I’m pretty sure Marvel is saltier. MK9 is really bad right now because it’s a new game and ever since SF4 came out scrubs have been going from game to game shitting up online play, streams, forums, youtube, etc. Wait for BBCS2 and AE to come out and they’ll all be gone.
In a whole the gaming community has gone down the pooper IMO. No one cried in CS 1.5 when people AWPed, they found a way to counter it. No one cried in Starcraft 1 if you got zergling rushed. No one cried in Quake when you actually played defense and camped the flag room.
Nowadays if this new generation of “gamers” lose at anything, they automatically find something to blame instead of learning from it and learning to counter it. It’s never their fault they lost, it’s because something is OP or someone is playing cheap.
I will say that nothing get’s a salty nerd rager even more angry than the simple “umadbro?” I just troll anyone who calls me out for being “cheap” or a “spammer”. I play Sent in Marvel, I rarely spam H, but when someone accused me of doing so guess what my new tactic became, as well as yelling “NEUTRALIZE” through the mic. Just troll them, nothing funnier than some pissed off 12 year old who shouldn’t even be playing such a violent game in the first place.
Online = the Mk community?
nonsense.
Yes. I generally ask them if they want to be a man when they grow up, because they’re acting like little bitches now.
This isn’t a fighting game thing, hell it’s not even a video game thing IMO. It’s more about kids being spoiled rotten in this day in age. And guess what? The biggest spoiled brats are most likely the kids that get mommy and daddy to buy the new game on day one, i.e. the kids you were playing with.
Now anyone who wins = cheap. Combos? Nah you’re just spamming moves. Projectiles? Hey man I said stop spamming. Blocking? Stop spamming block and let me hit you! Oh I won? I’m fucking nice, get at me. I lost? You’re a cheap spamming noob, get real skill!
I don’t know, it doesn’t bother me at all, it usually spark some uncontrollable laughter to be honest.
Its has nothing to do with the game or any video game. Like ive ask a lot of people not just men, but women. Men are the biggest sore losers ever. Most men have a ego, and cant stand losing at anything. Ive tried to explain to people its just a game, but meh whatever
you can flame me for this but, haters gonna hate. just cus they’re butthurt scrubs dosn’t mean that it should affect you. keep your online matches set to your friends.
I really don’t think this is anything new. I can remember playing SFII:WW in the arcade and watching people get into real fights because of spamming fireballs, throwing, playing cheap, etc.
I’ll let you know when it finds a Ranked opponent for me. I shouldn’t have to wait minutes just to play someone.
It’s because MK is a far more casual appealing game. So when someone with a competitive nature comes on and starts whoopin’ some ass, someone who has no idea of fighting game mechanics sees this as cheap and unfair. Get used to it.
A huge portion of the games sales are going to be the total retards that buy it because of the gore and nothing more.
This is a pretty sound thread by a guy at TYM though.
Agreed. I went to the midnight launch to pick it up, there were several kids around age 10 with their parents there. WTF is wrong with those parents? Do they know what they’re buying their kid? And why is their kid still up that late on a school night?
I was 8 when my parents bought me the first MK on the genesis.
The only thing saddening is that there were then, and still are today, parents stupid enough to think a video game with blood in it is going to hurt their kid.
While I do agree, it depends how your kid takes it. I played MK2 when I was under 10 too. I played CS religiously throughout middle school and never let the violence get to me. Other kids you can tell they take the violence from the games and it does affect their actions. That can simply be fixed by discipline. Even then, I’m 22 and don’t plan on having kids for a long time, but if I did have kids I wouldn’t want my 10 year old playing MK at all. Just because it probably won’t turn them into a serial killer, doesn’t mean I want to flood a child’s brain with nonstop violence and sex.
However, there is zero excuse for those parents to have a 10 year old even up at midnight, let alone having them attend a midnight launch on a school night.
so it was ok for you or me, or anyone else of our generation (everyone played mk back in the day) but not for your kids??
i mean thats fine if you feel that way, but just consider it sounds a bit… odd. I do agree about midnight on a school night though, not cool.
I am glad that I was allowed to play it at that age, I definately would’ve been bitter if my parents didn’t let me. I also do agree that I am a hypocritical at this issue. But that being said, if they had restricted me I would’ve been mad at the time, but at this age I would understand why they would want to prevent me from playing the game. I would go to the extent of saying it was a poor choice to allow me to play MK at such a young age, though it was damn fun at the time.
Proper parenting will solve any issues of violent influence.
Went from QQ online to parenting. <3 this thread.
Actually from a parent point of view, MK9 compared with our UMK3 and prior games is a lot more ‘realistic-bloody’ and I’d argue that the ‘cartoonish-fun bloody’ we grew up with is a lot less eye-opening than the gore we have in MK9. Like stuff actually tries to look real.
But parents buy their kids stuff like GoW and Dante’s Inferno, so meh…
Pasky is still right in the sense. Good parenting > ESRB
Small note: There is a very stark difference between cheesy, almost cartoon-like red blobs on top of almost comedic levels of violence, versus detail-modeled semi-realistic depictions of brutal violence.
Of course, more likely than the ever-so-popular “kids who play violent video games will murder people for fun” scenario, I think any kid under the age of ten or so who hasn’t been desensitized to the sort of thing they’re going to see in the game stands a good chance of having a good month’s worth of nightmares about it, at least.
Then again, most kids grow up virtually mass-murdering people online in Call Of Duty, so there’s a good chance they’ve already been desensitized enough to not be phased in the slightest.
Of course, there’s also the whole fact that kids today don’t even begin to get the same level of moral-building discipline that our generation(s) did.
Honestly, there’s just a lot more to consider than “it didn’t hurt me”.
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tl;dr Parenting, etc. It’s been said here already.