The truth about Nintendo

[Viper1]

seiya19 said:

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...

No doubt inspirations are there.  EVen fully motion capped at times.  Namco's motion capture of Marcelo Pereira for Eddy Gordo's character in Tekken 3 was jaw dropping.  But you can't 'learn' the martial art of capoeira simply through imitation of moves.  I'm almost shocked he even insinuated that you could.  But then I read some of the first post again and now I'm not shocked anymore.