I think it's sad that half of these people only post on TYM to bitch about characters, nerfs, buffs and other shenanigans.
Vagrant you miss the whole point. It's not the fact that it doesn't have antiairs, or anything like that. Of course, the inconsistencies are annoying, the dropped inputs, the wonky hitboxes, the glitches, etc etc. It's the fact that the game is reduced to a very simple form where very easy stuff to do is very, very powerful. This is a game where I can beat fundamentally strong players like WonderChef, Trepound and Gummy by doing nothing but Hawkgirl's Mace Charge. This is a game where flash can 100% you in a corner and you can't do shit about it. This is a game where characters' games are based around 50/50s and guesses. A game that misses a very important component in fighting games, spacing, to make it more accesible. Sure, it's different, and sure it works. But not at the level of brain power we as the MK community expect.
Now here are the reasons why I'm annoyed at the game:
-The character I use has a lot of awful match ups. Now I'm a very, very good player. I have that subjective term called "fundamentals". I know when I can punish. I know how to make reads, I know where I'm good at, I know when to punish, all that jazz. Everyone who has ever played me either offline or with a very good connection knows it. But, fuck me, sometimes there's absolutely nothing I can do in this game. I have recorded videos of myself playing, I've analyzed them and there's just no way. This means that me, being as competitive as I am, have to go for a better character. Like Aquaman. The most boring ass character in the game. Sure I get 3rd at the first mexican major for Injustice, but at what cost. Boringness.
-I don't like gimmicks. MK had a few, sure. SF? Yeah. Murhvel? Ugh. Injustice? It's almost as if they asked themselves, "what is the most frustrating part about playing fighting games", and made the game around that. KF is built around guessing games. Batgirl? Check. MMH? Check. I can make a list of shitty safe guessing games. If it's a coin drop between the characters, why am I not rewarded for guessing correctly?
-Online is shit. We all know that. It's frustrating, and the online randoms community doesn't help. 99% of the people in the leaderboards are complete ass, and online people still think they're as legit as they get.
-Stages are horribly unbalanced. In Arkham right, there are 2 TV on top of us. Power character can just jump and throw it at me after a combo, or just randomly and it's very likely it'll land. As a gadget character, they have to be strategically positioned, and even then it's hard to land. Same with most of the stages. Wayne Manor car on the left, power character has this free 25% or whatever it is 3/4 in the screen while I have a very shitty dynamite type of deal, that only works up close.
Plus, there are only 15 stages, and I think we can all agree they're not the prettiest. They get dull after a while, but whatever.
-Movement is ass. Characters that body everyone in this game? Characters with range. Superman's F2. KF slide. Bladam dive kick. I think that, to balance this out, they made jumping in have priority over everything, since most characters can't just get in and do shenanigans. Seems more like a fix to me. (And yeah, GA has tiny trex arms, so good luck punishing anything that doesn't leave them up close).
-TYM has gotten worse and worse. I'm not gonna say there weren't shitty people in the past, but jesus christ it seems today, that all you see, is violence in movies and sex in tv. But where are those good old fashioned values on which we used to rely? Every day on TYM there's always a cry baby thread. There's always a tier list. There's always a random person that thinks just because he's on TYM he knows best bashing some experienced established player. Can't remember where, but some random dude was shitting on DJT, saying "he just wasn't that good". Yes, that annoys me. It annoys me the ignorance, the fact that these people can't even comprehend the level at which the actual top players play, since they themselves don't even understand what goes into high level gameplay. And they have TYM to open their mouths. And this is very common. It happened with Cat, it happened with Khaotik, DJT, Pig ("are you even good?"), REO, Brady, etc. etc. Now of course this is none of my business, but my brain does rot a bit when I read shit like "KF is mid to low tier" from a guy who has never played fighting games before, who has never gone to a major or played against anyone good, and his only experience is Online Ranked.
What I remember from TYM is stuff like The Wharf, Digimon's Stream, Mortal Mondays, Blake's Stream, KTP, the Kharacter Kouncils, Pig's Online Tournaments, Low Tier Tournaments, post-tournament threads. What do I remember from this New TYM 2013? Me being shitted on for making an Injustice site. Tier lists. Tier lists based on cookies. Tier lists based in 5 months of gamplay that everyone will lol at in a year. Self-sucking tier lists where the op adds himself. Tier lists about potatoes. Random Troll saying GA is the new Kabal. Random online warrior saying online is the same as offline. Random talking people down because frame data is for nerds. More tier lists. Tier lists with pictures. Troll threads. Randoms saying "the fact that you people think you're a community is laughable", etc.
-I don't have the willingness to learn a new character in-depth, when I know I can dedicate 5 minutes to learn some gimmicky shit and beat the best in the world. That's how it is.
Now I'm reading some names here of people saying "exactly Vagrant you got it it's exactly what I was thinking". And some people here are the biggest crybabies in history, spamming with caps on NR streams to NERF *insert character here*, making threads and posting tier lists. You guys are the ones who made this. The people who have never showed up in a tournament. The people who can have an opinion over the competitive scene when they just play online. People who don't know what a game being dead means. People who have never flew to another country because they wanted to meet and play with the community. So yeah.
And if you feel personally offended by whatever I say, then good. You're a Filthy Casual (yeah you guys took that thing away from me too ;_; ), and you pretty much have no place on the MK9 community. Welcome to the TYM 2013 community.
And for the people who still don't get it: the only reason I still play the game, is because I like to be part of this community. Not the shitty people, but the caring loving people I've met through the years. If I tagged them it'd be a huge ass list, but you all know who you are. And saying "if you hate it that much then don't play it" doesn't cut it. If I didn't, and most of the people who actually support the tournament scene didn't, then the game would be really dead.
Vagrant you miss the whole point. It's not the fact that it doesn't have antiairs, or anything like that. Of course, the inconsistencies are annoying, the dropped inputs, the wonky hitboxes, the glitches, etc etc. It's the fact that the game is reduced to a very simple form where very easy stuff to do is very, very powerful. This is a game where I can beat fundamentally strong players like WonderChef, Trepound and Gummy by doing nothing but Hawkgirl's Mace Charge. This is a game where flash can 100% you in a corner and you can't do shit about it. This is a game where characters' games are based around 50/50s and guesses. A game that misses a very important component in fighting games, spacing, to make it more accesible. Sure, it's different, and sure it works. But not at the level of brain power we as the MK community expect.
Now here are the reasons why I'm annoyed at the game:
-The character I use has a lot of awful match ups. Now I'm a very, very good player. I have that subjective term called "fundamentals". I know when I can punish. I know how to make reads, I know where I'm good at, I know when to punish, all that jazz. Everyone who has ever played me either offline or with a very good connection knows it. But, fuck me, sometimes there's absolutely nothing I can do in this game. I have recorded videos of myself playing, I've analyzed them and there's just no way. This means that me, being as competitive as I am, have to go for a better character. Like Aquaman. The most boring ass character in the game. Sure I get 3rd at the first mexican major for Injustice, but at what cost. Boringness.
-I don't like gimmicks. MK had a few, sure. SF? Yeah. Murhvel? Ugh. Injustice? It's almost as if they asked themselves, "what is the most frustrating part about playing fighting games", and made the game around that. KF is built around guessing games. Batgirl? Check. MMH? Check. I can make a list of shitty safe guessing games. If it's a coin drop between the characters, why am I not rewarded for guessing correctly?
-Online is shit. We all know that. It's frustrating, and the online randoms community doesn't help. 99% of the people in the leaderboards are complete ass, and online people still think they're as legit as they get.
-Stages are horribly unbalanced. In Arkham right, there are 2 TV on top of us. Power character can just jump and throw it at me after a combo, or just randomly and it's very likely it'll land. As a gadget character, they have to be strategically positioned, and even then it's hard to land. Same with most of the stages. Wayne Manor car on the left, power character has this free 25% or whatever it is 3/4 in the screen while I have a very shitty dynamite type of deal, that only works up close.
Plus, there are only 15 stages, and I think we can all agree they're not the prettiest. They get dull after a while, but whatever.
-Movement is ass. Characters that body everyone in this game? Characters with range. Superman's F2. KF slide. Bladam dive kick. I think that, to balance this out, they made jumping in have priority over everything, since most characters can't just get in and do shenanigans. Seems more like a fix to me. (And yeah, GA has tiny trex arms, so good luck punishing anything that doesn't leave them up close).
-TYM has gotten worse and worse. I'm not gonna say there weren't shitty people in the past, but jesus christ it seems today, that all you see, is violence in movies and sex in tv. But where are those good old fashioned values on which we used to rely? Every day on TYM there's always a cry baby thread. There's always a tier list. There's always a random person that thinks just because he's on TYM he knows best bashing some experienced established player. Can't remember where, but some random dude was shitting on DJT, saying "he just wasn't that good". Yes, that annoys me. It annoys me the ignorance, the fact that these people can't even comprehend the level at which the actual top players play, since they themselves don't even understand what goes into high level gameplay. And they have TYM to open their mouths. And this is very common. It happened with Cat, it happened with Khaotik, DJT, Pig ("are you even good?"), REO, Brady, etc. etc. Now of course this is none of my business, but my brain does rot a bit when I read shit like "KF is mid to low tier" from a guy who has never played fighting games before, who has never gone to a major or played against anyone good, and his only experience is Online Ranked.
What I remember from TYM is stuff like The Wharf, Digimon's Stream, Mortal Mondays, Blake's Stream, KTP, the Kharacter Kouncils, Pig's Online Tournaments, Low Tier Tournaments, post-tournament threads. What do I remember from this New TYM 2013? Me being shitted on for making an Injustice site. Tier lists. Tier lists based on cookies. Tier lists based in 5 months of gamplay that everyone will lol at in a year. Self-sucking tier lists where the op adds himself. Tier lists about potatoes. Random Troll saying GA is the new Kabal. Random online warrior saying online is the same as offline. Random talking people down because frame data is for nerds. More tier lists. Tier lists with pictures. Troll threads. Randoms saying "the fact that you people think you're a community is laughable", etc.
-I don't have the willingness to learn a new character in-depth, when I know I can dedicate 5 minutes to learn some gimmicky shit and beat the best in the world. That's how it is.
Now I'm reading some names here of people saying "exactly Vagrant you got it it's exactly what I was thinking". And some people here are the biggest crybabies in history, spamming with caps on NR streams to NERF *insert character here*, making threads and posting tier lists. You guys are the ones who made this. The people who have never showed up in a tournament. The people who can have an opinion over the competitive scene when they just play online. People who don't know what a game being dead means. People who have never flew to another country because they wanted to meet and play with the community. So yeah.
And if you feel personally offended by whatever I say, then good. You're a Filthy Casual (yeah you guys took that thing away from me too ;_; ), and you pretty much have no place on the MK9 community. Welcome to the TYM 2013 community.
And for the people who still don't get it: the only reason I still play the game, is because I like to be part of this community. Not the shitty people, but the caring loving people I've met through the years. If I tagged them it'd be a huge ass list, but you all know who you are. And saying "if you hate it that much then don't play it" doesn't cut it. If I didn't, and most of the people who actually support the tournament scene didn't, then the game would be really dead.
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