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Post-Evo DIscussion: Are you now a believer in Samurai Shodown?
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I was already on board with picking up the PC port when it comes out, but the SamSho top eight was some good shit, Infiltration taking the gold aside, and made me even more excited.
Evo wasn't a factor at all (if anything Infiltration's presence killed my vibe) but Sam Sho 2019 is my first time playing the series with the intention to get good.
I played the first couple in the arcades, rented the janky SNES port of Sam Sho 1993 for a weekend with my cousin, dabbled in the various ports and emulations since. So I've always admired the games from afar. But the new one has me hooked like no other fighting game outside of the Street Fighter series has.
I legit think it's making me a more thoughtful player too.
I played the first couple in the arcades, rented the janky SNES port of Sam Sho 1993 for a weekend with my cousin, dabbled in the various ports and emulations since. So I've always admired the games from afar. But the new one has me hooked like no other fighting game outside of the Street Fighter series has.
I legit think it's making me a more thoughtful player too.
I'm hoping for a Switch version in the future.
Samurai Showdown was already on my radar because of the talks on Easy Allies and Ultra Chen going over what makes this game good. Evo did help increase my interest to the point I started looking up character guides and mechanics overview because the casters were terrible at explaining anything.
FGC need to take some notes from what MLG and TBS did to explain shit.
Samurai Showdown was already on my radar because of the talks on Easy Allies and Ultra Chen going over what makes this game good. Evo did help increase my interest to the point I started looking up character guides and mechanics overview because the casters were terrible at explaining anything.
FGC need to take some notes from what MLG and TBS did to explain shit.
SNK has always and will always be my favorite and the Samurai Shodown series is one of the big reasons. No matter what I would have been all in but the love that it is getting makes me stupid happy
This was my first SamSho and I think it's a ton of fun and will keep on playing it for the foreseeable future.
EVO ended up dampening my excitement for the game, however, because neither the event nor SNK wanted to ban a domestic abuser from entering.
Besides that, I think even top-level players aren't that much fun to watch. The game is a blast to play but isn't the best when it comes to spectating in my opinion.
EVO ended up dampening my excitement for the game, however, because neither the event nor SNK wanted to ban a domestic abuser from entering.
Besides that, I think even top-level players aren't that much fun to watch. The game is a blast to play but isn't the best when it comes to spectating in my opinion.
Wasn't that interested in the game before and still ain't now, from what (admittedly little) I saw. I won't lie, it looks kind of boring.
Though like other fighting games I might appreciate it more if I had played it myself, if only a little bit. It gives you the ability to better process what is happening on screen and why players make the decisions and use the moves they do, which in turn makes it more interesting to watch. This might be especially true for SamSho because it can't just rely on flashy shit the way a Mortal Kombat or a DB FighterZ can. So I do plan on picking it up when it has dropped in price.
Though like other fighting games I might appreciate it more if I had played it myself, if only a little bit. It gives you the ability to better process what is happening on screen and why players make the decisions and use the moves they do, which in turn makes it more interesting to watch. This might be especially true for SamSho because it can't just rely on flashy shit the way a Mortal Kombat or a DB FighterZ can. So I do plan on picking it up when it has dropped in price.
It was really a bad look. The fact that he took home almost as much money as Bonchan too was especially gross.
Not really. Four genjuros in top 8 made me care less than I already did. Made me want to see what they do with balance updates, though.
I've been a SNK fan since Art of Fighting and I had the chance to play every Samurai Shodown released on arcades back then, even the ones released on HNG64. Waiting for the PC port to buy it myself.
I don't understand the Genjuro hate, early SFV had nothing but Nash players and DBFZ is nothing but Goku teams. I think some people just wanted SS to fail.
I don't understand the Genjuro hate, early SFV had nothing but Nash players and DBFZ is nothing but Goku teams. I think some people just wanted SS to fail.
I was a believer when I previewed it at PAX East earlier this year. I had a blast with it and walked away very confident it would deliver, and I was right. :)
