Duck and Cover

Our get-together on a saturday evening turned away from the usual drinking and talking, to Soul Calibur 2... so a couple of us were half through the game, and had a good bit of Vs. battles, when suddenly my girlfriend asks if she can try.

She beat the shit out of us, with easy, scoring three perfects and a good deal of near-perfects..!

It's been at least a year since I've gamed Street Fighter Alpha 3, the MAME version, which is pretty fucking fast, so I like the fact that I can relax in SCII... The relatively slow gameplay gives me all the time I need to react... but my girlfriends mashing-abilities beat the fucking shit out of anything I had to deliver, and my friends were equally beaten.

I've been playing a lot more though, and she's not hard to beat any longer, but the display still leave mental scars on us all!

So what do you guys think... what is your prefered strategy, and what do you see winning the most?

I humbly present the VERY-VERI-VERY-BEST-EVAR TAKTIC !!1 for your perusal :

Punch the person, not the character.

TADAAA !

Punch her in the tit.

Didn't I somewhere mention this in the "What console should I buy" thread about Tekken and why I don't let my girlfriends touch my video games anymore?

Wolfman Walt wrote:Didn't I somewhere mention this in the "What console should I buy" thread about Tekken and why I don't let my girlfriends touch my video games anymore?

You pimp.

ya, wolf so mentioned that like couple days ago. Either you guys suck at the game or the game sucks. Any game were you can button mash and keep winning is a bad one and should be thrown in the fire.

Inhaling the fumes is a must. To not do so would be blasphemy.

Mr. Teatime wrote:You pimp.

It's college, girls change their mind real fast so it's just easier to say the plural version.

I found Virtua Fighter 4 is the best for button smashers as if you have a button smasher you only need to use a defense character to get them. Also, that's something I liked about DoA - it has a counter system strictly for button mashers.

Button mashing works against the veteran players of beat 'em ups because the vet has learned all the moves and counter moves, and so he expects certain strategies and combinations of moves, even the AI players will work as such. A newbie will mash the buttons - randomly triggering off moves and combinations that you'd never normally expect, which puts you off your balance and messes your game up.

Button mashing will give spectacular short term results with a drop off as people adapt, while learning proper playing techniques will last you in the long term.

True, although sometimes I think certain characters were strictly made for button mashing, like Eddie from Tekken 3. Jesus was it annoying when people used him. Ofcourse I always used Hwoarang who doesn't have alot of low attacks, so that could be why.

I've since switched to using either Paul or Baek. Paul is so overpowered that I can't think of ever losing with him.

Paul fucking rules.

Eddie was good for button mashing, I tried it.

I like the thinking stuff.

I think the smackdown series of wrestling games (wrestling or not, thems is good gameplay) owns most other fighting games.

You dont have a stupid HP meter and you cant keep doing the same stuff and you have to plan your attacks out.

There's also the fact that there's like 40 different match types with a roster of like 50 or 60 different fighters, plus 4 people can play.

Bushido Blade 1 > all

Bushido Blade! That was a great, fast and violent game.

You can find it for like 9 bucks in Walmart if you look.

S4ur0n27 wrote:Bushido Blade 1 > all

True. I remember fighting and slashing through the survival mode(or whatever it was called) against the ninjas... those were great times for me...

The matches in that were intense due to the danger the weapons represented. It was superb in two player mode. I tried the PSX two machine link-up with it as well. That was pretty good too.

I'm surprised that such an old game is still around.

Fez wrote:Bushido Blade! That was a great, fast and violent game.

And you can't button mash in it.