Experience with Japanese players

a_chris_1 said:
Possibly a new-guy question, but I'm a new guy. And I'm curious, how many of you have been to japan, or recently played japanese sc4 players (on an extended basis)? I heard akihabra (sp?) is the place to go for the best players and competition.

Oh those of you who have been, how do they play differently than us?
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You are, indeed, a noob. And clearly you are fail. However, I am bored and will answer your stupid questions.

Yes, Akihabara is the place to go for SCIV action. They don't care that it is a console only release. They set that shit up in the middle of the street and play for hours and people who know whats good for them don't tell them otherwise.

FAIL!

There are good players all over. Yeah, some of the well known players are from the Tokyo area, (including Akihabara, I guess) but the SC scene revolves around tournaments. Those kids never get together to practice unless they live right down the street.

A couple of people to look for, though, if you do get over there to Tokyo: Oosaka - speaks English well, friendly, runs or assists in most of the Tokyo tournaments. TalimJP - American ex-pat (which is short hand for DESERTER), not great at the game, but knows everyone.

FYI - Osaka players are way better.

And how do they play differently? In the states, people use four or five moves and generally play with no honor. Japanese are like, "Fuck that weak ass strat, I'm using two moves and throwing. One of my two moves will be 2K" and play with no honor.

Also they all play Asta as a back up. Don't ask me why. They just do.

P.S. You get an F.
 
Axzarious said:
How are people like Koreans and Japanese so good at video games?

The main tip he gave me was to play as other characters and learn thier combos and movesets... Well I guess ill have to shelf nightmare for a bit, lol.
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It's possibly because like I posted in the "help a noob lrn 2 play" thread the minimum understanding that they feel is necessary to claim knowledge of Soul Calibur, or any video game for that matter, is complete knowledge of the system, its weaknesses and the ways to abuse the system effectively. Americans tend to take a more relaxed "play for fun" approach whereas the minimum standard as taught by the Asian parents that they were raised by is a standard of perfection. Thus, asian players are constantly failing while they play badly, and American players are having fun.

You should appreciate the ability that you have to fail and have fun doing it, because in some cultures (Japan is a great example) historically failure itself wasn't a possibility until recently. They also overwork themselves to death and you're probably having a friggin ball playing like you do so I don't understand why you would ever want to join the group that cannot accept failure. The ability to accept limitations, even self-imposed ones, is far easier for Americans to do than Asians. Hope that helps.
 
It's probably part of his schtick.

If it was supposed to be funny he failed though. (See what I did there? Hurr hurr.)
 
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