Total Drama Island!
Damn, two threads isn’t enough to contain three people?
stl gets two threads, i say we go for three
Wow. This is pretty entertaining actually. At least this is refreshing drama. The drama we used to have on TZ was pure bullshit. It got way personal, way fast. Here, people are comparing attitudes on what should, and shouldn’t be present at a hookup.
At my hookups, we all know anyone is invited. If people want to come out, they’re all welcome to. You can expect all kinds of tearing, obnoxious outbursts, and on occasion, some bad sportsmanship. You can also expect to get good matches, with good guys. And we DO analyze our matches. A few of us there go over our matchups to death. Ben and Lyquid kind of just joined our little fray, so we haven’t had much time to go over one anothers characters yet, but that’ll come in time.
The REASON that people get upset (at least I hope) is because they give a shit. If I didn’t love the fighting game community so much, it wouldn’t be hard for me to quit this. I have other hobbies, and I work just as hard at those as I do at gaming. That said, we all have our work cut out for us, in ALL the games we’re planning on playing.
KC is a much smaller, and weaker entity in competitive gaming than a lot of other major cities, and until recently, our crews were all split up and in small little circles. Our Tekken crew had 4 members, and we’d been traveling for years. I know Ben, Josh and Drew have been serious SF players for a long time and have been playing together also. SFIV may not be my favorite game ever, but it’s certainly allowed us the opportunity for unity. Blazblue and T6 WILL be games played at my hookups, so when they come out, you can either be lame, and not even give the games a try, or try expanding your horizons a bit.
I got into SFIV for one major reason: I knew it would take a miracle to grow a strong gaming scene in KC, and unless I took this game seriously, it’d never happen. Truly, getting better at the game was an afterthought at first, but somewhere along the way I actually started liking it and giving a shit about really getting better.
Bottom line: We all have our reasons for playing. But I don’t EVER want to hear someone say some shit like “You take it too seriously” or “You have a warped idea of what’s fun, chill out” or anything along that line. If you come to my hookups, you keep that shit to yourself. We ALL have lives and we all have other hobbies. In the meantime, let’s level the fuck up together, and FINALLY put this damned city on the map in the gaming community. This is why I decided not to quit. So let’s not fuck it up by being a bunch of shits to one another. We may not all get along all the time, but we have a common goal.
See you gents on Friday. (I didn’t mean to make a big post… I think I just rambled because I’m tired.)
Word son, same with me. I suck at sf4 but i play it for the community and the scene. I happen to enjoy the game, and cant wait for blazblue, kof12, and tekken 6br. With aerial rave, and hopefully mash out, hosting a street fighter + kof + tekken+ guilty gear each as a new game, and main event. How hype will this be, EVERYONE who plays any type of fighter needs to be there for at least one game.
Also on my post about combining the scene, i was talking about the serious players jspot. I think it was your crew yelling and playing casuals during grand finals between kc and stl last time 
so how serious could they be? They mash random ultras and yell instead of watching the home town boy vs the evil emperor of stl play in the finals? But kong/axiom/chris w/le/lyquid/benra/chachi should all play together for sure. Just make sure everyone past the execution barrier(as well as ben-ra :P) plays together. Tho i would allow less serious crews as long as they enter sf4, or when they come to a tourny and watch it they actauly watch the tourny instead of dan vs a mashing cammy.
Oh if u smoke and u got some dank your welcome at my hookups anytime.
@Lyquid: Ok, I can admit that perhaps we do have differing perspectives. I?ll be the first to admit that I?m a bit lower level compared to the rest of the KC scene, but apparently, I?ve been showing improvement, according to what ppl here at SRK have told me. Granted, it?s taking quite a bit longer for me to lvl up compared to you guys(which is to say not for the lack of trying), but I?m still willing to give a match with you a try. Iirc, I think I have played you once online. I believe you were playing on Ben-ra?s PS3 and were using Dictator while I was using Guile.
@Axiom: I agree with what you said there. I do give a shit. I know that Jspot does to. Like what he was saying, it?s for the love of the game. We can make KC grow, I know it. We just gotta come hard(no homo) and really bring our best feet forward.
I have some other rants about SRK in general but they really don’t apply in this thread.
That being said, I will say this:
I really do wish though that us Northsiders (Myself, Jspot, Da Shadow, Matt, Nathan, Kevin N, Adam,{or team joke/team desperation as Jspot put it} ) weren’t just automatically written off as noob-tastic scrubs that don’t give a shit. The talent is there, the potential is there, I can feel it. But hey, if us Northsiders bore you guys to death with our friendly shenanigans, I understand.
And if associating with the other Northsiders shuns me from the rest of KC, so be it.
I went to my first hookup at Axiom’s last Wednesday. While I haven’t been involved in the KC scene very long, I feel like I should share my thoughts. I am by no means the greatest player around; I am quite below pretty much everyone’s skill level here. However, I have the desire to get better, and I think that even though I was there only once and got my ass kicked the whole night, I improved a lot. It’s shown in training mode this week.
Essentially, regardless of a person’s skill level, we can all improve by playing against each other. As long as people who show up have the desire to get better, I think the best players in KC playing against each other could only help the KC scene. The only problem I could foresee is that if a whole lot more people started showing up, it would get extremely crowded, and seating might be tough.
In addition, one of my friends who goes to college in Florida is coming back this Friday. If possible, he and I will both show up at the hookup. He mains Sagat and is a hell of a player. Another friend of mine mains Dhalsim, but actually doesn’t have the game. However, I feel like since I’ve come only once I shouldn’t bring more unfamiliar people with me.
PS–Tekken 6. Good? Bad? I’ve always enjoyed playing as King at arcades. I’m thinking of getting it when it comes out.
It’s starting to look like the Michigan thread in here. Now we just need somebody to bust in and remind us how he was the shit back in '92…
Weeks- True, but STL has six people, not enough room for their egos to fit :razz:
Real talk, I’m glad you can finally admit this.
I think I am gonna be late to Axioms Friday due to this:
i wish at least one of my friends over where i live would think like that. every1 over here always says shit like “you take this game too seriously” or “you should try playing for fun” to me, sorta pisses me off lol.
3 days till blazblue, zomg
Let me throw in my 2 cents here.
Like Rex said it is a little discouraging when a finals match is less hype then a casual match.
Look, I don’t mind if you’re not good, I’m not that good myself. I’ll still play you. The thing is though, you may say your serious but your game play does not reflect that. I’m like Allen, I don’t really expect a certain level of skill, I require at least a basic level of thinking. If you wake up DP every single time, it really turns me off to play you because I know the counters to that and it requires no thinking from my part. There is no mix ups. I’ll usually give the person some leeway maybe like if I played them once every week, I’d probably give them 3 weeks before I truly start passing judgement because usually if they haven’t improved by then, they aren’t serious. I know when it’s bad when I have to ask myself, How many times do I have to punish this guy for him to get it?
Well, shit if you guys say we do not have fun at our serious hook ups you’re dead wrong. We laugh, we smile, we joke, we say good shit, but when it comes to me actually playing a match is when I get all serious. I know, I can get quiet but that’s usually when I just played someone that jogged my mind and I’m going through how to beat that shit or when at least one good player is playing. I start to mentally play them and see what I would do in that situation. Usually you can tell how serious someone is after playing them a second time on a different day. Are they still doing the same shit that’s constantly getting punished by me or are you bringing new shit to the table and forcing me to adapt. Showing signs of improvement is probably the best way to say that you are serious.
Another thing is ask for advice. I love it when people give me advice or ask me for some. Like at AR when Allen told me that he jumps at me because I like to poke everytime he’s near me and he gets free mix ups because of it. It was an eye opener. Because it brought it to my attention and it’s telling me that the reason why I get hit. I don’t mind giving out advice because it lets other people improve which in turns forces me to improve. I don’t even mind giving away my set ups and show you how to block them. It’ll force me to get more creative. Though, what pisses me off the most is when people just don’t listen to your advice. How can you say your serious when you do that.
**For people who don’t like to read. **
If people don’t think your serious then prove them wrong. Words aren’t going to change anything. Do something about it.
P.S. I’m bringing a camera to hook ups now and I’m recording my matches for reals this time. I have 2 gigs of space on my camera and I’ll be happy to record other peoples matches if they want me to. I’ll be also uploading them to my youtube account so I can see how much I improve. This will be for all games I play. I’m to the point where I just need to set back and look at my gameplay when I’m not acutally playing.
I hope I can download “I Got Next” to my PS3. It’ll look so sexy on the Chachivision.
Also, I’m trying to get the basement back in order by tonight. The carpet and my chair are getting a nice tan out front right now.
Wow, didn’t know the Friday hookups were scrutinized.
John, I want to FT5 you in Tekken this Friday at some point. Getting a hold of T6 has me all hyped for more tekken (its a bitch that it doesn’t come out for another 4 months) and playing drunken tekken with DJ Kor and Crow, and getting to play MaddogJin has me wanting to…how did Courtney put it? Oh yeah…stop doing stupid shit, lol. (We all know I will always do stupid shit, its too much fun)
PS: Still wanting to get rid of my VSHG, I say asking price is $170 obo, i think that’s about what it cost me to have shipped.
@Kong, good shit, I’d love to see some of my matches against you and Axiom to dissect later.
@Chachi, Midnight TF showing at the imax tonight so no games for me, gotta get out their early to grab seats. Also, your tv prolly has a VGA/DVI input? Hook that laptop up to it son, that’s how we play Vampire Savior on Ben-ra’s tv and it looks fierce.
@Pokkit, dude if your friend is a good Sagat player, bring him! Everyone needs reps with that matchup.
axiom - i definitely agree with your attitude on this issue (twilight as well), and especially your opinion on sf4. that said, i will definitely be at your hookup on friday. i hope all of you there are fine with me bringing a couple 3s setups and get that going as well. i think its a better game, though i am in no way opposed to getting better at 4.
chachi… you KNOW i was the shit back in 92’
yo when you guys holding the July Max Out? I’d love to show up if I can, get in a monthly or two before I vanish to the coast
More than 0 setups seems a bit gratuitous, but 2? Outlandish, no one plays it seriously AFAIK
My new roommate has a 360 and a ps3, so I’ll be getting a stick and copy of SF4. When I have a bit more than the basics down, I’ll start coming to hook ups when I am able.
That statement is dead wrong and applies to any game. Superior players can not get better by playing people with far lower skill sets.
Curious because I don’t know, who are you?
C-C-C-C-Combo Practice!
Edit: There are many ways a superior player can get better by playing a person of lower skill level. You just have to think creatively.
Chaz- SuperFX= Paul aka PacMan or DebtWeasel from Columbia.
Also, there is a distinct lack of superiority among KC players, except when Kong rolls through and robs us of our wills to live.