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Newbie player who just likes to have fun

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Ms. Fortune Valentine
New to this place at the time of making this thread, so I figured I'd introduce myself while also asking a question I want to ask (and sorry for getting rambly, I do that a lot). So anyway I fully admit I am most definitely a newbie player. While I've always had a liking for fighters (especially after watching my cousin play Mortal Kombat 2 when I was young), I admit to not owning many, and I've never been all that great at them. Thing is, I typically like to play fighters just for the fun of it, usually just learning things as I go, while still checking move lists to make sure I'm remembering inputs correctly. I'm also not the owner of an arcade stick, I still stick to controllers.

When I first heard of Skullgirls a few years back I looked more into it, and thought it looked pretty neat, but never really played much of it from demos. Then the Steam free weekend happened not too long ago, I tried more of it then and just got hooked. Playing arcade mode on "normal" with different characters really got me into the swing of things, but of course I checked out the training mode to get a better grasp on certain aspects of the controls. I liked it so much I made sure it'd be one of my next major Steam purchases. Unfortunately I wasn't able to get it while Squigly was still free, but hey at least I've got the game anyway. Right now I tend to use Ms Fortune and Valentine a lot, what I've found from playing other fighting games is that I'm more into characters with more speed to them. I love all the character designs, but I like Ms Fortune's a lot because not only have I just had a general liking for "cat girls" in things like anime (yeah I'm more of a cat person, heh heh), but I love the look of the scars having a noticeable "depth" to them in the official artwork, and the added detail that when she's doing her bouncy idle animation you can see the muscle fibers in her leg moving too, is just a nice bit of detail. I'm not deep in any character's stories yet, but I'm liking what bits of backstory and lore I've gathered so far from most everyone.

This leads me to a major question, especially in regards to people who are much much more proficient at fighters than I. Is it somehow "wrong" to just play a fighting game such as this one more for things like "having fun while learning at my own steady pace," the characters designs and stories, and sticking more to CPU difficulty that's not very hard, rather than doing things like striving to become some "tournament level" player who can dish out 40 hit combos in a few seconds, "training" for hours on end, and memorizing long combo lists and "tiers"? Heck I'm not even all that knowledgeable on fighting game lingo, only knowing a little bit from what I've picked up from things like Two Best Friends Play. So basically I'm asking, am I gonna somehow ruffle a lot of feathers out there by professing that I do not wish to strive to become some "EVO Tournament player", or is being an eternal newbie perfectly fine so long as I don't bother the professional players? Already played online a teensy bit. First quick match? Couldn't even get in more than maybe two hits. I have a feeling online might always be that way for me so I dunno if I want to bother much more with it since I'll probably only be wasting peoples time.
 
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/uotsh

Group for eternal buns. No one really cares how good you are there, and if you want to learn at your own place you can ask for help there. Friendly atmosphere. Maybe even...TOO friendly.

To answer the overall question, no one will call you out straight up, but since it's a fighting game, I can't say feathers won't be ruffled. But we got buns here too, and everyone that ever joined the group got much better since they first joined. I'd like to think we're doing something right, especially since they stick around.
 
My advice is to stick to playing the CPU until you get bored of fighting the hardest difficulty. When you're confident enough to venture out into the wild onlines, there are usually some beginner's lobbies open. But do whatever you'll have fun with, and check out the stream "Salty" on Friday nights.
 
Muro said:
Hey, it's a video game. If you're having fun playing it your way, who's to say you're doing it wrong?
this.
 
It's not about what works or not, it's about what's enjoyable. That's the point.
 
...anyway.
You bought the game so play it however you'd like. If you'd like some casual matches where people won't go out of their way to destroy you, best make friends.
Just go in with the mentality that there will always be a butthole somewhere, as there usually are in vidya games. Don't let em bug you.
 
I hope I'm wrong with detecting a slightly condescending tone towards people who actually want to beat people at the game by putting in time to learn how the game works.

You can play the game however you want but that attitude of "Actually learning the game is for tryhards" will only end in a bad time against other players.
 
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Do what you want. I for example play like that in King of Fighters XIII because I don't find myself willing to learn more about this game cause it's tiring. :P I get lots'a fun with playing with CPU or friends and that's the best thing to stick with in this case.
 
meh, im both.also you can do a 62 hit with parasould with just supers so yeah its not hard to rack up a number.
if a game has too steep a curve i tend to avoid it.except disgaea.disgaea is an exception.
doing combos are fun and for some people doing just one hit in a fighting game, doesn't really click.
this game is pretty much built for both players though.

my complaints are just these six things:
They didn't mention if this was the last skullgirls.
most of the leftout characters are also great and were demonstrated.especially isaac and the tall prisoner.
this game would be playable with midi keyboards.
marie was meh.
frame delay,what does this do?
filia seems to have a more advanced ai than even the final boss.
 
The last Skullgirls? This is barely the first!
When's Annie?
You can play it on most things yeah.
She's bloody dull yes.
It skips frames or something of the sort to make the game look smoother
Filia was the first one programmed.
 
DDB said:
It skips frames or something of the sort to make the game look smoother

That doesn't exist.

Anyway, I don't care how you play just support the game (and don't you quit either I don't like quitters mister) and spread it around bug the shit out of people (but don't seem too obnoxious) I want this game to reach a sequel someday.
 
Stuff said:
That doesn't exist.

It does exist. It didn't at first but it was patched since. That's why you don't get slowmotion in online anymore. :P
 
ashxu said:
You can play the game however you want but that attitude of "Actually learning the game is for tryhards" will only end in a bad time against other players.

Besides that, it's worth noting that all people play for fun. Just different people have fun with different things.

If I tell my mmo grinder friends that I play for fun, it's code for "I prefer to play this game as an action rpg with online co op, I don't care about being over powered and I don't care about being the first to do everything so stop bugging me to grind holy shit"
 
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