I wouldn’t recommend waking up, gief is waiting with his command grab

@Charles Hastings Goodnight, babe! I guessed wrong and got snatched.

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Theory Fighter truly is a good addition to our species. Sometimes evolution gets it's shit together.

knew your name was familiar, I use to watch your rumble fighter vids back in the day haha!

I do not fully agree. While I can accept a command grab on wake up as unavoidable as a combo, there's something about turning a blocked jab into an unblockable knockdown that really makes me upset.

@@doutsida6715 isnt that what he said tho? that he wants the command grab to have it back but not the regular grab to differentiate them?

Fuck no

i see what you did there

Get out.

Ah yes, clever word play.

Yeh- that was the original magic throw!

honestly this would NOT be true if any other company made the models but capcom cannot make models at all

It is funny to listen to people who grew up with EX, SF4 and SF5, because they often describe the animation style in Alpha and SFIII as too squishy or gummy.

@@mattzr1550 SF6 and UMVC3 say hi

@@mattzr1550 No, it would still be true in that case. 2D sprites > polygons.

I understand this sentiment but you have to understand that Fighting games entered the Dark Times. Outside of Rival Schools and a few other titles; There was no fighting games being released and the ones released after Street Fighter III in 1997 were TERRIBLE! Again outside of Rival Schools and one other title so from 1997 showing us SF4 in 2007-08, a hiatus of 11+ years. Do you know how many fucking Naruto fighting games I had to tolerate when they came out? DBZ Games? Just Anime in General? That shit was annoying. I miss the Pixel graphics too but that era is done.

We all want Green Hand back, he had it in 4 and they stole it from him for 5

SNK had done it earlier with samsho i believe and brought dodge to kof 94 and roll to 96 and this is more likely where the inspiration came from

Smash was inspired by the early kof games and tried to make a simple fighting game because those games are hard to play, sakurai allegedly was into competitive kof back in the 90s and kicked a casual so hard he got inspired to make smash bros

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Only Zangief’s command grabs work like this in A2.

@@Veri7as Thanks

Actually, there are some "unjumpable" setups with Sodom's grab super too. Even Birdie's command grab can tick throw but those moves has lesser range, then lesser uses.

@@doutsida6715 None of those grabs ignore a player's throw invul like Gief's do. Which is the core concept of the video.

On choi's tier list he is at the lower end of high under 8 characters in total

@@TheoryFighter You have link? Id like to see it been looking for it.

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All reversals are a 1 frame window, even CC.

@@Veri7as That's sad. The video says how you can't piano input special moves. I was hoping it wasn't the case for CCs

@@doutsida6715 How would it be different though? Activating a CC is 3 buttons on the same frame.

@@Veri7as I don't know. Maybe something like p-link in SF4. You could press 3 buttons in one frame then press a 4th button in the next one for doubling the chances. I really don't know. I guess the CC activation has some lenient with buttons pressed in different frames.

So annoying that the 30th Anniversary Collection didn't give us Alpha 2 online play.

@@chebghobbi agreed. major bummer.

Custom combo lets you attack rapidly with normals and specials. what moves can be used rapidly depends on the character and you always move forward when you activate it.

@@HellTantrumbull Thank you!

@@NinF37 I'm a different person, but yep, you should check out that game! I loved the custom combos! You get blue shadows trailing you and you automatically go forward towards the opponent, and you can just quickly combo hits that normally wouldn't be able to be comboed, and link them to special moves and such. So basically, it's like a super combo, but it's up to you! You can do the moves (within reason) that you want as part of it! This video that I'll post the link to has a few "extreme" examples, and they are usually not quite as damaging, but it illustrates what can be done: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/atKkq6yHqs7ZlGw.html And although Alpha 3 has something similar to it, it's not as good as it is in Alpha 2. And in addition, in Alpha 2, you can use it or do super combos, but in Alpha 3, you can only choose one or the other (and again, even if you choose custom combos, they are not as good).

You can exchange all your current meter for having the power to cancel everything into everything even if it whiffs (it's a case by case deal, but you get the gist of it) it's a pretty common mechanic on 90's Capcom games and I honestly love it, I always pick the character who has it just to see how much chaos I can make on a set with friends lol

@@Rationalificthank you!!

Yeah for real. I’ve watched a hell of a lot of Alpha 2 and it is very, very rare to ever see about half the cast. I love this game. But this might be the first time I’ve ever heard anyone refer to it as well balanced.

true, but give the guy a break haha, he's mentioned way back he dislikes the anime look a lot so while he's played some its not likely he's played unist, bbcf dengeki or p4a and in that context, where a lot of anime is excluded, its fairly true

What techniques are banned in A2? I've played in A2 tournaments at Final Round before and I don't recall anything of the sort being mentioned.

@@sabishiihito I assume they're looking at all the glitches, unlockables, etc. and thinking they're banned when in reality, they're not.

There are no banned techniques and Sakura is not top tier

Glitch

Rose's Soul Spiral is unsafe on block and on hit because of that. That witch deserves it though because of her Alpha Counter and her crouching strong.

i’m gonna assume you also play guilty gear. pot buster has spoiled me when it comes to command grab damage. it’s just so good when a move that’s really not that easy to land has such a huge payoff

I don't think that Adon was in alpha 1 or 2

Adon is viable in A2 but you have to give up on his special moves if anyone has meter. His anti air is obsolete when you can use a anti air CC. His qcf+K is unsafe ON HIT. And his jaguar tooth is easily countered with CCs. Those who play with him pokes a lot with his far roundhouse, counter pokes with crouch strong and (like everyone in A2) a lot of meter building for CCs and Alpha Counters.

@@doutsida6715 that's kind of bummer. I really like him in SF4 but he seems hard to use in the alpha games.

@@justingoers I can't tell for all alpha games though. He seems powerful in A1 and ok in A3.

The video of the Alpha 2 gameplay is artificially zoomed in for this video, if that's what you mean. I'm not sure why, but maybe to illustrate the moves rather than life bars, etc.

@@Rationalific make sense

"Magic throws" ignore all throw invul that's given to a player after coming out of hit/block-stun and after a knockdown. SPD has 1 active frame, so it's not possible for it to ever be meaty.

Alpha 2 has throw invule except for Zangief's SPD.

I also believe that even up to the present day, no Street Fighter game has surpassed it. Alpha 3 had more stuff, but it does not resonate with me as much. The new style (including "isms", portraits, music, and the "Go for broke!" announcer) did not sit as well. SF III 3rd Strike was fun, but never liked the selection of characters, looks of the characters, having to select one super art, nor gameplay as much. SFIV was nice, but the polygons did not quite match the glory of the pixel art of Alpha 2. I never got into SFV, which I see as a downgrade from IV for the most part. One thing I don't love in Alpha 2 is that (unless a workaround is utilized) three buttons have to be pressed at the same time for the Level 3 super, when the level should have only depended on the strength of the attack button used to initiate it. That is one of my only criticisms. Personally speaking, I must admit that I love Granblue Fantasy Versus' style as well as the technical simplicity of inputs that yet leads to intricate gameplay. But for sure, I can also certainly see how Alpha 2 can still be seen as the best fighting game ever made.

This degenerate ass game? Nah LOL!

Alpha 2 is fantastic, but Alpha 3 and Third Strike are better.

@@YourCreepyUncle. Alpha3 is broken with unnecessary Ism's and much slower paced and 3rd strike is also slower paced and all about memorising parries, not too much skill involved in my opinion

@@Rationalific Alpha2 is much faster paced than Alpha3. I just prefer the quicker back and forth action, quick standing and the fact that there are no second chances when your mess up after activating a Vism. No floaty jumps or excessive juggling combos that keep you in the air for the entire match. Street fighter 3 for me feels stiff, you don't have pixel precision footsies like you do in ST or Alpha2.

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Yeah its sad, L SPD has hilarious range though in 5 No seriously the grab range on Light SPD is like, a Zangief length away from himself But he's just.... bleh, his V-System stuff is all pretty neat but he just has so many unfun bits, and why no green hand

It's o.gief in an earlier patch of ST. He can reversal running bear grab to punish basically everything on block

Not even the best character in the game, strong though!

Outside of dan and Adon (kinda), everyone is viable

Ryu, Sagat, Akuma, and Guy are legitimately well balanced characters though

Outside of Dan, and MAAAAAAYBE Adon(even tho his CC is really really good), the entire cast is viable. That's pretty balanced

are you okay

@@ZeludeRose I am it's just people have been shittin on alpha 3 for years it never gets shine and people don't even wanna try it cause it already got a bad rap because of the crouch cancels infinites in the game,imo you cannot metion alpha 2 without mentioning alpha 3

@@ReallyPhilly215 you clicked on an alpha 2 video just to yell about how it's not talking about alpha 3... go click on an alpha 3 video instead.

My dude. Respectfully. Consider using sentences with a beginning and end. People will probably take you more seriously.

@@ZeludeRose you can't metion alpha 2 without mentioning alpha 3

You sure you're not thinking about A3?

But Daigo literally loves SFA2.. what the heck Lol

Please explain why when the game has better matchup spreads than a lot of modern games?

@@TheoryFighter It doesn't, you are delusional.

@@khentimentiu I've won events with low mid tier. Outside of Dan and maybe Adon, the whole cast is viable.

The game with literal 9-1 matchups is balanced in any way, shape or form?