Old OzHadou interview gets me thinking about NZism's future, please read!

[Orochi]

God I can't wait for KoFXII.

I'd cruise up to Auckland for KoFXII and T6BR tourneys. I'd probably enter a SFIV tourney just for a laugh too.

[Will]

T6 is crazy popular, might end up getting into it when it drops on console and the person that runs the smash tourneys at his place is Sambo, would be best to get in touch with him through GP forums.

Good interview, Starks interviews are allways good.

[Barnstorm]

I'm fairly sure a few people from Welly, probably up to 5 or so would travel up for 3s, but probably no other game other than T6. I'd enter other tourneys just to make up numbers but not for serious.
Might be a bit sour playing console 3s though, however FBA or an arcade solves that.

as far as I know console is perfectly fine for 3rd strike

if you were to organize a big event you would have to have

tekken BR
SF4

if you want to see people traveling these are gona be the major draws

tekken has the biggest scene in newzealand and people do travel for that i know every wellington player would travel to aucks if they had the money/time

for the most recent tekken tourny 6 went from welly had 1 hamiltonian and 2 from Christchurch attend plus the auckland regulars

maybes would include:

Marvel
3rd strike
blazblue (which will only be auckland players as far as i know)
HD remix

but i doubt many players would leave home for just these unless they also play tekken or sf4

[Chuckk]

Perfectly fine, maybe, the same as arcade, definitly not.
Thats enough of a difference tbh.

[[NIUE] BIRRY WONG]

At yifans, arguably the most played game(s) is friggin Kof97-2002.

Blazblue has a growing crowd, but its nothing to write home about. Even when it gets a console release, i still dont think the community will grow too much.

When MVC2 drops on 360/ps3 i think would be the perfect time to do something to get that community buzzing. I would guess that it will get a hell of a lot of downloads, but it risks an early death. A marvel comp after say, 3 months would be enough to keep it alive, at least for a while.

At this point, SF4 and Tekken 6 are the only 'safe' bets. I think inevitably we would want some HD remix/marvel/3rd strike in there. (Though the 3rd strike crowd seem to be migrating to SF4) And the (early)Kof community would be a great one to reach out too, but the auckland based ones dont tend to speak a lot of english.

KofXII, at least at yifans, was dead before it even got started.

Im only speaking from an auckland perspective here. Its probably quite a lot different elsewhere. Im also biased towards marvel, but i would say my comments on it specifically are pretty sound.

[Barnstorm]

Perfectly fine, maybe, the same as arcade, definitly not.
Thats enough of a difference tbh.

what console are you playing on and what differences are you talking about?

[[8-----D] Toots]

Perfectly fine, maybe, the same as arcade, definitly not.
Thats enough of a difference tbh.

what console are you playing on and what differences are you talking about?

Ps2 version is the closest to arcade perfect yet there is still a few differences. Main thing is that its a bit faster. There is also some damage and stun differences for instance Yangs rekkas do less stun damage.

[[NIUE] Optimus DAVE]

did they make a ps2 version? lol

wat about the dc version?

[[8-----D] Toots]

DC version is crap apparently. Different speed and apparently it drops frames and shit.

Ps2 is tourney standard

[fluxcore]

DC version changes lots of things, no unblockables for a start, some horrible timing changes as well.

PS2 is basically arcade, but people will always complain about something.

[[NIUE] Optimus DAVE]

DC version changes lots of things, no unblockables for a start, some horrible timing changes as well.

PS2 is basically arcade, but people will always complain about something.

that explains some things

[Chuckk]

I'd play ps2 version but you spend all your time/money playing and practicing on one format, be nice too compete on it. However, as long as 3s was represented i'm sure a few people from here would come up for it.

[[NIUE] B1ackstar Ninja]

Couldnt I or someone else just bring there pc and run the arcade rom through mame or ggpo ar kawaks and just plug 2 360 TE sticks in Like I do at home ?

Instant arcade accurate game .

[Chuckk]

Couldnt I or someone else just bring there pc and run the arcade rom through mame or ggpo ar kawaks and just plug 2 360 TE sticks in Like I do at home ?

Instant arcade accurate game .

Threw that out there before, seems like a simple fix.

[fluxcore]

If your computer drops one frame there'll be a shitstorm. Really not sure if I'll bother with an emu setup, we'll see. I think I've said this already..