Don't remember this at all.
Honestly I didn't play any of those games, I played all the mortal kombat's and street fighters and everywhere I weny throwing was considered cheap. But again I'm old school so you're maybe talking more recently.
Yea throwing is in the game so it's allowed, although I did see too many players getting their ass handed to them so they immediately started throwing, guess frustration got the better of them.Don't remember this at all.
Played Soul Blade all the time and would throw pretty much non stop.
I do remember people getting angry about it, definitely no "let u get me back" though.
Throws are for winners.
Tech-ing is for losers who can't throw fast enough
Naw man you're right. I was a little kid playing in arcades in the late 80s and early 90s. SF and SF2 players used to call it a "jab throw" and it was a total no-no. Playing with unlimited jab throws was like jungle ball with your friends. I phased into consoles after the Genesis so I'm not sure about the OP question... hilarious to imagine people demanding you stop throwing them these days.
I never used throws out of frustration, or exclusively once my opponent gained an edge on me. That kinda implies I had any sort of self-imposed rule/resistance against using throws in the first place. But nope, I would throw alot because it worked and they couldn't deal with it.
Lol, zangief was the only one allowed to jab-throw because he was slow and didn't have a projectile and actually yes, ANY zangief player had a hard time against mostly any good player because the games were really unbalanced. I did however played a couple of zangief players who had enough skill to compete with the ryu's,ken's,sagat's and guiles back then.well i guess zangief would have a bad time against you back in the days
Yea, I remember those jab throws, but honestly you could reverse them sometimes. Now it's allowed and well everyone can throw so I guess it's not too bad.
Yea, back then we did, everyone I remember had that set rule. But yea if you can't deal with them then you better start learning how.
Yea there was no tech escapes till what SF 4? Sorry can't recall. Even in umk3 they had the "throwing disabled" option before the match started, we ALL pressed low punch on the menu screen so throwing would be disabled. I understand that anyone can throw back, but not anyone can beat players by using skill,reads,combos, instead of just being close to the other guy and press low punch lol.
Exactly!
Of course, games have evolved, level of play is not only higher because of online, it's higher because you have countless hours of offline practicing as well. Everything's more balanced now, throws can be reversed or even punished I guess. I too throw when I play now because it's not cheap anymore, like you say I'd be silly not to use something that will help me win. Those "casual" players you talk about DONT know how to lose, I used to get beat by players who cheaped by throwing back in the day when that's the only thing they had a chance with but never told them a single word, I'm nobody to tell anyone how to play, just remembering how things have changed. Everything's more balanced now which is awesome.
Definitely not techable in SF2, Champions Edition and Hyper Fighting. In Super, I believe you could soften the throw to lessen the damage and land on your feet. Definitely soften in Super Turbo.
Yes they were untechable for the most part, and the difference between a jab-throw and a command grab I guess would be that everyone could jab-throw but few could reverse or get out of it. So you'd have characters who were too tier and OP plus they had good reversals against characters who had none of that. For example Bison could foot sweep you once then be crouching down in front of you before you could get up and start jabbing, if you blocked he'd just throw you from that same position, if you didn't block you'd get hit AND then you'd get thrown. I don't care how you see this, this was cheap man Lol.
In the 2d MKs throws you could not get thrown if you was holding back, But this the arcade scene we are talking about. There are some threads somewhere about people almost getting stabbed for throwing.
this is not directed towards you but some i have played in the past, i plyed mk since the arcade. Throwing has never been nor will be cheap.
I had someone get mad at me for throwing him in an arcade once. He even pushed me over it. I just laughed about it, but jeez. He wasn't very big either, but he was serious. I've never looked at games that way. If I can throw you, I'm gonna. If I couldn't deal with something, it wasn't cheap. I just wasn't good enough.
