Street Fighter Alpha 2 is notorious for having dominant Alpha Counters. This video provides practical (and impractical) examples for dealing with them with every character.
highlights:
SFZ2A Rolento vs Charlie at 0:29, SFA2 Zangief vs Birdie at 1:11, SFA2 Rose vs Zangief at 1:18, SFZ2A Charlie vs Rolento at 1:29, SFZ2A Rolento vs Ken at 1:45, SFZ2A Dan vs Zangief at 1:49, SFA2 Dhalsim vs Birdie at 1:57, and SFZ2A Guy vs Rose at 2:11
Here’s a recent Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown combo video starring Taka-Arashi, the resident sumo wrestler of the series. Since this revision isn’t available on consoles, all of the footage had to be compiled against CPU opponents at Japanese arcades over a three-week period. Now that’s something you don’t see every day.
highlights:
VF5FS T-Arashi vs “Morrigan” Sarah at 0:35, T-Arashi vs Vanessa at 1:22, T-Arashi vs Akira at 2:28, and T-Arashi vs Eileen at 2:55
Although this BlazBlue: Continuum Shift video contains over a dozen Lambda-11 combos, you’ll find it hard to follow the action once you start paying attention to the amusing music subtitles.
highlights:
BBCS Lambda-11 vs Tager at 1:35, Lambda-11 vs Tager at 2:07, and duck-dog at 3:07
This second batch of Street Fighter IV screenshots focuses more on ultrafreeze effects and the cinematic close-up camera angles they generate.
SF4 Abel’s HP Heartless super rushes directly toward Zangief’s Ultimate Atomic Buster ultra.
This SSF4 video was making the rounds yesterday and it got mentioned here too, so i figured it deserves to be posted. If you’ve got a minute to kill, this will certainly get the job done.
highlights:
SSF4 Guile removes Shades of Glory mid-combo at 0:30, Guile 25-hit fake dizzy combo at 0:38
Every combovid begins and ends, succeeds or fails, with quality of content. Everything else is secondary to how good the combos are. However, the presentation of the content certainly leaves an impression on viewers, so it matters as well. Here are some quick and easy tips to point your video in the right direction.
#1: Do your research. If you’re making CvSPro combos, watch every CvSPro combo video you can find. Make sure you’re either making improvements on their combos or going in a different direction entirely. There’s no reason to duplicate anyone else’s combos or to produce inferior versions of anyone else’s combos. There’s always room to find original material in any game, especially the good games.
#2: Try to convey an interesting concept within each combo. Either build the combo around a new discovery, or try to incorporate at least one unexpected element into every combo.
#3: Plan ahead so that your combos don’t end up looking too similar. If you have three clips starring the same character, with the same beginning, the same ending, and the same core concept, your video will turn out repetitive and monotonous.
Listen up kids, time for a history lesson! This video was released through Gamecombos.com nearly ten years ago. X-Men vs Street Fighter combovids have evolved beyond recognition since that time, but it’s always cool to take a look back at where we started.
highlights:
XSF Zangief/Cammy Variable Combination followup at 0:32, six-hit Wolverine/Storm Variable Combination at 0:46, and Dhalsim ground throw at 1:04
These screens were captured from the PC version of Street Fighter 4, running on a relatively modest PC. The graphical settings are as high as they would go, but not the highest possible.
SF4 Ryu’s Metsu Hadoken explodes upon colliding with Dhalsim’s Yoga Catastrophe ultra and HP Yoga Inferno super, covering the entire screen with a motion blur shockwave.
Although it was released last month, i want to mention this Super Street Fighter IV video because it covers a lot of ground for game engine exploration. Most of the combos are short but insightful. It’s also got a sweet editing theme based on Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure.
highlights:
SSF4 Dhalsim vs Rufus 2:25, Seth stomp combo at 3:05, Juri EX fireball juggles from 3:30, T.Hawk linkfest starting at 5:07, Makoto crossthrough dashpunch 5:27, Gouken EX Tatsumaki Gorasen juggle at 5:39, and Dhalsim Yoga Inferno ping pong at 5:47
Over the last ten years, 538 has become famous among Capcom and Namco communities for his amazing Street Fighter III and Tekken combo videos – often published under the group name of KYSG. With their recent interviews just posted, now’s a good time to highlight his other 10th anniversary release of the summer.
highlights:
T2 Yoshimitsu vacuum OTG helicopter at 1:52, Lei vs Lee at 3:53, “anti father” section at 4:09, “grooming” section at 5:29, and Nina backwards j.LP at 6:00
