It was super awesome to see Mike playing the SF6 beta with Xian. He was having fun and I never knew how much energy and personality Xian could bring to the table.
SF4 was one of the funnest FGC era's to exist with class personalities and talents. It's a shame SF5 really went downhill with it all, I am still happy for all the good times I had back then though
what do you expect? there cant be a true scene around a kiddy fighting game designed for children. cant take it seriously enough to warrant any hype around it. what are you gonna do? watch morons doing 3 frame links and spam the same easy mode max damage combo that can never be dropped?
@@LoftyXsWaGX34 people don't realize it was a lull in the mid 2000s that lead up to Sf4 and mvc3. So when they dropped it was hype again now since it's been dull but I feel sf6 will bring it back maybe even we get a MvC4
Every Christmas, I go back through and watch one year of the holiday seasons of gootecks and mike ross. I would have never thought at the time how precious those episodes were.
The companionship these two had was simply oozing out of these videos, my favorite part was how it felt like you were just chilling with the homies playing fighting games. I miss this show.
I'll never forget reading that email gootecks sent out, even though at that point I knew damn well Mike and Excellent Adventures was done. But I'm gonna keep rewatching all the amazing content we got for years to come. Easily my favorite thing to happen on RUclips.
Man, these were simpler times. I remember waking up on the weekends, sitting down at my computer with some cereal and watching the new episode of Excellent Adventures like it was morning cartoons.
Great video. Good memories. Just a few days ago for the sf6 beta mike and Xian streamed playing together and it was very excellent adventurish. Great stuff
There's few things on RUclips I miss nearly as much as Excellent Adventures. The good old days, man. It was so good to see Mike and Xian again for the Street Fighter 6 beta.
Mike Ross and Xian have started a new channel called VersusVortex, that feels very reminiscent of Excellent Adventures for anyone wanting to see them play modern fighting games.
People say it was Street Fighter V and to a degree they are right, but I think the real reason was Mike Ross butted heads with Capcom over ideas for a show on Twitch, which turned Mike Ross completely off the game and his disdain for it ultimately made him leave excellent adventures as well. Gootecks tried to keep it going but it wasn’t the same after that.
This is the answer right here, pretty much Capcom and their company politics destroyed them smh. They would still be around here if not for them and their stubbornness. They wanted to make a career out of this, Capcom didn't want to play fair.
Gooey and Mike did so much for the community. Two good looking with likable personalities really breaking the mold. They came at a time when gaming had still had that tradition “nerd” stigma and showed the gateway of how cool gamers are. Excellent Adventures is SF4 and that was such a beautiful time of the FGC
Replace game with company and you’ll make a lot more sense. I followed these guys religious back in the day and I remember them doing Street fight x tekken and marvel 3 related content (sfxt being dog shit when it first came out) after that sfv kinda sucked back then and let’s not talk about mvc infinite
Excellent Adventures was an awesome ride that actually got me into playing Street Fighter IV. Though it’s sad it had to end I prefer them being honest about the spark being gone and calling it a day rather than trying to phone it in. What I always respected was how genuine Mike and Gootecks were on the show. There were episodes where they’d just lose repeatedly but they didn’t do any fancy editing to remove the losses or cover things up, and I always respected that. I hope they’re both doing well and who knows, if SF6 is good we may see them play together again in a similar format or just a one-off. Either way thanks for the memories guys. The ride was indeed Excellent.
He's back at it with Xian now, it's so good. They have a hilarious chemistry, Xian can match Mikes energy to, they recently did stuff with Justin Wong, it's as good as it's ever been.
It's inevitable that a new SF is going to come out and not everyone will like the next SF game like SF3 to SF4 a lot of pros didn't like 4. They could have played another FG but none stuck because they didn't like it and gooteks was and still is tired of SF4. It's pretty sad that some people blame SFV but it is not what killed SFV, it was them depending on SF4 with no backup or other interest that they both liked enough to keep the series going
@@HMNNO SFV really sucks though. No chip death, no meter less reversals... Those are things that have always been in SF and 2D games in general. The roster suck, the combo system doesn't allow creativity (just look at the lack of Desk videos or Sako combos) and the graphics are bad. It's not a good game. They had to make Seth really strong to milk more money out of the community. The fact you see many pros streaming old games instead of SFV tells you everything you need to know.
@@HMNNO Bro 5 is complete trash and not fun at all. Worst SF game ever...There is no personality in the gameplay "combo wise", slow, easy combos and V- trigger is the worst comeback machine of all time. Like what the fuck
@@augustgreig9420 That is such a dumb take. Chip death is what makes a fighting game good? Also, there is almost never any creativity when it cmbos to combos in the first place, there is always an optimal combo, it's just a matter of how hard that optimal combo is. If it's too hard for most players, they come up with an easier, less optimal combo for themselves instead, that isn't creativity.
Mike Ross and Gootecks were two of the biggest reasons I fell in love with fighting games during this time. Even though I’ve grown up playing a lot of them, I didn’t really grow to be obsessed with them until SF4 came out, and Mike and Ryan were out here just running games online (funny enough, Runnin’ Sets was my favorite series. Combofiend is legendary!) the passion and straight up FUN these guys were always having was palpable, and you could tell exactly when they weren’t enjoying themselves anymore, SPECIFICALLY Mike Ross. Mike Leaving basically cemented the show dying. Dude really WAS the heart of the FGC for a hot minute, but I don’t blame him for dropping out of the spotlight. I’m always gonna have a special place in my heart for Cross Counter, and especially Excellent Adventures. I hope both Mike and Ryan realize how much they really did for the FGC during this relatively short, but wonderful time period.
I have seen so many videos with Mike Ross. Literally hundreds. I've even met him in person once at an event in NorCal in 2017. Ice never noticed his eyes are hazel 😂 I'm glad he is back in some form. He is genuinely a nice guy.
I may be misremembering it, but I believe Mike Ross also said something about people not caring at all about you once you leave the spotlights, so that didn't help as well, which is a shame, because I absolutely adored him, specially. He did make some livestreams playing Street Fighter in full silent mode, no face cam, no mic or anything like that, during this time, but, whenever I see him pop up again, he always seems deeply sad. I hope everything works out for him regardless of what he has do or go through and that he can be happy with his life. He deserves it.
Him and gootecks honestly. Gootecks seems to be jaded and in a dark spot. I’m glad he’s more skeptical and aware of our shady government, but I feel like he’s falling down a rabbit hole. I’ve been there, you don’t want to turn into a reckless truth searcher and ruin your mental health. I wish mike and gootecks well, everyone here
Simon Ghoul all joking aside though. I loved the 09 times. Fun was had by all and street fighter was back. Good times. Shame it has to be like this now.
Gootecks left first Mike held it down. Then Gootecks came back and Mike left. By this time Gootecks found his drive to host and fight again. We wouldn't see Mike until he came back as SWAGXLE in guilty gear Xrd.i could fan boy more but o won't. This was a great segment to bring those up to speed of the excellent adventures gootecks and Mike Ross shared for the world.
I believe it was from middle to high school, Maximilian Dood and CrossCounterLive was my main source of fightibg game entertainment and they left a mark of impression on the FGC as a whole. With the end 2020 coming to an end, I pray for 2021 to lead to new and bright start for the FGC as a whole. Who knows, maybe an underdog like me can pull up to make an Impact.
Yeah me too I've been following them ( CC and Max) circa 2009-2010 and those were amazing years. Then with Street Fighter V around the time when I went to University... The decline started. This game was garbage at first. And I still don't like it to this day. Everything about it. Let's hope better years are coming. I'm having nostalgia tainted with a bit of sadness right now.
It's really sad to see people still attributing the bulk of Mike's burnout to SFV. He didnt like the game, and that's clear, but hes said in the past that it was esports that killed his enthusiasm. He saw this community that he helped build get turned into a sanitized, suit-and-tie bullshit and said "nah I'm good".
I feel like it went downwards when they got kind of screwed over by thestreamtv. Gootecks was ahead of his time and tried to work out a deal with them that they could not understand. It was not their own venue so they had to make a deal with them. Man he used to host stuff there and bring free drinks for everyone. I feel bad for him. He knew what streaming and content creation would become and how to capitalize but no one else had the vision they only looked at the flat current numbers.
I dont know if Mike Ross was gonna come back before SF6 was a thing... but i feel like it had an impact and im glad him and Xian are doing great stuff now
Pioneers in the game. So much of what they did back then is commonplace now. I really miss them, but there are seasons and reasons as they say. That said, Mike has resurfaced for SF6. I hope he comes back full time
Gootecks became a meme himself through the original PogChamp Twitch emote. Back when watching SF4 on Twitch was pretty much commonplace ... I really miss those times.
Just wanted to point out a little discrepancy: the duo didn't start out with Cross Counter Live; Cross Counter started as a show on Machinima that did match analysis and tips, and the live version came a bit later. Excellent Adventures started as just a little bit of extra content after filming a Cross Counter, as you know. Here's an archive of Cross Counter's premiere! Our young heroes are on at about 3:50 - ruclips.net/video/yAv2Hlx4Vjw/видео.html
Excellent Adventures was really a movement. I strongly believe that SF4 wouldn’t have caught on the way that it did and spread so far and wide without Gootecks and Mike Ross. The FGC owes them a debt of gratitude and we’ll always reflect on what they did for competitive fighting games. I wouldn’t have stuck with street fighter without them tbh. I laughed and learned so much. They made us feel like part of the community.
In life and in fighting games is all about timing ... Mike's decision to sign off was the best, as he didn't liked the eSports hovering of what we knew at the time as FGC. He foreseen many things and decided to step down at a good time, before his image deteriorate and more importantly affect others with negative thinking. I will always remember them with respect admiration, for the contribution to the community at the time. Keeping a side personal situations or controvert commentaries they may have currently. Thanks for sharing your video and bring back good times !!!
Man Excellent Adventures was hilarious, easily one of my favorite shows on RUclips, i hated when Mike left but i definitely understood why. You have to be true to yourself and do what YOU enjoy doing. I'm happy that apparently he and Xian are doing a new show, i'm definitely going to watch.
Even though I didn't get into the show until a bit into SFV, I absolutely loved seeing those two play SF4, which I never really touched. I'm so glad Mike Ross is back with Xian and giving us those classic Excellent Adventure vibes, just enjoying fighting games with a friend.
7:21 .Damnnnn Smug and Punk looking really uncomfortable taking in Mike's salt. Really loved this show myself back in the day and to see Mike back out for for SF6 it's alllll good!!
Who cares about his opinions, have some spine to still talk to people you disagree about, thats the problem of today's society, people are too soft when it comes accepting of different ideas.
@@joncliffmckinley5868 You've been brainwashed by buzzwords and name-callings about people you don't even talk to. They aren't intolerant. They are not coming for anyone and especially not you in particular. They are just REGULAR people that voted for him because they didn't like the establishment (and the establishment didn't like them either... Hence all the Trump defamation campaigns 24/7 on mainstream media.) Maybe if you stopped isolating and start talking more to people with an open mind, regardless of their beliefs and political alignments you'd realize that. You live in a fictional world view created by social and mainstream media. BTW, I'm French and not American. So I don't really care about the politics in the USA. But I do see from where I live that a lot of you people have Trump Derangement Syndrome because of your narrow-mindedness and low information. You just live with emotions and not facts. Especially Fear.
Man I remember watching that show religiously like 10 years ago. I got out of fighting games for awhile then got back into them to find that they stopped the show. Feels bad man
In hindsight I'm so glad that I could get deep into fighting games during the peak of SFIV arcade edition and Excellent Adventures. It was a blast to be part it. Nowadays.. SFV almost killed my interest for the franchise. However twitter FGC activism killed my desire to watch anything tournament and street fighter related for some time now. I'm probably wont coming back
What I find ironic, is that Gooteks, seemed to be the more logical of the two, then went full trump-tard/alt right. Retroactively makes EA hard to re-watch now. Very glad he's not involved in versus vortex.
I don't know what happened either. Mike played from the heart but both of them came across as thoughtful enough regular guys when discussing various topics. Gootecks was just more logical in terms of analyzing fighting games and the way he played. I can still watch old EA episodes if just because Mike is there. The only episodes I stopped watching long ago were the ones with FlashMetroid after hearing about how he borrowed thousands of dollars from a friend and later refused to pay him back. That was so low.
So you're not going to watch someone who was legitimately talented and entertaining just because of their politics? Sounds to me like the problem isn't with Gootecks here.
Honestly I think cross counter would've been fine if there recipe and the reads kept going (on their channels). I genuinely felt it rivaled EA even with games I didn't particularly care for. It was honestly a pretty big gutpunch when Mike "Mike Ross" Ross left/went radio silent, from almost out of nowhere. It felt so weird, and any attempts at watching his streams a bit after that was just him babyraging in tekken 7 or apex. It wasn't like comedic anger, it was just pure raw sodium, and so offputting to what I had grew to know. Even worse was his random appearance on gooteck's podcast with slasher, joking about Etika maybe a week or two before what happened to him. What a fall from grace in my eyes, but also respect to him to doing his own thing, and seemingly doing well for himself. In gootecks case it's just honestly kind of sad what happened to him. He seemingly did it to himself, and even hearing him on that one discussion thing with fanatic about covid awhile back was just a sad sight, and well sad to listen to. I really hope he's able to get himself together. While it's sad how things ended, these two (and their guests) brought so much enjoyment, and happiness for about 6 years of my life, on a basically weekly basis, through some especially dark times, and I'm ever grateful to them. While a lot of the SFV stuff was pretty mixed, the "no flex zone" nonsense with chris G was honestly pretty hilarious, as well as the match with the bot. "ENDDDD HIMMMM". And as a closing statement EA, honestly shaped a lot of my humor almost as much as the simpsons did. "Yo check this out"
Just like todays podcasts it was all about the vibe and personalities. And these dudes had great chemistry. I hope they get together and do some content for SF6 when it drops. Great times man, Excellent Adventures.
They need another channel like that, it was very funnto watch, me and my brother thought about doing one just talking playing and drinking but i dont know lolol
To be fair street fighter five is a terrible game. It took Capcom four years to make the game into something decent not great. I would hate to play that game on camera too.
Man I miss the good old days with The Excellent Adventures
with a bowl of cereal
:)
Those were the days, and I didn't even play SF back then lol
@@benjamin-papa Do you play now?
Oh noooooooooo
It was super awesome to see Mike playing the SF6 beta with Xian. He was having fun and I never knew how much energy and personality Xian could bring to the table.
Verses vortex, if you haven't found it yet
you gotta go back and watch the old cross counter asia with xian zhi and infiltration, so fucking funny
Xian is just a joke. We all laugh because of his ridiculous accent when he speaks English. Other than that he's no Gootecks. The truth 🤡
@@TheGohthecrowYou’re alone in that opinion lmao
@@grandmidoister8661 nah. I ain't no asian simp like you. I tell it how it is
"Don't be sad that it ended, be happy it happened at all"
Bring it on
Unnus Annus
Words of wisdom!
SF4 was one of the funnest FGC era's to exist with class personalities and talents. It's a shame SF5 really went downhill with it all, I am still happy for all the good times I had back then though
That sf4 x umvc3 era was extremely special. The capcom scene just feels so lifeless and boring now.
what do you expect? there cant be a true scene around a kiddy fighting game designed for children. cant take it seriously enough to warrant any hype around it. what are you gonna do? watch morons doing 3 frame links and spam the same easy mode max damage combo that can never be dropped?
@@LoftyXsWaGX34 people don't realize it was a lull in the mid 2000s that lead up to Sf4 and mvc3. So when they dropped it was hype again now since it's been dull but I feel sf6 will bring it back maybe even we get a MvC4
@@dariuswilliams7509 I got a feeling SF6 and other new fighting games will bring that hype back.
2009-2012 was the funnest years imo.
I remember looking forward to Excellent Adventures every week. Damn we got old.
Bro fr 😭😭
you said it bro. maturing is wack
Every Christmas, I go back through and watch one year of the holiday seasons of gootecks and mike ross.
I would have never thought at the time how precious those episodes were.
Me too man.
Combofiend coming back from 0-4 in marvel is my favourite.
@@DazedN7 a planet fitness ad
Me 4 lol
This show legit got me properly into fighting games I was gutted when it broke down after SFV got released
Is it sidging time
Every sunday use to look forward to excellent adventures
:)
Yes! Me too!
@@daakrolb flint snore and digerati
The companionship these two had was simply oozing out of these videos, my favorite part was how it felt like you were just chilling with the homies playing fighting games. I miss this show.
Even though SFV killed excellent adventures, Mike vs the machine is still the best episode
I’ll allow it.
Naaaah but it was truly epic
Mike not running with the points is definitely one of the greatest moments of the show.
How did SFV kill it? By being bad?
@@duxnihilo Mike didn't like SFV. Through SFV 's lifespan he was playing games like Xrd Rev 2
The SFIV era was truly a glorious time.
I'll never forget reading that email gootecks sent out, even though at that point I knew damn well Mike and Excellent Adventures was done. But I'm gonna keep rewatching all the amazing content we got for years to come. Easily my favorite thing to happen on RUclips.
Pogchamp gets removed? I mean you guys can always make another one
I don't want to re-watch after learning about Gooteks's turn into an IRL heel with his stupid ass Trump/Alt-Right/Conspiracy BS.
Man, these were simpler times. I remember waking up on the weekends, sitting down at my computer with some cereal and watching the new episode of Excellent Adventures like it was morning cartoons.
when mike said i wont see u next time, i almost started crying.
This makes me so sad. I was trying to see if there were new excellent adventures episodes and I run into this video :( I miss the old days man
The ol d days no more
@@doubledownpleasegosubtotte4274 unfortunately you are correct partner
Mike Ross with the quotations in the middle was my favorite thing lol
Rip Mike “Mike “Mike Ross” Ross” Ross miss u
Man, to have this video be recommended to me by the algorithm now of all times...
What a good game
@@doubledownpleasegosubtotte4274 hes talking about pogchamp being removed
Shut up
I'll always appreciate Excellent Adventures for being the thing that got me into the FGC
A good old times
Great video. Good memories. Just a few days ago for the sf6 beta mike and Xian streamed playing together and it was very excellent adventurish. Great stuff
It was fantastic wasnt it. Hope they do more.
There's few things on RUclips I miss nearly as much as Excellent Adventures. The good old days, man. It was so good to see Mike and Xian again for the Street Fighter 6 beta.
2 homies on the couch ripping some street fighter. Man... the good old days.
yeah bro they really 'ripped' some street fighter
You can really see Mike leaving the FGC did a number on Gootecks' hairline.
His hair is ugly now
He's not 25 anymore. Ryan's damn near 40.
@@joshv5376 facts
@@joshv5376 Fr, so many years has passed
Or all the Coke
MIEK RUSS IS BACK BABY
Mike Ross and Xian have started a new channel called VersusVortex, that feels very reminiscent of Excellent Adventures for anyone wanting to see them play modern fighting games.
People say it was Street Fighter V and to a degree they are right, but I think the real reason was Mike Ross butted heads with Capcom over ideas for a show on Twitch, which turned Mike Ross completely off the game and his disdain for it ultimately made him leave excellent adventures as well. Gootecks tried to keep it going but it wasn’t the same after that.
Good point. A powerful one two punch combo.
This is the answer right here, pretty much Capcom and their company politics destroyed them smh. They would still be around here if not for them and their stubbornness. They wanted to make a career out of this, Capcom didn't want to play fair.
He legit hates SF5 mechanics, he kept throwing shades at the game during his Sf6 beta stream with Xian
he said on the reddit post that he was making capcom pro talk on twitch out of his own pocket, wild
I sort of don't blame him @@zrifepsych
Love both of these guys. Cross Counter was my favorite show back in the day, and for that I will respect the two of them till the day i die.
CC and AE entertained a lot of us in the FGC for nearly 10 years!
Ironic
Gooey and Mike did so much for the community. Two good looking with likable personalities really breaking the mold. They came at a time when gaming had still had that tradition “nerd” stigma and showed the gateway of how cool gamers are. Excellent Adventures is SF4 and that was such a beautiful time of the FGC
The issue with their business model is that it relied way too much on one game. After sf4 was done they were done
Absolute nonsense.
Absolute fax
Replace game with company and you’ll make a lot more sense. I followed these guys religious back in the day and I remember them doing Street fight x tekken and marvel 3 related content (sfxt being dog shit when it first came out) after that sfv kinda sucked back then and let’s not talk about mvc infinite
@@proof5857 always have multiple games
SF5 wasn’t a good thing to fall on either
im glad Mike is back in it even if its just on a youtube channel. I really hope we start seeing him get back in the mix soon
Glad to see Mike having fun again!
Excellent Adventures was an awesome ride that actually got me into playing Street Fighter IV. Though it’s sad it had to end I prefer them being honest about the spark being gone and calling it a day rather than trying to phone it in. What I always respected was how genuine Mike and Gootecks were on the show. There were episodes where they’d just lose repeatedly but they didn’t do any fancy editing to remove the losses or cover things up, and I always respected that. I hope they’re both doing well and who knows, if SF6 is good we may see them play together again in a similar format or just a one-off. Either way thanks for the memories guys. The ride was indeed Excellent.
We were really spoiled. I hope with SF6 someone can fill the shoes. The talk shows and the YT online content were really incredible. Miss those days
The rise and fall of gooteck's hairline
Chilllllll
Its funny until it happens to you .Look at justin bieber ruclips.net/video/3mcd7z7SzFs/видео.html
@@johnywartooth4048 still funny
@@vipah1086 destruction of an enemy
Fuck I just realized how bad I missed Gootecks laugh
And how 2020 made everything bad
He's back at it with Xian now, it's so good. They have a hilarious chemistry, Xian can match Mikes energy to, they recently did stuff with Justin Wong, it's as good as it's ever been.
I'm suprised you didn't mention the last straw for Mike Ross and Gootecks with Capcom when Capcom told them that they didn't bring them any profit.
Street Fighter V.
That's all that needs to be said.
It's inevitable that a new SF is going to come out and not everyone will like the next SF game like SF3 to SF4 a lot of pros didn't like 4. They could have played another FG but none stuck because they didn't like it and gooteks was and still is tired of SF4.
It's pretty sad that some people blame SFV but it is not what killed SFV, it was them depending on SF4 with no backup or other interest that they both liked enough to keep the series going
@@HMNNO SFV really sucks though. No chip death, no meter less reversals... Those are things that have always been in SF and 2D games in general. The roster suck, the combo system doesn't allow creativity (just look at the lack of Desk videos or Sako combos) and the graphics are bad. It's not a good game. They had to make Seth really strong to milk more money out of the community. The fact you see many pros streaming old games instead of SFV tells you everything you need to know.
@@HMNNO Bro 5 is complete trash and not fun at all. Worst SF game ever...There is no personality in the gameplay "combo wise", slow, easy combos and V- trigger is the worst comeback machine of all time. Like what the fuck
@@augustgreig9420 That is such a dumb take. Chip death is what makes a fighting game good? Also, there is almost never any creativity when it cmbos to combos in the first place, there is always an optimal combo, it's just a matter of how hard that optimal combo is. If it's too hard for most players, they come up with an easier, less optimal combo for themselves instead, that isn't creativity.
This is all SFV's fault.
:^)
SFV did covid smh.
serious talk
ABSOLUTELY>
Nah cant blame the game. they grown adults and made their own choices
100%
wow, i miss those days. I used to watch Excellent Adventures at work when i had graveyard shifts. good times.
Now, in 2023, the spirit of Excellent Adventures lives on with Mike Ross & Xian on the Versus Vortex youtube channel.
Mike Ross faded into legend never to be seen again and Gootecks became a crazy person.
Mike Ross and Gootecks were two of the biggest reasons I fell in love with fighting games during this time. Even though I’ve grown up playing a lot of them, I didn’t really grow to be obsessed with them until SF4 came out, and Mike and Ryan were out here just running games online (funny enough, Runnin’ Sets was my favorite series. Combofiend is legendary!) the passion and straight up FUN these guys were always having was palpable, and you could tell exactly when they weren’t enjoying themselves anymore, SPECIFICALLY Mike Ross. Mike Leaving basically cemented the show dying. Dude really WAS the heart of the FGC for a hot minute, but I don’t blame him for dropping out of the spotlight.
I’m always gonna have a special place in my heart for Cross Counter, and especially Excellent Adventures. I hope both Mike and Ryan realize how much they really did for the FGC during this relatively short, but wonderful time period.
Combofiend is a legend for sure I member him and Perfect Legend dominating CvSNK2
Mike is back!
Then gootecks went and put the final FINAL nail in the coffin yesterday.
Ain‘t it a shame? They were great. Good times back when fighting games were back for a second.
Maybe he can make a comeback
@@venicebeachsportsnetwork6677 but would we even want him to after that
R.I.P
@@ryanmoss2128 All you sick democrats are going to Hell anyway. So who cares about you.
I have seen so many videos with Mike Ross. Literally hundreds. I've even met him in person once at an event in NorCal in 2017. Ice never noticed his eyes are hazel 😂 I'm glad he is back in some form. He is genuinely a nice guy.
I may be misremembering it, but I believe Mike Ross also said something about people not caring at all about you once you leave the spotlights, so that didn't help as well, which is a shame, because I absolutely adored him, specially.
He did make some livestreams playing Street Fighter in full silent mode, no face cam, no mic or anything like that, during this time, but, whenever I see him pop up again, he always seems deeply sad. I hope everything works out for him regardless of what he has do or go through and that he can be happy with his life. He deserves it.
Him and gootecks honestly. Gootecks seems to be jaded and in a dark spot. I’m glad he’s more skeptical and aware of our shady government, but I feel like he’s falling down a rabbit hole. I’ve been there, you don’t want to turn into a reckless truth searcher and ruin your mental health. I wish mike and gootecks well, everyone here
Cross Counter and Excellent Adventures were such a big part of my childhood and i got to experience SF more because of them! Love this doc
Mike Ross recently has been in vids with Xian on RUclips under channel name versus Asia. Format is the same as CC. He looks a lot happier.
Yup, good to see Mike back!
I hope someone makes a documentary on Gootecks, it may be interesting
Give him a few more years. So we see how he completely loses his mind.
@@Sandra_aschenbach_doyle can't wait
Simon Ghoul all joking aside though. I loved the 09 times. Fun was had by all and street fighter was back. Good times. Shame it has to be like this now.
@@Sandra_aschenbach_doyle back to war
Double Down good name for the film actually. Thanks
This is the video I needed. Man I miss the good old days of the fgc.
I used to subscribe to the series. RIP to that wonderful collaboration.
Gootecks left first Mike held it down. Then Gootecks came back and Mike left. By this time Gootecks found his drive to host and fight again. We wouldn't see Mike until he came back as SWAGXLE in guilty gear Xrd.i could fan boy more but o won't. This was a great segment to bring those up to speed of the excellent adventures gootecks and Mike Ross shared for the world.
I believe it was from middle to high school, Maximilian Dood and CrossCounterLive was my main source of fightibg game entertainment and they left a mark of impression on the FGC as a whole. With the end 2020 coming to an end, I pray for 2021 to lead to new and bright start for the FGC as a whole. Who knows, maybe an underdog like me can pull up to make an Impact.
Good luck!
Well hey at least Max is still doing great
RIP pogchamp
@@no-bc4jl oh weee.l
Yeah me too I've been following them ( CC and Max) circa 2009-2010 and those were amazing years. Then with Street Fighter V around the time when I went to University... The decline started. This game was garbage at first. And I still don't like it to this day. Everything about it.
Let's hope better years are coming. I'm having nostalgia tainted with a bit of sadness right now.
It's really sad to see people still attributing the bulk of Mike's burnout to SFV. He didnt like the game, and that's clear, but hes said in the past that it was esports that killed his enthusiasm. He saw this community that he helped build get turned into a sanitized, suit-and-tie bullshit and said "nah I'm good".
Yeah that was definitely a big factor.
MIKE ROSS IS BACK
I feel like it went downwards when they got kind of screwed over by thestreamtv. Gootecks was ahead of his time and tried to work out a deal with them that they could not understand. It was not their own venue so they had to make a deal with them. Man he used to host stuff there and bring free drinks for everyone. I feel bad for him. He knew what streaming and content creation would become and how to capitalize but no one else had the vision they only looked at the flat current numbers.
This show and maximilian's channel gives me the vibe of friends chilling out during the weekend or something, i miss this shit
I still pull up their olds videos. They’re like comfort videos for me.
Profound sadness
:(
I still believe they'll return some day. 👌
I dont know if Mike Ross was gonna come back before SF6 was a thing... but i feel like it had an impact and im glad him and Xian are doing great stuff now
Does anyone else hope the two may reconnect with the upcoming launch of SF6?
Friday night fisticuffs was my go to youtube series when excellent adventure on decline, now everything is gone
Pioneers in the game. So much of what they did back then is commonplace now. I really miss them, but there are seasons and reasons as they say. That said, Mike has resurfaced for SF6. I hope he comes back full time
Sure do miss these two, nice video mac!
Me too, and thanks!
No shows no more. Oh well
Gootecks became a meme himself through the original PogChamp Twitch emote. Back when watching SF4 on Twitch was pretty much commonplace ... I really miss those times.
God I miss them wish they would just come back
Just wanted to point out a little discrepancy: the duo didn't start out with Cross Counter Live; Cross Counter started as a show on Machinima that did match analysis and tips, and the live version came a bit later. Excellent Adventures started as just a little bit of extra content after filming a Cross Counter, as you know. Here's an archive of Cross Counter's premiere! Our young heroes are on at about 3:50 - ruclips.net/video/yAv2Hlx4Vjw/видео.html
Why the splendid resource
I remember those
SFV was cancer
The funniest thing on the show was gootecks always trying to prove himself as being a top player but mostly ends up looking like a scrub
Excellent Adventures was really a movement. I strongly believe that SF4 wouldn’t have caught on the way that it did and spread so far and wide without Gootecks and Mike Ross. The FGC owes them a debt of gratitude and we’ll always reflect on what they did for competitive fighting games. I wouldn’t have stuck with street fighter without them tbh. I laughed and learned so much. They made us feel like part of the community.
Versus vortex is some much better now
In life and in fighting games is all about timing ...
Mike's decision to sign off was the best, as he didn't liked the eSports hovering of what we knew at the time as FGC.
He foreseen many things and decided to step down at a good time, before his image deteriorate and more importantly affect others with negative thinking.
I will always remember them with respect admiration, for the contribution to the community at the time.
Keeping a side personal situations or controvert commentaries they may have currently.
Thanks for sharing your video and bring back good times !!!
Need to up date this homie
Man Excellent Adventures was hilarious, easily one of my favorite shows on RUclips, i hated when Mike left but i definitely understood why. You have to be true to yourself and do what YOU enjoy doing. I'm happy that apparently he and Xian are doing a new show, i'm definitely going to watch.
RIP
Adults are just taller babys
Even though I didn't get into the show until a bit into SFV, I absolutely loved seeing those two play SF4, which I never really touched. I'm so glad Mike Ross is back with Xian and giving us those classic Excellent Adventure vibes, just enjoying fighting games with a friend.
7:21 .Damnnnn Smug and Punk looking really uncomfortable taking in Mike's salt. Really loved this show myself back in the day and to see Mike back out for for SF6 it's alllll good!!
Mike was being sarcastic and they were playing along
Man those were the good times for sure.
Yup.
Esports messes up a lot and gave out alot
Very true.
even though he's got some pretty questionable opinions these days, I still can't help but feel bad for gootecks.
if only things turned out differently
I feel bad for all the MAGA True believers. Its mind boggling to see
@@joncliffmckinley5868 faces unknown
Who cares about his opinions, have some spine to still talk to people you disagree about, thats the problem of today's society, people are too soft when it comes accepting of different ideas.
@@emansfvera en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
There's ideas and then there's Maga horse shit
@@joncliffmckinley5868 You've been brainwashed by buzzwords and name-callings about people you don't even talk to. They aren't intolerant. They are not coming for anyone and especially not you in particular. They are just REGULAR people that voted for him because they didn't like the establishment (and the establishment didn't like them either... Hence all the Trump defamation campaigns 24/7 on mainstream media.)
Maybe if you stopped isolating and start talking more to people with an open mind, regardless of their beliefs and political alignments you'd realize that.
You live in a fictional world view created by social and mainstream media.
BTW, I'm French and not American. So I don't really care about the politics in the USA. But I do see from where I live that a lot of you people have Trump Derangement Syndrome because of your narrow-mindedness and low information. You just live with emotions and not facts. Especially Fear.
Man I remember watching that show religiously like 10 years ago. I got out of fighting games for awhile then got back into them to find that they stopped the show. Feels bad man
Mike Ross is back and has his own show now.
@@MRC325 yeah I know it just ain’t the same though. But his new show is cool
Godlike
:)
Always surprising when YT suggests me old videos from this defunct channel
Yeah no clue why this video is garnering attention again lmao.
I wish Mike Ross would come back for one more run on the tournament circuit.
Maybe one day :/
In hindsight I'm so glad that I could get deep into fighting games during the peak of SFIV arcade edition and Excellent Adventures.
It was a blast to be part it.
Nowadays.. SFV almost killed my interest for the franchise. However twitter FGC activism killed my desire to watch anything tournament and street fighter related for some time now. I'm probably wont coming back
The good old days.
You are not alone, sadly
Amazing video, interesting topic on the rise and fall of the two. Interesting what happened to them now. Thanks now
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it :)
I miss these two sooo much, not the show really, I just miss the support that each of these two godlyk gents seemed to give each other.
RIP Pogchamp on Twitch
Meh. I’ll take my gateroid
What I find ironic, is that Gooteks, seemed to be the more logical of the two, then went full trump-tard/alt right. Retroactively makes EA hard to re-watch now. Very glad he's not involved in versus vortex.
I don't know what happened either. Mike played from the heart but both of them came across as thoughtful enough regular guys when discussing various topics. Gootecks was just more logical in terms of analyzing fighting games and the way he played.
I can still watch old EA episodes if just because Mike is there. The only episodes I stopped watching long ago were the ones with FlashMetroid after hearing about how he borrowed thousands of dollars from a friend and later refused to pay him back. That was so low.
So you're not going to watch someone who was legitimately talented and entertaining just because of their politics?
Sounds to me like the problem isn't with Gootecks here.
Honestly I think cross counter would've been fine if there recipe and the reads kept going (on their channels). I genuinely felt it rivaled EA even with games I didn't particularly care for.
It was honestly a pretty big gutpunch when Mike "Mike Ross" Ross left/went radio silent, from almost out of nowhere. It felt so weird, and any attempts at watching his streams a bit after that was just him babyraging in tekken 7 or apex. It wasn't like comedic anger, it was just pure raw sodium, and so offputting to what I had grew to know. Even worse was his random appearance on gooteck's podcast with slasher, joking about Etika maybe a week or two before what happened to him. What a fall from grace in my eyes, but also respect to him to doing his own thing, and seemingly doing well for himself.
In gootecks case it's just honestly kind of sad what happened to him. He seemingly did it to himself, and even hearing him on that one discussion thing with fanatic about covid awhile back was just a sad sight, and well sad to listen to. I really hope he's able to get himself together.
While it's sad how things ended, these two (and their guests) brought so much enjoyment, and happiness for about 6 years of my life, on a basically weekly basis, through some especially dark times, and I'm ever grateful to them. While a lot of the SFV stuff was pretty mixed, the "no flex zone" nonsense with chris G was honestly pretty hilarious, as well as the match with the bot. "ENDDDD HIMMMM". And as a closing statement EA, honestly shaped a lot of my humor almost as much as the simpsons did. "Yo check this out"
oh... it still hurts
Giving up some old show he didn’t want to
Just like todays podcasts it was all about the vibe and personalities. And these dudes had great chemistry. I hope they get together and do some content for SF6 when it drops. Great times man, Excellent Adventures.
I hope so too!
You know why you're here.
This is not poggers
@@eljahihamgottin4540 a break and a dok
SFV did this.
Well more than just that, but it didn’t help.
Mike Ross leaving the internet reminds me of Dave Chapelle
They need another channel like that, it was very funnto watch, me and my brother thought about doing one just talking playing and drinking but i dont know lolol
Lightning in a bottle, just the perfect storm, we will see it again I miss EA and CC
To be fair street fighter five is a terrible game. It took Capcom four years to make the game into something decent not great. I would hate to play that game on camera too.
So much respect for Mike Ross stepping out like that instead of shilling for a game that wasn't fun to play.