2nd June 2004, 6:28 PM
I too am a speed over power player. My feeling is that if you are constantly attacking without giving the enemy time to react, and are able to move fluidly around with speed flowing into more attacks, then the enemy won't have time to land an attack. The power players depend on finding openings in the attack style of the enemy of course, and those will always exist in a good game that puts openings in all the moves, and then taking those moments to use the slow but powerful attacks.
I myself just don't enjoy fighting like that. It's never been my style. I'll work with other characters to learn them well enough that I can do somewhat average with them, but generally I'll always pick from a certain handful of characters. I'll make it spread out between the fast ones and the medium ones, but powerhouse just isn't my style. Oddly enough, I find I'm not that bad with Nightmare/Siegfried.
Eh, I'll only add that that's ALSO how I race. In games like Mario Kart I tend to not pick the heavy weights, even with their superior momentum and such, in favor of the speed demons like Toad. There is ONE constant battle in my mind, acceleration vs max speed. Game makers know to balance these out so a high rating in one hurts the other. Anyway, generally like in F-Zero I'll have that rating right in the middle. In straightaways, I'll go to max speed, but in really curvy tracks, I'll give myself a decent boost in acceleration. Actually, the "average" tends to be just a little towards acceleration come to think of it...
Hey EM, or whoever loves battling robots. Do you watch Megas XLR? I loved their parody of those shows! *tap tap tap* OOOH!! And the deadly nail attack DEVASTATES the Grim Avenger! *robot flips over* Oh audience, I've never seen such a horrific display of sheer carnage! Then Megas totally tears up a robot for what I REALLY want to see in robot fighting, gears flying about and metal tearing with horrible screeching sounds!
I myself just don't enjoy fighting like that. It's never been my style. I'll work with other characters to learn them well enough that I can do somewhat average with them, but generally I'll always pick from a certain handful of characters. I'll make it spread out between the fast ones and the medium ones, but powerhouse just isn't my style. Oddly enough, I find I'm not that bad with Nightmare/Siegfried.
Eh, I'll only add that that's ALSO how I race. In games like Mario Kart I tend to not pick the heavy weights, even with their superior momentum and such, in favor of the speed demons like Toad. There is ONE constant battle in my mind, acceleration vs max speed. Game makers know to balance these out so a high rating in one hurts the other. Anyway, generally like in F-Zero I'll have that rating right in the middle. In straightaways, I'll go to max speed, but in really curvy tracks, I'll give myself a decent boost in acceleration. Actually, the "average" tends to be just a little towards acceleration come to think of it...
Hey EM, or whoever loves battling robots. Do you watch Megas XLR? I loved their parody of those shows! *tap tap tap* OOOH!! And the deadly nail attack DEVASTATES the Grim Avenger! *robot flips over* Oh audience, I've never seen such a horrific display of sheer carnage! Then Megas totally tears up a robot for what I REALLY want to see in robot fighting, gears flying about and metal tearing with horrible screeching sounds!
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