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sdweim85:
Jackie Chan in Fists of Fire

MTPPC:

--- Quote from: paigeoliver on December 03, 2012, 11:06:30 pm ---The serious downside to fighting games on your cabinet is that you have almost no chance at any of your visitors knowing how to play anything outside of the Streetfighter and Mortal Kombat series.  So your visitors get thrashed by you every single time, and don't end up having a good time.

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The solution to this problem is to flip open your control panel and let them pick 2 or 3 buttons to pull the switches from. You'll still have a move or two, but they can learn defence techniques pretty quick.

rCadeGaming:
Haha, yeah.  If you want to do stuff like that, there's sometimes options to handicap one player's health.

Haze:

--- Quote from: paigeoliver on December 03, 2012, 11:06:30 pm ---The serious downside to fighting games on your cabinet is that you have almost no chance at any of your visitors knowing how to play anything outside of the Streetfighter and Mortal Kombat series.  So your visitors get thrashed by you every single time, and don't end up having a good time.

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You could say the same about pretty much any competitive game.. or if you count not coming anywhere close to the high score table, any game in general.   If playing a game more and refining your skills doesn't make you better at a game then it isn't much of a game at all.

Just because a game is considered 'popular' doesn't mean everybody is going to be magically better at it and won't have played anything else ever, unless they're very boring people, and even if you do know a game better than them you can always pick a character you're less familiar with, or one you KNOW is weaker, that's especially true for fighting games.

If you really want a party to be a snooze fest for other guests then the best way I've seen is to have a selection of only the well known games, which results in everybody taking things way too seriously, only playing the well known games (say sf2) and everybody then picking only Ryu and Ken, because they know Ryu and Ken best.  For everybody NOT playing that's about the most boring thing in the world to watch.  Throw something more obscure at them (like Tattoo Assassins) and you'll get people laughing out loud at all the bizarre stuff they've never seen before cracking off and trying out all the characters they can because they have no upfront knowledge of which character is 'best'  It becomes a lot more enjoyable even if it's meant to be a 'terrible' game

rCadeGaming:
Not sure if you're referring to anything I said, but by definition there's a lot more people playing the "popular" games, so it's much easier to find matches.  So I got stuck playing the "popular" games the most, probably like a lot of other people.  I guess it's a vicious cycle/self-fulfilling prophecy kind of thing...

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