Category: Fighting Games

Moving onto a character at the lower end of the tierlist, Izaw’s latest “Art of” guide for Super Smash Bros. for Wii U focuses on Dream Land’s perfect penguin king, King Dedede. While he has the worst airspeed out of the whole cast and is combo food for most of the top tiers, Dedede excels at trapping your opponent at the ledge. Izaw has even called in Dedede specialist Girthquake and Soul Train to show off just how devastating this penguin can be. With careful use of his Gordo projectile, Dedede can rack up easy damage or even stylish kills on opponents dangling off the edge of the stage.

What he lacks in speed, Dedede makes up for in power. His f-smash shatters shields and he can line up guaranteed shield breaks with careful Gordo placement. While you probably won’t ever win a major playing Dedede, you can certainly style on your opponent. Dunking someone with his Super Dedede Jump is always satisfying.

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After creating some character concept videos for Dragon Ball Super’s Hit, Beerus, Goku Black, and Zamasu, IKevinX is back with another video going over the currently-known anime and manga references for one of Dragon Ball FighterZ newly-announced cast members, the Desert Bandit, Yamcha.

With the latest fighters currently unavailable to the public, and only a short character reveal trailer and a bit of gameplay footage from Game Informer to go on, IKevinX notes that their are several things missing from the video — such as Yamcha’s victory and intro animations, Ki attacks, as well as crouching and jumping attacks — but he wanted to make a video anyway for the sake of getting caught up in giving his energy to the Spirit Hypebomb.

As a good portion of Yamcha’s key relevancy comes from the earliest points in the overall series, a majority of his attacks and animations have been lifted from the original Dragon Ball, as well as some originals attacks from Xenoverse 2 and a few other past Dragon Ball fighting games. You can see the full video below!

You can see his other videos for the remaining announced cast members at the following links:

• Goku & Frieza
• Teen Gohan & Vegeta
• Perfect Cell & Majin Buu
• Future Trunks
• Krillin & Piccolo
• SSGSS Goku & Vegeta
• Androids 17 & 18
• Android 16

Dragon Ball FighterZ will be released on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Steam PC in February 2018.

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While option selects haven’t been prevalent within Street Fighter V to date, they still crop up from time to time. While Ed has solid offense, it can still be blown up from people who have learned to fight against him. These options selects, however, will change the tide back in Ed’s favor.

Ed has various options to battle around his opponents’ V-Reversals. The first one is off of a jump-in — that by buffering low short into low jab into EX Psycho Upper, you will get EX Psycho Upper if your opponent V-Reversals, and will otherwise get the start of a combo or blockstring that will conclude with Psycho Flicker if your opponent does nothing, or gets hit.

These next two take care of the approach from the ground. Using this, if they V-Reversal on the first hit of this blockstring, it will buffer into a super, and otherwise will continue the blockstring.

The last one is slightly similar, but will perform an EX Psycho Upper if they V-Reversal.

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Tired of playing competitively in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U? If only there were any special, custom modes for it… the Beefy Smash Doods are doing it the old-fashioned way — making up their own rules to turn Smash 4 on its head.

The Doods present five distinct gameplay “modes” that radically change up the way the game is played.

• Point System — look at a competitive tier list, and randomly select characters. Gain points with a modifier that rewards you for winning with a lower-tier and gives you less points if you use a higher-tier character.
• Sounds Like Smash — randomly pick eight characters, don’t look at the screen, and figure out all the selected fighters based on sound only
• The Ganon Challenge — four or eight players. Everyone, except one person, pick Ganondorf. See how many stocks the single person can take from the Ganondorfs, and then rotate to see who has the best score.
• The Smash Boardgame — Use the character select screen as a board. Advance by taking stocks during matches and play whatever character your cursor lands on as you advance.
• Duelist Pro — a venerated game mode where you keep yourself in the air as Toon Link and try to throw other players down

Go ahead and give those modes shot, if you haven’t already. Which one is your favorite? Maybe you have a “custom game” developed by yourself? Let us know in the comments.

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Back in 1992, Midway Games launched the first entry of what would become one of the most celebrated fighting game franchises ever. Now, 25 years later (give or take a few days) Midway’s successor, NetherRealm Studios, is paying tribute to Mortal Kombat.

Launched in arcades on October 8, 1992, Mortal Kombat went on to become a one of the most influential video games — not just among fighting games, but among games in general. The game’s controversial violence led to the eventual creation of a ratings system for games, now run by the ESRB. The same over-the-top action and violence, alongside a plethora of secrets, bonuses, and more, had kept the series alive in the hearts and minds of gamers, even if some installments failed to catch the same competitive traction as other franchises.

The video below celebrates all of that, and includes excerpts from some of the creative team at NRS such as John Vogel, Carlos Pesina, Steve Beran, Tony Coskie, Dan Forden, and of course, Ed Boon.

Now, the description for the video says that there’s more to come — so expect more from NetherRealm as they celebrate 25 years of this classic series.

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Subscribers to the Bandai Namco Entertainment America were likely a bit surprised to see trailers pop up for Dragon Ball FighterZ characters Gohan and Majin Buu this week. After all, it wasn’t a secret that these two fighters would be in the game: they’ve been there since the beta.

Still, you might as well get used to seeing these now — as these 30-second trailers are perfectly sized for ad spaces to promote the pending 2018 release.

At the rate Namco has been playing catch-up with these character trailers, they will be done with the currently-revealed cast long before DBFZ’s release date. It’s purely speculation, but the fact they are knocking these character trailers out now could be because there are much bigger announcements to come.

Dragon Ball FighterZ will be available in February 2018 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Steam PC — with pre-orders granting early access to an open beta, to be held closer to release.

Source: Bandai Namco Entertainment America