One Handers Are Gods in the FFR World?

[Zageron]

Re: One Handers Are Gods in the FFR World?

shoot me babeh

you dont one hand you hoe

[jwcgator]

Re: One Handers Are Gods in the FFR World?

disregard that, I suck cocks

Maybe I should actually watch the videos before I make comments, lol

[devonin]

Re: One Handers Are Gods in the FFR World?

The issue people have with this situation is when someone expects recognition outside the objective quality of their accomplishment because they've made the choice to impose a handicap on themselves.

It's the nature of games like this that your score is the primary metric of evaluation. The higher the score, the better your accomplishment is regarded. Getting a score which is exceptionally high is exceptional. Getting a score which is reasonably high because you chose to play inefficiently is still only reasonably impressive, and will get treated as such.

There's some degree of respect given for novelty in terms of handicapping yourself, but there's always an undertone of "Why would you bother?"

[nois-or-e]

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I've always wondered dev. Did you ever migrate to spread when keymapping became available, or do you still use the arrow keys. afaik you are a 2-handed player due to some of your stat consistencies.

[/curiousity]

[korny]

Re: One Handers Are Gods in the FFR World?

I've always viewed myself as a god so I guess that makes sense.

[who_cares973]

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The point I was trying to make is that you -can- get good scores one handed. Not that one handed play is as good as spread.

[korny]

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Discuss: What is your opinion on one-handed players, and if you are one, what is your own opinion on the way you play? Share one-hander stories in this thread, etc.

There once was a story of a legendary one hander who was continually reaching new heights and setting a new boundary as to what could be done with one hand. One day, he had suddenly ascended to a point to where he knew he had truly become legendary. In hopes to retain his unparalleled status, he forged a plan to convince the community he had been apart of, that his attainment in skill had been done by the use and practive of an extra finger. This was all a hoax of course, for who could really play well with 4 fingers, but only he and those who had seen him play knew the truth; he was a god among men and was a divine one hander through and through. Years of persecution led him to become uninterested in the community he had once cherished and loved to compete within, so he no longer played competitively. To this day his skill remains elite, only bested by very few on select songs and they have been commended respectively.

[Reincarnate]

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I echo Dev on this one. Yeah, it's impressive to pull off a tough song with one hand when obvious two hands would make it easier. But this is like saying that it's impressive to see someone finish a race in the top 30 with only one leg or something.

Yeah, it's great and all -- but you'd likely do much better using two hands if you're capable of doing well with one. At the very least, you'd obviously near-double your relative speed/stamina. When I see someone doing well with one-hand, I just have to ask myself why. You're not only limiting absolute performance ability, but you're also putting a lot of strain on just one hand.

Many players start out using one hand but they quickly figure out that they need to switch to two in order to better handle harder songs. Those players that don't figure this out or intentionally stick to one hand, in my mind, are plain silly.

[korny]

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Playing one handed is all about the fun factor, and the skill you can achieve on top of that is where the satisfaction comes in. Nothing silly about it sir.

[leonid]

Re: One Handers Are Gods in the FFR World?

I used to be an one-handed bms player (very long ago)

This skill helps when you play such arcade games as IIDX or EZ2DJ (or... solo xdddddd)

[devonin]

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I've always wondered dev. Did you ever migrate to spread when keymapping became available, or do you still use the arrow keys. afaik you are a 2-handed player due to some of your stat consistencies.

[/curiousity]

I started off like most people, One-Hand 3-Finger. Moved to "spread" by just using both hands on the arrow keys and later swapped for left/down/8/6, sucked hard with spread for about 3 weeks, and then got substantially better than when I was playing one-handed.

With keymapping, I play a/s/j/k now.

[Wineandbread]

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A lot of people start as one-handers because they don't know any better. This is the assumption that I operated under for a time before encountering index and spread styles on FFR forums. It may or may not come as a natural tendency due to right/left hand dominance and improved dexterity of that hand, assuming you don't play pianers or other instruments; it's just a guess though.

There are people who are just stubborn and refuse to switch to spread. I know that I was opposed to switching styles for the longest time because of the initial skill reduction that I faced. I also just found one handed style to be more fun than index and spread at the time.

Gods? Far from it.

[rushyrulz]

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Playing one handed is all about the fun factor, and the skill you can achieve on top of that is where the satisfaction comes in. Nothing silly about it sir.

Sooo, you can't have fun playing spread then? Seems like it would be harder to have fun when you're struggling on some of the most fun files in the game that happen to be 10-12s.

[Arch0wl]

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From what I've found, playstyles with more variables required are also the more rewarding styles to play. KB7, solo, SpaceIOP and index have a much higher learning curve than spread, yet even when I'm placing on the higher ranks of a song I still find spread somewhat empty to play because it feels so "closed" compared to the four aforementioned styles of play.

[Xx{Midnight}xX]

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In terms of respect:

A One Hander that can AAA an 8 or higher is better than a D4 spread player in my book.
An Index player who can AAA a low 10 is better than a d4 spread player.
A Spread player who can AAA a Fgo is better than the previous 2 players.
A Split (Yes there's still a few left) is only slightly more respectable than an average spread player.

I've actually tried all of these styles (I'm only/was good at two of them.) They all have parts that make it useful to know the others. But one handers are easily the most respectable - simply because of how hard it is.