What R U doing to hype this game to ur friends?

that's what my friends who don't play the game say. They watch me practicing combos (in evo since I still don't have vf5 at home) and sometimes they'll pick the game up when I'm taking a bathroom break but they won't play against me cuz they're afraid of gettin' whopped on. I'm really hoping 360 being online will help our community grow. If nothing else we'll get *crosses fingers* non-laggy play against eachother

 

trust me the community is going to shoot through the roof now that its online play for the 360

 

Re: What R U doing to hype this game to ur friends

Heh, I have 1 friend who plays fighters (videogames actually) and he is a Tekken guy.

 

Re: What R U doing to hype this game to ur friends

All my friends play halo 3... don't even know what street fighter is let alone virtua fighter.

 

If your friends are like my friends, all they know is Soul Calibur. I've gotten my friends to understand and appreciate the sexiness of Virtua Fighter 5, but it still intimidates them to actually take time to play a fighting game without button mashing. Most of them will try it out though, because I won't shut up about it.

 

Here is a VF noob's perspective of friends trying to get me to play VF when I was playing MvC2 competitively.

They would tell me repeatedly on how it's such a great fighting game and how it has so much depth to the fighting engine unlike MvC2 blah blah etc.

I would tell them I hate 3D fighting games and I still do. I can't stand them. I grew up on 2D and just can't stand the 3D ones because they are so slow.

Anyway...........eventually, a couple friends of mine (who I'm not friends with anymore unfortunately) convince me to give VF4 a whirl. I had fun with it for 3.4 seconds. Yes, 3.4 seconds. Why? I got my ass kicked. Repeatedly. When I would ask why I was getting my ass kicked, I would get explanations of frame advantage and high/mid/low attacks and what not Basically garbage I didn't understand and nobody bothered explaining to me at the time. Because my throw was 18 frames and his counter attack was 15 frames my ass gets kicked. I didn't understand it at the time because I was too frustrated with Kage tossing me around and stomping me.

In short, I gave up. This was why I hated 3D fighters like VF/Tekken/SC so whatever I'll stick to my 2D greatness. My friends kept kicking my ass repeatedly whenever we played and I didn't care to endure it anymore.

Then VF4 Evo comes out. For $20 I said fuck it and picked it up. I spent time in the dojo/training mode and didn't tell my friends I was playing it. After about 2 months of fiddling around with Jacky, I felt I got pretty decent with him. I still didn't understand frame advantage and still don't but I learned how to zone really well similar to MvC2.

I go back over to my friends' house to break the routine of ass kicking and I could actually stand toe to toe with them now. I could almost always take at least 1 round decisively and I might have won 2 out of 5 game against them which was better than the 0 out of 1985637 from before. It felt good. I actually stood a chance against my dickhead friends.

This was like 4 years ago I think and unfortunately I lost touch with them but I still pop in my VF4 Evo disc from time to time to play.

The point of this post? Let your damn friends win a couple games to feel like they can even compete with you if you're a vet of the damn game. Cut all the stupid tech talk about frames and japanese terminology and show your friends how to play a little bit before you start slightly kicking their ass. I still think I rather suck at this game compared to veterans who play it but I've shown my friends this game's demo and played with them and they love it. I could be an ass and play Sarah and hit them with low punches and them mid knees without explaining anything to them and make them detest the game or I can let myself get my ass kicked a little and ramp up the difficulty accordingly and have a good time with it.

Whatever, long day at work makes me ramble.

 

I feel ya MisterYao. Never really played VF much because no one I knew played it. I was a huge Alpha 3/Tekken nut back in the days. What got me really excited about the game though was that I remembered how Sega said they would never put VF out with an online mode unless they felt they could get lagless play. When they did announce it for the 360 with online I felt confident that Sega would stick to what they said earlier and lets face it a fighting game really shines when you have human opponents readily available to play. If the online play is truley awesome like everyone says it is I can't wait for tommorow to come so I can get tooled online by some of you bastards and maybe learn a thing or two along the way.