taken from the comments in this article on srk’s main page before required facebook login:
This is Bruce Lee’s fighting game.
lots of good advice! might seem very abstract but having the right perspective is just as important as how much you practice the game
Well the gameplay tips are helpful (to some) I guess. As for the other comments regarding “attitude” I think it’s all a load of bollocks. I’m getting tired of seeing psychological analysis on how to play a video game being posted left and right. I think the same of Sirlin’s “Playing to win” article, it’s borderline crap - when I first read it I thought it was a joke and he was just trying to be funny. Then I realised he was being serious and that’s when I really found it a joke and laughed out loud.
They say:
“think like this to be a winner” …
“be like this, and don’t do this!!!”… " don’t think like that!!" …
You don’t have to be a yogi philosopher to play a damn fighting game, you can be salty if you want to be, and you can think however you damn well like. As long you’re not so salty that you lose your head and the urge to compete or think tactically then you have no problems.
All the matters is how good you are… and how good you are tends to depend mostly on how much you play the damn game. Attitude is almost insignificant to the knowledge and confidence gained from repetition and practice…
what as lead you to believe that?
Im gonna guess and say youve never played any type of game or anything in a high pressure situation.
3rd strike. its not just a fighting game.
How can you go through life without being in a high pressured situation. Fairly stupid assumption, but whatever…
Obviously players have pressure in tournaments and that’s why they should deal with this by putting themselves into those pressured situations more often so they become more practiced at it.
“Distance = time:
For example, even if trip guard is activated, if the landing distance is different but your timing remains the same, you will have a problem.”
I understand the words he’s saying, I just don’t get how they make a sentence. Is he talking about anti-air parries or spacing in general or wat?
Isn’t confidence part of psychology? Also attitude toward the game is a big factor. You can’t just win a tournament with the attitude of “Oh I got this after all I have played this game for 6 years” so what? Probably everyone at the tourney has played the game for 6 years or more. Attitude and psychology is what makes the difference between a scrub and a high level player.
The psychological factor is a huge thing, not just because of confidence, though that plays a large role. Let me give you an example, when I play a game like Gears or Halo, I’m that guy that is always paying attention to your position and your weak spots. I will stay on the outer boundaries of a map, and primarily find ways to strike you when you don’t expect it. I may leap down on you to get bullets into you before you know what’s going on, I may come up behind you while you are in a firefight with someone else. I may pop a few shots off at you to get you to follow me, then blast you point blank with a shotty. In fact, I make it a purpose to look for those that I just saw drain a clip, or in the act or reloading, or a weakened from another battle. The fact that I stay on the outskirts means that I am never in hot zones, or zones where death is a higher likelihood. If someone gets the drop on me and I have an escape route, better believe I’ll turn tail and run. Live to fight again. There are no codes of honor.
All that being said, at the end of the match I will average at least 15 kills and many times around 20 to 22, with a higher k/d, as I see it as a failure if I die more than I’ve killed in a match. So how can you knock my methods when they work, my team sure as hell can appreciate it. This may not have anything to do with fighters, but its an example of how psychology but into practice can pay dividends.
Then explain why some of the best sportsmen and women in the world have had some of the worst possible attitudes? And a competitive winning attitude is something which is learnt by expreince not by reading on forums . Actual practice and trying to act like a top player instead of trying to “think” like one is the way forward.
Telling someone to *Never be satisfied with any “success”:, **Always blame yourself:. *See things beyond yourself:
This is all subjective mumbo jumbo and a waste of time. You can be the loudest most excuse ridden - self loving piece of shit in the 3S community, but if you put the hours into practice and pefecting your combos and setups, if you research and try to play creative then you’ll still win. . .
really think about this statment you made here. And I’m not trying to flame you here homie. but really think about it
practice without the right mental application yields no results…
and what does “act” like a top player even mean? Top players especially top 3s players do everything kofiend mentioned
I never said you should think like kofiend and that you have to be a good person to be pro at something, everyone thinks differently. There is no one way of thinking that will let you win, just think for yourself and go from there. Yes you can be all of those things that you listed and still be good that’s because never admitting defeat lets you build confidence. Also how do top players act? And how will acting like one help you instead of thinking?
way over thinking shit karas13.
he’s stating ideal mentality. almost no one will realistically meet that ideal but it is something to remind yourself so you continue playing and progressing. he’s just stating what a very strong and serious perspective looks like when you’re trying to develop yourself. phrases can be helpful to some people. so when you just get double p’d and you’ve had an awful night of matches all together instead of saying “i hate this game, parry is stupid” you say “man i got crushed, i really need to work on my x, y, z”
that, in the long run, is a much more useful way of thinking. you will get further faster and understand more. if you have a shitty attitude you WILL stunt your growth.
working on execution and setups is like 25% of the game. thats not going to win you anything alone and if you’re attitude sucks you’re not going to want to practice anyway.
i think you’re confusing personality and attitude/mentality. they’re nowhere near the same thing. someones outward personality does not necessarily reflect their inner thoughts and attitude. sometimes its even the opposite.
also, why should i believe you? who are you? what is your background, who do you play with? because i can believe you or i can believe kofiend.
really easy choice.
i think hes saying it depends where someone lands how they can punish you and with what. at some distances if you say whiffed that sweep you’re virtually fine. at some you could be punished by certain characters/supers and at even closer distances you basically gave them a free 33%+ combo.
so i think hes talking about spacing and understanding the proper time for the proper move and understanding how those things change depending on where someone is and when someone is. so again, there isnt one ‘right’ move for something.
KO doesn’t 
I get this shit.
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Really great stuff there…
All of kofiend’s comments really drive home what I suspected when I first starting dabbling with 3SO after coming from SF4 and MvC3–the mindgames in 3S are oceans deeper than its more popular follow-up games 10 years later. I’m just starting to realize how little I actually know and I find it exhilarating. Thank you for posting these!
all this bullshit over a damn video game, jesus.
having talked to the human fortune cookie aka kofiend in real life and other top 3s players in the east coast, don’t think so much about getting better and winning, it’s only gonna make you madder when you lose or maybe I always end up talking to old bitter 3s veterans lol.
just relax,have fun,enjoy learning about the game and the skill will come naturally.