Never posted here so I thought I should at least get something down. Just a warning, I love writing so something short and succinct often gets lengthy with me so I apologize if my post isn't appropriate due to length.
Name's Aegis Ornus, for those wondering, Aegis sounds like Age-iss, soft G. Always played around with DOA since 2 was on the Dreamcast, didn't begin to play seriously until DOA2U. It was my first competitive fighter, made it to the SS ranks with my Ein. Played for a year straight, made a lot of friends. I really don't think I'm that good but I do have a mean ability of reading correctly at critical times and my defensive game frustrated a lot of those that played into my zoning. If things went awry, I'd flip into rushdown and catch 'em off guard. After sending my opponent into a panic, I'd go inbetween the two so they'd become hesitant to try anything rash. Really fun times. Then I moved onto 4 and that's when everything crashed into the ground and I stopped playing. It was nothing but frustration and it's hard to think of a session where I was thoroughly enjoying myself playing 4. It also convinced me that Ein was one of the worst characters in the game since every option he has is incredibly predictable and unsafe which was the largest blow of all. That's when I took a 5 year hiatus.
In the meantime, SF4 came out and I was convinced that I could take my skills from DOA2U and apply them there. Then I actually got to play the game and realized that the only thing that'd cross over is the mind games I'd built up. My wins consisted of many carefully placed singular blows, lol. But I made a lot of progress and I was encouraged to play other fighters so I pretty much played everything I could get my hands on. Nothing stuck though. I couldn't find my Ein in any other game so it all came back to DOA.
The DOA5 announcement came around and I was excited. Unfortunately, from what we can tell Ein won't be there though. So I thought I'd hold out till the game arrived to choose a new main. I'd planned to hold out for the new characters in case they could be better utilized with my defensive/zoning style than the currently existing characters. If not, I was going to move on to Hitomi or Bayman. Then the HIN IPL Tournament was announced and I was stoked that a tournament was finally happening in my immediate area. So I went to back to DOA4 to prepare for the tournament and dedicated myself to Kokoro for the two weeks leading up to the tournament. I played around with her a bit when I first bought 4 so I thought I might take to her a bit quicker over anyone else. I utilized what I'd learned from other fighters to find tools and combos to use for the big day and found she was a blast to use! Unfortunately, being homeless right now, I wasn't afforded any stable net to train on so all of my competition was sadly underwater and diluted (sorry for the painful matches online warriors). So I had to rely on my training mode expertise more than anything if I wanted to succeed at HIN. Then I got to use Kokoro in DOA5 and I was incredibly thrown off my game. It was immediately apparent after actually playing it that my time with DOA4 was not going to prepare me for a game that ultimately felt closer to DOA2U and going from 360 controller to dualshock and stick made it hard to nail down what I was really doing with my character, what still worked and what didn't. I did win my first tournament match though! I went 1W/2L and I also got to be on stream! I got blown up by Punishere pretty badly but I did manage to get a couple rounds out from him.
That being said, I'm stoked about DOA5. I wanna play, learn, compete, and travel. Joining a community like this seemed like a great thing to do to keep in touch with the community and stay on top of my game with everyone else. I'm desperate to find some local players to play against regularly, my only offline experiences with fighting games being short-lived bouts with friends and the one tournament. I hope you guys will take me in here, I really want to fit in and make some new friends. You all seem really great, I hope I can learn from all of you. I'm happy to be here!
