10-22-2003, 03:09 AM
(This post was last modified: 10-22-2003, 03:14 AM by Archon_Wing.)
A long time ago, I saw a funny-looking fighting game. I'm not much of fan of the quarter-munching machines, but many a friend possesed something called a Super Nintendo. It was the most advanced video game system of the time, and my reaction was around the lines "like whoa." It sure beat the undetailed sprites of 8-bit systems. Each character was distinct and fairly large. And it had voices! People yelling random stuff! I never thought a video game could talk :D That was groundbreaking!
I ended up playing it, and thought that button-mashing was an effective tactic. Sure it took forever to beat the computer but randomly throwing punches and suddenly hearing your character yell "Hadoken" was a boon.
So, skip about 10 years, and we are at the present. I have seen and occasionaly played the newer incarnations of this game, but I never really got intested. But it turned out one of my friends still had a Super NES and the game running. From playing my friend, I realized that button-mashing was no longer effective. The game actualy had strategy. I pretty much recolied in shock in thinking that these games could possbily take skill. (But then, D2 takes some skill too....) It turned out to be more than just jump kicking and randomly pushing buttons. Having control of the special moves was not enough. You had to take advantage of every aspect of your character. Yes, you can beat the computer with repitious patterns. But it would fail against better players. And you really have to play them to know what I'm talking about this. Once I did one pattern that seemed to work well, people eventualy adapted to it, and I had to find something else to do.
It's true. It doesn't have fancy 3d graphics or orchestrated music. It doesn't even have an abundance of scantidly clad women in it. But while a lot of shallow folk keep talking about those qualities that many games today have, they forget about what makes a game good. Sure a game can have bad graphics and bad gameplays, but I digress. Playing this game is an experience! This game is what Pacman and pong is to many. They don't make games like they used to. ;)
Does anyone have any thoughts? Tips? :)
I ended up playing it, and thought that button-mashing was an effective tactic. Sure it took forever to beat the computer but randomly throwing punches and suddenly hearing your character yell "Hadoken" was a boon.
So, skip about 10 years, and we are at the present. I have seen and occasionaly played the newer incarnations of this game, but I never really got intested. But it turned out one of my friends still had a Super NES and the game running. From playing my friend, I realized that button-mashing was no longer effective. The game actualy had strategy. I pretty much recolied in shock in thinking that these games could possbily take skill. (But then, D2 takes some skill too....) It turned out to be more than just jump kicking and randomly pushing buttons. Having control of the special moves was not enough. You had to take advantage of every aspect of your character. Yes, you can beat the computer with repitious patterns. But it would fail against better players. And you really have to play them to know what I'm talking about this. Once I did one pattern that seemed to work well, people eventualy adapted to it, and I had to find something else to do.
It's true. It doesn't have fancy 3d graphics or orchestrated music. It doesn't even have an abundance of scantidly clad women in it. But while a lot of shallow folk keep talking about those qualities that many games today have, they forget about what makes a game good. Sure a game can have bad graphics and bad gameplays, but I digress. Playing this game is an experience! This game is what Pacman and pong is to many. They don't make games like they used to. ;)
Does anyone have any thoughts? Tips? :)
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