/vr/ - Retro Games

There isn't such a thing as "training" with savestates. You're cheating.

You're not an athlete before a match. You're playing a video game. The moment you turn on the game, you're playing by the games' rules and the moment you use savestates you're cheating.

And it doesn't matter if you do it all again without savestates afterwards: being able to physically execute the button presses required to beat a game is only half the learning required to beat the game, the other half is all the game knowledge specific to the game. If you learn that half with savestates, playing the game in one go afterwards doesn't erase that knowledge, it's still knowledge acquired through cheating.

So stop pretending you're an athelete training before a match. You're a cheater using a time machine during the match.
"Training" is for instance, try to improve your DPS in SHMUPs by tapping your fingers while you're not playing. Another example is Street Figher IV's training room designed to help you learn the controls and hitboxes in safe conditions; THAT'S a training mode. None of these things put you in the same conditions as playing the game.

>>9832276
>Why are people like this?

Because you HAVE to play OoT and Earthbound and Chrono Trigger or else you don't BELONG as a GAMER™

How my friend played Chrono Trigger so he too could become a GAMER™
>256x224 size x1 window on his laptop
>keyboard only
>while browsing the internet and chatting at the same time
>with the TV is on
>while listening to music at the same time
>while alt-tabbing once every minute to check on his illegal bot that's grinding for him in his favourite Korean MMORPG
>while abusing the x3 fastforward speed key
>since the above leads to dying a lot, spams savestates/loadstate every few seconds as well

Then he could say he played Chrono Trigger and was a real GAMER™

I love how new posters get into the thread, without reading anything posted before, only to post the same mistakes as the others before them and show they too lack basic reading comprehesion or attention span for a story as simple as Resident Evil, all while thinking they're bringing up smart points.

You people are double dumb and it's even worse on the week-end.