Something I just thought about (Regarding the FGC).

i remember a time when i would make fun of xeph and woahhzz on psn for being huge sc4 lag scrubs.

now i can't beat either of them. ever. :'(

the most important part of recruiting people to the FGC is having a good time offline. i found the albuquerque players back in 2002/2003 and started throwing parties with them where we'd play games and get shitbombed and go out and have a good time. that is what held my interest. i quickly learned that i didn't even have to play in tournaments to enjoy them. the atmosphere of like minded nerds who drink beer and go out and have a blast is what captivates me. i have very few fond memories of tournaments. it is usually grown men, whining about rules and not showering amd sitting around in folding metal seats watching incredibly boring crap. even as a fan of many of the games, i can't sit and watch a tournament.

lostprovidence, word of mouth is what we have. it is all we have. let's face it, video games aren't much fun to watch unless you really know what is going on. the money in it is...while getting better...laughable. the glory is just as trivial. all we can do to preach our word to those who may be interested and then do our best to demonstrate that participating isn't all frames and rules and tiers and shit; it is a damn good time.
 
I remember when SCIV first came out I played it non-stop. I had rented the previous games in the past from a movie store and really enjoyed trying to mash my way through story mode and beating the game. However, when I went online for SCIV I was hooked. I couldn't stop playing the game. I had made some of my own tactics I thought I had made up and had rated myself pretty high amongst the other mashers out there. At the time I was repping Yoshimitsu because I loved playing Tekken 3 with my friend, and seeing Yoshi was pretty damn cool. I remember barely beating someone who I could see was clearly better than I was (I defined good as doing long combos at the time lol) and I sent him a GG.I then got a message saying something along the lines of lagging him to death was gay or something.

I was a bit confused as to what he meant. So I went on google and searched "Lagging in Soul Calibur 4" and I found a forum topic dedicated to naming lag lows and other online no-nos. I laughed thinking it was bullshit, but i clicked anyway and sure enough it was 8wayrun. I kinda skimmed through the topic, and decided to see what other nonesense they may have had on here. Well.... I found out alot of really helpful tips and tricks in the Soul Arenas. I wanted to share what knowledge I had too, so I made an account back in 2009.

Of course, I got my verbal lashings on what is right and wrong about SCIV while trying to help out, but I took it as a sign that I really could improve..and well..here I am now.

It was a long trip of learning how to play the game by myself though, but I'm glad I did.
 
Fighting games are so insubstantial. If you don't play SC5 competitively then there is literally no reason to play it whatsoever. No one likes getting their ass whooped unless they are some raging masochist with a large variation of female CaS's. It's also not like a team game where you can just sit along and enjoy it with others and it doesn't matter if you win or lose.

Also the advert for Soul Calibur was......girly. You get the Tekken advert with motor bikes and explosions and punches which destroy the floor around them and what does Soul Calibur get? "I'm sorry mother." lol who were they aiming at? Honestly. If they want to see how a trailer is done, they should take lessons from Crapcom, RE6 trailer is amazing.
 
I was directed here from freaky-styley because i wanted in on those nifty sciv online tournaments from back in 09. I made it to like semi finals and got 1a'd to death by lobos caspamdra. I stayed and became a mod somehow.
 
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