Hate Speech: When Worlds Collide (Revisited)

Everybody gets owned up at their first tournamentS Yue. The sooner you come to terms with that, and the fact that we've all been there, the more fun you will have. If this is enough to deter you from coming to events like winterbrawl, you fuckin' up man.
 
I find it funny that Hates has a paragraph called "Take your beatings" when i could easily recall a few weeks ago when he lost to jax c:. But enough about that, on to answer the question.

The funny thing is: my first match never happened. I picked Ezio, and the guy ends up either quitting, or his system just turned off. After that I tried again and was blown away at how responsive the online play was.

In 4, I felt the online was so lopsided that it was un-fun. In contrast, SCV did something I thought would not happen, fair online play. The connections are solid and the matches I have had were fun. When I lost, I felt it was my fault, and that is exactly the kind of feeling all games in general should strive for when playing them.

Example: a particular Asta player I played a while ago brutally killed me in our first go about. When I got to him a second time, he put up as much of a fight as I had. We were literally neck and neck with 2 round won on each side and siting on 2 bars. We had close to no life left when I was able to beat him/her and it was one of the most exciting feelings I have had with this game yet.

Another player worth mentioning is someone who I have tied with as far as victories and losses go (Vincent, you and me buddy boy!). Vincent and I have gone at it a few times with equal wins and losses and I feel that this person and I will have quite a few matches in the months to come. This game has now delivered a sort of blade brother feeling that I would have also not expected.

At the end of the day, nothing will be like offline experiences, that goes without saying. However, the online aspects are not only good, they are down right impressive, and I am glad that project soul was able to make that shine. Offline modes aside, the game as a whole is worth my purchase and it has proven it's worth as a lasting game to me.
 
Sadly since most people in my country dont have SC5 yet, I havent been able to fully test 5 bar games. The little i was able to play seemed wonderfull! JFs, Breaking throws and blocking lows where pretty decent. JG is suicide tho =P

I started hanging out on the NY colloseo and got into a few 3 bar matches and it went ok, nothing really good but still was kinda ok.

I also fought that voldo guy inside the sphere of drums lol, after lossing the first round, i did all i could to break his gear at the end of the next round, after that it wasnt much of a problem to see what he was doing lol.
 
Mamoru_Hasukage said:
I find it funny that Hates has a paragraph called "Take your beatings" when i could easily recall a few weeks ago when he lost to jax c:.
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That's actually a great example! I played it up like I normally do, but honestly it was a valuable learning experience.

If you go back an watch it, I did great when we both played somewhat conventionally, but the Jaxel figured out that I had no real experience against Xiba's counter-CE, and he worked it to great effect. The extreme reversal of fortune there sticks in my memory to the point that now I damn well know what Xiba can counter, and if I face a Xiba player in a real tournament I will be far more prepared. You can intellectually know something like that exists, but I really feel that until you're burned for it, you don't have the motivation to develop sound counter-strategies. It's important to expose ourselves to as much of that kind of stuff as possible in order to learn and inoculate ourselves against gimmicks.
 
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