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Reasons for choosing favorite characters?
#1  December 13, 2013, 03:13:14 pm
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Basically, people have favorite characters for different reasons and they tend to fall under 3 basic categories:

Aesthetics
EX: appearance, personality, popularity mannerisms/poses

Gameplay
EX: moveset, play-style, button commands

Effectiveness
EX: tiers, match-ups, strong moves/tools

How important are each of these to you and whatnot?
Last Edit: December 13, 2013, 03:56:34 pm by Niitris

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Re: Reasons for choosing characters?
#2  December 13, 2013, 03:15:25 pm
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It's hard for me to separate the first two. If a fighter doesn't blend aesthetics and gameplay on a character level, it's usually doing it wrong?

For the most part, the characters I play are appealing to me, have a playstyle that suits me, and are at least mid-tier competitively.

There are always a few that I'd like to learn how to play but just can't wrap my fucking head around, but eh.

(One of these days, Jaycee, you and me, we'll figure this shit out)

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Re: Reasons for choosing favorite characters?
#3  December 13, 2013, 03:36:36 pm
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isnt popularity itself a result ? Why would it influence the aesthetic of a character how popular it is?

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Re: Reasons for choosing favorite characters?
#4  December 13, 2013, 03:54:10 pm
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I'm kinda confused as to how I'm supposed to answer :P

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Re: Reasons for choosing favorite characters?
#5  December 13, 2013, 03:55:45 pm
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Popularity should be in its own, but since it was a superficial thing that didn't affect a character's gameplay directly, I put it under aesthetics. Idk, I didn't want to make too many categories.

Websta said, December 13, 2013, 03:54:10 pm
I'm kinda confused as to how I'm supposed to answer :P

Basically, why do you like certain characters.

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Re: Reasons for choosing favorite characters?
#6  December 13, 2013, 04:04:37 pm
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while i choose them absed on looks first, I keep them based on gameplay; effectiveness is irrelevant for me.

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Re: Reasons for choosing favorite characters?
#7  December 13, 2013, 04:48:18 pm
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Re: Reasons for choosing favorite characters?
#8  December 13, 2013, 05:26:37 pm
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I can't really say I have a single formula for choosing characters...

I remember I started playing Bison back in Super Turbo bacause I wanted to drop shotos and the idea of using the badass boss was great. In other games I go straight for the play style, like in Guilty Gear, where I experimented with a lot of characters and I ended up using Axl because his mid-range game is really strong (I also use Anji because I like his moveset and autoguard attacks).

What I'm really sure of is that I'm not a tier whore :)

@walt: Have you seen the recent fad in the UMVC3 tournaments where each player have a character that can be banned from his team to force him to change strategy? I read an article about it and it seems really fun. It's sorta like the rule you had with your pals.

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Re: Reasons for choosing favorite characters?
#9  December 13, 2013, 05:48:44 pm
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Nope, hadn't heard about it. But like, you can choose 3 characters, and chances are you don't know how to play with only those 3, so you pick your best trio, and you still have a fighting chance only using 2 of them.

Over here, we were playing for fun. Hearing the "Hadouken" voice clips 700 times during the course of an afternoon was nervewrecking. Besides, it was a new, GORGEOUS LOOKING game (at least for us) so, being the spritewhore that I am, I suggested that so we could cycle through the most sprites ;D
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Re: Reasons for choosing favorite characters?
#10  December 13, 2013, 06:06:15 pm
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Give it a read about it here, it looks like a lot of fun, at least with people you play often because you know the team they use:
http://fgtvlive.com/?p=387

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Re: Reasons for choosing favorite characters?
#11  December 13, 2013, 07:53:50 pm
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Are they still doing that? The fighting game depression seems to be a recurring event that takes place after evo where people dont play as hard as they usually do and lack alot of motivation to keep playing. People were getting un hyped about marvel so some wanted to try something different (I know fooblat enforced it at next level) they tried that stupid rule for a couple of weeklies to get some hype back. I always thought it was dumb and we never did it back in my scene. Now that the hype is back for marvel I doubt people will still be doing this. (I honestly forget this existed)


I generally pick characters that appeal to me visually and if they have combo potential that's cool too. I picked nova spencer and doom in ultimate because back in vanilla I remember being inspired by japanese players using spencer doom and had so much tech and combos that I wanted to try out for myself. Then I saw combofiend use nova and spencer and I figured if I combined the team it would be godlike. In third strike I always used shotos because I didn't really want to try anything new. Until oe came out, then I played with elena for a while till I noticed how bad she was no matter how hard I tried. I always had a pocket urien in oe so I just stayed with him after I dropped elena. In sf4 I always felt like ryu was the only character I could play properly at high level so I didn't try to play any other character seriously. I've been playing with sakura a lot only because she has some good matchups against characters that ryu can't deal with. I'm hoping to play with poisen or hugo when ultra drops. I got to test out hugo last weekend at nec...and I didn't like the way he was ported to the game from cross tekken. I wasn't able to do any combos or links, maybe I was just fucking up my timing? Who's knows (people were being dicks and playing seriously because they didn't want to get up). Can't wait to get the game so I can play test out hugo properly in training mode
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I wouldn't consider that a infinite since you have to make your opponent bounce of the wall and if you do it on the wrong side of the stage the stage interaction would activate.

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Re: Reasons for choosing favorite characters?
#12  December 13, 2013, 09:28:20 pm
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For me, it's aesthetics. I only play as generic karate characters, or characters I like.(AKA PSABR: Sackboy, SSB: Mario, etc) or the main character. I also never play as girls, mainly cause of the way they look, or their voice, or something.
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Re: Reasons for choosing favorite characters?
#13  December 13, 2013, 09:35:46 pm
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That's a strangle specific way of narrowing down what you like Doraemon.

Personally, I just go with whatever seems cool visually but usually settle down to what is the most fun to play. I don't tend to go for the most effective characters, since having fun playing is pretty much always more important then winning to me.

Yeah, that works.

No witty quotes though.

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Re: Reasons for choosing favorite characters?
#14  December 13, 2013, 09:37:06 pm
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i don't care about how the character looks but i tend to choose weird looking ones and weird or gimmicky gameplay like robo-ky,bridget,aba,,vega(claw),makoto,seth,angel.

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#15  December 13, 2013, 09:40:23 pm
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Re: Reasons for choosing favorite characters?
#16  December 13, 2013, 09:44:54 pm
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the order you asked the question is pretty much how I narrow it down to picking a character. first I go on the aesthetics on if the character looks nice, if I like how they look, I'll end up learning the character no matter. Second I turn to is if the character plays good for me. Each character is given different tools for the player to use. If these feel the most comfortable to use. then use it. the third choice is effectiveness which is a pretty big factor only in games that have awful balancing. but you're talking to the person who uses Ryu, Ken, and Gouki in MvC2. so i dunno.

If I play a fighting game where there is absolutely no appealing character, then I'll just pick the easiest character to win with.


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Re: Reasons for choosing favorite characters?
#17  December 13, 2013, 09:51:03 pm
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I used to pick all the fast or female characters (Vega/Claw, Chun-Li, Mai, Sonya, Andy), but as time has gone on, I tend to pick characters based on being either "not-shoto" or "underdog".

In SF4, I started and stuck with Rose, although I did pick up Makoto somewhat.

KOF, my team is usually made up of Andy, Robert and King (Brian if the game allows).

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#18  December 13, 2013, 09:53:45 pm
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> See which one is more fun to play with according to me
> If the character feels comfortable to me, is a keeper

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Re: Reasons for choosing favorite characters?
#19  December 13, 2013, 11:09:19 pm
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I do it by a sort of process of elimination.  Whenever I play a new fighting game, I try and use all of the characters at the same rate, gradually narrowing it down as I keep playing and gravitate towards the ones I feel the most comfortable using.  It's not so much about aesthetics or play style or popularity for me as much as it is settling into the character(s) I feel like I can use the best.

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#20  December 13, 2013, 11:20:10 pm
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One reason only, Tough guy attitude, That's why my most favorite fighting chars are Ryo Sakazaki, Sagat, Kazuya Mishima and Kunglao(yes i consider him tough cause he splits opponents in half with his iron hat, they don't come tougher than that)
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