3S: Skills or 6th Sense!!!

[Shinshay]

This is something that I posted in the GGs thread, but it's something that I haven't discussed before and just wanted to know if everyone is on the same page.

Side Note: This may be crazy
But, honestly...I dont know about everyone else on here, but does anyone feel that you have to have that extra sense to win at 3S at higher levels. The one beyond the ability to combo and the ability to be a solid player. Like the ability to just know and feel what your opponent is going to do. The ability that your playing style is so much in the zone that you are on autopilot and you don't even realize some of the hot shit that you are doing until after its over. That happens to me all the time, like I blank out, but I am still playing and I am aware of whats going on in front of me but I am just playing without thinking of the next move.

So what do you guys think? Is it all about skills or the sixth sense? Of course I think that people are going to say that its a combination of the two but more often its the sixth sense to me.

[hold dat]

my heated offline matches get like that sometimes where it seems its not a video game. but more like an anime, as crazy as that sounds. /i've has some matches where i could SEE everything

for me, sometimes i can see the brilliance in my game. harnessing it is the problem.

shinshay sometimes your just in that zone baby!!

[gouki10]

this is just like what hold dat says, it's just about being in the zone, thats why it's best to never take things seriously, and just have fun with it.

[Shinshay]

I'll share my thoughts on this, although its only based on some of the tougher games Ive played on XBL as thats the only place I have played this. I think it is down to parrying. Reason being it lets you counter anything, bar throws which also have their counter. But games can get pretty hectic on 3S if you have counters for all sorts of situations in the back of your mind at all times, as well as what you will be using when you are on the offensive. Being forced to react or counter something you were or werent expecting makes the game run pretty damn fast sometimes.

Well this kinda fits in with the way I play anyhow. Which I might add is full of holes and leaning on parrying pretty heavily

This is something that I took from the GGs thread and just wanted to comment on it.

I see exactly what your saying, but I'll give three examples as well from the past two weeks that really apply to my situation.

Memorable Matches and not trashing on any of these players in any way

1. I played against Astennu not too long ago, who I mistakingly picked Makoto as I was trying to choose Sean, but anyway I have no life and this win is for the match...I jump back to the corner, Astennu throws the Hadouken super with Akuma, I parry the entire super in mid air while I am in the corner. As soon as I hit the ground, I throw him into the corner, do the fake foot sweep (toward and hold rh. for those who don't know) and super for the win.

2.I played against Harmonaz(I think), where I was Ken and he was akuma where he tries to set me up with the fp. Red fb in the corner where I had very low life. So I parry the first two hits while he is jumping in for the follow up. So instead of blocking the last fb I jab uppercut through the last one to knock him out the air and then dashed over to him to apply pressure.

3.Lastly, I played none other than YTheLastManMTL where we were both Ken and I have like 3 chips of block damage that I can take before I lose the match. He has about 45% of life left, so he has me in the corner and I was knocked down. He does Fp. DP into shippuu. I red parry the second hit of Shippuu and parry the rest of the super where I hit him with strong Fierce Fireball into shippuu, but sadly I still lost :lol:

Either way my point is that these were all times where my sixth sense kicked in and I went on auto, but here's the kicker...I am not kidding when I tell you all this but I never and I mean NEVER performed those above parry setups mentioned in the practice room prior to doing that online.

So that means no red fireball parry and uppercut through the last one. No Red parry on second hit of shippu, and no shinkuu hadouken Fireball parry in mid air.

:tup:

[thirdstrikeman]

I think its a combination of both 6th sense and skill.

[Shinshay]

I think its a combination of both 6th sense and skill.

Cool, also everyone if you have your own experience that you would like share then do so by all means. :wgrin:

[Mechanica]

I've had times where I'd be annoyed at some Ken scrub online and I'd bust out Ken to show them at least how to play him basically, and I'd be on fire. I'd be able to hit confirm shippu off c.mk really, really fast. I couldn't even see it with my eyes, but my hands just did the super if it hit. :wow: Pretty crazy.

[Rico!]

no wonder i keep losing, I always think when i'm playing 3s

[R.P.D rookie]

Meh, my "3S sixth sense" comes and goes along with my skill. If only I could get in the groove and keep it, then I'd be getting somewhere!

[TheStreetman]

I can honestly say that its both 6th sense and skills, because 3rd strike is most likely the most advance street fighter out there. You can't just depend on raw talent on this one like you can on CVS 2. Its way to many situations to count and the Parry factor that changed how the game was played. Its the only SF that I played that I couldn't just pick up and run with it. And playing it online and offline I relized how much of the game I know and don't know. It makes you want to learn it all.

[True_Tech]

i'm psyhic my new name is trumehara its all about the sixth sense i open my wallet and i see dead people

[The Mullah]

If you know and feel what your opponent is going to do its because of 2 reasons. 1) consciously or not, you've observed playing patterns in their game and 2) When someones worse than you, they will ALWAYS attack at the few junctures in a match where they get a chance to. Shove an option select parry in there and you're recovered momentum and are still in the zone.

The red parry shit is just a question of reflex and excecution and luck. Although you remember all the great red parrys etc, the human mind inevitably forgets the many many more times you went for it and ate it.

[caliagent#3]

If you know and feel what your opponent is going to do its because of 2 reasons. 1) consciously or not, you've observed playing patterns in their game and 2) When someones worse than you, they will ALWAYS attack at the few junctures in a match where they get a chance to. Shove an option select parry in there and you're recovered momentum and are still in the zone.

The red parry shit is just a question of reflex and excecution and luck. Although you remember all the great red parrys etc, the human mind inevitably forgets the many many more times you went for it and ate it.


smart man. listen to him

[Hell Murder]

Ha, that probably means you've reached your full potential. Yah, I tune out but then I start getting the snot kicked out of me. :sweat: That probably means you've got your moves set down right and your whole entire fighting style is at its peak performance. Maybe you just know whats always gonna come next and how to counter it. I'm gonna think of some random crap to throw out on you next time we fight so you can't pull any of that crazy voodoo shit.:lol:

[eiSH]

Hmm.. My style of gameplay is that of one that follows an artistic rhythm, I use whatever I believe belongs to heighten the battle experience. Some new stuff here and there, some really old school stuff, but I try to keep the matches as intense and as close as I can without disturbing the flow. 'Cause really the intensity and the ferocity of the battle is what makes it 3rd Strike =) Win or lose, as long as I'm able to play a beautiful game -then to me it's worth it.

The darker the shadow, the brighter the light.
One cannot exist without the other.
Great wins are tied to great losses.

[Arcas V]

for other people its a 6th sense... for me its a 7th sense :wink:

[Figcoinc]

I have no sense whatsoever.



:looney:

[Shinshay]

words

Wow eish you just make me feel all Tingly inside :lol: jk.