Re: DRE: CTS community mail

  • From: Nicholas Robertson-Muir <nicmuir@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "cpt-fgc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <cpt-fgc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 16:41:50 +0200

And I loved it.

On Wednesday, February 18, 2015, Wynand-Ben <paashaasggx@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Only fighter sofar that disappointed me to the point of dropping that shit
> completely was SC3.
>
> The game was complete ass imo
>
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> Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 15:43:11 +0200
> Subject: RE: DRE: CTS community mail
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> I agree that options were rather limited at the time, but the introduction
> of new FGs had very little to do with my dislike of T6. That said, l'm just
> basing this on my own experiences. Not saying it was the same for everyone
> else.
>
> I've always been a VF fan, more so than Tekken, but l've enjoyed both
> series in addition to other FGs over the years. However, if l'm not feeling
> something, regardless of how much l've enjoyed previous iterations, l'm not
> going to stick with it. It could be the next VF for all l care and l would
> drop that shit if it didn't meet my expectations. And it should... After
> all, l'm paying for it.
> On 18 Feb 2015 15:31, "Wynand-Ben" <paashaasggx@xxxxxxxxxxx
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','paashaasggx@xxxxxxxxxxx');>> wrote:
>
> Maybe I just like it less...
>
> I was never a Tekken fan from the start.  I got into fighters with GG#R
> and SC2.
>
> Then once I got a console I wanted to get into the scene...  but there was
> nothing except tekken.
>
> The game may have been good but we also didnt have any other option till
> much later during the T6 Era.
>
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> Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 15:17:50 +0200
> Subject: RE: DRE: CTS community mail
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> That's complete bullshit.
>
> T5DR was a solid Tekken game. If you want to talk about a game that
> rewarded time put in and had a well-balanced cast, that was it. You were
> rewarded for good movement and spacing, and the game ultimately felt less
> about combos than it did about pokes and mixups.
>
> I can't speak for anyone else but l loved that game; not because l had no
> choice but because it was immensely fun and rewarding to play. It was the
> last Tekken game l thoroughly enjoyed playing.
>
> If T6 had been anything like DR, I probably would have spent more time
> with it.
> On 18 Feb 2015 15:03, "lindsey kiviets" <lindseyak@xxxxxxxxxxx
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','lindseyak@xxxxxxxxxxx');>> wrote:
>
> that's true that paas wrote.
>
> t5dr was cool coz we had no choice but to like it.
>
> then sf4 came , then marvel then kof, it just snowballed away from tekken.
>
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> Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 14:59:34 +0200
> Subject: Re: DRE: CTS community mail
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> And that's the game fault? You lost to a random joe is entirely your fault
> because you don't know how to fight an alisa, capo, whatever?
>
> I don't know why it's not as popular in Cape Town. But from the mails,
> it's simply they were interested in other games and Tekken wasn't their
> first choice anyways. T6BR was probably more popular in CT because it
> didn't have a lot of competitors in the fighting game industry when it came
> out. I don't see anyone say it isn't much fun as BR or anything like that.
> I think it's the same for the west. More options for fighting games.
> Nothing to do with TTT2 being ass.
>
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 2:44 PM, Donaldson, Alasdair <
> alasdair.donaldson@xxxxxxxxxx
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','alasdair.donaldson@xxxxxxxxxx');>> wrote:
>
>  That’s a bit of a massive generalisation there. Every top player loved
> the game? The game died in the West because Eastern players were better at
> it? I don’t know about that. I think  TTT2 failed in the West because
> people in the West don’t like the game. It’s that simple.
> Why do you think people in Cape Town didn’t play it much? It is because we
> were upset about the nerfs to Bob, or the skill gap between us and Koreans?
> No, it’s because the game just wasn’t as much fun as the previous ones.
> People weren’t put off by the fact that they would dump a massive amount
> of time into the game and then get bopped by Knee. They were upset that a
> random joe off the street who’d been playing the game for 3 months, would
> rock up and random his way to a win.
>
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>  Because the west couldn't compete with the east. Every top player loved
> TTT2 because it's the most balanced tekken out there. Sure there's some
> crazy stuff like Capo's b+1,4 but top player don't see an issue. They
> barely eat that CH. Those who eat b+1,4 are just spamming mindlessly and
> deserve to be punished with that.
>
>  I don't think TTT2 died because the game sucked. T6BR was already
> suffering with the release of so many new fighting games. TTT2 also have a
> higher learning curve than the generic BR where the west just spams one
> move until they win. TTT2 you can't do that...TTT2 really showed who are
> the top players and who are not. Simply because SS got better, spammable
> moves don't exist. So the west quit. Bob can't spam d+1 until he wins...all
> his other shit is getting SS'd or SW'd. Way to solve that? learn to SS and
> SW...but they play Bob like
>
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