~Hakurei Shrine~ > Help Me, Eirin!
How did you LEARN about Touhou?
BoLaD:
--- Quote from: Zengeku on June 25, 2009, 01:22:59 PM ---
--- Quote from: BoLaD on June 24, 2009, 11:03:07 PM ---How anyone sucks so bad that they die on stage 1 of Imperishable Night on easy I do not know.
I know how you feel man. I tried introducing Touhou to 2 friends of mine. The first said: "All you do is dodge dots. Go play a real game like Starcraft"
The 2nd tried it, died on stage 1 of PCB easy, and gave up, saying that Touhou would give him a 5 second life expectancy. (You know what I mean)
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It happens to some people. I have quite a bunch of first-timers die to Stage 1. The fact that i didn't know anything about focus-mode when i started playing might have something to do with it.
About friends. I don't know consider anyone my friend if they bash Touhou games without any valid reasons. That's simply the worst thing about it all. People rarely have any valid arguments. There was this bitch who claimed that the games are just hyper-advanced Space Invaders clones that only perverts play. Yeah sure all the characters are girls but that doesn't mean only perverts can enjoy them. That's actually a pretty bad excuse.
A second thing i'm getting rather used to hear is: "Oh my! It looks sooo haard!!! I don't get how you can dodge all that?"
I could respond that this is just the Stage 4 Boss on Hard mode in PCB. Very trivial so to speak.
But that wouldn't solve much. She wouldn't be able to understand that. And i would probably be labeled as a "show-off" or a "no-life" for considering the "impossible games" easy. I might be able to play well on anything below Lunatic but that's not due to some inherent skills. Its due to having played the games for quite some time now. When i became a Touhou player i did get owned on Easy to begin with as well. The games difficulty are in other words a lousy excuse not to play them. You'll learn the skills to get through Easy mode very quickly without any persistency. I know i did.
Lastly: To say that Starcraft is a real game and Touhou isn't is sinful to say the least. I can accept that not everyone thinks that Touhou is the best game in the world (well, of course) but i hate when people tell you to play real games instead. Now that haven't exactly happened to me. Something similar though. Somebody asked me if i had a Steam account. I replied no. Then he told me that a lot of PC games are working with Steam. Then i told him that the games i play isn't browsed through Steam. And then he told me that most "real" games do.
At that point i was pretty much ready to snap. If people can't accept my fandom, they can't expect me to accept theirs. It would be the same if i said: "Starcraft, World of Warcraft, Call of Duty and Halo sucks! People should play some real games instead!"
Okay, i better cut this rant a little short if i'm to avoid going on for the entire day.
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I know just how you feel when that girl called Touhou a hyped-up space invaders. A girl in my class (otaku) actually knew about Touhou before I talked about it... she said the game was insane and called me a nerd for playing it....
I never really played video games before I found out about Touhou. Games bored me and I gave up on them halfway. I have about 7 or 8 games for my GBA and I haven't touched them after the first time I played them-it was my brother who actually beat them. I remember getting a CycloDS for my NDS-lite, feeling so happy that I could play games like Contra 4, TWEWY, Metal Slug 7, etc and now I only use the NDS for a make-shift Mp3 player to play Touhou music whenever I go out.
P.S. What's really sad about my friend that actually played was the fact that I explained everything to him- Focused movement, bombs, supernatural borders, the point of collection, etc. Hopefully I'll have better luck with showing people Touhou in high school. (probably won't but a man can dream)
Chainsaw Guitar:
--- Quote from: SeaYoshi on June 25, 2009, 06:19:30 PM ---I think everyone should find this interesting: The Top 7 Stereotypical gamers we hate.
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LMAO! #1 has the best description of /v/ I've ever heard.
mark2000:
5 words:
Marisa Stole The Precious Thing
Someone I know from another forum gave me a link to the youtube video 3 years ago and one thing simply led to another.
_Zac_:
I'm sure Shoot the Bullet was the first game I heard about and Imperishable Night was the first game I played many years ago. Marisa Stole the Precious Thing and that one with Reisen in it also got me started. I didn't even hear U.N. Owen was her? until much later (last year).
Zengeku:
--- Quote from: BoLaD on June 28, 2009, 10:32:40 PM ---
--- Quote from: Zengeku on June 25, 2009, 01:22:59 PM ---
--- Quote from: BoLaD on June 24, 2009, 11:03:07 PM ---How anyone sucks so bad that they die on stage 1 of Imperishable Night on easy I do not know.
I know how you feel man. I tried introducing Touhou to 2 friends of mine. The first said: "All you do is dodge dots. Go play a real game like Starcraft"
The 2nd tried it, died on stage 1 of PCB easy, and gave up, saying that Touhou would give him a 5 second life expectancy. (You know what I mean)
--- End quote ---
It happens to some people. I have quite a bunch of first-timers die to Stage 1. The fact that i didn't know anything about focus-mode when i started playing might have something to do with it.
About friends. I don't know consider anyone my friend if they bash Touhou games without any valid reasons. That's simply the worst thing about it all. People rarely have any valid arguments. There was this bitch who claimed that the games are just hyper-advanced Space Invaders clones that only perverts play. Yeah sure all the characters are girls but that doesn't mean only perverts can enjoy them. That's actually a pretty bad excuse.
A second thing i'm getting rather used to hear is: "Oh my! It looks sooo haard!!! I don't get how you can dodge all that?"
I could respond that this is just the Stage 4 Boss on Hard mode in PCB. Very trivial so to speak.
But that wouldn't solve much. She wouldn't be able to understand that. And i would probably be labeled as a "show-off" or a "no-life" for considering the "impossible games" easy. I might be able to play well on anything below Lunatic but that's not due to some inherent skills. Its due to having played the games for quite some time now. When i became a Touhou player i did get owned on Easy to begin with as well. The games difficulty are in other words a lousy excuse not to play them. You'll learn the skills to get through Easy mode very quickly without any persistency. I know i did.
Lastly: To say that Starcraft is a real game and Touhou isn't is sinful to say the least. I can accept that not everyone thinks that Touhou is the best game in the world (well, of course) but i hate when people tell you to play real games instead. Now that haven't exactly happened to me. Something similar though. Somebody asked me if i had a Steam account. I replied no. Then he told me that a lot of PC games are working with Steam. Then i told him that the games i play isn't browsed through Steam. And then he told me that most "real" games do.
At that point i was pretty much ready to snap. If people can't accept my fandom, they can't expect me to accept theirs. It would be the same if i said: "Starcraft, World of Warcraft, Call of Duty and Halo sucks! People should play some real games instead!"
Okay, i better cut this rant a little short if i'm to avoid going on for the entire day.
--- End quote ---
I know just how you feel when that girl called Touhou a hyped-up space invaders. A girl in my class (otaku) actually knew about Touhou before I talked about it... she said the game was insane and called me a nerd for playing it....
I never really played video games before I found out about Touhou. Games bored me and I gave up on them halfway. I have about 7 or 8 games for my GBA and I haven't touched them after the first time I played them-it was my brother who actually beat them. I remember getting a CycloDS for my NDS-lite, feeling so happy that I could play games like Contra 4, TWEWY, Metal Slug 7, etc and now I only use the NDS for a make-shift Mp3 player to play Touhou music whenever I go out.
P.S. What's really sad about my friend that actually played was the fact that I explained everything to him- Focused movement, bombs, supernatural borders, the point of collection, etc. Hopefully I'll have better luck with showing people Touhou in high school. (probably won't but a man can dream)
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I'm hoping i can create some players when i go to my new school as well. Let's wish each others good luck.