[Buffalo, NY] How'd we get to be so S-RANK?

Crab said:
Nice meeting all you guys, was fun. Hopefully soon I will have a pad I'm comfortable with and actually be able to play!

The people I played or watched all seemed pretty solid. It's exciting to have people as good or better than me to play, should help me step my game up.
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nice talking to you as well. id have to play you sometime.

kyo45 said:
indeed, didn't get to play ya but hopefully next time.

gg tonight guys, saturday should be fun and interesting
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ggs as well.. looking forward to saturday as well. kyle we gotta do some abel shit as well. lol
 
Celestein said:
Woah really? I was going to do that pad hacking, but might get a go instead if you can control it with DS3, that feature alone sells me. Hope it gets hacked easy though, I have almost 100 psp games, be damned if I'm rebuying any of them.
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Really. The friend I was telling you about, got one and he IM'd me yesterday and told me he was controlling his Go with his DualShock. Like you, that feature alone sold me.

The only games I have that I'd buy are Broken Destiny and Persona.
 
Crab- good having you over. Getting your pad modded should be a high priority, but for the time being, it can't hurt to continue learning the ps pad so you are able to compete regularly.
I think your mind set that it is horrible for you, is preventing you from learning to use it quickly. The advantages of learning a standard pad are pretty large; if your custom pad breaks, there will always be a back up at public places, if you forget you pad- again- someone will always have a standard pad for you to use. The list goes on, and there really is no reason not to learn a 'different' pad set up, it makes you stronger. Jug can play on any pad handed to him, and he does well everywhere he goes because of his flexibility and his mindset to focus on winning... not focus on how different the pad is from his comfort zone.

Good games on the random assignments. I kinda like where my Gouki is at and understand his game a lot better now.

See you all at 7pm on Saturday! Bring dem triples, we'll get 4 tvs going.

cha cha
 
Well sure, it's true that being able to use standard peripherals make me better able to pick up and play, but the partially covered D-Pad and 4 face buttons are so painful to play with. It locks out about 2/3rds of my execution, at which point trying to play isn't even fun, just frustrating. It's why I never bothered playing 3rd Strike at any serious level, 'cause the NubyTech SF Pad I bought was cheap crap and broke, and I didn't feel like replacing it, and the PS2 controller was similarly unpleasent to use. It's not that I couldn't use it at all, just that it wasn't all that enjoyable when the NubyTech broke and I realized I couldn't hit confirm... well, anything, really. I just left for FPS games on the PC, where my input devices were comfortable.

If you sat me down at a laptop with a trackball and told me to play an FPS game, I could do it, but I wouldn't be competing at a high level. And yet some people play with obscure setups like that all the time. At a certain point mastery of a game and understanding the mechanics of it make it easier to use any other pad, but, there's always a certain type of input that's going to be most comfortable for someone, in every game.

For right now, that just happens to be my pad with a circular D-Pad and 6 face buttons. I'll probably end up getting a stick eventually, in case I play on a cabinet or somehow don't have my normal pad, but I'd much rather learn to use a stick than learn to use a PS3 pad, even though I have less of a feel for it currently. I'd use the SFIV pad since it's a bit more common than my obscure pad, except then I'd have to play Ryu, I need the extra buttons to double heavy punch for demon. So, might as well just get a stick, I figure I can usually borrow someone else's stick if something does happen, and if a time comes it's more comfortable to me, I'll transition entirely. In the months it will take for me to adapt to that, however, I'd like to be able to hit confirm Tatsumakis.


So yeah, tl;dr version, it's not my attitude regarding learning a new control method, it's my attitude regarding the PS2/3 pads specifically, which I think are junk. :p
 
Crab said:
So yeah, tl;dr version, it's not my attitude regarding learning a new control method, it's my attitude regarding the PS2/3 pads specifically, which I think are junk. :p
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I think the point Brian is making though, is that while Jug may prefer one controller over the other, he's going to execute regardless of what pad you hand him. And it's not like he practices heavily on both, he just has the mindset to focus on the game at hand, rather than the controller. If he messes up a command, his focus is immediately back on the game, rather than the controller. That's the mindset that you would ideally take in order to compete under adverse circumstances, which you will encounter if you compete in tournaments.


By the way, the cop that wrote me that failing to yield ticket fucked up all his information AND misquoted me, so the ticket was dismissed. Which is good, because Buffalo Traffic Court doesn't allow for plea downs in sentences, so if the ticket was upheld, that would have been points on my license. I am now fearing for my life to drive back to work, that cop had his MADFACE on after I testified, I wouldn't put it past him to come after me on some........I dunno SOMETHING. Anything he can think of. I am scared to death of the Buffalo police right now.

And another brief aside, Charlie the Butcher's IS in fact, overrated. Jon if you're reading this call me dude, we're doin Vizzie's tomorrow.
 
What our SF crew perceives Tekken players as:

[youtube= 3D games skills]BLGYfL76X2k[/youtube]

hope yall ready for random battlez!

cha cha
 
KowtowRobinson said:
I think the point Brian is making though, is that while Jug may prefer one controller over the other, he's going to execute regardless of what pad you hand him. And it's not like he practices heavily on both, he just has the mindset to focus on the game at hand, rather than the controller. If he messes up a command, his focus is immediately back on the game, rather than the controller. That's the mindset that you would ideally take in order to compete under adverse circumstances, which you will encounter if you compete in tournaments.


By the way, the cop that wrote me that failing to yield ticket fucked up all his information AND misquoted me, so the ticket was dismissed. Which is good, because Buffalo Traffic Court doesn't allow for plea downs in sentences, so if the ticket was upheld, that would have been points on my license. I am now fearing for my life to drive back to work, that cop had his MADFACE on after I testified, I wouldn't put it past him to come after me on some........I dunno SOMETHING. Anything he can think of. I am scared to death of the Buffalo police right now.

And another brief aside, Charlie the Butcher's IS in fact, overrated. Jon if you're reading this call me dude, we're doin Vizzie's tomorrow.
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hey chris. the city of buffalo is hurting for money and they are assholes they wont plea down for shit. lol just drive like your normally do. it sounds he was an asshole cop tryin to meet his quota for the month. lol

AkazukinChaCha said:
What our SF crew perceives Tekken players as:

[youtube= 3D games skills]BLGYfL76X2k[/youtube]

hope yall ready for random battlez!

cha cha
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what button mashing? shit son i thought Soul Cal was was mash friendly!!! :P :P :P
 
did any of you send a balrog player my way on XBL? he pwned my abel like 9 to 2 and then left
after I beat him twice in a row with gouken.
 
Is he from Buffalo Jug? Is that why you ask?

why would you assume we sent him to you otherwise?

cha cha
 
idk. des is always sending people my way. I thought maybe you guys would. I asked who he was, he didn't respond. just a random player invite.
 
@Tekken - Well, the kid was mashing hard enough, but not enough ducking and weaving. You gotta duck to win, no wonder he lost XD

@Jug - What was his tag?
 
KowtowRobinson said:
I think the point Brian is making though, is that while Jug may prefer one controller over the other, he's going to execute regardless of what pad you hand him. And it's not like he practices heavily on both, he just has the mindset to focus on the game at hand, rather than the controller. If he messes up a command, his focus is immediately back on the game, rather than the controller. That's the mindset that you would ideally take in order to compete under adverse circumstances, which you will encounter if you compete in tournaments.
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Which I understand, and that's all fine and good, but in the instance I get to a tournament and forgot my controller or my controller was hit by a meteor and I was too stupid to bring a few backups, or they were /all/ hit by meteors, I would just not play. Straight up. I'll play casually with a junker, but beyond that...

EG gave Loaded a game 'cause CyZeR's internet died and he ended up using another players setup. That other player is amazing too, so it's not like he has inferior equipment even, but the differences were enough to throw his game off. They lost 2500$ dollars to a team they'd beaten earlier in the tournament, handedly, and CyZeR not being able to play on his normal setup was a huge factor in that.

I'd rather forfeit outright. It's hard enough adapting to the flashy, distracting backgrounds and the huge screen, adapting to alternatative and frankly inferior control methods is not my idea of a good time, and ultimately if I'm not having fun, why am I playing?

Just winning without enjoyment is something I can do in TF2. But somewhere the fun of TF2 died for me, and that's why I'm giving fighters another shake.
 
I mean no disrespect Crab, but that's a horrible attitude. Even I, who plays one-handed, wouldn't not play nor forfeit if I couldn't use my set-up. I'd play on a standard pad. In fact, I am as I just recently got a PS3.
 
mienai said:
I mean no disrespect Crab, but that's a horrible attitude. Even I, who plays one-handed, wouldn't not play nor forfeit if I couldn't use my set-up. I'd play on a standard pad. In fact, I am as I just recently got a PS3.
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THIS. My man is in a wheelchair, you have nothing near what he's gotta deal with. Extreme example yes, but it's worth pointing out. This is an attitude thing man, Jug has the right competitive attitude that it's about the player, and the player can overcome shit like that. The example you gave me about those FPS guys (assuming it's FPS I have no idea who they are) just shows that he couldn't overcome having to make last second adjustments.

If that team or player had Jug's mentality, maybe he fares better. That also assumes that just because he beat that person once earlier in the tournament, that he was 100% incapable of losing to him, and it was entirely the fault of the equipment. I mean, everyone here knows I'm a hater and can be a sore loser, but that's pushing it even for MY standards. PLUS I acknowledge that my behavior in that respect is poor, and would NEVER cite equipment or something like that as a reason for losing in a tournament, especially after the fact given time to clear my head. But FPS players are notorious for making excuses like that, so it doesn't surprise me.

Look man, bottom line is you play to win the game. Shit happens, sometimes you're gonna be put outside your comfort zone, but you take what life gives you and you PLAY TO WIN THE GAME. Where my man Herm Edwards at?
[youtube=Sirlin ain't got shit on dude!]IMk5sMHj58I[/youtube]
 
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