As the topic goes, saw this asked in the form of a poll in various other fighting game forums so thought it'd be interesting to ask for DOA as well. What do you normally root for? do you normally root for the character entirely in fighting games? rooting for the players only because you don't really care what character is on screen as long as you root for players in fighting games? or edging one over the other?
Like an event, if you are a spectator watching a match, online, or some event at grand finals.
For me, I root for characters way more with slight bit towards the player as well with two reasons on my end.
1) The type of character presented and the amount of work you have to do with that character to achieve results. Especially characters that are simply not easy to use at all or high execution that provides phenomenal rewards. You have everything in your disposal with such a character but you have to work for it, compared to a character where they also have everything in their disposal but will barely need anything demanding, effortless. In some cases, you can have a very demanding bad character as well that sometimes may make a character not worth the effort putting into.
2) A character can be an underdog similar to a player, especially a character that's very possible to not be very good in general. An unknown/underrated character suddenly rising up and defeating the theories of situations and labeled as "nobody plays" or low tier, or seeing the pleasure of a very bad character suddenly overcoming the odds of being dealt with the bad hand of terrible match ups and surviving with X/Y bad character because of opponent's mistakes who's using a common character that everyone knows about. Course to make that happen, has to be a bit of the player's part to tolerate these circumstances and finding ways around it, so credits for the player to take the time to jumping into it, compared to using the highest good popular character and just settling it from there.
Note: For the sake of consistency, let's take friends out of the situation (if that's what people are going with) and placing yourself in the position of watching two characters and two opponents play against each other. People that you don't know at all as an example duking it out while playing characters you are familiar with. As mentioned course, if you don't care what character is on screen or players playing, either go with the 2nd or 1st one.
Like an event, if you are a spectator watching a match, online, or some event at grand finals.
For me, I root for characters way more with slight bit towards the player as well with two reasons on my end.
1) The type of character presented and the amount of work you have to do with that character to achieve results. Especially characters that are simply not easy to use at all or high execution that provides phenomenal rewards. You have everything in your disposal with such a character but you have to work for it, compared to a character where they also have everything in their disposal but will barely need anything demanding, effortless. In some cases, you can have a very demanding bad character as well that sometimes may make a character not worth the effort putting into.
2) A character can be an underdog similar to a player, especially a character that's very possible to not be very good in general. An unknown/underrated character suddenly rising up and defeating the theories of situations and labeled as "nobody plays" or low tier, or seeing the pleasure of a very bad character suddenly overcoming the odds of being dealt with the bad hand of terrible match ups and surviving with X/Y bad character because of opponent's mistakes who's using a common character that everyone knows about. Course to make that happen, has to be a bit of the player's part to tolerate these circumstances and finding ways around it, so credits for the player to take the time to jumping into it, compared to using the highest good popular character and just settling it from there.
Note: For the sake of consistency, let's take friends out of the situation (if that's what people are going with) and placing yourself in the position of watching two characters and two opponents play against each other. People that you don't know at all as an example duking it out while playing characters you are familiar with. As mentioned course, if you don't care what character is on screen or players playing, either go with the 2nd or 1st one.
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