Toronto BB and GG: FIENDS ONLY Part II

[Roldy]

Maybe... I might stay home and play that shitty FF since i has no rides lol.

WITHOUT HERMES THERE I HAVE NO CHALLENGE ANYWAY!!! THIS GOES TO YOU ROLDY!

Im not going to TFNS tourney because I'm a lazy fuck as leo said =)

Mid nov tourney at gety i'll go... but don't universities have projects due/finals during that time period?

Dammit, I need more EXP...guys, we gotta hardcore train this Friday.

and I don't have finals till mid-December. As for projects...don't know yet.

[Milln]

Greetings from Middle Tennessee!

I was directed to this thread by Tin Man. I'm about to go on vacation to Canada in the Toronto area for about eight days from September 30th until October 7th. I'd love to get some international practice in, especially since i'm extremely rusty right now and enjoy getting my butt kicked. I do have a busy schedule and might not even be able to play, but I'll could potentially be free on September 30th evening, October 1st, October 5th, and October 7th morning and will be at Playdium nearly all day on October 6th. Send me a pm if you're interested!

[Roldy]

Hello Milln! Make sure you're free on Friday, because that's the best day to go to Lovegety Arcade, where Toronto's main BB scene meets up!

Although it isn't exactly in downtown Toronto, so it might be a bit far...

Edit: Continuum Shift @

Lovegety Station Arcade

505 Highway 7 East

Thornhill, ON, Canada

[Linear04]

Playdium

holy shit i havent been to playdium in forever

sup guy, if you want to come to gety come on fridays and go to dinner with everyone

[Milln]

I will definitely try to be there. Is there a specific time? Friday is basicalyl the only day I -don't- have a major event planned, haha.

[Roldy]

7-8 pm is when most people start arriving. I usually go a bit earlier for a bit of warm-up, lol.

[Milln]

Great. I'll see what I can do. Look for an awesome plaid hat.

[mr.mortified]

whoa more americans!

i remember the last time a group of americans came by and i was the only one to play them.......

[neorussell]

I'm back but I can't come on friday. Maybe and hopefully next week.

Do you guys hold any home casuals? I know it's a crazy idea but it can increase potential interest.

Kellfire: I'm look at you for Casuals when you are able.

NeoRussell

[unsanctifier]

i usually hold home casuals at my place every now and then with my friends

[archling]

Real men play in arcades.

[Fiedrik]

i'm going to be at the internet cafe at pmall playing SC2, get at me D:

eeh I thought we were going to gety this fri and go sc2 at that internet cafe?

[Tin Man]

well since no one is responding, i suppose i'm keeping the date of the tourney the same then. Attending would be nice lol.

[unsanctifier]

eeh I thought we were going to gety this fri and go sc2 at that internet cafe?

Yeah we are, I was talking about yesterday (wednesday) I went with our nigger and fat guy

well since no one is responding, i suppose i'm keeping the date of the tourney the same then. Attending would be nice lol.

after november would be a god send

Co-sign, I'd definitely hit up a tournament in November.

lalalala i hurr and i durr

[Tofu Warrior]

I think a lot of members here would be interested in this article. Don't know how often you guys check SRK for news, but yeah.

[unsanctifier]

I don't wanna make an SRK account, someone let me know what its about D:

[Freezerburn]

WTF, I have an account and I can't read it anymore.

Basically, the article said how Arc Systems is going to focus on BB instead of GG and if GG were to come back, there would be no slashbacks and FRCs. The interviewer suggested more lenient FRC timings and while the staff member agreed it was a good idea, their goal is to make GG more accessible to people, essentially what Super 4 has done to the SF series. They want to make a new GG but it won't be for a while.

[mr.mortified]

you mean this?

http://shoryuken.com/content/concerning-future-guilty-gear-1966/

its a news post so you don't even need an account

also eww on no slashbacks and lenient FRC's

edit: oh shit tofu linked it already? dammit didn't see that......

[Fiedrik]

aw that is horrible, horrible news...so they basically want to noobify gg.

[X-Sapphire]

Wow that fucking sucks.

I blame all the fucking scrubs today that can't fucking learn a real game.

FUCK YOU SCRUBS!! AHHHHHHHHHHHH YOU TOOK AWAY MY PRECIOUS!

MOTHERUFCK!

[Asdferty]

But if they are scrubs you should win anyways :|

The best part about guilty gear is not just the incredible execution level, but it's really how diverse the game is. With BB, it feels like whenever I land a certain poke or hit, I know exactly what combo I should do to maximize damage and positioning. There isn't much in terms of originality. In GG characters and their strategies seem much more personalized, and you can easily tell players apart from others.

I will agree that scrubs don't seem to realize that harder execution and combos means that when you land them, you feel that much better and satisfied. Not that I'm any good at GG (yet), CLSW loops give me fist pumping good feelings, but easy bnb's in melty blood or bb not so much. Obviously the hard combos still do that, but it's just everything in GG does it.

I think people are looking at it the wrong way, because the only problem I have with guilty gear in terms of what I think is dumb is not FRC timing or anything that way... it's the dizzy meter and the stagger waggle. I think it's kinda out of place in this type of game, and stagger waggle is the fast way to broken arcade sticks

And come on, guilty gear has awesome characters... but storyline? It's pretty messed up, if anyone plays GG it's for the gameplay, it seems like an unwise decision to change it drastically. BB has more lenient gameplay, but actually has a more thought out storyline and is more polished with extra stuff (VNs are good), so it will attract more casuals to begin with.

tldr; guilty gear is good and shouldn't be changed, especially not for scrubs

[Leo7]

yea i pretty much follow elvenshadow's blog, and i've already commented on this outside of dustloop.

i'm just going to hope accent core has reached super turbo status and will live on for the next few years.

and i actually don't think ggac is a high execution game. people always harp on frcs, but 2-3 timing is a LOT more lenient than 1 frame timing that's required for a myriad of other fighting games. but i guess it's hard enough for people to be turned off from the series.

[Tin Man]

KK well the date of the tourney will remain the same. Hopefully I can get 20 some people here. Anyone from gety who has nothing better to do and wants free money should go. hopefully cambridge can also reach.

WTF, I have an account and I can't read it anymore.

Basically, the article said how Arc Systems is going to focus on BB instead of GG and if GG were to come back, there would be no slashbacks and FRCs. The interviewer suggested more lenient FRC timings and while the staff member agreed it was a good idea, their goal is to make GG more accessible to people, essentially what Super 4 has done to the SF series. They want to make a new GG but it won't be for a while.

slashback? FRC? explain plz

[Freezerburn]

Slashback is GG's version of parry. FRC is force roman cancel, which is like rapid cancel from BB but only takes 25% meter and can only be done during certain frames of animation, regardless if it hits or not.

http://dustloop.com/guides/ggac/

[Tin Man]

Thanks very much bro :]

I'm also advertising the tourney on this website: http://www.blazblue.com/forum/index.php

in case anyone cares (lol)