how do you play fighting games?

[daft alchemist]

I know there's generally two kinds of fighting game styles of play: using combos or button mashing. I started playing Street Fighter when I was about five, and I didn't even know what a combo was back then. The most I could do with combos was getting Chun Li to kick really really fast.

Well, now that I'm trying to get good with Soul Calibur 3, I've had to start to teach myself to use combos, throws, and blocks. I want to be good enough to at least be a little competition for my boyfriend, and I know he'd love that too. My problem is that I still tend to button mash a bit. sweatdrop I'm getting better though.

So how about you all? smile  

[mysticneko]

I button mash when I don't know how to play a game. But I pay attention to what I press so I know what does what. I still can't do B.B.Hood's smiley missile and I know how to do it. Its left and right really fast. gonk But I practice on games alot. Me and my bro do practice mode for hours to get really good at a couple of characters.  

[toast in disguise]

Practice mode.

I remember i got so good at SC2 and Voldo, i would pwn all my friends, and blow though arcade/survival like it was nothing using MAINLY the c stick.

But then i stopped.

Meh, I think almost everyone does/or has button mashed.  

[Pirri]

I don't.  

[Mistagen]

I have a tendacy to button mash, sometimes throwing graps and what-not in. I can press buttons very fast and almsot doesn't appear as button mashing. I've attempted to learn combos but it usaully wastes my time and I get killed.  

[MIA3791]

If I button mash... I die. Depending though on the character and your own personal style, Soul Caliber games are all really good games for the button masher style. I prefer combos because they do a lot of damage and they're cool to watch.  

[dark_kayashi]

I hate button smashing, my cousions used to do that and do moves I never knew existed. And it just made me mad cus she didnt have a clue on what was going on. So nah im not a button smasher, far from it. I might not know certain combos by memory and things like that. But I can woop someone with kasumi in DOA now that woooo *shakes head* you just dont know..
Oh and I dont block, never have, just learned how to fight without it 3nodding  

[HentaiTentacleDemon]

how newbie are you right now? do u know how to turtle and poke? because those things should be learned first, before combos.  

[daft alchemist]

Well, I know how to turtle in RTS's anyway. I'm not sure how that works in fighting games though. I could be doing it, but I wouldn't really know; I've never heard of turtling in fighting games before. sweatdrop I do know how to poke, especially since I'm attempting to specialize with the girl who uses the polearm. I don't remember her name. I start out every match with a good poke and then I usually try to follow up with a good lunge attack while they're still stunned. I'm getting better, even if slowly. 3nodding  

[bslayer4]

I don't like to button mash unless I'm playing a game for the first time and don't know how to do characters' moves and so on. I don't play many fighting games besides Dead or Alive so that's the only one I'm any good at right now.  

[Rosemerta]

I used to button mash all the time, and I still do sometimes. Especially If it's a new game. sweatdrop But I do what I can to practice combos and stuff. Soul Calibur 2 and Super Smash Bros Melee are the two games I play the most...therefore the ones I'm better at getting combos in... mrgreen  

[Pi with an E - DF]

i work on combos sometimes.... then i use them in battle. for ex: use this on Taki from Soul Calibur 2 for Gamecube: >> Y or < Y  

[kurisutaru_annu]

I button mash and hope for something cool to happen. I need to learn combos, though.  

[Shiama]

I button mash when I have no idea how to play a fighting game. But then I continue to do that until i figure out some of the combos and go back and do those. Finally when I finally get kind of good with the character I look up some combos and start to use those. It takes some time because i have a horrid memory XD  

[Sparklykiss]

Hmm... If I'm new to the game, I press every button on the controller and mash them up... After that, I go into my repeat phase and do the same thing over and over and over... sweatdrop Then, I start the combo mode... Then it starts over again... I tend to go from all of those... I spend a lot of time repeating the fancy stuff... mrgreen