Hardest thing to do any game ever?

[Frizz]

If anyone remembers the Mario time-trials, you should appreciate this little gem, from SF 3rd Strike.

http://media.shoryuken.com/srk-daigo.zip

The video shows Ken block Chun-Li's special move. Something which is quite an incredible thing to do.

Nominate your game...here!

 

[mank!]

You'd think they'd won the world cup with a reaction like that.

 

[Trem]

Me and babs have discussed this. We agree that it is indeed an awesome show of skill. If you don't play SF then you probably won't get the toughness of the moves he pulled off.

 

[Gray]

Street Fighter 3rd Strike huh?

So thats;

Street Fighter
Street Fighter Alpha?
Street Fighter Ex Plus Alpha?
Street Fighter Ex Plus Alpha Minus Ryu

I mean jesus, how many of the Street Fighter series are there? :/

 

[old.user4556]

Have to agree with mank on this one .

 

[mank!]

It might be hard within the context of the game but it's only pressing a couple of buttons. I'd probably be more impressed if they didn't all start screaming like Westlife fans.

 

[Louster]

That's pretty goddamn elitist, mank. Did you see the guy's health? He was one hit away from losing, and this is in a tournament, so there's going to be all sorts of crazy pressure. The crowd's reaction is pretty justified, given the fact that he pulls off that insane series of blocks and then wins with basically no health left. I can't say I care about football, myself, and seeing what that guy did was more exciting for me than "winning the world cup."

 

[Gray]

But... also.... was they kids? lol, also looks like some dated joystick.. like from the SNES?

 

[mank!]

I haven't played SF since I was about eight, so I'm not entirely sure what it entails. If he had to constantly keep up the block then fair enough but if he had to do a combo once then what's so brilliant about that?

I'm just not used to people going insane celebrating something that's virtual. But then you'll probably say that I'm stupid for celebrating a goal, or something.

 

[leggy]

If that excites you it's time to get the noose out.

 

[Louster]

Haha. Hardly. It's a competitive sport. It's just a rush seeing impressive stuff like that, since it's all so fast-paced. For a similar reason, I wouldn't really condone stuff like all the big, "professional" CS tournaments with huge prizes, as that game bores the fuck out of me.
It's funny how pervasive the "computer games are for stupid people/children" thing is.

 

[mank!]

I didn't say that. I just said I find it strange people could get so excited over something so trivial as that.

 

[Aada]

hm well i enter many tornements a few SF/UT and many others and the atmosphere there is amazing sometimes especialy when shit like that happens..

And yes he did have to keep the combo going to keep blocking the kicks from the other guy.. thats skill imo


i dont see whats wrong in cheering? was just like a boxing match except it was in a game? idiots who think otherwise

 

[mank!]

It wasn't a boxing match, because it was a game.

 

[Louster]

And clearly, stuff like Chess isn't worthy of getting excited over either, as it's not physical? The fact is, the game represents the player's actions. It's a representation of abstract things like reaction speed and memorisation and strategy.

 

[mank!]

Chess is a competitive sport. Street Fighter isn't.

 

[babs]

Street Fighter 3rd Strike huh?

So thats;

Street Fighter
Street Fighter Alpha?
Street Fighter Ex Plus Alpha?
Street Fighter Ex Plus Alpha Minus Ryu

I mean jesus, how many of the Street Fighter series are there? :/

It's actually Street Fighter 3: 3rd strike

The skill was not just parrying every strike in the super, but jumping in and countering the last strike and starting his own combo, that's why they go extra nuts. JWo (the loser) tends to get an amazing loss at each of the Evo tourneys, A lot of the Japanese players don't like his turtle playing. Always gets far though, I think he went far in the GGXX comp this time too (may be wrong)

Hardest thing ever tho had to be the C64 (i think) version of mission impossible, which was literally impossible

 

[mank!]

I'm going back to the Sports forum. I'm out of my depth here.

 

[Louster]

Sport: An activity involving physical exertion and skill that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often undertaken competitively.

If you can accept that the amount of "physical exertion" that's required of chess is sufficient to call it a "sport", then computer games must also be classified as a "sport".

Competitive, or, rather, Competition: A test of skill or ability; a contest: a skating competition.

And it's pretty obvious that that was a competition.

You can play any sport without it necessarily being truly competitive. The fact that games' main purposes are for entertainment doesn't imply, at all, that they're unable to be played competitively.

 

[old.user4556]

Hardest thing ever tho had to be the C64 (i think) version of mission impossible, which was literally impossible

stay a while .......... staaaaay foreverrrrrr!!!!

Loved that game, although I was only about 5 or 6 when I played it, my big sister played it and completed it. I seem to remember one of the passwords was "albatros".

G

 

[Bullitt]

I'm going back to the Sports forum. I'm out of my depth here.

until you open your mind a little

Its a demonstration of skill, combined with the no doubt highly excitable atmosphere = screaming.

Same as any sport or game or whatever.

I personally could never get that excited about it but I can certainly understand how others might, and i certainly won't mock them for it

 

[Tom]

Videos like this are the reason I tend not to advertise the fact that I play computer games.

 

[TdC]

heh MI on the c64 indeed. god, that ate a goodly portion of my childhood

lets see, games that were a tough cookie to crack (or that I really enjoyed playing under pressure):

Mission Impossible (never made it. always spent too much time on the puzzles heh)
Bug-a-Boo (guh I always hated it when that flying thing ate me :///)
Shadow of the Beast II (in under 15 minutes...had to get everything right or you'd fail)
Aliens on the MSX (or the c64 heh, memory fails me) (iirc, there was a c64 version too. I never completed it cos I'd run out of ammo and they'd get me :/)

I think after this point, say 12 years old, I'd started to get used to pressure in games and would nearly always manage to keep a cool head. Slight pity tbh, as I've yet to find an atmospheric game that will really immerse me for more than a short period of time.

 

[old.user4556]

Elite & Jet Set Willy are two games that were trully bastards to crack.

G

 

[Cdr]

A lot of the Japanese players don't like his turtle playing.

Was it better than him?

 

[Tom]

Mission Impossible (never made it. always spent too much time on the puzzles heh)

Ahem, Impossible Mission...

 

[TdC]

yeah yeah, it's late

 

[GekuL]

I don't think the fact that football is real makes it any less trivial. It's just as trivial, only more people get involved in it (myself included). I wouldn't cheer at a game like SF2 because I don't really know much about it, but I can understand getting worked up over something that is virtual.

 

[Danya]

Have to say I agree with gekul - I find the idea of kicking an inflated bladder into a net pretty damn trivial, it's no more or less legitimate as a competitve sport than computer games. Besides at the end of the day anything will do - it's just an excuse to sit about a drink.

 

[Doomy]

Im not a huge 3rd strike fan, looks gorgeous but isnt as playable as earlier installments. But let me just clear this up, if the blocking sequences are anything like the alpha series you have to push back then forwards on the stick each time you want to block a hit with losing a few milimeters of health. The chunli double superkick (100 foot kick amplified) thingy takes and awful lot of health away even when normal blocking and its stupidly fast. So the ken guy has no health and is attacked by this move inches from his being. He is timing every backwards/forwards block (to not lose health) every split second for every kick till the damned move ends and then at right exact second (the superblocking causes the game to almost pause) which is very hard to do as time is not at at normal pace in game, he double quarter punches and the double reverse kicks to do the super shoryuken and then then (cant remember name) lots of kicks finished by hurricane kick moves her into oblivion.

Thats incredibly impressive, not so much the fact that he wins, SF games can be insane sometimes, but just the sheer fact that under that pressure he manages to not fumble once on the blocking thing, once the final block is made chunli is effectively useless for a second and can be made dead very quick with 2/3 bars of super energy type stuff.

Not the hardest tho