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Expanding on this, because it's hardly unique to NRS games...
I think the tendency to compare fight games and their players to athletes in pro sports, however tenuous, is why we have the notion that being good in unimpeachable, even though it's a ludicrous comparison. https://twitter.com/KingHippo42/status/1246984273896173568
I think the tendency to compare fight games and their players to athletes in pro sports, however tenuous, is why we have the notion that being good in unimpeachable, even though it's a ludicrous comparison. https://twitter.com/KingHippo42/status/1246984273896173568
A guy like Tom Brady (not the lying degenerate) is the best because he knows American football inside and out. You can adjust rules here or there, age and injuries can add up, etc. but fundamentally he's the best at the game.
Now make him play Football II
Now make him play Football II
Now the ball is a different shape, and he doesn't have as many linemen to protect the pocket, and maybe now throwing the ball away is a penalty. All of a sudden, Tom Brady has to completely rethink how he plays, and he might struggle for a while in comparison to his NFL career
I suspect that he's a smart enough player who could adapt to the new style of play and be great, but there are no guarantees.
That's truly what playing fight games is like, and yet most tend to rate their own skill as if they are playing the same games their entire careers
That's truly what playing fight games is like, and yet most tend to rate their own skill as if they are playing the same games their entire careers
Because this is competition, which is largely ego-driven, most are content to let their first brush with success be the closing sentence of the chapter where they were bad, and now for the rest of the story they are good. In reality, it speaks to one game in one moment in time
The best of the best can repeat this difficult process game after game, year after year, and that's when I think you could comfortably say someone is truly, unimpeachably great.
Otherwise, it's a combination of luck, knowledge, and perseverance that one excels here but not there
Otherwise, it's a combination of luck, knowledge, and perseverance that one excels here but not there
Not for ego, but applying to myself: I was lucky enough, knew my/opponent's character well enough, and had enough determination to survive in loser's that I was able to achieve (for me) great success at the stacked Injustice: GAU tournament at SCR 2014, with a 7th place finish
I have never come *close* to replicating that type of success at a national level in any other fg I've competed in since. But I've never succumbed to the idea that a game is questionable because *I,* who've had success prior, can't hack it; that's purely ego, doesn't make sense
