I want to get into competitve playing a lot, like tourneys and stuff. But I feel like as if I’m buying to many fighting games when I should be focusing on one main fighting game, but there are so many good ones. If I had to choose which game it would be Super. But for you players that enter tourneys and are mad players, how many fighting games do you play? Just wanna know if I’m playing or getting into to much when I should be focusing on one. Right now I’m playing SSF4, BB:CT, MvC2, Tekken 6, VF5, and possibly soon Melty Blood, and BB:CS on release. May not seem like much out of all the fighting gams in the world but yeh, sorry if this thread is unclear.
Also list the multiple fighting games you ar eplaying.
Currently SSFIV and Tekken 6, in my hayday was playing CVS2, Tekken 5, GGx2 and SF3S. Tried getting into Blaz Blue when it first came out but it didn’t grab my attention.
Was SF4, MvC2, and CvS2 last year. Now SSF4 and BB, though I cannot understand BB at all coming from Capcom fighters the past 20 years or so. Though I don’t play competitively so you might not care.
I used to try and juggle between GGX and 3rd Strike. I dabbled in a lot of other fighters like CvS2, A3, Super Turbo, Melty Blood, Arcana Heart and Tekken, but 3rd Strike is my main game and I will always put the most amount of practice into that. ST is my second best game though, and even then I’m not as good at that game than in 3S.
A lot of people seem top lay 3s makes me want to get into it (never played it) Today I heard there was a playable black girl in it and I freaked. It’s on PS2 right? And does it have online?
Last year I was kinda all over the place with HDR, SF4, BB:CT, MvC2, and MBAA. This year I’ve pretty much just focused on SF4 (and now SSF4) exclusively, mostly cause I just couldn’t invest the time I wanted into everything else. I’m definitely getting BB:CS when it comes out though, and then I’ll divide my time between that and SSF4.
Some people can be naturals though. I always pondered how someone like DandyDLC can do the combos he can, with the dexterity he possesses in games from Third Strike, KoF and SF4 all the way to Bayonetta. I’m downright jealous of the natural talent some people can have at fighting games.
I have been playing Street fighter seriously for like 2 months now and planning to go to tournaments… I have only broken away from SF4/SSF4 one weekend to see what BlazBlue was like other than that if you look at my Raptr account, it’s sad, lol only SSF4 down my feed.
But I think playing a faster paced game every once and a while it seems to make it easier for me to see what’s going on in super easier cause it is a little slower. Lol Weird, but it works for me.
Of course. I think we all know a bunch of players like that are who exceptional at a ton of games.
I think even if you want to learn more than 1 game, it can be beneficial to just learn 1 game really well first. Some knowledge will transfer over, but learning the other games will be quicker after the first, since you’ll have a more refined training plan, and better fighting game dexterity.
But what about if you learn a very specific sort of game, or one that may teach bad habits for another? Then couldn’t that develop habits for others you learn in the future.
Of course the same is true if you play a lot of games, I guess…You could be playing one one day then move to another the next and inadvertently use some habits or strats you were using in the previous game. I don’t know where I’m going with this, actually.
I agree sticking to one game at first and getting well at it if you’re new is good. Pherai I take it you’re only maining 3S at the moment?
I mostly speak from my own experience. I don’t play SF4 regularly, but I can execute competently, and it took me way less time than it did to learn than when I was learning 3s combos because I have a better method for learning combos now.
From there though, you need to use judgment about what you can generalize to different games, and what you can’t. I spent a good 6~8 months trying to learn MB (mind you this was like, 2 years ago during Act Cadenza) and that shit was hard haha.
I was a top pro smash player. I was top ranked XBL in SC4 (who cares) one of the best Noel/Ragna players on XBL in blazblue (who cares) and I’m trying to bring my Cammy from decent to good in SSFIV.
basically it’s easy to be pretty good at a lot of things. I think if a game clicks with you well enough for you to be really good, you don’t need to spend TOO much time with it. Still, time is a deciding factor sometimes, which is why you don’t see a lot of people being tippy-top pros at multiple games at once.
