drummistjoey said:
Thats a good point X820, and it was that very reason why i deleted them so that they wouldnt put me off playing the game. Im only playing this game a year and it only took me a week to stop spamming long distance sai throws and backing off etc and to fight properly, but most of these players were playing 10 years and still played like a noob. 1 player was so bad that i could actually go for a piss mid-game, come back and he`d still be crouching there waiting for me to make the first move, it was like mk2 combined with a game of Chess. Boredality!!
There is no such thing as "fighting properly" in any fighting game. and anyone who tells you there is is lying to you. Let me ask you this, was backing off and spamming sais working for you?? If it was then why did you stop?
Because someone told you thats not the proper way to play? Utter nonsense. A character with the ability to lockdown and zone like Mileena can and you dont exploit it because of some honor code amongst players? Rubbish.
There are many examples in fighting games of characters whos best strategy is to be lame. Look at E honda in SSF4. Once you get a life lead your absolute best move is to sit at the far end of the screen and park the stick in Down/back. Why? Because Honda is a defensive tank and its very hard for an attacking opponent to get to him when hes doing this, especially if he has meter for EX headbutt. Being lame is at the core of Hondas defensive strategy.
Do not let anyone tell you how to play man, the only way that matters is the way that gets you the win. Allowing yourself to be forced into playing by some ridiculous code of honor amongst players will only hold you back from reaching your absolute best. It is like a pair of shackles holding you down.
drummistjoey said:
Yeh i suppose your right, but it can be very difficult to be a good sport when a good player should know better. Ive had the mis-fortune of having to weed out the players on my PSN freinds list who play this way, and leaving them a message that unless they change the way they play there is no point in playing again. And the irony is, in the past, when i played them at their own style, they would message me furiously telling me to attack more and to stop cowaring back, so basically it was one law for them and another for me. At the end of the day it is all about winning, im an attacking player who enjoys playing an attacking player, but you will never ever find a countering player who enjoys playing a countering player.
This is exactly what i am talking about. The scrub code of honor is an ever changing mish mash of rules that make no sense. What they are really trying to tell you is "Play in such a way that the match seems challenging to me but that I still win at the end"
No matter what you are doing if you win you are being cheap, so there is very little point in trying to play by they're rules to begin with. The scrub does not understand the game. So the best way for him to win is to make sure you play by his rules, whatever the hell they may be. And if you are still winning by his rules he will make up new rules because in reality his only rule is "Let me win but make it look like your not letting me win."
Soon he attracts other scrubs to his way of thinking because its alot easier than actually learning the game and how to win, and POOF next thing you know you have a code of honor that everyone follows and everyone believes is the right way to play the game because they never bothered to learn to play at the highest level.
The very best thing you can do for yourself is forget all this nonsense and just play to win. Since you are going to aggravate the scrub anyway by having the gaul to win against him you might as well stop trying to play by his rules to.
