I don’t see myself quitting videogames altogether any time soon…
I find joy in collecting SEGA’s old consoles, so I don’t think I’ll ever just stop playing games.
As for fighters, I’ve never even went to a major before. Why quit when I haven’t started right?
When I first started playing in the competitive scene, I was strictly about placing high and winning some money. Nowadays, I still want to win, but I’m not gonna spend hours trying to practice combos and learning how to deal with stuff. If I had that kinda drive I wouldn’t play all these bum characters. I also don’t get mad about being eliminated cause it means I don’t have to stand around in a hot crowded room while I wait for my name to be called. I can go and get something to eat and uck it up with friends (and strangers) over stupid fighting game shit. UMVC3 is usually good for laughs.
No offense but you sound like one selfish ass dude. “Those fuckin lamers continuing to play games with people they traveled across the country to play games with even after they get elim’d.” Petty as fuck dude.
Anyway I just play whatever catches my fancy, it’s a way to enjoy the afternoon. Never been a super huge competetor, just play casually and have fun.
Branh what are you talking about? We totally met in the local scene and have hung out, got some beers etc… I think you’ve seen me falling down blackout drunk more than a couple times.
I’ve pretty much hung it up as well. If the wife and kids are gone I’ll still plug in my aracde stick and game a little. Most of my gaming now is with my son who is now seven so his gaming interests aren’t quite yet the same as mine.
I think I was seven when my Street Fighter obsession started.
I think I’m “retired” and not gonna be like a hulk hogan, ric flair, etc. but who knows…
It would be a better idea for some of you to retire from the internet imo.
Hahahahhahahaaaaa… what the fuck is this nonsense. what the hell does “retiring from gaming” even mean? some days you play games and some days you dont… is there anything else to it?
OP meant retiring from -competitive- gaming, not video games entirely.
Seems like a lot of people in this thread (myself) can relate to it.
Obviously we still love fighting games, just can’t play them the way we once did.
I haven’t been a “competitive” gamer since college and I used that term very loosely because the scene was weeeeak in my area. I had to travel to Atl or Florida for any decent comp.
I think the wake up call to call it quits from was after I kept getting whupped by a 10 year old in SNK vs Capcom.
I just dont like current games / gaming industry. Sold all my consoles (except my ps2 with a HDD and CvS2!), but at least weekly i have to play some form of emulated goodness ( NES, SNES, PSX, etc) or Super Turbo.
Seriously, Super Turbo is IMPOSSIBLE to retire from. Best fucking game ever.
Ambition, mainly.
I retired unceremoniously a couple years ago. It was actually longer than that, but it wasn’t until a few years ago that “how far I’d fallen” had REALLY sunk in. I can still get deep into say one game at a time, but nothing that I would deem competitive. On top of that as I focus on my ‘true’ endeavors such as music, family, and my software start-up - I’ve really had to discard it. At this point 90% of my game time goes to Skylanders - a game so easy, a 3 year old kid can play it. That simplicity has made it a game my wife will play and the cuteness is light enough that my son (2 years) can watch without me feeling guilty. It’s also so easy that what “we” would consider ‘deep’ or hardcore, requires little to KNOW time. Try and find out the best Skylander online and the responses back are all pretty much jokes compared to the frame counting and shit that go on here.
By the way, the answer is a combination of “Stealth Elf” (everything), “Drobot” (range dmg and movement speed), and “Ignitor” (hardest hitting) with “Prism Break” taking home the title of ‘safest’ a la cancel all my moves C.Viper. Thumpback seems to be the best Giant, but no frame data to confirm :arazz:
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Aye as a SF website, I take OP to mean “competitive” gaming. I play UMvC3, but on my Vita, and almost NEVER go into training. I’m not heartbroken about sticks not working on the new XBone because I just can’t get that serious. Anytime I see that I bought Skullgirls, I realize I hardly played not because its not good (it is), but because to play it, I’d have to learn a whole new engine, and new comboes, and new tricks…
It’s not that 30 is some mystical age were ‘men don’t play video games’, men just have different priorities. When you’re serious about getting money, or raising your little ones right? You don’t have time to play stuff that requires training or tons of hours. If I can’t pick that shit up in 5 minutes and enjoy it, then its on to the next one. Time is too valuable to waste away at something that I don’t HAVE the time to get good enough to be competitive. It’s not fun to half ass Call of Duty and get WTFPWNd because you got grown man shit to do.
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fuckin A! I’m actually kind of regretting a lot of the time I put into games that I could have been investing in hobbies more fruitful. At least in the case of SF, it gave me a bit more than a save state I could be proud of, and each new game is still a novel experience, whether I’m actively practicing or not (I’m not).
As far as keeping up, it does gets tedious. I think I just never moved on from the old way of choosing games based on word of mouth, what got a good review in gamepro, or what had the coolest cover at blockbuster.
I can also say that I don’t play as much as I used to. This is mostly due to my friends not playing as much either. Maybe once or twice a week I go up against my brother in SF4 or MvsC3, but other than that I really don’t have a lot of interest in a lot of games these days. I’ve pretty much given up on online play.
I got Asura’s Wrath about two weeks ago and played it for about an hour. I haven’t touched it since. It’s not because I didn’t like it, but for some reason I’m not driven to play like I was back in the day. However, whenever I see somebody at a mall playing a random Capcom fighter I always challenge them for old times sake!
I guess the times are catching up with all of us old timers…
i wont stop gaming til the day i die!
This thread…echoes my sentiments, exactly. I’ve taken Guile’s words literally and become a family man. Still play games and I don’t plan on quitting entirely but I don’t game not as much as I did say, 10 years ago.
this thread reminds me of when people say they dont play video games, then they take out a cell phone and start playing games