lobo
Luminario
@kingace: both SSF4 and MvC3 focus primarily on zoning your opponent. my experience is that they are games about controlling space more than anything else. it isn't just about combos, either. both games are about forcing mixups up close as well with lows/throws/overheads and crossups. i also find both games to be retarded. lol. to put it in SC terms...imagine if calibur were 2d and there were no such things as mids. G2 would block every single move in the game except for 9b, 9k, throw, and cervy/algol teleport BT tricks. oh and 9k often lead to 100 DMG combos, as would 2k, which would be your "mixup". not my thing.
as far as VF, well i would say that it has consistently been far and away the best fighter in every aspect except for one. VF mixups, balance, high level yomi and such are unparalleled by other fighters. the only complaint i have with it is that it is just too damn hard. i tried playing it seriously for a few months, quit for like a year, and had to start at square one. i couldn't do ANYTHING anymore. in the other franchises at least i can come back after a long hiatus and pick up close to where i left off.
as for tekken 6...well it is straight garbage imo. i'm a long time huge tekken fan, and i think T6 is the worst game in the whole series. (yes, even worse than T4) in tekken 6, not only is the damage stupid, but the story is washed out, the benefits of playing trashy and throwing out random launchers are WAY too big, and the rage meter rewards you for playing shitty and leaves huge balance issues. the worst thing, though, is that variation is gone completely. in calibur games, other tekken games, street fighter games, VF games...there is variation. some characters are turtles. some characters milk and work meters. some characters are punishers and some are rushdown pitbulls. some characters rely on gimmicks and some are just throw powerhouses. these things cater to players entering the game with different mindsets and add excitement and variety to the games as people try to counter other styles with their own.
this is gone in tekken 6. every single character plays exactly the same. the goal is always get launch > carry to wall > bind > trap. there is no reward for different styles. it is because of this that i see T6 as the most boring mainstream fighter of the past few years. of course it is well balanced. how hard can it be to balance the same character 36 times? ask me sometime on PSN and we can play some tekken 5:DRO and i'll show you what a good tekken game plays like.
as for the best non-calibur fighter...my vote would be split between KoF 2002, tekken 5:DR, and Mark of The Wolves. i also get an unnatural amount of pleasure out of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure but i only play it at an uberscrub level so i can't really say how good it is.
as far as VF, well i would say that it has consistently been far and away the best fighter in every aspect except for one. VF mixups, balance, high level yomi and such are unparalleled by other fighters. the only complaint i have with it is that it is just too damn hard. i tried playing it seriously for a few months, quit for like a year, and had to start at square one. i couldn't do ANYTHING anymore. in the other franchises at least i can come back after a long hiatus and pick up close to where i left off.
as for tekken 6...well it is straight garbage imo. i'm a long time huge tekken fan, and i think T6 is the worst game in the whole series. (yes, even worse than T4) in tekken 6, not only is the damage stupid, but the story is washed out, the benefits of playing trashy and throwing out random launchers are WAY too big, and the rage meter rewards you for playing shitty and leaves huge balance issues. the worst thing, though, is that variation is gone completely. in calibur games, other tekken games, street fighter games, VF games...there is variation. some characters are turtles. some characters milk and work meters. some characters are punishers and some are rushdown pitbulls. some characters rely on gimmicks and some are just throw powerhouses. these things cater to players entering the game with different mindsets and add excitement and variety to the games as people try to counter other styles with their own.
this is gone in tekken 6. every single character plays exactly the same. the goal is always get launch > carry to wall > bind > trap. there is no reward for different styles. it is because of this that i see T6 as the most boring mainstream fighter of the past few years. of course it is well balanced. how hard can it be to balance the same character 36 times? ask me sometime on PSN and we can play some tekken 5:DRO and i'll show you what a good tekken game plays like.
as for the best non-calibur fighter...my vote would be split between KoF 2002, tekken 5:DR, and Mark of The Wolves. i also get an unnatural amount of pleasure out of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure but i only play it at an uberscrub level so i can't really say how good it is.
