/vr/ - Retro Games

I don't see why people are so touchy about playing fighting games in single player. If you go online the skill levels are all over the map. How can you say you are good at the game if you have no baseline to compare to? That's why fighting the AI is great. If you put it on medium everyone around the world who plays on that setting is going against the exact same algorithms so it provides a good standard to measure from. If you say "I beat Street Fighter Alpha 2 on medium" everyone who has played it will know what that means and how hard it was. But if you said "I beat xXxSephiGoku42069" that means absolutely nothing. To me it's far more impressive to say you 1cc'd a fighting game on very hard than to be at the top of some leader board because there's no way to know how good your online opponents were. At least on very hard you accomplished something because you defeated the game the way the developers have planned for you to.

Maybe I'm just old fashioned because I grew up playing the AI in SF and MK on SNES as a kid but I get more satisfaction with playing the games that way than against real people. You can say the AI doesn't behavior like a real person would and is easier to exploit, and while that may be true, a large part of the victory comes from knowing how your character controls, being able to get your moves out with the right timing, and knowing the other guy's moves so there's still skill involved in overcoming that.