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Was thinking about this, it depends on if you mean ‘well known within the scene’ or ‘well known outside the scene’. Just about everyone into FG’s can name 5-10 high profile SF4 or MvC3 players, but nobody on the outside can. On the other hand, how many people on SRK can name 5 top melty players or 5 top SFA players?
*noting that this particular subforum is made up of people into more obscure games, so we’d do much better at that challenge than SRK in general, let alone people that play FGs.
its because theres a collar locked around me that explodes the moment i stop playing old games
So yo didnt main him in A1? You know, the only game he’s viable in?
Anyway I’m just not a fan on Oh-No’s offerings. I’ll play super strip fighter IV before I play super street fighter IV.
I didn’t know the code to play as Dan in A1 until A3 released. NOW I play him in A1, but I won’t be THAT GUY and say I started with him in A1. Charlie was my A1 main.
Agreed! Playing against others is where 95% of the replay value is. Its also where the vast majority of your learning comes in.
Without it, i kinda have no choice but to take the casual approach to fighters. Which eventually gets boring.
No, I’m not trolling.
I’ve been playing FGs semi-competitively for the past two years and have been wondering about this for a while now. In comparison to other games, such as RPGs where you have in-game incentives to continue playing (higher levels, new abilities learned, different places to explore, etc.), FGs, to me initially at least, seemed to only have the goals of “Let’s play against CPUs for hours” or “Let’s play against other humans for hours.” Honestly, I didn’t really expect the former to actually be fun, but I’ve been corrected. I guess since I got into the scene competing against other players, I never spent as much time playing CPUs, at least not without the goal of honing my skills to play other players.
Right. I was thinking the main appeal was to play against others, but obviously FGs have more enjoyable aspects than just competition.
You’re welcomed.
I too loved to play Charlie in A1 even though I knew the Akuma, Dan and Bison codes. I just had a fuck it mentality when it came to using codes.
Charlie was awesome in Alpha 1. Not necessarily because he was that good of a character, but because he looked cool and was such a neat alternative to Guile. With his outfit, glasses, and Smooth versions of the flashkick & sonic boom.
He was also on my longest lasting & final mainstay team before UMVC3.
Well, nowadays, you’re starting to have the option to play older games and actually have competition for them what with some of them being re-released with netcode.
There’s too much bullshittery going on in SF4 for me to take it seriously. I’ll boot it up and play it against friends once in awhile, but if I want to really get serious, then it’s gotta be Third Strike or KoF13.
What was the deal with Toshinden? It got like all 9’s and 10’s when the PS1 first came out - even better then Tekken.
Next thing you know, it’s completely forgotten.
As I remember, 3 wasn’t that well received.
also, I think Takara just got out of the biz.
2 was the best of the toshindens, imo
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I got destroyed by the local arcade owner in Garou: MOTW.
I didn’t know shit about the game except for Terry braking x2 into Buster Wolf.
In the 20 mins I played him, I learned a lot.
Learned about the Parry system and feint cancels.
Next time I show up I want to at least take a match or 2.
Man, that game is loads of fun!
I asked him if the older game cabs get much play
He said "not much"
He told me he was pretty pumped that someone actually wanted to play some of the older games since most of the people who come in to his arcade usually go for the more recent stuff.
Some of the less popular games might not have much comp but always great to play against someone locally.
competition is good and all if you enjoy the game at least to the point that you dont care if its your favorite or not, but if you really dont like the game, it wouldnt matter how much competition you can have on it
some really like to invest their time on what they really like despite if they have 5 or 100 different persons to play against.
if i was bothered only to play games that are popular and have a larger pool of players, i wouldnt even be wasting my time with fighting games to begin with
uh, because I feel like playing it? (If i was going to play a fighting game, that would be my answer).
I’d rather have a dozen roses than a thousand weeds. Right now, SFxT is the hotness in my county. I’d say about 90% of the scene here is dedicated to that game and nothing else. So, if I want competition, I should pick up SFxT, right? Wrong. I want competition - in a game I enjoy.
Games like KOFXIII may have not even ten percent of the people playing it compared to Capcom’s latest offerings, but the experience of one KOFXIII match easily supersedes a hundred SF42012 matches in my mind.
To me, it all boil down to aesthetics to me. I just find more appeal in the character designs in games like Melty Blood, Arcana Heart 3, Aquapazza, Guilty Gear, Persona, & so on to my liking…maybe because I’m a anime fanatic, who knows. The same can be said for the mechanics in these games as well. I just find myself able to adapt better to the gameplay mechanics in these games than I can in like SFIVAE2012, UMVC3, SFxT (don’t really play this at all actually) although I do like the mechanics in KOFXIII as well. As for 3D games, I like both VF & Tekken so I don’t have no problem with them.
Overall, I just enjoy these games more than the mainstream (mostly Capcom) because I just don’t enjoy them as much and it sickens me to no end that most of the people in my scene mostly play those games only and never try to actually give another type of game a chance (there are a few exceptions but they don’t last long before going back to the regular Capcom outing). I like to play a lot of doujin games as well which might contribute my taste in fighting games as well.
ughh, and what country is that?
here in my country sfxt died on launch, no one plays it, as far as i know, barely 5 members of the scene bothered on buying a copy of the game, lol
because im a fighting game addict. that simple. i love to try any fighting game popular or not