Archer

Likewise. Mind you, I'm still terrible. I am, however, willing to play taxi and buy food as compensation for tolerating my level of bad. Aside: I consider the SMP loop an exploit and refuse to use it on general principle, so there'd be none of that. It makes for boring and irritating matches, like Danny said. Considering I'm not likely to be fighting for Top 8 in a tournament any time soon, not using the SMP loop is a service to the community. (I'm half-joking.) Regardless, I'm going to run Naoto as my alt simply because I like the feel of Yukiko better.

I'm having a hard time deciding between maining Yukiko or Naoto. Decisions, decisions.

I won't get out of work until at least 11pm. Considering how slammed the restaurant was last night, though, it might be later. (Then I have to shower and change and so on.) Still, I think it would be cool to meet everyone. If I'm not completely exhausted after service, perhaps I could shoot someone a text and meet you guys at the diner? I'll PM Why my contact info just in case.

I really enjoy the game and the system design. There's been some talk here of shenanigans, but I can't really comment when I've yet to play a human being. My impression is that while the game was designed to be accessible, playing anyone above scrub-level requires a player to be patient, have solid defense, and be willing to do match-up research -- which has frankly been a rarity in recent fighters that I have followed. The ability to stagger character and persona attacks into extended blockstrings (when combined with OMC, JC, and, occassionally, OMB) means that you often can't actually see the gaps; you have to know that they're there. And that's hard to get the hang of without playing a lot of matches. Like you, I haven't done more than training and challenge mode -- neither to the degree that I "should" in order to pick up a new game in earnest. That, again, I blame on my reluctance to use netplay. Still, I decided last night that I was going to put in some time each day. There's no other game on my plate right now, so I don't have much of an excuse, my work schedule nothwithstanding. I'm confident I'll stop having to push myself once I feel stable with my gameplay again. Aside: If there is a game everyone here wants to make a go at, let me know. I own KOF XIII and AH3. The latter is, I think, really interesting, but it usually gets summarily discarded for being a loli. Melty is unattainable at $120+/copy, and I never played BB -- it seems to have a ridiculously high barrier to entry. *shrug*

PS3. I have yet to use the netplay, though; I should probably turn the system on to check what my PSN ID is, but I'm fairly sure it's either Archer or ArcherNU.

New guy here. Played Third Strike (with conviction) years ago while temporarily living in Oz. I've only dabbled in fighters since then, largely due to a lack of any regular opportunity to play offline -- and netplay doesn't feel the same to me as playing with people I actually know and enjoy talking to. Been buying and watching and reading about a lot of anime games in the last year; it would be nice to actually, y'know, play. Trouble to date has been that I haven't had a single weekend day off in eighteen months. Now, though, I regularly have Sundays. Throw a message my way if you'd be interested in casuals. I'm currently terrible, but that's the starting point. Ta. Edit: I'm in Bethany, which is between New Haven and Naugatuck.