How Do You Fight?(Real or Games)

[sumanoskae]

Depends on who I'm fighting. Most people tend to be aggressive when they get angry enough to start a fight, "Why thank you, I think I will take that shot at your ribs". If I start the fight, then I just take them by surprise.

If they're big, they'll charge and try to grab you, in which case you either elbow or knee to the head or the ribs, or, if your arms are in a bind, grab for something soft and squeeze. If they manage to get your hands, then a swift kick in the groin or a headbutt might work, just make sure you hit the nose, otherwise it might hurt you more then them.

If a big guy swings at you, just pray that he's slower then you.

If you're fighting someone who's had experience, then you just have to hope you're smarter, stronger or faster then them.

Feint, but don't over commit, take the first good opening you get, and don't give them the chance to get back up.

 

[Brutal Peanut]

I've never fought in real life. I've always managed to defuse any situation that seemed angry or about to get out of hand. I'm also pretty sure I'd manage to get into a fetal position and I don't think that is a true fighting stance.

In games like Fallout 3/NV, I try to talk my way through everything as well. If I can't, I just shoot everyone with my machine gun or pistol. Games like Dragon Age and Oblivion, I prefer swords, shields, and medium to heavy armor.

I've never been a stealthy type person at all. I am not a big fan of sneaking.

Edit: As for fighting games, I don't tend to play fighting games. I'll admit, I am not that great at them. I always end up in the corner of the screen, getting pummeled to death, unable to get up,...and of course getting more rage filled by the minute.

 

[WalkableBuffalo]

Video games: (eg Bad Company 2)
Jump right into everything, I'm generally a shotgun whore but even without it I can't stand camping and just want to run into every battle face first, if I'm not on the front lines it's not a fight

Real life: Uh I don't get in a lot of fights, but I guess usually I hit first and pretty fast and then you know I just keep hitting them

 

[daunchy]

I prefer shock and awe, up close, violent and spectacular, typically with lots of mobility. I always seem to end up as a close-combat class when it's a decent option. Sniping is for little girls and only to be considered in the most extreme of circumstances.

In real life: tactical urine deployment into combat trousers

 

[FunkEngine12]

I once had a fight that lasted 4 hours

I'm sorry, but no, you didn't. No fight would ever last 4 hours. Hell, a person will get tired of punching with any significant strength after a couple minutes.

As for me, I do taekwondo. I'm pretty skinny but I've got strong legs, so I dodge and move as much as possible, then kick when there's an opening.

Also, I don't want to call anyone a liar, but as someone who has studied a martial art, a lot of things that are being said are a lot more difficult than the average person assumes. Breaking limbs is one I've seen often, but that takes a lot of force. Even the elbow, which is comparably easy to break, still takes a considerable amount of strength and precision. It's not something everyone could pull off, especially not in the middle of a hectic fight; hell, I probably couldn't.

 

[Sandernista]

IRL: I don't.

In games? From afar, in rpgs I use magic, fps' I use snipers/more accurate weapons.

CAPTCHA: Ughshot li li

 

[JMan]

If I get into a fight I don't let that person leave until at least something on that person is broken or bleeding.

 

[GoldenFish]

I reality I try to (if they attacked first) get some distance then proceed to attack them in short bursts then retreating again. In games I vary a lot.

 

[Vryyk]

IRL: Hide behind my KA-BAR like a pussy. If I don't have it on me I know just enough army combatives to ground the guy and then flee sideways, making Zoidberg noises as I escape.

Videogames: Build defenses, gather resources until the enemy is wearing down his attack, and then counter-attack.

 

[phantasmalWordsmith]

I'm not a fighter and I have no real experience with it but in the several times recently I have had to put up some defence, I wait for a strike, grab the arm or the leg and bend it so that I can cause them pain and stop them from moving.

In games, I just attack attack attack unless there's a specific style I like to take such as in Black Ops where I use Pro Ninja and Pro Ghost with a suppressed assault rifle or in dragon age, I took the basic team set up with a mostly healing mage, a guy to take damage and a guy to deal it along with a rogue for picking locks and stuff

 

[TheVioletBandit]

I don't like to fight in real life, as I abhor violence but, if I do have to fight I fight as dirty as possible. If there is any way for me to get an advantage I take it. If you turn your back on me I'll kick you in it, If there is something lying around I can use as a weapon I'll hit you with it, I will kick you in the balls, I do bite, and I will try to punch a person in the throat or gab them in the eyes.

Also if things get real messy and I am being beaten badly I don't think there is anything shameful about a tactful retreat.

 

[OldRat]

These threads always seem to rub me in all the wrong ways, not the least because they always seem to turn every video gamer in the world into a self-professed god-king war and a veteran of a hundred fights. Often, many seem to have some sort of a twisted pride in detailing how they'd destroy somebody. Usually in ways that'd get them killed or horriby mangled in a serious fight. Always a bit worrying, always more than a bit comical in all the wrong ways.


Anyway. On topic. I like my big combos and my strong hits in video games. Go for the shotgun, the vanguard, the fifteen-hit-combo-that-makes-my-pals-scream-bullshit-in-Street-Fighter. Tends to work pretty well.

As for real life, I'm not going to start some detailed brag about how I can like totally take down thugs with knives with my bare hands or somesuch. I've never, in my adult life, had a situation that had to result in fighting with no other way out. It's amazing how many ways out there actually are when you don't mistake the urge to fight for the need to fight. I've fooled around with some friends, and that's no fighting. I don't fight, and that's perfectly fine because I don't really like conflict either.
And if it came to that, if I really had to do it or die, I wouldn't fight. Fighting implies two people facing off against each other in a situation of some awareness in which both are attempting to defeat the other, to get wordy. That's bad. If you're going to do violence upon someone, possibly kill them and more than likely get in trouble with the law, as well as many other kinds of trouble, you might as well do it in a way that doesn't pointlessly risk yourself. No honor in it, but I've never seen any honor in two brutes slugging at each other until somebody falls, either.
That, or I fuck up and die or get maimed. Which is why I've tried to keep out of things like this. It's worked this far.

 

[sivlin]

RTS (Starcraft): I'm generally an economy player (zerg, go figure), I don't really like finessing my way to victory so I tend to just defend until I know I can win. Sometimes get thrown off if the other player is similar and they just don't attack me.
(Diamond btw, EPEEEEEEN)

FPS (Counter-Strike | Other):
Counter-Strike - I'm a sniper, definitely. I think its due to the generally smaller maps in cs. I'm a very active player and don't really like posting up forever. In cs I can run about with a sniper .

Other - I'm a run and gun type, I tend to be a streaker as well (like... 10:0, 0:10 K's).

RPG: I'm a maxer, I like my characters to be the BEST. Be it armor, weapons, stats, whatever - I like to max out my characters before I beat the game.


Real Life: It really just depends on the situation. Different situations call for different things. I carry a knife just about everywhere so if the situation called for it - at least I'd die with a knife in my hands! . Alternatively, I do own a pistol. Fist to Fist combat... I've never really had a chance to see to be honest. I'd like to think I would stand a chance against someone similarly sized but a lot can be said for someone who has a height/weight advantage on you.

 

[little.09]

In real life, I act really stupid and flail around a little, and tell them to put up their dukes. Usually kills any tension that there might have been, I'm a lovable jester, not a fighter.

and if that doesnt work do it again with no pants

 

[Darius Brogan]

I games: All over the place. Depending on the situation I can be as defensive as a mile high thousand foot thick iron wall, or as aggressive as a rabid rottweiler chasing a bloody steak. Situation is everything in fighting, and I use my situation to my advantage.

In Real Life, I play the mind more than the body. Though I've only been in a few genuine fights, not a single one of them has ever been in my favor. One actually set me up against a guy who outweighed me by a hundred pounds and six inches in height.
During that fight I was lucky enough to have a walking stick with me (I've got a bad right leg) so every time he took a good swing, I dodged out of the way and ticked the back of his knees. Not once did I go on the offensive, and not once did I try to hurt him, but it confused him so much that he actually beat himself into the ground by getting more and more angry, until he basically tired himself out and landed on the ground face-first.

Note: I'm not going to brag, or make myself seem bigger than I really am, but this is a fact.

I'm about 5' 11", and 160lbs at this very moment.

At 14 I was being held face-down on the ground in a full nelson being applied by a three-time high-school wrestling champion. Using nothing but my abs, I curled into the fetal position, got my feed under me, and literally threw him off of me. All without hurting myself.
Five years later, my brother walked up to me and said this 'Rob (the guy I was wrestling) was too embarrassed to tell you this, but when you broke out of that full nelson, you scared the shit out of him. He's never had someone do that, before or since you did it'

I nodded my head and went 'cool'.

Despite not being large, I'm very, very strong. I still prefer to fight using brains instead of brawn, because brawn can't solve things without someone getting hurt.

 

[Darius Brogan]

These threads always seem to rub me in all the wrong ways, not the least because they always seem to turn every video gamer in the world into a self-professed god-king war and a veteran of a hundred fights. Often, many seem to have some sort of a twisted pride in detailing how they'd destroy somebody. Usually in ways that'd get them killed or horriby mangled in a serious fight. Always a bit worrying, always more than a bit comical in all the wrong ways.


Anyway. On topic. I like my big combos and my strong hits in video games. Go for the shotgun, the vanguard, the fifteen-hit-combo-that-makes-my-pals-scream-bullshit-in-Street-Fighter. Tends to work pretty well.

As for real life, I'm not going to start some detailed brag about how I can like totally take down thugs with knives with my bare hands or somesuch. I've never, in my adult life, had a situation that had to result in fighting with no other way out. It's amazing how many ways out there actually are when you don't mistake the urge to fight for the need to fight. I've fooled around with some friends, and that's no fighting. I don't fight, and that's perfectly fine because I don't really like conflict either.
And if it came to that, if I really had to do it or die, I wouldn't fight. Fighting implies two people facing off against each other in a situation of some awareness in which both are attempting to defeat the other, to get wordy. That's bad. If you're going to do violence upon someone, possibly kill them and more than likely get in trouble with the law, as well as many other kinds of trouble, you might as well do it in a way that doesn't pointlessly risk yourself. No honor in it, but I've never seen any honor in two brutes slugging at each other until somebody falls, either.
That, or I fuck up and die or get maimed. Which is why I've tried to keep out of things like this. It's worked this far.

Hehehe, you should read my post then. Both of the scuffles I've detailed don't involve impossibilities at all, nor are they 'me destroying somebody'. They are, however, both entirely factual.

 

[Codeman90]

I love me some fighting games =) In those games I always pick the fastest and most aggressive in your face characters I can. So for example I play Makoto and Evil Ryu in Street Fighter 4. Zero, Wesker and Taskmaster (I usually play very aggressively with Task and that catches a lot of people off guard). In Blazblue I play Hazama and Tager.

My philosophy is that the guy whos on the offensive is making all the decisions and controlling the fight. Once you get a good flow going then nothing can stop you. Sure you can play defensively and counter, but I find it far more difficult and not as rewarding.

I also played a lot of Empire: Total War online as the Prussians. The Prussians have expensive troops but they're top of the line in nearly every category. That means that no matter what the situation is my soldiers will win in a straight up fight. Just gotta make sure that the positioning is right and the opponent fights on my terms. It's all about control, the best defense defense is a good offense, and "that which your enemy lest suspects will work the best."-Sun Tzu, Art of War.

Real Life: I'm a decent shot with a longbow and a variety of firearms. Otherwise I'd lose any fist fight I was in. Fighting just isn't my thing, genetic diseases and a liver transplant take a lot of fight out of ya =p

 

[Aetera]

I have to admit, I like fighting. I wear steel-toed boots, so that helps me quite a bit. I throw them off, taunt them, make them get sloppy. More kicking than punching, what with the doc martens and not much upper body strength. Especially compared to guys. Stupid being-female-ness. A lot of dodging, using their momentum to throw them to the ground, etc. Mostly, I don't hold back and fight dirty(my lit cigarette is an effective weapon xD ). I also have a really, really high pain tolerance.

I also know exactly where to hit to make it hurt. Not much brute force, but I make up for it. I still haven't lost a fight.

I don't really go looking for fights, but I don't go out of my way to avoid them, either.

EDIT: A good chunk of my dorm at college used to go out at night to spar. It was a lot of fun, and we all learned a bit. We all got pretty bruised and battered after beating the hell out of each other, but it was still a lot of fun.

 

[Kae]

I once had a fight that lasted 4 hours

I'm sorry, but no, you didn't. No fight would ever last 4 hours. Hell, a person will get tired of punching with any significant strength after a couple minutes.
Also, I don't want to call anyone a liar, but as someone who has studied a martial art, a lot of things that are being said are a lot more difficult than the average person assumes. Breaking limbs is one I've seen often, but that takes a lot of force. Even the elbow, which is comparably easy to break, still takes a considerable amount of strength and precision. It's not something everyone could pull off, especially not in the middle of a hectic fight; hell, I probably couldn't.

Well obviously the fight didn't go down the way I think you're thinking which is that it was just an all out punch and kicks fight that lasted 4 hours which obviously is impossible for someone like me that doesn't even know how to fight, not to mention the fact that if that happened I would most likely be dead because I don't think I could have survived 4 hours of being punched and kicked by a guy who was considerably bigger than me.
If you must know since the fight was a High School fight and not some sort of tournament fight it was mostly a couple of punches from me to him with no effect then he would just punch me once and I'd fall to floor and then he would start to brag as I slowly got up and defied him again, repeat for 4 hours, then he gets tired of doing it and leaves to never bother me again, I guess I earned his respect or maybe he just felt sorry for me after that, I don't know but it wasn't really very exiting it was just me showing everyone that I wasn't going to take shit from anybody and I wasn't going to back out from a fight.