What's your fighting style?

[GamerMON]

By quoting vin diesel. If you pull out Fast and the Furious quotes, people will be too confuse to play effectively. Did that all the time on my last room's xbox 360 live account. God I ended enjoying that more to troll than actually play.

[elvis]

Games: turtle.

IRL: Muay Thai.

[smurdd]

I just keep attacking. I'm not good at blocking.

[DCsegaDH]

I'm usually a offensive player, but I suck at most fighting games, most people counter me. Most times when I play SF2 I pick ken, but lately Ive gotten pretty good with E. Honda.

[elvis]

Speaking as someone who's been playing fighting games since they first appeared in arcades, it's interesting to see some 20 years later what the newest generation of fighting game players are like.

So many are hyper-offensive with no regard for defence or strategy. I don't know if it's the surge of games that promote random mashing, or just that people are watching videos from top level tournaments and assuming they can pull off the same sorts of things 30 days later. But it's certainly amusing to see some of the sore losing that goes on online when people can't even master the 101 basics of fighting games, and get pissy when they lose to the same handful of moves (throwing out the scrub's favourite insult: "cheap", on the way out the door).

Funny stuff.

[Yukima]

I'm usually a offensive player, but I suck at most fighting games, most people counter me.

Yup! I'm not very good either, and I always forget how to use special moves - I usually end up using them on accident! And for the Street Fighter games, I really only use 2 characters - Chun-Li and Sakura (almost always Sakura whenever she's a playable character!)

[jfrost]

Mixed martial arts. Main style Muai Thay. :)

[DCsegaDH]

I'm usually a offensive player, but I suck at most fighting games, most people counter me.

Yup! I'm not very good either, and I always forget how to use special moves - I usually end up using them on accident! And for the Street Fighter games, I really only use 2 characters - Chun-Li and Sakura (almost always Sakura whenever she's a playable character!)

I'm not good because I don't play in the arcades that much or play against anyone most of the time just the computer usually. Ive gotten better at SF2 and it takes awhile to get use to playing on joysticks, at least I will be better when I visit Gameworks.

[racketboy]

I'm usually pretty defensive and then going in with some standard attacks at the right moment and trying to throw in some combos when the moment is right.

I usually stick with the more "standard" characters like your Ken or Terry Bogard.

[the7k]

Speaking as someone who's been playing fighting games since they first appeared in arcades, it's interesting to see some 20 years later what the newest generation of fighting game players are like.

So many are hyper-offensive with no regard for defence or strategy. I don't know if it's the surge of games that promote random mashing, or just that people are watching videos from top level tournaments and assuming they can pull off the same sorts of things 30 days later. But it's certainly amusing to see some of the sore losing that goes on online when people can't even master the 101 basics of fighting games, and get pissy when they lose to the same handful of moves (throwing out the scrub's favourite insult: "cheap", on the way out the door).

Funny stuff.

I used to be an extremely defensive player when I first started playing fighting games. In fact, this extended to everything I played - RTSs, I'd always build extremely thick walls and just concentrate on resource building. FPSs, I'd move slowly and hole out a good spot to 'camp' in.

Then, I realized something - playing defense isn't fun, and it rarely got me victories. So, I started playing all of my games like I'm Rambo, and now I have fun and actually win every now and then.

I don't ignore defense, although rather than blocking and turtling, I now only use evasion and counters. Pretty much every time I'm forced to block, I know I'm going to lose.