I just started playing 3s and it is very apparent that the skill difference is huge. My internet isn’t the best (I live in Canada) so OE is not always an option if my connection gets crappy.
I’m wondering how good players generally feel when playing against beginners, especially in person. There is a place nearby where I live that have casual fighting game nights and I wonder how the crowd would feel if someone that really sucked joined in. I don’t think I will be any decent in the next few months, so I am curious to know is playing against someone like me would be even somewhat enjoyable to veteran players. Or will I just be a test of patience for these people. I want to learn how to play well, but I also don’t want to be a burden on others if they aren’t going to have fun while I learn.
General thoughts? Obviously each person may differ, but just getting an idea of how better players view playing with worst players will be very helpful.
i only consider it a waste of time if the beginner hasn’t shown any effort into learning the part of the game that’s supposed to be done alone. ie. learning the basic rules and mechanics of the game, some bnb combos, how/when your character’s moves are used, etc. there are some good players who are jackasses and act like idiots even when they’re playing other good players, let alone beginners. good player does not equal good person, and you’ll find out who you’re dealing with one way or another. what’s worse is that there are a lot of bad players who don’t realize they’re bad and also have horrible attitudes for some reason. but really, the old school mindset is that it doesn’t matter if people are going to be bored when playing you. if you enjoy the game then go ahead and play it, especially if there’s an entry fee and you’ve paid it just like everyone else did.
I think if you have a good attitude and show a willingness to improve and to stick with it, people will enjoy playing with you and helping you get better. ask a lot of questions too, they probably are interested in just talking about the game and sharing knowledge anyway.
I think you are correct to look for a local scene. offline is where the game makes the most sense. online is pretty jungle and not a great learning environment.
just keep an open mind, always be trying to figure things out, and take the approach that any time you lose it’s feedback on how you can improve. it’s easy when you’re under stress to blame the game, blame the balance, or blame the other player for being an idiot, but ultimately your results are directly impacted by how you approach the game and how you can teach yourself to make good decisions.
I’d imagine if you keep that mindset, people will want to play with you even if you’re new and not great yet. and eventually you will be good! play a lot, introspect a lot, watch high level vids a lot, and you can’t help but get better.
Thanks for the thoughts so far. It does seem like from everything I’ve read that playing online is not the best way to go. However, I will be the first to admit it is intimidating to play in person. Especially when I get manhandled so easily online.
Sadly some people, even though they suck in the grand scheme of things, will get assholey about being in a position of consistently smashing some noob. Just fair warning but really fuck those guys. If someone can’t respect you wanting to get better, fuck em.
Yea, here is when I wish I had a group of friends that already played. I’m sure it is easier to work at getting better when I have closer friends that I can ask for help more easily. It just seems like not many people play 3s and those that do, are hardcore so there isn’t much of a beginners community.
Awesome will do! I won’t have access to my ps3 until Weds since I lent it out, but I will definitely add you to get some games in. I’m hoping to just find a rom for my computer and practice until then.
I don’t have any problem with playing beginners. what frustrates me, similiar to what’s been mentioned is when the beginner doesn’t put any effort into improving over a course of time. So regardless of if the people you meet up with are dicks or not, definitely don’t let those sessions of play be the only time you practice. also contacting them to play even after you get stomped on shows effort/interest and is a good gesture if its genuine. If a beginner or lower level player shows interest in still wanting to play I’m more inclined to play them again.
I love and miss arcades overall but one specific reason is because its a public venue where you don’t need to cupcake with assholes if you don’t like them. just insert credit and play lol.
As much as I understand your sentiments metric, I suspect the only way I can join a community will be through trying to understand and respect the members of it. If I don’t care about how they feel and just play as much as I can without heed of whether they are enjoying it as well, I doubt they’ll be playing with me much in the futre.
Everyone starts somewhere. And as previously stated, if you go in with a willingness to learn, I’m not going to hold back much, but I’m going to show you a few things where you can improve. There’s no manual to playing 3rd Strike. You can watch all the vids; you can read all the FAQs, and you can talk all you want, but you gotta apply it and apply it constantly until it’s second nature.
I think you should not care about how they feel when they beat you, really not, no shame to be bad, everyone was a beginner and was bad. I think it’s depends of people too, all good players are not necessary nice guys who accept to help beginners, some just don’t give a shit about that.
Find cool people to play with, and don’t worry so much.
I think its easier in person, if you’re really bad, just tell them how eager you are to get better. Generally, I think anybody would respect that and play you regardless of your skill level, if they don’t, well, that should give you incentive to get better so you can destroy them! When you think about a player having fun or respecting them, that’s when you handicap yourself mentally. The best thing you can do is study up on your desired character, practice all the characters hit-confirms, just be a lab-rat constantly when you’re not playing them. People saying you need someone to help you is bullshit, you’re as good as the work you put in.
yeah I definitely suggest hitting training mode when you’re not playing other people. there’s some stuff you just gotta play good players to learn, but the execution part of your character you can just grind in training mode. work on hit confirms and punishes so you’re able to just bring those out on a dime at the appropriate times. have a training dummy use mass popular normals (shoto low forward or Chun low forward for instance) and see how you can interact with it. can you counterpoke it, stuff it at certain spacings? there’s a lot of things you can figure out on your own to help you improve and catch up to those guys faster.
Speaking strictly from a gaming perspective: If you actually made the effort of traveling and putting yourself out there to get to local competition, the “well known” players of the local scene should respect your effort to get better. Always carry a studious attitude, find someone who plays your main and asks them questions (situation specific questions, not general questions like “how to get better lol”). You’ll get better a lot faster (regarding mind games, and what works in what situation) with a knowledgeable person pointing out what you did wrong.
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Now, if you don’t enjoy being around these people (i.e. they decide to be assholes one way or another or they make you feel uncomfortable), you can always leave. Good luck.