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Post by THE Baldy Kendrick on Jan 31, 2013 13:55:42 GMT -5
The EVO Fighting Game Championships will take place in July. Seven games were announced: Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3, Super Street Fighter 4 AE ver. 2012, King of Fighters XIII, Mortal Kombat 9, Persona 4 Arena, Street Fighter X Tekken ver.2013, and Tekken Tag Tournament 2. The eight game is going to be the game which raises the most money for the Breast Cancer Research Foundation by the end of January out of the following: Guilty Gear XX Accent Core +R Super Smash Bros. Melee Super Smash Bros. Brawl SFIII Third Strike, Online Edition Virtua Fighter 5 Divekick Melty Blood Actress Again Current MLP: Fighting is Magic Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale Dead or Alive 5 Capcom vs. SNK 2 Injustice Skullgirls Street Fighter II Super Turbo Blazblue Soul Calibur V Darkstalkers 3 Well, there's one day left in January. If you want to support any of these games, click their name on this page. The deadline is Midnight Pacific time (3am Eastern). Right now, the three games that lead the pack are Street Fighter II Super Turbo, Super Smash Bros. Melee and Skullgirls, but anything can happen between now and midnight. |
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Post by Gerard Gerard on Jan 31, 2013 14:46:30 GMT -5
Super Turbo's waltzing away with this, considering the mysterious benefactor.
I reckon 3rd Strike would've gotten more love had it been the CPSIII board, and not the considerably derided 'port of a port' that is the PSN/XBLA version.
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Post by darbus alan on Jan 31, 2013 14:49:03 GMT -5
I hope it's Skullgirls. If not that game, then Super Turbo. Smash Bros. tournament players are some of the most annoying and vile on the planet.
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Post by DXKramer on Jan 31, 2013 14:57:09 GMT -5
I hope it's Skullgirls. If not that game, then Super Turbo. Smash Bros. tournament players are some of the most annoying and vile on the planet. Plus they just had a dang tourney almost dedicated to them earlier in the month. |
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Post by Red Impact on Jan 31, 2013 15:40:26 GMT -5
Well, the game I like the most isn't going to win, but earning that much money for cancer research makes me ok with it.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2013 15:43:05 GMT -5
I'd rather see a Super Smash Bros. game win it, honestly.
Also, Fighting Is Magic was voluntarily taken out of the running by the dev team. They still encourage people to donate, but for another game instead.
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Post by darbus alan on Jan 31, 2013 16:36:42 GMT -5
I hope it's Skullgirls. If not that game, then Super Turbo. Smash Bros. tournament players are some of the most annoying and vile on the planet. Plus they just had a dang tourney almost dedicated to them earlier in the month. I still can't take a game seriously as a competitive game when the userbase dictates that you disable roughly 75% of the game to make it viable. Not to mention that Melee had an incredibly poor reception the last time it was at Evo. Unsurprisingly, competitive Smash is incredibly boring to watch for everyone else but competitive Smash Bros. players. NO ITEMS, FINAL DESTINATION, NO FUN, FOX ONLY. |
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Post by Koda, Master Crunchyroller on Jan 31, 2013 16:38:45 GMT -5
Plus they just had a dang tourney almost dedicated to them earlier in the month. I still can't take a game seriously as a competitive game when the userbase dictates that you disable roughly 75% of the game to make it viable. Not to mention that Melee had an incredibly poor reception the last time it was at Evo. Unsurprisingly, competitive Smash is incredibly boring to watch for everyone else but competitive Smash Bros. players. NO ITEMS, FINAL DESTINATION, NO FUN, FOX ONLY. Seriously, Smash is only fun BECAUSE of the items. Smash is a party fighting game. People severely handicapping it just to make it a tournament fighter are missing the point to the Smash games, IMO. |
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Post by Zabel Zarock on Jan 31, 2013 19:48:31 GMT -5
Super Turbo's waltzing away with this, considering the mysterious benefactor. I reckon 3rd Strike would've gotten more love had it been the CPSIII board, and not the considerably derided 'port of a port' that is the PSN/XBLA version. Most of it had to do with American 3S fans not caring about EVO due to the actual scene being small, the EVO runners not being fans of the game, and having their own stuff we wanna do. Games going to be there as a Side Tourney anyway and people are working on the idea of having our own Tournament of Legends. I still can't take a game seriously as a competitive game when the userbase dictates that you disable roughly 75% of the game to make it viable. Not to mention that Melee had an incredibly poor reception the last time it was at Evo. Unsurprisingly, competitive Smash is incredibly boring to watch for everyone else but competitive Smash Bros. players. NO ITEMS, FINAL DESTINATION, NO FUN, FOX ONLY. Seriously, Smash is only fun BECAUSE of the items. Smash is a party fighting game. People severely handicapping it just to make it a tournament fighter are missing the point to the Smash games, IMO. What point, the game had the options to turn stuff off, we used them. WE have fun with items off in tournaments, you have fun with them on, everyone won in Melee unlike Brawl. Plus they just had a dang tourney almost dedicated to them earlier in the month. I still can't take a game seriously as a competitive game when the userbase dictates that you disable roughly 75% of the game to make it viable. Not to mention that Melee had an incredibly poor reception the last time it was at Evo. Unsurprisingly, competitive Smash is incredibly boring to watch for everyone else but competitive Smash Bros. players. NO ITEMS, FINAL DESTINATION, NO FUN, FOX ONLY. That's not even true, the day of Melee Finals at APEX it was catching tons of hype from everyone in the fighting game scene, twitter was ablaze with people being compeltely amazed at the skill and varieity seen on stream. From Top players like Wong to low level players people were amazed and wanted to see Melee at EVO. And I find it funny you bring up that bull s*** about Fox and Final Desitnation when neither were seen that much in tournament. Personally I really really really REALLY hate that money is going to be what decides what gets the 8th spot, it's extremely stupid and while three games I love are in the runnings, no matter what I'll still peeved at what won because it wasn't on the strength of the actual community that attends, but due to who had the deeper pockets. Seriously I love Skullgirls, I really do, but it had no right being on there due to the strength of the community, it's to weak right now and while getting into EVO would help it games like GGAC, ST, 3S, and VF should ahve gotten more looks due to having compartivley healthier scenes of people actually showing up to play. |
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Post by Mozenrath on Jan 31, 2013 20:00:16 GMT -5
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Post by Zabel Zarock on Jan 31, 2013 20:05:04 GMT -5
If Skullgirls makes it, I really do hope all the people I see on Twitter actually do pick it up and stick with it, Lab Zero needs all the help they can get.
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Post by Koda, Master Crunchyroller on Jan 31, 2013 20:09:26 GMT -5
Super Turbo's waltzing away with this, considering the mysterious benefactor. I reckon 3rd Strike would've gotten more love had it been the CPSIII board, and not the considerably derided 'port of a port' that is the PSN/XBLA version. Most of it had to do with American 3S fans not caring about EVO due to the actual scene being small, the EVO runners not being fans of the game, and having their own stuff we wanna do. Games going to be there as a Side Tourney anyway and people are working on the idea of having our own Tournament of Legends. Seriously, Smash is only fun BECAUSE of the items. Smash is a party fighting game. People severely handicapping it just to make it a tournament fighter are missing the point to the Smash games, IMO. What point, the game had the options to turn stuff off, we used them. WE have fun with items off in tournaments, you have fun with them on, everyone won in Melee unlike Brawl. I still can't take a game seriously as a competitive game when the userbase dictates that you disable roughly 75% of the game to make it viable. Not to mention that Melee had an incredibly poor reception the last time it was at Evo. Unsurprisingly, competitive Smash is incredibly boring to watch for everyone else but competitive Smash Bros. players. NO ITEMS, FINAL DESTINATION, NO FUN, FOX ONLY.[/quote] That's not even true, the day of Melee Finals at APEX it was catching tons of hype from everyone in the fighting game scene, twitter was ablaze with people being compeltely amazed at the skill and varieity seen on stream. From Top players like Wong to low level players people were amazed and wanted to see Melee at EVO. And I find it funny you bring up that bull s*** about Fox and Final Desitnation when neither were seen that much in tournament. Personally I really really really REALLY hate that money is going to be what decides what gets the 8th spot, it's extremely stupid and while three games I love are in the runnings, no matter what I'll still peeved at what won because it wasn't on the strength of the actual community that attends, but due to who had the deeper pockets. Seriously I love Skullgirls, I really do, but it had no right being on there due to the strength of the community, it's to weak right now and while getting into EVO would help it games like GGAC, ST, 3S, and VF should ahve gotten more looks due to having compartivley healthier scenes of people actually showing up to play. [/quote] Like I said, Smash is a party fighter. It's point is to have fun with friends fighting each other as Nintendo characters at like a party. The fun in the game comes from the chaos of four players on the screen tossing items every which way. I've watch several Smash tournament matches and they've been incredibly dull as far as I am concerned. Also need I remind you that there is, albeit very basic, actual platforming in Smash and other games of its ilk? They aren't straight up fighting games. The fact that you have to go out of your way and set up an extreme amount of handicaps to even make it resemble a straight up fighter should be reason enough why Smash shouldn't be at EVO. In my eyes EVO should be restricted to games that are straight up fighters out of the box. If you have to fiddle with the settings to make it a traditional fighting game, it isn't a traditional fighting game. |
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Post by Zabel Zarock on Jan 31, 2013 20:14:39 GMT -5
Then thank god you're not one to be makign that decision.
And so what if theres platforming in Smash? Theirs still footsies, mixup, spacing, and punishing. It's not a traditional faighting game but it's still a fighting game. Honest question, have you ever been to EVO and do you ever plan on attending? If you do you'll see a wide varieity of games getting tournaments and hype, they may not be on the main stage but that's not the point.
And on the fiddlign witht he game point, all the core parts of Smash are there. The game plays the same way with items as it does without. List all the options you really lose in Melee without items. And PS, for awhile we experiemnted with having most *Not all the items, certain ones are far to busted to be used like the fan* of the items on, but due to not being able to turn off exploding capsules it made matches far to random. Alot of this sounds like stuff from someone on the outside looking in and not someone that actually attends events or takes the time to try and understand whats going on.
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Post by Koda, Master Crunchyroller on Jan 31, 2013 20:23:28 GMT -5
Then thank god you're not one to be makign that decision. And so what if theres platforming in Smash? Theirs still footsies, mixup, spacing, and punishing. It's not a traditional faighting game but it's still a fighting game. Honest question, have you ever been to EVO and do you ever plan on attending? If you do you'll see a wide varieity of games getting tournaments and hype, they may not be on the main stage but that's not the point. And on the fiddlign witht he game point, all the core parts of Smash are there. The game plays the same way with items as it does without. List all the options you really lose in Melee without items. And PS, for awhile we experiemnted with having most *Not all the items, certain ones are far to busted to be used like the fan* of the items on, but due to not being able to turn off exploding capsules it made matches far to random. Alot of this sounds like stuff from someone on the outside looking in and not someone that actually attends events or takes the time to try and understand whats going on. You'd be exactly right I haven't been to EVO. You know how expensive it is to travel from OKC to Vegas, man? More than I can afford usually(can't justify flying to Vegas just for fighting game tournaments I wouldn't get far in(I'd make it through a few matches if I was lucky and avoided getting paired against the higher tiered people, but then again maybe not, I've seen people who looked really good at their games get eliminated early on without facing the "stars")). And yes I know all about the floor tournaments, but you can't exactly watch the floor tournaments all the time, unlike the main stage tournaments. Since I can't physically attend, watching the main state tournaments is the best I can do. And I don't want the boring ass Smash tournaments on the main stage. Keep the boring shit on the floor. |
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Post by THE Baldy Kendrick on Feb 1, 2013 0:28:54 GMT -5
The standings with about 2 1/2 hours to go, SSBM is in the lead with $58k. Skullgirls in second with $41k, and SSFII Turbo in third with $39k.
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Post by Koda, Master Crunchyroller on Feb 1, 2013 1:10:09 GMT -5
The standings with about 2 1/2 hours to go, SSBM is in the lead with $58k. Skullgirls in second with $41k, and SSFII Turbo in third with $39k. Well that's one tournament I won't be watching. |
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Post by The Legend of Groose on Feb 1, 2013 1:13:44 GMT -5
Melee really!?
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Post by THE Baldy Kendrick on Feb 1, 2013 2:43:13 GMT -5
The gap has closed: Melee at $66k, Skullgirls at $61k with 17 minutes left.
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Post by THE Baldy Kendrick on Feb 1, 2013 2:50:44 GMT -5
And then SG takes the lead with 15 minutes left.
And then Melee takes the lead back with 13 minutes left.
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Post by THE Baldy Kendrick on Feb 1, 2013 11:06:16 GMT -5
With over $225,000 raised for the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, here are the final standings:
1 Super Smash Bros. Melee $94,605.03 (SSBM will be an EVO game)
2 Skullgirls $78,760.97
3 Super Street Fighter II Turbo $39,567.56
4 My Little Pony: Fighting Is Magic $5,280.19
5 Dead or Alive 5 $1,900.69
6 Guilty Gear XX: Accent Core+ $1,225.00
7 PlayStation All Stars Battle Royale $1,000.00
8 Melty Blood: Actress Again Current $683.99
9 Divekick $650.00
10 Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown $605.00
11 Soul Calibur V $407.41
12 BlazBlue: ChronoPhantasma $265.00
13 Capcom vs. SNK 2 $260.00
14 Super Smash Bros. Brawl $170.00
15 Darkstalkers 3 $131.00
16 Street Fighter III: Third Strike Online Edition $81.00
17 Injustice: Gods Among Us $77.00
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