I was surfing around TV Tropes when I found this tidbit of info from this article:http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StopHavingFunGuysQuoteMUGEN has a LOT of these guys running around. Due to just how much ground the MUGEN fanbase covers, you are bound to find every type of this imaginable. For every helpful fellow willing to show you the ropes and help you learn how the engine works, you have a hundred angry vets calling you a noob. For every kind soul that offers to guide you to better versions of the characters you like, there are a ton of snarky folks yelling at you for not knowing better. Then there's the fact that nearly every franchise with characters available in the engine has solid fan base and hate bases, so you can expect a lot of controversy in that regard. Finally and probably most aggravatingly, there is the elitist fighting game fanboy that will laugh at you and despise you if you show so much as a passing interest in Mugen. Because clearly enjoying a fighting game engine means you know nothing about fighting games, right?How often this happens?
While you could probably find some examples for each of those situations, it's a fairly exaggerated account. Of course, a more accurate account wouldn't be as interesting to read, so something more interesting has to be put up.
Titiln said, August 12, 2010, 06:40:50 amthe "i know more than you because you're a noob haha fuck you" people exist everywherePretty much this.@Rolento: I like to think MFG is pretty clean of that type of guy, so that's why you feel that way. However on a lot of other Mugen forums and ESPECIALLY on Youtube, they are a lot more common.
You know how many stages I had to make to gain a position high enough to tell Mugen newbies that their shit sucks compared to the good old days?Also, that description has a lot of stuff that is nothing but an exaggeration of how things were what, 5 years ago?Finally, READ THE DOCS
I'll get right to that in a couple of years.Right after I finish working on Duck King....The sad part is remembering back in the day when I coulda done 30 stages in a week.
http://mugenguild.com/forumx/index.php?topic=119250.msg1171896#msg1171896I'm being helpful instead of being an angry noob calling vet!
Less often than possible given the member base.You'll note it's generally the same people. And that there are a small entourage who have no other redeeming characteristics or abilities but think that's how they should behave. Cos they're just band wagon people.
Caddie said, August 12, 2010, 08:28:32 amhttp://mugenguild.com/forumx/index.php?topic=119250.msg1171896#msg1171896I'm being helpful instead of being an angry noob calling vet!
Caddie said, August 12, 2010, 08:28:32 amhttp://mugenguild.com/forumx/index.php?topic=119250.msg1171896#msg1171896I'm being helpful instead of being an angry noob calling vet! oooooh my head....
There was a time when simply releasing a modified version of someone's work was treated as a crime of some sort, regardless of what was atually modified, even if it involved any sort of improvement, either aesthetical or gameplay based - it was a popular assumption in some circles that modification would only ever involve shiny effects and screen-covering attacks or something - it may have happened frequently, but if you read some people's posts you'd get the impression that it was physicaly impossible for things to be done differently.Things have calmed down a bit in that respect, fortunately. Experimenting with ideas for the 2D fighting game genre of working on your personal interpretation of a character were always amonst Mugen's strong points, even if the results won't always be great or respectable.
