[fighterforjc]

Quote: Originally Posted by Dave_S

Considering hit stuns and the penalty for trying to deny fakes, among other things, I don't see why parry gets singled out. There are so many other instances were you can't do anything. At first I was fine with removing that from parrying for the sake of realism. After some thought of I have to deal with that kind of stuff everywhere else then people should deal with it in the parry situation as well.

Parries get "singled out" because they throw a wrench in the flow of the game. Also, there have been countless complaints about the parries even from the days of Fight Night. Fight Night Champion did away with the parries (sort of) then it came back in EA Sports UFC 1, then 2. It's the one thing that EA absolutely refuses to touch. I've been saying it recently, it's as though EA needs to keep it for legal purposes.

At any rate, since EA seems to really cater to arcade sensibilities, maybe they can view the block recovery as something similar to performing a roll in arcade fighters whenever you get knocked down in order to avoid follow up ground attacks.