jester747 wrote:Well yeah, I apologize for the elitism, I didn't mean to sound so hipster. >_<
Happens to everyone. I'm sorry for jumping you like a rabid hyena.
Jester wrote:While the point about patience and timing is partially true, it's very unlikely for that system of game. When I played Kenny those hundreds of times whilst I was still a beginner, I kid you not, until after the first month, I had beaten him twice. Neither of those times were luck, either, it was down to fractions of a health on both sides after vigorous amounts of effort from both parties.
True, there's definitely an aspect of spamming in MvC2 (Cable, Iceman, Sentinel, Doom,) but it's also true that once you reach a certain level of play, virtually every kind of spamming dissipates, because you'll learn how to get around it. Other than spamming DP, I'd say it's fairly similar with SF.
Perhaps. There is no such thing as a perfect defense though, and I have strenuous doubts as to the breakage of spammination; maybe the standard spam attacks, but not the ingenuitive ones. People break games in order to win; no matter how good you are, there's always a cheater that's better.
Jester wrote:This is exactly my point. XD
It doesn't have that same build up as a standard fighter.
I'd say it does, just isn't as technical. You've got multiple characters lined up on a 2D plane beating the pulp out of each other with multiple combos and killer timing. You just don't have combo lists that'd make McDonalds jealous and chain attacks that require very tight timing. I still won't bend on expert, but mastering a hadouken (one of the easier button combo attacks, from what I remember) is still generally harder than the hardest SS attack.
Jesteh wrote:Well, this is primarily what I meant either way. XD
But still, even songs like 'Don't Stop Believin' by Journey have an exceptional amount of simplicity to them. I love that song, but I won't deny it's immeasurably easy to perform. (sans vocals, of course.)
And by four chord songs, I was referring to songs with just that; four chords. That is, not songs with anything going on than those four chords. (Except for maybe throwing in some disgustingly shallow bass riffs.) So basically ninety percent of modern rock and country, and all of modern pop.
And I still disagree. Firstly, there's nothing wrong with simplicity, which though you ain't saying it, you is implying it. At the least that it's inferior to a complex riff; secondly, I still don't see simplicity as being easy. Especially considering very few songs in the genre's you named are simple; they're hyped up with effects, drums and bass lines (even ones you call simple) to the point where simplicity--a guy singing his heart out with a guitar--is completely lost.
I have struggled to write songs with only four chords in it, just because finding the right four isna as easy as you claim it to be. I just don't see it. Unless, like I said, you mean the same I IV V I (or whatever) chord pattern that a dozen other pop-stars use, but with more or less T Pain effect to make it 'original'.
So MEH upon thine face. >_>