Did you have a choose a different character or random rule. Picrel is a game I played with my first roommate after college. Played the living shit out of it. Always had a rule where you couldn't play the same character twice until you've ran through all the others. So an hour of gameplay was always about saving your favorites for last. For games with random select we would use those to create matchups. Modern fighting is all about having a main character and I think it's got to be terrible for the genre. I understand having a main is emergent with online play, but that makes most people only get into 5% of the game. Idk what were your fighting game rules for heads up play.

>>11827916 (OP)
>I understand having a main is emergent with online play, but that makes most people only get into 5% of the game.
I don't think that's really true. When you have a main you also have to fight and understand every other character to win consistently. Obviously the more popular ones you will come to know very well, but you'll also learn the tricks or the lesser known ones.
I'm almost certain this was true to some degree in the arcade times too.

>>11827916 (OP)
No, I knew people who got mad if I picked the same character but I just let them know be mad. As for random, I would more have people get butthurt about losing and "dare" me to change character, I would always oblige because I took it as a challenge and I'd still win because I just was better at fundamentals to begin with and could do everyone's specials anyway

I was just the best at fighting games in my neighborhood. A lot of casuals would try to keep it to Tekken so they can Eddie spam or only play Mortal Kombat cause they couldn't back to block or cross up, I always still won, made many mad.

>>11828117
You are one gay faggot

>>11828117
you probably sucked ass, just less than everyone in your neighborhood
there is no end to the stories people have of being the best in their little scrub-ass friend group and then getting dogwalked the moment they step to the actual competitive scene

>>11827916 (OP)
Not a rule per se but the etiquette was you didn't just stick to a single character the entire time you played with another person. That would get boring pretty fast.

Then western players got obsessed with the idea of how Japanese players would specialize in one character and began imitating it. That combined with Street Fighter V not allowing you to change characters in ranked mode sealed us into the current landscape, which sucks.

>>11828941
this isn't a thread for your retarded headcanon.
people had mains as far back as the early 90s.

>>11828950
People had favorites. If you're sitting in a room with a couple buddies and only play one character everyone would call you a faggot because having a main in couch play is for faggots. Being good with one character is actually indicative of being a casual.

>>11828964
this isn't a thread for your retarded headcanon.

>>11828974
Sorry buddy, only playing Fulgore because you memorized all of his and only his combos is casual play considering the depth of a game like KI. A person in a couch play situation who only plays 1 character was and still is seen as autistic faggotry.
>but muh arcades
The minority of the minority of people have played fighting games in arcades, and the games that defined fighting games on 4th/5th/6th gen were much more popular in the homes than at arcades. This is a couch play thread btw

>>11828985
sorry buddy, this isn't a thread for your retarded headcanon.

>>11828991
Sorry casual, you lost

>>11828998
you don't know what the word "casual" means.

>>11829013
Yeah it means someone like you who plays through 1/70th of a game

>>11829047
oh, you mean by diddling around with every character and never truly learning any of them deeply while you mash buttons with your friends on the couch and refuse to actually get good?
lmfao. retard

>>11829052
Sorry buddy play more than 1/70th of a game and come back

>>11829087
Not an argument.
I accept your concession.

>>11829105
The arguement is that you haven't played fighting games and are a zoomie and a faggot. I accept your confession

>>11829241
lmfao. retard

>>11829271
We don't sign our posts here

>>11829295
congratulations?

>>11829295
Kek gottem

>>11827916 (OP)
I only had mains in the games I was bad at. I played all the characters in the games I was better than my friends at to try to even the playing field without doing the handicap shit that embarrasses everyone.

Online there are always a billion people better than so I guess it's the same dynamic.

>>11828950
Yes, and playing your main for the entire 30-100 match session with your buds is very lame and frowned upon. Playing the same character more than ten matches in a row gets old, especially if one player is a lot better than the other. This isn't the arcade where people are going to be swapping around, it's usually just 2 or 3 people playing.

>>11828991
He's right. The home ports are the format in which the majority of people experienced fighting games, even if it wasn't the competitive format.

>>11829548
none of what you just said has ever in my experience been true, and I've been playing fighting games competitively since 2001.
maybe you and your friends all just sucked too bad to adapt so whoever wins the first match is guaranteed to win all of them. idk.

>>11829548
100% correct. If you are better than your friends you start picking your weakest character to give yourself a challenge. Our houserule was you kept the controller through one rotation of all the possible competitors. If you could sweep everyone in the room then you've earned a break and the people left start vs to earn the right to play you. It's the best place to be because then you get to do play by play for the lessers. This shit worked with everything from war of the monsters to KOF, to Halo, to mario tennis.
>>11829574
Weird faggoty headcannon. If there was a group together and you just blow everyone out and don't give up the controller you'd be seen as a weird sperg and or the party just switches the game.

>>11828939
No shit, most people in the 90s weren't "pro gamers" in an insular niche hobbyists scene.

You're Gen z so why are you acting like anyone even gives a fuck about you learning Turd Strike after it's meme status on YouTube post SF4

>>11828939
Unless you lived within teenage boy driving range of one of the scene golfland arcades in California or a couple of arcades in NYC you weren't in any kind of legit competitive scene in the '90s even if you played all day at an arcade in the US and I assume Europe was similar. You're talking about a world a few hundred people on the coasts or a handful of other locations were in and no one else knew existed. And those guys got their shit destroyed on first contact with any kind of Asian players too.

>>11829585
>ur life experience is headcanon
you're weird as fuck dude

>>11829590
Gamers in the 90s were elementary, middle and high schoolers. If wasn't a niche hobby, it was a kids hobby. Now many anons, like myself who were young then kept playing vidya. Therefore a larger demographic of people play, making it mainstream. Niche in vidya is a product of subgenres, where people curate their experience based on what they like and then become fanboys of genres or companies. The average gamer of the 90s was a generalist, that's why people would own NFL GameDay 98 and FF7. If a game was acclaimed and popular they would play it. Now there is such a depth I'm gaming that if you really like JRPGs you can immerse yourself in the catalogue and make it part of your personality, much like what happened to music in the 80s/90s where specific genres turned into scenes.

>>11829694
>Gamers in the 90s were elementary, middle and high schoolers
easily half the adults I knew back then had Playstations.
you weren't there, or if you were, you were a small child.

>>11829709
No larpfag, adults who gamed in the 90s were likely PC gamers. The average console gamer, the far more popular medium, was a school aged kid.

>>11829585
>Our houserule was you kept the controller through one rotation of all the possible competitors.
This wasn't a house rule but I did it myself when playing Soul Calibur 2 with casuals.

>>11829601
There were scenes in all the big cities. Chicago was actually stronger than NYC. DreamTR says Florida had a big scene, but that's all I know about it.

>>11829574
you're the asshole who never switches off his main, nobody likes you

>>11829694
>Gamers in the 90s were elementary, middle and high schoolers.
zoomer nonsense.

>>11829786
>doubling down on larp
you were not there and you do not know what the fuck you're talking about.

>>11829786
So now it's gone from "adults weren't gamers" to "adults played PC games".
>The average console game
Sure, but that doesn't mean that there weren't adults there too.
>yeah but the AVERAGE
Yeah but the YOU'RE A FUCKING MORON.

>>11829806
nobody in any of my circles ever switched off their mains unless we were testing out a character to be a potential new main.
I get that things are different for all you casuals who just mash buttons and hoot and holler at the most basic shit, but that was not the world I loved in.

>>11829810
>>11829816
lmfao rekt

very alt.games.sf2-style name-calling and challenging on /vr/ today

some things never change I suppose

>>11829817
Then I bet you're not as old-fag as you're implying. Probably an 09er. Anyone who played in the era before that knew that in home sessions you would swap between characters after a few wins, especially if you swept the whole room a couple of times. Now, if you are losing? That's fine, unless it's just you and one other guy, then it's a bit lame.

>>11829829
I've been playing fighting games competitively since 2000.
the difference between us is that I actually played to improve and get good, and found like-minded individuals to play with. you on the other hand casually mashed with whoever.

>>11829816
Saying the average gamer was in school in the 90s is an accurate statement. Saying that the adults who did game were more into PCs does not mean most gamers were adults. It's also an accurate statement.
>>11829829
Yup
>>11829845
Aren't you the faggot challenging people to play online lol.
>been playing competitively since 00
Okay dsp lol

>>11829885
>an accurate statement.
false

>>11829885
I challenged exactly zero people. A bunch of assmad scrubs (or more likely one assmad samefag scrub) begged me to post my fightcade ID, which I will never do, so I told them to how to get at me for games.
Brave of you to admit you struggle this much with basic reading comprehension.

>>11829904
>find me on fightcade
>I challenged zero people
Lol okay phil

>>11829845
ok kid

>>11829906
you don't seem to know what a challenge is.
if I tell people "fight me!" unprompted, that's me challenging people.
if people ask me to fight them and I tell them how, that's other people challenging me.
I tried to keep this simple because you are clearly retarded. if you still don't understand, though, you are beyond my ability to help.

>>11829968
Okay phil

>>11829810
I'm 36 and kinda yeah.... literally everyone our generation gamed, and kept gaming. I hang out with people in their 50s who at that time would have been adults, don't know any who play SF or MK or Sonic or Tomb Raider or whatever.......they just have nostalgia for like Pacman and Galaga

Gaming before late Gen x-millennials was still considered very much a child's toy

>>11830273
nigga our parents had the 2600 and arcades as teenagers. by the 90s it was just as normal for adults to play video games as it was for adults to read comic books

>>11830321
Not in my experience, again all the like "were adult in the 90s" people I know are only nostalgic about their childhood shit and know nothing about 90s games

Comic books have a different timeline, they go back decades farther. They started aging up with the audience and getting over the kiddy thing right around the time video games were invented,the 70s

>>11830670
you knew some faggy adults. easily half the adults i knew played shit on Playstation by 1999

>>11830273
>they just have nostalgia for like Pacman and Galaga
aka video games

>>11830273
>36
You're a bit young for this discussion. There was a drop-off in the over 40 crowd around 1998 or so as video games became increasingly seen as a teenage boy thing. Which hit its apex in the mid-2000s with the Xbox 360.

>>11830671
Idk they're all musicians, they don't get the nerdy thing, they abandoned it for drugs and poontang

>>11829585
Exactly, you graduate to advisor and psyop your future challenger through a mix of encouragement , questionable coaching , and shit talking. never thought about it really but you nailed it

>>11830773
>musicians
like I said: faggy

>>11830890
I still remember my buddyshit taking with a cigarette hanging from his mouth after he blew through the field in war of the monsters. Fucking Japanese robot, the only thing that beats flying dragon. Next time I'm going with robot monkey.

>>11831248
Do you really think gaming is less gay than playing music? Today gaming is normie as it's ever been, and even trendy to women because of twitch, but still nobody gets girls based on being a gamer

I love fighting games but hot damn do I hate the dog brained ass sniffing hierarchy bullshit that pervades competitive play and this very thread. "I was good" "no you weren't you sucked, I'm better" who fucking cares, find better ways to measure your mettle.

>>11835005
Every fighting game thread is ruined by a salty Asian zoomer who worships Justin Wong and spergs when people talk about any game other than Turd Strike or when they reminisce about the 90s since they weren't born yet

>>11835005
Any couch co op stories?

>>11835107
>salty Asian zoomer who worships Justin Wong
when, where?

>>11837158
Usually sperging in any thread about not SFIII, especially MK where they start crying about "white trash" which clearly bullied them. Also always gets on a high horse about being competitive, but then when called out about not being old enough to game in the 90s start screeching about how all the OG fans can't play cause muh SF4 and fightcade as if people like me in my 30s weren't the ones who made fightcade a thing blah blah

>>11835175
We jerked

>>11837226
and before that Kaillera, Zbattle, and Xband.