in the same way with Oro, but everyone can stand to work on reading opponents... Which Kuroda/Giefs/Sims nurture out of necessity...

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I've not played anyone half decent in a long time. :[