The truth about Nintendo

[seiya19]

Viper1 said:

Zod95 said:

 And I did so because they comprise fighters with real techniques and real moves. You can actually learn a lot about martial arts playing those games (in a way that you can't on books or videos, because on videogames you do it yourself and you apply each move when you feel the need to do so).

On behalf of all of us that have studied a real martial art, we're going to have to ask you to stop.

Yeah, I have to second this... I don't think you can actually learn to perform moves properly from videogames, not to mention how martial arts are more than that... And I've seen teaching books that can certainly be of more help here.

Those games being largely comprised of real and inspired moves is true though... For example, Ryu's style is inspired by Shotokan-style Karate, which is the martial art I practiced for 7 years. Hitomi from Dead or Alive also uses the same style, and in this trailer for Dead or Alive 3 (at 3:30) you can see her perform "Heian Yondan", one of the standard kata. Of course, there's a lot of fantasy in them too, and I for one am glad of that. I have little interest in playing a fully realistic fighting game, yet the genre is my favorite one in gaming. Same with all the shonen anime focused on fighting that I love...