Quote (jadeoshbogosh @ Apr 11 2018 03:11pm)
The skill caps are similar for fighting games and RTS games. It's a different type of skill and comparing one vs the other is pretty pointless. Since you brought it up though, I personally believe SCBW > SC2 are the hardest games ever made (to actually be good at), but I haven't played every RTS and it's possible there are much more demanding ones out there. SC breeds a level of competition that is unmatched in the competitive RTS world and the best competition breeds the best players. I'm no expert at fighting games, but even with minimal research, or even a basic understanding of the genre, you can see how ridiculously complicated it is in comparison to other types of games. Fighters are exponentially more difficult than MOBAs, FPS, MMORPG etc..., and just like SC, I'll never be able to play at the highest level of competition for it. That's one of those things that irks me, because with pretty much every type of game I've picked up, I've been able to hang with the higher/highest tiers of players after minimal effort on my end, RTS/Fighters just take a little too much dedication for someone like myself. As I said previously, I believe the difficulty for SC is higher, but not by that huge of a margin.
e: It's kinda lame saying something like "real games that require skill" and then bringing in SC, because if you're using SC as the standard for what makes a game/genre "real", every other genre out there is going to not make the cut according to you lol. Pretty weird seeing as you admitted yourself that you're bad at the game, so you're not even decent at any "real games". Think the highest I got was Plat 1 in SC, so I am also bad lol.
the thing about fighting games that makes the dedication and journey to being good much smoother, is fighting games have the highest amount of offline meetups of any game genre, i have two weekly locations in dallas, one in fort worth, one in plano, fort worth is tuesdays and fridays, plano on saturdays, each night brings in around 15-20 people who play fighting games, people play long sets, offer advice to eachother, some drink together, some smoke weed together, some people go get some food and come back and just talk about shit, it's a very relaxing and friendly environment, it's easy to learn when people who are good / knowledgeable are also welcoming, you feel more encouraged to stick around even though you are losing 100-0 to them, i feel like starcraft has this, but it's more difficult to find, most people instead of mentoring new players, will just simply flame and move on with their day, "lol you're fucking trash bro" and move on, fighting games have local scenes in every single state. for every game, it's INCREDIBLY accessible