Crusty
Retired forever; don’t ask for games.
Greetings TYM, name's Crusty the Clown and I'm here to raise an important and peculiar question about fighting games in general. I haven't been a fighting game player for long as IGAU is my first fighting game and already I can't help but wonder if the the nuisance around this question is present within the FGC.
It's been a couple of days and this question has but plagued me if anything else.
Are innovative fighting game players, i.e. the players who come up with their own combos, setups, tech etc, are vastly superior to those who simply learn from they see here online or YT, aka non-innovative players?
Examples include using a vortex setup for Sinestro which I saw by Vulcan Hades, or the reverse corner setup with GA by ando and implementing them into my gameplay
Now this question just flat out irks me; it just pisses me off to think about it. I've had an argument with my friend on IGAU who accused me of being an inferior player compared to him simply because he stated I didn't come up with all the things he sees me use in our matches while he claimed to have 'made up all his setups'. To his argument, he was right on me being unoriginal, but did he have to bash me for it by "not being on his level'?
Exactly what was he inferring, I had asked him. Then it escalated to him saying, that he had the game longer than me and didn't have to be a wimp and look up stuff online, all that nonsense; then stating he has better fundamentals.
Call me the dense one but why? We both love the same game, we both are competent players but did he have to spell that difference to me when I started outsmarting him in the neutral mainly because I practice my butt off every single day while he 'has fundamentals and innovation" that make him a better player. Not that I don't have fundamentals, as I know what to block and when.
I ask you TYM as we traverse into MKX; will players who just learn by watching will be inferior to those who come up with their own crap. Will the underdogs be forever mocked just for trying to get better? Does being the player who cannot learn on their own make them a bill of a player? I cannot help but fear that this will be a pressing question as I further evolve myself as a player.
It's been a couple of days and this question has but plagued me if anything else.
Are innovative fighting game players, i.e. the players who come up with their own combos, setups, tech etc, are vastly superior to those who simply learn from they see here online or YT, aka non-innovative players?
Examples include using a vortex setup for Sinestro which I saw by Vulcan Hades, or the reverse corner setup with GA by ando and implementing them into my gameplay
Now this question just flat out irks me; it just pisses me off to think about it. I've had an argument with my friend on IGAU who accused me of being an inferior player compared to him simply because he stated I didn't come up with all the things he sees me use in our matches while he claimed to have 'made up all his setups'. To his argument, he was right on me being unoriginal, but did he have to bash me for it by "not being on his level'?
Exactly what was he inferring, I had asked him. Then it escalated to him saying, that he had the game longer than me and didn't have to be a wimp and look up stuff online, all that nonsense; then stating he has better fundamentals.
Call me the dense one but why? We both love the same game, we both are competent players but did he have to spell that difference to me when I started outsmarting him in the neutral mainly because I practice my butt off every single day while he 'has fundamentals and innovation" that make him a better player. Not that I don't have fundamentals, as I know what to block and when.
I ask you TYM as we traverse into MKX; will players who just learn by watching will be inferior to those who come up with their own crap. Will the underdogs be forever mocked just for trying to get better? Does being the player who cannot learn on their own make them a bill of a player? I cannot help but fear that this will be a pressing question as I further evolve myself as a player.