Zakdawg wrote:
RaneFire wrote:
Lot's of good players don't play anything below AR9. Sure they can, they just need to sit down and play it for longer than 5 minutes. They just never do.
I would disagree. Especially among the newer people (1-2 years) can't read AR8 for shit.
Example a simple map as https://osu.ppy.sh/b/87369
Can you elaborate on this "for shit?" Are they just not FC'ing it in their first play, or are they getting B's and C's?
I think people should understand that just because people can read AR10, does not mean that AR8 just gets infinitely easier. It's only an AR. IMO if you can read both, it should be the same, but it's worse due to overlaps at lower AR's which makes you rely on the approach circle to "see" a note. If you look at it objectively from this viewpoint, then AR8 does get slightly harder as you become able to process information faster, and have to now consider additional information you would otherwise not need at AR10. Would you read a book slower on purpose, just for fun?
There's also some things about the human brain that I'd rather not go into detail on, but basically the point is that you need strive "for more" to get the same feeling or experience you once had, otherwise you get bored and your brain does not involve itself fully (derp mode), and it's why video games can be classed as an addiction, since this is a similarity it shares with drugs, and even coffee... I know Aqo coined this "planning ahead" thing, but I really don't know if it's actually important, since it's like lagging your brain on purpose and instead "artificially stimulating" it by changing your focus on a different mechanic of the game that is not really needed during normal play.
For example: People who read lower AR's focus only on the immediate next note, instead of reading patterns as a whole. This is NOT planning ahead... actually it's trying to achieve a similar thing to what people do at AR10... except by IGNORING the extra information on screen, as opposed to reacting to the new. Sure there's a bit of linking up going on, but reading EZ mod is the extreme case of finding the smallest approach circles in sequence, and the only thing that could be called "planning ahead."
I'd like to hear other people's opinions on this, because it gets my goat, as I've been learning to read AR10 and found some things in my play changing subtly, even after
years of playing AR7/8/9.
I've always wondered about this whole "low AR vs high AR" thing. Every other rhythm game allows users to select their AR, and what do they do? They set it at lightning fast speed and no one says anything about skill. Sure, side-scrolling and top-scrolling games are slightly different, but reading multiple stacked approach circles does indeed share a similarity.
Also... this is indeed a likely possiblity:
Ekaru wrote:
Zakdawg wrote:
Lots of good players can not play anything below AR9. Thankfully for them if they have the accuracy they can just turn on HR.
You're mixing up "good players" with "frauds", sir.