Holy shit that means akira toriyama,hideo kajima and robert downey jr fucked up you should let them know they shouldnt focus on their careers
Lol. Almost every popular top US player has a full time job and significant other.
Make time.
Also maybe lose your job house and wander like a vagrant, worked for ryu.
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DON’T GO TO THAT TOWN FROM RAMBO FIRST BLOOD THOUGH that didn’t work out so good they don’t like vagrants
I’m in my 30s, with a wife of several years, having a kid soon. I can tell you that it’s all about priorities, not age. I could theoretically carve out more time to practice if I really felt that compelled, but I just don’t. I’m fine with being a casual and only playing maybe 3-4 hours per week as opposed to 3-4 hours per day. I have no desire to do that simply because the motivation isn’t there. I’d need the passion to do it right. Since the passion isn’t there, there’s no sense in trying.
You can have a wife and one or two kids, maybe three if you’re brave enough. In sf you have at least 22 characters.
I’ll let you do the maths
I want 8 kids
It’s not too bad until you’ve got wife and kids. Then you wish you had more time… To sleep.
The players who are 30+ and have a job and family nowadays that are still strong in Street Fighter, are people who put a significant amount of time into the game in their youth.
When you got your execution grinded out over years already, it’s more a matter of keeping up with the tech and strategy of new games and results in a significantly less grinding and more thinking.
You won’t become a tournament winner when you just started playing fighting games after you hit 30.
THIS!^
Which overall is a major contributing factor to why some of us seem to “stubbornly” stick to our mains. It’s not just out of love of the character, or stubbornness - to a large degree it’s time management as well.
That’s why it’s a false argument to tell someone to just pick another character of their main is ass.
No.
It’s CAPCOM’s responsibility to make sure all of the characters are viable.
Which is why rebalancing the game from time to time is necessary.
Some of us want to play the new SF, enjoy playing a familiar main, with enough changes to feel like our character has evolved, yet with enough left intact that we do not feel like we are reinventing the wheel.
Then maybe we’ll pick up a new character. I’m thinking about FANG for a number of reasons, mainly because his character struck me as interesting and he is a charge character.
There are a lot of assumptions here about being married and having kids.
I’m a single dad, have custody of my son and work full time with him in daycare.
I do not have the energy, or time to abandon Bison for some completely different character after maining him for years, for example. Yet now that I have been playing this game for a few months with Dictator, I feel it’s time to learn FANG.
Since time goes by so much faster for me now, I also do not mind or notice the month or two inbetween DLC or patches. I’m simply too fucking busy.
Im 34, with a wife and a son, and a full time career. Like stated above, its really not that hard to stay strong when you have 20+ years of knowledge, experience, and execution under your belt. Doesnt hurt that i have only slept 6hrs a night since my mid 20s though.
All characters are viable there doesnt need to be rebalancing sf always had certain stronger characters thats how its always been.and people still win with shitty characters. Making everyone the same is boring af.
It’s a testament to the games themselves as well that the 30+ heads can succeed - many other competitive game genres are completely dominated by reaction time and raw dexterity over every other element…Street Fighter and most other fighting games are balanced around more facets of play
It’s awesome that Alex Valle and the other old school heads can compete and often times best the young players who are at the peak of their powers physically, in terms of reaction times etc
I don’t think your reaction times drop in your 30s, let alone in your 40s.
John Rambo is the American Ryu. LOL.
Married, kids, and full time OVERNIGHT job here. When I play I try to get at least an hour in. I took a week off and actually switched games, but I still get some SF in to keep that muscle memory going. When you really like something, you find time. I watch gameplay on breaks at work, and try to see if I am doing something wrong or what I can do to improve.
Your reactions start to dip in your mid 20’s and your body slowly slides into being shittier at games.
ehhhhh I find that an excuse for people who can’t hatch it anymore and are looking for an excuse. I’m 32 and I am the best i’ve ever been baby.
You must be shitting me you look 22 in your av
Alot of these older players are also veterans from older games from earlier times, so alot of the fundamental skills they’ve developed carry over.
Where’s your study to back up this claim now?
That has nothing to do with it, being older automatically imparts wisdom and being young should be a crime.