What can i say? These matchvid highlight reels are fun to watch. This one features tons of Super Street Fighter IV footage from the UYG crew. Fair warning though: Some of the shorter clips are basically pointless, and the last minute was mysteriously left blank.
highlights:
SSF4 Vega bullying some hapless T.Hawk player at 0:15, Cammy linkfest from 3:09 onward, Sagat fireball-dodging at 4:40, and Ibuki crossup shenanigans at 6:37
Wow, it’s hard to believe how broken some of these combos are. It seems like anyone can do anything at any time from anywhere. It’s still fun to watch though.
highlights:
SBX Chosokabe Motochika full stage zigzag infinites at 0:25 and 0:48, Toyotomi Hideyoshi full stage zigzag infinites at 1:10 and 1:34, aaand it looks that describes every combo …
It’s nice to see such comprehensive tutorials being made for classic fighting games that never had these benefits in the primes. This one covers all of Guy’s major combo options in Street Fighter Alpha 2 by category: meterless combos, anti-air combos, meaty combos, and more.
highlights:
SFZ2A Guy kara-Bushin at 1:53, SFZ2A Guy promiximity cancel glitch at 2:06, SFZ2A Guy elbow drop link at 3:15, and SFZ2A Guy various 1-frame CC activation links starting from 6:00
Potemkin is the star of this unique Guilty Gear XX Accent Core video, which somehow combined equal parts elaborate and ghetto editing to produce something inexplicably awesome.
highlights:
GGXXAC Potemkin finger flick to command grab at 1:14, “Pool Man” intro at 2:12, “Air P-Buster” Burst glitch vs Dizzy at 3:06, triple Potemkin Buster at 4:05, and final boss battle from 4:14
There’s a new strategy article up on Sonic Hurricane explaining the general concept of using attacks to bait supers and Custom Combos. Here’s the link along with a brief quote:
Using Combos and Block Strings as Bait on Sonic Hurricane
Valle somehow assembled the perfect storm. He built up an insane amount of comeback momentum. He used a combo that didn’t knock down, so it looked like he screwed up. It was only three hits, so it was tough for Choi to judge the distance in such a short period of time. It ended in a fireball which caused funky slowdown and messed with Choi’s timing. And it ended with Sagat standing up, which made him seem like a very tempting target for a Valle CC.
Apparently this is the conclusion of a 2-on-2 Capcom vs SNK 2 tournament where each player had to pick one random character? So of course Bas basically wins it with R1 A-Bison alone.
players: Bagwoon (C-Ken/Sagat/ChunLi-2) and D44 (A-Bison/Hibiki/Blanka-2)
vs K (C-Akuma/Blanka/Sagat-2) and GunterJPN (A-Bison/King/Blanka-2)
observations:
There’s an interesting moment at 0:58 where K lands a half-nice/half-ghetto Raging Demon setup, then he kind of backs off and allows Bagwoon to throw out a roll DP. Obviously he could’ve punished the roll and won the round immediately, but when you think about it, getting Demon’d tends to make people anxious. There was a chance that Bagwoon might have done a super after that roll, so maybe K was giving Bagwoon an opportunity to waste all his meter before dying? Not a bad idea. It didn’t matter in the end though, because D44-Bas is too damn good at this game. Did you know that he invented Bison’s far s.MP? True story.
That’s a lot of T’s! So this is actually happening? I like how the Namco logo is represented by Kazuya and Jin punching in each other in the face.
It looks to be very early in development but they already have several intriguing features in place. Tagging seems to give you extended control of the exiting character, as shown with Leo at 0:52. And of course Jin’s throw comboed into Azuka’s throw looks awesome, even if it turns out to be a single move rather than a combo.
Ever since Street Fighter Alpha 3 was overrun by V-Ism dominance, Guy has emerged as one of the few remaining torchbearers for defiance by way of A-Ism. This video painstakingly demonstrates A-Guy’s various combo options, in addition to numerous safe follow-up mixups.
highlights:
SFA3 A-Guy running slide juggle at 0:45, A-Guy Bushin Chain HK trade setups from 1:10,
A-Guy s.MP -> far s.HP stylin’ corner juggle at 2:05, and A-Guy near-ToD dizzy at 3:10
Instead of doing a MatchVid of the Day, let’s try something different today. Back when Super Street Fighter IV was first released and everyone was trying to figure out the new characters, Doopliss compiled these clips from a series of online matches. Shenanigans aplenty!
highlights:
SSF4 El Fuerte “Soul-crushing Taco Slap” at 0:09, Cody vs Juri insanity at 1:31, Dan taunting with a purpose at 1:36, Zangief “Time for a comeback” at 2:22, and Nelson cameo at 3:46
This video has been making the rounds today, and it’s easy to see why. It’s pretty much the most productive app ever made in the history of iLife.
highlights:
3S Akuma ground pound at 0:10, 3S Yun command grab vs Q at 0:17, 3S Ryu vs Ken at 0:25, SFA2 Akuma vs Ken at 1:03, and of course the tutorial itself at 1:39
