Recent content by Black Marf

Troll troll troll! This MLG caused some very entertaining matches. The beast low-tiers were fun to watch, and watching M2K dominate was entertaining as well. Seriously, even my non-Brawl playing friends thought this stuff was impressive.

I... what? You think M2K's ability to read has to do with the CHARACTER'S strength, and you're calling me confused? You think that there isn't objective material for how strong MK is, like the frame data on his planking ability, his disjoint, his trajectory, the tornado, etc? Players, plural...

And yet you came up with a perfect example of things that have nothing to do with a metagame, and talked about them being part of a character's metagame. So my ability to read and abuse your behaviors has to do with how good of a character MK is? My ability to zone and space has to do with...

This isn't what a metagame is. A metagame is based around the trends and strategies which exist in the competitive environment of the game. Individual talent, skill, yomi ability, etc have nothing to do with trends and strategies. If I know what methods you're talking about, this is true...

He's describing how to make reliable statistical analysis and why. Basically, M2K is smarter than most people at this game. Therefore, we instead look at uh... Ksizzle's results, since those results have actually been replicated and therefore are more reliable. Really, since everybody who's...

M2K, although you're right that you're more likely to find the top of the metagame by looking at the top players, it ends up being bad statistics. Using such a small sample size, it's far more likely for there to be unaccounted for variables affecting the results. This leads to skewed and...

There isn't a strong reason that difficulty to play should be a quality desired in a competitive game. Difficulty to play, in this case, is being defined as having strict technical requirements. Difficulty in making your character do what you want him/her to do isn't desirable. It's the same...

Well let's look at a matchup chart for a REAL fighting game that REAL men play, SF4. http://www.eventhubs.com/guides/2008/oct/17/street-fighter-4-tiers-character-rankings/ Sagat looks like MK and Ryu/Akuma also look pretty good. I could look up match stuff, but right now my internet's...

Read my post before you respond, or stop straw manning. I'm not sure which is the culprit here. "Considering that two" does not imply or say that those are the only qualities you look at. They say that those are qualities you care about (among others), which seems to be true from your posting. I...

This is very common in fighting games, and is usually considered to have not enough justification to ban a character. Having a dominant character is fine. The point in contention is how dominant a character has to be before he is banned. Akuma. Also, Magic experience suggests that if MK was...

Was the tax advice trying to buy the right to insult him? I mean god**** dude, he's the single best MK at the moment. He's defined the character, and he's one of the people to beat to win any national. Thinking M2K is just some schmuck hiding behind a broken character is absolutely...

Considering that two qualities that define good competitive games for you are technical difficulty and potential for combos, it isn't surprising that you also assume that good competitive games cater specifically to the top.

That too, but ADHD/Ally/M2K would not be winning nationals unless their characters were good in the first place. MKs/Snakes/Diddys would not be placing unless the character was good in the first place. You look at more than the top player, you look at the entire trend for that character.

The easiest and most fundamental way to determine what's good in a game is results. It's not like you can crack open the game, play around with the characters, and theoretically determine an entire tier list. The theories have to be tested, because some relevant theoretical reasoning that works...

Yeah I'm a *******. :3 EDIT: They censor that word? lol Just trying to point out that it's impossible to take out the chance aspect of those games without changing what they test for. You can't take it out to make a "more competitive" game, it'll just be a different game. I feel like at this...