MichaelJackson
[10] Knight
Change killed my father and raped my mother.
I think that this GI/Parry change will be a fantastic tool used by the elite players to keep the poor, dirt farmer "bads" down on their horrible, disease ridden mud plantations (or equivalent downtrodden locale). Much like GIs/Parries are used now by the better players but to an even further extreme as instead of being able to just hit 4G or 6G with no "cost" you now have to actually SPEND something to do so. This hidden mental investment will turn off alot of players from this fantastic technical tool and, as I stated before, extend the gap between the tiers of players.
I recently went to a gathering at a local college that had MK as a main attraction for just casuals and what not and the vast majority of the players didn't even know the basics of the combo breaker ability. "Why do that when I can just get more damage with my SUPER BADASS SHADOW KICK!?" was heard in one form or another from various players. There wasn't a soul among them who knew how to properly interrupt a high damaging combo that would have potentially turned the match in their favor.
Now these specimens of the local gaming community weren't the most competitive and definitely not representative of the best of the best of America's Elephant Graveyard that is Florida, however I can see alot of players thinking along the same lines as they do... why spend meter on something when I could get more damage from something else by expending that very same meter?
I'm lamenting, for the most part, on behalf of all the "Starcraft Bronze" level players of Soul Calibur V that I come across as they will know first hand how much of a gap there will be.
On a side note: It took me ~10 tries to remember my password.
I think that this GI/Parry change will be a fantastic tool used by the elite players to keep the poor, dirt farmer "bads" down on their horrible, disease ridden mud plantations (or equivalent downtrodden locale). Much like GIs/Parries are used now by the better players but to an even further extreme as instead of being able to just hit 4G or 6G with no "cost" you now have to actually SPEND something to do so. This hidden mental investment will turn off alot of players from this fantastic technical tool and, as I stated before, extend the gap between the tiers of players.
I recently went to a gathering at a local college that had MK as a main attraction for just casuals and what not and the vast majority of the players didn't even know the basics of the combo breaker ability. "Why do that when I can just get more damage with my SUPER BADASS SHADOW KICK!?" was heard in one form or another from various players. There wasn't a soul among them who knew how to properly interrupt a high damaging combo that would have potentially turned the match in their favor.
Now these specimens of the local gaming community weren't the most competitive and definitely not representative of the best of the best of America's Elephant Graveyard that is Florida, however I can see alot of players thinking along the same lines as they do... why spend meter on something when I could get more damage from something else by expending that very same meter?
I'm lamenting, for the most part, on behalf of all the "Starcraft Bronze" level players of Soul Calibur V that I come across as they will know first hand how much of a gap there will be.
On a side note: It took me ~10 tries to remember my password.
