I'm sorry but a game without risks is very boring. Did you see the Tekken 6 finals at EVO? Boring as hell, just poke poke poke. No one took risks, just picked the best 2 characters and stuck with the safest shit possible. RIP was the exception, he actually put on a bit of a show but he ended up getting lamed out by super safe Bob player.
I think MK9 does it right. Playing it safe doesn't get you too far. If you want to really do some damage you've got to take some risks LIKE A MAN!
No offense, but I think you should learn more about Tekken and MK before you say things like this.
There's more risk/reward in Tekken than there is in MK. Also, Bob is not all that safe, and he's not top 2 in the game. The reason Tekken was boring at Evo is because most people find Tekken to be boring to watch. It's my main fighting game and I still think it's boring to watch. Has nothing to do with the risk/reward ratio in the game.
In MK, almost EVERYTHING is safe. It's ridiculous. Look at Kitana...
f+2,1 - Safe launcher.
2,1 - Safe, hit confirmable combo starter.
f+4,1 - Safe overhead launcher.
Fake Out Kick - Safe low.
Square Wave - Safe on block.
Cutter - Advantage on block.
Almost every character in MK9 has a safe launcher, overhead or combo starter. Even most specials are either hard to punish or safe with an EX variant. I would go as far as to say that 80% of the attacks in the game are either safe or advantage on block. In Tekken, I'd say maybe 40% of the attacks are safe.
I say that MK is risky because of the throw system and the lack of defense. If I'm holding block, I'm essentially taking a risk. There's simply no good way to play defense effectively.
And you think SF is a risky game at competitive level? LOL a game where you can make any move safe by FADC, where you can hitconfirm your biggest damage combos off of jabs without any commitment, where backdashes have invincibility frames. Cmon that game has plenty of safe shit.
I didn't mean SF was risky, I meant it's a guessing game. You can FADC to make things safe, but when I'm pressuring Rufus on wake-up, I still have to guess if he's going to Messiah or not.
Whos Dr. Dogg? I've never seen at tournys or on streams?
I'm the one doing a vast majority of the frame data for this site. I was at Evo and got top 64 (playing the game once a week at most), but was never on stream. I did commentary though.
I'm also on the Digital Dojo stream every other Wednesday, but the archive is currently hidden because the admins don't want strats out leading up to DEV.
