i don't like MOBAs. Why?
they're inferior to Fighting Games and are the consolation prize for INCEL autist-pro-gamers who have a lot of natural talent... but they just don't have enough to cut it in the FGC and actually compete with the world's best gamers, i.e. THE FIGHTING GAMES.
heh, ok, all done now. I was trying to make it humorous man, but Also wanted to make it clear I LOOOOOVE befriending people rnadomly online and adding them to my SF 5 friend app as soon as they even mention that they play.
I enjoy teaching them basics and pseudo-fundamentals if they're 100% new to FGs, and I enjoy as well the thrill of competing. Idislike "grinding" online fighting and winning (and losing... oh, and losing...) against faceless demons that I will never fully grasp as they exist solely in my imagination for those periods.
Since I can't really ( or rather, choose not to because of much inconvencie) go to play Local matches (i.e. offline) of FGs or SF 4 or SF 5 here where I live, online is where I hammered out my cultural identity. Oh, yeah, that is typed with absolutely zero irony.
So my next-best love/fun in "life" is playing online people that I've actually met in forums, or via the SF games (whichever one) built-in community services. I will fight someone...
...that person will whoop my ass badly, and I will sit there and go: this dude is INSANELY TALENTED, and he completely raped the soul out of me with those constant frame traps and the neutral game (etc...), so I will actually:
- go through almost every single player I played with during that day's online session and simply just send each and every single one a friend request AND a steam request.
- I never, literally never use Steam Friends stuff to socialize, not even w/ Codex: for me it has only one use: to befriend SF players who have beaten me, or SF players who lost to me but I can easily see I could give them some basic tips/lessons on improving.
Why? Well obviously I'm a complete fucking sociopath, but that's beside the point:
...It is because I would much rather spend 6 hours playing a first-to-50 versus a really good Bison or Birdie player who is better than me (but not enough for the matches to be delusional, obviously I seek out those I know i can learn from their play and eventually beat)-- than reaching some super high Online Rank title.
My sf 5 title is Bronze, but I guarantee you man, oh my god do I guarantee you that the only reazon that is is because when I play SF 4, or SF 5, it is to play in 6-12 hour long sessions with a group of 6-8 (sometimes less) bona-fide INTERNET FRIENDS, not just that, but even more autistically: EXPLICITLY Street Fighter friends.
i try to seek out the little one can get of a community experience from fighting games without having access to local face-to-ace playing, and if i don't find it I literally will STALK players who run across me and send Friend Reqs in order to EXPLICITELY tell them, IMMEDIATELY:
"Hey, this is that Ryu you fought earlier (etc etc), dude you did some tech shit there i was like oh man, as Sabin wud say what a blow opp!"
(humor to break the ice, as well as letting him know I know about FGC celebrities such as TS Sabin)
If they say fuck off, on to the next one, if they say cool man i'll accept, and then obviously i say:
" hey man I'm literally ALWAYS on this playing, lemme know when you wanna play a session of Battle Lounge sets bro" (for those who don't know those matches are not RANKED officially for online points).
I hjave thousands and thousands of B. Lounge experience and in the constraint of my extreme chemical imbalances I actually managed to make 2 or 3 Street Fighter Online Friends Whom I Stalked After They Displayed Great Skill that I know actually chat with instead of playing SF.
If you go to my Youtube channel I have a LOT of SF 4 matches versus someone named Negative_Edge; NE is a canadian spectrum-warrior who lives alone, is overweight (who am i to judge, but it's part of the characterization), sells weed for a living: and he is easily the best online player I've ever seen. I wouldn't venture to say he can win an EVO, but without any hyperbole he would make Top 16 for sure.
Anyway he was my first SF 4 "friend", and he actually took the role of teacher for me and taught me what footsies were, what the neutral game was, what frame-traps were, what whiff-punishing was, etc.
He still plays SF V but obviously SF 5 is too simple for him: he's now on the TEKKEN train. I don't blame him, the only thing SF 4 kept having interesting for him was discovering insane stuff / bullshit, like unblockables, or spending 1 week to learn some SF 4 combo that had 7 1-frame links and then doing it on me, heh, flawlessly, and online.
Anyway since I wrote all this shit I'm'a just go ahead and e-mail it to some sort of magazine, maybe get published, it'll be good news for my parents since it would be immediately after shooting myself for writing so honestly about this pathetic online existence of mine.
whatever.
Point is: i'm always up for a game! We can learn from each other! Honestly I hope you're like, super good and body me cos that takes the pressure of me having to play amazing, your amazingness would eclispse my lack of it.
I hadn't played SF V since August, which is a WHILE, but been playing Arcade Edition today ALLLL day andgonna keep on playing till i drop asleep and guess what? man I am having a lot of fun!
Ryu got some nice stuff, not too nice obv, since he can't be actually good you know: capcom needs to keep ryu low-tier
...because Ryu players get off on the masochistic "honor" won from beating a top-tier character using Ryu. :D :D :D
When we do this (including myself), we ARE LITERALLY BETTER HUMAN BEINGS AND PEOPLE THAN THE OTHER GUY, LITERALLY, because we won using a char like Ryu that has zero gimmicks, no tricks, has to play honest and does shit damage to boot and has no reach, so... obviously... it means we are better people than the other guy, we are smarter, and we demonstrated that our Ryu win proves that we are 2, heck, FOUR yomi levels of cerebal juice ahead of them, those poor simpletons, mashing Laura's st. MK.
The thing I actually MOST LIKED was SF 4's "ONLINE TRAINING" mode, cos I would go into the online training room with my internet SF-friends and we would practice tech and shit with each other for hours instead of just fighting. I think that is single-handedly the most important thing missing from SF 5...
if SF 5 had online training I would lose my shit cos I love teaching people tech I discover, and I love learning new tech. I hate the people who think character tech should be kept on the down-low: no, I like to immediately tell EVERYONE about whatever kooky detail/situation/move property I stumbled across.
/the end