Street Figher IV

[Garridy]

Because we need another thread about this.














































Fighting games suck.

[Garylisk]

Your mom...









































is an unlockable character in SFIV.

[Garridy]

Seriously though, fighting games are very boring once you figure them out. You either play against your friends until you get so good that they can't even manage to challenge you or you play single player and end up spamming the same special moves over and over until you have beaten it all. Even if you play online to get some sort of challenge out of it, you will be limited to the same arsenal of moves and "maps" that you have spent countless hours in already.

[Garylisk]

Sounds like all games. (Point coming at the bottom, honestly. Not just flame.)

All RPG games are just stories where you play someone in the story and collect items, level up, and advance the plot until the end, or whatever the developers choose to be the end. Sometimes, you aren't satisfied with the ending, and you want there to be more story, despite the artist's vision. (FF7 anyone?) And so you get bombarded with eye candy and boring games (FF7 Crisis Core, etc...) but it's really just the same crap over and over.

All first person shooter games are just where you walk around collecting guns and ammo and blowing up and shooting a bunch of others people. Eventually you get so good that your friends don't want to play against you anymore (Unless of course you are one of those friends, who aren't real people, because they never got as good as you.) or if you go online to find more of a challenge, you still only have the same weapons, maps, and challenges as before, on top of the fact that everyone online plays a lot of the same style anyway and are just easy targets.

All MMORPGs are the same. You just run around and level up and get items and try to find a group, but you can't because nobody wants to do the same instances that you do, so you solo some more, and maybe do some pvp, and get killed by someone who has all glowing weapons and armor, and then they do the sit animation on your head over and over, thus proving their superiority to you with a virtual t-baggin'. Eventually, you just stop playing because you're tired of all the retards that play. You must have been the only sane or intelligent person playing.

All platform games are just games where you jump around collecting items and making your way through each progressive stage until you get to the end. You eventually get so good, you don't want to play anymore, and even if you get the sequel to have more of a challenge, it's really just the same thing over again and you eventually get tired of it, too.

All puzzle games are just matching shapes, colors, or other such simplistic ideas. Eventually you become a puzzle brain, and you get so good, your friends don't want to play you anymore, because you can set up a 2 in a row tetris, or you can do that 7 color chain in bust a move 4. And if you get the online version to find a better challenge, it's really just the same color or shape matching crap over and over, and you'lkl eventually quit and go have a cheeseburger.

Do I need to continue?

So your preference isn't fighting games. Why gripe about them? Why play them? WHy not ask some other players why they like fighting games? Maybe you'll get some insight into them that you didn't have before. That's how almost all games are. Games are made to be fun, so if there's a huge group of people who have fun with them, and you don't, then half the fun for you can be to find out WHY it's so fun. I did this with RPG's bakc in the day, I did it with Halo when Xbox came out, I did it with MMORPGs back in the Ultima Online days (Though I didn't get it until WoW.) - just remember, if you don't think it's fun, there's either a reason you're missing.... or you just don't find them fun. But if you don't find them fun, why go on a rant about how they aren't fun? Why not talk about the games you DO like?