Why Do People Play 'Broken' Characters:In Defense of Character Selection

Actually, I do agree that losing your character from one combo is bad… you should lose all characters. This is MAHVELL BAYBEE!!!

thought you were talking about new fighting games arent as bad as old fighters.

anyway scrubs didnt have x factor in mvc2 to make a come back. Most scrubs couldnt learn mag, sent, or storm

This needs to be understood once and for all. You do not question Messi’s skill in soccer with a basketball challenge. If this friend of yours is a top Melee player, that’s what he is. Whatever he plays that’s not Melee is a different story. That’s like saying “This Sako guy may not be that good, I’m gonna challenge him in Hyper Fighting!”

In a nutshell, a top player at a certain game is just a top player at that one game. If he decides to learn a new game, or tries an older one, this has no relation to his skill in his original game.

I bet I could beat Daigo at Yu-Gi-Oh. :slight_smile:

I think he did. What the fuck.

In ST, you have less tools, which effectively means that all the things you do have are more important. What’s that, no triangle dash instant overheads? Better get good at convincing your opponent to throw out something unsafe to punish with a jump in! What’s that, able to throw far less fireballs? Better make each one count!

he plays both games, didn’t I already say that? I also said top players play both games. Like Ken and mewking, ask any top player who’s played melee and brawl, they’ll tell you melee is a better game

do you know english? You do you know what reading is? I just posted ST has more tactics

I played Super Turrican 1 and 2 for the SNES. I finished the first one with several lives left, and could not get past stage 1 in the second one. I play ST and CE. I suck at CE. And so on. You may have a point in terms of what you want to say, but you fail to put it into arguments. I have never played any Smash game, but from what you present, I can have no idea whatsoever of what you mean cos you present horrible analogies.

For instance: everyone who reads what you say have no idea if he is worse at one game or maybe you just have no clue at the other. Different games, different abilities, different play times from both players, etc. You need to rethink what are valid arguments, and what are just impressions. This is a forum, there is no problem in posting your impressions, but if so just say that’s what they are. However, if you present opinions as factual data as many kids have been doing, you will get criticized.

Maybe you can’t understand since you don’t play smash, sure there 2 different games but, just cause there’s a sequel to a game doesn’t make it better. Brawl was meant to be played for casual gamers since they saw so many things you could do in melee, the creators thought it was unfair that top players could learn so many advanced tactics that new players wouldn’t stand a chance

I really don’t understand how brawl can have more advanced tactics then melee, oh wait it doesnt

You’re arguing different points. Just FYI.
Old School is just saying that because you’re good at one doesn’t make you good at another, even though they’re sequels. They’re still different games.

Yet if top players play both games and agree melee is better. Yet if you don’t play smash of course you are not going to understand. And keep making up your own opinion about something you don’t even play.

If you like brawl then good for you. Though many people think melee is better

Actually, do you know English? What you actually said was:

Which implies from your wording that Melee has more tactics and more to learn than SFII, so don’t be surprised when people jump on you for thinking you just said SFII has less tactics.

What does that have to do with Oldschool saying that you can be good at one game and not so good at another? From what I can tell, nobody is arguing which is the better game except you. You just don’t seem to want to take into account what he’s saying and blowing up a smokescreen to cover it.

Why does every thread lately deteriorate into someone getting butthurt over a Smash comment?

Nobody was talking about which one was better.
The dude merely said that being good at one game doesn’t constitute being good at another. Michael Jordan didn’t play Baseball well, yet he’d own the shit out of most high school teams.

If your pro at melee, there is really nothing new to learn in brawl. You’ll still be good cause brawl is very basic. Like I said if you like brawl then good for you, must people find it very basic.

Im really done with this thread you people don’t even play smash and make your own opinion what you think you know what your talking about. Brawl is like sf2 very plain and basic. Melee is more like ST has a lot more tactics then brawl, has a lot more to learn and faster game play. And you don’t trip for no reason like brawl. Brawl is a slow pasted game which takes very little skill to learn, and has tripping, to stop people from wave dashing. Anyone who plays fighting games can learn brawls very basic gameplay

Dude, nobody cares about Smash, Smash isn’t the point here - the point you’re missing. You don’t need to have to play any game to know that just because you are good at one doesn’t immediately make you better with another. Cool if Brawl is like training wheels, but that doesn’t count for every game does it.

Wait o.O i thought tripping was completely random

your missing the point brawl is basic and easy to learn, melee and brawl are a similar, if you’d play melee then brawl will be easy to learn. Since you don’t play smash you can’t understand. You just keep making up your own opinions about games you didnt even play which doesn’t make any sense. I’d rather talking about broken unbalanced games though. Since there a lot more popular, since you can take the easy way out and learn top tiers, infinite combos, and own scrubs who think this stuff is cheap. On the other hand balanced fighting games are not as popular, aka VF series, vamp sav, marvel super heroes. More balanced the fighting game is, the more chance of you losing since there isn’t as many broken tactics, and low tiers will even beat you. Which is why people are just lazy and rather learn top tiers in mvc3 and ssf4ae since their chances are a lot better at winning, and if you play someone using low tiers you won’t have to worry as much

Indeed!

For the record I have played Smash in my lifetime, so you might want to not use that blanket statement on everyone hoping it will stick. Can you point out to me where I’ve voiced an opinion on a game I don’t play. Throughout this entire exchange, I’ve been telling you that you’re not instantly going to be good at one game just because you’re good at another. Honestly, it’s like trying to communicate with Rain Main, but if Rain Man was shit at cards and everything else. You’re Rain Man, with no upside.

Unbalanced fighting games will always be popular in the US, since people here are lazy and want to learn the fastest way possible and own scrubs. Your chances of winning will be higher since you know more broken tactics, and top tiers, and infinities. People don’t want to lose to low tiers, since they think top tiers are the way of winning. People don’t like playing balanced fighting games as much since you have a higher chance of losing, since there isn’t as many broken tactics, so that means you have to practice everyday. Like VF you ave to study every single thing about the game, and study every character, since you have nothing else to learn like infinities and broken tactics like ultra combos and x factor death combos

You’re SO done.

Because A3, GG#R, Tekken, ST, 3S, CvS2, and a plethora of fighters that are popular in Japan are so fucking balanced.
Why are you even on SRK?