Are you really that glib? You said Akira in the top tier as it was a generic trait of VF games as a whole, and, in fact, suggested that he existed in a tier of his own just because _____________ ? Akira actually isn’t the char that Sega gives everything to – that’s Kage – and yes if you really want to split hairs they have been in the top tier a disproportionate number of times, but often alongside several other characters. Do you really think just being brazenly disingenuous about the balance and doubling down on it by citing a blog post about FS, a version that’s still subject to revision that we don’t even HAVE, is a good idea? Or do you think you can sneak that past someone who can read?
I don’t see why this even has to be hard, or why I necessarily have get framed as the big meanie, or a nerd rager, or whatever. Solely because I don’t like seeing misinformation spread about my niche game, and I want SRK posters to stop posting this trash. I am ready to admit that I am not some all-knowing VF encyclopedia, but I know more about the game than most just by virtue of the fact that I research what I have to say and spent time LISTENING to the people who knew these things.
So, being impatient with this BS somehow gets me cast as the villain. Tell me, if you and a few thousand other people were teaching a class, and all the students spent years learning basic facts about something new, only to proudly persist in repeating the wrong things year after year on open-book tests with unlimited response times, would you have any patience left? I would quit or start harvesting the dumbest answers and posting them on a blog.
Oh, but of course – Any desire to get paid to convey this knowledge tailored to the specific demands of random dude #21355, who shows up and demands it during a discussion of the relative merits of a few dozen other freely-available tutorials that have been around for half a decade or more is just me being a smug douchebag, right? It’s not tataki’s sense of vast entitlement and ignorance that makes him feel comfortable in ignoring VF community’s best efforts because he’s too dim (or assumes Tekken players are LOL) to boot up a tutorial mode or watch a video or two without having shaky, patronizing parallels to Tekken expounded on at length for no reason other than creating some vague sense of context between two entirely different games. Oh and it’s also even more arrogant in yomipower’s estimation to genuinely offer my time and effort for FREE only because would be used in the employ of shaming him (like he has any to begin with, apparently).
Do I need to bust out the Duplo blocks and Dora tapes to get you kids to shut the hell up? Or, perhaps more fittingly we can all go to 4chan and post about it there, while lacing the thread with some anime porn, since that’s all the rage these days.
You’re allowing the tone of what I’m posting override any of the content of what I have to say, and refusing to see why I might just be a little bit frustrated after nearly 9 years of this garbage. Just read it in Cranky Kong’s voice and deal with it, fuck.
This is also a problem endemic to SRK as a whole, even though the info couldn’t be any more in your face without being table of contents of links that pops up all over the screen when you load the page, and at the top and bottom of every page of the thread. Maybe you would like to have a radio-button menu where you pick the character you’d like to see and it will automatically embed matches from Youtube? Or hell, an android and iphone app that does it? Oh wait, if I developed and dared charge for it, I’d be megalomaniac on par with David Koresh. Welp.
VF4evo is what got me into real fighters and its awesome training mode taught me A LOT about fighting games and how they work. every fighter should have a training mode like that!