I will also vouch for the GGXX pad thing, though that seems to be mostly just the scrubs. You DO have Juicy George however - dude’s an arcade OG and STILL plays pad! He and Final Showdown are about the only actual good ones I’ve seen who use it. Well, Kenji/KBnova, but he’s retired now.
Tekken scene has more pad warriors than GG, easily. Slips, Spero Gin, Brian H, and some others just on EC alone; hell, back in the TTT days, Honkey#1 could Korean lightdash on a pad! Same thing with Soul Calibur, too, but that’s always been a console-focused series.
From all my travels, I really don’t see any stereotypes with 3s. This makes sense seeing as it’s the most popular game. Marvel & Tekken definitely have the highest black representation from what I’ve seen. Nerdy Asians EVERYWHERE obviously, with some wannabe thug ones mixed in. GG scene seems to get less anime ***gy as you move up in skill level - see Nevada, Chicago, Cali OGs, etc.
Melty Blood is otaku shit no matter where you are, though. I think they even asked Ruu or Mint at Evo last year and he said pretty much this exact same thing. =P
The UK scene is quite varied, but most London players seem to use the latest London slang that nearly passed me by entirely (makes me feel old).
So, ahem… if I go to a ranking battle I hope to see “bare mans” (no homo). That would be “tick” or, indeed, “boom”. But if that skank Chun Li doesnt “dead” soon, it’s gonna get “arms house” in 'ere. Raggo, blaytant innit.
Hm. I think I’ll stick with the likes of “mate, that’s wicked!” More my era. :pleased:
he could be a bean counter at a factory or a wall street investor. I dont get the assumption…
I know fighting game players on both ends of the social spectrum…i dont give a damn if they shovel shit/or in g.w.bush’s cabinet…as long as they’re cool. I think everyone agree’s on that.
i just dont agree with stereotypes, because I was nailed in one of those, but the completely wrong game.
Super Smash Brothers-All of it’s clientele are about 13 years old and to scared to jump into a "true"fighting game.Many new fighting gamer’s start at this beginnger level,before branching off into one of 6 Main path’s(3rd Strike,CvS2,MVC2,Super Turbo,Virtua Fighter,Guilty Gear)
Keep in mind it wasn’t all meant to be true or serious so no offense to Smash Bros players(Because I play the game as well on occasion).Remember that part of Stereotypes are truth and the other part is your own interepretation .
shaq-fu player: some middle aged redneck with a mullet who bought shaq fu for thirty bucks at a yard sale as he assumed it was genuine sports memorabilia. my friend actually saw this at his neighbor’s yard sale about 5 years ago.
iv learned to just speak, if you approach slang words often you end up picking it up anyway, with or without wanting to :bluu:
games need some kinda media coverage, cos who gives a shit about majority style when nobody cares outside of teen years, and even then because its fighting games people prefer to just play
edit: errr… then again, maybe we dont need media after all, unless ofcourse you want fighting games to be devastatingly competitive like sports
In my internets experience guys in #efz are very nice; maybe a little nerdy/naive and they don’t have a very fun sense of humor (maybe it’s because some of them are from China and they just don’t pick up sarcasm very well) but they are cool. I dunno about IaMP crowd but I’d wager that they are mostly the same. They never talk shit about other games or have stupid ass opinions like gg or mb players.
melty blood players might be worse than gg players though but i am not about to try and find out
i mean you cant be a very happy person when your favorite game is melty blood
That is so true!! At least in my case. The only guys i know who are seriously into Guilty gear, are the extremely dorky, anti-social types.
This one group in particular i know of around my campus, they like to hold their own silly GG tournaments from time to time(mainly their own close-nit group) those guys literally broke me of Guilty gear.
The group was composed of such nerdy, up-tight asshats, that i can’t bear to even look at GG anymore because it just makes me think of those jerks. They’re pad warriors too, and couldn’t play on a stick to save their pathetic lives.
I agree, since the group of GG players i mentioned earlier were also big into Melty Blood at one time too.
Melty blood does SUCK, i played it but only because a friend of mine wanted me too. Otherwise i’d rather play a real fighter with characters that don’t suck(Only MB char i ever gave a damn about was nero).
Edit: The character selection sucked too. Nothing but one anime schoolgirl cliche after another. Once again only Nero stood out in what was otherwise a retarded cast.
My boy Hold Dat got third at EVO East with a pad in 3S. So yeah…Also, the GG scene here in NYC doesn’t even come close to those stereotypes. Our scene has a bunch cool and calm players. A few nerds here and there, but not as much as what you guys are probably seeing. I guess it’s up to where you live.
Man MB doesn’t even have enough of a community to put a fucking stereotype onto, what the fuck are you people basing on?
I think you’d be better off saying:
“The people I know that play Melty Blood are the bane of humanity,” instead of generalizing so easily (even given the topic at hand).
Damn, extremely stupid shit to hate, bringing up shit like ‘a REAL game’. Go ahead and hate it to your hearts content, just dont’ ever tell me it isn’t a real game. Get over youselves.
I call bullshit. There’s only ONE ‘anime schoolgirl’ on the cast. The character types may not completely be original (ie a tsundere character, a loli character, vampire, etc) but I’ll be damned if you can’t tell me that their gameplay mechanics are pretty damn unique and diverse.
I dont really see any of these stereotypes when it comes to GG, alot of the players here a bunch of normal folks. As for pad users, its mostly Tekken players from what ive seen.
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