A thought that keeps coming to me: we were all very impressed with EXcommand throw range when looking at the tech refs, but this seems to be one of the most under-exploited properties of EX moves in the game. As a matter of fact, throws in general seem to be overlooked almost 100% of the time.
I can understand the lack of Vice play, due to the Splash bug, but you rarely even seen Clarks or Maximas land throws, and even Raiden seems to have shown up for the purpose of other gimmicks, rather than grappling. Comically, I've seen Elisabeth and Benimaru make better use of throws than any of the grapplers. Even Goro seems to depend more on pokes and zoning, than actual Throw usage.
I have yet to play, but honestly i think you're getting the wrong impression. We have yet to see any actual high-level clark play, and in both the Raiden footage and Goro footage, they are throwing fools left and right.
I haven't been that much into KoF but it seems to me that the grapplers never really want to grapple, at least not like a SF-grappler would.
The only problem with this game is that all the characters look too powerful. One moment you think that Liz is cheap and the next thing you see is Chin just crushing everybody with his crazy combos and overhead
that sounds like the perfect game. i'm really disappointed that someone wouldn't want that kind of game.