🚀 go-pugleaf

jleo...@falcon.depaul.edu (Jim R. Leonard) writes:

>I recently got really pissed off playing a 14-year-old (I'm 22) getting beaten
>again and again; and although you might think this is a whiney post about
>"cornering sucks" and "throws suck" and so forth, it's not, because I'm an
>average to good player...

>The point is this:  Do you guys play to beat people or to win?  Let's look at
>those two distinctions:

>	- Playing to win means playing the game in an oppurtunity-taking
>manner without exploiting true weaknesses of your opponent (i.e., if I just
>started playing 2 weeks ago, I'm not going to know how to block throwing).
>When I play, I play with "friendly" people; that is, my opponent test the 
>waters with a quarter or two to see how good we are, and if one is greatly
>unbalanced, someone teaches the other something new about the game they didn't
>know.  This may seem stupid, but it makes for more involved gameplay with less
>frustration.

>	- Playing to "beat people" means just that--using every lame, cheesy,
>cheap, cornering, throwing, and generally exploiting-the-weaknesses-of-the
>game-or-your-opponent moves in order to win as quickly as possible.  Whenever
>I fight one of these people, and it's clear I'm worse, the game is over in
>about 20 seconds with a 2:0 win on his side.  Is this considered fun?
>I did this once on someone who was worse than me, and the look of frustration
>on his face just wasn't worth it.

    I tend to avoid resorting to cheese like throwing constantly (mainly
because I still can't throw).  But I NEVER play to beat people unless
I'm really, really, REALLY pissed, which doesn't happen too often.
As for characters, Sub-Zero is my fave, but I will never resort to the
cheeseball ice blast-uppercut-repeat-until-death bit (unless I'm
fighting Goro, in which case you pretty much have to).  
    While we're on the subject of cheese, here's one for the books.
Over the summer, while I was honing my MK skills, I'd end up fighting a
lot of matches against a kid who was about 11 or 12.  Almost every time
we played, regardless of who he was using, he'd get me down and
literally foot sweep me to death.  Since I still had a little trouble
blocking a foot sweep, I was basically FUBAR.  Just thought I'd mention
that.

-mu...@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu