I started to get better on fighting games around sf 4. I wanted to learn why my friend was able to block super even thou I timed it perfectly on his neutral jump. That lead me down a rabbit hole. I started to learn about block stun and so on. I got stick because I wanted to eliminate my input errors that frustrated me. In the end I improved myself. Defeat my friend so badly he hates playing me on sf 4. I kind a miss those days when we were equally skilled. We do play fighting games still now and then, but not seriously. We just play for fun. I do still try and get better at fighting games, but not as same extent when I was learning new things. Even thou I enjoy online play I do not find it as fun as playing on same couch.
I put it to you that fighting games are boring to watch. "Behold, as two characters approach each other from opposite directions in front of a certain background!" If you have seen one fighting game, you have seen them all, from a very basic visual standpoint. Like you, I can take some, but I find Jeff and Jason's infatuation with fighting games, along with the Ranking of Fighters series quite unexciting. ...really, I want the site to continue on its course and for Jason and Jeff (especially) to do whatever they want, but I agree with you that fighting games are not in my interest, and there's something one-dimensional about it all. Whatever, though, keep on dudin', everyone.
Man, I'm sick of SFV. I know I'm not the intended audience (not a fan of Fighting games), but shake it up a bit guys, I feel like it's been on UPF every other week lately.
I can understand your view of them as boring and I fear that is the case with any competitive game. If you are not in to it. you might not see technique or skill you just see fireballs and two guys beating each other up or in Dan's case button smashing. For me who enjoy fighting games a lot and always excited to play new one I have not played before. Ranking of Fighters is excellent content.
I was surprised that Rorie and Jeff kept ripping into RDR for the characters not knowing what "zombies" were, given that Red Dead takes place in...what, the 1890s? Early 1900s? So...70 to 80 years before George Romero invented zombies in "The Night of the Living Dead" movies.*
*And before someone tries say "Haitian Voodoo Zombies blah blah", I'm going to remind them that Haitian Voodoo Zombies have nothing to do with pop-culture zombies. They don't attack people. They don't eat brains. They don't "infect" other people with zombie-ism. :b
One could point at movie White zombie for that invented lumbering and attacking people part. Not the infection thing thou.
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