A question for those of you who still frequent arcades.

[Flooper]

Are arcades still full of retards and shit talkers? Back in 2002 before my arcade closed down I use to play 3rd Strike quite a bit. Besides the random scrub the only real comp came from a group of guys who who were hardcore into MvC 2 and to a lesser extent 3rd strike. They always practiced at home with sticks and all of them walked around with an elitist attitude. They acted like they should never lose a match for any reason. I give them credit they were pretty good, but not good enough to stop me from whooping their asses in 3rd strike over half the time, and the only time I ever got a chance to play 3s was at the arcade.

But after a while I grew sick of it. There was so much hostility there it was ridiculous. These guys only wanted to play each other and no one else. They didn't think anyone else deserved to play because they thought they were the best. Everytime they lost there was always some snide comment about my play (I used Alex, Urien, and Oro mainly), and everytime they won the shit talking began. And these guys were fucking serious too. Two of my best friends I met at the arcade, but 90% of the other people that played were assholes. The best player I ever met there tho was a fucking cool guy who was always trying to help people and teach them new stuff. The rest of the people there had some mental issues tho. There was a never a chance to get along with these guys. From the second you walk in there was hostility. It was like everyone was trying to prove themselves as a man. It was pitiful.

So has the arcade scene improved, or is still full of elitist shitheads?

[RXS]

lots of elitists.. but also lots of people who are afraid to play because they think they're not good enough.. and then comes the teenage angst :lame: and then we look like elitist cuz they make us out to bee that way even though we're not

RXS

[Ducky]

Around here pretty much everyone knows and talks to each other. No reason to talk shit when you are on an island... it all comes back to you fast as fuck.

[lith]

So has the arcade scene improved, or is still full of elitist shitheads?

From where I'm coming from it never was full of elitist shitheads. We all congregated in a public place to share in a common passion. So all the frequent arcade goers became good friends.

Now... the one and only arcade here has MvC2. Just about everytime I'm in the area I play a game or two of MvC2. By myself. Getting up to Abyss then quiting. Praying to God someone, ANYONE, will challenge me. I have yet to play a human here. I could care less how arrogant someone is, if they want to play me then halle-fucking-lujah!!!

[bellreisa]

I don't think it's fair to quantify every single arcade in the world as elitist by reducing it down to your personal experiences.

[ExplosiveSwords]

the arcades in north jersey are pretty elitist.. almost dangerously if u ask me, ive seen people get real fuckin serious over a mvc 2 match....

[Flooper]

I don't think it's fair to quantify every single arcade in the world as elitist by reducing it down to your personal experiences.

You're right, but remember that dude S-kill. His articles seemed to confirm my suspicion that some of these people were playing a different game than I was. Some of these people who took this game personal and strived to try and humilate everyone they played to boost their pathetic fragile ego. Remember those monkeys who would try to get in a fist fight with you when you threw them in SF 2. It kinda felt like that all over. Its like everytime I won it seemed these guys thought I was mugging them and stealing their 50 cents. I had lots of fun playing with cool peeps even when I got my ass whooped. But it just seemed the more time passed the less you got players who were looking to enjoy themselves and the more you got guys who were cutthroat bitches that took this shit like life and death. I can't help but feel that at least every place had to experience this in the slightest. Guess it kinda goes hand in hand with the slow and inevitable death of arcades.

[Xnine]

Shit. the only decent game we have here is SVC chaos and you know what that means.

[CrotchMonkey]

Shit. the only decent game we have here is SVC chaos and you know what that means.
you put decent and svc chaos in the same sentence.

[SiLLiEMutAfuKA]

you put decent and svc chaos in the same sentence.

Shit, I suggest that guy to watch his back.

[unsmart]

At UCLA X-cape, everyone who played was usually mad cool. Everyone gets discouraged to some degree about losing. But then there are two MvC2 players who come to mind though (I won't describe their appearance or the teams they picked) always hitting the machine when losing, sometimes causing the screen to flicker or even freezing the machine. Not cool.

[Infested Jester]

Last time I played in an arcade (2 months ago) I was being called a "cheap ass mutha-fuka" by a some homies who thought Uriens Aegis set ups were cheap. The SvC machine had a line to play, and the $1.00 to start and $1.00 to continue T5 machine had nobody within 5 feet of it the whole time I was there.

[archetype]

The elitist attitude rears is ugly head at tournaments too. People could be playing a match or casual and there could be a person in the crowd making snide comments on the play. Or a group of "top players" commenting on past matches loud as hell so peeps could hear them. I hate that stuff. It makes new cats scared to play because they don't want people to see them lose or get cracked on. I know used to get hesistant to play when a lot of peeps are around but now i don't care.

peace

Sav

[BananaWeed]

The arcade I play at is right in the midst of downtown Toronto, and for the most part the people there are cool. I say hi and stuff to the regulars, and there's no shit talking if someone loses. There are the occasional elitists who have bad attitudes when they lose, but I just shrug it off.

[strakka]

The arcade I play at is right in the midst of downtown Toronto, and for the most part the people there are cool.

Funland? I hate that place. Your sticks suck. I swear, if sticks were female and had sex, yours would be like pornstars. :tdown: (Nothing against you, of course. I just hate funland sticks with a passion)

[BananaWeed]

The American sticks? Theyr'e ok most of the time, some times they need tweaking, and we just call over the guy that works there, and he fixes it for us.

What was wrong when you used'em?

[TheSix]

A few weeks ago I was randomly playing CVS2 at some random arcade at the road. Im not really a fan of the game, so therefor, hadn't played it more than twice at a friends house on live. Im just BS'ing around with some random character and this guy comes and pops down a quaters. I lose, but not very badly. Then he gets up and tells the people he came in with "I wasn't even trying. Not to mention I don't play with him". He yells it loud enough for the whole place to hear him. Seeing as how I don't play the game, I really didn't give a crap. But you could bet I was there to say "Now what smartass?" when my little brother pulled out his blanka on his ass. That time, he was quick to leave with out comment.

[DeusFNL]

I remember a lot of similar situations that happened to me a few years ago. It was around the time that MvC2 was still climbing in popularity. Since I didnt play 2D fighting games that much back then, it was no secret that i didnt exactly know even some of the basics (just too give u an idea of how badly i sucked). I was mostly an avid Soul Calibur player.
When I saw MVC2, i decided to give it a try. Now, it seemed from the very FIRST, fucking time that i tried it, there would always be some asshole who would walk over (the kind that looked like he spent his entire day there), see that I sucked horribly, plunk down a few quarters, and whoop my ass horribly while one or two of his friends watched. Afterwards, most of the time, he'd laugh, or his friends would laugh for him.
Now, after a while, I pretty much gave up on playing the game or similar types, seeing as how it seemed that WHENEVER i would try to at least get into it, there would always be some guy, seeing that I posed no threat to his skill, would decide to make himself feel better by beating me, who had hardly even started playing the game. As a result, I only recently started to get into MVC2 and other 2D fighting games.

[YellowS4]

Funland can suck a fucken cock

[BananaWeed]

I go to Ryerson, so I go to funland on breaks and stuff. Where do you play? Pacific mall?

[YellowS4]

Yes but I drop by FL on occasion just to piss ppl off.

[Silentness!]

When I first started playing Marvel years ago, some kid made some wise crack jokes when he owned me.

"I didnt know Magneto could fly." (I didnt have a clue really how to use Magneto so my magneto was flying around the screen in flight mode)

Oh yeah and walking away from the machine during the middle of a match isn't too pleasing as well.

Even though both of these things made me angry, I got better and now strived to become a better MvC2 player.

Now I'm a fast flyer (Sent), ROM infinite whore (magneto), LAxxLS abuser (storm), AHVBx? beast (Cable)!

[Spider-Man]

The only decent games worth playing at the big arcade on the Gold Coast here are MvC and XvSF, and a machine with Galaga, Pacman, Galaxian and a few other cool oldschool games in it. The rest are just like fifty Datona machines that no one plays anymore, and all these lame dancing machines. All the elitests here are the little punks who take their shirts off and get on the dance machines to impress the 12 year old girls who come in to watch them. Although I saw a guy playing MvC the other day for the first time in years and he was a total jerkoff.

It's funny, up on the Gold Coast (in the city) all the people are like Yanks, they talk tough but have nothing to back it up with. Down in the smaller towns, people are more real. They don't talk tough unless they know they can fight, and if they can't, they keep their bratty little mouths shut. It's just a shame all the small town arcades are closing down, or gone.

[4neqs]

There are good players but there are also retards, scrubs(but not so bad), and people who smell (ugh).

[CammyFighter]

Every time I go to a video game arcade, nothing works! Half the games are falling apart, and the others, I put my dollars in and nothing happens, sometimes I get big error screens. The arcade scene in Australia has really gone down the drain, no one plays or even fixes the good games, and Spider-Man is right, the only ones people play are these skinny little kids on the dancing games.

[BananaWeed]

LOL@Guys taking their shirt off and showing off in DDR.

YellowS4: Let me know when you're gonna stop by funland, and we'll play.

[Spider-Man]

So what exactly IS a scrub anyway ? We used to call ferral, smelly skanky whores "scrubs" back in high school. Then a few years later, they came out with this song, which redefined a scrub as "a guy who can't get no love from some ugly black whore who sits in his best friends car hollering at said whores". Now I see all these games players calling people scrubs, and talking about "turtling". So what's a scrub, and what's "turtle" mean? Over here it means you really need to hang a turd and it's poking itself out of your arse, and you should really put down the controller and hit the shithouse.

[MKKID]

A scrub is someone who plays but will never be any good in higher competition. They just do the same things over and over again even if they get punished. Basically they don't have the mindset to get better. A turtle is someone who waits for you to attack and then counter attacks does damage and turtles again. A newb is someone who is just starting the game. At that point you can't really tell if they will be a scrub or will get better eventually. Anyways that is my interpretation. It really doesn't bother me anyhow.

As far as arcades go, you still have the arcades that don't fix their machines. In Las Vegas, we are fortunate enough to have one that will fix them. The people are your usual type. You have your shit talkers (not many but are decent players), people who are playing to be tournament level, casual players who don't have it at home but try when they go once a week, then you have decent players who like me have the game and do pretty well but a las haven't played many tournament level players. We have a pool over everyone type of player. As long as everyone is cool at the end of the night it is good. Lately I have been trying to get some money matches from the shit talkers, but the one I am talking about is also a cheap ass. He is decent though but thinks he is better than he really is. We need more comp in Vegas.