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Started by Loona, July 16, 2009, 11:23:10 am
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Split Gaming into Fighting Games and General Gaming?

Yes
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No
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Other (please explain)
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Split Gaming into Fighting Games and General Gaming?
#1  July 16, 2009, 11:23:10 am
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This forum is meant to be about Mugen, although it's certainly enjoyed for many other reasons.

Still, I doubt any of us would be here if we did not enjoy fighting games. And considering both players and creators benefit from enhanced understanding of the games of the genre, I believe it would be important to have a specific section to discuss them without risking the topics getting quickly sunk.

Such a section existed before before being changed to it current format - yet now about half the topics are fighting-game-related, and some threads end up becoming huge just so they won't sink, but this makes interesting information hard to find in the middle of over 100 pages.

I think this justifies splitting the existing section in 2 - this allows specific issues about some games to be discussed in-depth in their own threads, making information simpler to find and discuss.


One additional benefit this might have when compared to the previous version, IMO, is that more general issues related to fighting games, but which don't necessarily have anything to do with actual gameplay (character designs, plot, etc...) can be kept or moved to the general gaming section, as those issues can still be present in games of different genres.


I figured it was worth giving a poll a shot - hopefully the public voting will help clarify the viability of the idea...

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Re: Split Gaming into Fighting Games and General Gaming?
#2  July 16, 2009, 11:36:13 am
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I'm for it if it's not just for news, if all sorts of classic games get resident threads for small talk that'd get people discussing them and, who knows, playing each other online. cf.
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Re: Split Gaming into Fighting Games and General Gaming?
#3  July 16, 2009, 11:40:15 am
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Of course it wouldn't be just for news - actually, I think things like the current discussions about KoF and CvS2 systems in Development Discussion would fit great in there.

I might add links to good examples in a while.

Edit: found some decent examples:

Need ideas for Button Style
http://mugenguild.com/forumx/index.php?topic=99982.0

Lets have a KoF features discussion
http://mugenguild.com/forumx/index.php?topic=90448.0
(almost on the fence about this one, at some point code is posted, but there's very good info here)

CvS(2) Gameplay mechanics
http://mugenguild.com/forumx/index.php?topic=101785.0

Air-dashing strategies
http://mugenguild.com/forumx/index.php?topic=9382.0

Fighting Game strategy.
http://mugenguild.com/forumx/index.php?topic=62927.0


The following are in the forum archives:

Parry VS Just Defense
http://mugenguild.com/forumx/index.php?topic=53068.0

What is the 2-in-1?
http://mugenguild.com/forumx/index.php?topic=10139.0
(some code also tossed in, but goes into interesting specifics from some games)

Command Shortcuts
http://mugenguild.com/forumx/index.php?topic=10236.0

Last Edit: July 16, 2009, 12:08:30 pm by Loona

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Re: Split Gaming into Fighting Games and General Gaming?
#4  July 16, 2009, 04:59:09 pm
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voted yes because I am hardly interested in general gaming, yet I still play fighting games.

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Re: Split Gaming into Fighting Games and General Gaming?
#5  July 16, 2009, 07:41:04 pm
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I'm all for it.

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Re: Split Gaming into Fighting Games and General Gaming?
#6  July 16, 2009, 09:48:22 pm
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I think those first three topics are already properly located, but yeah it'd be nice if a FG board handled the rest of them.
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Re: Split Gaming into Fighting Games and General Gaming?
#7  July 17, 2009, 07:59:19 am
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yeah i'm just gonna do this

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Re: Split Gaming into Fighting Games and General Gaming?
#8  July 17, 2009, 08:06:58 am
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if i missed any threads or if you guys think some threads don't really belong there (smash brothers and dissidia might be in a gray area) post about it here

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Re: Split Gaming into Fighting Games and General Gaming?
#9  July 17, 2009, 08:53:39 am
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Re: Split Gaming into Fighting Games and General Gaming?
#10  July 17, 2009, 12:42:43 pm
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Re: Split Gaming into Fighting Games and General Gaming?
#11  July 17, 2009, 12:57:35 pm
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That sounds like a good idea actually.
Also, the text need to say FIGHTIN'. Can't forget the apostrophe.

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Re: Split Gaming into Fighting Games and General Gaming?
#12  July 17, 2009, 03:56:46 pm
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These should be added to the new section IMO:


http://mugenguild.com/forumx/index.php?topic=73814.0

http://mugenguild.com/forumx/index.php?topic=76075.0

http://mugenguild.com/forumx/index.php?topic=75661.0

http://mugenguild.com/forumx/index.php?topic=77753.0

http://mugenguild.com/forumx/index.php?topic=78082.0

http://mugenguild.com/forumx/index.php?topic=80086.0

http://mugenguild.com/forumx/index.php?topic=88474.0

http://mugenguild.com/forumx/index.php?topic=88742.0

http://mugenguild.com/forumx/index.php?topic=88456.0

http://mugenguild.com/forumx/index.php?topic=88484.0

http://mugenguild.com/forumx/index.php?topic=90369.0

http://mugenguild.com/forumx/index.php?topic=92858.0

http://mugenguild.com/forumx/index.php?topic=94675.0

http://mugenguild.com/forumx/index.php?topic=95423.0

http://mugenguild.com/forumx/index.php?topic=97131.0

http://mugenguild.com/forumx/index.php?topic=96585.0

http://mugenguild.com/forumx/index.php?topic=98961.0



There's a few more, older ones that dealt with new game releases and whatnot, but those are easier to identify from the title alone.

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Re: Split Gaming into Fighting Games and General Gaming?
#13  July 18, 2009, 01:09:37 am
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I'll be going over the rest of those now.

Anjel said, July 17, 2009, 12:57:35 pm
That sounds like a good idea actually.
Also, the text need to say FIGHTIN'. Can't forget the apostrophe.
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Re: Split Gaming into Fighting Games and General Gaming?
#14  July 18, 2009, 02:19:21 am
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Or just "Discuss fighting games or related here."

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Re: Split Gaming into Fighting Games and General Gaming?
#15  July 20, 2009, 06:56:44 pm
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cool, thanks to this suggestion now I am ignoring the general gaming forum; can we make the fighting games forum the root one ?

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Re: Split Gaming into Fighting Games and General Gaming?
#16  July 20, 2009, 08:28:35 pm
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Re: Split Gaming into Fighting Games and General Gaming?
#17  July 20, 2009, 10:09:31 pm
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Contras:

  • What practical need for that? You can click directly on the FIGHTING childboard even from the board index.
  • Fighting Games > Other Gaming Stuff seems backwards
  • Fighting Games & Gaming next to each other increase board index height -- doesn't seem worth it

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Re: Split Gaming into Fighting Games and General Gaming?
#18  July 21, 2009, 03:47:09 pm
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It would be essentially a matter of highlighting the forum's focus on the understanding of fighting games and their mechanics - having a section for them just seems natural, although it practically never happens in a Mugen forum for some reason.

Even if one isn't at top level, at least now it exists, which is at least a step forward.

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Re: Split Gaming into Fighting Games and General Gaming?
#19  July 21, 2009, 03:50:07 pm
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I like it the way it is, please keep it as it's the most logical choice as fighting games are a part of gaming even if the forum's main focus is fighting games.

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Re: Split Gaming into Fighting Games and General Gaming?
#20  July 21, 2009, 06:09:08 pm
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mugen is a game and the mugen forums are not part of the gaming one either.

as loona said, fighting games overall are more relevant and should be in the same level or higher than general games, but what we have now is much, much better than before.

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Re: Split Gaming into Fighting Games and General Gaming?
#21  July 22, 2009, 01:18:09 am
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