Anyone here have any other hobbies outside of playing fighting games? if so, how do you juggle them?
I usually only get like 3 hours a day to play games or do other hobbies… Granted, I probably spend an additional hour throughout the day on here, but I like that. Anyways, I find labbing and playing takes up all of that time, which leaves no room for other hobbies.
I also love music but have pretty much abandoned it. I’m trying to get into making fighting game OST type instrumental tracks, but I almost feel like I have to pick one or the other, and if I go with the music, then I’d pretty much just play games casually every few days and not bother labbing.
Hey guys, this is one of the GDers who plays 3S heavy. I ran into him in OE a while back and he bopped me mercilessly. Only on PS4 but if you wanna catch games, he is happy to oblige with some asswhoopings.
Full disclosure, I just started getting into 3S (been playing somewhat seriously for the last few weeks) and am not great (probably not even good lol), but am working on improving.
Drawing is as much a hobby as a job. I do it because I have a routine set in stone every day for what I’m going to do, and I never deviate because that’s the kind of thing that I had drilled into me. Additionally, I watch a lot of documentaries to broaden my horizons, though those don’t really account for full courses. I read a good amount too. Cleaning is an enjoyable pasttime, but if I’m real, my favourite thing to do outside of drawing and 3S is studying ahead. I was a really bad student for a really long time, and now that I’ve matured a little more, I like honouring the investment my parents put in me. I reserve an hour each for everything (save for drawing and playing), but don’t do all of them daily.
I think maybe 1 hour music and 2 hours for games may be best for me now, which works because with my music, my brain kinda burns out of ideas or inspiration quickly, where as fighting games take a bit longer for me to get into (probably because I start labbing for a bit and then it takes a few games to be warmed up)
Yeah that sounds good. I feel like any concrete schedule with incentives can achieve a lot more than pre-existing motivation with no base. “I’m going to do it because it will achieve x,” is far more convincing to me than, “I’m going to do it because I really wish I could get good at it.”
Not really. You’ll find a lot of people have different execution changes based on player side and that’s even if you’re naturally great at execution. Well at least it’s the case for Arcade Sticks due to how they function. Sometimes the differences are subtle and affect very little, and other times it’s night and day. For example, me personally (and I’m going to use a Marvel 3 example for ease but this would also be relevant for other games) I struggle when doing Thor’s TK Mighty Strike on P1 side but I can do it with ease on P2 side. However I’m better on simple directional execution for P1 side, usually related to command normals in strings, compared to P2 side where it’s a bit messier.
Basically I can input motion far more fluidly on P2 side for whatever reason, but I’m generally more precise on P1 side.
