Highlights: 0:19 Shoryuken Esque self-destruct combo on ferra/torr for maximum flash, 0:34 Half-screen corner carry combo with all the beastly qualities worthy of a predator, 0:56 Huge combo into an x-ray finisher just to make the opponent hold that dirty setup, 1:36 insane 11 hit combo with only two normal moves used and the rest being projectile special moves!, 1:59 the never ending combo using all the resources he can to make his opponent watch the movie that is the predator….

Music Is: Aliens VS Predators Club Eden Remix

Released: June 9th, 2015

Combos and Editing by Cjbqulix

Characters included – (Chun Li, Seth, Cammy, Sagat)

Highlights: All fireball sagat combo at 0:48, 1:57 Guaranteed U2 Cammy setup using a glitch, Quick finger lighting loops into Red focus into a flip kick meaty light punch link into ultra 1 setup, 2:54 BARELY hitting abel with cammys array of moves, 3:01 Using decapres U1 to land a huuuuge seth combo including 6 spinkicks with toe taps into U2

Music: Holding on to sound by Stonebank

Released- September 9th, 2014

Combos and Editing by Cjbqulix

Please include as much info as possible. If you send me the link and nothing else, i’m not going to bother posting it. I’ll never find the time for it, plain and simple. Anyway, you guys know which types of basic info i like to provide in each post. Please don’t make me locate it all on my own.

The main benefit of this policy is that it always allows the author to choose whether or not they want their video posted here – as well as verifying all the relevant info before any post gets published. (I’ll probably end up having to make an exception for non-English-speaking authors, just because it might be asking a bit much otherwise. I always try to gain their permission first anyway, even though it takes time to get a response.)

That means no more daily matchvids except for screenshot winners, and i’m not even sure if i’ll keep doing weekly screenshots. We’ll see how it goes. And i’m still waiting for a few players to respond to interview questions, so the interviews will keep rolling at least for a little while.

I’ll probably continue posting new combovids that my friends release or that authors send in. On average, there are probably only one or two exceptional combo videos released per week, so i’ll post the ones i happen to watch and enjoy.

ComboVid won’t die, but i don’t have enough fuel in the tank right now to enact the grand plans i had for this website. So the only logical thing to do is take my foot off the pedal and coast. Otherwise stressing out just to maintain daily updates isn’t getting us anywhere.

Beyond that, is there anyone specific that you guys would like me to interview? I don’t know everyone in the community but i do know most of the combo makers and oldschool players.

Well, the Resources and Guides section will now contain general reference articles and basic essential information that you’d want at a moment’s notice. They’ll focus mainly on core game engine breakdowns and video production tutorials.

On the other hand, the Features section will house all other exclusive ComboVid articles in reverse chronological order. Think magazine columns. Eventually it’ll be filled with fascinating discoveries, technical insights, multimedia galleries, and even strategy discussions.

Hopefully you guys will enjoy everything we have in store – and if not, please don’t hesitate to give us honest feedback and let us know.

Not long after, tragic, eKiN, and i collaborated on a startup website called Video Opera which replaced GCC. Unfortunately that didn’t end well, for reasons i’d rather not delve into. Suffice it to say, it went down and there was nothing i could’ve done to restore it.

However i wasn’t ready to give up on what i had hoped VidOp would become. I thought the core premise deserved another chance, so i registered combovideo.com and began planning for a new beginning. A couple of weeks later, i realized it would be a good idea to register combovideos.com as well. Turned out it was already taken, hosting a rotating gold CV graphic with the words “Coming Soon” written underneath.

Since i had no idea who was behind it, i decided to be patient and hold off until it launched. That’s when i found out it was established by BlazeD from DarkTemplarZ, an oldschool combo group. Sure enough, CV seemed promising at first, and even wiped out the last remaining traces of the combo community’s IRC presence.

Unfortunately, CV had no answer for youtube and slowly began to die. This downfall was compounded by a string of poor moderating decisions which alienated half the active community in favor of protecting one guy. He was clearly using cheat codes and doing a terrible job of hiding it. Since he’d become their main source of original videos, they continued supporting him – hurting their credibility in the process.

Fast forward to today, and there is no functioning central website connecting the entire combo making community. YouTube is convenient for raw file hosting, but awful for everything else. The only way for a new video to gain exposure is by getting announced on Shoryuken and its many clones, but they rarely even get the author’s name right. They never bother explaining what makes the video special or where it fits into continuity.

Of course, there’s no separating combo makers from the greater community. I certainly wouldn’t be making Street Fighter videos if i didn’t love the fighting game community. We appreciate it whenever our videos are mentioned anywhere or spread through word of mouth. But it also sucks to see a good video slip through the cracks or not get properly recognized for its groundbreaking innovations.

Those are the issues and concerns that ComboVid hopes to address. There’s a lot more work to be done before we reach that goal, but hopefully i can get pretty close before getting totally burnt out. As for how i personally ended up here, i’ll ramble about that some other time.

    Dammit, Don Vecta, error1, and Keiko!

These talented individuals have gracefully volunteered to contribute unique content to these humble digital pages of ComboVid. Keep an eye out for articles and other special features produced by them in the coming weeks. If you’re not already familiar with their names, don’t worry – it won’t take long for them to impress you the way they’ve impressed me.

*Applause*

Of course, these entries are accessible through category links to the right, but the Resources section will make it easier to find exactly what you’re searching for. It looks rather modest at the moment, but rest assured that it’ll be overflowing with quality content in no time.

So take a look around and tell all your friends about it! Mail them a nice hand-written letter, or give them a telephone call, or write them a digital e-mail, or send them a text, or tag up their facespace, or IRC them on twitter, or throw a rock at their window, or however it is you people communicate these days.