I agree with this so hard.
I can’t imagine a better reason to post in a thread about the best and worst years of the fg community. No opportunity for personal growth or satisfying your evolutionary imperatives here.
ibuki wasnt in cvs2. i think u meant hibiki when addressing buk’s team.
Ehh, bear with me. I’m quitting smoking after 19 years.
So far one day with no cigarettes.
Casual gamers in general are just “killing time”. If you’re not learning any game to become competitive in it, you’re essentially “killing time”
Filling a blank space with something, just to have it there, rather than do something “productive”… like study for your exam, practice your kickflip, work on that Chopin sonata, do some professional development, learn a new trade, etc…
This should be at the top of the SF4 forum. You know, as a warning.
This is true. I forgot that KSK was in top 8 in Evo 2k4. Been awhile since I owned the DVD.
Yeah sorry. I just now realized the mistake I made.
I’ve had more luck getting people to play FGs in general now than in any time since 2003.
worst years? 2010-2011 why? because I said so, thats why
i don’t suppose anyone has numbers for the amount of people who competed in a major in 2011 compared to 2010, 2009, and 2008? It’d be interesting to see if other fighters had more entrants as part of the SF4 boom, like they went for SF4, but stayed and competed in GG and Tekken while they were there or something?
Best Years in FG: None, because mommy and daddy wouldn’t let me go to the arcades since the people "all look shady"
Worst Years in FG: When I finally was in high school and could get out of the house and go to the malls in San Diego and shit, but barely anybody wanted to play MvC2 and CvS2 with me, thus limiting my growth in those games. :sad:
Whatever happened to playing because it’s fun?
for most people, winning is fun.
but it’s easier to enjoy fighting games if losing is fun for a person too.
Best years anything before the birth of 2009 SRK member.
Worst Years 2011 AD
Worst year=When Marvel 3 was introduced.
The real issue: no one is making fighting games to appeal to the folks who have a job, who have the fundamentals down and enjoy the mindgame aspect of fighters, but don’t have 10-20 hours a week to practice execution.
There’s a market here that is untapped.
Exactly. I did that shit in high school… I don’t have time for that anymore, working 40hrs + commuting another 10hrs… fuck that… I get like an hour a day at most.
I think SF4 to MVC3 are the worst years, ive never seen so much hate for fighting games till these games came out, back then people were dying to get together to play some games, now its like theres so much hate for ssf4 and mvc3 and these are capcom games also, i havent seen this much hate since CvS1
Back in the old days, you didn’t have choices, or we didn’t know better- so when you were given shit, you ate it.
Now, people have more choices, so the companies have to step their games up. Also, people are much more knowledgeable now- people tend to figure out the flaws in a fighting game faster these days (and figure out they actually are flaws and not just lack of knowledge) , which again means that companies need to step things up.
Many of the fighters we look on nostalgically , if they had been released this gen (with this gen’s graphical upgrades) we would have shit on them and called them crap, and in many cases rightfully so.