Was focus attack a good fighting game mechanic?

no, just a more retarded and difficult roman cancel

It's better than parries but they are still both fucking shit mechanics. Combo extension was cool though, I wish they kept that.

>>381649098
>pressing two buttons at the same time is difficult

>>381649147
and then dashing

>>381649050
nothing more satisfying than a shoryuken focus cancel into ultra desu

>>381649050
no it forced players to commit to an entire animation that ate a single hit at the cost of some health.

It was like paying the banker in Monopoly to roll the dice, even though there is no gamble, you must comply with the event to keep the game in motion.

>>381649212
Oh the humanity

Giving everyone an armor move that can cancel for next to nothing was not a good idea

>>381649272
Sorry, but it sounds like you don't know how Focus Attacks work at all. You don't have to do the entire animation, you don't have to commit to the attack, and while it does absorb a single hit that damage isn't permanent unless you get hit right after it.

>>381649050
focus cancel was a good mechanic but charging focus attacks were stupid. It just made the zoning/poking game more tedious and landing a focus attack was always a matter of your enemy fucking it up instead of you being skillful.

>>381649671
You do have to commit to the whole thing.

The only way to cancel focus is to dash forward or backwards, you can't cancel into super or ultra. You have to wait the whole thing out.