what does this actually mean? is this in context of the forums, or the game?
No direct context, I've heard it a dozen times in the last two days and a million times prior and it must drives me insane when it's said without any context.
Quick example - guy in a stream says he has a tournament coming up, he's new. His first tournament and this game is his first fighter. He didn't say what tournament or give any details beyond that, and that's cobbled together from his general conversation over 15~ min in stream chat.
Well the guy gas been in there, clearly trying to get opinions and info for a while. He just seems super excited and enthusiastic, if a little green.. he wants to talk about this new game and hobby. So, he asks something to the effect of "I play whatever team but I see everyone running Cell, do you all think I should play him because the other guys in the tournament probably are?"
So, hes instantaneously jumped by two people both spouting the "back in my day/old school" line about how you just played who you wanted and made it work and you grind like it's a job and on and on to the point all I could imagine were two old men in rocking chairs on porches with wwII veteran style hats on only they said SFII instead, yelling at the kids across the street who are trying to play kickball or someshit.
It's just, thier comments made no sense and had no point. It was just nonesense spouted as an auto-reaction to try and appear superior to someone, for no real reason.
Fighting games have never acted like that. I've come late to the FGC in terms of actually competing, but I'm 35, I've ACTUALLY been around since SFII, and gone to arcades and so on.. and ya know what? Every motherfucker in fighting games parrots what works and always has. Wesker anyone? The dude who was winning at the arcade? He informed the characters chosen by most people there in smaller scenes and we watch tournament professionals all piling into the same boat, in every new game. A billion deadshots and weskers and cells and s1 Ken's and Nashs and Chuns and so on.
The "old school" mentality has nothing to do with half the shit it's tied to. It has to do with overcoming adversity by work and not JUST whinging, but I see the term applied over and over where it doesn't fit and no one took the context of the situation into account and just saw a player who isn't "old school" and wanted to try and sound superior.
It's idiotic. The FGC as a whole has progressed and changed and fighting games don't operate oike they used too, and mindlessly applying an antiquated term is just dumb.
If I come on here and scream after this short a period of time that, say, Kid Buu is broken and bullshit and needs a nerf and he's OP etc, smack me with some old school, I deserve it and in the context of my opinion it fits.
