Sherlock 117 wrote:Yeah, I agree crossers about TS4 beating TS3 in (almost) every department (except errors).
In the long run, the best competition games are the ones where the developers fine tune the game after release to properly balance the different characters. I like to use Starcraft II for an example, where even 1 year after release they are still balancing things. I agree with what you guys are saying, however I don't believe in VT3 that the "strongest player" was ever anyone other than Hewitt. If his abilities had been taken down ever so slightly it would have been a perfect balance.
Well I think we can have an in-depth discussion about VT3 in another topic
But then again, Hewitt is "easy" to use, but he is not the strongest. The most common misunderstanding people have against Hewitt is "moving fast around the baseline with powerful FH and BH". What's make Hewitt hard to beat is his BH which is easier to make powerful shots, but on the other hand, his FH is harder to make powerful shots as well (the so-called strike-zone). You have to slice back to his FH rather than BH when defending, which is opposite to others except Nalbandian. In addition, his movement around the baseline is quite fast but his's very slow in running to the net. This makes him the worst player in VT3 to deal with drop shots/drop volleys.
Talking about the balance in VT3, one thing I really like is that players with good volley stats usually has better slices. This makes them easier to approach to the net even they cannot rally well, just like Henman in real life. I am pretty sad to see S&V players in TS4 cannot do the same and always got overkilled in baseline.
ill do that today