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Posts Tagged “fighting game”

ArmchairTitan – Impractical Street Fighter

Posted on December 17th, 2014 by Hitstun

Street Fighter IV is actually pretty weird beneath the surface. YouTube user ArmchairTitan wows us with ridiculous combos you’ll never see outside of training mode and some priceless editing. This ought to help hold us until we hear more about Street Fighter V‘s mechanics, if they’ll be anywhere near this crazy. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol0cULzLdqw via Impractical […]

Street Fighter II: Mastering Great Combinations and Strategies

Posted on October 20th, 2014 by Hitstun

Oh, Capcom. When Street Fighter II Turbo came to consoles in 1993, they put out this campy VHS tape of totally valid strategies from old school Street Fighter legend Tomo Ohira. LordBBH compiled a highlight reel of all the character intro voiceovers. If the cartoonish racial stereotypes were any worse, this would be Punch-Out!! Scroll […]

Street Fighter IV Ultras Without Cinematics

Posted on September 7th, 2014 by Hitstun

In Street Fighter IV, Ultra Combo animations actually move characters awkwardly around the arena, but those transitions are covered up with camera angle changes. This video removes all of that camera work and reveals what happens just outside the frame and between cuts. Gen, Guy, Yun, and Rolento all have Ultras that teleport all over […]

Artist Alley Arcade Stick

Posted on January 31st, 2014 by Hitstun

I’ve always wanted to put some one-of-a-kind hand-drawn art in my Qanba Q4RAF, so at last weekend’s Ohayocon, I brought a blank template and and asked a couple of the artists there to draw their original characters. The team of Iota Soul knocked it out of the park with Killer Bee on the left side. […]

ComboVid.com style exhibition v.two

Posted on September 20th, 2013 by Hitstun

This blog’s cross-posting to Facebook is making me rethink how I want to post things. You should subscribe to my RSS feed instead, but I have too many friends that just use Facebook, and I want that to look nice too. Videos cross-post well, right? Enjoy some tool-assisted goofing off in fighting games. Source: ComboVid.com […]