VF Play Styles Differ By Region?

For the Rap afcionados out there, you know there is a difference between East coast Rap and West Coast Rap, Down South Rap vs Up North Rap not to mention the international derivatives. Same thing with Jazz, New Orleans vs Chicago vs New York Jazz etc.

From the people I've played in VF and the many VF vids I've watched its clear people from different regions of the world do play VF in different ways (similar to the development of Rap or Jazz). Each region plays its own flavor of VF. IMO this appears to be the case I could be wrong

I can't fully describe it yet, I guess that could be a project
to work on once VF5FS is released, but I do notice many differences, even if they are only subtle differences.

While some players look to emulate Japanese style of play, not all do. Over the holiday, I played some cats from Windsor Canada who had a different take on the game. They had very different ryhthms, they played high pressure but not the high pressure I'm used to seeing. I've also noticed minor differences in the Korean approach when compared to most Japanese play. In the US, west coast style is different than east cost style(at least to me it is). I used to think everyone just had their own individual style, but now I'm starting to think its really based on region and who you grew up watching and playing and who was your mentor.

I'm really not interested in which regional style is better, I would just like to really break down the different approaches and document them in some intelligent way if possible.

Has anybody else recognized the differences?

Am I barking up the wrong tree here?


I apologize in advance if any of this seems to paint any
group with too broad a brush (that's not my intent) But
it seems there are regional differences to me, or is it
my ignorance of the game and lack of experience

I was once told that style of play was not influenced in anyway
by whether you played with a stick or a dpad. While that might be true for some individual players, I'm starting to think that it is not true in general. I had my stick when I played the cats from Windsor, they played with dpads, they were pulling off some weird sequences that I suspect are more natural to pull off on the Dpads than they would be on the stick. They seemed to think the opposite about my play. They were convinced that the stick made some of my sequences and setups more natural than they would have been on the Dpad. I'm wondering whether that accounts for some of the regional
differences

Has this been covered in detail b4?

I know there are a certain set standard styles of playing fighting games in general, such as the turtle style, the pokey style , etc. But it seems like different regions put those together in their own ways. Maybe I'm looking to deep into the game, but that's what I'm seein.

Anybody else notice this? Or am I the last to notice

 

I think that usually sums it up.

 

I remember talking about this with some people about this at one of the WCG's I attended.

We observed that:

US players like to sit back and turtle a bit, or at least be patient

Asian players are always in your face

and European players don't really know which side to pick so they tend to sit somewhere in the middle

 

What? You are the King of backdashing and run. Don't get me started on your jeff tatics or what you do when you feel pressured. anywho.. Asians are a mixture of both and everybody else just do whateva the hell it takes to win.

 

Me, you and a few others were talking about this on the shout box a week or so ago right? Guess Po caught the convo and stole it

I don't remember the conversation much but we seemed to all agree US players were a lot more abare than EU players, online at least.

 

I personally mix it up, for example one round playing offensive, one round defensive, one round losing, one round offensive, etc..

Since I have no one to play with offline (no one wants to invest time in VF like I do) I played most of my matches against the AI. I started to use the same patterns over and over because it worked against the CPU opponents and so I stopped playing (other fighting games and Dark Souls and what not).

To get on topic about regions, I think that not only region determines your style of play, but a whole lot of other things.

For me personally, it started with picking a character. Goh (since VF4Evo). Then, I played around with him, learned his moveset. After this, I watched Japanese players and read the dojo on this site. Combine it with my codex to never purposely ring out someone, spam a certain move or whatever (I know, everything is viable in a fighting game, but I personally don't do it) it creates my own personal play style.
And I think this - in individual form - is what makes the play style for each and one of us.

To sum the wall of text up, I think it's not entirely depending on region, that's just a piece of the whole puzzle.