Daigo didn't play OS, he quit around Reload before OS did. Kazunoko played OS though.

Because GG never had the money SF did, at least outside of Japan or Daigo didn't really take GG serious like SF. He respects the series but SF/Darkstalkers is more his speed.

Why did Daigi stop playing GG? If he had put more work into it, he would have been a legend there too.

Most Vertical Productions couldn't keep up with the pace of the game believe or it not. He was good but couldn't compete with the best, I'm sure this isn't cause he wasn't able to get to that level but mainly cause he enjoyed Street fighter more.

@@player218 to be fair, he was also pretty random in GG. You can't be there. Lot of matchups he just did wacky shit and got away with it, but against other players, they evolved, and he didn't. They took away the gun flame FRC loop from Sol in Reload too iirc.

Most Vertical Productions also Street fighter had more profit

@@player218 that too is true. ArcSys games never had high payouts, even at Tougeki. At least he graced us with some crazy shit.

I understand now

there is a universal combo a 1 2 3 4 type deal but it is far from optimal

Have you seen him did 5 random volcanic and and gramd viper in a row.It's damn hilarious!

***** I'm not trying to blow up Daigo too hard. I watched videos of his play at SBO and Evo2k3 and it's clear there's at least a little method to his madness (which I hope I made clear up above...it's not so much that he's being an idiot here in casual play as he is partially fucking with people, partially figuring out the risk::reward ratio on the more YOLO Sol maneuvers. He wants to see what happens when he gets blown up on YOLO shit so he can figure out -- how badly can I be punished for doing this? And more importantly, is this player focused/practiced enough to CONSISTENTLY punish me for doing this, versus choking on the punish and giving me a reversal opportunity of my own?). And if he had stuck with the game in the long term I think he WOULD have developed his experience to the point where he's mentioned (seriously) in the same breath as Roi, Machaboo, P.C., 012, etc. His risks would have gotten more and more calculated a la his Street Fighter maneuvers rather than throwing Grand Vipers/DPs at the wall to see what sticks. But as it is, he's mostly a historical curiosity at this point -- an interesting look at the very early XX metagame, where the game was actually becoming quite playable rather than the FDC-laden one-touch mess that was GGX. (Vanilla Faust and Slayer notwithstanding.) He started from a high baseline because he had good fundamentals, great optimization, and picked a character who played VERY well to his strengths. But his drive to pursue Gear wasn't as high as others, and so he left the game before he would eventually get left behind. I watched him play Xrd on the stream as well, where he plays closer to his more-serious SBO self rather than his semi-trolly casual self. It's clear he respects the game for what it is and understands very well how it works. But in the end, he picked Street Fighter as his bread and butter over Guilty Gear (a fair enough decision, given his SF performance), so my expectation is that he'll keep focusing his training efforts on that rather than going deeper on Xrd. And again, I really don't mean to be too harsh to Daigo here. (Sorry if it looked that way). If not for the video of him chipping out Zakiyama's I-no with 4x Gun Flame FRC, I wouldn't be playing these games as seriously as I do, and I certainly wouldn't be writing essays like these. Daigo's play is still silly to watch. But I owe my serious competitive interest in these games largely to his YOLO antics. I'm not laughing at him nearly so much as I'm laughing at myself.