After a whole week of hard work and dozens of revisions I finally completed the first Virtua Fighter planeswalkers. Many thanks go to EliShffrn (from EFnet's #mtgrules) for helping me out with much of the wording of the card text. Click the card to enlarge the image even further if you dare!
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:
The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Fresher than ever.
A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 9,300 times in 2010. That’s about 22 full 747s.
In 2010, there were 12 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 58 posts. There were 56 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 4mb. That’s about 1 pictures per week.
The busiest day of the year was March 25th with 164 views. The most popular post that day was Tech Talk: Former Tekken player Mack on a Long and Stony Journey.
The top referring sites in 2010 were virtuafighter.com, stumbleupon.com, en.forums.wordpress.com, en.wordpress.com, and neoempire.com.
Some visitors came searching, mostly for hori ex2 mod, goh notes, virtua fighter 5 characters, gohnotes, and modding hori ex2.
These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.
Tech Talk: Former Tekken player Mack on a Long and Stony Journey March 2010
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Modding the HORI EX2 – with Genuine Arcade Parts December 2008
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Revisited: Leonard’s VF5 Review April 2009
VF’s Option Select; or A(nother) Shldrm Flow Chart January 2010
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Guide: Stepping in Virtua Fighter 5 August 2008
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Still unannounced for console, Final Showdown, the newest iteration of the Virtua Fighter franchise, receives a new trailer overhaul. The final fight is between Akira and Goh, mind you (Goh loses …).
A good friend of mine (hi, sal!) asked me to create a Kage wallpaper for him in full HD resolution, which are monumental 1920 by 1080 pixels. Here are the results so far (click on the image for the full size):
As I was not too fond of its pristine look, I’ve made a grungy version of the Kage wallpaper.
I’ve finally got around to launching a Virtua Fighter YouTube channel. I intend to upload my whole VF video archive to it containing several hundreds of VF3 matches as well as new VF5 tutorials and matches.
You can access the channel through http://www.youtube.com/user/GohNotes or by clicking on the VF-YouTube icon at the top-right side on the Goh Notes homepage.
There are already more than 30 videos on it. So go have a look!
Many people seem to have difficulties with low-punch spammers. Don’t get me wrong: the low punch is a great tool for interrupting your opponent and setting up these fabulous mid-launcher attacks, especially for higher tier playing.
But somehow I can’t get rid of the feeling that it works too well in Virtua Fighter 5, which is heavily strike-oriented. Anyways, taking up ChanChai’s advices I will post the best tools for countering an opponent whose main tactics depends on the low punch.
This article was originally released Dec. 2007.
So far, my articles about how to and when to defend only touched the standard share of techniques that you can use for a consistency in defense. I covered ETE and ETEG, Fuzzy Guard and Crouch Fuzzy Guard. But what other option do especially Goh players have?
Sabaki Throw Escapes open up a new defensive strategy that I haven’t talked about here yet. You could call it a passively aggressive technique where a passive situation (you are disadvantaged and, thus, usually forced to defend) can net the defender some serious damage – and turn the tables in a match. It’s also a riskier technique than the standard share of classic defensive methods, such as ETEG, because your immunity to attacks depends on the limitations of the sabaki move’s properties.
