the craziest thing I ever saw........

[Footie Mad]

That was just, awesome. What better way to shut someone up.

[Zero]

Originally posted by Maquiladora


Note the word involves.

right.. we'll leave what the definition of sports IS. I want to make a thread about it later.

Going back, so you think men watching sports and getting excited is perfectly normal..... but anything that isnt sports is stupid and embarassing? Is watching an incredible good chess matchup and getting excited abnormal? how about watching Johnny Chan win World Series of Poker?? Because clearly to you those dont fall under the definition of sports. So I guess I should be embarassed when i get a little carried away watching others play hold em'.....

[Dis]

if Poker can be shown on ESPN, then there is nothing wrong with this.

The only reason people don't support this is because computer games are still seen as a computer geek activity, and by definitions geeks don't do sports. Computer games still are not seen as cool (though console games are somewhat more cool)

[alva]

A pity I can't really relate to the guy's achievement, never having played this particular game.

Looked like everyone had a great evening..who cared about the rest.
When a crowd goes (simult) wild like they did, you know something special must have happened.

[BustaMike]

Holy crap!

[Jaguar]

That's awesome!

It looks like a really stupid game, though.

[Dis]

civ3 is not mindless!

Do we need to start another thread?

[Skanky Burns]

Seems cool, but I can't relate to it much.

[Zero]

well poly doesnt have alot of fighter fans (i think only person that plays it regulary is bustamike... and he plays tekken...) so I will explain a bit more in detail.

First reading my first explanation would give you an idea of just how cool the comeback was.

Everytime the blonde hair guy is flashing while doing the blocking animation, he is "parrying" the attack. Parrying requires precis timing.

when the camera zooms into a girl, she was unleashing her super attack. each attack does damage, and when blocked does very small block damage. Considering he had no health left, if he just blocked it, he would have died. But he countered it by parrying it.... Each individual hits were parried..... her super kick attack does 17 hits... he parried all 17 of them.

The last one he jumped and parried it in midair, but to appreciate that requires you to know what parry baiting is, and that gets a bit complex....

Basically, it took an incredible amount of skill in precision timing and reading the mind of an opponent to be able to come from near death VS almost perfect health round..... That alone is kinda cool.

[Maquiladora]

so you think men watching sports and getting excited is perfectly normal..... but anything that isnt sports is stupid and embarassing?

I never said it was stupid.

[Zero]

whatever, funny and embarassing. dont nitpick.

[Zero]

Originally posted by Comrade Tassadar


If you want. It'll just give me another oppritunity to show how much SMACX is better than Civ3.

omg haxor l337 pwnzed

[BustaMike]

Hey, I don't exclusively play Tekken. I won a couple of Marvel vs. Capcom tournaments at the local golfland back in the day . Free tokens, hooray!

[DRoseDARs]

I don't do fighter games, but that was awesome

[BustaMike]

Zero, what you didn't mention is the importance of the jump before the last hit (in my opinion the most impressive part of the whole thing). The jump to parry enabled him to land a jumping hit, which is a great thing to start a combo with, in this case to a super move.