The $1000 Tom Cannon Tougeki TvC Bounty

Syxx573 · August 21, 2009, 7:22pm

hehe :china:

Da_Boogeyman · September 7, 2009, 4:17am

BloodyStag:

Japan has a much larger much more socially accepted fighting game community than America. Justin is a solid player, but the fact that he’s the best at multiple games only proves the point. You don’t see Momoji and Daigo as godlike players in GGXX AC, but they are pro Sf4. You don’t see Nanashi playing BB, But you see him a solid Veno.

The problem with america ( AND CANADA, since I see some of you posting) is that These are still games to us. You can say that you take it seriously, but at the end of the day, the common top player in america when given the option of going to school/work or mooching off all his friends and a single game nonstop, is going to go to the former. Not to say that all top japanese players are hopeless losers, but the very fact that the mentality of fighting games over there is ‘serious’ in it’s vast community makes it something recognizable. The fact that I played Tekken in an Arcade for a year in gameworks and had NO idea there was a fighting game community that embraced the serious aspect of it is what I mean. At best, America is an underground community for games, and KOF/SF4/TVC will never be taken as seriously as something like football here. In Japan, ,it’s well known that a larger amount of people play competitively, it’s not farfetched. It’s STRANGE to my friends who don’t play fighting games seriously to even believe that people do…

I thought we played different video games to get good at them because they were fun.

Jeez