Ive been playing fighting games seriously for almost a year, took me half a year to really decide I really wanted to get good. I just lie kolder games in general, and so I looked at the older games because they have less mechanics and theyre stripped down. (Plus I dont have a PS3 or 360) Hell, all you need to do to learn ST to watch the ST TOL from 2012, then the SF 25th anniversary finals, and then the recent qualifiers at Super Arcade. The older games are figured out so its easier to me to get into them, and theyll make you have better execution at the same time.
I dont think its elitist to hate on newer games that (Ill keep saying), are babying people. Seriously, if the real motion for srk is the way its written in a booklet then it shouldnt have to be given a short cut.
I found out recently that you can baroque out of recovery of fireballs in TVC. THATS TOTAL BS, and will only make people not want to get into other fighting games where you have to accept recovery. Instead of making games bring out the best in people theyre making more and more shortcuts to win through scrubby ways and non-fundamentals. Instead if they just made simpler games that werent filled with ways to make the game play “more accessible so beginners can beat experts”, then itd make people truly better. These short cuts are spoiling people and they dont want to try other games I think because of that, especially Super Turbo and KOF where execution is a must.
I want fighting games to be huge and top players to make hundreds of thousands of dollars, but the way Capcom has handled SF4, it hurt things I think. Average people dont care about game mechanics, they care about characters, think of how many people hated Decapre being the fifth character and how long they stretched it out? I tell people why they made Ultra and the vortex that was plaguing high level play, and they didnt care. I tell them that games can only be tested by the company for so long till its released and then THOUSANDS of people play it and find things they couldnt have possibly have found on their own, they didnt care. Eventually the Proximity Option Select would have made AE 2012 unplayable at tournaments, again they didnt care.
Right now things arent really growing at the casual level. @franked if you live in a small town, try to get a meet up together. You shouldnt have to travel to big cities to play, just build up a scene where you live. Seriously, I think the FGC is HORRIBLE at PR work. We shouldnt just be advertised and shown on video game sites, we should be on local news, we should be doing charity work, we should be doing anything good to get the word out so people know we exist. The FGC shouldnt be seen as a Masonic Esoteric brotherhood( seriously, we need to find a way to bring in more girls even if they dont like the violence), it should be open to all. If we dont advertise no on will know whats going on.