Shoryu Magami

I really don't care what total strangers think about my ability in the game. I never attempted to make a fight or argument with anyone. I merely stated an opinion, and one which other people share with me, and I got attacked for it. I find that really immature, but I'm gonna ignore it because I've got better things to do with my time then get involved with all the pointless attacking I see on the net. If you want to use Dust Loop a lot, then that's your choice, but I personally prefer winning without it. I just enjoy the matches a hell of a lot more. It has nothing to do with an inability to execute the move, or a lack of talent in using it. In my opinion, the fact that it was removed in later games alone acts as proof that the designers felt it was too easy to abuse. It might also just be in my own experience with it, but it also seems to be one of the only combos that the opponent can't break out of, and that's why I called it abuseable. The amount of damage it does just added to the feeling. But anyway, I'm not gonna waste anymore time getting into it, for the reasons I've stated above. I've got better things to do with my time then pick fights with total strangers and make pressumptious remarks about their abilities when I haven't even seen them play. I join these forums to get involved in communities where I can make friends and have discussions, but 9 out of 10 times they're just full of people looking for excuses to taunt others, and I find that extremely immature. You can call it 'scrub' mentality if you want, but you're just making stupid assumptions. I might not bother discussing games online anymore, because it seems like the people I run into are just looking for a good reason to attack the talents of others, maybe to try and make themselves look cool or something, but it really isn't working for them. I came here to find some good Guilty Gear players to have conversations with, but I'm tired of wasting my time with people who think they know everything, and are deluded enough to think that anyone with slightly different views is a 'newbie'. It doesn't look like I'll meet anyone here close enough to me to have some good games anyway, so nevermind.

Actually, I never had a problem with executing Dust Loop, but when I saw so many players (not professions, btw) abusing it constantly in youtube matches, I got a little disheartened by it. My execution doesn't 'suck', as you put it, but I'd expect that it's very easy for people online to poke fun at someone they've never met. It's a little immature. I found it a bit interesting that someone mentioned winning without combos, however, because they're really not that cheap in general since they're not endless, but there has been occassions when I actually did play without them, just for a fun challenge, and was able to win. It has nothing to do with me lacking the ability to use Dust Loop, and I'm not doing anything to weaken my options available to me in the game. If it's desperate, I'd prolly use it, but generally speaking it just leaves a bad aftertaste in my mouth. Judging a person based on whether or not they abuse Dust Loop isn't a very wise idea.

Well I don't, in any sense, consider myself a bad player, and I never relied on the Dust Loop in #Reload, which is the main Guilty Gear game I played until Accent Core+ came out. I didn't mind having to do a few more combos against my opponent in order to beat them, because it just meant I needed enough skill to last long enough to get those extra combos in, which I had no problem doing. I can understand why they removed the Dust Loop, because it was more or less an overpowered spam move. You can call people 'ignorant' all you like, but they're as entitled to their opinions as you are.

That sums up my thoughts. Sol's been one of my main characters since the beginning of Guilty Gear, and in all that time I never once used the Dust Loop in an actual fight. The only time I ever used it was once in Training Mode, and only because I had heard about it once from someone online, so I just decided to see what they were talking about. It was amusing, but I didn't consider it worth using in a real fight.

Well, I've never actually physically been to a tournament (Australian players without passports don't have the luxury of ever finding one, even if they're good players -.-), so I guess most of my comments in this topic would be fairly pointless, but if I think of anything I'll let you know.