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haunts | Saturday, February 27, 2010 at 2:07PM | in interviews, street fighter 4, street fighter IV, videos
haunts | Saturday, February 27, 2010 at 2:07PM | in interviews, street fighter 4, street fighter IV, videos Yagami from ROUND1.SG (Singapore's premire Fighting Game website) posted a set of interviews with top Japanese players TKD (El Fuerte) and Uryo (C. Viper). These interviews are from SBO 09 where I not only got a chance to kick it with Yagami (who is a great El Fuerte player himself and super chill guy -- very passionate about the fighting game scene), but also play TKD at GODSGARDEN. I can say from first hand experiences that TKD's El Fuerte is on another level and everyone knows by now that the same can be said about Uryo's C. Viper.
Thanks to Keits from SRK for pointing these interviews out on the front page.
Reader Comments (9)
Great interview. As a former El Fuerte player TKD is all kind of awesome.
Like a El Fuerte's Mago .
Phenomenal interview! I like this longer style of interview, you get to know the players on a more personal level.
Good stuff. I love these kinds of interviews.
Even Uryo got his ass kicked when he first started using Viper, haha.
somebody get that man a beer!
WoW that sucks some of us spend the whole day in practice mode and our combos still suck and these guys spend prbbly less than an hour and have combos down 90percent. TKD should come to EVO and massacre ppl in money matches.
I loved the interview, but at times it reminded me of when I was in Germany, 3 towns away from home, had missed the last train and was trying to communicate with a cab driver who spoke very little german and no english, and we spoke pretty broken german and no turkish haha... good times.
It's great hearing that Uryo didn't play any fighting games before SFIV much because I'm the same way. I played Guilty Gear kinda, but not competitively and killer instinct back in the day when I hardly knew what a tournament was. And even with SFIV I've been playing seriously for ALMOST 3 month.
I can totally relate when they were talking about bad match ups and how hard it can be to stick with a character, I play friggin Guile! I've fantasized about having a good match up for a while now haha
The questions about the community were really good to hear answered. I say for sure that I wouldn't be such a good player with out IPW!
"Sometimes the Beast awakens."
i dont know if you guys have already seen these yet but
dudleys move list and all his target combos
http://i.imgur.com/PFPr4.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/6ZQrz.jpg
makotos move list:
http://i.imgur.com/bpZX2.jpg
ibukis move list:
http://i.imgur.com/KzPfe.jpg
i always get somewhat irritated when listening to Kuni's translation, but it's not his fault, pretty good interview.