The general crapness of most people playing - What I hate.

[Dach]

"Playing properly? Are you following invisible rules? I agree button mashers are annoying but they win because, unless your really good at fighting, it's a lot easier to be the attacker than the defender. You don't have to resort to button mashing, just understand that the most aggressive player usually wins."

Yes, it's true that the agressive attacker usually wins, but there's a difference between an agressive attack who plays fair and tries to win through their own stratagy and utilizing their own skills - of which, button mashers have none. In a game like X-Men Vs Street Fighter you can mash and actually get somewhere, but that's not playing the game properly.
This online version of XMvSF has ranking tables and online scores, and if people continue the mash the people with actually skills at the game aren't going to win. It's these people that don't deserve to win.

"and what is this game basically? pressing buttons to beat your challenger...... ....strategy??"

Every game is based on stratagy, even Street Fighter. Somehow I'm guessing that you've never played a fighting game before. Let me put it simple for you: Yes, there is a stratagy in XMvSF. Such as the stratagy of anti-air - depending on the character you choose, which attacks with deter people who jump, which supers, etc - the stratagy of priority - where certain attacks take priority over others.
Have your only experiences of a Street Fighter game been limited to the 0.5 cut down versions on the PlayStation and/or this online X-Men Vs Street Fighter? It's obvious that you don't understand the nature of fighting games in general, much less the Vs. series.

If you think I'm whining, maybe you should try facing up to one of the button mashers while you're trying to play with a stratagy. You've never tried playing against someone who knows how to play properly, with skill and stratagy while you try to do the same.

"Even if u do have a strategy u probably find yourself not using it in the match."

Congratulations, you've just proved that you're also a button masher. No wonder you're complaining about my rant - you're one of the people I'm complaining about in the first place.

"then u start crying that they were button mashing cuz they beat you??"

There's a difference between crying, whining and ranting. I'm not upset, I'm pissed off, because in the Vs. series, you suffer just like Tekken does - button mashers prevail over skilled people.

"Maybe you associate their uncanny ability to do combos and trow specials almost at once wthin combos in such as "button mashing" but I already said thats what this game is."

That's utter crap. There are two ways of doing what you described - one is from actually performing your movements. The other is from hitting buttons randomly and hoping for the best, which - annoyingly - happens too often in the VS series.


"get real you are not the best so stop acting like you are some kinda elite non button presser that uses a well thought out srategy (and psycik powers if you not gonna press the buttons) to beat a challenger.........."


Oh, ho! Elite button-presser? I'd rather be that than a sad button masher who couldn't string together a basic Fierce -> Shoryuken combo is their life depended on it, while at the same time viewing that sort of thing as 'shit' and 'for geeks'.

Then again, I'd be extremely surprised if you understood what I've been talking about at all. I could go deeper and explain about gameplay subleties and aesthetics but I feel that its not worth it on someone like you, you'd just not understand and babble on about how I'm "whining" to you again.

"Some people are acting like button mashing is a part of the orginal game."

Button mashing was in the original game though... that said, it was nowhere near as bad, and in the online game there's the problem with sync and attacks that hit where they shouldn't or how they shouldn't (one I noticed was Ryu's standing fierce that should only hit once; instead it hits twice).
I'm not ranting about the game itself though, not at all. I'm ranting about the people who play it. Even in its demo form, the game extremely advanced and, like I'm sure TMyApp has heard many times before, it's without a doubt one of the most advanced Shockwave games I've ever seen. They've all done a great job thus far, and this rant in no way is against the him and the other people who made it.