These days I just want to drink, play fighting games, and have fun.
If this was '99 when I was still playing in arcades, of course.
Yes, it doesnt pay a lot, but the sponsors pay for travel, and Id love to travel. The FGC is so interesting and Id like to try and be apart of that. I have a lot of time on my hands due to somethings, and so I can practice a lot. Right now I feel like Ive missed out on the current new games, but Im learning stuff so when the next generation of fighting games comes out I can jump on it and be good. I wish I had gotten into fighting games when I was a kid, but I dont think that would have helped since I didnt know about tournaments, and I didnt have friends who were into them.
I defz wanna b a top player, it is my dream to beat mike ross!
You don’t need to be a top player for that.
Nothing wrong with wanting becoming the best at something, even something as trivial as a videogame.
As long as you aint misguided to believing this will bring you fame fortune respect whatever.
I don’t quite understand your point, can you please elaborate?
If that’s casual then what are people who mash buttons and don’t want to improve?
Pretenders? Gamers having fun with a fighting game? You could give them a bunch of names but it wouldn’t really change the facts. The truth about arcades is the same: it was a place mostly for casual games. It just so happens that since so many people were going and fighting for their quarters, that the level of play was stupid high.
In all honesty, tournaments are way overhyped as a means of interacting between the community. The reality of it is that the majority of players are not going to tournaments consistently; they mostly can be found going to weekly sessions (even then we have some that aren’t consistent with these). The big difference between a casual player and a tournament player is the setting: just because you are playing casually doesn’t you aren’t playing hard.
Maybe I’ll write out a whole thing about why it should be important for the “FGC” to not be hamstringed by unnecessarily vocal tournament players when there’s a significant majority of players grinding games out with shitty netcodes that never go to a tournament.
And yes, if somebody goes to Evo before they go to a local session with community members, we have don’ fucked up.
This is true, it shouldn’t be for the legions of hot groupies, millions of dollars, or being on the cover of Time magazine.
I don’t even want to be a top player, I just want to play against good/the best players. It’s just fun.
I was that 8 year old kid that would interrupt a air hockey match in the arcade between couple in college to challenge them both. I was the kid that would bring fucking connect 4 to school and challenge all the motherfuckers I could play against. I didn’t care what game people played, if it had 2 players and the game was fun I’d be there.
A couple days ago I ran into WolfKrone while getting some casual matches on Ranked. Unfortunately it was a 1 bar connection fuck Hawaii and he declined.
Nigga I was like
I like holding down a good job so being a top player isn’t something I’d ever aspire to be.
Right now my goal is to simply hone my skills to the point where I’m above scrub tier.
No, too much of a drag. I invest the time i have to try and get better and that’s that. I won’t reschedule things to go to a tournament, nor will i travel across the globe. If i have the time and money and it’s within driving distance i’ll go out and compete.
Don’t care what i’m labeled as, as long as i’m the one having fun, learning something and that my character is the one making a victory pose.
I want to be a high level player, but only in games like Fighters History Dynamite, Breakers Revenge, Garou:Mark Of The Wolves, Fatal Fury Special and Real Bout Fatal Fury 2. I love those games too much, despite how stupid all of them can be.
then play more fhd against us =/
You answered your own question.
I would, but I don’t have the time and there aren’t any games that currently have a lot of tourney heat that I’d want to dedicate the kind of time it takes to get that good. I like AE, but not enough to want to sink that kind of time into it. I’m a musician and I’ve saved that kind of dedication to that I guess.
Besides, you spend all that time getting good at a game and once the game’s lifespan is over, then what? Start all over again.
I think I used to, at least absently, back in my younger days, but it doesn’t really seem to plausible, anymore. Besides the usual reasons/excuses, my execution isn’t ever going to be what it was before I hurt my wrist and nobody really plays Darkstalkers, anymore, besides.
I used to want to be a top player, for a while it was all i could focus on whenever i played FGs. In all honesty though this obsession with becoming good at fighting games took the fun out of it. I would play and focus only on winning and outsmarting everyone i played, i ended up beating myself up whenever i lost. All i could do was ask myself why i wasn’t winning as much, never whether or not i was enjoying myself. I just savagely pursued this dream of being able to beat anyone that i played to the point that i just burned out.
Only when I told myself that it wasn’t worth it and let go of this desire to be the best did i really start to enjoy the game. It was at this point that i fell in love with fighting games solely for intrinsic purposes. It became less about domination and more about playing this game to the fullest, getting in games that were full of straight up Yomi. I remember fully realizing how far id come a while ago when i went on a large losing spree and was still able to sit back and say that id enjoyed myself. Being a top player is not impossible, and its a goal that i respect, but the time and commitment is just not worth the payoff. I can have games with reads combos and hype ass comebacks regardless of whether or not im the best of the best.
I would like to be a top player, but I lack the drive, dedication and talent to become one. I always want to improve, but paradoxically, I’m absolutely content with just being “good.”
I clearly do not deserve to be the best, but I don’t mind. As I am today, I’m not passionate enough about growth to become a top player.
Is there a hangout for the GGPO/Supercade community? I go on at seemingly random times.