SoulFist said:
I'm just curious, because I know you played random select in SSFIV, but why do you just play random?
Had to come back to this since a friend mention you replied to the random question.
There are a bunch of reasons I play Random the first being that it makes you a better player. Knowing how to play as everyone makes you better at defending/attacking everyone. Sure this is something you can gain watching or playing against specific characters, but I don't think that is as effective as actually using everyone.
Next it is tiresome playing as the same character every game. If I wanted to use the same character throughout I would simply buy an action game not a fighter. Variety in a fighting game is what makes it fun. If I can pick any character and still hold my own and win it is more of an accomplishment than if I pick my best character every time.
Another reason is when playing with friends it is a more 'fair' way to play...sure in Street Fighter if I were to pick Ken or Ryu every time my friends may not get many wins but it would be boring, now if I go random and have to win with Viper that makes it more of a challenge and overall enhances my experience with the game.
Take MvC2 for example...no random select. What happens is it becomes tedious to try and decide who to pick every match. With a random button that tedium is taken away.
This is not to say that I always go 100% random select...I would say it is probably closer to 75%. For example in MvC3 I do have teams picked out that I want to use and will (Team RE, Team DS, SF Girls)...but the majority of the time I will be selecting the '?' and will have variety, competition and fun without having to recycle the same characters over and over.
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! Thanks for the input!
Seriously, you'd do a better job.
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