/v/ - Video Games

The Left 4 Dead games are significantly more enjoyable when you focus on the co-op modes. Valve should have just focused on that aspect of the game, we would have ended up with a much better series.

Different for everyone. I only play fighters solo or with my friend in offline versus because I am absolute shit at versing anyone online in games, be it fighters or otherwise.

>>15603542

you are missing out on a huge portion of the game, cpu & singleplayer are an afterthought. fightan is all about mindgames and adaptation, cpu can't do either of those things.

Fighting games are boring as shit without people in the same room to play against.

Usually yes, since fighting games don't have any single player content worth shit. In rare cases when the developers actually care, you might get something that's worth playing alone, but usually they are made for e-sports fags.

>>15603542

It's better than playing Online. If you're not on the couch next to me you might as well be AI. Also, contrary to the post above me, I'd say a lot of fighting games do have good single player content. Soul Edge/Calibur always had good single player, until IV and especially V. III I'd say had the best single player modes, with that RTS adventure mode, and branching paths in Arcade mode, but it also had the most broken AI. I wish they'd bring back that RTS mode in a game with better AI. But more importantly, I wish they'd do a Soul Calibur game that wasn't ruined with DLC up the ass.

I'm perfectly happy playing against CPUs so long as they can offer enough and maybe even surprise me.

Its not wrong, but its sort of gay.

Playing fighting games (and really any games you can play locally/on a couch together) is a joyous thing

>>15603542

For fighting games? Yes, 100%. Fighting games are dead simple for the AI to win in, so the devs have to specifically cripple it in order to let you win. There's always certain moves the AI is programmed to react poorly to in order to make the game easier, meaning the game boils down to figuring out the specific AI failings and continually exploiting them.

>>15605296

>meaning the game boils down to figuring out the specific AI failings and continually exploiting them.

Isn't that what you do with human players as well?

>>15605471

You don't fight the same human 100x in a row and they can figure out what you are doing to counter it. AIs in games are designed to fall for the same tactics endlessly.

>tfw configured my WoW vanilla private server so I can have a party of bot assistants

>>15603551

Co-op (aka Dramatic Battle) was the most fun mode in Alpha

I normally prefer to play with the CPU because of the nature of multiplayer which tends to attract tryhards and memesports faggots, at least if I'm not actually missing on anything relevant and the AI is decent.

for fighting games get some friends and play with them, this is the only correct way of playing such genre and anything else is against the very rules of nature and logic

>>15603542

In some fighting games, the AI is better than the players so there's no shame there imo.

I understand /v/ hates multiplayer because they don't like getting their ass handed?

>>15603542

>I prefer to play vs the AI. None of this VS other players. Is this wrong for fighting games?

AI is a good starter challenge to introduce at the beginning of your time with the game usually this will help prepare for VS. Personally the lack of manuals hasn't made gaming better either. When I was young, I would read instruction manuals like they were a partner on my adventure. Then as I grew older I would read them on the toilet during longer sessions brought on by hangovers and truckstop cheese. Now, there isn't even a manual in half the games and I play through them fine but always missed a shortcut in doing something or played thru without using something that would have enriched the experience.

There's no such thing as playing a game wrong, as long as you enjoy the game as much as you possibly can.

>>15606907

>The only exception to this rule is if you have company, or friends within your immediate proximity.

Not everyone is autistic anon. Showing your friends your favorite games and how good you are at them is fun.

>>15606919

You invited your friends over to watch you play single player all day, didn't you?

>>15606936

>>15606953

>showing how good you are

>singleplayer

>>15603542

Depends on what you want to do. If you want to to win after finding a pattern, then sure. It's not good if you want to fight against other players though.

>>15606919

jesus christ you sound like a faggot

>>15606880

>cousin comes over

>boot Guilty Gear Reload

>he button mashes for a while, show him a few specials he can pull

>I'm not FGG material, but I teach him what little I know

>15 minutes later, we're more or less matched and trading blows while not sucking so much

>goes home, takes the game in CD-ROM

>comes back a few days later, plays much better

>neither of us is any good anyway, but we enjoy it

>take trip north to visit a friend

>hey, he likes Guilty Gear too, I'll bring my gamepad

>"Hell yeah, let's play some GG!"

>starts complaining about frameshit

>tries to start with "ghosting", I politely remind him I'm using a gamepad

>beat him with Testament twice, he takes Potemkin and starts spamming the same two cheap moves

>faggot is grinning smugly now, basically being "That Guy"

>wins after 3 tries, acts like he just won 20 matches in a row

>tell him he did good, I wanna change fighter too

>pick Ky, and he goes Potemkin again

>dance around him, can't touch me, fuck him hard with projectiles

>he stops the fucking smug act and goes silent

>he picks Sol, I change to Axle

>rape his shit so hard it's no longer funny

>decide I'm being too hard on him, I let myself get angry and it might put a dent on our friendship so I'll be the big man here

>take Slayer, he keeps Sol

>I have no fucking idea how to play Slayer, I don't even look up his commands

>experiment with his normals, try simple half-circle commands to figure out his specials

>unsurprisingly, this gets me a few losses in a row

>shithead friend is back to being smug, says I need to learn to play that character

>tell him I like to experiment and find out myself

>"Nah bro, what you need to to watch the PRO's and see how they do it!"

>Googles some Maximmilian dood or some shit eceleb. Insists I see that crap for 20 minutes

>Ask him if were gonna play or watch ecelebs

>"We are gonna play after you learn how to so I don't beat you that easily, ahah!"

>Told him to go fuck himself, went home, never played games with the fucker again.

>months later, he buys Overwatch

>noone wants to play with him, he buys another 4 copies and hands out to his "friends", me included.

>basically guilt trips everyone into playing with him.

>feel sorry for the OTHER guys, agree to try it out.

>it's decent, some matches are fun, some are boring stomps

>couple hours in, the fucker let's us know he's thinking of assembling a professional team to play this shit

<oh fuck no

<out of 20 characters, he outright refuses to play with 17 of them or so, never learns how the others play, constantly complains enemies do shit he doesn't understand

<since we're 5, there's always some random joining us, he blames EVERYTHING on the random guy, even when the guy is miles away from the action

>eventually he buys yet another copy to a girl he was trying to shag

>no more randoms to complain about, I played enough MOBA's to know where this shit is going

>starts railing on every team member for minor shit, and even shit he himself caused

>even screams at the girl he had a fancy on

>one of the other guys tells him to fuck off, never shows up again

>he loudly complains on voicechat

>tell him it's just a casual Blizzard game, why is he that mad?

>"It's not a game you fucktard, it's my fucking career!"

>3 guys and 1 girl burst into tears on voicechat, we can hear squeels and things being thrown on their end

>close chat, never play with him again

Had to tell him to fuck off on his recent "Minecraft server"

The girl he fancied ended up getting it on with one of the other guys, he got so assblasted he fucking migrated to another country.

I still play Overwatch now and then. It's alright, balance a shit though, can't take the game seriously when it's so hilariously broken.

>>15607692

what's ghosting?

>>15607701

When two people only have one computer and one keyboard to play a fighter, you got this problem called ghosting:

old keyboards only supported having a few keys pressed at the same time. Usually 4 or 5.

With two people trying to input specials on the same keyboard, each player might input 4 keys each. So when there's 8 keys being pressed, the keyboard will ignore some of them, making your figher stand still and take a blow to the face, or your special won't fire and you just dash forward to headbutt a fire kick or some shit.

Back then, I used to carry a small gamepad to avoid this issue whenever I had to play a fighter on a friend's PC. Sometimes I forgot to bring it however, and that fucker would complain about Ghosting, blaming he only lost because I was "blocking the keys", never realizing I suffer the same problems he does too and still managed to win. A few weeks later he learned the term, googled it, and never shut the fuck up about it, even when I brought the gamepad. It was like kids when they learn a new word and try to use it everywhere, everytime.

>>15607692

why were you friends with such faggots?

>>15606954

Clearly that is anon's mother.

There is no right way to play video games, but there definitely are wrong ways to play certain video games.

>>15607794

Because I grew up isolated at home and was kept sheltered by over-protective parents that had good intentions but horrible results.

I got to 20 years without knowing how to pick my friends. College boiled down to 5 years of being backstabbed, robbed, burned (yes) and insulted by people I genuinely believed to be my close friends. It was a painful learning process that other people go through from 8 to 18 years when the worst that can happen is someone calling you a "stupid doo doo head".

It also doesn't help that I'm generally a good-hearted person and try to see the good in everyone. It's my nature, ain't gonna change soon, but I know one day it's gonna get me killed.

>>15607802

Fighting games are fun.

A lot of people on the FGG are funny and good people.

Faggots however are faggots, no matter the genre they play as. They simply pick MOBA's/Fighting games to munchkin their way into a sense of superiority.

Pro-tip: trying to beat them won't accomplish anything. Ignoring won't either, but it saves you a lot of headaches and let's you go have fun with people the genuinely likes games.

Take it from someone who had to learn shit like this by banging my head on the wall.

>>15607692

>he got so assblasted he fucking migrated to another country.

Everything went better than expected

>>15604126

>It's better than playing Online. If you're not on the couch next to me you might as well be AI.

This

Also, i prefer to play against every character in the roster than going online to face the 2-3 most broken characters doing the same moves over and over again, it's just not enjoyable for me.

Why would you care if you're having fun? I spend my Time in RTS fucking around , building things and playing out stories with units like playing with toys. I don't see there being anything bad with that.

>>15607901

I do that with every Total War or GS game.

>>15606895

This post is correct.

>>15607901

This is what I do with most games. You can't get the same value doing it playing with others, so I try to avoid playing vidya with other people. For example, in SWBF2, I would have a lot of fun "RPing" as a random stormtrooper who was getting increasingly frustrated with the bullshit assignments he was sent on. "I think Hoth is my least favorite planet in the galaxy. Fuck the rebels for putting their base here." Stuff like that.

>>15608328

I used to do this all the time too. I stopped though because it harder to "immerse" myself in games nowadays

>>15607829

>It also doesn't help that I'm generally a good-hearted person and try to see the good in everyone. It's my nature, ain't gonna change soon, but I know one day it's gonna get me killed.

I also have a good nature. Anyone who makes a threat against you is your enemy. It is OK to destroy their lives.

>>15603551

Versus I feel was too good to pass up, even if it eventually turned into the elitist shitshow that it is now. Playing as a hunter, coordinating with complete randoms and whatnot was such a joy.

>>15608364

I play every other weekend with some friends from my old job. It's a lot of fun. Last game we derailed hard since a player was away and ended up going on a quest to get the two party virgins laid.

I'd like to be in another game so I can play as a girl sometime, though. Not that I don't like playing as guys, but playing as a girl can be a fun exercise as long as you don't fag it up. Since my current character will probably never die (the DM takes it easy on us and it's hard as shit to die in 5e) I'll probably be playing as him for the rest of the campaign. I like him so it's fine, but still, it would be a refreshing change of pace.

>>15608907

How would you play a girl and not fag it up to some extent? You're gonna get hit on and have to be used to advance the parties goals with your body.

>>15607692

Please tell us about the Minecraft Server experience, it seems interesting.

>>15611273

Anon, I'm pretty sure normalfags don't get their D&D characters laid. Or even have D&D characters, for that matter.

>>15611186

Yeah, fair point. You're probably just playing a guy with tits and a vagina otherwise. But I meant "don't flirt with party members or be an attention whore." It's a fine line.

>>15611273

It was funny, seeing them awkwardly spill spaghetti the way they did.

>>15611323

I wish I could play Diddy Kong Racing again for the first time.

>>15611639

>Yeah, fair point. You're probably just playing a guy with tits and a vagina otherwise. But I meant "don't flirt with party members or be an attention whore." It's a fine line.

>"don't flirt with party members or be an attention whore."

Then you're not playing as a woman.

>>15603542

Shoryuken

Shoryuken

>>15603551

That's playing it right though.

>>15603551

I never bothered playing versus. I only boots the game when friends want to try coop missions/campaigns.

>>15603542

It really depends on the game. Some games like SoulCalibur III and Mortal Kombat are usually filled with content for single player just to fuck around with AI or non-playable opponents made specifically so you have a different or even "unfair" challenge.

>>15607692

Yeah that's a really fucking infuriating story, well I mean it starts off nice but the turning point is really:

>I still play Overwatch now and then.

That's when it's no longer funny.

>>15603542

I hate people

Why not VERSUS?

>>15603542

Yes with regards fighting games because people can do unexpected things use cunty tactics, one can get complacent beating AI but when, for example, my brother or nephew show up and they join in they fluke wins here and there despite not being as boned up on the game as me.

>>15603597

Fight night Round 3 managed to be entertaining without other players but admittedly was even more fun with.

>>15606936

lol my nephew (4) does this

<uncle anon can i play with you?

>i start taking my pants down

>what do you wanna play?

<lets play spider man (2)

>don't say "lets play" only faggots use that phrase

then i proceed to watch him play spiderman 2 while i sit their like a prick

>>15603542

Fighting games have an AI that reads your inputs and acts accordingly, it's better to play against humans honestly. Even if I am fucking SHIT at the game and only get 3-5 wins every 30 matches but whatever fuck you bitch Eventually you can just cheese the AI as well.

>>15606206

>trying to play a casual game of sc6

>set room as beginner room

>6k rp players who can combo 10 times in a row and beat you without a single mistake join

why

Fighting games really are the best with friends, sadly none of my friends like fighting games.

>>15607901

This sounds extremely autistic anon but pretty fun actually

>>15608364

We need a DnD game for /v/ I've never actually played it but I want to

inb4 there is one but I just haven't seen it

>>15603542

Any game where you can turn the cpu against itself just to see it fuck itself over is a good time.

>>15638290

Play Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together and once you get two clerics ( or a cleric and an exorcist) that have the heal spell, let them beat each other up until both are level 50.

In any Mega Man game, I see using anything that isn't the buster as sacrilege.

Bought SC6 for custom editor and cosmetic modding

>>15645753

what version should I buy? deluxe or standard?

>>15645756

deluxe includes the goy-pass and a physical soundtrack/steel case

>>15603583

Unless you are playing couch co-opt, at a tournament live or in an arcade then there is no point in playing against "real" people.

>>15606852

it seems more plausible that the explanation is

>Anti-social autist does not like interacting with other people

>>156077741

>when there's 8 keys being pressed, the keyboard will ignore some of them

The actual name is blocking. Ghosting is when the keyboard registers keypresses that you didn't do. Blocking was implemented on cheap keyboards to prevent ghosting (which is worse).

There's n-key rollover keyboards with varying degrees shitty hacks to accomplish it (most manufacturers are lazy and emulate 2+ keyboards which can break some programs; very few do it right), which allow an arbitrary amount of keypresses.

If you ever plan on getting a keyboard with NKRO, make sure it's toggleable because if it uses shitty hacks you'll get funky shit (e.g. \a\\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a when holding \ and a). also NKRO mode may not work on BIOS/UEFI or with KVM switches)

>>15606907

>There is no wrong way to play a game if you're having fun.

As a kid I didn't have internet access and played single-player first-person shooters a lot. Especially I liked the games where you can pick up stuff. In such games instead of playing it through as intended I would often kill all the enemies in a certain area and start building a comfy home out of all the trash I can find. Specifically I remember doing this in Half-Life 2 and Alpha Prime. Later I learned of Garry's Mod though.

>>15606954

>he thinks there are girls on the interwebs

wat

>>15645756

Standard but wait til a price drop