Move Notations

[Seared Bite]

This might be slightly off topic, but why do Anime fighters have such non-intuitive notation when compared to tekken/sf? Like qcb makes so much more sense than 521 or whatever tf they use.

Does it have something to do with the history?

[poop]

It's cuz those games require more complex and accurate notations. So they use 8 directions. In those games you can't always get away with jiggling between d and f to register a df.

[Rikkore]

how is it not intuitive? it's universal. everyone in their mothers womb has seen a numpad before it's not that hard to imagine it.

[gigaturok]

It has something to do with the fact that the western SF/Tekken communities use their own notations and that numpad notation is used in Asia universally for every fighting game.

If anything it's western notations that are not intuitive.

[Anntsi]

I think one of the reasons is that for other games moves are usually notated with letters, like LP HP K and so on. The notations would get really clustered and hard to read if directional inputs also used letters. And 2d games also have a lot more diagonal inputs, so using df, uf and so on instead of 3 and 9 would look confusing at some stuff

[poop]

There is also the fact they do not use romsn letters...
df means ??? in japan.

[Anntsi]

Originally posted by poop:

There is also the fact they do not use romsn letters...
df means ??? in japan.

Are you trolling or what? Usually when I've seen japanese/asian tekken notations they use LP RP LK RK for the attacks? And you said that those other games use 8 directions for inputs, but so does Tekken.

[poop]

Yeah sure they know the punches and kicks cuz that's how they are labelled on the arcade cabinets. But directions are done with arrows. I stand by df means ??? in Japan.

[Yosogoto]

I have seen Japanese move lists use numbers for directions in Tekken

d/f+1 is 3+LP on some websites, and 1+2 is WP

It's just because Japan and the rest of the world didn't communicate much until the internet exploded and international competition became popular. They were just separate communities that grew differently.

[Hervald]

tekken notations are very long, is the downside.

[Whitefox]

The post about the west/east is correct. They needed something everyone could understand and 1-9 works perfectly.