Quote (caswallen @ Apr 11 2018 05:35pm)
yeah you pwnt me hard when we played... it was like 10-0 you winning as Guile...
I havent really ever been good at Street fighter but I do enjoy it... I mean I played alot of Street fighter 2 back in the 90's when I was a kid, but thats about it...
To be fair, he slams everyone around here on fighters, and he's pretty fucking good at other genres (from what I've seen at least) as well. Nothing to feel bad about.
My time is so limited these days that I'm not longer competitive in anything. I can still pick up Halo 5 once every 3-6 months and pwn the shit out of people in casual or ranked, or with any Cod/simple FPS game it's the same, but games that take lots of dedication are impossible for me atm. I just don't have the fucking time or energy anymore.
Quote (Sasori @ Apr 11 2018 04:04pm)
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
I would have never guessed it was like this. That's pretty fucking cool.
SC is brutal and good people are usually giant assholes. Every once in awhile you'll meet someone who will help out/mentor you, but you're right, most of the time it's gg was ez, trash build, go play cas etc... lol. I've watched a lot of high level streams and this seems to stop for the most part at GM, but even up until high masters it's still like this almost every game and there are people in high diamond/low masters who literally only know how to do 1-2 builds, but they're cheesey as fuck and they've done nothing but perfect them, which like fighters is something that you see all too much of. You can get pretty high being a piece of shit with one-two combos/builds you execute over/over, but you'll never advanced any further as a player because getting to GM or w/e the equivalent in fighters is, because it takes an insane understanding of the games mechanics, being able to read your opponent, and the skill to execute in milliseconds the appropriate move/build based off what information you see coming from your opponent.