Seth talks EVO and other fighting game stuff

Shadowloo.com is the latest site to get a sit down with Capcom's Seth Killian. In this piece they mostly discuss the Evolution Fighting Game Championships, but they also touch on other Capcom fighters as well.

A solid read, it's worth reading over if you have some time. Here's a grab.

When are we going to see a Seth Killian come back at EVO? We could do a whole documentary about it, from the moment you announce that you will be competing at the next EVO, your training in the US, Japan, Aus, EU with some montage music playing in the background, all the way up to your EVO matches! 

Seth: That would be fun. I’ve had some top 10 EVO finishes, but the experience has taught me that helping to run the event and competing in the event are not a great mix. Basically both are extremely stressful in totally different ways, and I’m not able to devote myself fully to either. Since I would never do anything to compromise a well-run event, I end up trading away my own play preparation and mental focus. When you’re playing against world-class experts, you really can’t get away with that kind of split and hope for your best performance.

My other problem is that although I still play a lot of fighting games, most of my time is on pre-release development builds of Capcom games. This is a dream-come-true in a lot of ways, although it’s not so good for my competitive skills. I do a lot of poking around with our games hoping to get things exactly right, but where we find room for improvement, the games change. As a result, most of my playtime is spent on versions of the game that almost nobody else ever plays. So while I might be pretty good at 14 different versions of Super SFIV, they are unfortunately not versions anybody else will ever see. Once the game is out, I’m off and working on another new project, so when I do get a rare chance to play the finished product, it’s usually only for a few hours late at night and online.

Story submitted by Zanken.

Posted by hoho on March 8, 2010 at 5:25 p.m. #1

LOL @picture

Posted by Ben on March 8, 2010 at 5:45 p.m. #2

No one gives a sh*t Seth, stop screwing playstation, and fix the OP characyers and release some balance patches u farkn cockroach from capcon

Posted by Zepper on March 8, 2010 at 5:46 p.m. #3

bitching to release balance patches for a game that's not out yet? eventhubs comments are the best!

Posted by prorook on March 8, 2010 at 5:48 p.m. #4

The pic kinda looked like tay zonday for a second there

Posted by ricefarmer on March 8, 2010 at 5:55 p.m. #5

they gonna make the stream for evo crap, so we have to buy it from ign

Posted by EXC355UM on March 8, 2010 at 6:26 p.m. #6

Thanks for submitting it Zabken, it's pretty sweet to have an article up on Eventhubs.

It was very nice of Seth to answer all our questions even in this busy time (SSFIV about to be released), so thanks Seth and thanks to those who took the time to read it. =]

Posted by u da man on March 8, 2010 at 9:49 p.m. #7

seth is a gem to capcom they don't even know

Posted by gouken on March 9, 2010 at 1:04 a.m. #8

@ ben; guess what; he's not

just bizarre... this guy busts his ass to help make the game you love better, and you offer up anonymous internet abuse for his trouble? the guy's a seriously nice dude, you should grow up and give some respect where it's due -- yes, even though this is the internet and your voice only broke last week.

Posted by RA-MO on March 9, 2010 at 1:08 a.m. #9

Does that Ryu.... Want to eat.. Seth? (;O_o)

Posted by judgespear on March 9, 2010 at 4:14 p.m. #10

Capcom firing all the people who never listened to players and hiring people like Seth to take their place is the reason we are even seeing games like Street Fighter IV in the first place. Remember all the unbalanced rehashed crap we used to see like Capcom Fighting Evolution? Do you really want to go back to those days?