Was it just me or was this year Evo extremely underwhelming?

Most matches were just borderline ok or just plain boring and the announcements weren't that great either.

>Marvel Tōkon closed beta
I wish they showed a new trailer

>New Virtua Fighter
I want to see real gameplay first

>Tekken 8
I dropped Tekken 8 a long time ago and honestly I don't are what they do to that shit I'm already out

>Guilty Gear Strive DLC
Fuck Strive but Lucy gameplay looks fine. This was the first time I heard Lucy EN voice and does she talks like that? She sounds so boring and the "erhm that just happened" bit was cringe.

>Guilty Gear Strive 2.0
See above. Fuck Strive
I can wait to see more characters designs being ruined (both design and lore wise). I bet they're not even gonna put IK on this shit either

>Ken in City of Wolves
Cool. I guess

>Invisible vs.
lol

>HxH NenxImpact
lol

>Swimsuits and C. Viper in Street Fighter 6
I really don't like the RE Engine they make everyone look disgusting

>Under Night new character
Very happy with this announcement but this is the only figjt8gsme that I still play compared to all the previous shit so I'm bias


TLDR; This year Evo was disappointing. Did you like anything that was announcement or did you enjoyed any of the matches?

>>717364080 (OP)
sf3 carried last year evo

>>717364080 (OP)
I mean if you only cear about announcements sure but I thought this was one of the better evos in recent years (its been shit for a while)

>>717364251
Evo was always shit
>>717364080 (OP)
Is it true that they banned money matches?

>>717364251
People only care about announcements

The fighting game genre is in the process of the final stages of its death, only legacy games are still keeping it running on fumes, and even those are starting to fade out. Tekken has maybe one more game in the series before it's done and buried, which will leave SF as the sole remaining fighting game with actual players over the next 10-15 years, and once it finally dies once the Japanese can no longer sustain it, the genre will finally perish once and for all.

>>717364080 (OP)
I enjoyed the matches. The finals had way more character variety than previous times.

>>717364080 (OP)
The Tekken tournament was depressing to watch, I feel indifference from whatever new characters get revealed due to how the game is too.
No new Tokon character announcement is odd, and maybe concerning, base roster may be a lot smaller than what everyone is expecting
VF looked interesting but we're not getting that game until at least 2027 so it's hard to care right now
I don't care about Cyberpunk but Lucy at least animates interestingly I guess. Strive 2.0 is maybe interesting.
Granblue getting EX characters is interesting.

Tekken was rough because it was just watching Anna tear a hole through the game. You had an Anna on winners and then an Anna on losers meet up in grand finals. And Arslan's Anna fucking sucks to watch to boot. His Nina is mildly more entertaining but by that point I was so checked out.
All my favorite players got eliminated even before top 24.

>>717365872
Tokon had better have a massive roster considering it's a 4v4 game. And yeah Tekken is garbage to watch.

>>717366230
Even if it wasn't yet more character imbalance leading to yet another Evo Tekken mirror grand finals, Tekken 8 is just trash to watch in general. It's so repetitive and dull, and you always feel like the players aren't so much playing against their opponent as they are playing against the game.

You get what you pay for. Capcom Cup for the million dollar prize is the main event now.

The current selection of games is optimized to put any viewer to sleep, it's sad how we didn't even get to have a hayao-like moment this year because magneto vs magneto was the nostalgia pick.

>>717366439
Disagree, tekken 8 is fun to watch. Yagami v Chanel from EWC last year is for my money one of the greatest matches in the entire genre. Even then in S2, for how fucking shit it's been, CEO and Combo Breaker were fun to watch when there wasn't a Claudio on screen. This event just sucked.

>>717364080 (OP)
>Run by Snoy
>Sponsored by Chipotle
Cringe. Guarantees they have to play it safe and sterile from now on.

>>717366927
>modern game fun to watch because of money
>717366657

fix yourself

I ain't hearing anyone MAKING SOME NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOISE

>>717366657
>Capcom Cup for the million dollar prize is the main event now.
COTW mogs it with a 2.5m prize pool.
That is why all the pros who aren't cap cucks have moved over it playing it.

>>717366927
You are factually wrong and objectively incorrect, Tekken 8 is shit and no amount of big money tournaments or decent players forcing themselves to play that trash will fix it.

>>717364080 (OP)
I completely agree.
Didn't even watch grand finals for anything.

>>717367250
Same thing can be said about all the games at EVO

>>717367227
>Reynald
>Poongko
>ET
>all the pros
more like it has brought in only the best from the nursing home

>>717367056
>>717367250
>t. Hasn't seen the match
Educate yourselves.
https://youtu.be/TCOa0NSDl20?t=2699

>>717367628
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

>>717367628
not watching modern fighting games

>>717364080 (OP)
Every game had a good top 8 except tekken 8. The only shitty part is how corporate it is now and all the ads. Unless Chipotle can go back 12 years its dead to me.

>>717364080 (OP)
Evo is too big now. SF and Tekken had full 15 hours of pools each across 2 days. It's way too much if you watch anything more than top 24 and up, especially since production picks no-name matches instead of actual good players.

>>717367183
Majin Obama was a mistake.

>>717367227
People who have been playing for a quarter of a century or longer have a better shot at the million than starting over with niche franchises. New players will choose the bigger pot. If SNK can keep it, they will win eventually even if all dlc has rapists.

>>717367507
Punk and others too

>>717368009
>Evo is too big now.
And yet it keeps getting smaller and smaller, curious!

>>717367183
I hate yipes so much it's unreal

>>717368273
Shhh stop noticing things!

>>717368273
It's too fucking expensive to go to vegas and be surrounded by neets who smell like shit amplified 100x because of the 50c weather.

>>717368358
That's Tasty Steve's thing THOUGH.

>>717368413
Or maybe the games suck?!?!? Maybe everyone left except the boomers that make money from chipotle and a couple of zoomtards playing transguilty gear? perchance?

evo has been fraudulent ever since they banned 2 champions from competing

Reveals weren't as hype because we knew about most of them ahead of time. Matches were good because way less troons this year.

>>717368604
Thankfully no one misses FChimp and his chimpouts

>>717368528
yeah its definately the games and not the fact they added a second ticket you have to buy to get into the arena on the last day.

>>717368273
Registration was smaller. There was still 20 fucking hours of pools of SF6 and Tekken each.
A man can only take so much mid level players with fucking atrocious chipotle plugs.

>>717368627
Can you go a single thread without bringing up trannies

>>717367227
Didn't COTW have less entries than both Sf6 and Tekken 8? What bullshit you gonna make up next?

>>717369482
i never said it had more entries retard.

>>717369380
Damn and i'm still not watching a single minute of evo until fighting games get better.

>>717367628
God damn that was boring as fuck, how can you possibly get excited or enthused about that? Unreal.

>>717369626
>Evo is starting to get lame because there's 15-20 hours of uninteresting pool matches with corny fast food and gaymer merch ad breaks before we get to see any actual good players unless you get lucky on production picking a game
>YEAH WELL I'M NOT WATCHING ANY OF IT SO TAKE THAT
Ok anon, enjoy your day.

>>717364080 (OP)
>This was the first time I heard Lucy EN voice and does she talks like that?
She's a completely different character in Japanese, she was heavily localized.

>>717369651
>how can you get excited for someone adapting and pulling off a reverse 5-0 from a 4 game deficit?

>>717369930
yeah it's obviously the pools and not the games themselves huyrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrdurrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

>>717370197
When the games are built around comebacks and upsets then they become the norm. Forcing things to be "Hype" doesn't make them hype.

https://youtu.be/k0YyAuBlYmk?&t=41

>>717364080 (OP)
You missed the awesome Rivals of Aether 2 announcements.
>New character trailer
>Character modding goes into beta this year, full release 2026
>Item-based character is coming 2026

>>717370197
How the fuck can you care about a "comeback" when it's not based on skill and technique, but just the natural result of the game mechanics and design rewarding endless coinflips? A comeback is awesome when it's difficult to achieve, which it emphatically is not the case in Tekken 8.

>>717370767
>>717370934
I disagree and think you're being silly.

I unironically got hype just by watching mr naps move around with bryan. fuck you faggots.

>>717371161
And you are, once again, factually and objectively wrong. Comebacks used to be something that actually required outwitting and outplaying your opponent in a highly disadvantageous situation, now, with mechanics like rage and just the general damage in games like Tekken 8, you are 1-2 mixups away from completely reversing the round off one guess. That is not respectable or fun to watch.

>>717364080 (OP)
>Genre is dying
>Sony, Saudi Arabia, and Chipotle maximum shilling
>Everything is expensive as shit so not many people can travel
>Evo losing relevance and prestige as they add 2 more evos per year, world tour for each game, EWC, and SGF/TGA every year
>Games are dumbed down shit, especially SF6

It's over. Both evo and fighting games in general. At least we still have old games with rollback.

>>717371317
Oh you mean like conditioning your opponent to jab after FF2 to interrupt a sentai mix while you instead FC F2 or constantly doing mid options out of Heaven's Wrath so you can land an unbreakable throw and later a low heatsmash?

>>717371321
We need a new Marvel vs Capcom.

>>717371550
Are you even reading what you're writing? Look at how he conditioned his opponent by forcing him to react to the inbuilt coinflips in Tekken 8! Wow, how incredible and exciting.

If whites can't win at a sport I at least want it to be either east asians or american blacks

>>717372284
>Back in the old days we had to condition our opponents with mishima 50/50s and mid/lows, not like what you do now
Sick cope.

>>717372603
>Back in the old days defense and spacing were the crucial deciding factor for victory, not forced coinflips from stances
Fixed that for you.

>>717373009
Oh you mean like sidestepping heatbursts and punishing whiffs and minus on block moves?

>>717373432
No, I mean actual spacing and defensive play back when offensive options weren't heavily weighted to outperform them. Not that you'd know anything about that.

>>717364080 (OP)
Honestly went to bed before SF6 top 8 even started. Tekken getting like 4 hours in prime time ruined all the momentum and any care that I had.
Tried watching some KoF instead and it was sorta hype but I was too checked out

>>717373668
>Punishing isn't defensive play
Ok

I hate the fact that the best Tekken in the world is a dirty smelly Paki.

>>717374480
Why?

>>717373929
It’s not.

>>717368358
faggot retard bot calling the wrong name

>>717374715
How is the pinnacle of defending, punishing whiffs and minus on block moves, not defensive?
Is it only defensive if you can KBD endlessly out of pressure?

>>717364080 (OP)
Evo has been soulless and underwhelming ever since sony bought it. It's way too safe and corporate now.

>>717364080 (OP)
every modern fighting game was designed to be fun to watch which ironically made them all unwatchable repetitive noise.

>>717364620
the salty suite is always happening

>>717374815
>Is it only defensive if you can KBD endlessly out of pressure?
Yes? Is this a trick question?

>>717374916
My bad, I didn't think you were that retarded.

>>717364080 (OP)
Vegas itself is partly to blame for lower entries so where should EVO relocate to?

>>717364080 (OP)
Having 4 evos and an awards show? Nobody asked for a damn awards show. This isn't the oscars.

>>717375073
Not in the middle of the fucking desert.

>>717375073
Atlanta :D

>>717375073
Reno :^)

>>717369482
Not only that, a few hundred of those entrants didn't even show up to EVO. Watch EVO pools for CotW and see how many DQs there were.

>>717368009
>picks no-name matches instead of actual good players.
I enjoy this as much as the top 24.

>>717369069
I do.

>>717376407
That's usual for evo

>>717375980
Man I remember that one year they did the Summer Olympics in Atlanta and the athletes were basically looking like they wished for death in any outdoor event.

>>717364080 (OP)
SF3 and Punk redemption made last year hype. This had nothing going for it

I only watched SoulCalibur VI and I was still disappointed. GF were the same people playing the same matchup with the same result as CEO earlier this year. Last year's grand finals were Zasalamel vs. Ivy. It was a very close set and very exciting to watch. Nowadays Incendiate never uses her, always picks Xianghua or Geralt. Geralt is the most boring character in the game and grand finals were 2B vs Geralt. They didn't even include a single SoulCalibur character.

You know what would make Evo better? If they actually broadcast the top 8 players at the very start of pools where they get matched up with absolute scrubs who had zero chance of making it out of pools. Just make it one bit humiliation ritual.

>>717376734
Not to that extent. Just look it up and see for yourself.

>>717368604
It’s pretty funny to me how blatantly uncompetitive the bans are. If infil was some top 96 player nobody would give a shit but because he claps everyone’s cheek gotta ban him

>>717377008
Matches where one player curbstomps the other are always the worst to watch. If you actually played those games you'd know that running your own offense against someone who doesn't know how to defend is a braindead easy task.

>>717377118
Uh no if he was some no name player they would have banned him even faster

>>717376407
>>717376734
I think more than a "few" hundred just decided not to play cotw lol. This like a 3rd of the entrants which is fucking funny.

It's because every fighting game sucks now. Sf6

>>717364080 (OP)
It's because the FGC has finally fully shifted from ghetto culture to leftytroon culture

>>717364080 (OP)
You shoulsnt force yourself to watch evo just to fit in when you dont like fighting games

>>717376993
I'm not sure why you'd expect differently. The game hasn't been updated in years and isn't prominent enough to attract new players.

>>717377573
What the heck happened?

>>717364080 (OP)
I watched the only game that mattered in person

>>717378186
>neto storm cucklops
wow such hype

>>717378146
>oh wow a 1 million prize pool maybe I should try this game out and register
>oh wait a minute
>I don't care about this game

>>717378491
I blame clock and duc for getting reamed
But MvC2 was great

>>717378792
500 people though? No way thats it

>>717377573
>gaymaster
>nutbread
>spicyladygaming

>>717377573
>>717378146
>>717378792
It's funny how many times this gets spammed and it's clearly bullshit to anyone with half a brain. You really think clockwerk and fucking Justin Wong the guy who thinks Karnov's Revenge is one of the greatest fighting games of all time would DQ out of this?

>>717364080 (OP)
>le announcements
Don't care for that tranny shit, I only care about the tournament.

>>717364080 (OP)
>le matches
Don't care for that tranny shit, only care about the announcements.

>>717370828
This. Evo was great for RoA2. Both the announcements and the actual bracket.

>>717379131
I was disappointed there's no balance changes this patch but then I remember we have another supermajor this one even bigger than Evo. We keep winning

>>717377971
no, it's because all the games suck now.

>>717380680
I expect that there'll be some minor balance changes in the mid-month patch, which will likely add the mecha skin for Absa seen in the trailer (end of WebM). I fully expect Clairen and Orcane to get nerfs. They'll lower Orcane's weight by like 5 units and everyone will claim the character is dead.

>>717377971
>b-but trannies :(
Find a new scape goat already

>>717364080 (OP)
That's what I said on a previous thread.
Fighting games are a dead genre.
I only check Maximilian from time to time to see trailers of normie games.
That's my level of interest with fighting games.

It's so dead as a genre, that people are calling anime games fighting games too.
And I don't mean Guilty Gear, I mean licensed anime games like the Bleach one and stuff.

>>717379131
A Plup win is always a good thing, no matter the game.

>>717375073
Somewhere in the midwest, can't imagine a North Dakota convention center or hotel would cost as much to rent out.

>>717382876
>I mean licensed anime games like the Bleach one and stuff
Yes those are fighting games no matter how much you wanna cope and seethe about it, being bad doesn't make it not a fighting game

It became a soulless piece of shit when they went to a stadium, it died when pokimane bought in
If you engage with evo you're subhuman

>>717365023
I have never once given a shit about the announcements. Then again I don't play fighting games because they are cancer to play but they are fun to watch and the commentators are better than other genres.

>>717364080 (OP)
EVO hasnt been good since they banned infiltration

>>717364080 (OP)
Thought the same

At the finals you could really see that the venue was set up by soulless ghouls with that disgusting shrill blue lighting on the crowd.
Who tf is supposed to get hyped in that shit atmosphere ?!
But also this generations fighting games all shit the bed if I'm honest. They can't generate hype moments bcs these idiot devs took out all the ambiguity from the neutral game

>>717365397
If the next VF is good Tekken can also become good again by copying its homework

>>717366927
There hasnt been a single interaction in T8 that's as hype as a tekken 7 Latino side step tiger uppercut was in season 1..even green Hagrid was popping off
Its that bad.

>>717368009
This was no problem at all years ago when you would jump from match to match with no down time
Now it's ads every 10min

>games are worse
>community is gayer and lamer than ever
>ads everywhere
the big fgc events feel like a dystopian parody of what they used to be

>>717386262
>le everything le sucks
Do I le heckin le fit in guise XDDDD?!?!

>>717386328
it's true, it's time to stop.

>>717386440
>le don't play le video le games

>>717365397
This is the most popular fighting games have been in like 20 years you absolute retard. MK sells millions, Tekken 8 sold millions, SF6 sold millions. If anything, fighting games are having a resurgence.

>>717386328
modern fighting gaymes suck ass lil nigga. stop coping

>>717386639
Sounds like you're coping to me since you're a /v/troons doomtranny crying about everything being shit.

>>717366230
Arslan was just sandbagging with Anna. If you can't beat his Anna, you don't deserve to fight his Nina.

>>717364245
absolutely mentally retarded they dont have it every year

>>717386804
They should never have turd strike.

>>717364080 (OP)
might just be my nostalgia but EVO and fighting games in general peaked in 2010-2016 before SFV came out.
After that, sony started putting a lot of money into it and they tried to be le serious e-sport and completely killed the vibes.

>>717386494
Never said that. You sound compeltly miserable, try not offing yourself

>>717386919
>you le should le kill le your le self

>>717381231
It's not a scapegoat if it's literally true

>>717386993
NOOOOO

>Wtf bros why does EVO suck so much?
Because none of you actually watch it. Hell, I'd say most people don't really pay attention while watching. Look at any restream and it's some fag yapping to chat. The commentators try to make it interesting but even EVO's chat is off in its own little world. This is just the default for any spectator sport now, gaming and real life. Barely anyone fucking looking at what's happening on the screen.

>>717387539
why are you projecting so hard anon? I've never used a live stream's chat in my life. EVO is just too comercialized now. Chipotle and Sony ads up your ass every couple minutes is annoying

There's plenty of other factors but I noticed that it's the first EVO in a while where there wasn't a big new standout game.

>2016
SFV's 1st year
>2017
essentially Tekken 7's 1st year
>2018
FighterZ's 1st year
>2019
Smash Ultimate's 1st and only year
>2020
Canceled because of the coof and McRib being exposed
>2021
Strive's 1st year, but it was online only
>2022
The comeback after covid
>2023
SF6's 1st year
>2024
Tekken 8's 1st year

City of the Wolves is cool but it's not a head turner like SF, Tekken, or hell even year 1 Ultimate were. Also doesn't help that games like Strive and Tekken 8 have been in a miserable state. We'll see how Tokon is next year.

>>717388338
[headcanon]

hey alright

>>717364080 (OP)
I think MVC2 is a shit game but it was still better than all the other top 8s. Only good thing in SF6 was zoomer Mickey

>>717364245
Hayao*

>>717375086
Only other EVO I actually pay attention to Japan. What's the cuck EVO that's just an awards show?

>>717386804
Yipes and some of the SF6 players loathe the game, Yipes called it thurd strike like one or twice during the last evo. Might have something to do with the game not being in every single EVO. And that's a good thing! fuck that event!

>>717364080 (OP)
Really wish Capcom gave more than major update a year.

>>717389231
Yipes is a marvel nigger so no surprise

>>717364080 (OP)
I've been hearing second hand about how bad a state Tekken 8 is in but since I don't play I didn't really get it. After that top 8 I think I do now.

>>717389564
How the fuck are you so fucking stupid you couldn't understand people's problems before it? Are you fucking Harada?

>>717389625
nta but i don't play tekken and i don't really give a fuck about it. I saw a couple posts on twitter crying about tekken but i didn't care enough to look into it

Evo should stop bringing back old games because they remind me of how fighting games didn't used to be full of this pace killing, cinematic garbage. My soul dies a bit every time I see somebody fly through the air for 3 secs after a corner break in strive

>>717389703
>I totes don't care
>responded

>>717389726
Right sister? I heckin pog when I see the same characters verse each other and just do the same infinites in my favourite oldslop too!

>>717389528
MvC 2 was boring as fuck this year

>>717389856
anon you're asking
>How the fuck are you so fucking stupid you couldn't understand
and the answer is i didn't care enough about tekken.
But i love you and i care about you that's why I replied to (you). Don't close your window tonight

>>717389564
I think the only reason I watch Tekken 8 is out of habit, because I enjoyed watching Tekken 7. My memory of 7 is visually impressive gameplay where both players are dancing in and out of each other's range with dashes and sidesteps before engaging. Tekken 8 just looks like two fucking gorillas taking turns mashing buttons in the other gorilla's face. It's ugly, it's inelegant, and it's completely incomprehensible as a spectator. Every button looks safe until it suddenly isn't and one player is getting carried to the wall for 10 seconds and 60% of their HP. AFTER the HP buff.

It's crazy how Tekken 8 feels like it has less neutral than fucking SF6, a game with a dedicated neutral skip mechanic.

>>717389939
Don't act as if the modern games don't do the same combos and flowchart shit too you tranny
it's infact worse than old games

>>717389231
Yipes was admiring Daigo 3S play a few days before this EVO so that claim doesn't really stand at least anymore
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2521409009

>>717389978
You in the very first place said you didn't get it because you don't play not because you don't care. The complaints people had were also very straight forward but apparently too complex for you somehow.

>>717390123
I saw a post here during the top 8 by someone saying "Tekken 8 is what happens when you design a game around Tasty Steve soundbites"
Basically they designed the game around being as hype as possible instead of actually good which is why the game is overly aggressive with constant particle effect spewing.

>>717390460
>you didn't get it because you don't play not because you don't care
are you sure you know who you're talking to? just look at my reply anon it's right there, it says "i don't play tekken and i don't really give a fuck about it". I don't play it because i don't give a fuck about it.
>The complaints people had were
i don't know what the complains were because again, i don't care enough about tekken to look it up, all i know is that people were crying about it, not why.

>>717370828
I’m convinced the people who play this and talk about this game aren’t real. They’re a matrix programming designed to fuck with people since I never heard one person I’ve interacted with personally or through a stream or some shit ever say they play or talk about this game. Which just sounds impossible with how much of a success this game is supposed to be.

>>717390638
You in the first post said you didn't get the complaints not that you didn't know them.

>>717390759
This but league of legends

>>717390768
anon how new are you? do you even know what nta means? I'm not the same guy that posted the will smith pic.

>>717390759

>>717364080 (OP)
All the modern games are just boring.

>>717390847
>trying to pretend to be someone else after getting BTFO
Not fooling anyone.

>>717390853
Silence machine

>>717364080 (OP)
Caught everything except MK and Strive, the top 8's that I did watch were pretty good except for Tekken and SF6 grands so it was fine. Announcements were whatever, Granblue getting EX characters and UNI2 getting more characters in general were already good enough for me and VF6 looked solid. I don't think Strive needs 2.0 nor doo I think a 2.0 could "fix" the game but if it does then I might go back for Jam. Don't give a single shit for tag fighters tho so the 3 upcoming tag fighters are giga sleep to me.

>>717390910
>trying to pretend
no? from the very beginning i said i wasn't that guy. Are you genuinely retarded or just a turbo newwfag?

>>717390759
Most people playing it are in the single player modes or live in japan.
Outside of japan this game is a major flop, but shills will make you think otherwise.
The "core" audience supports the game because they have been instructed to do so indirectly by streamers and company men, they are a very loud minority.
Japan sees the game now like a national pride / event sport.
Think of it like How the Koreans see StarCraft

>>717390998
BTFO from the get go maybe

>>717391062
turbo newfag it is then.
Have a nice day turbo newfaggot!

>>717386525
>sells millions
>only thousands of players
Lol, lmao even

>>717391098
>too dumb to understand basic complaints
>BTFO so hard has to pretend to be other people out of embarrassment

Sad to say, but DSP is right. EVO is for dunces and rollback netcode is for mouth drooling retards which makes fighting games impossible to grow.

>>717386525
Even if this was true, which it isn't.
All the games are shit so why does it even matter.
It's like taking shooting out of basketball because someone said it was too hard. Yeah just put the basket on the ground and make it 5x bigger , also dribbling is optional.

>>717391119
>/v/troon is so no game she doesn't know that fighting games are 1v1

>>717391227
Wanna compare SF6 initial sales to Vs? Or does that hurt your numbertranny narrative too much?

>>717390592
>Tekken 8 is what happens when you design a game around Tasty Steve soundbites
Jack 8 literally had a new move added named MAKE SAME NOOOOOISE. It couldn't be closer to the truth.

>>717389939
Dude, you're 17.

>>717391419
No sister I know that old slop is heckin poggers, I almost came from my clitty when all of top 8 was the same mirror.

>>717391325
Literally doesn't matter
SF2 made 11B SF6 is never reaching that even if we give it 200 years.
Nobody talks about SF anymore, you meet a random person on the street they are more likely to talk to you about Mortal Kombat than anything.
The franchise is at its lowest point ever despite what bots and shills keep saying.
Street Fighter was as much a part of American Culture as GI Joe, Dragon Ball and Transformers, that shit is gone completely. nobody cares except maybe 10,000 people.
Those people playing online in world tour or character creator mode? they love this game just as much as anything else in their library, thats not a fanbase, these are tourists who would be just as excited if you showed them a roller coaster.

>>717391586
>Nobody talks about SF anymore
They do but only in Japan

>>717391586
>doesn't matter
Sounds like it does and you don't wanna acknowledge it.

>>717391629
You're the type of person I talk over whenever they show up.

>>717391586
You do know Nicki Minaj has a song called Chun Li and multiple Street Fighter characters are in Fortnite right and there's a Hollywood movie in production right?
I swear people on 4chan live in a separate world to reality when it comes to the layman.

>>717364080 (OP)
>Used to be excited whenever characters and trailers are announced
>Returning characters as DLC started to get boring a decade ago
>Now don't care at all.
I think it's just the same cycles playing out every time that makes fighting games boring now. OMG! IS THAT THE CHARACTER FROM THE OTHER GAME RETURNING AS DLC!?!?!?! Then the sequel gets a smaller roster and the same some and dance plays out as they announce returning characters as DLC.
It's not new anymore.

>>717391805
>fortnite
>see ryu
>yo its the karate guy from mugen
shut it retard, nobody cares.
go around and ask people in public if they play Street Fighter, most of them will answer with SF2 or something.
Nobody outside japan is playing this shit
Even kids

>>717391984
>normies know what mugen is but not street fighter
Again you fags need to leave your circle jerk and actually experience reality.

>>717392176
Do you know what a joke is you dumb faggot,
I played fortnite I see way more DBZ characters than single A SINGLE fucking SF let alone fighting game character.
Fuck me I saw way more subzero and scorpion a while back.
youve been shilled the MaxDood Sajam narrative and none of it is true.

>>717392307
>calls others dumb
>doesn't know what street fighter is

>>717392354
Oh you're just trolling, rope.

>normies don't know what Street Fighter is

Based on Evo and recent fighting game threads on /v/, the happiest fighting game fans are
>Granblue Fantasy Versus fans
>Rivals of Aether fans
While the most miserable are
>Street Fighter fans
>Tekken fans
Honorable mention for Smash Ultimate, which is so bad that it can't be considered a fighting game even if you believe platform fighters are. Several top players have quit the game and every tournament is essentially a humiliation ritual for the remaining ones as they get beaten by characters who aren't even playing the same game.

>>717365397
Old games aren’t fading out imo. As long as I can play +R and Blazblue I’m fine with the state of the genre.

>>717392468
Feels good being a Melee chad.

>>717378880
>MvC2 was great
would've been 200x as hype if they actually let jwong and yipes run the set when they were getting heated

>>717392551
>Melee
>Chad
The Melee community is an embarrassment. I still play Slippi with friends.

>>717392448
>street fighter / fortnite
oof

>>717392650
I don't care your faggot hero finally killed himself.

>>717390460
why are third worlders so mad all the time like this
it's so cringey and pathetic

>>717392650
What did Gypsy Crusader do to Jonathan Blow?

>>717392754
>polcel too
Did it really take you this long to come up with a response?

>>717392803
The unforgivable crime of wanting to play Melee

>>717364080 (OP)
That new Under Night character looks so lame

>>717392837
Pretty heinous 2bh.

>>717392962
I like her enough. The fish is the coolest part. Reminds me of indoor fish from Hunter x Hunter.

I liked it, but too much corporate shilling. I only watch SF during EVO and don't know much about the scene now for top players. Its okay for a top 8, but I don't really like the UI very much. EVO is much better if you just watch the top 8s after they upload them to their youtube. There are no ads or commentary before the match. Its just match into the next match.

This latest batch of games seems pretty good to me, but I don't have that much time to play games anymore, its hard to justify buying new games.

I liked watching CoTW and BlazBlue. KI was pretty good, UNI is not that bad either. Strive is not really my jam, but I hear its more fun to play. Marvel 2 is not as fun to watch as Marvel 3 in my opinion. I try, but I like watching x-factor bullshit too much. VF is good too, better than Tekken, but does get dry after a while.

I wish there were still good weeklies instead of online tournaments. I skip most majors and online tournaments, so I don't know who the players are at this point. Most of the online weeklies I watch are for niche/small community games.

>>717392468
Srsly, the fact they're fast-tracking the character workshop in RoA2 is incredible news. The game's long term success is guaranteed. We're finally going to get the true 2.5D MUGEN and leave Brawl modding behind.

>>717392551
Melee is lolcow central

>>717394740
>the enduring autism of Brawl modding
>the modern online infrastructure of Rivals
At this rate I hope that Brawlback never comes out because it's going to siphon modders away from RoA2

>>717391223
anon it's not that I don't understand, i just don't give a fuck.
>BTFO
are you 12yo?

>>717396452
Damn it took you an hour to come up with that? You really are dumb.

>>717395850
Don't say that. PMchads deserve rollback after what Nintendo and GIMR did to them

>>717370828
Can't wait for the workshop, thanks for the info

>>717396608
i have better things to do than entertaining some random newfag

>>717397287
Clearly not.

>>717390759
It's because it's a relatively small, niche game in a niche sub-genre of a niche genre. Traditional fighting game players call it a party game, only to get their assholes gaped by gold players on ranked and uninstall - if they install it all. Smash players simply won't play or discuss platform fighters that aren't Smash, whether it's Ultimate or Melee, with the exception being PM players. It isn't Melee, so Melee players dislike it. And 4 and Ultimate are so far removed from Melee and even Brawl that it's difficult to discuss how hard people who play them get filtered by other games.

A competitively-oriented platform fighter that's essentially still in early access in terms of singleplayer content only appeals to dedicated players, which is why the playerbase is what it is. There's only a few thousand people who actively play RoA2, but most of them really like and advocate for the game because it appeals to them and the developers are very pro-consumer and pro-player.

This is just my perspective.

>>717399176
A melee player just dabbed on your game at evo.

Evo died the moment it was bought by Snoy. Like it or not, the grimey shitty people were part of what gave the FGC its character. Same thing happened to Smash, died right as Covid and the accusatioms kicked in. Both never recovered

>>717399449
Am I supposed to be mad that Plup, the best platform fighter player and the only one who actually plays other games, won

>>717392448
SF has reached India I see

>>717399635
Yes.

>>717399449
Did any other Melee pros compete in RoA2 at Evo or was it just him?

>>717399651
Damn
That's nuts

>>717399681
Yes.

>>717391805
Nobody cares about that hoe except groids
She was on that twitch stream and everyone was commenting how she looks like an artificial homunculus

Also corporate production =/= cultural impact

>>717399748
>nobody cares except for the people that do
Wow what a deep and insightful statement when trying to say nobody has ever heard of Street Fighter.

>>717391780
are you on the spectrum? autists do that a lot

>>717364080 (OP)
it's been increasingly corporate and sterile for years now. I only watched top 8s on Sunday and those took forever due to them having to take excessively long breaks between matches to run all their chipotle and red bull commercials and then let the advertising screen saver play on stream for another 5 minutes before finally doing the next match and starting the whole advertisement process over again. team spooky stream days were peak and it will only be great again if it becomes unprofitable and the sponsors pull out to let tournaments once again be community run.

>>717399176
Your game just has ugly and soulless designs, music, etc. It's general aesthetic is garbage. That's why people would rather talk about the game with Captain Falcon instead.

>>717399939
Okay

>>717364080 (OP)
>Was it just me or was this year Evo extremely underwhelming
The games are ass, so, yes..
I watched mvc2 and went on about my business

>>717400190
>The games are ass
>I watched mvc2
heh

Does anyone
and I mean ANYONE
know if the EXE exploit still works for Granblue versus? I want to play the game again but I really would like to avoid giving cygames and arcsys money

>>717391583
Go be a smarmy faggot somewhere else

>>717364080 (OP)
>Sony owned
>Everything is a safe space now
>Can't pick lewd costumes per new Evo and sponsors policy. Characters are redesigned with tamer default costumes in general.
>Commentators are forbidden from cussing as per new Evo and sponsors policy
>Family friendly cosplay contests, cringe events like RPS tournament, and Evo hosts confessing familial love for the venue to keep their jobs
It's a fucking joke now. Mike Ross was right and even he sold out.

>>717400284
i did it back in february and it did work but i don't know if it still does, even more now that a patch released like yesterday.
You could just try the f2p version though.

>>717389939
Meanwhile in SF6, 25% of the characters you meet online will be Ryu or a clone of him, and every jump in -> DRC -> DRC -> level 3 combo looks the same.

>>717400389
>Can't pick lewd costumes per new Evo and sponsors policy.
source?

>>717400851
25% is less than 100%

>>717400923
What games are you spectating that only have one character in top 8?

>>717400389
>Commentators are forbidden from cussing
This isn't entirely true. I heard yipes curse a few times and it surprised me lol. Anyway, I should've traveled to evo years ago before it became so corporate. Sucks to see what it's become.

>>717400908
No one was allowed to pick leotard Cammy or classic Mai. One guy fucked up and had to change costumes immediately afterwards.

>>717400908
Did you already forget the whole "CORE VALUES" shotshow and how hard they shafted DOA?
If you want a modern example notice how quickly they cut away the victory pose of cammy compared to other girls. Scared shitless of a small ass-shot

>>717401007
>pic
none of those guy are around anymore are they? pr balrog was fun to watch in the SFIV era. Never liked fchamp tho, he seemed like an asshole

>>717400990
MvC

>>717401113
>fchamp
He streams sf6 pretty regularly these days
>pr balrog
He showed up to some major not too long ago. Can't remember which.
>shady k
He worked on power rangers battle for the grid and I -think- hes on the dev team for 2xko, someone correct me if im wrong.
>ricky
He plays sf6 these days last I heard

>>717401331
what is even the punchline here

>>717401349
Idk but it triggered capcom enough to ban him lolol

>>717401008
It boggles the mind how we've become so prudish that things that were ok in the 90's are not allowed anymore

only worthwhile storylines was jdcr in tekken and xiaohai in sf6. could not give a fuck about anyone else

>>717378103
No, if you watched the pools you'd know that there was actually a good number of newbies who didn't know what they were doing. Besides, what you typed was true a year ago and yet grand finals were much better.

>>717378103
>>717403163
To add something else: SoulCalibur II was literally released in 2003 and hasn't changed since, but the last tournament at TampaNeverSleeps was actually really exciting to watch.

>>717400284
They patched that long time ago

I had a fun time
:)