McGowanSheWrote
Noob
I have been wanting to write this diary for several months now because I am new to the NRS community and I wanted to share my thoughts and feelings on the game, Injustice, and my progress in it. This is partially as therapy for myself but also I knew that others will be in my position and would like to commune with their fellow beginners. Unfortunately my membership to this forum was held up for several months as I wasn’t receiving the confirmation email so while I am still quite the beginner I do not have the exact same feelings that I would have liked to write down when I was having them at the beginning of my time with the game. But I will try to recount my feelings as I remember them and hope that anyone else reading this will feel a sense of communion with me.
To begin with, I am one of those thirty-somethings that began their videogame life when arcades were still spread across the whole US. In fact we had one mall that had two arcades in it but I ended my career years ago. The last console that I bought was a Sega Saturn (!) More than a decade later I reintroduce myself to games after I found MAME and I began to play Third Strike on GGPO. After that my brother gave me his Xbox 360 and I bought SSF4 on it. I played Street Fighter because that was what I played back in arcades and I decided to main Makoto because her character icon on Third Strike looked like she was a boy and I thought she was Ken’s son (!) When AE arrived I migrated from Xbox to PC…blah blah blah. The point is that I was a Capcom player and I figured I would be for life. I contribute as much as I could to the SRK forums and I looked at all of these other new games coming out such as Skull Girls and Injustice as equivalent to those early 90s when everyone and their mother was making a fighting game. I feared the market would be oversaturated but as long as there were people online to play SSF4 then what difference would it make to me. (Online warrior, never been to a tournament)
So how did I move from Capcom to Injustice? Funny thing is I never had any desire to play MK9 but I was interested in the story so I watched someone’s three-hour story mode video on YouTube and enjoyed it. So then I decide to watch the Injustice story mode video and was hooked. A friend of mine had the game on PS3 (I have a PS3 as well but I didn’t pay for. It was left by a tenant after an eviction.) So I borrowed it and then I bought it from him and in a version of it for PC as well.
Anyone else out there who was making the transition from Street Fighter to Injustice (with no previous experience in NRS games) knows that the change doesn’t come easy. I knew I had to pay my dues and take my losses early on but this game felt so different that I had to spend a few hundred games just getting used to the movement and controls. Because I mained Makoto I was used to a slow walk speed but it’s not just walk speeds that are different in this game. A few of my observations…..
1. It is super hard to jump over projectiles.
2. The block animations are very cool but visually it makes it hard to time your counter pokes.
3. The unblockable interactables sucked (at first)
4. it was super hard to block the high and low game.
Now that I have gotten 2000+ games in I feel much more comfortable with my above observations except for the Jumped projectiles. There is still plenty of times where I am above Batman’s grapple and suddenly the animation will flip up and catch me anyway.
When I got SSF4 I figured I would not play online Intel I could at least beat the computer on very hard. I tried the same thing on this game and the AI is a beast. Currently the computer has a 160 game lead on me. I refuse to move on from playing the game on hard until I could beat it with under five losses, but after doing that I found very hard to be an entirely different level. The first time I’d be it on very hard I actually had over 40 losses, now I have gotten it down to about 12 (I still have much more training to go before I can beat it with no losses). Clearly I could not wait before playing online. My observations for playing online….
1. On PC there are no more than five people one and that is maybe three hours out of the day.
2. On PSN there is always at least 100 people online but many of them don’t respond to your challenges.
3. As far as skill levels go, I have a negative record on PC and a positive record on PSN. This does not mean that there is greater competition on PC only that the two guys that I normally play with (they had the best connection with me) play as Aquaman and Deathstroke and I usually lose to both of them.
By the way I play as Catwoman and I hope to add to this diary as time progresses.
To begin with, I am one of those thirty-somethings that began their videogame life when arcades were still spread across the whole US. In fact we had one mall that had two arcades in it but I ended my career years ago. The last console that I bought was a Sega Saturn (!) More than a decade later I reintroduce myself to games after I found MAME and I began to play Third Strike on GGPO. After that my brother gave me his Xbox 360 and I bought SSF4 on it. I played Street Fighter because that was what I played back in arcades and I decided to main Makoto because her character icon on Third Strike looked like she was a boy and I thought she was Ken’s son (!) When AE arrived I migrated from Xbox to PC…blah blah blah. The point is that I was a Capcom player and I figured I would be for life. I contribute as much as I could to the SRK forums and I looked at all of these other new games coming out such as Skull Girls and Injustice as equivalent to those early 90s when everyone and their mother was making a fighting game. I feared the market would be oversaturated but as long as there were people online to play SSF4 then what difference would it make to me. (Online warrior, never been to a tournament)
So how did I move from Capcom to Injustice? Funny thing is I never had any desire to play MK9 but I was interested in the story so I watched someone’s three-hour story mode video on YouTube and enjoyed it. So then I decide to watch the Injustice story mode video and was hooked. A friend of mine had the game on PS3 (I have a PS3 as well but I didn’t pay for. It was left by a tenant after an eviction.) So I borrowed it and then I bought it from him and in a version of it for PC as well.
Anyone else out there who was making the transition from Street Fighter to Injustice (with no previous experience in NRS games) knows that the change doesn’t come easy. I knew I had to pay my dues and take my losses early on but this game felt so different that I had to spend a few hundred games just getting used to the movement and controls. Because I mained Makoto I was used to a slow walk speed but it’s not just walk speeds that are different in this game. A few of my observations…..
1. It is super hard to jump over projectiles.
2. The block animations are very cool but visually it makes it hard to time your counter pokes.
3. The unblockable interactables sucked (at first)
4. it was super hard to block the high and low game.
Now that I have gotten 2000+ games in I feel much more comfortable with my above observations except for the Jumped projectiles. There is still plenty of times where I am above Batman’s grapple and suddenly the animation will flip up and catch me anyway.
When I got SSF4 I figured I would not play online Intel I could at least beat the computer on very hard. I tried the same thing on this game and the AI is a beast. Currently the computer has a 160 game lead on me. I refuse to move on from playing the game on hard until I could beat it with under five losses, but after doing that I found very hard to be an entirely different level. The first time I’d be it on very hard I actually had over 40 losses, now I have gotten it down to about 12 (I still have much more training to go before I can beat it with no losses). Clearly I could not wait before playing online. My observations for playing online….
1. On PC there are no more than five people one and that is maybe three hours out of the day.
2. On PSN there is always at least 100 people online but many of them don’t respond to your challenges.
3. As far as skill levels go, I have a negative record on PC and a positive record on PSN. This does not mean that there is greater competition on PC only that the two guys that I normally play with (they had the best connection with me) play as Aquaman and Deathstroke and I usually lose to both of them.
By the way I play as Catwoman and I hope to add to this diary as time progresses.