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Pneumaticslap I absolutely agree. modern day HD visuals??? big jumps likes the ones seen here? 30 players on one track????? that would be insaaaane!!!!
@@sheercold26 30 player multiplayer would blow my goddamn mind, everybody is trying to boost at high speeds, some guys are trying to kill other players, there's like one guy doing MTS's or Snaking, christ that sounds beautiful. Nintendo please. We need this, revitalize F-Zero!
Darkflame's picks (assuming he also picked Casino Palace) are smart for tripping up high level GX players in general. GX competition has traditionally focused on grinding individual tracks in Time Attack until you get a good time. In these tracks in particular, many players are familiar with the big jumps, but generally don't expect to finish too many runs with them. Few players have the knack for doing these strats at very high consistency. AKC is one of those few, though!
At an equal level, there is no reason for someone to lose while using fat shark if the opponent uses another ship. It's way too good and if you don't think so you probably never used it. Fox/Falco/Marth can however be beaten.
@@rigel_starr there are plenty of vehicles used at the highest level. world records are held by a total of 5 vehicles: 4 records by quick star-g4, 8 records by gallant star-g4, 3 records by black bull, 1 record by omega gantlet-v2 (gallant with a heavier engine), and 10 records by fat shark. the biggest diversity is a result of the course. ignoring omega gantlet-v2's unique usage situation, all 3 of those other vehicles are significantly better than fat shark on MCTR, SOSS, LLC, BBDH, BBO, PRSLS, ASD, LTR, and GPS, for example. Moving past world records alone, there are significantly more options for custom vehicles that are useful for beginner to middle level players, though it was an unfortunate situation as a result of this tournament's banning of customs (due to logistics as a result of the games being run through nintendont instead of memory card and disk, not for balance) that the diversity could not have been shown. I'm sure AKC would've loved to show off some more vehicles. And I can assure you I've used the vehicle plenty, look at what all my uploads are xd
Thanks to F-Zero's speed, any new racing game does not live to my expectations. F-Zero has set the bar high for me when it comes to racing games. Nintendo needs to give us a new installment pronto. :( I would love to play F-Zero on the go.
HSSA is "Hyper Speed Side Attack", which is basically side-attack dives, but you have to press the accel button and side-attack at around the same time in a near-frame perfect timing. The result is your machine flying up very fast. Nice to see GX getting recognition as a tournament game :)
I always thought large F-Zero tournaments, assuming that they were played in a new game with fantastic graphics and the capacity for up to 24 people to play on LAN, could replace NASCAR. Stock car racing is so boring, especially on TV. Imagine if you had 24 F-Zero racers on a track, and commentators were given the tools to get NASCAR-like shots. Not direct feeds from the players’ screens, but virtual cameras set up around the track. Watching that would be INCREDIBLE! Way more crashes and stunts than real racing, and unlike NASCAR, where if you wreck, you’re out for the whole thing, in F-Zero you could either respawn or simply wait literally a minute for the race to be over and move on to the next one. It would be a far better viewer sport, and you no longer have the threat of bodily injury. No one’s going to die because they crash their F-Zero...car? Ship? Either way, I think it would be awesome to see. Nintendo, please, give us another F-Zero!
Wow, I would definitely like to see more of this! Though, seeing everyone constantly locking in Fat Shark is pretty lame. I think it would be more interesting as a draft, where only one player can pick a given racer at a time, and each player must pick a different racer for each round. I don't know enough about the game to decide whether or not Fat Shark or Black Bull are bannable.
If Fat Shark was banned I think most people would opt for either Black Bull, Hyper Speeder, or Sonic Phantom. Either way some more diversity between racers would be preferred because everyone knows Fat Shark is busted in almost every category.
Using Fat Shark takes skill but it's honestly too hard to match its ridiculous boosts. Amazing speed pickup, long boosts, amazing acceleration for such a heavy machine. Huge respect for using Hyper Speeder.
2:58 Super Flying is Actually Called Space Flying and to do this you need a really light custom machine and you have to set your machine settings to maximum Acceleration
Lloyd Irving there was every top melee falcon except S2J in melee singles, so GIMR decided to add FZERO GX because of how falcon-heavy the tourney was and because there aren’t many FZERO tourneys.
I swear the GameCube has the most competitive games like they have F-Zero tournaments on the same console as Super Smash Bros. Melee and Mario Golf Toadstool Tour
When Nintendo started making their games online enabled, they very quickly started removing difficult mechanics from their popular games. My theory is to even the odds for all the little kiddies.
Would have been way more exciting if both players used fat shark imo. No offense to Darkflame, dude did great with the character he chose, but in a meta without custom machines is there any way to outperform Fat Shark? Doesn't look like it.
I think the only problem is the commentator (ChillinDude), I don't think this guy is even looking at the race XD I really like him in Melee, but it seems he needs to study a little bit more about the game to commentate it properly. On the side note, I find this way more interesting than the other racing games, it's so cool. Also, the music is crazy!
I wouldn't be surprised if this is the first time he's seen this game or how crazy it gets. After all, I can't blame him. Nintendo's lack of care on the ip made everyone just think that Captain Falcon is some brawler from Smash.
3:46 - there actually is one non-custom vehicle that can spacefly, and believe it or not it's one of the worst machines in the game. The Super Piranha. So in a format without custom vehicles spaceflying is actually technically doable. But the Super Piranha is so bad otherwise that it's often not worth it, and will often be outpaced by snaking or max-speed strats.
haha we f zero players have a bad time playing against other people that never played or played little, quite sad because aftewards they don't wanna play again...
He beat a Fat Shark to get here, too. Difference was the other one bounced off walls and used boosts poorly, this one played flawlessly. Still think Fat Shark is broken.
There's allot of gravity manipulation that players of Mario Kart 8 would know. Turn Mario Kart 8 on 200cc and try to do shortcuts not done on normal speed, you'll see the game cut you off with Lakitu because without the influence of a boost item to cancel out gravity, you just fall like a rock regardless of how fast you're going.
I feel like the game would hold a bit more weight competitively if the ships weren't so absurdly imbalanced. Fat Shark/Black Bull commonly used for a reason. Still a cool run though.
@@name_5927 yeah alot of tech that was found after the fact ruined the balancing. This game has so much potential... Still amazing to watch regardless of vehicle choice.
Fat Shark is just too fast for this kind of thing. Probably Black Shadow too to be honest. Those two machine just have way too much over the other non customs.
competitive isn't really quite the right way to describe it but there's a lively speedrunning community for GX, which AKC has been a part of approximately since the game's release. everyone else at the tournament was quite casual
@@enel66 I see... That makes me curious as to why darkflame, or literally everyone for that matter, doesn't use it. But I don't wanna get too deep here..
personal preference for some, and experience with machines. Fat shark at high speeds becomes really twitchy and can lead to a quick retirement by off course. This also leads to it being really good at momentum sliding, part of the reason why it's so damn good. Hyper speeder has a good overall top speed and has good boosting while being stable at high speeds making it a safe option for those who aren't speedrunner tier.
vehicle choice is a big part but also, AKC is one of the top 10 best players of all time, and darkflame is basically a casual. the results would have been the same had darkflame been using fat shark as well
I feel like gameplay like this is why Nintendo hasn't made a new f zero. They have no idea how to fix it lol let me just fly through buildings for half the race 😂
Don't like shortcuts in official races like this. They take a lot of skill to pull off, but to me it defeats the purpose of racing another person on the track at all.
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