lopedo
Well-Known Member
No no, it's not because people are going to kill me. I've met half of the people I cussed out online and I'm still typing.
*OUT OF CHARACTER LOPEDO POST... AKA REAL TALK*
I won't ever go to a DOA offline tournament for simple, yet complicated reasons. My first reason is, I don't really care about the prizes. I don't care if I can make 100 bucks, or 1,000. I do it for the sport, not the rewards. Think about how many players are there that KNOW they will lose. Do you think they go there for first place? Yeah. Do they think they'll win? No. They go to interact and play the game they like with like minded people, and this is where one of my problems come in.
Long before I cussed a bunch of people out online, the community was garbage. Everybody says that, but what does it actually mean? Let me explain. If you win online, you lag. If you lose online, you suck. If you win OFFLINE, you got lucky. If you lose OFFLINE, you suck. That's bullshit. Why? It's bullshit because the new comers to this game will never be accepted as anything but scrubs. Why do I care? I'm established. I'm lopedo, or Manny, or PL, or Brady, what do I care if these new kids don't have a name or a voice? Well, here's why you should care. The competitive scene only exists because of the lopedo's, the Manny's, the PL's, Brady's, etc etc. Without us, the DOA4/5 disk would be no different from the say... MechAssault disc on Xbox. It would be untouched by anybody.
So when you see 3 of the same people winning everything and wonder why the hell nobody can step up, ask yourself if you've played somebody who could possibly beat Manny at a tournament. If you have, did you let that be known, at least to that particular player? Or did you tell him/her that they got lucky and then laughed about it with all of your friends.
This directly leads into my next problem, two faced people. Not everybody can like everybody, which is fine. PL was talking trash after I met him a few years ago, Brady just hates life, I myself am running around dogging everything that ever thought about DOA. (We'll get to that another day.) The point is, it's not about liking each other. Each and every player that goes to a tourney wants to have fun. If they don't, THEY SHOULDN'T BE THERE! It's VERY hard to have fun in an already hostile environment due to online wars, but then we have the elite group dogging everybody, and what the hell happens?
People say the tourny scene is friendly for DOA. I've been to ONE myself, it wasn't UN-FRIENDLY, but look at the constant back and fourths between EVERYBODY here, and on the mic on Live. It makes people feel like bringing a gun just in case! Not to that extreme of course, but I hope you understand what I'm trying to say here.
Until EVERYBODY can put the issues they have/had with each other aside, respect the skill level of EACH INDIVIDUAL for what it is, be it better or worse than your own and smile at the losses as much as at the wins, there is zero reason for me to spend my resources traveling and meeting folks.
The fight is in the game guys, not with each other. Let's try to remember that for the future.
*OUT OF CHARACTER LOPEDO POST... AKA REAL TALK*
I won't ever go to a DOA offline tournament for simple, yet complicated reasons. My first reason is, I don't really care about the prizes. I don't care if I can make 100 bucks, or 1,000. I do it for the sport, not the rewards. Think about how many players are there that KNOW they will lose. Do you think they go there for first place? Yeah. Do they think they'll win? No. They go to interact and play the game they like with like minded people, and this is where one of my problems come in.
Long before I cussed a bunch of people out online, the community was garbage. Everybody says that, but what does it actually mean? Let me explain. If you win online, you lag. If you lose online, you suck. If you win OFFLINE, you got lucky. If you lose OFFLINE, you suck. That's bullshit. Why? It's bullshit because the new comers to this game will never be accepted as anything but scrubs. Why do I care? I'm established. I'm lopedo, or Manny, or PL, or Brady, what do I care if these new kids don't have a name or a voice? Well, here's why you should care. The competitive scene only exists because of the lopedo's, the Manny's, the PL's, Brady's, etc etc. Without us, the DOA4/5 disk would be no different from the say... MechAssault disc on Xbox. It would be untouched by anybody.
So when you see 3 of the same people winning everything and wonder why the hell nobody can step up, ask yourself if you've played somebody who could possibly beat Manny at a tournament. If you have, did you let that be known, at least to that particular player? Or did you tell him/her that they got lucky and then laughed about it with all of your friends.
This directly leads into my next problem, two faced people. Not everybody can like everybody, which is fine. PL was talking trash after I met him a few years ago, Brady just hates life, I myself am running around dogging everything that ever thought about DOA. (We'll get to that another day.) The point is, it's not about liking each other. Each and every player that goes to a tourney wants to have fun. If they don't, THEY SHOULDN'T BE THERE! It's VERY hard to have fun in an already hostile environment due to online wars, but then we have the elite group dogging everybody, and what the hell happens?
People say the tourny scene is friendly for DOA. I've been to ONE myself, it wasn't UN-FRIENDLY, but look at the constant back and fourths between EVERYBODY here, and on the mic on Live. It makes people feel like bringing a gun just in case! Not to that extreme of course, but I hope you understand what I'm trying to say here.
Until EVERYBODY can put the issues they have/had with each other aside, respect the skill level of EACH INDIVIDUAL for what it is, be it better or worse than your own and smile at the losses as much as at the wins, there is zero reason for me to spend my resources traveling and meeting folks.
The fight is in the game guys, not with each other. Let's try to remember that for the future.