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So these FT10 3rd Strike matches are so good. Even if you're not a diehard fan of the game, they're worth a watch. @DayaanI'm assuming you saw these?

I honestly think this is by far the most important change. Juri players usually start the round backpedaling to the corner because they have to store. If she started the round with full stores she could initiate the offense, get a life lead and then play her zoning/hit and run game. I think this would make a world of difference. Why Capcom thinks it's okay for her to start the match with no stores is beyond me. Ibuki doesn't start the match with zero Kunai. It makes no sense.

The graphics to me look like a slightly updated version of Samsho. I was generally happy with how that game looked so I can't complain about XV. In a sense I do agree with you though. It would have been kind of nice if they took a chance on something that looked drastically different from the norm.

KOF graphics look good to me! No worries about a repeat of XIV. Still we barely saw much. No animations, netcode, gameplay. Hopefully we learn more next week.

The entire staff went on vacation during covid? Up until the day of the trailer reveal? Doesn't seem like the smartest decision on their part....

This is kinda where I'm at. I was hyped for S5 when I thought we were getting a summer character dump...but then they went on to tell us to wait for a year and a half. At this point, we all just want to see SF6. Even Tokido said it recently in an interview with Harada. Oh well, I'm hype for the KOF 15 reveal tomorrow.

What do you guys think about Guilty Gear Strive not having a ranked mode? I was thinking about this and it's a pretty drastic change from what we're used to. Every fighting game I can think of had some sort of rank mode since like SF4. It looks like Strive is going to have this tower instead where you move up a floor as you get better. Not sure how I feel about this as I do enjoy rank modes but there are definitely pros and cons.

I work out all the time but I think your brother's arms are 3X the size of mine 🤣

We're definitely in a fighting game drought waiting for the SFV update plus all the new next gen fighting games on the horizon. I've been playing old games. Just started a Parasite Eve playthrough and will probably play Vagrant Story next. Despite playing nearly every Square game as a kid, I missed out on these two.

Setplay is just a preplanned sequence that puts the opponent in a mixup situation. Gill has a lot of them in VT2 - he sets up an ice puddle and the opponent is forced to guess their way out or be frozen.

Hybrid zoner/setplay character. Look up Nemo, he's the only Gill master out there.

This is why Honda has the highest online win percentage.

Does this mean we can all go back to SRK?😉

Why not just put 'winter' then instead of winter 2020? Then people wouldn't have got their hopes up about a December release. Their wording was bound to confuse people. Just forget including 2020 at all if this was their original plan in the first place.

A lot of SFIV Yang players (including myself) switched to Karin in V because they share "rekkas" and a cancellable cr.mk. Karin in Alpha 3 also had a command grab. The funny thing is though that they play NOTHING alike. Karin plays more like Elena or Chun did in 4. There aren't any characters in 5 that come close to how the Twins played. With all the 'rules' in V I don't know how the Twins, Viper or Fei Long ever get into the game and at this point I don't want to see it.

Capcom was like how can we upstage these rival games? Let's delay Dan's release until after all these announcements!

Menat for sure - best thing to come out of SFV. Character design and the way she plays are so cool. I'd probably main her if I could actually play zoners.

Yeah, I'm wondering if this last season was really even necessary. I guess depends on when SF6 releases. If it releases early 2022 that's not enough time to even master these season 5 characters (unless you're a god). And it kind of sucks for Rose players that probably wanted her in SF6.

Winter 2020 can technically only be from Dec 21st - 31st. So he should be dropping sometime in that 11 day period. This is Capcom though, and that date could easily change. I'm not really excited about Dan I just want to see the new battle mechanic and rebalance.

He let the sadness of the swamps get to him....😭

That fight is brutal. And if my memory is correct the game prompts you to save before the battle - so unless you have a backup save file there's no way of going back and leveling up.

I'd also recommend FF Tactics. It's probably the only old game I'd recommend to someone who never played FF games. As much as I loved the old school turn based FF's - they really didn't age well in my opinion. Tactics is more of a strategy game and the battles are very fun and don't feel like a chore. The story is pretty engaging as well. It's a great game. FF7R is great too, and plays more like an action game than an old school RPG. I'd recommend both!

There are many many people that liked SF4 more than SF5 but continue to play 5 because that's where the competition is at. If they disliked 5 enough, like you said, those people probably either quit or moved on to other games. But there are a lot of players like myself that preferred 4 and still play 5 actively.

Heard Cyberpunk is a fun game but very buggy. Sounds exactly like Skyrim when it first came out.