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Guilty Gear, Blazblue: Continuum Shift, Street Fighter 3rd strike, Melty Blood: Actress Again, Super Street Fighter 4: Arcade Edition

If I was a fan of asian-fighting games with flashy cartoon-y colours/sounds/graphics, I'd be all up in those. But I'm not.

Hell even Tekken 6: BR is extremely balanced.

I don't know what Tekken 6: BR is, but I am aware that I once owned Tekken 6, which was so painfully unbalanced I had to sell it, and only got 2 dollars in re-sale on it. Which leads me to think that Tekken 6: BR is some type of re-do of Tekken 6 to try make it more balanced, which is sort of a wash.

I do fondly recall going 17-0 as Raphael in Soul Caliber by only using the attack that quickly strikes 3 times with the sword. I did so to combat other people constantly using cheap characters by out-cheaping them. When you play with friends, this strategy gets the point across that being cheap is lame.

Actually I've generally never had that problem, as I didn't play competitive fighters until college, and at that point I actually learned what the fuck I was doing. Enough to know that mortal kunglaobat is garbage in terms of being competitive.

Uh...huh. Well then I suppose you're in the vast minority, and a real niche complaint catagory. You're the only person I 'know' who competes in fighting video games. I didn't know such a thing existed (Aside from Smash). I don't think it's fair to say "MK sucks, because I play competitive video game fighters, and the ones I play are much better and more balanced, everyone who plays these games in these competitive video game tournaments agrees."

Because maybe, just maybe MK was released to cater to the people who dont play fighting video games competitively, and instead wanted a slower-paced oldschool fighting game. Will people take the game super seriously? Of course. Some people have nothing but time.

The words of a casual. If one of your friends, or even you, decided to actually learn how to play any of the mentioned games, you would realize that it's not quite the case in fighters.

I'm sorry my lowly un-competitive fighting background is so pleb to you.
Dylan has MvC3. I have had Tekken 6. I also had Street Fighter 4. I also now have Mortal Kombat. And Mortal Kombat is by far the most fun I've had playing a fighter, and the most fun I've seen people have playing a fighter. Last week 4 people took turns (2v2) playing MK between the hockey games, and the entire room of 10 or so people were enthralled by the intense battles going on. It was epic. It wasn't over quickly.

And saying the game sucks because of Kung Lao is fucking hilarious. Maybe the game sucks for competition because everyone will abuse Kung Lao (As people often do when they find a way to easily win any video game with minimum effort), but that is easily vanquished within a group of friends by saying one of the following:

A: "Don't be cheap."
B: "Don't be Kung Lao."

Or if someone cheaps out as Kung Lao, out-cheap them by using Scorpion's attack where he flies out the left view, into the right behind the person and attacks them. That is how I deal with it. It works excellently.

You can always out-cheap someone, if someone is being cheap. Obviously that doesn't solve the problem of being cheap, but it sure solves your main point of "lawl, the only character in the game is Kung Lao."

I assume you play with a group of friends that haven't even bothered to understand the mechanics behind a 30-80% combo in MK, or how to effectively DHC with your team in MvC3.

No, you're right. I play these games with my friends to have fun, not to attempt to prove I'm better than they are at fighting games.

Anyways, maybe you just need to step off the whole 'competitive fighting video game' scene, and just chill with some friends and casually play games and have fun. Not play the games to win the fastest, and have the most wins. But hey, to each his own.

I'll keep having fun with MK and my friends, and you keep doing ridiculous amounts of combos in some crazy-coloured Japanese game.

Don't bother try going into mega-detail about any fighting game, as my peasant mind wouldn't be able to comprehend the madness that is competitive video game playing.

And maybe I'll put it in bold this time, since last time you may not have seen it.

And thus ends my pot-induced video game rant.

Edit: And of course, I don't know all the retarded technical shit behind which character's stats are better (for any of the games) because I don't go out of my way to make myself aware of that - because I don't care. I was basing what I have said on what I have witnessed. Maybe someone who considers themselves a 'competitive video game player' will spend time to find a way to counter a specific character who is constantly winning, or try google a strategy or watch videos on how to combat certain characters or combos - but me, and my friends, just play the games. Besides, nobody even likes Kung Lao, so the only reason people would play him is if their sole reason in playing Mortal Kombat is to win. And if that's your purpose behind playing a video game, you (not you, you) need to re-evaluate your life - because that seems really....dumb. Just play the game to have fun. You can still lose a game and have fun.