A top post... for me.

I mean, personally speaking, I don't think there's too much to learn in this game tbh, having played at both ends of the learning shit for fightmen pool, either learning hella movesets in Tekken or learning mechanics in GG. 

In the end, all of the tools in DBFZ are just options, the more tools you learn the more options you have at your disposal to control the match. Imho that is the biggest advantage these types of games have over other fighters. It probably takes a few weeks for all the options to sink in and then you have to get them into your muscle memory so you don't have to think about what you should be doing next, but after that, it's all good, particularly in the case of GG where the defensive options available are extensive and I really miss having them in DBFZ! 

The biggest turn off for most I think and what I also found is that these early days games against randoms can feel very scrappy, like dudes are just constantly looking for run up 2m into stuff or raw air dash combos or raw super dash into stuff. It reminded me a lot of the 'flowchart ken' days just after Vanilla SF4 dropped when people were coming from other games into SF4 and getting blown the fuck out by random dp's because people hadnt learned how to bait and then punish that style of play yet.

I hope at some point the meta becomes about who can summon Shenron at the right time.

Reviving a character, restoring all current characters health, giving a second Sparking and full meter (massive buff) are all huge.

Can't remember what the fourth option is.

Also, played online for the first time yesterday.

Got absolutely battered, as is customary for online fighting game communities these days.
And it took hours (over 1 minute ~.~) to get a match, but the match was a smooth as eggs.

Undoubtedly better than what I went through with SF5... so far at least.

You ever stroke an egg, boy?

dynamiteReady wrote:

Also, played online for the first time yesterday.

Got absolutely battered, as is customary for online fighting game communities these days.
And it took hours (over 1 minute ~.~) to get a match, but the match was a smooth as eggs.

Undoubtedly better than what I went through with SF5... so far at least.

Yeah team big bodies are getting fuuuuucked up. Think I'm 2-12 atm. Matches feel like a scramble right now, especially as the game doesn't seem to give you much reward for blocking, at least not in a traditional sense of block and punish at the end of a combo because you can stop any combo early and just hit dragon rush and get a guard break into combo anyway. So it's waaaay more about good movement and knowing your counterattack options.

There are some good vids on YouTube from Max, behrudy and jmcroft that cover a lot of good basic stuff.

I totally suck at using assists having never played a 3v3 so I'm forever forgetting to switch out safely!

I played Tekken 2.

This game's got it absolutely right. Something it there for everyone.
Top level play is a joy to watch too:



I'm playing story mode right now...

I'm not a DBZ fan... I think the exposition is shit (so far), but it's pleasant enough, skippable, and well structured. The whole package is very worthy of the HYPE.

And the system's slowly beginning to sink in.
Not really chosen a team yet, but so far, Teen Gohan, Gotenks, and Yamcha, possibly...

Though Fat Buu is a top laugh to play as...

I miss Neo Empire alot.

Ha, four times in a row is a V exclusive.

Four times is Diet Dubs.

Even Mr. Wizard knows he can't possibly get enough McRibs for all the shilling he'd be doing by including MvCi after it got buried.

Melee I think will be there for the foreseeable, although it does grate that it's a car crash, matches take forever and why the hell can't we have 3rd Strike again? It brings in the cash, so its staying. I guess once ninty drop a switch smash bros the two smash communities might come together but I don't fucking care tbh, it's not a fighting game, come at me haters, etc.

At US Majors, MvC:I has consistently had higher numbers of entrants than other games that got in, so Mr. Wizard's reasoning is bullshit.

ChopperByrne wrote:

At US Majors, MvC:I has consistently had higher numbers of entrants than other games that got in, so Mr. Wizard's reasoning is bullshit.

Mr Wizard got more than just the US scene to think about these days though. He wants that max cpm, he knows that MvCi isn't going to give him it. I will be sad to see mahvel gone, because MvC3 was one of my favourite things to watch, but Capcom really dropped the ball with the sequel. I think they'd have been better off just staying within their means and using the money to better develop SFV.