There are no intellectuals period…only wannabes like him and others that spam SRK on a daily basis. You’ve either done something with your life and been successful or you’re worthless but still a man. When ppl like Jagger post it’s a combination of worthless human garbage + full blown pansy.
I sort of have a sado/masochistic low tier fetish going on where the satisfaction of beating a player knowing they have the “numbers” advantage in the match up gives me the validation of knowing that when I beat someone it’s because I outplayed them plain and simple. For example I love the honda/sagat match-up in SF4 (though I don’t think its as lopsided as it seems) because really enjoy working my way in and staying in in spite of all the things that exist to keep me out. To not only beat down your opponent but truly own them to the point of them feeling out of the realm of efficacy and really “owning” them.
One thing that really inspires/motivates me is to do atypical things with a character and play them unconventionally while having the norms as a backup. To suddenly offset everything that the other player has preset as expectations for the match-up and put them is a state of " is he an idiot or a genius".
I think the new generation really thrives off that, the sheer number of people of experimenting with set-ups ETC provides an amazing opportunity for imagination in games and expand things beyond the local, regional or national and makes all play styles accessible.
I love the personal 1:1 asskicking.
I went to New York for 5 days (i live in Holland) only to find a beta-version of SF3 Third Strike Arcade the third day and skipping all the tourist stuff just to play the game for the remainder of the vacation.
I just like to play the game and at my age to be honest I don’t really see myself going to many gatherings or tourneys(I will be 40 this year). I first got into street fighter for the Snes played a tad bit of the sf1 but hated it. I also played the alpha series more than any of the others. I picked up the game and played it at the house and we had some epic sessions back in the day. I moved out to Tacoma where the heads was heavy in to fighting games at the old university place bowling alley. I really like the one on one aspect of the game and trying to get another person to fall into your traps by out playing and out smarting them.
I guess my desire to be the best in fighting games parallels pretty much everything else I have done in my life so far. Videogames have always been apart of my life but until I graduated from highschool they were only more of a side hobby. When I was younger I strove to be the best in sports and in music. I played both baseball and football in highschool. I was a great hitter in highschool and got onto the offensive line on the varsity football team my sophomore year. In music I was a percussionist. I started in the 5th grade and continued to play on whatever top band each of my schools had. In my junior year of HS i got to play in Carnegie Hall with our schools wind ensemble and had a huge really hard xylophone solo which I nailed. After highschool though it all ended. I didnt want to continue playing in college in both music and sports and wanted to focus on academics instead and get a degree. My desire to compete, however, never died.
Around my junior year in highschool I started getting interested more and more in fighting games, namely street fighter 3. I was the only one who was playing any game like that my age in my area so getting any good was relative to me. It wasnt until the end of my senior year in highschool did I attend my first big tournament at MWC. Man o man was that a wakeup call. I got my ass BEAT. I barely won a game at all. It was mindblowing to me. However it was mind altering as well. I found something that I could potentially use to fuel my competitive instinct and it took off from there. At UIUC I met the other fellow fighting game players and started playing whenever I had free time. Over a short period I started to grow as a played and my tournament results improved.
Basically I strive to be the best because I want to be the best. I need competition. It doesnt matter what it is, if it is something that interests me I have to win. And if I dont win? I may get angry at first (hulkbag) but I try and learn from it and then the next time I come back that much better.
Once SF4 came out I finally had a chance to start out with everyone else on a new fighting game. I dont necessarily have to drive that I did during my 3s days but I am still just as dedicated to being one of the better players. And for that I thank my fellow local players: Mike, Chris, Brian, Dennis, Farooq, Scott, Ian, J, Derek, Brock, Christian, Patric, and everyone else.
every loss
Competition, sibling rivalry
Aww how cute you mentioned me! And all of us!
No homo.
shut up idiot
was it really necessary to quote all of it? and i agree with that section you bolded. heck, i’m amazed that i’m still learning new things about my own main character, after over a year of playing SF4
Seriously, dude??? I mean… fucking seriously?!?!?!?!?!?!?! Christ… Sometimes I just wonder about the folks on SRK.
wtf is your problem dude. the bolded part makes a lot of sense. the only thing you accomplished was making yourself look like an idiot.
if i was the idiot i would have written 500 paragraphs for a sentence worth’s of actual content
Dude you gotta try way harder than that to troll me. I’ve been called worse by better.
you should be so lucky i am trolling you
Dickriders unite! What better cause is there than an oldschool FG thug wannabe who attaches way more importance to past achievements than is even remotely sane, and thinks he still matters winning a few tourneys on ONE coast using a char that has no weakness and every advantage in a game where tiers are sharply decided by character deficiencies. How delicious that an entire legacy can readily be summed up as: LOL RYU
Wasn’t one of you fruits whinging about lots of text? It’s comforting to know i’ve gained ire from those who still find reading to be such a struggle against fate.
You honestly don’t realize what you just asked, do you nitwit?
I don’t care what he can do in SF, therefore there’s no reason for me to come to SRK. Because SRK is Valleland, wherein the only reason for being is to understand the greatness of Valle. YES. You’re an idiot.
FAIL. Complete, unmitigated fail. Bonus fail points for the ridiculous attempt to incorporate regionalism into it. Because yes, you pack animal piece of trash, that totally matters.
Funny thing you mentioned it, because that’s exactly how game development works. Do you know why publishers glom on to the safe, boring franchise whoring they’re known for? Sure you do, because you have the wonderful industry insight of a QA tester: it’s because pretty much everyone can go to a bank and be like “So dude, i want to make a videogame” and the bankers are like “Oh fuck yeah! Here’s some money for that, and here’s a few mil extra for marketing!”. The hiring process for other positions required to assemble a team are done in much the same fashion, which is pretty simple.
So, to answer you question which is apparently why i don’t just do that: you got me. I guess i’m just lazy. It’s especially sad considering just how much the gaming industry bends over backwards to foster new things.
ALSO, you’re doubly right in that no one can ever have any critical thought about anything without being able to do better. This is why actual criticism doesn’t exist in the videogame industry: because really, why bother. Everyone should just shut up and let AAA companies make obvious fuckups at pretty much every point and learn absolutely nothing from 20 years of their own business, because nothing good ever comes from criticism. This is why people at pretty much every level of the gaming media make no secret about using it as just a stepping stone to a position at a game company, using none of their career to demonstrate any actual understanding of the medium.
Oh wait, i’m being sarcastic and you’re a fucking waste of flesh. Shut up and die.
The term “professional”, in the gaming industry, is an extremely relative one. Not understanding this reinforces my belief that you need to shut up and die.
There’s very little being shared here. This is precisely summed up as a throwaway question leading to people answering as though their view actually mattered in a topic with no real answer even in aggregate, which is then wrung into the trademark Valle “Well, blah blah blah, but i was so awesome back in the day, and unless you’re as awesome as i was, you’re not going to be as awesome as i was”.
Understand this:
Valle has everything to prove. He once mattered in previous SF games, one in which he developed a technique on his own and ultimately proved to a top Japanese player that a character he played was actually viable. That was fucking cool.
Today, in SF4, he plays a char that is as easymode as it gets and still doesn’t place anywhere the other top players actually care about. His recent FT10 with Yeb was a fucking joke considering the massive gulf between what Gen and Ryu have to work with in their toolsets, and yet he considers himself still relevant. I’ve never seen ANYTHING out of him with Ryu on the Wed. Night Fights stream that wasn’t obviously due to how tiers break down in SF4, and i’ve personally experienced Goukens that make his look like simple-minded trash.
Fuck you, candyass. Valle can earn his bullshit in SF4 like the rest of us have to.
It wasn’t. It wasn’t a history, it was an admission of not knowing the actual history despite actually looking. The entire fucking point of it was to express how incomplete it was, and just how much you’re missing when it actually comes to understanding what actually happened.
I’d ordinarily be just as happy to let this pass, but it almost seems rude. You really are just that good.
holy shit shut up
Gotta give him some credit, he never fails with the long posts.
And this is why I’d never want to call myself “part of the FG community”
Look at all the pretentious, delusional assholes you have to associate yourself with
yuck