Street Fighter (SFIV, SSFIV, HDR)

Well I'm nocturnal and used to it. :p

Yeah MK9 I couldn't really give a damn about but I like KOF and it was good to see another strong KOF nation to make it.
 
I got 6 hours total sleep over the weekend, I pretty much watched from 4pm to 7/8am every day. I didn't know I had that in me to be honest lol, need a good 12 hour sleep tonight I think to get myself back on track. I don't normally do that for events but hey it's EVO..if there's 1 event you're just going to completely disregard your own health it's that. I'm going to watch the fights again when I get home if I'm still awake, Infiltration was damn near flawless.
 
KOF was brilliant last night. The grand final was on another level.
Had a look round Glasgow today to see if I could buy KOF XIII but none of the usual stores I buy from had it. :(
 
You should be able to get it fairly cheap online, a word of warning it is fairly difficult speaking from an execution perspective when compared to the likes of AE2012 and UMvC3 etc etc. I have it but I just don't have the time to even get half decent at the game because of AE, UMvC3 and TTT2 incoming. If you grab it for 360 though, I'll be happy to play sometime. I don't really know anybody else who has it, I have a feeling a few of my mates might try it out after what they seen last night though.

EDIT - £12 on Amazon...couldn't argue with that.
 
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For anyone who missed it, the whole of the top 8 AE finals
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Jesus just watched this, some really sick games with Infiltration just dominating :D Hail the new king. Gotta say I loved watching PR Rog playing this event and the last big one as well.
 
DanF said:
Jesus just watched this, some really sick games with Infiltration just dominating :D Hail the new king.
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He made such easy work of Daigo, and then Gamerbee in the Grand Final. Just completely steamrolled them, and landed some beautiful demons. :cool:
 
Now that I remembered, wasn't Desk supposed to have gone to EVO this year as well?

I wonder what happened or how far he made it.

At least his band's music was still used in a trailer.
 
inflitration and tokido use different set-ups and have different play style. infiltration is much more yomi based and isnt afraid to take risk and/or burn meter to make a read, whereas tokido is more safe cheese and safe vortex set-ups.

overall tokido plays a little more solid in general but infiltration has better footsies and way more scary in short sets because he is more aggressive and random, especially when he is on point and gets every read. funny enough he is the lamest person i have ever seen on sfxt. his rolento hit and run, jab and abuse is so good.
 
I find Infiltration to be better in matchups that Tokido isn't very good at as well, namely against PR Balrog as one example, though Tokido has been getting better at it.

Another odd thing is Infiltration's Ryu vs Ricky Ortiz's Rufus. The amount of times I see them two play, Infiltration mostly wins it. Yet when it's Daigo, it's just huh....!

Really though, Infiltration does deserve it this year since he has been winning quite a lot of majors and just levelled up so much.

Unlucky for GamerBee since he has been on a role lately and placing high himself, but just wasn't good enough this weekend.
 
i dont know if daigo has burnt out or something. i thought he would wake up and play better after defeats at singapore and ceo, but he looks like he reached his limit or maybe he was so far ahead, others have caught up with him. he was mashing that dp like crazy the whole tournament though.
 
Yeah it could be a lot of different reasons.

People levelling up, or because it is just Ryu and is easily figured out. Who knows.

Still, he is able to get Top 8 again so some credit goes to him.

I recon he'll just become like Alex Valle. Getting old, but will still do well and help out in the community.

Or this is my own theory, the MadCatz sponsorship cursed him :p. It felt so much like he did much better before he was sponsored.
 
FChamp doesn't say a great deal of interest/intelligent things in my opinion but he had an interview recently on CC Live where he talked about this 'decline' Daigo is on. He was saying when Daigo first started coming over to the states (this is in regards to SFIV) he knew an awful lot about the game that the Americans and other countries didn't. He said it wasn't until the last 2 years or so that America even started working with option selects and counter hit setups etc etc and he just thinks that everybody is starting to catch up to Daigo on raw game knowledge and that's what is happening to him.

I think he's right, I've heard commentators several times mention that top US players (Justin Wong for example) didn't start using option selects until fairly recently because after trips abroad or whatever they noticed pretty much everybody had them and it's the same thing with counter hit set ups. I know I seen a leap in my game especially when I started using counter hit setups, option selects aswell I only put 1 to frequent use but I definitely need to look at more.

Hyv's interpretation of how Tokido and Infiltration play is spot on, I also find Tokido to be a much more safe Akuma who relies on the vortex to do damage where as Infiltration is much more aggressive. I don't know why people keep sleeping on him at majors (including myself) because historically he's done very well for himself, he actually played Daigo at SCR 2011 I believe and kept that pretty competitive despite Daigo using Yun which was 1 of Akuma's worst matchups back then.

Guys don't forget Tokido also plays a slew of other games and does well for himself at them, to my knowledge Infiltration only plays AE2012 and SFxT. Tokido goes to tournaments and places highly at SCV, KoF XIII, UMvC3, ST and AE2012..that's the only the ones I pay attention to he might play more like Blazblue or whatever not sure. He does play an insane amount of games though, I think that might be affecting his play as of late because he's been working hard on KoF XIII.
 
didn't they say on steam at some point Diago has had a kid and wasn't playing as much anymore? maybe I was imagining it as it was like 3 am at the time.

Yeah I think Infiltration, pr rog & tokido are my favourites to watch now.
 
Also by the way, what the hell happened to Poongko against Xiao Hai (spelling?) ??? I've never seen him play that cautiously before in my life, he looked borderline scared. Is Cammy a really bad matchup for Seth or something?
 
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